Open Forum

Questions Covered:

• 02:25 - How many languages was the bible translated into around the year 500 AD? I find polemical stuff all around the internet that is trying to put down the Catholic Church by saying it was translated into 500 languages by then.
• 06:23 - What is the Church’s view on suffering well when the person doesn’t really know what that means? My 8 y.o. daughter has been diagnosed with cancer. We as her parents offer up her suffering but how does the Lord view hers?
• 15:44 - Follow up question to Julian. Can you please give some clarification that we can go directly to Jesus rather than always through a mediator?
• 30:57 - If a husband and wife become one flesh in marriage and both die and end up in purgatory, do they first both need to be purged of their sin in order to go to heaven?
• 34:35 - I understand the concept of indulgences that if we do good works or pious actions it will reduce temporal punishment in purgatory. It seems like we’re just doing indulgences to check a box. Are the indulgences in these big books real and what is their full purpose?
• 41:36 - Follow up to previous question – You said, “If you have a gun license, you’ve been deputized by the state to carry out capital punishment.” Can you give some more clarification on that statement?
• 47:27 - How do we reconcile the different factions and the division they cause within the Catholic Church, especially in the US?
• 52:09 - How do I explain the papacy to my Protestant friend?