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Questions Covered:

 

02:23 - How can I best speak to Protestants who speak about Jesus dismantling Jewish tradition and starting Christianity as this completely independent, separate, and different entity? They eschew the old and believe that this faith was completely new and unrelated.  

12:47 - Why do Catholics confess to a priest when the Bible says to take sins straight to God? Where in Scripture do you have evidence for that? 

33:40 – Why are there arguments that the Pope wasn’t officially recognized until way later past the third century? 

42:00 - Protestants always ask about salvation. What is a quick way to explain the Catholic understanding of salvation? 

48:28 - How do you explain the supremacy of the papacy?

Questions Covered:

 

07:52 - Roman Catholics tell me that there is an increase of justification or faith plus works because of the loss of salvation due to mortal sins. If a Catholic never commits a mortal sin, then does that mean they are living Sola Fide, without works? 

17:08 - How do Catholics know that the way they are electing popes is the way the early Church did it? 

22:24 - I am a Protestant. Where do Catholics get the theology of redemptive suffering?  

33:48 - In talking with a Baptist friend of mine, we spoke about the papacy and the original Church being the Catholic Church. She challenged me saying that there are many religious orders within the Catholic Church, just like the denominations in the Protestant world. How can I respond to this? 

42:25 - My family is becoming Catholic. I have family members who say that the early Church was not Catholic until Constantine. How can I respond to them?

General Instruction of the Roman Missal – Let’s make sure we know what we are doing

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The General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM)—in the Latin original, Institutio Generalis Missalis Romani (IGMR)—is the detailed document governing the celebration of Mass of the Roman Rite in what since 1969 is its normal form. Originally published in 1969 as a separate document, it is printed at the start of editions of the Roman Missal since 1970.

You can read the GIRM here

Our topic:

All of the baptized are obligated to make the liturgy as fruitful as possible. Knowing why we do what we do at Mass will help all of us fulfill that obligation. And knowing why we worship the way we do will also cause us to “[grow] constantly in holiness by conscious, active, and fruitful participation in the mystery of the Eucharist” (GIRM, 5).

Questions Covered:

 

02:20 - I recently lost someone and I am struggling. On one hand, I know his salvation is not assured. One the other hand, I want to believe he’ll go to heaven. What should I do? 

11:59 - How did you lovingly talk to your family and get them to convert to the Catholic faith? 

21:25 - What is a good book for fallen away Catholics? Not many young people come to my parish. 

29:18 - Can and will anything come from Vigano’s letter? 

43:27 - What did Jesus accomplish on the Cross in the eyes of the Catholic Church, if they don’t believe in substitutionary atonement? 

50:02 - If a person dies in the state of mortal sin, what happens to their soul?

Questions Covered:

10:06 - Does Genesis 6:3 say that a person can only live until 120 years old? 

15:57 - When is it appropriate for the Church to use force? I am reading the Syllabus of Errors by Pope Pius IX and he says the Church using force or coercion is not permissible.  

23:50 - In Scripture it says that Jesus grew in wisdom and understanding. Was he born with superhuman knowledge or did he progressively grow in this knowledge? 

32:08 - What is the Catholic Church’s take on embryo adoption? 

42:05 - I started exploring Catholicism a couple months ago. Is there a difference between the seven sorrows rosary and the regular rosary? 

46:15 - People say God forgives and forgets. Why is there purgatory, then?

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