March 4, 2004 Show

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Highlights:

  • Is it
         ok for a Catholic to attend a Catholic Mass and a Pentecostal service each
         Sunday?
  • Why is
         Jesus called the Lamb of God?
  • Was John
         Hus executed by the Council of Constance?  Why?
  • Is
         Saint Anne the mother of the Virgin Mary?
  • What
         type of economic system does the church endorse?
  • Is the
         name Jehovah mentioned in the bible?
  • Are
         declarations of nullity required every time someone wants to remarry in
         the church?
  • Is Catholic Family News a credible publication?
  • Is a
         non-Christian required to receive instruction before they can be baptized?

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

3 thoughts on “March 4, 2004 Show”

  2. Is it true that Hus was given a guarantee of safe conduct if he came to the Council of Florence but when he got there he was pronounced guilty and burnt as a heretic?

  3. Yes, and Jerome traveled there to try to defend him, and was also burnt at the stake.
    Since this was in violation of the safe conduct pass, and there was no proper trial, these executions were illegal.
    One could argue that these were political murders, as developing Czek nationalism was supporting Hus and making the Cup also available to the laity, and in rejecting the Nominalism of Peter Lombard, whereas the German bishops who along with German nobles ruled the Czeks, supported Nominalism, and denying the Cup to the laity.
    So was it perhaps really a matter of German overlords versus the subject Czeks? I think the case could be made.
    For the most part, it would seem that Hus and Jerome were Vatican II Catholics ahead of their time. Letter of, not “spirit of”.

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