Episodes

Friday Jul 31, 2020
Catholic Answers Live - Open Forum
Friday Jul 31, 2020
Friday Jul 31, 2020
Callers choose the topics during Open Forum, peppering our guests with questions on every aspect of Catholic life and faith, the moral life, and even philosophical topics that touch on general religious belief.
Questions Covered:
- 01:21 - I have a family that was very traumatizing to me and I wonder if I would remember that in heaven?
- 04:52 - I was reading Genesis and it talks about how God had taken Enoch away, did he go to heaven, or was he taken to some other place and why would God do that?
- 14:30 - I have a problem with purgatory, I cannot find any scripture backup for purgatory. Can you explain it?
- 22:26 - I have a little office book and the hours on are at midnight and dawn; with the monks who do it, do they only sleep 5 hours, or do they wake and then go back to sleep? How is the office done in terms of sleep?
- 28:40 - How do we know that the bible is the truth?
- 34:21 - I heard one of your podcasts about Jesus blessing aliens and I was wondering what your take on that was?
- 42:30 - What is the church’s stance on subscriptions, for example, gym membership where you get something good but there are also morally objectionable things like yoga?
- 44:48 - What is the heresy of modernism and how to prevent it in our everyday lives?
- 49:30 - How is eastern rite Catholicism in union with Catholicism?

Friday Jul 31, 2020
Catholic Answers Live - Open Forum
Friday Jul 31, 2020
Friday Jul 31, 2020
Callers choose the topics during Open Forum, peppering our guests with questions on every aspect of Catholic life and faith, the moral life, and even philosophical topics that touch on general religious belief.
Questions Covered:
- 04:49 - I am looking for information on a former NASA scientist who went through some tests and had a supernatural event happen. I am wondering if you have any info on it?
- 07:00 - What are some ways to stay motivated in the faith?
- 15:07 - What would it take to get the Roman and Eastern Orthodox churches together?
- 18:35 - Can you comment on the Church’s position on attending a non-sacramental wedding?
- 21:45 - How was it determined that the priest wear black and a white-collar? How did that start?
- 23:15 - Other churches seem to utilize the gifts of the Holy Spirit more than the Catholic Church and I am wondering why?
- 29:18 - What is the meaning of the word prayer? My protestant friends consider blasphemous outside of God. What is the real meaning?
- 35:50 - What does it mean that Jesus died for our sins?
- 42:00 - Science has claimed that we have heard echoes of the big bang but there is no sound in space? Is there Catholic teaching on that?
- 48:50 - Do we have any information on Mary about when she was assumed into heaven?

Friday Jul 31, 2020
Off the Shelf - Episode 186 with Brandon McGinley
Friday Jul 31, 2020
Friday Jul 31, 2020
How do we bring people back to Church and at the same time how do we return the Church to her former glory? For decades Church teachings and traditions have been watered down by modern society. This week Brandon McGinley and I discuss this very real problem and what solutions are available to us. Get your copy of Brandon's book The Prodigal Church: Restoring Catholic Tradition in an Age of Deception here.

