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:

• 05:19 - A friend told me that New Years is a pagan holiday honoring the god, Janus. Is that true?
• 18:25 - If you affirm free will, does the Catholic teaching of justification follow, and if you deny free will does the protestant teaching of justification follow?
• 28:52 - 2 Maccabees chapter 12, verse 46 is not present in the Latin Vulgate, but it is present in the English version. Is this verse canonical?
• 31:05 - In the John 6 dialogues, the language of transubstantiation is literal and taken literally by Catholics, but with Nicodemus being born again and with the women at the well the language is also literal, but Catholics don’t take it literally. Why?
• 43:10 - Why is the Eucharist only available to Catholics and not all Christians?

Resources Mentioned:

• Eucharist: Theology and Spirituality of the Eucharistic Prayer by Louis Bouyer