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Questions Covered:

03:15 – How can I explain confession to a non-denominational friend?

11:06 – Has the Church formally declared that the Fatima events were genuine?

13:50 – How was Jesus heard in the sermon on the mount if there were thousands of people?

20:00 – Will those who are still alive during the end time have to experience death?

21:40 – Where in the gospel does it address cohabitation?

24:27 – If we cannot see God face to face but we can see Jesus face, does that mean we can see his face?

28:49 – I’m in a debate with friends. Is our solar system geocentric or heliocentric? What are your thoughts?

36:17 – Was Peter’s profession of faith the real rock that Jesus built his Church upon?

44:10 – What is a synod? What is the synod on synodality?

47:20 – Is there any occasion where the creed can be omitted from Mass?

47:07 – In the Old Testament, two prophets were assumed into heaven, where did they go if the gates of heaven weren’t open?

52:00 – What do you think of the illumination of conscience that many saints have prophesied and foretold?

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Questions Covered:

17:40 – What do you think the president and the speaker should do to keep the Church happy?

20:54 – Why is there talk of politicization of holy communion?

30:27 – How do we change minds on this issue?

35:20 – Why is it that banning people from receiving communion takes so long?

43:50 – I’m a registered nurse and the state board came out condemning the decision. How do I as a faithful Catholic handle this?

48:50 – Is it bad for me as a Catholic to blow off this topic and say, “It’s your body, your sin?”

52:00 – I think it’s important to emphasize the financial incentive for businesses to pay for abortion.

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Questions Covered:

10:43 – What do you think about Catholic organizations promoting homosexuality? 

13:28 – How do you handle a response from Catholics who prop up priests who promote that lifestyle? 

18:07 – How do I share my Faith with people and show them that there are good people who also struggle with same sex attraction? 

24:29 – Should I attend a gay wedding that I was invited to? 

33:08 – If I send a baby shower gift to a nephew and his gay partner who adopted be taken as promoting gay adoption? 

42:48 – I’m bisexual and my wife knows that. I was almost married to a man. How would my spiritual life have been different if I had taken that path? 

47:44 – I’m not Catholic, do Catholics have the same reservations about attending gay weddings as they do with 2nd weddings, cohabitating couples’ weddings etc.? Resource: https://ruthinstitute.org/ 

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Questions Covered:

16:04 – I’m very close to joining the Catholic Church but how do I make sense of Pope Francis and his actions, especially the restrictions on the Latin Mass and the pope praying with non-Catholics in non-Catholic ceremonies?

21:47 – Can a pope declare a private revelation to be necessary for salvation or for one to be considered Catholic?

30:59 – Pope St. John Paul II declared that he had no authority to ordain women, was that considered an infallible statement?

36:13 – If a pope says something that isn’t true, is that a danger to souls?

45:42 – Is it true that the pope can declare something about the Mass that a future pope could not undo?

49:29 – Because Jesus instituted the papacy, the pope cannot declare new things like ordaining women.

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Questions Covered:

02:22 – Do you have any advice regarding forgiveness?

09:03 – What is the nature of man? Is Jesus’ soul separate from His divine nature?

14:47 – Was Moses circumcised?

18:55 – What is the formal definition of tradition?

22:30 – How do Catholics defend the practice of penance in light of the parable of the Prodigal son?

28:46 – Is capital punishment immoral?

34:13 – Why did Jesus go after the money changers in the temple? What was the source of the anger?

39:40 – Is the Flavian signature a valid argument?

43:05 – Is there any gray area to consider a marriage between a Catholic and a Jewish person in a synagogue without the bishop’s dispensation to be valid?

47:24 – Why does Christ sometimes appear in the form of a baby in private revelations?

48:58 – Why does God allow suffering and even asks us to bring more children into this world?

50:50 – Who were the sons of God mentioned in Deut. 32 and Psalm 82? Were they fallen angels worshiped as pagan gods?

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Questions Covered:

03:02 – Does God’s omniscience make an infinite past impossible?

07:28 – Were there early church fathers that bought into Calvinism?

12:20 – Is there a distinction between fallen angels and demons?

16:29 – Why did they change the name from RCIA to OCIA?

20:31 – What are the requirements for becoming a deacon or apologist/religious leader?

29:29 – In Romans 2:25-26, what does Paul mean here? Doesn’t God stay faithful to His covenants with His people no matter what?

35:27 – How are our internal organs affected by the resurrected body?

40:50 – Considering the verse that calls Christ the cornerstone, could you explain the stability of the Catholic church?

46:38 – Were the places that the Israelites attacked in the book of Joshua military bases or civilian towns?

49:53 – What’s the difference between praying, desiring, and wishing?

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Questions Covered:

01:46 – I grew up attending Spanish speaking mass and now I go to English Mass. I noticed that a lot more people receive communion in the English-speaking Mass. Is this a catechetical thing? Why is this?

10:12 – Why didn’t Jesus tell Mary that he was going to go to God’s house in Jerusalem?

14:11 – Luke 10:25 How is Jesus answering that question? It is vague. Why don’t we stress the deity of Christ instead of the divinity of Christ?

21:06 – What does the Church teach about deliverance prayer?

28:46 – St. Thomas More’s reflection asking for happiness. Should this be something we should be praying for?

34:00 – I was an OB/GYN for many years and was once asked to perform a baptism. Would using salt water and a syringe impact the validity of the baptism?

41:36 – How do I prove that infant baptisms are valid and being at the age of reason is not necessary?

47:08 – Is it ok as a Catholic to watch documentaries such as the Ed Warren cases on demons?

51:00 – How many physical bodies are in heaven according to the Church?

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Questions Covered:

09:01 – What was the creation of Jesus like? Begotten not made? Was he created since he is the Son God not Father God?

14:32 – If a bishop claims he is afraid of death, should we also be afraid of death?

21:45 – Do we know if the pope listens to Catholic radio, EWTN or Catholic Answers?

29:18 – Is it wrong to wait a few days to go to confession after committing venial sin? What’s the gravity of venial sin vs mortal sin?

38:14 – I was baptized as a Baptist at 8. Then I was baptized by a Sedevacantist priest and now am in full communion with Rome. What sins would I have to confess because I don’t know when I was validly baptized?

46:51 – Is the Deut. 32:8 worldview in The Unseen Realm by Michael Heiser compatible with Catholicism?

51:17 – In the Exodus story, did God take away Pharaoh’s free will when he hardened his heart? How do we understand that phrase?

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Have you seen the recent images from the James Webb Telescope? Catholic convert and Harvard astrochemist, Karin Öberg joins us to examine the recent images and what they tell us about God, the beginnings of our universe, and bug people.

Cy Kellett:

Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers Podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. Recently, we all got to see some magnificent images from a magnificent piece of technology, the James Webb Telescope. Out there in space, somewhere, looking deep into the past using its various sensors. And this raises a tremendou...

Questions Covered:

4:27 – What’s the Church’s teaching on cannibalism in extreme circumstances? Is it ever ethical? 

11:50 – Regarding the teaching on following your conscience, how could one do so if you’re highly scrupulous? What is the Church’s approach when it comes to mental illness? 

20:40 – Can you clarify why there are different perspectives on Old Testament covenants and why some say the signs are different? The Mosaic covenant is either the 10 commandments vs Passover. The Davidic: Throne vs Temple 

29:20 – Is our concupiscence a result of our free will? If Adam and Eve had not sinned, would someone else have sinned? 

36:50 Since Covid, we haven’t been able to consume communion from the chalice. Does this mean we aren’t receiving the blood of Jesus? 

42:27 – Why don’t we as Catholics focus on baptism of the Holy Spirit? The Charismatic renewal has been focusing on this for 50 years now. 

48:07 – Do Catholics follow the sabbath? How do you reconcile this with Isaiah 66:22-23? 

52:30 – If someone is baptized with Trinitarian formula but doesn’t believe in the Trinity, is it a valid baptism? 

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