Catholic Answers Live

Questions Covered:

08:53 – How do I defend the Catholic position on the Bipartite, tripartite nature of man? I’m in a bible study with a group of protestants and this has been a debate.

16:20 – Is it considered living in sin to be a Catholic in name only?

20:01 – Where can I find indulgences in the Church?

24:31 – If we are forgiven in this life but there is a final judgment where we are judged, how do we square those too?

35:00 – Why do Catholics have to go to a priest to have a relationship with God? Especially since the bible says we can go straight to Jesus?

43:40 – Where does Our Lady of America stand in the Church?

46:09 – What does one do with a physical copy of the liturgy of the hours? Do they have to be discarded or can they be reused?

47:54 – I just wanted clarification: Is the only way to God through a priest? Why do Catholics still pay homage to saints?

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Questions Covered:

04:20 – How does one do paranormal investigations as a faithful Catholic without getting into the occult?

06:14 – Does Gal 5:2 teach that Catholics aren’t saved?

12:16 – Why is the canon of scripture closed?

16:55 – My daughter is into witchcraft and asked me how transubstantiation is not magic or witchcraft?

24:30 – Mat 5:22 What did Jesus mean when he said don’t call anyone Raca?

35:55 – If God loves this world & does not want to destroy it, then why is he promising heaven instead of doing something to fix the mess here in this world?

37:22 – Are you invoking demons when you debate Satanists?

43:30 – My Episcopalian son says he’s Catholic but not Roman Catholic. What does that mean?

50:35 – What is the actual name that people used for Jesus? Why don’t we use it?

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Topics Covered:

1:00 – Alabama Supreme Court says embryos are humans.

19:05 – Manners and generational social norms.

41:54 – China’s demographic collapse.

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Topics Covered:

03:47 – Romans going back to paganism

29:05 – Christian self- immolation

46:00 – Alabama Supreme Court says embryos are humans

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Questions Covered:

06:22 – I am low income and receive charity from the Church. What is my obligation to give back as an offering to the Church?

17:48 – Can Protestant pastors cast out demons?

28:44 – How is it possible for a Catholic who has same sex attraction to become a saint given that they are prohibited from having a vocation according to the Church?

40:41 – what resources can i give to an 18-year-old to stay Catholic?

45:37 – As an obedient Catholic must I fire a freemason who I hired as a contractor? Do I have to limit my interaction with them?

49:35 – What does the Church think of books like 3-4 Maccabees and others? Are they Inspired scripture?

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Questions Covered:

05:15 – Do we have true contrition of sins if we know we will commit them again?

07:35 – How do we share in the divinity of Christ if we don’t become gods ourselves?

13:09 – Can I reject some element of the Catholic view of purgatory and still call myself Catholic?

17:54 – I’m debating between leaving the Novus Ordo Church and going to a sedevacantist church. What resource can you offer to get me out of this thought?

23:05 – How do we know when we are being obedient in the context of Deut. 13:7-12 and Acts 7

33:16 – How do you know when you are truly connected to God?

36:09 – I’ve been trying to get out of debt. Is it advisable to stop giving my donations to the Church? If I take a side job to speed up my debt pay off, can I work on Sundays?

44:31 – I’m not Catholic. What are these groups like Jesuits, Benedictines, etc. and how do they all fit under the umbrella of Catholicism?

48:10 – My mom is Protestant. What are good scriptural defenses for the papacy?

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Questions Covered:

18:07 – How do you encourage schools to share the hard teachings of Catholicism?

23:56 – Where does a sense of purpose fit into education?

45:06 – How do you handle students who don’t take reverence and church seriously?

47:43 – I’m studying to be liberal arts Catholic teacher. How can we balance being away from technology and acting as an Amish versus understanding the need for it?

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Questions Covered:

23:28 – Is the goal of the 9-month novena to pray the traditional rosary?  Or what order did you have in mind?   

34:41 – I just want to thank Cardinal Burke, your leadership and witness make me want to get closer to the Church. 

36:14 – I and my entire bible study signed up for the novena. Please keep your friend Paul Nelson in your prayers. 

47:31 – I wanted to compliment Cardinal Burke on his great work at the Shrine. 

50:00 – Should Our Lady of Fatima’s Miracle of the Sun have a greater impact due to the miracle being a historical moment? 

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Questions Covered:

04:39 – Does Romans 11:6 nullify the idea of faith and works?

08:24 – Why do we genuflect or bow during the Apostles Creed quote “conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary?”

13:03 – A friend is a recent convert who wants to be a monk. He doesn’t want to get his previous marriage annulled. Would this affect him?

18:47 – How does salvation come?

20:46 – How do I discern what God wants me to do?

28:47 – Is there any truth to the claim of ‘serpent seed? The claim that Satan had children with other humans during the time of Adam and Eve.

32:07 – Is it ok for me to go to an Assembly of God church or Pentecostal church if I can’t find a Catholic church?

39:55 – Can generational sins be passed on?

43:30 – How are protestants saved if they know of the Church and reject it?

46:10 – My sister left the Church for Islam. How can I evangelize?

49:10 – I’m Anglican. My ex husband became Catholic. If he chose to remarry, what would that look like?

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Questions Covered:

13:07 – How do Catholics approach images of Jesus in the Eucharist since it doesn’t actually resemble him?

15:50 – How do you answer the claim that Jesus was a proponent of Sola Scriptura because he always quoted the Old Testament?

21:54 – What forgives us our sins?

34:18 – Given the crusades, indulgences etc. Why should a person join the Catholic Church? I’m protestant and I don’t believe the Catholic Church is good.

42:01 – How would you respond to the claim that the Catholics broke away from the Orthodox Church, not the other way around?

45:46 – How would you reply to an evangelical who claims that all Catholics should leave the Catholic Church because of the pope’s comments on blessing same sex couples?

49:59 – Is it true that a pope can go to hell?

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