A reader writes: Question: An atheist has claimed that Jesus’s conversation with Nicodemus couldn’t have happened because it’s a greek word that has two meanings, critical to the story, and Jesus didn’t speak greek. I know neither greek nor aramaic, and according to some english, so any thing you happen to know would be useful. [...]
Apologetics
Jimmy Akin answers: Can you elaborate on this past Sunday’s Gospel reading? How can I refute the claim that Catholics don’t like sex because we don’t approve of birth control? Will you explain the timeline of the Epiphany? Where does the Church stand on the use of Viagra? What is the proper translation of Matthew [...]
A reader writes: I am a Protestant and love listening to Catholic Answers Live. I am hoping you can help me out with the papal bull “Unigenitus” which appears to be condemning the idea of personal Scripture reading, etc. The way it’s worded doesn’t make it appear as if it is saying ‘we are worried [...]
A Secret Information Club member who I will codename Agent Great White North writes and says: Do you have any info on soul sleep? One of my friends believes the body and soul sleep in the grave until Christ comes back. Some Scripture “appears” to support this. How do I refute this claim? The idea [...]
You often hear that Jesus and the apostles quoted from the deuterocanonical books of the Bible–those that aren’t in the Protestant Old Testament. Did they? If not, what does the New Testament’s use of the Old Testament tell us about the canonicity of those books? In Acts 8 Luke describes a situation where a group [...]
I’m well known for holding the position that abortion is the black hole political issue of our time. Given the number of people it kills every year, it outmasses virtually every other issue in play. But it’s possible that other, equally important issues can arise. One of those, for me, is the core doctrine of [...]
Last time we dealt with the first part of a two-part query from a reader. Now for part two. The question is: How useful can a particular quotation from Vatican I be in dealing with sedevacantists (i.e., those who say there is no valid pope at present)—particularly those who say that Pius XII was the last [...]
Over the weekend while Harold Camping was hiding out after his failed prediction that the Rapture would occur on Saturday, May 21st, I was talking to a friend about what Camping was likely to do next. I expressed the hope that Camping would make a public statement acknowledging his error and cease making end time [...]
A reader writes: "For it has 'seemed' good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and froom blood and fromw what is strangled and froum unchastity" (Acts 15: 28-29). This is taken from the [...]
