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Who were these Romans who play such a big part in the New Testament and in the life of the early Church? How did they get to be a world power, and what did they make of these new Christians?

Cy Kellett: Hello, welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I am Cy Kellett, your host and delighted again to welcome Jimmy Akin, senior apologist here at Catholic answers for another of these kind of looks back into the history of the world as it relates to the Bible times and the Bible people. Jimmy, welcome back again.

Jimmy Akin: Thank you, Cy.

Cy Kellett: Jimmy, as you know, is the podcaster behind &…

Jimmy Akin joins Cy for a conversation about the historicity of the Joseph story in Genesis. Is the biblical depiction of Egypt believable? What does modern scholarship add to the story?

Cy Kellett: Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I am Cy Kellett, your host, and last time we had a today’s guest on, Jimmy Akin is our guest, and the last time he was on, we talked about ancient Egypt and it turned out that was very, very popular. People really enjoyed hearing about that and it’s something that Jimmy knows a great deal about. So we asked him back to talk about just …

Cy concludes his interview on evolution and God with the author of Prepare the Way: Overcoming Obstacles to God, The Gospel, and The Church. Here, Karlo explains why greater complexity coming from apparently lesser complexity is not a problem, and why arguments that a wise God just wouldn’t have done it this way don’t hold water.

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If evolutionary theory is correct, then chance plays an important role in the evolution of life. But how could God be the designer of life if things really do depend upon chance? Karlo Broussard continues is explanation of why Evolution does not eliminate God.

Cy Kellett: Does the possibility of chance in evolution disprove God’s participation? Coming up next on Catholic Answers Focus.

Cy Kellett: Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I am Cy Kellett, your host and this week, we continue our conversations, our series of conversations with Karlo Broussard on evolution, why e…

Cy sits down with Karlo Broussard, author of Prepare the Way, for a conversation about God and evolution. Karlo lists six common ways people use Darwin’s insights as the basis for arguments against God.

Cy Kellett: Have Darwin’s theories done away with God? Next on Focus.

Cy Kellett: Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I am Cy Kellett, your host. I’ve got to say, I am very excited about this series of conversations we embark upon with this episode of Focus. We’re going to talk a bit about evolution and what does evolution do to God? Does it have any effect on …

Drake McCalister, Coordinator of Catechetical Practicum at Franciscan University of Steubenville, came into the Catholic Faith because of what he heard on Catholic Radio. Now this father of five is to be ordained a priest. He talks with us about what really works in catechesis and apologetics.

Cy Kellett: Was there a golden age of catechesis we can get back to? That’s next on Catholic Answers Focus.

Cy Kellett: Hello, and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I am Cy Kellett, your host, and today we ask a very practical question, though it comes with a wild story attached. The story …

Our Director of Apologetics and Evangelization, Tim Staples, says the Magisterium never stopped teaching that there is no salvation outside the Church. This doesn’t sound very PC.

Cy Kellett: Do Catholics still believe there’s no salvation outside the Church? Tim Staples next on Catholic Answers Focus.

Cy Kellett: Hello, and welcome to Catholic Answers Focus. I am Cy Kellett, your host, and this time we deal with a topic, well, it strikes a lot of people as mean, frankly, and here to help us unpack it and understand what it means is the Director of Apologetics and Evangelization here at…

Tim Staples, author of Behold Your Mother, says people today have forgotten that Jesus asks radical things of his followers. Is this idea too dangerous for modern consumption?

Cy Kellett: Does Jesus want you to be a radical? Tim Staples, next on Catholic Answers Focus.

Cy Kellett: Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers Focus. I am Cy Kellett, your host and well Jesus, what did he want from us? Did he want us to be just the nice people that we’re trying our best to be or did he want something more from us? And I suppose that’s connected to what he has to offer us as well. And here t…

Tim Staples makes the wild claim that each of the seven sacraments was, in fact, established by Jesus. Can he defend this thesis? Like Bob the Builder—yes, he can.

Cy Kellett: Where did we get the seven sacraments? Tim Staples, next on Catholic Answers Focus.

Hello, and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I am Cy Kellett, your host, and we are delighted here to be joined again by the Director of Apologetics and Evangelization here at Catholic Answers, Tim Staples. Hello again, Tim.

Tim Staples: Hello, Cy Kellett.

Cy Kellett: We have a problem here in the Catholic Church, because we added…

Tim Staples makes the wild claim that each of the seven sacraments was, in fact, established by Jesus. Can he defend this thesis? Like Bob the Builder—yes, he can.

Cy Kellett: Where did we get the seven sacraments? Tim Staples, next on Catholic Answers Focus.

Hello, and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I am Cy Kellett, your host, and we are delighted here to be joined again by the Director of Apologetics and Evangelization here at Catholic Answers, Tim Staples. Hello again, Tim.

Tim Staples: Hello, Cy Kellett.

Cy Kellett: We have a problem here in the Catholic Church, because we added…