The callers choose the topics during Open Forum, peppering our guests with questions on every aspect of Catholic life and faith, the moral life, and even philosophical topics that touch on general religious belief.
Questions Covered:
- 08:18 - Can I be a Catechist since I have been divorced?
- 13:07 - Why do so many crucifixes have the nails going through Jesus’s palms as opposed to his wrists?
- 15:35 - God can hear silent prayers, but what about Saints?
- 18:35 - If a soldier knows that the war he’s fighting in is unjust, does he have a duty to not fight in it?
- 23:07 - I have an aunt that’s very religious, and whenever anybody got a divorce, she disagreed, but now she’s getting divorced, and she’s saying it’s okay because her husband isn’t following her in the faith. Is that an acceptable reason to get divorced?
- 33:41 - How do you reconcile Vatican II and the Council of Florence? Specifically as it relates to Muslim.
- 43:30 - My understanding is that the Gospels were not written eye witness accounts, and they do not seem reliable to me. Can you help me out?
- 50:39 - What happened to the Catholic Church in the East when the East and West split?
Resources Mentioned:
- Free from All Error: Authorship Inerrancy Historicity of Scripture, Church Teaching, and Modern Scripture Scholars by Fr. William G. Most
- Catholic Apologetics Today: Answers to Modern Critics by Fr. William G. Most
- Politicizing the Bible: The Roots of Historical Criticism and the Secularization of Scripture 1300-1700 by Scott Hahn
- Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration by Pope Benedict XVI
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