Category: Podcasts

At lunch today I found out I’d be needing to fill in for Ros Moss on today’s show (she’s feeling under the weather, so keep her in your prayers!), so there ended up being an extra bonus Q & A show this week.

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Highlights:

• How to make the sign of the cross.
• The difference between merit and "earning salvation."
• Heresies tend to emphasis one aspect of a teaching to the exclusion of another.
• When the abortion excommunication takes effect and how it is lifted.
• Dealing with reiki, mediums, and "energy healing."
• Defending Tradition to a Protestant apologist (discussed in very general terms)
• Translating "credo" as "we believe"–also, Latin textbook recommendations.
• Child’s confirmation teacher is telling her that "God is everything."
• Is Catholicism a "works-based faith"?
• Should we tell kids that grace is like a divine energy?
• Catholic Jewish gentleman heard his father’s voice telling him to pray the Mourner’s Qaddish for his mother. What should he do?
• Grad student has a hostile nun as his graduate advisor. What should he do?

At lunch today I found out I’d be needing to fill in for Ros Moss on today’s show (she’s feeling under the weather, so keep her in your prayers!), so there ended up being an extra bonus Q & A show this week.

LISTEN TO THE SHOW.

DOWNLOAD THE SHOW.

Highlights:

• How to make the sign of the cross.
• The difference between merit and "earning salvation."
• Heresies tend to emphasis one aspect of a teaching to the exclusion of another.
• When the abortion excommunication takes effect and how it is lifted.
• Dealing with reiki, mediums, and "energy healing."
• Defending Tradition to a Protestant apologist (discussed in very general terms)
• Translating "credo" as "we believe"–also, Latin textbook recommendations.
• Child’s confirmation teacher is telling her that "God is everything."
• Is Catholicism a "works-based faith"?
• Should we tell kids that grace is like a divine energy?
• Catholic Jewish gentleman heard his father’s voice telling him to pray the Mourner’s Qaddish for his mother. What should he do?
• Grad student has a hostile nun as his graduate advisor. What should he do?

/This week’s unusual in that I’m scheduled for two shows–my usual Thursday Q & A and a Monday show on the movies with Steve Greydanus of DecentFilms.Com as the lead guest and me riding shotgun.

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Highlights:

• Christmas With The Kranks
• Secular Christmas movies must be punished at the boxoffice!
• Polar Express
• National Treasure
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Clean Films & snipping offensive content from movies
• Versions recommendations for A Christmas Carol
• Lemony Snicket
• Movie recommendations for children
• The Gospel of John
• Footprints of God
• Alexander
• The Da Vinci Code
• King Arthur
• The Snowman & Beatrix Potter films
• Joan of Arc
• Jesus of Nazareth
• More on Lemony Snicket
• Luther

/This week’s unusual in that I’m scheduled for two shows–my usual Thursday Q & A and a Monday show on the movies with Steve Greydanus of DecentFilms.Com as the lead guest and me riding shotgun.

LISTEN TO THE MOVIE SHOW.

DOWNLOAD THE MOVIE SHOW.

Highlights:

• Christmas With The Kranks
• Secular Christmas movies must be punished at the boxoffice!
• Polar Express
• National Treasure
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Clean Films & snipping offensive content from movies
• Versions recommendations for A Christmas Carol
• Lemony Snicket
• Movie recommendations for children
• The Gospel of John
• Footprints of God
• Alexander
• The Da Vinci Code
• King Arthur
• The Snowman & Beatrix Potter films
• Joan of Arc
• Jesus of Nazareth
• More on Lemony Snicket
• Luther

Here’s my appearance on Catholic Answers Live this week (RealAudio format):

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Highlights:

• Jerry Usher asks an apologetics question!
• Myths about the "Council of Jamnia"
• Can you pray to your deceased father?
• Why do Protestants not accept the deuterocanonicals if some are found among the Dead Sea Scrolls?
• How to find out "the Secret of the Masons"?
• Lying to a priest before marriage.
• Apostolic exhortations vs. encyclicals
• Different patens at Mass
• How to defend your faith to a Jehovah’s Witness
• Discovering a drafting problem in the Catechism!
• To whom does the automatic excommunication for abortion apply?
• Can imprimaturs be wrong and get yanked?

Here’s my appearance on Catholic Answers Live this week (RealAudio format):

LISTEN TO THE SHOW.

DOWNLOAD THE SHOW.

Highlights:

• Jerry Usher asks an apologetics question!
• Myths about the "Council of Jamnia"
• Can you pray to your deceased father?
• Why do Protestants not accept the deuterocanonicals if some are found among the Dead Sea Scrolls?
• How to find out "the Secret of the Masons"?
• Lying to a priest before marriage.
• Apostolic exhortations vs. encyclicals
• Different patens at Mass
• How to defend your faith to a Jehovah’s Witness
• Discovering a drafting problem in the Catechism!
• To whom does the automatic excommunication for abortion apply?
• Can imprimaturs be wrong and get yanked?

It has come to my attention that not everyone reading the blog is necessarily familiar with my other apologetics work (to which the blog is really just a sidelight).

I’d like them to be.

To that end, I’ve decided to start cross-linking things I’ve done recently (or even longer ago) as they become available on the Catholic Answers web site.

Let’s start with yesterday’s edition of Catholic Answers Live, on which I was a guest. It’s in RealAudio format (which you may be able to listen to with Windows Media Player).

LISTEN TO THE SHOW.

DOWNLOAD THE SHOW.

Highlights:

• "Novus Ordo Saeculorum" vs. "Novus Ordo Mundi."
• Can an Anglican be music director/cantor at Mass?
• What does "sin unto death" mean?
• Modes of expression in Job.
• Can a non-Catholic be elected pope?
• If angels in heaven fell, will we be able to fall from heaven?
• Did Jesus have a human soul?
• Will God compensate the innocent who suffer?
• The New World Translation.
• How can non-Catholics be saved without confession?
• Peter & the Rock at Caesaria Philippi.

It has come to my attention that not everyone reading the blog is necessarily familiar with my other apologetics work (to which the blog is really just a sidelight).

I’d like them to be.

To that end, I’ve decided to start cross-linking things I’ve done recently (or even longer ago) as they become available on the Catholic Answers web site.

Let’s start with yesterday’s edition of Catholic Answers Live, on which I was a guest. It’s in RealAudio format (which you may be able to listen to with Windows Media Player).

LISTEN TO THE SHOW.

DOWNLOAD THE SHOW.

Highlights:

• "Novus Ordo Saeculorum" vs. "Novus Ordo Mundi."
• Can an Anglican be music director/cantor at Mass?
• What does "sin unto death" mean?
• Modes of expression in Job.
• Can a non-Catholic be elected pope?
• If angels in heaven fell, will we be able to fall from heaven?
• Did Jesus have a human soul?
• Will God compensate the innocent who suffer?
• The New World Translation.
• How can non-Catholics be saved without confession?
• Peter & the Rock at Caesaria Philippi.