Open Forum

Questions Covered:

• 04:04 - Does listening to an audio version meet the criteria of saying the rosary?
• 05:55 - Is it a licit theological opinion to think that Mary did not die before her assumption? On catholic.com, Fr. Hugh Barbour says the magisterium does not teach that she died but Michael Lofton says she did.
• 15:05 - What were the differences between presbyters and Bishops in the early Church?
• 20:38 - In Hebrews 4:15-16, it says, “We have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities…Let us therefore come boldly…” Why do Catholics have priests if this passage says we can go boldly ourselves?
• 32:35 - I shared a video with a friend about how a monastery here in OC is going to be dedicating the month of May to the Blessed Mother. How can I respond to her when she says praying to the saints is demonic?
• 41:50 - Do our works play into the initial stage of justification? If they do, how so?
• 49:11 - If we were in an active shooter situation and have legal license to carry, would we be subject to the same rules regarding “Thou shalt not kill” as a soldier in war?