Catholic Answers Live - Open Forum

Questions Covered:

  • 02:30 - If a pitcher intends to deceive a batter with a pitch, is this considered lying? 
  • 07:20 - What is the point of having a priest offer a sacrifice at the altar when Jesus is interceding for us before the Father? 
  • 14:53 - Lisa…Mounds, OK…EWTN app….Why did John the Baptist send emissaries out to find out who Jesus was? Didn’t he know who he was as his cousin? 
  • 18:34 - Is there a theological justification for saying “G—D— it”? Like, I want God to take this bad thing I did and get it as far away from me as possible. 
  • 22:10 - Why is the COVID-19 vaccine so controversial when other very common vaccines are made with the same connection to abortion? Why isn’t there as much controversy over those? 
  • 28:41 - What should I do about the seeming disconnect between Catholic groups and clergy on the morality of vaccines? How should I interpret the different statements between what Bishops say and what Catholics around me say? 
  • 35:27 - When did the celestial battle between the devil and the angels take place? 
  • 40:00 - Why doesn’t the Church issue anathemas anymore? 
  • 44:05 - What is Jesus’s origin? Was he born in time, or was he from all eternity through the Father? 
  • 46:03 - Why did Vatican II change who could touch the host? Before, only the priest could, but now other people can too. 
  • 51:20 - How do we know which verses in the Bible we can interpret for ourselves and which ones have a fixed, doctrinally defined meaning? 
 

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