Catholic Answers Focus

Questions Covered:

01:57 – My son Peter who is 9 asked when your judged what age are You? It is Thomas Aquinas’ opinion that we will be 33 in the resurrection does that mean we will be judged at the age of 33. Thanks for Your shows!

05:55 – Bleeding tears?!? That’s aliens.

10:55 – What does the Easter bunny have to do with it, and why does he deliver eggs when bunnies don’t lay eggs? My granddaughter asked me that the other day. Is the Easter bunny perhaps an alien?

16:27 – How much DID that stone weigh, anyway? It was very large.

21:09 – What if time travelers went back and succeeded in preventing the Crucifixion? (Mind you, I think that time travelers would be unable to change the past even if time travel turns out to be possible.) Would all those prophecies go unfulfilled? Would God have a backup plan of redemption in place?

28:28 – Jimmy Akin, apparently smaller breeds of rabbits live longer than larger ones. Given the known average lifespans of different-sized known breeds of rabbits and the photographic evidence of Easter bunnies could you estimate the average lifespan of an Easter bunny?

32:25 – I heard a priest explain when Christ’s Body was in the Grave, He went and preached to the “spirits or souls in prison” mentioned I believe in 1st or 2d Peter…He preached to the Good dead…not to the bad dead…those in true Hell….and as I understand it…Mel Gibson’s upcoming Passion Of the Christ 2 movie, will be about this very subject…what say you, Jimmy, on this scripture in St. Peter’s Epistle?

44:15 – How does undigested food affect the properties of resurrected bodies? For example, it’s usually assumed resurrected bodies can walk through walls. But would a resurrected body that just ate be able to do so. When talking about the Eucharist, we often assume the real presence is there for about 15 minutes as it still has the accidental form of bread, would a resurrected body need to wait 15 minutes after eating before walking through a wall?

51:13 – What can we say in response to those History Channel types who might ask how we be sure that Christ wasn’t raised from the dead by a benevolent, sympathetic alien force that has been surreptitiously monitoring the human race?

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Questions Covered:

08:20 – I heard a priest say that the Eucharist is not physically Christ but substantially Christ. Is that true and what does that mean? 

17:25 – I’m a new Catholic and just had my first confession that was very long due to years and quantity of sin. The priest only gave me a small penance. Would this penance remove all temporal?

20:05 – Regarding your debate on Justification vs Jordan Cooper. I had a hard time seeing the differences. How would you summarize our position vs the Lutheran position? 

31:13 – Jesus made a reference to Judas as a son of perdition. Would this be evidence of him being in hell? 

40:43 – What happens if you are not fully repentant right before you die? 

44:40 – What is the Church teaching on praying retroactively? 

47:20 – Can I get your perspective on seeing the God the Father as a grandfather? 

51:57 – How are we supposed to understand the passages of God instructing the Israelites to kill all living creatures of the enemy in the Old Testament? 

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Questions Covered:

02:08 – How far is too far with honoring a saint? 

06:13 – I am divorced and haven’t had an annulment.  Am I excommunicated? It lays very heavy on my heart. 

13:40 – What’s the biblical rebuttal to predestination? 

17:21 – Did Neanderthals have rational souls? 

31:27 – Why did Jesus not allow Mary Magdalene to touch him but allowed Thomas to touch him. What’s the best defense for the shroud of Turin being legitimate? 

39:57 – I’m Protestant. Do you have any resources on the Catholic and Protestant division? 20 answers 

43:39 – Duet. 18.21-22 How do we tell the difference between a prophecy that didn’t come true because it was conditional or one that didn’t come true because it wasn’t from God? 

49:39 – Regarding the Eucharist revealed on the road to Emmaus, what could possibly be the protestant interpretation of this story? 

52:44 – Why do Orthodox celebrate Easter a week later? 

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Questions Covered:

22:47 – How do I find God through anxiety and feeling overwhelmed? 

31:54 – What are your thoughts on the surrender prayer? 

34:41 – Can you help clarify mental prayer and contemplative that St. Theresa of Avila talked about? 

44:12 – Is taking medication for mental issues an admission that God’s presence doesn’t work? 

46:28 – How did you accept God’s calling for you to be Carmelite sisters? 

50:11 – What inspired you to take your vows? What was the experience like? 

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Questions Covered:

01:52 – Jer. 33:18 There will never fail to be a time where men will offer burnt offerings. How do we reconcile this with New Testament theology doing away with ritual sacrifices? 

11:37 – As the first born of the resurrection, had Christ not ascended at the end of the gospels, would Jesus have been biologically immortal in his human nature? 

15:49 – Could the Massacre of the Innocence be an allegorical story? 

24:17 – 2 Kings 2:23-24 Why would God allow the children to be harmed because they made fun of someone? What is the meaning of that story? 

31:35 – What are your thoughts on the theory that there was a mistranslation on the story of the crossing of the Red Sea and the actual translation was the Sea of Reeds? How do I refute this idea? 

33:36 – Could you recommend a resource to read on the original understanding of Scripture? How would Jews have understood the bible? – Resource Mentioned: Ancient Israel by ROLAND DEVEAUX, Biblical Backgrounds by CRAIG KEENER 

45:05 – Jesus said be perfect like your Father in heaven is perfect.  How can a sinner become a saint? 

49:12 – Jesus said we can only have eternal life by eating the bread and drinking his blood.  Since Covid we stopped taking the chalice, does this hurt our chances of having eternal life? 

51:15 – What’s the best way to refute the doctrine Total Depravity etc. How do we refute their use of Romans 9 as evidence? 

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Questions Covered:

03:47 – Rev. 13:15. What is the image of the beast? Is it a statue, painting etc.? Is it symbolic? 

12:32 – What would the Jews think of Jesus’ name? Were there other Jesus’ walking around?   

15:12 – Could the Holy Family have traveled to Wales? 

19:08 – Does the verse “If you do not carry your cross you cannot be my disciple” mean that the purpose in life is to suffer? 

21:10 – Why did Matthew make the distinction of Petros and Petra in Mt. 16? 

28:49 – Who was Lillith in the apocrypha? 

41:35 – Book of wisdom. Since they refer to wisdom as female, could they be alluding to the Virgin Mary? 

47:15 – Where is purgatory in the bible? Where do you find praying to the saints, especially Mary, in the bible? 

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Catholics can use to Scripture to defend the fact that Jesus empowered the Church with a permanent magisterium, but our guest, Suan Sonna, says we should also just use some common sense when we explain the magisterium to Protestant Christians.

Cy Kellett:

Does the church actually have the authority to speak for Jesus? Suan Sonna is next.

Cy Kellett:

Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers Podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. And one of the things that we Catholics have to defend is the idea that Jesus left a teaching church, a church with the authorit...

Questions Covered: 

06:30 – Is it correct to say Jesus is a human being based on a 1 Cor 15: 21 reference?  

13:00 – How does the Mormon view of salvation compare to the Catholic view?  

19:19 – Is it wrong to say the incarnation is below God? 

33:31 – Why do you have to be Baptized to go to Heaven?  

37:30 – What is the difference between personal sin and original sin?  

40:51 – Am I right in saying one reason for Pope Francis issuing his Latin Mass Document, was that he felt traditional Catholics were being too arrogant or legalistic? 

49:45 – Why is there an altar call at the end of Mass?  

51:40 – Does the RCIA duration delay people’s salvation? 

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Questions Covered: 

03:03 – Which modernist positions are currently condemned? Has the Pope given input? 

12:30 – Did Jesus establish a cult with Mary? 

19:52 – How can I pray for Vladimir Putin with compassion while praying for Ukraine?  

29:26 – What is the Catholic Answer to inconsistencies? For example, the comparison between Thomas seeing Jesus’s wounds in his palms and the information on where nails would have been traditionally placed in wrist?  

36:40 – What happens to babies that die in the womb? Can they commit sins? 

41:52 – Can you be the best man for someone who is currently living with their fiancé? 

46:06 – Are there any other Popes, before Pope Clement, that are in a confirmed line after Peter? 

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