Karl, Jerry, and I did the honors.
Highlights:
- When can the anointing of the sick be administered?
- Why isn’t Ronald Knox better known?
- Why do some prayers say "though the same Christ Our Lord"? What’s with "the same"?
- "Apologist": A perfectly cromulent word.
- "The flesh avails nothing": A disproof of the Real Presence?
- Was Peter’s wife crucified?
- What’s the authority of Redemptionis Sacramentum?
- Indulgences & time off from purgatory.
- What’s a rescript for a derogation?
- Attention Cold & Flu People At Mass!
- When did the Eucharist start?
- A very cromulent ending
UPDATE SINCE THE SHOW: I looked up the Latin for "through the same Christ Our Lord," and it’s "Per eundem Christum Dominum nostrum." The pronoun corresponding to "same" is thus eundem, which is the accusative masculine form of idem. I’m running into different authors classifying it differently as to whether it’s a reflexive or a demonstrative pronoun, though. There now, a little Latin embiggens the smallest prayer.
I’d always figured to “the same” was a space-saving device of the medievals — kind of like a ditto mark, rather than saying “Jesus” Christ our Lord over and over again, they’d write “the same” Christ our Lord. Or maybe it was a way of honoring the name of Jesus by not overusing it.