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Questions Covered:

04:03 – Does the trial of Pope Formosus disprove Papal Infallibility?
10:50 – Does time exist in the Church triumphant and the Church suffering as it does for the Church militant?
17:56 – How can we explain to an animal rights activist that humans have greater value and dignity?
24:36 – What’s the morality of interacting with algorithms that can influence others to encounter questionable material?
31:09 – I want to start defending the faith. How do I defend the words “Praying to” when referring to Mary?
36:42 – What is the Catholic perspective of the orthogonality thesis within general purpose intelligence research?
42:29 – In your recent debate with James White on Sola Scriptura you argued the different ways “Word of God’ was used. What resource did you use to build that argument?
46:33 – My wife and I both grew up Catholic but never got married in the Church. Do we have to get our marriage blessed by the Church? We now live like brother and sister.
51:05 – My son is in college and questioning whether God is real. How do I start a conversation with him without scaring him away?

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Questions Covered:

05:25 – How would you explain to a protestant that the reformation did more harm than good?
11:52 – How would I reply to a friend who says that a Catholic shouldn’t judge a gay relationship?
18:45 – Can I receive communion more than once a day?
20:07 – Our priest seems to rush the Mass. Is it appropriate to approach him and ask him to slow down?
29:52 – Is it good to assume that the people being addressed in Romans 10 were already baptized with great faith? Thus, faith being what was needed for salvation for them?
34:52 – My friend favors the spiritual presence view of the eucharist? How do I explain to him that this view is insufficient?
40:58 – I’m thinking of leaving the Catholic church because they won’t give the precious blood? Why am I being denied a sacrament?
43:56 – I agree with the limiting of microplastics. We need to do what we can to save God’s planet?
49:05 – Are the different Churches in the new testaments akin to what today are modern dioceses?
51:49 – In light of 2 Cor 5:20, what is a good way to evangelize senior citizens whose memory isn’t good?

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Questions Covered: 

09:32 – Can you explain why all Judeo-Christian revelations come from the Middle East? 
32:58 – How can Catholics believe the Saints are in heaven based on the day of judgment?  
50:32 – Can you give advice on how to dialogue when they don’t accept the Sacrament? 

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Questions Covered: 

04:53 – How can a Catholic prophecy be wrong about the end of the world?  
15:18 – Why does the Divine Mercy chaplet say, “I give you the body and blood”? 
30:05 – Why do Catholics need Confession when Jesus paid the price for our sins? 
40:56 – Is it possible to affect someone’s ultimate salvation?  
51:58 – In what sense is Jesus God?  

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Questions Covered:

01:02 – What do you think about the supposed references to Jesus in the Talmud?
08:10 – Please explain how does the process work when a priest earns the title of Monsignor I’d like to understand how that whole process works.
13:?42 – Can you make a distinction between God’s miracles and what demons are capable of?
18:39 – Who is the “destroyer” / angel of death in Exodus? An actual angel?
20:24 – Do you think the Jewish faith was reinterpreted after Jesus’s death and resurrection 25:10 – Why is the word Holy Ghost said instead of Holy Spirit?
28:25 – Why are there so many people who say that the Catholic Church is evil? The red shoes are evil. The room that looks like a serpent, at the Vatican. And other claims…?
32:43 – I was recently challenged on the papal bulls allowing conquest and enslavement, followed by the bull Sublimis Deus forbidding enslavement, which I take as an abrogation of the prior. The interlocutor asked 1) how can one infallible bull overrule another one; and 2) how was anyone supposed to know when Sublimus Deus doesn’t mention the prior bulls or say they were abrogated? What do you say?
35:24 – Can you explain how the Godhead and the Trinity are not conflicting ideas or doctrines. I get SO MANY people who challenge the Trinity and say that Catholics try to replace the Godhead with the “false doctrine” of the Trinity.
44:50 – Let’s say a person was properly baptized as a child but didn’t remember. They grow up and live a secular life until finding the faith later. They go through RCIA and, not remembering that they had been already baptized, are baptized and confirmed into the church.This person thinks that their recent baptism washes away the sins to that point and so does not go to confession for those sins. Is this person in trouble spiritually? Can they, since they are ignorant of the situation, receive the Eucharist?
48:08 – Jimmy Akin, what’s your most recent and thorough reflection on Numbers 12?
51:57 – Do we have one guardian angel for our whole life?
53:11 – What are your thoughts on the “manna machine”?

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Questions Covered:

02:17 -If there are conjoined twins who are saints and they have the power of bilocation, would they be able to bilocate separately or should they bilocate together?
07:06 – Will conjoined twins still be joined in their resurrected bodies?
11:11 – In marriage, is the “good of the spouses” supplied by nature, or grace?
13:10 – What is the Church’s stance on the history of St Veronica?
17:52 – Can God “forgive” you your sins or could it be more accurate to say He is the immutable embodiment of forgiveness itself- thus really only we can change by atoning and reorienting ourselves to Him?
19:35 – My son, Joshua wants to ask you if you think the Superman movies could have a Christian allegory to them?
28:42 – How/why did the Jews become monotheists?
32:41 – Where did the prayer come from that w e say at Mass after the Our Father… “For Thine is the Kingdom,,,”
35:35 – Why do you suppose the account of Peter walking on the water only in Matthew?
39:42 – My daughter has a turtle. One day, she was laying on the floor with the turtle. The turtle looks at her, then at a piece of fence about a foot or two tall, and back at her a few times. The turtle then runs to the fence, pushes it over to create a ramp (inclined plane) onto my daughter, then climbs the fence onto my daughter’s back. That would appear to be a lot of thought going on in the turtle’s brain to figure that out. What evidence do we have for the extent of intelligence in animals? Does she just have a really smart turtle?
45:41 – What’s your take on original monotheism?
49:28 – Will we continue learning in heaven? Or will we just instantaneously *know* everything we can know?
51:14 – Did Jesus drink wine, or was it just grape juice?
53:12 – If Jesus submitted his DNA to 23&Me would it prove that Joseph was his Father?

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