Ask a Priest

Questions Covered:

• 05:29 - Is there ever a circumstance where a person can perform a baptism without water?
• 10:50 - How is it just to create eternal souls without their consent and then punish them when they don’t do right?
• 18:40 - How do we square the seeming contradiction in Luke 23:43 where the thief will be with Jesus in paradise on that day but Jesus didn’t ascend to heaven for another 40 days?
• 29:17 - What’s the difference between Anglican and Catholic?
• 31:39 - With the transgender issue becoming more common, what things are being done in seminaries to ensure the candidates joining are truly men?
• 34:26 - Who started the teaching that priests had to be celibate?
• 42:24 - What is the distinction between blessing a marriage and blessing a same sex couple?
• 46:18 - How long has the Church approved annulments? Are the children of these marriages illegitimate?
• 48:23 - What does the Church say about asexuality?