Category: Radio Shows

Last Week's Show (August 4, 2005)

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HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Is there such a person as Lillith? Are there female demons and angels?
  • Has the Vatican mandated that we all stand after Communion until everyone has received?
  • How can God is all good, why does he allow us to suffer forever in hell?
  • Where are Scriptural bases for the enthronement of the Sacred Heart?
  • How to respond to someone who says that you won’t get along with someone based on his astrological sign?
  • Has Jimmy ever heard of Fr. Hempsch and "healing the family tree"?
  • If all come to the Father through Jesus, where does that leave those before the time of Christ and those who have never heard of Jesus?
  • A brief follow-up on earlier astrology question.
  • Can the souls in purgatory pray for us?
  • What were the highlights of Pope John VIII’s reign?
  • How do the 95 Theses square with Vatican II? Would Vatican II have prevented the Protestant Reformation?
  • How much of a "hassle" will it be for the caller’s husband to get an annulment?

This Week’s Show (July 28, 2005)

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HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Has Jimmy heard of this unapproved apparition?
  • Who are the Fathers and Doctors of the Church?
  • Can women be ordained priests or bishops validly?
  • What does the language of divinization mean?
  • What are the seven hills of Rome? Is Vatican Hill one of them?
  • Must Catholics believe in purgatory (caller has trouble with this, with the "sale" of indulgences, with salvation, etc.)
  • Did purgatory exist and was there anyone in it prior to the time of Christ?
  • How to refer to a monsignor or a bishop in conversation?
  • Should the caller attend a wedding where the parties are living in sin prior to the wedding?
  • Why does God let the devil run amok after he refused to serve? Why do evil spirits obey Jesus?
  • What to do about priests supporting homosexuality?
  • What does the Church teach about trans-gendered people?
  • What’s the difference between being published "with ecclesiastical approval" and the nihil obstat and imprimatur?
  • How to tell if a prayer or pious work currently carries an indulgence?
  • How would one report a miracle that one felt one had experienced in connection with the intercession of John Paul II?
  • Can consecrated chalices, etc., be sold?

This Week's Show (July 28, 2005)

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HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Has Jimmy heard of this unapproved apparition?
  • Who are the Fathers and Doctors of the Church?
  • Can women be ordained priests or bishops validly?
  • What does the language of divinization mean?
  • What are the seven hills of Rome? Is Vatican Hill one of them?
  • Must Catholics believe in purgatory (caller has trouble with this, with the "sale" of indulgences, with salvation, etc.)
  • Did purgatory exist and was there anyone in it prior to the time of Christ?
  • How to refer to a monsignor or a bishop in conversation?
  • Should the caller attend a wedding where the parties are living in sin prior to the wedding?
  • Why does God let the devil run amok after he refused to serve? Why do evil spirits obey Jesus?
  • What to do about priests supporting homosexuality?
  • What does the Church teach about trans-gendered people?
  • What’s the difference between being published "with ecclesiastical approval" and the nihil obstat and imprimatur?
  • How to tell if a prayer or pious work currently carries an indulgence?
  • How would one report a miracle that one felt one had experienced in connection with the intercession of John Paul II?
  • Can consecrated chalices, etc., be sold?

This Week’s Show (July 14, 2005)

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HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Why do people complain that Catholics pray to "dead people" when the saints are "alive"?
  • Did Jesus’ bestowal of the keys on Peter do away with Old Testament passages dealing with the requirement of rest?
  • What does "several" mean in the Church’s norms on indulgences?
  • Where did Cain get his wife?
  • How to pick a new parish.
  • How to resist temptation.
  • Do priests carry documentation that prove that they’re priests? What about priests of the Old Catholic Church of Antioch?
  • Is it licit to use glass for chalices and ciboria?
  • Shouldn’t Jesus have original sin if he was fully human and, as Paul says, "All have sinned"?
  • Son is moving into an apartment with both male and female roommates. Can he help his son move in?
  • How was the Bible put together, and how to defend its accuracy against those who point to the non-canonical "gospels"?
  • Can Catholics join Scientology?
  • Catholic told Protestant friend to pray that his late mother "accepted Jesus Christ" before she died. Was this okay?

This Week's Show (July 14, 2005)

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HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Why do people complain that Catholics pray to "dead people" when the saints are "alive"?
  • Did Jesus’ bestowal of the keys on Peter do away with Old Testament passages dealing with the requirement of rest?
  • What does "several" mean in the Church’s norms on indulgences?
  • Where did Cain get his wife?
  • How to pick a new parish.
  • How to resist temptation.
  • Do priests carry documentation that prove that they’re priests? What about priests of the Old Catholic Church of Antioch?
  • Is it licit to use glass for chalices and ciboria?
  • Shouldn’t Jesus have original sin if he was fully human and, as Paul says, "All have sinned"?
  • Son is moving into an apartment with both male and female roommates. Can he help his son move in?
  • How was the Bible put together, and how to defend its accuracy against those who point to the non-canonical "gospels"?
  • Can Catholics join Scientology?
  • Catholic told Protestant friend to pray that his late mother "accepted Jesus Christ" before she died. Was this okay?

This Week’s Show (July 7, 2005)

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HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Is it okay for the caller to pray for her dog?
  • What is meant by penal substitution and what is the Catholic position on it? How do we understand Jesus quoting Ps. 22 on the Cross?
  • An Evangelical asks about the Catholic teaching on usury.
  • How to respond to the claim that if we are sick that we are in some way possessed and we don’t have enough faith to be healed?
  • An Evangelical asks about prayer to the saints.
  • How to understand the statement that the Church of Christ "subsists in" the Catholic Church?
  • Can a Protestant receive the last rites?
  • How to evaluate claims regarding the Holy Spirit having a feminine character?
  • How to evaluate claims that very few people actually commit mortal sin?
  • Can souls from purgatory manifest in apparitions?
  • Did Jesus have a guardian angel during his earthly life?
  • How does the Church regard psychology and counselling?
  • If we aren’t allowed to spread a person’s ashes after cremation, why do we have relics in altars?

This Week's Show (July 7, 2005)

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HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Is it okay for the caller to pray for her dog?
  • What is meant by penal substitution and what is the Catholic position on it? How do we understand Jesus quoting Ps. 22 on the Cross?
  • An Evangelical asks about the Catholic teaching on usury.
  • How to respond to the claim that if we are sick that we are in some way possessed and we don’t have enough faith to be healed?
  • An Evangelical asks about prayer to the saints.
  • How to understand the statement that the Church of Christ "subsists in" the Catholic Church?
  • Can a Protestant receive the last rites?
  • How to evaluate claims regarding the Holy Spirit having a feminine character?
  • How to evaluate claims that very few people actually commit mortal sin?
  • Can souls from purgatory manifest in apparitions?
  • Did Jesus have a guardian angel during his earthly life?
  • How does the Church regard psychology and counselling?
  • If we aren’t allowed to spread a person’s ashes after cremation, why do we have relics in altars?

This Week's Show (June 23, 2005)

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HIGHLIGHTS:

  • What does it mean for us to offer up Jesus’ sufferings to the Father? Why would we do that?
  • Is there a move to "restore" the order of the sacraments of initiation?
  • Can Jimmy recommend Lives of the Popes by Richard McBrien? What is an alternative resource?
  • Is B16 changing the way things have been historically done in canonizations by holding off on the canonization of a French priest?
  • If Mary was conceived without original sin, why does the Church hold out the possibility that she died physically?
  • What does the word porneia mean in the passages where Jesus talks about divorce?
  • Does the Catholic Church ignore the first thousand years of Church history and why does it regard itself as the true Church rather than the Greek Orthodox church?
  • Are deacons traditionally ministers of the chalice? How does this square with using extraordinary ministers for distributing the host?
  • Is there a resource written by an ex-SSPXer on the problems of this movement?
  • What is one to think of Thomas Merton? How to deal with those who rely on his more Buddhist-sounding stuff?
  • How can a sex offender find resources to help him live the Catholic life?
  • Why don’t we hear priests talking more at Mass about the state of our souls?

This Week’s Show (June 23, 2005)

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HIGHLIGHTS:

  • What does it mean for us to offer up Jesus’ sufferings to the Father? Why would we do that?
  • Is there a move to "restore" the order of the sacraments of initiation?
  • Can Jimmy recommend Lives of the Popes by Richard McBrien? What is an alternative resource?
  • Is B16 changing the way things have been historically done in canonizations by holding off on the canonization of a French priest?
  • If Mary was conceived without original sin, why does the Church hold out the possibility that she died physically?
  • What does the word porneia mean in the passages where Jesus talks about divorce?
  • Does the Catholic Church ignore the first thousand years of Church history and why does it regard itself as the true Church rather than the Greek Orthodox church?
  • Are deacons traditionally ministers of the chalice? How does this square with using extraordinary ministers for distributing the host?
  • Is there a resource written by an ex-SSPXer on the problems of this movement?
  • What is one to think of Thomas Merton? How to deal with those who rely on his more Buddhist-sounding stuff?
  • How can a sex offender find resources to help him live the Catholic life?
  • Why don’t we hear priests talking more at Mass about the state of our souls?