Catholic Answers Live

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? 

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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? 

 

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Questions Covered:

01:43 – What exactly are Catholics bound to follow? letters, encyclicals, ex-cathedra declarations, etc.

06:02 – What exactly is the authority carried by the nihil obstat?

11:57 – If I believe in everything the Church teaches but I also believe in reincarnation and continual revelation. Can I become Catholic?

22:45 – If you have to be in the state of grace to enter heaven, does that mean your last confession is the only one that matters?

31:17 – I’m a convert. How can I go about receiving the spiritual benefits of the eucharist if I have a hard time believing in the real presence?

37:36 – Are there any writings of papal authority being passed on in the early Church?

46:02 – Can you explain the difference between venial and mortal sin?

52:11 – Why can’t you go to confession over the phone?

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Questions Covered:

02:42 – Why do we have to attend mass on Sunday and who mandated it?

10:54 – What is the Church’s teaching regarding Mary as co-redemptrix?

15:23 – What is the importance of the woman’s submissive role as laid out in the bible? How can we go about it to make women more comfortable?

22:16 – If Jesus is the Prince of Peace, how then can it be moral to carry a firearm? Can we defend ourselves?

 28:40 – If the Gospel of John focuses on the body and blood of Jesus, why doesn’t the gospel have the story of the last supper?

33:37 – Regarding the statement “there is no salvation outside the Church,” how does the idea of some Protestants and Jews being able to be saved correlate to that phrase?

 43:59 – How do I respond to my mother and brother who left the Church due to there being too many ‘man-made traditions’?

 48:49 – How do you respond to the claim that Jesus being the bread is just metaphorical like him being a branch or a door?

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Questions Covered:

05:01 – How is time experienced in heaven?

09:20 – Where do we get the documentation of the fall of the angels since it’s not in the bible?

15:00 – How can we say Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus but still say the Orthodox are saved?

19:20 – Gal 5:2 says circumcision will be of no value. Will a baby that is circumcised today be of no/less value to Christ?

24:28 – Why are we not born with full grace and still affected by original sin?

35:14 – Why does God test his people if he knows what the outcome will be?

43:37 – Is YHWH the Trinity? Did Christophany happen in the Old Testament; meaning did Jesus appear to people in the Old Testament?

49:59 – My granddaughter is not going to be baptized because my son fell away from the Church? Can the baptism of desire be applied to others apart from the parents?

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Questions Covered:

02:28 – Yesterday’s Reading regarding Susana. Did Daniel end up marrying her? How were the two elderly men trying to harm Susana proved to be lying based on a tree?

06:00 – Is birth control acceptable to prevent a pregnancy if the pregnancy is life threatening for the mother?

20:00 – I heard that after Vatican II men were no longer required to be heterosexual to join the priesthood. Is this true?

29:29 – In 1 Jn 5:16-17, why are there different versions that describe sins as mortal vs deadly?

35:40 – If a person is baptized but not confirmed can they receive confession? How do you harmonize baptism of desire and the declaration from the Ecumenical Council of Florence that no one can be saved outside the church even if they shed blood for Christ?

45:55 – Do you consider John Main’s form of meditation compatible with Church teaching?

52:16 – You said that men cannot be entered into seminary if they have carnal sins. Homosexuality is not a carnal sin; it is a condition. Can you expound on this?

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Questions Covered:

04:05 – Why are Mt 17:21, Mk 9:29 missing from our current bibles? They were in the Douay–Rheims bible.

15:47 – What does it mean for all graces to flow through Mary?

29:15 – I’m a lapsed Catholic and looking to return. I’m divorced, remarried, and want to receive the sacraments. Am I living in sin?

38:03 – How can I help bring a Sedevacantist to the Church?

50:15 – Is Melchizedek a Christophany? Is there a difference between “the angel of the Lord” and “An angel of the Lord?”

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Questions Covered:

07:08 – What is the significance of St. Clement’s letter being written in the 60s rather than the 90s AD?

15:00 – Why would God allow Protestants to have the wrong canon of scripture?

23:32 – Were the gospels written to make the roman empire look good and make the Jews look bad?

34:25 – Did Jesus descend to hell (hellfire) after he died? If demons are tormented in hell, who is tormenting them?

34:25 – How do you reconcile evolution with the creation account?

52:46 – I’m becoming Catholic this Easter. Where can I go to better understand the Reformation?

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Questions Covered:

13:31 – Where do we see this apostolic and papal succession in the bible?

20:02 – When is the pope infallible?

28:30 – The Papacy was invented in the Middle Ages. Peter was not the pope. I will not go along with the papacy.

36:35 – When Jesus says that he’s praying for Peter, Is this giving him some authority?

43:46 – Regarding unbroken succession. How do we make sense of the Avignon papacy?

49:29 – How should I reconcile the current pope’s opinions and involvement on the environment issue and the science that opposes his view? Should I just keep my mouth shut? What’s the code of conduct?

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Questions Covered:

02:23 – Would the best possible world contain actual concrete infinince?

06:22 – Can the human soul possess and animate an object like the video game Five Nights at Freddy?

15:56 – Why do protestants say we re-crucify Jesus at the Mass?

20:59 – If the devil knew that God was all powerful, why did he rebel against him?

24:09 – I offend my brother no matter what I do. I don’t love him. When will I come to love him?

29:37 – You don’t need baptism to go to Heaven. If you believe Jesus is the Son of God who died and rose again and you repent…that is your salvation.

31:51 – Why do we need priests if Jesus was the final mediator?

35:57 – Why do you call yourselves apologists? It sounds like you’re apologizing for the faith.

41:20 – How did they come up with the numbering chapter and verse in the bible?

48:35 – How does the Jewish view of heaven compare to the Catholic view?

53:07 – How will time be experienced after we die?

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