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:

• 05:51 - Council of Trent states, “if any man says that man’s free will was lost after the sin of Adam…” How does this compare with John 6:44?
• 18:45 - In the gospel story of the possessed individual, one gospel states there were two people possessed and in another there is just one. How do we interpret these discrepancies among the gospels?
• 27:30 - I would like to know if St. John, gospel writer, St. John, the Beloved One, and St. John of Patmos are all the same individual.
• 41:55 - Did the Blessed Mother know she was free from original sin?
• 43:48 - Why do we not talk about the trauma felt by the soul of an aborted baby after it is separated from the body?
• 50:02 - What is the Catholic perspective on physician-assisted suicide?

Resources Mentioned:

• Jimmy Akin’s Studies on Mark
• A Daily Defense: 365 Days (plus one) to Becoming a Better Apologist by Jimmy Akin