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:

• 06:06 - Can you help me respond to a relative who claims that the Church does not treat women well? 
• 13:17 - Would it be sinful to work in a hotel where people are allowed to have premarital sex?
• 18:18 - Can you explain from a theological perspective how we can have both pro-life and pro-choice Catholic politicians?
• 23:01 - My father-in-law is a deacon, and his daughter is about to have a marriage outside the Church, but they already started cohabiting. They also got the house blessed where they are cohabiting. What can I say to deal with this situation?
• 28:49 - If Baptism is valid in some other Christian denominations, can their Communion also be valid?
• 30:44 - If a person is not sincerely sorry for their sins in Confession, but is sorry for the fact that they are not sorry, can they be absolved?
• 33:35 - How can I defend the pomp and circumstance of the papacy against Evangelicals and other non-Catholics who object to that?
• 37:50 - After we had our last child, my wife had her tubes tied. She has since confessed and repented. Should I talk to her about it or just give it up to God?
• 44:07 - Why in Christianity is the Holy Spirit considered male, so that the Trinity is male, male, and male?
• 50:15 - I’m an extraordinary minister, and someone came up to me with a container and asked me to put a consecrated host in it for her father in the hospital. Was that okay for me to do?