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Callers choose the topics during Open Forum, peppering our guests 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:

 

01:15 - I heard your debate with James White on sola scriptura. Can you clarify your defense of the Church hierarchy? 

06:39 - Does the Catholic Church believe that the devil is a tool to provide temptations so that people truly have free will? 

16:48 - How do you know if God is real?                                                                      

22:25 - How do you explain the importance of the sacrament of Confirmation to kids who don’t like or understand coming to CCD? 

35:40 - God says in the Bible that if you confess your sins, God forgets them. Why then, do we still have purgatory? 

48:10 - Is the Body of Christ that Peter received at the Last Supper the same Body of Christ that we receive at Mass, post-Resurrection?

Callers choose the topics during Open Forum, peppering our guests 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:

 

11:53 - My daughter is living with her fiancé. How can I maintain a relationship with her but also speak the truth to her? 

19:29 - Is it permissible for a priest to tell his congregation that they must support the Black Lives Matter organization? 

29:09 - How do we know that we are doing the will of God the Father? How do we discern his will in our life? 

35:12 - My son is agnostic and says he hates the Catholic Church’s teaching on slavery. He says that God condoned slavery in the Old Testament and Jesus never condemned it. How can I respond? 

49:53 - Catholics say that all people are children of God, but the gospel of John says that only those who are baptized are children of God. Which is it?

What’s so special about the book of Hebrews? Dr. Andrew Swafford, professor of Scripture and theology at Benedictine College, returns to explain how St. Paul’s writings point to the Eucharist as the fulfillment of the entire Bible. On this episode of The Road to Emmaus, Dr. Swafford and Dr. Hahn discuss their favorite book of the Bible and how it impacted Dr. Hahn’s conversion to the Catholic Church.

Join  Fr. Scott Mansfield, Pastor of St. John Vianney, Tony Wilimitis, and Will Tapia as they give an in depth review of  the Gospel from the Twenty Third Sunday in Ordinary Time: Zep or Dylan?

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