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:

• 07:38 - How does God’s grace work on someone who is not baptized, and can you bless someone with the sign of the cross who is not baptized?
• 14:27 - I recently talked to my pastor about people who commit mortal sins, and he said because there’s so few priests, that one could go to communion in a state of mortal sin, if one promises to go to confession quickly thereafter. Is this true?
• 19:50 - Pope Pius XIII had a vision about God and Satan talking where Satan said if he could be given 100 years he could take control of the Church. Is this true about Pope Pius and what does this mean?
• 28:18 - Why do we call Mary a perpetual virgin when the Bible says that Jesus had brothers?
• 32:31 - There’s a teacher who’s under fire for quoting St. John Bosco about Islam and the diocese says that St. John Bosco’s words isn’t current Church teaching? What’s the truth?
• 41:25 - The Orthodox says they are the true Church and that the Roman church split from them. What’s the Catholic Church’s view?
• 46:03 - We were watching Killing Jesus on TV and he prayed the Lord’s Prayer “for thine is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever” and I thought this was a later addition. Is that true?
• 50:00 - When I look at statues of Jesus, his right side is pierced, but I’ve heard that his heart was pierced but that’s on his left side. What’s going on here?