Category: Radio Shows

More results from the volunteer program (Try It!).

A special holler out to Adam Nolte for doing the July 2004 shows!

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Highlights.

• What is the nature of the Holy Spirit and what is the proof from Scripture?
• Scriptural proof of the existance of both particular and general judgements?
• The Assumption: before or after the death of Mary?
• Veil wearing by women at Mass?
• Is it ok to hold hands during the Our Father at Mass?
• Who was Melchizedek?
• What does it mean to "bear our cross" or "bear the cross of others"?
• Is the pronoun "you" plural in Greek when Jesus gives Peter the Keys in Mt 16?  How about the similar passage in Mt 18?
• What if one were to die while living with one with whom he/she has been remarried outside of the Church while waiting for an annulment to process?
• What happened to the saints who were raised at the time of Jesus’ death, and was St. Joseph one of them?
• Should one use insurance from an employer who supports an abortion provider?
• Who wrote the book of Revelation?

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Highlights:

• Should bishops be directly advising Catholics to vote for Pro-Life candidates?
• Is it correct to ask departed souls and unborn children for their
  intercession?
• Can a present prayer affect a past event?
• Is everyone who is not part of the Catholic Church doomed to hell?
• Countering the Protestant notion of "once saved, always saved."
• How do we know that the gates of Heaven were closed until Christ’s
  death?  Where
  does the Bible teach that Christ preached to the dead?
• Must Catholics register at a parish?
• Does disagreement with a small number of Church teachings preclude
  one from entering the Church?
• Are financial concerns the only factor preventing the Church in
  America from abandoning its non-profit status?
• Inviting political candidates to speak from the pulpit: Protestant
  vs. Catholic approaches.
• What in the Catholic Church’s biblical basis for purgatory?
• How does civil divorce affect one’s ability to receive the Eucharist?

Okay, it’s lunchtime and I just got a call asking if I could come on the Scott Thomas show on WYLL in Chicago in an hour or so to talk about baptism of desire. (I’m guessing the Evangelicals in Chicago were watching O’Reilly last night.)

I’m scheduled to be on about 3:10 p.m., Central Time.

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Highlights:

• Were Moses and the Exodus historical?
• Can a canon lawyer bring up a charge of heresy against John Kerry?
• How can church buildings be allowed as polling places?
• Do the gods "of wood and of stone" in Daniel 5:4 relate to the feet
  of iron and clay in Daniel 2:33?
• Can a Mass have more than one intention?  Why can’t there be
  multiple stipends per Mass?
• Is a marriage between a Catholic and a non-Catholic Christian sacramental?
• Should observance of Halloween be discouraged?
• Were Daniel and his book historical?
• Why does Mary in the Fatima apparition invite us to consecrate
  ourselves to her
  Immaculate Heart and not to the Sacred Heart of Jesus?
• Can one grieve over a mate’s death indefinitely?
• Does Catholic Answers have authority to teach matters of doctrine?

More results from the VOLUNTEER PROGRAM. Thanks to Christopher A. St. Jean for doing the October, 2004 shows!

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Highlights:

• Did Vatican II take away "respectful" aspects of the Mass?
• Which deuterocanonicals were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls
  written in Hebrew?
• Is it a sin to vote for a pro-choice political candidate?
• If receiving the Eucharist remits venial sins, why should those sins
  be later confessed?
• How should Catholics defend confession to a member of the Assemblies of God?
• How does one respond to Orthodox Christians regarding the Lefebvrist
  schism and charges of liturgical abuse?
• What charges do Protestants make regarding the Catholic Church in
  the Middle Ages?
• Has the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary been performed?
• Are non-Catholic Christians members of the Body of Christ?
• Does the magisterial authority of the Church compromise freedom of thought?
• How does one defend the Sunday sabbath to Seventh-day Adventists?

This is a show I taped while in Michigan visiting Steve Ray and Ed Peters. As a result, all three of us were guests.

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Highlights:

• Clarifying spiritual maxims from The Imitation of Christ.
• Did Jesus ever laugh?
• Is marriage to a witch grounds for an annulment?
• How should a church dispose of an old tabernacle? Can a person put it in their home?
• Any advice on how to earn a living without losing Christian identity?
• What is Paul talking about in 1 Corinthians 4:6? Does he support Sola Scriptura?
• In Acts 9:5, what does “it is hard for thee to kick against the goad” mean?
• Can the symbolism of the number of canonical books in the Bible be used as a proof for the Catholic canon?
• What do you think about the book The Bible Code?
• If my husband did not get declarations of nullity for his previous marriages, what is the status of our marriage?
• Did Paul observe the Sabbath?
• Were non-Catholic baptisms using the Trinitarian formula considered valid prior to the Second Vatican Council?
• Is the
       Holy Father concerned about the use of psychic impediments in nullity
       cases?

First results of the VOLUNTEER PROGRAM are in! Thanks to Al for mapping the shows in June, 2004. Here’s the first:

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Highlights:

• Is there such a thing as a conditional confirmation?
• Is it possible for a baptized person to be possessed?
• Will a person brought up Catholic who leaves the church go to Hell? What if they leave because of bad experiences in the church?
• Is the anointing with fish gall in Tobit 11:8 a physical or spiritual healing? In Matthew 27:34, were the soldiers trying to poison Jesus with the wine mixed with gall?
• Was incest practiced at the origins of humanity?
• Was there a time when the Son did not exist if he proceeds from the Father? How is this different than the angels?
• In the early church, was the jurisdiction of Rome over the entire church or just a territory around Rome?
• Do you have to be confirmed to get married in the Catholic church?
• The rubrics for the Mass of the Lord’s Supper say it should be celebrated with the full participation of the whole local community. Does that make it obligatory?
• Why is the observance of Ascension Thursday transferred to Sunday?
• What can be done to educate parents and voters on Catholic Moral theology?

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Highlights:

• What is the mystical body of Christ and who belongs to it?
• Can two baptized Catholics get married outside the Church and still receive Communion?
• King James Bible: Friend or Foe?
• How did the Church get based in Rome?
• Who was Melchizedek?
• Can a bishop change the Creed?
• Why is there an excommunication for abortion but not murder?
• What are the penitential psalms?
• What is RCIA and should reverts attend it?
• Did Jesus turn water into grape juice at Cana?
• Where do people get the idea that a thousand years before Christ there was another virgin birth?
• Any good books on the Reformation era?
• Why did God have Joshua, et al., slay the inhabitants of whole towns?
• What about the promises where Jesus says we can ask anything we want and God will give it to us?
• How could Mary be the mother of God when God the Son existed from all eternity, before Mary?

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Highlights:

• What is the mystical body of Christ and who belongs to it?
• Can two baptized Catholics get married outside the Church and still receive Communion?
• King James Bible: Friend or Foe?
• How did the Church get based in Rome?
• Who was Melchizedek?
• Can a bishop change the Creed?
• Why is there an excommunication for abortion but not murder?
• What are the penitential psalms?
• What is RCIA and should reverts attend it?
• Did Jesus turn water into grape juice at Cana?
• Where do people get the idea that a thousand years before Christ there was another virgin birth?
• Any good books on the Reformation era?
• Why did God have Joshua, et al., slay the inhabitants of whole towns?
• What about the promises where Jesus says we can ask anything we want and God will give it to us?
• How could Mary be the mother of God when God the Son existed from all eternity, before Mary?

Karl, Jerry, and I did the honors.

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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.