Open Forum

Questions Covered:

• 03:57 - My girlfriend is non-Catholic and doesn’t understand why she and her family can’t have confession and the Eucharist, and also why I need them if it’s possible for non-Catholics to go to heaven without them.
• 10:05 - I heard a rabbi claim that the Jesus that Christians believe in is a false Jesus. Why don’t the Jewish people believe in Jesus?
• 15:38 - How does the necessity of baptism square with the idea that those who haven’t heard of Catholicism can be saved?
• 23:28 - How could an all-loving God allow such horrible suffering like in the Holocaust?
• 29:11 - If I’m praying for something, but then remember more intentions as I’m praying it, does that make the prayer progressively less powerful for each, like it’s being divided?
• 31:49 - I was in a major car accident and am in a lot of pain and sometimes can’t make it to mass. My Catholic doctor tells me to offer it up and that I’m saving souls in purgatory. Also my daughter had my granddaughter baptized Lutheran and won’t have anything to do with the Catholic Church. I just really need some guidance.
• 35:59 - I understand we get a plenary indulgence if we go to mass on All Souls’ Day. What do we have to say or do for it? Also, if we pray at a cemetery, do we get a second indulgence?
• 41:02 - Have you heard of the book Psychic Wholeness and Healing by Conrad Baars and Anna Terruwe? It’s a Thomistic approach to psychology and I’m wondering if it’s trustworthy.
• 44:27 - Can you pray for Jesus?
• 46:00 - How should we make jokes? And how should we react to sinful joking?