Catholic Answers Live

Questions Covered:

29:58 – What do we do about the web designer who wont make a site for a couple because he doesn’t believe in interracial marriage?

45:35 – How do we prevent abuses of religious liberty?

51:42 – When are we going to realize that the other side just wants to put us in jail? When Are we going to fight back?

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Questions Covered:

17:17 – What is the role of godparents and confirmation sponsors when it comes to sharing the faith?

20:51 – Have you sold all of your belongings and followed Jesus like you quoted earlier?

38:11 – How do you share the good news while discussing the moral argument and not raising anger and emotion?

49:12 – How do you share the faith in a place where you are not supposed to talk about faith, like the workplace?

 

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Open Forum – Questions Covered:

04:28 – Given the degree of the accusations of heresy and apostasy today, how much of our salvation is at stake on knowing how to identify heresy?

15:58 – What would the implications on the Incarnation be if fallen intelligent alien life existed?

21:19 – Is there a policy on facial hair in the west? Roman Catholics tend to be clean cut while eastern Catholics tend to have beards.

28:51 – When people get to heaven do they still have the same personalities?

33:34 – Is Allah really a god or a devil?

37:25 – Would I be apostate if the Catholic Church accepted women’s ordination and I left?

42:30 – If ghost’s exist and we need to test them, how would we test them?

49:18 – If a person baptizes a grandchild without the parents knowledge and the parents later begin to practice their faith and want to baptize their child, would that baptism be necessary?

51:44 – When a priest does an exorcism, does the person who’s receiving the exorcism need to consent to it for it to take effect?

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Questions Covered:

38:13 – I know a priest that keeps saying that the real miracle of the fish and the loaves was sharing and that Jesus didn’t actually multiply them. Is this true?

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Open Forum – Questions Covered:

05:07 – Is it okay to remain a Protestant?

08:35 – Why as Catholics do we not follow the kosher food laws of the Old Testament

15:56 – Is Catholicism an Ideology?

28:36 – Are we supposed to do the orans posture during Our Father at Mass?

40:51 – I’ve noticed various practices in the Catholic Church. Apart from the typical sit stand kneel, are there points where we are supposed to bow, raise hand etc.?

50:36 – Can you suggest what to write on a family member’s birthday card? She is a retired nun.

52:01 – I just returned to the Church. Can you simply explain what indulgences are?

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Open Forum – Questions Covered:

04:28 – Can we reconcile free will and the call to evangelize with the idea that everyone is ultimately responsible for their final destination?

11:30 – Why does the Church feel the need to have a distinction between priests and lay people?

20:23 – What did they do with the dead bodies during the time of Pharaoh?

28:39 – Many Protestants believe that salvation cannot be lost once attained. What does the church say about this?

31:51 – Do we have the authority as Christians to rebuke someone?

41:21 – Is God the Father the same God as the God of Judaism and Islam?

50:37 – Can I, as a layman, bless my own children?

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Open Forum – Questions Covered:

01:04 – Were the dogmas Immaculate Conception and the Assumption explicitly preached in the apostolic age?

16:52 – If my wife and I were to become Catholic would our marriage have to be convalidated?

21:42 – Can you explain the calling of single lay people? You didn’t mention that when explaining celibacy.

31:21 – How do you respond to the claim that Mary didn’t actually have a miraculous pregnancy because she was intersex and conceived Jesus herself?

38:38 – Can the laity use holy oil?

47:06 – I saw that a small percentage of Catholics actually accept the teaching against contraception. Can you shed some light on this?

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