Open Forum for New Catholics

Questions Covered:

• 02:58 - I’m trying to find encouragement. I find myself more Catholic than the Catholic Culture around. Any advice?
• 12:33 - My father started a new church in our home and a year ago I began exploring and discovered the Mass. I have a lot of questions. How do I proceed? How do I discern if Catholicism is true?
• 19:57 - I see that in the Shroud the nails go through the wrists but in stories of stigmata the wounds happen in the hands. Should I not believe in these stories?
• 29:53 - Why do we need repetitive prayer like the rosary?
• 34:53 - How do I explain to my child that my recent ex-wife is engaged? As a Catholic how do I approach this?
• 40:30 - When is it appropriate, after entering the Church, to start considering a religious vocation?
• 43:52 - My granddaughter has been diagnosed with a tumor. We will be going to a healing Mass, what should we expect?
• 53:55 - Is the process of working through the doctrines a barrier of evangelization?