Open Forum

Questions Covered:

• 04:40 - When Peter mentions “other scriptures” in 2 Peter 3:16, does that imply that there was a set canon at that time?
• 10:50 - I’m gathering with my adult children over Christmas, and they’re all at various stages of leaving Catholicism. How can I make the most of those three days together?
• 19:05 - What does John 12:39-50 mean? It hurts to read because I love the Jewish people.
• 30:10 - When Jesus went down to hell to preach the gospel, at what point were the souls there saved?
• 35:35 - Psalm 106 mentions Aaron as one of God’s saints. Is he a saint in the Catholic Church?
• 39:45 - How does 1 John’s mention of a sin that is “unto death,” that we shouldn’t pray for, fit in with confession?
• 43:00 - How can I encourage my son and his wife, who are getting married outside the Church, to get their marriage blessed?
• 47:03 - I’m becoming Catholic but my wife is Jewish. Do we have to consummate our marriage inside the Church? I don’t think she’ll want to do that.
• 49:20 - Am I supposed to speak in tongues?
• 50:25 - Why should Catholics believe in the reliability of the first epistle of Peter when modern scholars believe Peter didn’t actually write it?