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  Questions Covered:   01:23  - Revelation 3:12 talks about ‘writing upon him a new name.’ What does that mean?   08:00  - What resources can I provide my sister with that would prove to her that the Catholic Church is the true Church? She just left the Mormon Church, believes in God, but is struggling with belief in the Bible.   16:00  - How can Catholics believe in a pope when the 7th Council of Carthage said that they didn’t think a bishop should have power over other bishops?   21:24  - I am a believer, but not a Catholic. When was the start of the relationship between Roman Catholics and Christianity?   37:20  - How do I respond to my orthodox friends who critique the Catholic Church because of the Crusades?   44:23  - I do manual labor and often listen to theological videos or podcasts while I am working. Can you recommend some less heady material that I could listen to that would draw me toward God but not be quite ...

  Questions Covered:   13:40  - How do we debunk reincarnation, especially when people claim to have a testimony supporting it?   22:52  - How do ethos, pathos, and logos relate to the Trinity? How does kairos relate to the Virgin Mary?   31:43  - I have heard some orthodox claim that the infallibility of the pope and the papacy were invented in the 600s. Is that true? How can I respond?   35:45  - Where did the idea for evil even come from if God is all good and loving? How could he create evil?   44:49  - How do I get past the anger and disappointment I feel with the Church scandals and how they were dealt with?  

  Questions Covered:   02:23  - Since Adam and Eve were supposedly the first two people on the earth, how could they be the parents of everyone? Wouldn’t there have to be another family at least?   06:33  - I am Protestant and am wondering, since idolatry is a mortal sin, does that mean that those who committed idolatry in Maccabees did not go to purgatory?   16:23  - Should the Church have Eucharistic ministers or should the priest be the only one to distribute Holy Communion?   20:50  - Does social media bring us closer to God or further away? In your opinion, has social media been a positive influence in evangelization?   28:54  - How do you respond to Protestants about Judith and the deuterocanonical books being historically inaccurate?   36:08  - I am going through RCIA. In speaking with my Protestant dad about confession, he says you shouldn’t confess to a man, but to Jesus Christ. He doesn’t think the authority of t...

  Questions Covered: 04:01  - How strong is the argument of the incoherence of nihilism in proving the existence of God?   12:14  - It seems clear that the Holy Spirit is not only in the Catholic Church, but moves and works in other Christian denominations, as well. How can we say there is a need for a united Church, therefore?   17:45  - My wife and I are expecting. Does the baby receive the grace of the Eucharist through her reception of it?   21:40  - Do people in the afterlife have free will?   29:05  - Did St. Paul have any letters that he wrote which did not make it into the Bible?   32:00  - How can we address the atheistic objection that there were multiple forms of Christianity from the beginning, so it can’t be true?   43:04  - How do you get from “an unborn fetus has a right to life” to making abortion illegal? I have not heard a good defense of making it illegal.   50:50  - My friend as...

 Can a Catholic Be a Feminist? Questions Covered:   19:24  - For women who financially need to be in the workforce, how are they expected to balance that with motherhood? Should we still expect equality in the workplace? Is feminism in the workplace a good thing?   35:14  - Do you not think that some Catholics go a bit too far to submitting to the modern fundamentals of feminism, failing to defend the traditional view of women? Why do you think people are afraid of the traditional view of women?   42:37  - Do you think women should be required to register for the draft?   48:22  - How exactly is feminism defined? There is so much confusion about what that means.    

  Questions Covered:   00:55  - Tim comments on the recent changes to canon law.   06:53  - How can I respond to someone who says that there is no merit or holiness gained from abstaining from sin? Do I have an obligation to respond?   18:43  - If God told Ishmael that he would make of him a great nation and that nation is now Islam since Mohammed is descended of Ishamel, then how can we say that Mohammed was a false prophet?   22:28  - If the orthodox reunited with the Catholic Church, would the Vatican acknowledge all their books of the Bible as a part of the canon and valid?   24:52  - Does Galatians 3:13 teach penal substitutionary atonement?   34:35  - Why should we appeal to natural law in moral debates?   42:32  - Since the Church doesn’t recognize gay marriage, if a person receives a civil marriage to a person of the same sex and then realizes they’re not gay, do they need an annulment before th...

  Questions Covered:   01:24  - I understand the Catholic Church bans membership in secret societies for many reasons, especially since historically since groups like the Freemasons were seen as anti-clerical. I was wondering how secret does a secret society need to be, I recall when I was inducted into the honor society Phi Beta Kappa, it was brought up there were secret rituals, but done away with during the anti-Masonic movement in the nineteenth century. So would it have been illicit for a catholic to be in something like this when the secrecy was in place. From my understanding lots of fraternity’s had histories like this, the only one to my knowledge that keeps the secrecy is Yale’s Skull and Bones- would that also be banned from the catholic point of view?   07:20  - My friends have asked me to pray with phrases like “I bind Satan… in the name of Jesus, I bind all demons… for the sake of the Blood of Christ I bind … I cast out…” I am uncomfortab...