Catholic Answers Live

Questions Covered:

04:04 – Is masturbation a mortal sin that would at least allow you to go to purgatory?

14:37 – What are the rules for non-Catholics to get to heaven?

19:52 – Why does the Church normally issue communion in one kind?

24:21 – I’m Catholic and married. If I feel called to be a priest, would it be morally wrong to become an Anglican priest in order to try to become a Catholic priest?

29:06 – How is NFP not contraception?

35:29 – I don’t think first class relics should be distributed. The body of saints should be kept together.

42:25 – In the Divine Mercy it says we offer the body of Jesus. How is it we can offer the body of Jesus to God?

49:38 – Can you help me better understand the Catholic teaching on justification and how it differs from the protestant understanding?

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Questions Covered:

05:30 – Why are marriages a Catholic sacrament?

14:32 – Do you have any empirical evidence that Catholicism is true?

29:44 – How can there no longer be public revelation but we still accept private revelation?

36:02 – How come the Church can reject their own baptism if they were done wrong but can accept protestant baptisms on a whim?

47:53 – Why should we call priests father if the bible specifically says not to call a man father?

51:31 – I’m a catechist. Why does the Church not follow Lev. 19:28 and when it comes to tattoos?

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Questions Covered:

03:35 – Is there a restricted number of religious orders that can be formed? What do the initials mean after the names of religious? 

13:03 – In the book of Acts Paul confronts Peter regarding Peter’s refusal to eat with gentile believers. If the Pope makes a similar error today, who confronts him and how is it done? 

31:42 – What kind of initiatives do we need a bishop’s permission for? 

41:19 – Mark 9:29 says these kind are driven out by prayer and fasting. I have heard that the “and fasting” part is a scribal entry. How can we know that Jesus actually said this? 

47:19 – What prayer do you say, or any prayer when you see crosses on the side of the highway 

48:53 – Are there spiritual dangers of apologetics? If so, what are they? 

50:44 – Hi this is Jeff from Huntingdon, TN. We know that God does not judge a person that is mentally unstable the same as others. What about people that have personalities, environmental situations and inclinations that could be considered almost impossible to overcome, even with a lifetime of praying for those traits to end? Will they be judged the same at the end of their life? 

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Questions Covered:

08:02 – How come Peter never wrote any gospels? Were the 4 who did write the gospels considered superior over the others? 

13:42 – Did the power that Pharoah have in the story of the Exodus come from demons? 

17:22 – I have recently had long-time, life-long, cradle Catholics tell me that there is not much of a difference between being a Catholic and being Lutheran. One of them, in particular, is actively exploring his options to leave the Catholic Church to join the Lutheran Church. What are the most compelling things that you would share with Catholics like this to encourage them to stay in the Catholic Church? 

24:38 – What is the Catholic Church’s belief about whether the Blessed Mother physically “delivered” Jesus as in “labor and delivery?” Is it the Church’s belief that since she is ever-virgin that she did not go through birth in the same way as all women? How does this relate to Revelations Chapter 12 verse 2? 

31:30 – How does the idea of God being “pure act” square with the fact that God chose to do certain things and not other things? 

37:27 – When I go to Confession and I say “”I am sorry for these and all the sins of my past life””, and I am absolved by the priest, why would I need to go to Purgatory. Aren’t all my sins forgiven? 

44:03 – The Apostles’ Creed has a line saying that Jesus “descended into hell.”  Please explain this, since that is the last place he should be!   

49:37 – Did the Old Testament period realize God was a trinity? 

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Questions Covered:

13:24 – How does the Church see its role in the current situation in Israel?

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Questions Covered:

13:24 – How does the Church see its role in the current situation in Israel?

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Questions Covered:

15:33 – Is Kekulé’s dream that led to the discovery of the benzene molecule just scientific apocrypha?

22:48 – Do you see intelligent design as an actual theory to supplement Darwinian evolution?

32:28 – What do you think of the comments of Max Plank saying that everything postulates consciousness?

32:28 – What do you think of the comments of Max Plank saying that everything postulates consciousness?

42:27- What knowledge do you have on the timing of conception?

46:48 – Particle collider in Switzerland. What are your thoughts on the research that is taking place there?

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