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This week we are recording live from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, where we spent the week with family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving. While we were in town, we went to see a movie (Fantastic Beasts II), and our car-ride conversation plus the trailers before the movie sparked this episode. How do we define ourselves? How does society want to define or not define genders and gender roles? What’s the right answer? Find out this week with Chuck and Annie. Salt and Light Video series just launched on YouTube called “Faith and Finance”. Click here to watch and subscribe: http://bit.ly/SaltandLightYouTube Visit us online www.saltandlightonline.com, and don’t forget to check out our other show on Breadbox Media, “Chuck n’ Ann on Finance” (www.iiefinancial.com).

This week we are recording live from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, where we spent the week with family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving. While we were in town, we went to see a movie (Fantastic Beasts II), and our car-ride conversation plus the trailers before the movie sparked this episode. How do we define ourselves? How does society want to define or not define genders and gender roles? What’s the right answer? Find out this week with Chuck and Annie. Salt and Light Video series just launched on YouTube called “Faith and Finance”. Click here to watch and subscribe: http://bit.ly/SaltandLightYouTube Visit us online www.saltandlightonline.com, and don’t forget to check out our other show on Breadbox Media, “Chuck n’ Ann on Finance” (www.iiefinancial.com).

Our guests grapple with questions on every aspect of Catholic life and faith, the moral life, and even philosophical topics that touch on general religious belief. 

Questions Covered:

05:37 - I have heard that many of the references from the Old and New Testament are from the septuagint. How do we know if this is true?

15:59 - What is the best way to describe the Holy Mass to a non-Catholic?

23:21 - What is the Catholic Church’s teaching about the relationship between the human mind, soul and body? How can we explain this philosophically?

36:15 - Is there salvation outside of the Catholic Church?

47:00 - How can the Scriptures be infallible if they were written by men?

Resources Mentioned:

Living Bread (CD)

Our guests grapple with questions on every aspect of Catholic life and faith, the moral life, and even philosophical topics that touch on general religious belief. 

Questions Covered:

05:37 - I have heard that many of the references from the Old and New Testament are from the septuagint. How do we know if this is true?

15:59 - What is the best way to describe the Holy Mass to a non-Catholic?

23:21 - What is the Catholic Church’s teaching about the relationship between the human mind, soul and body? How can we explain this philosophically?

36:15 - Is there salvation outside of the Catholic Church?

47:00 - How can the Scriptures be infallible if they were written by men?

Resources Mentioned:

Living Bread (CD)

Our guests grapple with questions on every aspect of Catholic life and faith, the moral life, and even philosophical topics that touch on general religious belief. 

Questions Covered:

03:07 - I have a friend who experiences same-sex attraction and is starting to bring around her girlfriend. I have a young daughter. How careful do I need to be about exposing her to this?

09:19 - I am wondering what the Church’s teaching is on frozen embryos.

18:19 - Why are certain social justice issues preached from the pulpit and others not mentioned at all? What can the laity do?

31:19 - Is it moral to sell property to someone who will use it to build a Protestant church?

37:37 - Do you have any tips for which Scripture passages are key in conversations with Protestants and ways to best memorize/remember these verses?

46:12 - What started the tradition of ringing the bells at Mass during the consecration?

49:35 - Is there a bad reason for converting to Catholicism?

Resources Mentioned:

Desire of the Everlasting Hills

Life Issues, Medical Choices

The Mass Of The Roman Rite : Its Origins and Development

Our guests grapple with questions on every aspect of Catholic life and faith, the moral life, and even philosophical topics that touch on general religious belief. 

Questions Covered:

03:07 - I have a friend who experiences same-sex attraction and is starting to bring around her girlfriend. I have a young daughter. How careful do I need to be about exposing her to this?

09:19 - I am wondering what the Church’s teaching is on frozen embryos.

18:19 - Why are certain social justice issues preached from the pulpit and others not mentioned at all? What can the laity do?

31:19 - Is it moral to sell property to someone who will use it to build a Protestant church?

37:37 - Do you have any tips for which Scripture passages are key in conversations with Protestants and ways to best memorize/remember these verses?

46:12 - What started the tradition of ringing the bells at Mass during the consecration?

49:35 - Is there a bad reason for converting to Catholicism?

Resources Mentioned:

Desire of the Everlasting Hills

Life Issues, Medical Choices

The Mass Of The Roman Rite : Its Origins and Development

Sometimes we spend money on Christmas in an effort to fulfill some requirement that doesn’t make sense if you stop and think about it rationally. Maybe your gifting is done out of guilt or obligation or competition.  But what does that have to do with the real meaning of Christmas?

Tune in and join us on the Compass Catholic blog for stories about why people feel forced into Christmas spending and how to avoid it.