Category: Radio Shows

In this episode of Catholic Answers Live (April 6, 2017, 2nd hour), Jimmy answers the following questions:

01:28 How did people understand the term “church” at the time of Jesus? Was there a pre-Christian use of this term?

05:23 Are people in purgatory aware they are in purgatory? Could they be released only when they acknowledge that their sins deserve hell but God is being gracious to them?

08:09 How culpable is a person who sins after having been poorly counselled by a priest?

11:10 Are there equivalents to high mass, low mass, etc., in the ordinary form of Mass?

17:58 Were there female deacons and bishops in the early Church?

27:45 How to respond to the claim that, in the Atonement, the Father “poured out his wrath” on Jesus?

32:35 Is there historical evidence that the early Church had a papacy?

38:30 What does the Greek mean when Jesus says he is the Son “of Man”? Should it be translated the Son “of God made Man/flesh”?

41:30 Can we be affected by the sins of our ancestors and by curses people speak against us?

44:45 Does the Old Testament promote slavery?

48:20 Does the Church teach that the Gospels were written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John?

50:35 Does the Church have a teaching on the meaning of death in Genesis? Does it refer to “spiritual death”?

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In this episode of Catholic Answers Live (March 30, 2017, 1st hour), Jimmy answers the following questions:

00:12 What “polymath” and “autodidact” mean

03:35 How to respond to the claim that Peter isn’t the rock in Matt. 16.18 because Paul says no one can lay a foundation other than Christ

06:35 How to reconcile free will with John’s 6.44’s statement that no one can come to Jesus unless the Father draws him

14:48 If a Catholic marries an unbaptized person, is the marriage valid?

17:30 If we’re supposed to bury cremated remains, why are saints’ relics put on display?

22:10 If one can use contraception to control hormones, why can’t you use them for contraceptive purposes?

28:15 How to explain to Protestants that at Christian can lose salvation

35:55 How does the Catholic Church explain the veneration of saints who were not in communion with the Church when they died?

42:25 How to evangelize someone who is ambivalent toward God and says they’re totally happy

46:30 How to defend the use of gendered pronouns to someone who is not Christian

51:40 How to dispose of remains after a miscarriage

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Also, don’t miss our new mini-show, Catholic Answers MORE!

In this episode of Catholic Answers More (March 30, 2017), Cy and Jimmy do a relaxed, pre-show in which they:

* Explain what Catholic Answers More is

* Say hello to people watching and commenting

* Talk about heresies and which is Jimmy’s “favorite”

* Who Marcion was

* Why Pope Benedict resigned

* Whether the pope gets to order whatever kind of food he wants

* What kind of secular authority the pope has (can he order a Catholic president to do something?)

* What was the name of the Animaniacs’ pet fish?

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In this episode of Catholic Answers Live (March 21, 2017, 1st hour), Jimmy answers the following questions:

• What is a “eucharistic minister”?
• Do Muslims (and Jews) worship the same God as Christians?
• Is it necessary to renew your marriage vows at some point? Does it need to be done during a Mass?
• Who was James “the brother of the Lord”?
• When should you conclude something is not God’s will and stop praying?
• If someone has requested that you don’t pray for them after they die, should you honor that request? Can an angry soul take revenge?
• How to understand the issues of medical marijuana and recreational marijuana?
• Why is pouring more common in the Catholic Church than immersion when performing baptism?
• If you’re invited to someone’s house on a Friday in Lent, is it mortal sin to eat the meat they serve?

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In this episode of Catholic Answers Live (March 14, 2017, 1st hour), Jimmy answers the following questions:

• Why shouldn’t we only believe things verified by science?
• How can we reconcile the Council of Trent saying that we have free will with John 6:44, where Jesus says “nobody can come to me unless the Father draws him”?
• How can we reconcile differences in the Gospels like where Jesus exorcizes either one or two men, depending on which Gospel you read?
• Are John, the Gospel writer, St. John, the Beloved Disciple, and St. John of Patmos are all the same individual.
• Did the Blessed Mother know she was free from original sin?
• Why do we not talk about the trauma felt by the soul of an aborted baby after it is separated from the body?
• What is the Catholic perspective on physician-assisted suicide?

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