Patrick opens the hour reckoning with the Vatican’s Marian document, mixing his personal devotion and firm theological stance as he sorts out why its language stirs confusion and heated opinions. Calls ricochet from vocational discernment and science-versus-faith debates, including dinosaurs and human origins, to urgent family worries about conversion and the Catholic core, and Patrick responds fast, sometimes with book recommendations, sometimes pointed scriptural references, always nudging for clarity.

 

• Paul (email) - There was no reason for this document about our Mother Mary to be produced and sent out.  As you mention, it has only caused more confusion, division, and dis-unity among the faithful (00:41)
• Connie - I am 30 and in OCIA. Is discerning religious life something converts should do and when should they do it? Am I too old? (10:57)
• Maria - Did the dinosaurs really exist on earth. How long has it been since the first humans were here on earth? (19:20)
• Lee - Will we celebrate the anniversary Mortalium Animos? (26:19)
• John - Why do some Christians wear a cross without Jesus? (36:23)
• Shannon - Should I read Catholicism Against Itself? How can I respond to someone who is reading this book? (42:42)