Catholic Answers Focus

Questions Covered:

19:04 – Why isn’t abortion overturned for the whole nation since Roe allowed it for the whole nation? 

32:05 – What should the punishment be for those involved with abortion where it’s illegal? 

44:30 – How do I prove that life begins at conception? Resource: https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/how-to-prove-life-begins-at-conception 

48:10 – How can we engage in discussion with people who don’t acknowledge human life in the womb? 

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Questions Covered:

02:51 – If a bishop proclaimed that we should all stand during the consecration, would we be obliged to abide by it? 

06:07 – What should happen to the eucharist in the monstrance if the adoration chapel is closed overnight? 

10:23 – My husband just bought the book of Enoch. Is it ok for him to read?   

13:39 – Does doing good works out of mere responsibility merit anything good? 

19:09 – In the Hail Holy Queen what does “After this exile” mean? What are your thoughts on RH- blood? Can you do a mysterious world episode? 

22:50 – Protestants claim that its clear which books are in the bible so sola scriptura isn’t needed. What is your response? 

32:36 – Aquinas says we should pay latria to the cross. Doesn’t this conflict with the teaching of latria to only God? 

36:25 – How would you respond to a protestant who says that in the Old Testament they didn’t have a magisterium, so we don’t need one now? 

41:03 – Does the church teach anything on circumcision and is it ethical in our current time? 

43:43 – Do we have a responsibility to stay within our own liturgical rite? 

48:24 – What’s the history of offering bread and wine as a sacrifice leading up to the time of Jesus? 

51:29 – What should I do with the ashes of a cremated Catholic? 

52:32 – Which is a better translation: the NAB or the Jerusalem bible? 

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Questions Covered:

04:34 – How can Catholics claim that there is no list of people in hell but invoke anathemas in the councils. How would I respond to this challenge from my Calvinist friend? 

15:17 – How do we know that the universe did not happen because of a necessary process? Is a personal God necessary for creation? Could it just be an impersonal being that caused creation? 

19:47 – How do we know that the first cause from Aquinas’ argument is God? 

24:04 – What bible verses back the claim that we do not adore the Virgin Mary? Looks good 

34:24 – Can saying the Lord’s prayer during mass act as a sort of act of contrition? Looks good 

38:15 – Who are spiritual directors? Can they be laymen? When do you know if you need one? How do you find one? Looks good 

44:02 – Is it possible for us to believe in the 7 days of creation, big bang, and evolution? 

47:30 – How is it possible for the Catholic Church to have eastern saints post schism? 

50:40 – Would it make sense to say that the Islamic forces interrupting communications between Christians caused the Great Schism? 

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Questions Covered:

01:00 – Weddings

22:47 – We rented out a restaurant and the mothers paid for it. It only costed $2500 

29:48 – Move the wedding to earlier in the day for brunch to make it cheaper. 

The Prolife movement history 

49:30 – Trauma post abortion 

51:50 – Killing of abortion providers 

 

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Topics Covered:

government funding private schools

School losing the Catholic title due to flying the BLM and LGBT flags

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PETA has an ongoing campaign against “speciesism,” saying humans have no right to use animals. But is speciesism—even though it sounds like “racism” or “sexism”—really such a bad thing?

Cy Kellett:

Is being a speciesist as bad as being a racist? Dr. Logan Gage is next.

Cy Kellett:

Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. And one of the things that we’ve been saying for years is, “In order to defend the Catholic faith more and more, you...

Questions Covered:

04:57 – When Jesus was walking up to the cross and fell 3 times, did that signify the Father, Son and Holy Spirit?

10:10 – Could there be significance in correlating the number of words in a verse to stress the importance in scripture? Send Words of Eternal Life

17:27 – Would God allow suffering even if nothing good were to come from it?

23:24 – Why did women stop covering their heads in Church?

34:26 – St. Gertrude received a prayer to save souls in purgatory. Why don’t we promote this or is this a valid prayer?

41:34 – Does the Catholic Church have a teaching on what happens to us after we die?

45:55 – I’m a new Catholic. When is it appropriate to ask God for help rather than appeal to Mary?

51:02 – I’m starting a bible study with half non-Catholics; how do I market properly to all?

53:30 – I’m not Catholic but my husband is. Why do I have to become Catholic if we are all children of God?

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Questions Covered:

04:51 – How does Molinism not confirm double predestination? 

14:06 – How does St. Jude’s intercession come into play when asking for his help? 

20:54 – Would it be abusing confession if you keep bringing up the same mortal sin repeatedly? 

28:54 – If Mary was sinless, then how is it that she did not fulfill the law? 

34:53 – Why do Christians still say Yahweh if the Vatican specifically wrote that we shouldn’t be using the word. 

40:25 – Why did God pick Mary to be Jesus’ mother? 

45:22 – The Council of Florence claimed that circumcision is mortally sinful. When did that thought change? 

49:50 – Have there been any saints throughout history that have had demons exorcized out of them? 

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Questions Covered:

04:43 – Is it unchangeable teaching that women can’t priests, and same sex marriages can’t be blessed? 

14:51 – Was the public school system created by the Catholic Church? Do you have resources on this topic? 

19:04 – I’m in conversion with a missionary of the LDS Church. I’ll be sitting down with him soon. What questions and topics should I bring up to be a good representative of the Catholic Church? 

24:13 – Mk 15 on Jesus’ death. What is the meaning of the tearing of the curtain in the temple in two? 

33:35 – It’s important to have Juneteenth. We need to keep in mind that white people were not the only ones to own slaves. 

44:13 – Is it a mortal sin to not believe that Mary is a perpetual virgin? Where does the Catholic Church get the importance of this teaching? 

49:49 – Hebrew 8:6-8. How do I explain that God didn’t want us to fail but accounted for us failing? 

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Questions Covered:

07:58 – Is there a degree of reverence for digital images? Do they equate to printed versions?

15:33 – Why are we Catholics still not receiving communion from the chalice compared to the Episcopalians? Everyone else receives from the chalice except us.

20:14 – What does scripture mean when it says, “God gave to the hand of David the Philistines?”

23:32 – How do I respond to the question, “why are the majority of Catholic saints white?” Is this true? Does this mean that Catholicism is a white people’s religion?

37:13 – Is commemorating Juneteenth during mass appropriate since it is so political?

50:10 – Regarding the book of Revelation, In what sense is the Church the new Jerusalem? How is that contrasted to our understanding of the Church as the Body of Christ?

52:57 – Which translation of the bible is better to have, the RSV or the NAB?

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