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In this episode of Catholic Answers Live (hour 2 of 1/13/15), Jimmy answers the following questions:

• My father-in-law started a lay movement in the church and was killed about 35 years ago. Some documentation has been sent to the Vatican regarding possible sainthood. Because his work was secretive, my mother-in-law was not aware of the work he did for the Church. Is there a possibility of her ever gaining access to those documents to learn more about her husband’s life?
• What is the Church teaching regarding the requirement of marriage prep for a couple already civilly married?
• Were the polygamist marriages in the Old Testament valid? When it comes to polygamist marriages in Africa with converts to Catholicism, are those marriages considered valid?
• Can I determine what the ten horns of the beast are from the Book of Revelation?
• Why are the laws of the Church changing from pope to pope?
• Are the different parishes allowed to rewrite the Gloria, Sanctus (Holy, Holy), and the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) for Mass?
• When it comes to NT Apocrypha, are these books still valid reading material even though they didn’t make it into the bible?
• What is the difference between how angels intercede for us and how Mary intercedes for us?
• As a Mormon, we believe in Apostasy/Restoration. But, I find this in every church (faith belief). What is the Catholic belief?
• How is the Just War Doctrine applied in today’s society?

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In this episode of Catholic Answers Live (hour 1 of 1/13/15), Jimmy answers the following questions:

• How do we account for the problem of evil prior to humanity?
• Where is the evidence of the Real Presence in the Eucharist in the Bible?
• Can you explain to me what was ironed out with the Lutheran Church in terms of justification during the papacy of Pope JP II?
• Is there any set rule about a non-Catholic or a Catholic who is not in a state of grace receiving a blessing during Communion? If I consider taking a job that limits my ability to attend weekly Mass, would that be considered a sin?
• Was God’s original plan for the world that there be no suffering?
• How do I respond to my Protestant father-in-law about baptism and faith alone?
• Is it morally wrong to do favors for my son like cleaning his house knowing he is cohabitating?
• Regarding blessings at Mass, I see this as a golden opportunity for me to find out why the person did not receive Holy Communion. Then I can try to help them correct the situation in a pastoral way.

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In this episode of Catholic Answers Live (1/8/15), Jimmy answers the following questions:

• Can you reconcile Natural Family Planning with Leviticus 18 about intimacy and the times and restrictions on intimacy?
• Is it okay to listen to protestant preachers and go to their church to listen to them preach?
• Why does the Catholic Church not refer to marriage as Holy Matrimony?
• About purgatory, my friend is planning to leave the Catholic Church and purgatory is an issue for her. How can I help her understand that purgatory is biblical and a reasonable belief?
• How can you explain how Mary can hear and answer so many prayers all at the same time? Does it have to do with God being infinite and Mary being outside of time with God?
• About confession and the frequency: I have had priests discourage me from coming to the sacrament, and they say “That is not a sin” and I feel discouraged. What do you suggest?
• About Mary being at the foot of the cross. I have heard some priests say that she was not at the foot of cross and I thought the Bible says that she is. Why would a priest say that she was not?
• About the star of Bethlehem and the documentary “Bethlehem Star”, can Jimmy comment on how accurate is the film?
• The book of Sirach: is that in the KJV? Is it in another book in the KJV that I can refer to my friend?

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In this episode of Catholic Answers Live (12/23/14), Jimmy answers the following questions:

• What did Jesus mean when he said not to judge others?
• Can divorced and civilly remarried people receive Communion?
• Is it true that “Once a deacon, always a deacon”?
• How to argue for the intercession of the saints?
• What does “the fear of the Lord” mean?
• Why are Catholic obliged to believe what the Church teaches?
• How to help a neo-pagan son?
• Can deacons a dispensation to get married?
• If Jesus is omnipresent, why is his presence in the Eucharist important?
• Was Jesus in his incarnation created?

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In this episode of Catholic Answers Live (9/25/14), Jimmy takes on the following questions:

• How is the landowner in the parable of the workers in the vineyard “fair”?
• How to deal with nephew getting married tomorrow in a non-Catholic ceremony?
• How to understand Romans 9 when it talks about the “vessels of wrath”?
• Who are “the elect”? What are the different ways this word is used?
• Technically speaking, what is a shrine?
• Can people with dementia receive the sacraments?
• If salvation is a gift then why do we need to go to confession?
• How to help a godchild who has a health problem and whose parents are in a destructive relationship?
• What obligations do we have regarding attending weddings that are known up-front to be invalid?
• How to respond to people who say that we must abstain from eating meat?

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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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