Open Forum

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:

• 01:26 - How should Catholics work with or respond to the secular pro-life movement? Down please
• 05:29 - If a Protestant visits a Catholic Church and unknowingly receives the Eucharist, what happens?
• 12:14 - What happens to the grace that you undergo of the Sacrament of marriage, but then get an annulment?
• 16:17 - My husband said that when Jesus died, people came out of their tombs and walked, alive. Is this true?
• 17:10 - Is the Eucharist a means of salvation?
• 28:23 - How can I speak to my nephew about God’s existence? He believes in the devil, but not God.
• 32:43 - What does the Church teach about cannibalism, in extreme circumstances?
• 35:45 - I was told that being Catholic means “being open to everyone.” Why is that?
• 42:27 - If you forget to confess a sin in confession, is your absolution still valid for all of your sins?
• 45:05 - I am Protestant. From your perspective, what would be the most exegetical basis for a Protestant to consider becoming a Catholic?
• 51:15 - How can it be Jesus’s true Body and Blood in the Eucharist?

Resources Mentioned:

• Ancient Israel: Its Life and Institutions by Roland De Vaux

• The JPS Torah Commentary: Exodus by Nahum M. Sarna

• On the Reliability of the Old Testament by Kenneth Kitchen

• Book of Genesis Study Course by Gary Rendsburg

• Ignatius Study Bible
• The Real Presence

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