Trent Horn, apologist at Catholic Answers and host of The Counsel of Trent, joins us to offer practical tips for using apologetics in your day to day interactions.

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Questions Covered:

• 03:52 - How do I explain our reasons for tithing? A Protestant pastor told me that my dad is sick because he didn’t tithe and that we need to pay their Church a lot of money in order to get better.
• 15:09 - What are the best apologetics for explaining the reason for performing a Catholic baptism?
• 30:07 - Slavery seems to be a biblical and Catholic value, at least until the 19th century. How do we explain this?
• 38:04 - My family are new converts to Catholicism. How can I explain to my atheist family why we became Catholic? 
• 47:43 - How do you bring the faith up to people without being rude or pushing them away? What is a good place to start?

Resources Mentioned:

• Why the Prosperity Gospel Is Bankrupt

• The Case for Catholicism: Answers to Classic and Contemporary Protestant Objections

• The Popes and Slavery: Setting the Record Straight

Dr. George Delgado, medical director at Culture of Life Family Services, joins us to discuss the complexities of what it means to be pro-life, from conception to natural death. 

Questions Covered: 

• 07:45 - What are biological ways to defend monogamy? Is there evolutionary evidence for monogamy?
• 17:10 - What are some suggestions for what I can tell my daughter about IUDs? She was convinced by her doctor that it would benefit her.
• 22:36 - What is the logic of a state that allows abortion, but a pregnant mother killed by a drunk driver is considered a double homicide? How can we talk to people about this?
• 29:50 - How can we talk to the women who are not victims, who know they have a child, and who still want to get an abortion? I pray outside an abortion clinic.
• 36:36 - Does Planned Parenthood offer counseling after abortion? Also, are there statistics for coat hanger abortions before Roe v. Wade?
• 45:23 - A few years ago there was a case where a woman was pregnant and there was a problem with the baby. The baby was aborted to save the mother’s life. Was this right?
• 50:44 - What are the statistics on how many women get multiple abortions?

Resources Mentioned:

• Ruth Institute
• Finding Healing Post-Abortion

The 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:

• 03:52 - After reviewing the Congolese Mass, I observed that some of order of the Mass was different and that they burned incense at different times. Is this accepted by the Vatican as a valid way to celebrate Mass in a 3rd world country?
• 08:00 - I know the concept of holiness and of sinfulness, but a lot of the time I feel like I am somewhere neutral in the middle. Is there a word for this?
• 15:00 - How will the Final Judgement affect those who have already died and been judged?
• 18:57 - What is the best way to protect yourself from people who wish evil on you?
• 23:02 - How did the gospel writers obtain information about when people were visited by angels? Also, how were people not aware that Jesus was God while he was growing up?
• 29:05 - If we believe God created everything, how can we understand that God could create hell?
• 33:13 - Why do we pray certain mysteries of the Rosary on the days that we do?
• 37:45 - Has the eastern orthodox changed their teaching on birth control? Is there any kind of limit as to what we can change under the guise of pastoral care?
• 44:23 - What exactly does submission in marriage mean?
• 50:43 - What are the differences in Scriptural interpretation between Protestants and Catholics?

Questions Covered:

• 15:14 - Was there ever a book of Enoch in the Bible?
• 17:39 - Why do Protestants not have the Apocrypha?
• 24:05 - Did Martin Luther remove James, Peter, and Revelation from the Bible? Are they there now because people wanted them back?
• 29:28 - Has a question about the Deuterocanonicals and your book.
• 31:34 - Does the fact that some of our celebrated traditions are not founded in approved Scripture discredit those traditions or ideas?
• 38:06 - How was Scripture given to us and passed down?
• 43:53 - I am curious about the different versions of Catholic bibles. Why don’t we all have the same books?
• 49:23 - Why do some Protestants believe in sola scriptura? Which ones do and why?

Resources Mentioned:

• Why Catholic Bibles Are Bigger - Revised 2nd Edition