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 we pray to the Saints in Heaven, how do we know they hear our prayers?
• My sister claims that Pope Francis is making it okay for people to get divorced and remarried without any issue. Can you help me by giving me the correct facts and ways to explain them to her?
• How do I answer an Anglican when they ask why they can’t receive communion in our Church, and vice versa? 
• When we say, “I believe in one Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church,” what does this mean to Catholics, and how should it be interpreted by Protestants?  
• Do we believe that those who have gone before us always know what we are doing, or only when we pray to them, and if we do something disappointing to them, what do they feel if there’s no tears in Heaven?  
• If you are in a play and one of your lines has you use the Lord’s name in vain, or swear, is this still a sin?
• Every time a person misses Mass, are they required to go to confession before receiving the Eucharist?
• I have a neighbor that insists her Anglican religion is apostolic. Why would she insist on this?