Open Forum

Questions Covered:

• 03:23 - How do we know when it is wrong to use medical drugs that affect brain chemistry? 
• 09:07 - How do I respond to my Pentecostal friends’ challenge on what the Catholic church’s plan for salvation is? 
• 10:44 - Do we Catholics believe in things like fairies and other things heard in fairy tales? 
• 15:03 - Jesus says we do not have life in us if we do not consume the eucharist (Jn. 6). Would not Jesus’ words trump St. Paul’s words in 1 Corinth. 11? 
• 22:00 - What’s the proper devotion to the scapular and what are its origins? 
• 23:43 - Would God create people who He knows are going to hell only because that person would have offspring that would be saved? 
• 32:20 - When venerating saints, is there a line that would cross us into necromancy? 
• 39:52 - Is Zechariah 14:9 evidence for the validity of baptism in the name of Jesus instead of the Trinitarian formula? 
• 41:54 - Are we supposed to baptize people in the name of Jehovah and Jesus since Jesus said we are supposed to baptize “In the name of?” 
• 47:10 - How do we interpret St. Paul’s exhortation on obeying our rulers? 
• 49:20 - It sounds like Mt. 13:20-21 and Mark 10:15 are at odds. Could you help clarify? 
• 52:10 - Why does the Church accept Vatican 2 if it sounds like it contradicts Vatican 1 and other things the Church has taught?