Open Forum

The callers choose the topics during Open Forum, peppering our guests with questions on every aspect of Catholic life and faith, the moral life, and even philosophical topics that touch on general religious belief.

Questions Covered:

• When you become a priest your hands are consecrated, so if a priest leaves the priesthood are their hands still consecrated?
• I am torn between converting to Orthodoxy or Catholicism. Why should I go to the Catholic Church vs. the Eastern Orthodox Church?
• I heard that the head of the Palestinians has been invited to visit the Vatican and set up an embassy. What is your stance on this?
• How can the Holy Father go against Corinthians 7:10 in some of his statements regarding communion and a divorced then remarried individual?
• Is there anything in scripture that shows what Jesus and Mary specifically looked like?
• I am troubled that we do not use the resurrection in our Mystery of Faith. What are your thoughts?
• When we do intercessory prayer do we need to recite it aloud or can we do it in the quietness of our mind and heart?
• I have a friend that is having issues with a violent figure. She has seen this figure since she was 2 and she is the only one that can see it. How can I help her through this? She does not believe in the Bible.
• I understand that if a priest leaves the priesthood and does the act of consecration that it is illicit and without authority, but does he still have the power to perform transubstantiation?