Catholic Answers Live

Questions Covered:

02:00 – What is the necessity of purification after death but before heaven?

15:30 – What is the textual criticism of John 8 and the woman caught in adultery?

22:53 – Why is the pope pushing heresy by allowing people to receive communion after a divorce?

35:26 – How does one know if they believe in their heart?

41:20 – How does Jesus fulfill the prophecy of reuniting all the tribes of Israel?

46:18 – What are the requirements for being an apologist?

49:39 – My friend asked us to take their children if anything ever happened to them but told us to not baptize them. Would I have to honor that or are we morally obligated to baptize them?

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Questions Covered:

02:24 – Could life have come about naturalistically?

06:10 – My wife is agnostic. How do I reply to the questions, why should she care, and why should she believe that it’s the Christian God that exists?

16:39 – My convert friend is asking how do you know when something is dogma vs doctrine?

28:45 – Within the holy family, did Joseph have the spiritual authority of Mary and Jesus?

30:55 – What is the rule of the magisterium in regard to translation of the bible and why should we heed to those translations?

36:08 – How specific does my confession have to be for it to be valid?

41:55 – How do we know that St. Ignatius of Antioch’s letters are reliable?

45:05 – Can an unbaptized person receive the sacrament of confession?

47:35 – Has the use of extraordinary ministers of holy communion been abused?

52:20 – There are verses in the bible that say that miracles are signs, but it also says the devil will use them. How can the Church confidently say that the miracles it approved of are from God and not the devil?

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Questions Covered:

41:07 – What are your thoughts on the governor of Louisiana mandating every school to have the 10 commandments?

49:15 – What’s the purpose of the Synod on Synodality?

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Questions Covered:

20:31 – With so many people in the world who are suffering, why wouldn’t we look at it globally to help those suffering?

34:21 – It sounds like Father is not demarking differences in responsibility and culpability and I think it creates a worse problem.

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Questions Covered:

04:15 – Is it ok for me to attend a Bar Mitzvah?

06:10 – How do we know for sure that it was Samuel that the witch of Endor contacted?

12:19 – You can lose your salvation but what must happen for that to occur?

19:45 – Is the entire mass a sacrifice or just the Eucharist? Is the profession of faith essential?

24:20 – Do we as Catholics fall under any of the following categories; provisionist, open theists, Arminian? I know Calvinists use these categories.

34:41 – If God knows the future, then why does he regret making humans Gen 6:6?

44:17 – In the bible it says things like ‘ I chose you and you’re a chosen race. Why are some people chosen?

48:41 – Could you explain how we know that the saints can hear us, and why having statues doesn’t mean we worship them?

52:52 – What is the Beatific Vision?

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Questions Covered:

02:31 – My Methodist friend hasn’t been to church in a long time and doesn’t drive. How can I help her keep the Lords Day holy over the phone?

06:41 – Mark’s gospel was written first and based on Peter’s account. Are the others written based on the account of other apostles?

19:25 – How do we Catholics formulate our belief on assurance of salvation?

42:37 – What tips do you have for evangelizing one’s Baptist family?

50:15 – Does John 13:6-10 teach parental or judicial forgiveness?

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Questions Covered:

43:22 – If schism is a mortal sin, does that mean that when those schismatic churches receive communion, they are receiving it in mortal sin?

50:40 – What are your thoughts on Pope Benedict XVI’s view of Purgatory in Saved in Hope, Spe Salvi, encyclical?

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Questions Covered:

08:30 – What happens to Pontius Pilate’s wife Claudia? Did she ever convert?

12:48 – How can the Church say that there is no salvation outside the Church yet declare people saints like St. Gregory of Narek?

16:13 – How did you come to believe in the intercession of saints and confessing sins to a priest? I’m protestant and having a hard time with it

28:54 – What do you think of Catholics who say that Catholics have to support labor unions?

36:24 – What are the benefits of being Catholic as opposed to being an atheist? And Why Catholicism instead of another denomination?

43:45 – Since venial sin doesn’t send one to hell, would one still need Jesus if they’ve never committed a mortal sin?

49:38 – As a Catholic how do we respond to the Black Hebrew Israelites who assert salvation due to race or culture?

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Questions Covered:

03:44 – In the Transformers, there are a team of Constructicons where 5 robots can combine to make one giant robot. According to the official character bio, the giant robot, Devastator, has a unique consciousness that is also a composite of all 5 unique, individual robot personalities. Do you think this is a good illustration of how God works, albeit being a Quintessence as opposed to a Trinity? 

08:40 – Chiropractic. Religion? New Age wooow? Scam? 

13:15 – Most Christians I know would say “light as a feather, stiff as a board” is demons. Because, you know… If it’s not demons, is there a natural explanation for why it works? 

16:50 – What do you think the likelihood is that we will meet beings from other realities that God created when we get to heaven? Or should we expect that this is the only reality, and the sole occupants of heaven will be from this space-time continuum? 

18:23 – Why did Jesus ascend into the sky and what happened to His body? Did it disappear or do he go to other planets or outer space? 

21:14 – Was it not a good idea for Johnny to take the bet with the devil in the song “Devil went down to Georgia”, given that the Church strongly encourages not conversing with the devil or demons, even though he won the bet? 

24:03 – If humans evolved from different humanoid species in the past, at what point did we gain a soul? 

29:07 – Why did Peter put on his clothes before jumping in the water? 

31:05 – In Tobit, Archangel Raphael states that it only seemed to Tobias that he was eating, but really did not. So did Raphael atomize the food he touched when having meals with Tobias or is there another explanation? 

How would someone be able to explain that Jesus really ate with his Apostles when Archangel Raphael only made it seem like it? 

36:35 – I wonder is it a sin to be psychic? My grandmother was a very gifted psychic and a devout Catholic. This created some issues when she was criticized by the priest at church.

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Questions Covered:

02:30 – I mean no disrespect with this question…. I noticed a few weeks ago that Jimmy was leaving the “g” off of words like “teachin” or “reasonin” and others. I can only assume that this is the normal dialect in Arkansas? Question. Is this change due to a conscious effort to return to his “roots” or is this an outcome of being immersed back into the Arkansas dialect through local conversations? Love Mysterious World and Cy’s awkward Dad joke sense of humor.

08:17 – In the very first Weird Questions I listened to, Jimmy answered a question asking if a man was teleported back in time to 5 BC, what obligations he would have to do in order to worship God properly. Now, let me ask the reverse of that. Suppose a man from 500BC was in stasis for thousands of years and wakes up when a group of archaeologists discover him. I imagine the option to be baptized and confirmed would be just as open to him as to any other man (provided he knows what the sacraments and the Gospel mean), but if the man were to die after his waking up in the 21st century without having done these things, what would be the state of his soul?

11:31 – We have a ghost where I work….and I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen and heard it with my own eyes. A coworker recently got a spirit box and it has picked up some interesting things but I wasn’t there when they were using it. Do those things (spirit boxes} have any legitimacy to them?

16:40 – Just wondering if you can address something that kept coming to my mind while listening to Mysterious World (AA 1025) If so thanks. My question is not directly related but it made me think about Bella Dodd and her impact related to infiltration in the church along with her conversation. I just want to hear your thoughts on this. On a side note I really enjoy your work but I particularly enjoy Mysterious World!!!

19:31 – Are there any conditions that must be met for the devil to possess someone? In Other words, are there any characteristics of a person that would need to be present in order for that person to be possessed by a demon?

28:57 – Did Jesus ever get bitten by mosquitos, ticks! Lice or other blood-feeding pests? And if so what would the implications be of these creatures potentially being the first among creation to receive the precious blood of Christ? I tend to think about this when hiking in deep quiet woods and swarmed by a fog of billions of mosquitos with nothing apparently to eat but me. Perhaps they cannot starve to death and are in a sense immortal?

33:25 – So I read a book about a guy that whenever he dies he is reborn but with all the memories of his previous lives.

My question is that if he became a priest in one of his lives would that end at his death, or would he technically still be a priest in every life after that?

35:16 – Who invented smoking? More importantly, how did people discover that inhaling burning fumes from various herbs feels good?

39:27 – Can the belief in djinn be incorporated into the Catholic worldview? And if so, how would this affect the categories of alien and demon by adding a third possible explanation of unexplained phenomenon?

44:35 – What is Baphomet?

48:45 – My son, Jonathan would like like a deep dive on Angelic swords (Genesis 3:24) Did the angels forge them? Are they still around? Did God invent swords?

51:42 – Would it be a stretch or not from a Catholic perspective to say that both Multiple Personality Disorder and Rabies are different ways in which demonic activity can manifest? I.e. The Personalities of those with MPD actually being demons in disguise waiting for the right moment to strike or rabies being a disease that could evolve into a form of demonic possession that can manifest in various animals

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