Open Forum

Questions Covered:

• 02:02 - How do I defend the deuterocanonical books?
• 05:42 - I’m a convert and my husband is atheist. His main question: If God is good then how did he create suffering?
• 16:19 - If a man has a vasectomy and later repents and goes to confession. Are he and his wife required to abstain from relations indefinitely?
• 20:26 - If a priest blesses a cloud, will it rain holy water?
• 22:04 - Regarding the prophecy of Illumination of conscience at Garabandal. If it comes to pass, will the sins we confessed be washed away from our knowledge?
• 29:22 - What’s the difference between the deuterocanonical and the apocrypha, and how do we defend it?
• 32:20 - Was the Creed the only document that came out of the Nicene council?
• 36:12 - Is it immoral to eat more intelligent animals like dolphins and octopus?
• 37:57 - Is there a reason other than a mortal sin to go to confession?
• 41:36 - I’m a fertility care practitioner. I always advise couples who had vasectomies to not have relations during the woman’s fertile days. Is this morally acceptable to do?
• 47:59 - How does one receive communion in the Church if one is divorced but was never married in the Church?
• 51:48 - Could you help clarify CCC 1650?