Catholic Answers Focus

Questions Covered: 

01:29 – I am not Catholic because the relationship with the apologetic individuals being complicit with wrong.  

07:39 – I am not Catholic because of the teaching on Papal infallibility. 

14:09 – I am not Catholic because of the Assumption of Mary becoming a Dogma. 

24:40 – I am on my way out of being Catholic because I can’t wrap my head around some rituals and the definition of the Eucharist.  

36:25 – I am not Catholic because of inconsistency about priest not being able to be married based on 1 Timothy 4: 1-5.  

45:54 – I am not Catholic because I am skeptical of most religions.  

52:05 – I am not Catholic because I am not a believer in the event or the philosophy.  

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Questions Covered: 

06:48 – I’m not Catholic because my Catholic coworkers tend to share an over importance on Mother Mary. 

18:32 – I am not Catholic because I’m a member from the Episcopal Church. I believe the women in the Gospel were also Apostles. 

30:29 – I am not Catholic because I was raised Catholic, but I was turned down when trying to get married in the Catholic Church. I also can’t support the Pope.  

40:00 – I am not Catholic because Sola Scriptura. 

46:27 – I am not Catholic because the foundational doctrine doesn’t make sense.  

51:45 – I am not Catholic because the relationship with the apologetic individuals being complicit with wrong.  

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Questions Covered:

18:44 – What local events were used to prove the validity of this Marian apparition?

22:55 – What can I do in preparation for a visit?

32:02 – Is it possible that Mary appeared to Native American before Caucasian North Americans?

33:34 – My husband had an apparition of me while on military leave. What is the church’s teaching on this?

38:00 – What did Mary mean when she said her son will punish those who don’t believe in him?

48:28 – What type of catechesis is available for the public who might be skeptical?

50:45 – What leads to an apparition not being approved and one being approved?

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Questions Covered: 

12:42 – Does the valid election of someone as Pope imply divine endorsement of the wisdom of that choice?  

21:42 – Why do Catholics pray to the Saints?  

29:45 – Which Protestant challenge do you find the most compelling or difficult to answer? Which aspect of Catholicism is the most misunderstood?  

39:42 – When the Apostles raised souls from the dead in Acts, where did the souls come from?  

46:06 – Where did specific prayers come from for the different Saints?  

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Questions Covered: 

22:01 – How can I understand a rejection from seminaries based on having a disability like blindness? 

36:12 – Can you explain how marriage is a vocation? 

51:18 – Should I discern the Secular Franciscans? 

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Apologist Pat Flynn, from the Philosophy for the People podcast, gets down to basics with us to defend the idea that we can, indeed, know things with certainty. This defense of knowledge helps when we are confronted with the argument that no one really knows anything for sure.

Cy Kellett:

How can we even know anything? Pat Flynn 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 Pat Flynn is here with us today to help us settle something that is very unsettled and it ...

Questions covered:

02:00 – What can we affirm about asexuality? What does the virtue of chastity have to do with it?

16:58 – What are some ways to keep Catholic children Catholic in a fallen world?

22:56 – Does the Church teach anything about pre-Adam races of humans? If there was a mix between Adam and a pre-Adam human, would they have the same dignity?

35:40 – I heard someone claim that the tearing of the veil indicated the end of the priesthood. Where did they get that idea and how can I respond?

44:00 – I’d like to issue a correction to the question about converting from an Eastern rite from last hour.

49:04 – If I die before converting, is there any way I can get last rites?

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Questions Covered:

05:57 – When Jesus says “Who is my mother and who are my brothers” in Matthew 12:48, is Jesus devaluing his mother? And how can we know without getting into arguments about “my interpretation” vs “your interpretation”? 

12:22 – Are the souls in purgatory present at Mass? 

14:21 – What’s the Catholic teaching on end times prophecy? 

18:45 – How can I prove that at consecration the Eucharist becomes the body and blood of Jesus? 

29:06 – Do we know with confidence that the bones buried beneath Santiago de Compostela are those of the apostle James? And what is the Church’s teaching on this? 

35:26 – Is it possible for an ecumenical council to teach error? If it does, what are we as laypeople supposed to do about it? 

42:05 – Why don’t most Catholic Churches encourage their congregation to read the Catechism? 

47:16 – How do I answer the claim that Jewish people (and therefore Jesus) believe that life begins at first breath, not conception? 

50:40 – As a new convert, should I abide by Roman rite or Eastern rite fasting practices? 

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Questions Covered:

12:52 – Are there examples from the early church of prayers to saints? 

17:05 – What does Ignatius of Loyola mean by “one cup, one flesh”? 

21:22 – How do you make the case that the Catholic Church is the one, true Church as opposed to Eastern Orthodoxy? 

30:15 – How do I respond to someone who claims that Marius Victorinus influenced St. Augustine? 

35:14 – Can you explain how early Church teaching on the Eucharist evolved into the doctrine of transubstantiation? 

43:19 – What are the best books to buy on early church fathers that include more of their writing without commentary? 

47:52 – How do I respond to a friend who believes the Church ended with the twelve Apostles? 

52:38 – What did Mr. Heschmeyer mean when he referenced the church that does not recognize the Holy See’s authority but is still an authentic church? 

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