Catholic Answers Live

Questions Covered: 04:36 – Why isn’t there an infallible translation of the bible? 13:00 – How does consecration to saint’s work? 19:32 – Gen 35:16 says Benjamin was born in Canaan, but Gen 35:26 says he was born in Paddan-aram. Is this contradictory? 24:45 – What occurred during the Great Schism? 39:11 – You do know this celebration of the dead [veneration of the saints] has pagan Roman origins like all the other pagan infiltrations camouflaged as church traditions? 46:43 – I’m talking to an evolutionist bible scholar. How do I convince him of monotheism? …

Questions Covered:  00:45 – How can Catholics ask Protestants to be in communion with the Pope, when there have been so many schisms?  06:15 – I don’t understand the teaching of no salvation outside the Catholic Church?  15:00 – How do I explain Papal Authority? When should we listen to the Pope?   23:20 – What do Catholics believe are necessary beliefs to be Christian?    29:56 – I struggle with the teaching of Mary’s Virginity based on Matthew 1:24-25?  37:26 – Is Catholic doctrine found in the Bible?  45:33 – I’m confused by the belief in Sacrament of the anointing of the sick? I’ve heard different perspectives on going to Heaven with last rites?  …

Questions Covered: 05:23 – Why do Catholics put so much emphasis on Mary?  12:36 – I struggle with the doctrine of The Real Presence.  20:06 – I don’t understand Mary’s perpetual Virginity after giving birth? Why is this important?  28:45 – Why doesn’t God just annihilate evil?  42:38 – How can the Creed change in the Western church from the original Eastern Church?   45:28 – Can you explain apostolic infallibility? 52:28 – Is there a doctrine on the Afterlife?  …

Questions Covered: 01:52 – Question: What exactly is Paul referring to in Galatians 3:1 when he says Christ was “publicly exhibited/portrayed as crucified”? Is it possible Paul knew of the Shroud of Turin? Or maybe he’s referring to very early iconography of the Crucifixion? 05:30 – In the story of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5, could it be logically deduced that Peter was exercising the ability to retain sins? 10:28 – If Jesus was born in 3 or 4 BC, and lived to be 33, would it be more accurate to say the crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension took place in AD 29 or 30, as opposed to the commonly cited AD 33? 16:25 – Since Mary was preserved from original sin, did she experience sickness? 19:59 – If St. Joseph had children other than Jesus (as some traditions hold) why wouldn’t they be the legal heirs to David’s throne? 23:36 – What is your take on Revelation 6:10? 33:16 – How authoritative are the Pontifical Biblical Commission’s early decrees on traditional authorship (for example in 1914 the PBC declared Paul wrote Hebrews)? Now the PBC is not part of the magisterium, but at the time of these declarations it was. It seems like almost no Catholic scholar nowadays thinks Paul wrote Hebrews, but I don’t understand why the PBC’s earlier declarations are no longer authoritative. (Including supporting Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, supporting Matthean priority, etc) 37:31 – I was talking to a fallen away Catholic. How do you respond when they say Adam had a first wife named Lilith and Eve was his second wife? 40:20 – I understand if a couple divorces legally they’re still married in the eyes of the church. If one wanted to get remarried, they would have to get an annulment from the church, but suppose that marriage produced children. What does the annulment mean for the children of that marriage as far as the church is concerned?? Or another way of putting it: if my parents got annulment from the church, does the church still recognize me as a baptized Catholic? or do I suddenly become a bastard child (for lack of a better term)?? 45:08 – How should we understand Jesus “fulfilling the law”, specifically considering the abandonment of many of the laws of the old covenant? 49:16 – Prior to the fall — Did “Adam and Eve” have Preternatural Gifts if they existed under the Federal Headship Model or the Polygenism Model?  If they did what would have been the morality of Human Beings, with Preternatural Gifts, mating with human like beings without preternatural gifts. …