Category: Podcasts

In this episode of Catholic Answers Live (9/16/14), Jimmy answers the following questions:

• How to describe the relationship between faith and reason?
• Did the priest used to break the host during the words of institution?
• How do Protestants defend divorce and remarriage in light of what Scripture says?
• Can priests “reach down into hell” and save souls? Can we pray for the damned?
• Was Judas in mortal sin? Did Jesus offer Communion to Judas? If so, why did he do so when the Church today doesn’t offer Communion to those in mortal sin?
• A Lutheran caller asks why he couldn’t receive Communion from an extraordinary minister when he was in the hospital?
• Who is going to be resurrected—and why?
• What is the Church’s teaching on predestination? What is Jimmy’s personal opinion?
• What translations are approved by the Catholic Church? What makes them approved? Can I read translations that aren’t approved?
• If the gates of heaven were closed before Jesus’ death and Resurrection, where did Moses and Elijah go?
• What happens to those who never knew about Christ and who were never baptized?

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In this episode of Catholic Answers Live, Jimmy takes on the following questions:

• What did Pope Francis mean when he said that he would like “a poor church for the poor”?
• How can anybody be a saint if we are all sinful?
• Can a priest say the ordinary form of the Mass facing East or facing the altar rather than the people?
• Where did the idea that either the man born blind or his parents had sinned?
• How to obtain an annulment?
• What happened to the people who rose from the dead at the time of the Crucifixion?
• What does it mean when the Apostles’ Creed says that Jesus descended into hell?
• What does it mean when Hebrews says that Jesus learned obedience through suffering?
• How to respond to “None is righteous, no not one”?
• How to respond to the claim that humans are equal to all other species?
• What does St. Paul mean in 1 Corinthians 8 when he talks about us using our knowledge to tear down our brethren rather than build them up?
• Why is there a difference between documentary process and formal process annulments?

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In this episode of Catholic Answers Live, Jimmy takes on the following questions:

• Can we “interpret Scripture with Scripture”?
• What does the word “desuetude” mean and how does it relate to women’s head coverings?
• Can we wear pictures of people other than saints?
• Is leaving candy before a statue of Baby Jesus okay or is that idolatry?
• Is the Church contradicting Scripture with its teaching that the use of force in legitimate defense is okay?
• Do we grow in our relationship with God in heaven?
• Can Latin Catholics attend the Melkite rite?
• Is the ice bucket challenge a Satanic ritual? Do you have to mean for a ritual to be Satanic for it to actually be Satanic?
• What does a former Catholic who has been attending a non-Catholic church need to do to return to the Faith?
• Thomas Aquinas’s arguments may prove the existence of a God, but how do you prove the existence of the God of the Bible?
• How does it work when a person has enough evidence for the existence of God but they choose not to convert?
• How to deal with religious compulsions? Are they sinful?

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Jimmy appears on Catholic Answers Live in this episode of the podcast and answers these questions:

• Why does the book of Baruch not appear in some early lists of the Old Testament canon?
• Are we sinning if we don’t have a different disposition when praying to Mary and the saints than when praying to God?
• Did St. Jerome write anything concerning Tobit being inspired, given the question of the Sadducees in Matthew?
• Would it be appropriate or even mandatory for the Blessed Sacrament to be removed from the Tabernacle if someone is going to speak in a church?
• How has the Church changed its evaluation of the writings of St. Faustina Kowalska?
• Is it better to serve the poor by giving them money or making sandwiches and passing them out?
• How to explain to an ex-Catholic (now Protestant) why they shouldn’t receive Communion in the Catholic Church? Also, how to explain why Transubstantiation does not occur in Protestant services?
• What is the official Church teaching regarding the idea that Mark was the first Gospel written and that Matthew and Luke used Mark and a lost source known as Q?
• Is the Church the New Israel?

(Original Airdate: December 9, 2013)

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