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Which Catholic Moral Teaching Do You Reject?

Questions Covered:

17:00 - I do not understand why the Catholic Church does not support gay marriage.  

33:42 - I reject Catholic moral teaching on natural law. 

44:50 - I question Catholic teaching on NFP and contraception. 

Resources Mentioned:

What We Can’t Not Know by J Bud Budziszewski

Evidence for Catholic Moral Teaching by Trent Horn

Made This Way: How to Prepare Kids to Face Today’s Tough Moral Issues 

Inseparable: Five Perspectives on Sex, Life, and Love in Defense of Humanae Vitae

Join  Fr. Scott Mansfield, Pastor of St. John Vianney, Tony Wilimitis, Director of Formation, and Will Tapia, Director of Development as they give an in depth review of the Gospel from the Thirteenth week in Ordinary Time: Love.

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On this week's show, we talk faith, basketball and life with Kramer Soderberg, author of the new book Fill Your Cup for Christ: A Journey Sown & Grown through Sports.

About Kramer Soderberg:

College basketball coach and first-time author, Kramer Soderberg, is a devoted husband to his wife, Andrea, and father. Son of long time college basketball coach, Brad Soderberg, Kramer grew up in Saint Charles, Missouri where he excelled on the basketball court at both the high school and college levels. Kramer is currently an assistant men's basketball coach at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois. Kramer devotes much of his free time to growing in his Catholic faith and spreading his love of Jesus to others through speaking opportunities and personal interactions throughout his community.

About Fill Your Cup for Christ:

Fill Your Cup for Christ looks to help lay-Catholics grow in their understanding and love of the Catholic Church. The book was written to help inspire and motivate Catholics to grow in their relationship with Christ and pursue a deeper and more authentic faith life by learning to strive for spiritual greatness in the midst of everyday life.

For More Information:

Fill Your Cup for Christ at Amazon

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Are you worrying about the future, stressed about today or regretting the past?  Do you really trust that God's got control and has the better plan?

My guest today is Derrick Beach. He is a founding director of the new and innovative global, educational learning environment called the M.O.R.R.E. Institute.

M.O.R.R.E. Institute provides a Means of Redeeming and Revolutionizing Education for students of all ages. Established in 2019, M.O.R.R.E. Institute is recognized by the Texas Office of the Secretary of State as a Domestic Nonprofit Organization.

This organization fosters entrepreneurial and educational innovation through utilization of curricula in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), as well as vocational training, professional development, mental health, and collegiate preparatory studies.

Visit: www.learnmorre.org

"After seeing the unmet needs in urban communities, Derrick Beach decidedthat he needed to do more. "We share the responsibility to ensure that by the time a child graduates from high school, he or she should be ready to fully engage in the growth and development of their community and society as a whole. Our students should be mentally healthy, financially literate, and prepared to succeed." -Derrick "Rashad" Beach

"M.O.R.R.E. Institute provides a service to communities looking to develop their most valuable assets; their people. Everyone can find a place to contribute. Children, like adults, are attracted to passionate, confident, and dedicated people. We desire to cultivate the curiosity and intrinsic genius within every individual who is committed to bettering themselves. By giving to others, we ultimately uplift ourselves." - Errick Johnson

Jesus teaches us the demands placed upon us as His followers.

To read this week's readings, go to: usccb.org

ROUND 1 PETER AND PAUL

1) In his second letter, Peter says we will one day:

a See the divine nature

b Touch the divine nature

c Share in the divine nature

2) Peter’s first successor of Peter as the leader of the Church in Rome was:

a) Forgotten by history

b) Linus

c) James the Just

3) In the letter to the Galatians:

a) Peter rebukes St Paul

b) St Paul rebukes Peter

c) Paul and Peter rebuke the Romans

4) Which of the following is true about St. Peter:

a) Has such a powerful healer that people laid the sick out in places where they thought Peter’s shadow might fall on them

b) He only healed when all the Apostles were gathered together

c) He showed no evidence of being a healer

 5) The Apostle Paul was a:

a) Sadducee

b) Temple Priest

c) Pharisee

6)  The bishops of the Orthodox Churches are:

a.) Not successors of the Apostles as Catholic bishops are

b.) Successors of the Apostles

c.) Successors only of St. Paul but not of St. Peter

 

ROUND 2 Sacrament of Marriage Questions

1) Even married couples may not resort to Invitro Fertilization because:

a.) God creates life without our cooperation, and we cannot interfere with that

b.) IVF separates a child’s conception from the conjugal act of its parents

c.) There is no certainty that an artificially conceived person will have a soul

 

2) Catholics believe that marriage is:

a) An eternal bond

b) A life-long bond

c) A life-long bond except in cases of annulment

3) When a baptized Protestant marries a baptized Catholic:

a.) Their marriage is sacramental

b.) Their marriage is valid but not sacramental

c.) There marriage is not valid

 

4) Marriage is the only sacrament:

a.) That was already an institution before Christ raised it to the status of sacrament

b.) That no priest of the Catholic Church can receive

c.) That the government has the right to deny

 

 

5) It is a grave offense against marriage:

a.) For spouses to attempt to regulate the spacing of children

b.) For governments to coerce parents to have fewer children

c.) For a person to seek an annulment if the spouse does not want it

 

6) The Catechism of the Catholic Church calls marriage:

a.) “a union of God with the human race”

b.) “a collaboration for raising children”

c.) “a partnership of the whole of life”

 

ROUND 3

True or False

True The earliest non-biblical Christian text is sometimes referred to as Teaching of the Twelve Apostles and is also called the Didache

 

FALSE The Gospel of Luke is probably based on the preaching of St Paul

 

TRUE The Gospel of Mark is probably based on the preaching of St Peter

 

TRUE In the First Letter to the Corinthians, St Paul argued forcefully that Christians should not be suing each other in Roman courts (1 Corinthians 6:1-1a)

 

FALSE The Apostolic Fathers were Peter, James, and John

 

TRUE St Paul urged his fellow Christians to work out their salvation in fear and trembling

 

TRUE Peter said that some things in the letters of St. Paul are hard to understand.