Catholic Answers Focus

Questions Covered

10:00 – I’ve seen images of the Holy Spirit with a red cross over it, what symbolism does that have? And why did the Holy Spirit conceive Jesus instead of Jesus doing it himself? 

18:49 – If the Orthodox Church is reunited with the Catholic Church, would it pose a problem if we recognized the book of Enoch and others? 

39:04 – What is the role of ecumenism in Faith and practice in the Catholic Church? 

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Questions Covered

8:05 – The Church Fathers say the body is the same before and after the fall and the resurrection. What does that mean? 

14:39 – I was talking to my sister who is an atheist and believes in the spirit realm. How would you plead that the spirit world and God can coexist? 

20:02 – With the Catholic understanding of baptism being salvific, what role does the person’s faith play? 

31:51 – How did the early Church work through different people who taught different teachings on Christ like heretics? 

37:36 – Is calling people hateful and racial names a sin against charity and if not, what is it a sin against? 

49:14 – Can a non-Catholic adult receive the anointing of the sick? 

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Schools are indoctrinating your kids into the woke agenda. How did we get here? Noelle Mering, author of Awake, Not Woke, reviews the history that brought our educational institutions to their current crisis. Why did we go down this road, and can we recover?

Cy Kellett:

How did we get to the point where schools are actively indoctrinating children? Noelle Mering is next.

Cy Kellett:

Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. Our friend Noelle Mering in her book, Awake, Not Woke, has a chapter on education and how edu...

God came among us as a man, but the world is still a mess. So what difference did the life of Jesus make? Gary Michuta, author of Revolt Against Reality, explains how Jesus initiated a revolution in world affairs.

Cy Kellett:

How is your world different because God became a man? Gary Michuta is next. Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. And Gary Michuta joins us this time. He has a brand new and wonderful book, Revolt Against Reality: Fighting the Foes of Sanity and Truth from t...

Will they or won’t they overturn Roe v. Wade? All the focus on the Supreme Court life cases means lots of media spewing confusion about abortion. Who can answer all of this confusion? Well, you can, by keeping things honest and simple as Apologist Joe Heschmeyer explains in this episode.

Cy Kellett:

An extremely simple pro-life argument. Joe Heschmeyer 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.

Cy Kellett:

We’ve been doing a lot of programming on pro-l...

Number two will BLOW YOUR MIND! Popular Catholic Apologist Trent Horn, the author of Why We’re Catholic, reflects on the three big errors all apologists should avoid.

Cy Kellett:

What are the big mistakes apologists make? Trent Horn is next.

Cy Kellett:

Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith.

Cy Kellett:

I’m Cy Kellett, your host. One of the great defenders of the Catholic faith and one of the great defenders of life in the world today is our young friend, young Trent Horn. And he has a great following...

Drawing on his newest book — The Early Church Was the Catholic Church — Joe Heschmeyer describes what the very earliest Christians believed was happening in the celebration of the Eucharist. Did they see it as a sacrifice or just a memorial? Did they understand it as a sign or as the real presence of Jesus?

Cy Kellett:

Did the very earliest Christians think about the Eucharist like we do? Joe Heschmeyer 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. Happy N...

Was it a comet? Was it a shooting star? Do we have any clues as to the nature of the Star of Bethlehem? Jimmy Akin brings some fascinating speculations about what the star might have been.

Cy Kellett:

Is there any way to know what the Star of Bethlehem was? Jimmy Akin gives it a try next.

Cy Kellett:

Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. This time, a little bit of understanding. What exactly is the Star of Bethlehem? There’s been all kinds of interesting speculation, and you know what? You know who loves a ...

The most wonderful time of year — the tree, the lights, the cider — oh, and don’t forget the stories about how Christmas is a pagan holiday basically stolen by Christians. Jimmy Akin joins us to get to the root of some of the claims made about the hidden paganism of Christmas.

Catholic Answers is proud to present a very Pagan Christmas, with Jimmy Akin.

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 that’s how I feel every Christmas. We’ve got t...

Deacon Charlie Echeverry from the Living the Call podcast joins us for a discussion of the opportunities available to better serve the Latino Catholic community. He explains how an apostolate such as ours — and maybe yours — can help bring the Church together in the US and make things less difficult for Catholic families in the future.

Cy Kellett:

You know what’s weird in the American church? It’s getting more Latino while Latinos are getting less Catholic. Deacon Charlie Echeverry from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is next.

Cy Kellett:

Hello, and welcome to Focus, th...