Catholic Answers Live

Questions Covered:

03:05 – Given Jesus is timeless, did Jesus have a body before his birth?

10:21 – What is the Catholic view on how to remain saved after initial justification?

15:08 – What can I expect from my first Latin mass? How different will it be?

18:36 – With the red heifers and altars being constructed, what details do we look for to know we are in the end times?

23:24 – If someone disagrees with infallible teaching, what do they need to do to return? Just change their mind or go to confession?

31:54 – Has your study of the paranormal strengthened your faith? What’s the best way to pursue the paranormal?

37:46 – Can a Catholic receive a valid absolution if they reject the teaching on contraception? Do I have a duty to stop my close family from sinning even if they tell me to let them be?

46:40 – How do I respond when someone says that the pope is the antichrist?

50:31 – Has the Church had anything to say or teach on the jinn in Islam?

…

Questions Covered:

04:38 – How do you rebut the soteriological argument from evil?

10:00 – Why did God choose the category of God to reveal himself to the nation of Israel given that all the other gods are different in nature than him?

15:48 – Should the characters in Tobit be seen as fictional?

17:44 – How can we respond to a Mormon or unitarian that claims that John’s gospel says Jesus has the same power and authority as the Father but not one in essence?

20:47 – How could I respond to Orthodox people who justify their allowing of remarriage?

24:33 – There are people in the OT who weren’t Jewish such as Job, what was their religion?

30:02 – Jesus speaks about the way to salvation being narrow and damnation being wide. How do we make sense of this?

36:08 – If you went back in time, could you pray for yourself so you won’t commit a sin?

40:24 – Why did the Church change the terminology for the Good Friday Service from “Veneration” to “Adoration” of the holy cross? Isn’t adoration reserved from God alone?

43:28 – I’m in RCIA. I had my first confession but I think I committed another sin. I’m having a hard time finding another confession time. Should I move forward in receiving the sacraments?

48:20 – Is there any evidence where Judas went or if he met up with Jesus after his death?

…

Questions Covered:

03:11 – Why is there a personal judgment and a general judgment? Doesn’t that seem redundant? 

13:29 – Have any credible remote viewers ever tried to remote view heaven? 

23:15 – How does our doctrine of inspiration interact with 1 Cor 7:29-31? In that passage, Paul seems to assert to his original audience that the end of history was near upon them, and gives them advice which only makes sense in that context. Paul seems to change his mind later on (in other letters). But in that spot, it really seems like an assertion which is untrue. But I say this, brothers: the time is shortened, that from now on even those who have wives should be as if they do not have wives, 30 and those who weep as if they do not weep, and those who rejoice as if they do not rejoice, and those who buy as if they do not possess 31 and those who make use of the world as if they do not make full use of it. For the present form of this world is passing away. 

36:57 – How can parishes do better at helping those who don’t drive attend Mass? Or help those would are considering joining the church and don’t drive. 

40:38 – What is the reason behind why the Gospel of Mark has both a short ending and a long ending? 

46:30 – Which Bible translation is the most faithful to the original languages? 

51:40 – Loving and liking are different. We know that in heaven we will love everyone the same. Does this mean that we are still going to have people that are closer to us, people that have a special bond? Or will those relationships become the same in the sense that there are no persons that have a closer friendship? 

…

Questions Covered:

05:15 – I have a photo of an object with an inscription and was wondering what it means ( a client had it on the shelf and I’d never seen it, I take it it is Protestant: Along the top of the block of wood from left to right are painted the names: Paul, Irenaeus, Martin, Columba, Luther, Wesley and Branham. In the center is painted “The Seven Church Ages” and at the bottom is the person’s birthdate. Thank you! 

13:20 – how are we to respond to Pope Francis saying that Priests can bless same-sex unions? Is it reconcilable with our Catholic faith being we were taught it goes against God’s teachings? 

17:38 – What does the Church say regarding the things people find funny? There are some things that we find funny that may be dark, edgy, and slightly irreverent but we have little control over our reflex to laugh or chuckle at such things. If we do find something funny that’s seen as “offensive” from a moral point of view, are we to confess it and try harder in the future to process the bit or joke until we no longer find it amusing? 

24:05 – How does a revert get involved in parish life? 

28:32 – Can you explain kenosis? I keep hearing a certain strain of Christians abuse Philippians 2:7 to suggest Jesus gave up his divinity. Their reasoning is that Jesus had to sacrifice himself as a man in order to atone for humanity. Can you please debunk this? 2 Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, 2 complete my joy, so that ⌊you are in agreement⌋, having the same love, united in spirit, ⌊having one purpose⌋. 3 Do nothing according to selfish ambition or according to empty conceit, but in humility considering one another better than yourselves, 4 each of you not looking out for your own interests⌋, but also each of you for ⌊the interests of others. 

39:06 – I’ve wanted to hear your treatment of the souls of unbaptized children who die before the age of reason. I’ve researched it a fair bit from the 2008 document approved by Pope Benedict, to Servant of God Marcel Van, to alleged quotes by St Bernard of Clairvaux, to other reasons that suggest they go to heaven rather than limbo, but your research & insights would be of interest too. 

 47:31 – Why was there a bowl of wine/vinegar at the cross? It wouldn’t have been for antiseptic or pain-numbing reasons. What was the reason for it? 

49:22 – Have you ever considered doing any Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World episode on neurodivergence? 

 52:15 – What are the three secrets of Fatima? Why was one of them never revealed to us? 

…

Questions Covered: 

06:17 – calling on behalf on a friend who is discerning Catholicism– his friend has a question about people in the past paying for indulgences and for people to get out of purgatory?

29:14 – discerning Catholicism, he feels open to Catholicism, but his wife is not comfortable with it. What are some basic things he can share with his wife to positively share more about Catholicism with her?

49:10 – I have a family member who is not catholic. Is he allowed to receive last rights?

…

Questions Covered:

04:08 – What do Roman Catholic believe going to heaven is dependent upon?

16:14 – What archeological Study Bible should I use if I am trying to become Catholic?

19:07 – how does one become a Catholic but avoid a triumphant attitude?

29:44 – Non Catholic, parents were Catholic, in her 3rd marriage, wants to become Catholic but doesn’t have anyone to sponsor her in RCIA… how does she navigate this?

42:08 – Why is God not held accountable to the same moral standards in relationships as we are?

49:39 – Can you explain more about purgatory and how someone can pray for someone else in purgatory?

…

Questions Covered:

15:07 – If you’re divorced and remarried but your first marriage wasn’t in the Church, can you receive communion?

18:46 – While you wait for an annulment, what does it mean to live like brother and sister

23:19 – I was married to a non-Catholic and having trouble finding proof of this prior marriage. Only divorced. What can I do to prove it was not a marriage in the Church?

30:07 – What does it take to get an annulment?

34:13 – I just wanted to say that the advice to give, to go to a priest should also include the deacons. I feel like the deacons were made for this.

35:07 – Why don’t they treat casual sex with the same degree as being in a non-Catholic valid marriage?

43:34 – What’s the Church’s guidance for those who don’t have a valid marriage and are separated but don’t seek divorce?

45:28 – What is the reason for annulments being valid if the couple are married outside of the Church building?

…

Questions Covered:

08:44 – When dialoguing with a protestant and using the common ground of the bible, where should I go in terms of moving the conversation after a “this is just how i interpret it’ point 5. causes it to stagnate?

15:30 – How do you respond to the claim that in order to be Christian one needs to be born again?

20:20 – Is there salvation outside the Catholic Church?

28:46 – A protestant asked me if using bacon grease breaks the Friday Lenten abstaining from meat?

34:40 – How do we defend against claims that the papacy has changed over history? How do we defend doctrines that were introduced later in history?

44:56 – How do I respond to people who say that the Catholic Church is the whore of Babylon?

52:55 – What’s the difference between abstinence and fasting during lent?

…

Questions Covered:

02:42 – Some Protestant minister who converts to Catholic church can become priests and stay married. Why isn’t this extended to Deacons? 

09:09 – How can I reconcile Holy Days of Obligation and fasting during lent with Mark Chapter 7? 

17:05 – I’ve heard the Word became the Son at the incarnation only based on Psalm 2. How can I respond to this?  

23:50 – Where is St. Gabriel mentioned in the Bible, what makes him an Archangel? 

28:50 – Why is there no video evidence of a miracle?  

34:02 – How did the Septuagint get its name? 

36:05 – How can I talk to someone who says you don’t need Confession?  

40:32 – Why did St. Padre Pio have the stigmata, and did it hurt?  

42:13 – Why in the US does we seem to ignore a 1997 Vatican Instruction when it comes to the use of extraordinary minister? 

48:17 – What denomination is the Hillsong church and can we attend as Catholics? 

50:54 – Is there firm teaching of using they/them pronouns? 

…

Questions:

04:55 – Why shouldn’t we use the pronouns of transpeople, if the Pope consistently does?  

14:47 – Why do Protestants use Ephesians 4:11 to say that we don’t need priest? 

22:22 – Is going to Confession for the same thing repeatedly pointless? 

31:54 – What are your thoughts on increasing reverence by receiving on the tongue and kneeling? 

42:55 – How did David become a priest based on the order of Melchizedek? 

47:54 – Was the Son of God in biological form or spiritual form prior to the birth of Jesus? 

51:56 – Understanding more on the What separates the deuterocanonicals from the rest of the books from the apocrypha? 

 

…