Catholic Answers Live

Questions Covered;

04:02 – What does the Church believe in reincarnation and why?

11:36 – Why do Catholics believe that salvation is faith and work when Jesus preaches works only salvation in Mt 25?

17:00 – Why is the pope coming down so hard on the traditional Latin mass?

20:57 – Why does the priest mention Melchizedek during the prayers of consecration?

24:25 – Why would one want to evangelize a faithful methodist? Wouldn’t they already be considered part of the faithful?

34:52 – Why are Catholics not united on the abortion issue?

40:17 – Why would God allow things like Hurricane Sandy?

46:42 – Why did the words of the mass change several years ago?

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Questions Covered:

09:02 – What’s the Catholic view on a 3-person baby that was recently created?

17:25 – If evolution is real, why don’t we have any transitional fossils?

22:51 – If God is the concept of infinity, is he an ever-expanding infinity or is he the highest set of infinity?

31:02 – With science expanding so quickly, I’m reminded of the of the Jurassic Park quote: we are doing things so fast we are not stopping to think if we should.

35:07 – Is it okay for me to question certain components of science such as carbon dating?

41:04 – What have you done to handle situations when you hit a wall when publishing studies?

45:48 – Wouldn’t the argument that God is constantly changing support the theory that men and women can change and be transgender?

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Questions Covered:

04:47 – Could you comment on arguments against legal abortion based on it allowing people to make lazy decisions? 

12:08 – My son has a buddha statue in his home. My wife and I were invited over to dinner. I don’t feel comfortable going over because of how scandalous it is. What’s your advice? 

20:21 – How do you respond to atheists who say you’re only Catholic because you grew up that way? 

29:44 – How do you respond to a protestant who explains away Marian apparitions as demonic? 

36:38 – Gavin Ortland claimed that the Church Fathers would not agree with what the Church became by the 1500’s. How would one debunk that? 

45:58 – How do you reply to someone who says the Catholic version of baptism because of the sprinkling of water instead of submersion? 

49:43 – We are studying centering prayer in our Catholic book club. The book by Fr. Thomas Keating says that we are God and my parish priest says St. Athanasius backs this up. Can you clarify? 

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Open Forum – Questions Covered:

04:01 – Is it moral for my Catholic boyfriend to make glass containers for cremated remains?

14:00 – Does the Church take a position on what the genetic makeup of Jesus would look like?

16:44 – If God is all knowing, then why would he allow atheists to be born?

31:17 – What kind of society would you want to see America become? One that respects all religions or just the Catholic faith?

46:41 – How did the concept of the immortal soul come to be in Christianity since the Jewish people didn’t believe in that?

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Open Forum – Questions Covered:

01:33 – does the initial stage of justification differ from the process that happens after?

05:54 – What is the Catholic view on the 1000-year reign of Jesus in Revelation?

08:45 – Could you write a book on what the Catholic teaching on justification actually is and why we reject penal substitutionary atonement?

18:56 – Is it okay to pray the rosary in public?

22:14 – On what basis did the Orthodox dissent during the Great Schism?

29:25 – Why can’t our protestant brothers and sisters who are baptized receive communion?

45:38 – Under what circumstances would a child or baby receive communion

49:06 – How is it possible to say that the Church can claim to be consistent in its apostolic tradition and yet claim that 5 degrees of minor orders are no longer real?

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Open Forum – Questions Covered:

10:56 – I’ve been getting a lot of Mormon missionaries. Is it fruitful to talk to them?

17:12 – Can you clarify Divine simplicity and the essence energies distinction?

21:51 – What is the nature of the Church’s non infallible teachings? Could a theologian dissent from those opinions?

32:31 – How does Sola Scriptura affirm Tradition as meaningful and authoritative but claims only Scripture as infallible?

35:56 – Was it cruel for God to kill innocent babies during Noah’s flood?

45:52 – Did Pope Leo the Great and Pope St. Gelasius I condemned communion under one form?

50:21 – How do we defend transubstantiation and reject transgenderism since both have the appearance of something they’re not?

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Questions Covered:

02:25 – How many languages was the bible translated into around the year 500 AD? I find polemical stuff all around the internet that is trying to put down the Catholic Church by saying it was translated into 500 languages by then.

06:23 – What is the Church’s view on suffering well when the person doesn’t really know what that means? My 8 y.o. daughter has been diagnosed with cancer. We as her parents offer up her suffering but how does the Lord view hers?

15:44 – Follow up question to Julian. Can you please give some clarification that we can go directly to Jesus rather than always through a mediator?

30:57 – If a husband and wife become one flesh in marriage and both die and end up in purgatory, do they first both need to be purged of their sin in order to go to heaven?

34:35 – I understand the concept of indulgences that if we do good works or pious actions it will reduce temporal punishment in purgatory. It seems like we’re just doing indulgences to check a box. Are the indulgences in these big books real and what is their full purpose?

41:36 – Follow up to previous question – You said, “If you have a gun license, you’ve been deputized by the state to carry out capital punishment.” Can you give some more clarification on that statement?

47:27 – How do we reconcile the different factions and the division they cause within the Catholic Church, especially in the US?

52:09 – How do I explain the papacy to my Protestant friend?

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Questions Covered:

04:04 – Does listening to an audio version meet the criteria of saying the rosary?

05:55 – Is it a licit theological opinion to think that Mary did not die before her assumption? On catholic.com, Fr. Hugh Barbour says the magisterium does not teach that she died but Michael Lofton says she did.

15:05 – What were the differences between presbyters and Bishops in the early Church?

20:38 – In Hebrews 4:15-16, it says, “We have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities…Let us therefore come boldly…” Why do Catholics have priests if this passage says we can go boldly ourselves?

32:35 – I shared a video with a friend about how a monastery here in OC is going to be dedicating the month of May to the Blessed Mother. How can I respond to her when she says praying to the saints is demonic?

41:50 – Do our works play into the initial stage of justification? If they do, how so?

49:11 – If we were in an active shooter situation and have legal license to carry, would we be subject to the same rules regarding “Thou shalt not kill” as a soldier in war?

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