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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?

LISTEN TO THE SHOW.

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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.

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Highlights:

• DA RULZ!
• Update from yesterday’s show about child being taught to make the sign of the cross.
• Co-Redemptrix: Doctrine or Dogma?
• Has Russia been consecrated to Mary?
• Why do Jews need to become Christian?
• Woman prayed the Rosary for a long time without realizing mysteries are attached to the decades. What effects does this have?
• A Jewish caller asks why the Sadducees aren’t more prominent in the Gospels?
• Is Jesus the head of "the Protestant church as a whole"?
• Gen. 3:15: "He will crush" or "she will crush"–What’s the deal?
• Who are "the pre-Vatican II Christians"? (The ones who allegedly live today, that is.)
• Can laity give the homily?
• Which is more important: Liturgy of the Hours or the Rosary?
• How do we know who St. Anne and Salome were?
• A Protestant caller wants to know why Hail Marys are used as penances and who decides how many to do.
• What are Jimmy’s views on James White’s arguments?

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Highlights:

• DA RULZ!
• Update from yesterday’s show about child being taught to make the sign of the cross.
• Co-Redemptrix: Doctrine or Dogma?
• Has Russia been consecrated to Mary?
• Why do Jews need to become Christian?
• Woman prayed the Rosary for a long time without realizing mysteries are attached to the decades. What effects does this have?
• A Jewish caller asks why the Sadducees aren’t more prominent in the Gospels?
• Is Jesus the head of "the Protestant church as a whole"?
• Gen. 3:15: "He will crush" or "she will crush"–What’s the deal?
• Who are "the pre-Vatican II Christians"? (The ones who allegedly live today, that is.)
• Can laity give the homily?
• Which is more important: Liturgy of the Hours or the Rosary?
• How do we know who St. Anne and Salome were?
• A Protestant caller wants to know why Hail Marys are used as penances and who decides how many to do.
• What are Jimmy’s views on James White’s arguments?

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.

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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?

/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.

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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

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?