Catholic Answers Live - Open Forum

 Questions Covered:

  • 04:30 - What does metanoia mean?
  • 11:00 - Are there any arguments from the early Church Fathers in favor of iconography?
  • 13:00 - I have a question about preterism. Who is the man of lawlessness? Could it be Nero?
  • 17:35 - How would you approach the topic of suicide with someone who hasn’t brought it up but might be showing hints?
  • 23:55 - What are your thoughts on Jesus being able to custom-tailor Mary to be the perfect mother of him and the Church?
  • 31:45 - How is the first chapter of Genesis compatible with science? What’s the general opinion of the Church on how it should be interpreted?
  • 37:40 - How can I explain to a Protestant our understanding of cooperation with God’s grace?
  • 44:20 - What’s the Catholic understanding of faith vs works and how they play into salvation?
  • 46:10 - I spoke with some Protestants who talked about an idea of “Mother God.” They believed in the persons of the Trinity, but also believed that, taken all together, there was one “Mother God.” Has this idea come up before? Did the Church have to address it?
  • 48:25 - Is it okay to play Dungeons & Dragons?
  • 50:30 - Is there any circumstance in which a Catholic married couple, under the guidance of a priest, could use condoms?
  • 52:45 - How should we submit to authority when there’s so many laws we don’t know about?

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