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:

• How do you talk to someone who is a fallen away Catholic, now attending a Protestant church, and how to bring them home?
• Is torture an intrinsic evil that can never be permitted?
• Why is there a discrepancy between Matthew and Luke’s accounts of Jesus being mocked by the sinners on the other crosses?
• My friend had a miscarriage and we do not have any remains, but what can we do for the soul of the baby?
• If someone deserves to know a piece of information that may offend or disappoint them, is it a considered a lie to withhold the truth?
• What happens to the people who have not had a chance to be baptized and they die?
• I am privy to a situation of a man who believes he is transgender and is in transition. His counselor has made statements that God creates on a spectrum and it is okay to have the feelings he does. How can I help this man?
• We have an adult son who is being introduced to Mormonism. How can I talk to our son about the values of the Catholic Faith?