Open Forum

Questions Covered:

• 03:42 - Someone recently told me that the Catholic Church is the “whore of Babylon.” I did not know how to respond. Is this true?
• 08:16 - Whatever happened to St. Joseph? Why does scripture not talk about him more?
• 17:00 - Why did God choose for Jesus to have such a hard life? Why was he born through Mary in a manger?
• 24:30 - How were scholars able to explain away the origins of Judaism as being copied from the Egyptians?
• 28:40 - What was the Catholic response to the Reformation? Where can I find resources for this?
• 31:21 - How do we respond to Protestants who say that Jesus has already overcome the ‘evil one’ and that we do not need to?
• 42:40 - I am a fifth-grade catechist. We were studying the anointing of the sacraments. One of my students asked if the hands are anointed because of Christ’s wounds and I didn’t know. What is the reason for this?
• 45:00 - Can you explain the synoptic problem?
• 47:35 - In Exodus, God says he’ll harden Pharoah’s heart- what does he mean by this?
• 50:54 - What is the Church’s position on a person receiving the Eucharist in state of mortal sin?