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Questions Covered: 11:30  - I am in recovery for sexual addiction and just keep falling. Am I going to have to hit rock bottom for God to remove this from my life?  16:55  - I am 9 months clean and was agnostic at first, but I want to go through RCIA. How do I incorporate my belief in God with my recovery? I feel like I cannot bring this to God, I feel too much shame.  Also, how do I help my mom, who is also an addict?  24:42  - Is there a retreat offered by Catholic in Recovery? Who is it for?  31:14  - If we are in recovery, would you recommend the Blood of Christ or not?  34:40  - I am very alone in my addictions. I sometimes have good days, and then relapse. I am self-isolated. How can I overcome these tendencies to self-isolate so I can actually get some help with this?  44:08  - I attend the virtual meetings and I am so grateful for it. If I hadn’t found it virtually, I wouldn’t have gone.  I...

Questions Covered: 05:13  - I am an atheist because of the problem of evil, unanswered prayer, and a design of brutality.   16:09  - I am an atheist because I don’t think God is necessary and that science explains him away. The Big Bang caused the existence of the world, not God.   22:03  - I am an atheist because I see contradictory explanations for what God is. Apologists say lots of different things about this, depending on what the situation requires.   40:15  - I am agnostic because I believe in the reality that there might be a God, but beyond creating things, I think people have made up the rest of the theories out there about God. It’s humans who have created these “truths”.   

 Catholic Answers Game Show Questions Round 1 Contestant One   1)The union of divine and human natures in the single person of Jesus is called: a) The hypostatic union. b) Hylomorphism. c) Divinization.   2) The pope’s power involves: a) The ability to modify natural law. b) Full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the Universal Church. c) Full but only collegial power of jurisdiction over the Universal Church.   3) Baptism gives sanctifying grace to the soul but does not take away: a) All sin. b) The penalties due for sin. c) The inclination to sin.   Contestant Two 1) Islam is: a) Younger that Christianity. b) More ancient than Christianity. c) Roughly the same age as Christianity.   2) Concupiscence is: a) The interior consent to perform a sinful action. b) The inclination to sin. (CCC 418, 405) c) The actual performance of a sinful action   3) Orthodox bishops are: a) No longer in possession of apostolic succession. b) Successors to the Apostles...

  Questions Covered:   02:58  - The 2nd half of Acts and onwards of the New Testament has Paul written all over it. Protestants and Orthodox have used that to prove that Paul is the leader and not Peter. Even some Church Fathers didn’t behave as if there was a single authority. What is the best way to refute that?   14:50  - Why is it that the Catholic “Our Father” ends with ‘deliver us from evil and not ‘for yours is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever and ever’?   16:50  - How would you respond to the following regarding Peter as Pope? The two Greek words petros and petra are quite distinct, the former being masculine gender, and the latter feminine. The latter denotes a rock or cliff, in situ, firm and immovable. The former denotes a fragment of it, which one traveler may move with his foot in one direction and another may throw in another. This former word petros is the Greek translation kephas,...

  Questions Covered   03:45  - Do Paul and James contradict each other on Justification?   10:12  - I got a Reiki massage in the past, which I heard from a previous caller is wrong. I didn’t know this was wrong, but did I open myself up to anything bad?   14:05  - According to the First Vatican Council, no one can reject Papal infallibility without endangering his faith. I’m Easter Orthodox, so am I damned?   18:00  - How do I discern the voice of God from my inner voice?   21:38  - What was the purpose of animal sacrifice in Mosaic Law?   29:00 – Why did God tolerate divorce in the Old Testament?   36:20  - Is it appropriate to thank intercessory saints and angels?   41:30  - I feel like I just had a rushed confession, so should I go back?   49:35  - How do I become confident in my faith without seeming obstinate?    

  Questions Covered:   14:00- Can a comatose person receive Last Rites, and does this Sacrament ensure salvation?   18:00- Christopher Columbus stop the child sacrifice practices among Indigenous peoples?   22:35 – What is the Catholic Church’s stance on “neuro-bio feedback”, “mindfulness training”, and mediation?   31:05  - What is the Church’s view on the fact that different apostolic churches have different canons of scripture?   37:47  - I just found out I was baptized Catholic, but I do not want to be Catholic. What should I do?   49:25  - I was trying to get to confession before mass, but the line was too long. Is it okay to make a perfect contrition so that I am prepared for Communion?  

  Questions Covered:   07:25  - How do we respond to the Protestant objection to the True Presence in the Eucharist when they use John 6:3 as evidence against it?   13:51  - I feel there is a lack of financial transparency in the Church. Is this true and if so, can it be rectified?   18:52  - How can I prove that Paul is the author of Ephesians?   29:26  - Is there any significance to the rebuilding of the Jewish temple in Catholic eschatology?   34:39  - What is your take on remote viewing, where people teleport their minds in order to see another place?   41:30  - Can a Catholic and non-Catholic be married sacramentally?   44:57  - What is up with this claim that there is a second pope?   49:20  - Is it okay for people to be charismatic Catholics? It seems really similar to Pentecostal Christianity.    

 How can we engage in apologetics through stories? Questions Covered:   20:15  - How would you respond to someone who says that religion is just a series of stories, nothing more?   23:35 – What do you think about the series that is currently out, The Chosen? Do you think that the imaginative license taken with it is useful and good?   31:29  - Could you elaborate on the idea that maybe imagination and mysticism go hand in hand? How can we discern when we are imagining things versus having a mystical experience?   50:08  - Are there any current authors who have captured imagination well that you would recommend?   52:59  - How do you see Sam’s character in the Lord of the Rings? Is he an archetype for Christ?  

  Questions Covered: 02:00  - I’m Catholic and I’m concerned about the religious indifferentism that is taking over and even seeping into the Catholic Church itself.   08:21  - you have any advice on scrupulosity?    17:00  - 18 yr old son came and said “I should not be Catholic because I do not believe everything the Catholic Church teaches” how do I respond to this?   24:53 – In regard to the pandemic and lockdown what is your take on those of us who feel that the Churches should not have closed in the first place? I am having trouble trusting our shepherds now because of everything that went on during those times.   34:53  - Here there is a 3 year wait for marriage annulment and the fact that one cannot receive Communion until they are fully annulled can be life-changing to some. Are steps being taken to change the waiting period?   41:35  - Why is the stigmata on the shroud of Turin on Christ’s wrists wh...

  Questions Covered:  04:15  - I was raised Catholic but I was married in an Episcopalian church. I am wondering about the validity of my marriage.   06:16  - In the catechism there are smaller “non heaven or hell issues” that I disagree with. How much of the catechism (or doctrines of the Faith) do I have to agree with in order to be a Catholic?   17:00  - I was Reading about current Eucharistic issues and I read that abortion is an immediate cause for excommunication. Why are other forms/sins of murder not excommunicable?   21:18  - I’d like to know how the apostles knew about events of Christ’s life where it seemed like only Jesus would have been present (as in when Jesus was before Pontius Pilate or when he was fasting in the wilderness). How can we trust the validity of the gospels?   29:59  - The Bishops said that the president should not receive communion and I think that is crazy. The president is catholic shouldn’t he be ab...

  Questions Covered:   02:36  - I’m a 7th Day Adventist, I read KJV, but Catholics go to Church on Sundays, not Saturdays. I believe the Sabbath is Saturday.   12:00  - I’m not Catholic because I’m Oriental Orthodox, I reject the Papacy and the Council of Chalcedon.   29:00  - I am a Protestant considering the faith, but the language of the Catholic Church makes me feel like an outsider.   39:37  - I’m not Catholic because I’m Hebrew, and I don’t want to reject or change what I am.   47:07  - I’m a Southern Baptist looking at Annulment, and I’ve been married several times. What would I need to do in my current situation?    

  Questions Covered:   10:50  - I find the Church to be unfriendly.   19:58  - “The Bible is a Catholic Book” gives me the impression that the Church put the Bible together, but many books of the Bible predate the Church. Why is the Bible a Catholic book, then?   29:12  - I am already a Christian, so what’s the point of being Catholic?   34:15  - I am not Catholic because I don’t want to go through the Annulment process.   47:03  - I’m Episcopalian/Anglo-Catholic, and I believe everything that Catholics do.    

  Questions Covered: 00:45  - Has anyone tried to make a gospel that is a combination of the four gospels?   08:19  - At Pentecost the Holy Spirit came down and the apostles were able to speak many languages. When they went and preached to all the nations of the world were they still able to speak many languages?   15:43  - Why has the two source hypothesis theory for the synoptic gospels gained more popularity  than the one source theory?   24:40  - I asked a Priest to bless my new Jerusalem bible. The Priest said it was not a real bible and that they normally don’t bless them. However he said some “sanctifying” words over it. Could I get some clarification on why it isn’t a real bible?   32:23  - Where do the nativity narratives come from in Luke and Matthew? It seems strange that Jesus would tell people and talk about His birth. How did the gospel writers hear the account of His birth? ...

  Questions Covered:    03:47  - When one receives penance but doesn’t do that penance with sincerity, does it become the babbling that is mentioned in Scripture in reference to insincere prayer?   08:27  - What does Luke 22:38 mean?   15:10  - The introduction to the books of Esther says that her story is fictional. Is that true? If so, why is it in Scripture?   21:00 – Can we respond to the objection that since Jesus spoke in Aramaic and the gospels were not written in Aramaic, that they’re not reliable?   25:08 – Are the doxology and the Lord’s prayer recited together when they are not found together in the Bible?   33:37 – Someone claimed to me that there is no evidence for hell in the Bible. How can I respond?   38:18  - Who funded the writing of the gospels and what would it have cost?   44:30  - Someone suggested that there could have been freemason influence that changed the bible. Does this hav...

  Questions Covered:  04:40  - I am divorced, but not annulled. I want to come back to the Catholic Church and so I broke up with the woman I had been dating. Was this the right thing to do?   11:32  - How can I respond to people who say that Vatican II is merely pastoral and not authoritative?   15:57  - Where do we get the idea of tithing ten percent? Can we give that to whoever or whatever we want within the Church or only our parish?   20:00  - I just became Catholic and today I heard someone say, “I am going to pray a rosary for you.” What does that mean? I thought the rosary was a prayer for contemplating the mysteries of Christ’s life.   23:22  - How can I defend the existence of purgatory using Scripture?   29:32  - My brother is probably not getting married in the Church because he’s not really a practicing Catholic. I know that people can get a dispensation to not marry in the Church, but can that be obtained for...

Questions Covered:  20:12  - Do you have any advice for public school high school teachers who want to reach out in a loving and helpful way in accord with Church teaching to LGBT students, while still staying within the rules of public teaching?  36:18  - I have a 17-year-old who was labeled as gay in middle school. How can I truly affirm to him that God made him a man?  42:45  - You’re claiming that young people are indoctrinated by the LGBT movement. The LGBT community claims that Christians are indoctrinated, too. How can I respond to that?  48:10  - How would I handle a 14-year-old boy who is angry because he is being treated unfairly because he is “too masculine” and not a part of the gay community?   

  Questions Covered:   02:29  - What caused the Easten orthodox church to separate from the catholic church? And how can I defend Catholicism to them?   11:27  - Does the catholic church believe in a dichotomy (soul & body) or a trichotomy (soul, body and spirit)?   10:31  - I have difficulty accepting the Eucharist is the real body of Jesus. At the final supper if Jesus was physically with the disciples and didn’t use his human body as blood and wine, what is the necessity to believe the bread and wine also is his actual body?   30:25  - is the 1962 Roman missal used for now?   34:53  - As someone who left the catholic church and forty years later now and looking into it again, I am stumped by worship of the saints. Two questions that come to mind are regarding Saint Cathrine of Siena and questions around her death and St. Therese of Lisieux disobedience to her pa...

 Questions Covered: 04:00  - I have a non-Catholic friend who left the church because he didn’t understand how contraception was wrong but natural family planning was appropriate because both give the adults control over pregnancy. This stirred doubt in my heart, can Steve help explain this and how I can defend this to my friend?   13:59  - Why are priests important?   15:33  - What was the significance of Jesus’ sacrifice if as God he knew he would rise again on the third day?   18:53  - If Mary was free from the consequences from the fall why does Revelations Ch 12 say she experienced the pains of childbirth?   23:08 – nondenominational Christian church that my non-Catholic friend attends publish the apostle’s creed and Nicene creed on their website nearly exactly to the Catholic Prayers. If they believed in the creed, why are they pract...

  Questions Covered: 01:38  - I am really interested in the Catholic faith, but I have never wanted children and neither does my husband. This has been a stumbling block to me entering the Church. What can I do?   15:35  - I am a medical writer in human clinical trials. One of the aspects of my work is reporting on contraceptives. Do I need to get out of this job and work elsewhere?   20:30  - What is your advice on how to deal with the current secular view of gender, especially in the workplace?   33:46  - How can I explain to my nondenominational friend why Baptism is only needed once in a person’s lifetime?   41:22  - Is there a list of the Church traditions that have been infallibly declared?   51:34  - Is it true that the Vatican wants to limit or restrict the Latin Mass? Could this cause another schism in the Church?   Resources Mentioned:   NCBCenter.org

  Questions Covered:   05:00  - If evolution is true, were the first humans imbued souls immune from physical death?   07:00  - What do Catholics believe about the clarity of Scripture, particularly the Old Testament?   14:40  - Does the Church teach that abortion should be illegal?     19:53  - Can Jesus, as God, in his resurrected body, change?   33:05  - I have a boyfriend who is a Protestant who is interested in the Catholic Church. I feel a lack of confidence in sharing the faith with him, especially about free will and predestination. Can you help me to improve on this?   36:10  - Can the evidence of Christ’s empty tomb and His appearances after the Resurrection be proved wrong by simply saying that the apostles made those things up?   46:30  - Do Catholics and Lutherans agree on justification?  

  Questions Covered:   17:03  - Before I reverted to Catholicism, I used to go to gay clubs because my best friend is lesbian but, I am afraid to set a boundary with her now because I don’t want to hurt her feelings. How do I set the boundary without hurting her?   2. Alexandria…. Mansfield, TX…910 AM… 17:03  - Before I reverted to Catholicism, I used to go to gay clubs because my best friend is lesbian but, I am afraid to set a boundary with her now because I don’t want to hurt her feelings. How do I set the boundary without hurting her?   22:58  - I am struggling to set boundaries with my in-laws. My wife and I separated for a few months and now her family shuns us because of it even though we are back together living out the catholic faith. Do we cut them out? Do we ignore the issue?   32:28  - My college kids are home this summer and I had the expectation that we would all attend church...

  Questions Covered:   06:07  - I am not religious because I felt pressured to be so. Also, the thought of eternal life scares me.    14:58  - My sons think that the Catholic Church is a joke because they don’t see Catholic leaders living the faith. How can I respond to them and explain that the faith is still worth having, even with people not living up to their roles in it?   20:07  - I am not religious because I have a lot of things to do, and I focus on the earth and the things that I can see. I don’t see a need for religion in my life.   30:20  - I have a problem with the word religion because it’s not in the Bible. I believe in relationships.   42:05  - I am not religious because I have outgrown religion as a cultural idea. It was a first attempt as a cultural identity, but our society has now outgrown it.   51:22  - I am not religious because of prayer and how I don’t see the logic behind communicatin...

 What does the Church teach about same-sex attraction? How can we best love one another as Christ commands? Questions Covered:   14:11  - How do you explain to people how and why transgenderism is not a part of God’s plan for people and not what the Church teaches?   20:40  - What do you do about family members who are living a same-sex lifestyle when you want to show you care but can’t support some of their choices?   31:20  - I have a transgender nephew. We are all Catholic. I am struggling because he wants to be addressed as a female, but I don’t want to cause scandal for my kids and nieces. How do I meet him where he is but also do the right thing?   41:35 –  Do you think that some people feel drawn to the gay lifestyle because the heterosexual lifestyle has become too painful and complicated?   48:35  - I have been struggling with people asking me at work to call them by different gender pronouns. I see a lot of fluidity in gen...

 What is happening in the Church today? Questions Covered:   17:09  - Can you explain why the Pope has recently declared that Communion is the bread of sinners? He didn’t mention the need for confession when he said it.   21:38  - Why do you use the term pro-choice to describe Biden and other pro-abortion politicians?   30:12  - How concerned should we be about the Church’s future, especially considering all the problems we are seeing in Germany and other places?  

  Questions Covered:   03:00  - If you’ve lived a good life, but do something serious at the end of your life that could possibly be a rejection of God, will all be lost, and you’ll lose your salvation?   10:15  - What caused Protestants to form and split off from the Catholic Church? How close is the Protestant church to reunification with Rome?   16:45  - Are fetal cells lines still alive and united to a soul? Is there a soul present and animating those cells?   22:24  - If someone innocent was going to die and a priest steps in, offering his life instead, would that be suicide and a mortal sin? Would that priest go to hell?   33:20  - How can I be sure that I have really confessed and repented of all my sins?   40:50  - I am not Catholic. I consider myself to be a methodological naturalist. Why do Catholics claim that naturalism is false?   48:56  - Why should we choose the Catholic Church over any o...

  Questions Covered: 03:22  - How do I respond to someone who says that in Vatican I, the Catholic Church officially named herself the Roman Catholic Church? I thought the term Roman Catholic wasn’t an official thing.   08:10  - Has the prophecy in Jeremiah 31:31-34 been fulfilled?   15:53  - Does a Catholic have to believe in human rights?   19:02  - The woman I have been dating has premonitions about future events that usually come to pass. Could this be a real thing? What would the Church say?   34:15  - Does the Church have an official teaching on organ donation?   47:21  - I am visiting my family for the first time in a while. We are all Protestant, but I am considering Catholicism. How can I broach this conversation with them?    52:22  - Did the Church ever have an official response to Dante’s Divine Comedy?