Episodes
Thursday Aug 26, 2021
Catholic Answers Focus - Is My Soul Immortal?
Thursday Aug 26, 2021
Thursday Aug 26, 2021
The author of Purgatory Is for Real tackles a tough philosophical question — is my soul made to last forever? If so, how do we know this? If not, what could happen that would destroy the life of my soul?
Friday Aug 20, 2021
Catholic Answers Focus - Is this Papacy Self-Defeating?
Friday Aug 20, 2021
Friday Aug 20, 2021
Theologian and Catholic Worker Larry Chapp joins us for a discussion of Pope Francis’ Motu Proprio on the Latin Mass. Was this a missed opportunity for the pope to achieve his larger goals? Is there any better way available to reach those goals?
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Catholic Answers Focus - What is a Soul?
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
In the first of two conversations with Karlo about the soul, Cy asks Karlo to explain what a Christian means by “soul.” Where is the soul? Does everything have a soul? What is the point of having a soul? Using the tools of philosophy, Karlo gets us some answers.
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
Catholic Answers Focus - What Is the Mind? The Catholic View
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
We ask Jimmy Akin, apologist and host of Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World, whether there is a Catholic way to understand the mind. Jimmy reviews some of the current thinking about what the mind is, and explains what a Catholic can, and cannot, accept.
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
Catholic Answers Focus - What’s Wrong with Woke?
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
In her new book, Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology, Noelle Mering argues that our “woke” moment is, in fact, a surrender to the age-old temptation to take the place of God. It is also the direct consequence of the sexual revolution. She joins us to explain how an awake Christian can help free the world of the destructive ideology of “woke”.
Thursday Aug 05, 2021
Catholic Answers Focus - Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Catholic Faith
Thursday Aug 05, 2021
Thursday Aug 05, 2021
Can a Catholic assent to blowing up entire cities? What about when to do so will save perhaps millions of lives? Catholic Answers President Chris Check joins us as we consider again America’s use of Atomic weapons to end a long, bitter war with Japan.
Wednesday Aug 04, 2021
Catholic Answers Focus - The Unchristian Roots of STEM Education
Wednesday Aug 04, 2021
Wednesday Aug 04, 2021
To lure parents who want their kids to be competitive in a high-tech society, some Catholic schools promote themselves vigorously as providing a top-notch STEM education. But just how compatible is the STEM mentality with Catholic ideas about formation and education? Dr. William Fahey, President of New Hampshire’s Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, joins us to explain why the Catholic educational tradition is better for students than STEM training.
Wednesday Jul 28, 2021
Catholic Answers Focus - Rescuing the Bible from Experts
Wednesday Jul 28, 2021
Wednesday Jul 28, 2021
Why is studying the Bible in college so often injurious to faith? Is it because scientific investigation of the Bible has the power to debunk it? Or could there be something wrong with the way modern scholarship engages with the Word of God? Scott Hahn, co-author of The Decline and Fall of Sacred Scripture, takes us on a seven-century journey toward answering these questions.
Wednesday Jul 28, 2021
Catholic Answers Focus - Is the Church Hiding the Book of Enoch?
Wednesday Jul 28, 2021
Wednesday Jul 28, 2021
What is the Church hiding in keeping the Book of Enoch out of the Bible? Genesis mentions him, and the New Testament includes reference to the book that bears his name. But are his apocalyptic prophecies just too hot for the Church to handle? Tim Staples uncovers the truth about the wild and dangerous Book of Enoch.
Wednesday Jul 21, 2021
Catholic Answers Focus - Missing Mass Is Deadly
Wednesday Jul 21, 2021
Wednesday Jul 21, 2021
How on Earth could it really be a mortal sin to miss Mass? This seems so harsh! Catholic Answers Apologist Karlo Broussard takes up a hard challenge as he defends the Catholic requirement to participate in Sunday Mass. There are exceptions, of course, but as Karlo makes clear, missing Mass is not a thing to take lightly.
Wednesday Jul 21, 2021
Catholic Answers Focus - Catholicism and Race
Wednesday Jul 21, 2021
Wednesday Jul 21, 2021
Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers has an apparently unpopular answer to the scourge of racism—imitating Jesus. Our society refuses this path, preferring a culture of constant critique and revolution. It is time that the revolutionaries heard the hard truth—their cure is no cure at all. Real healing requires us to take up the Gospel with courage and humility.
Wednesday Jul 14, 2021
Catholic Answers Focus - Using Words to Hide the Harm of Abortion
Wednesday Jul 14, 2021
Wednesday Jul 14, 2021
From the beginning, support for abortion has relied on using language to hide reality — specifically the reality of killing an innocent boy or girl. We expect an avalanche of such language in the year ahead, given the likelihood of a new US Supreme Court abortion decision. In preparation, we asked pro-life brainiac Stephanie Gray Connors to help us cut through the deadly propaganda.
Wednesday Jul 14, 2021
Catholic Answers Focus - Summer Fiction for Catholics
Wednesday Jul 14, 2021
Wednesday Jul 14, 2021
Mark Brumley, the well-read president of Ignatius Press, joins us for a brief conversation about books in which he gives his suggestions for Catholics looking for some good summer fiction.
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Catholic Answers Focus - Is Divorce Really a Sin?
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Does the Catholic Church still teach that divorce is wrong, even sinful? And if so, why, especially given that so many Catholics are divorced? Leila Miller, author of Primal Loss: The Now-Adult Children of Divorce Speak, explains what the Church teaches about divorce and why this teaching remains essential.
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Catholic Answers Focus - Is Christianity Anti-Woman?
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Catholic author and speaker Elizabeth Kelly joins us for a discussion of the supposed “anti-woman” bias in Christianity. Is it real, or is it just a modern story disconnected from historical reality? Kelly is the author of books for and about Christian women, including Love Like a Saint: Cultivating Virtue with Holy Women.
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Catholic Answers Focus - Getting Manliness Wrong
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
You can hardly tune into a Catholic podcast or read a Catholic publication these days without someone complaining about the lack of manliness. But is a lack of manliness the problem, or a lack of Christianity in men? We asked the world’s most manly man, Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers, to help us get to the roots of the manliness panic.
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Catholic Answers Focus - A Catholic Summer Reading List
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Todd Aglialoro, director of publishing here at Catholic Answers, offers ideas for some “delightful” Catholic summer reading. In this first of a two-part reading series, Todd offers non-fiction ideas, with fiction to come later.
Wednesday Jun 23, 2021
Catholic Answers Focus - Are Sacramentals Magic?
Wednesday Jun 23, 2021
Wednesday Jun 23, 2021
Catholic writer Shaun McAfee joins us to defend the Catholic use of sacramentals — holy water, crucifixes, blessings, etc. This practice looks a lot like magic to both our Protestant and secular friends. Do they have a point? Shaun draws from his new book — 20 Answers: Relics and Sacramentals — to explain just what Catholics are up to.
Wednesday Jun 23, 2021
Catholic Answers Focus - Did the Supreme Court Allow Catholics to Discriminate?
Wednesday Jun 23, 2021
Wednesday Jun 23, 2021
It turns out that Catholic Answers Apologist Joe Heschmeyer is also a lawyer, so we asked him about the recent Supreme Court decision that allowed a Catholic social service agency to continue refusing to place foster children in the custody of gay couples. Is this discrimination? And what does this ruling suggest about the future of religious freedom?
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Catholic Answers Focus - Saved Outside the Catholic Church?
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Our own Tim Staples discusses the Catholic claim that there is no salvation outside the Church? How are we to understand this truth, and what does it mean for those who do not enter the Church?