Open Forum

Questions Covered:

• 4:11 – Do the saints who go to heaven bypass purgatory because they’ve become perfectly sanctified or is there another reason like a special grace?
• 08:19 - Is Jimmy a fan of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils?
• 14:30 - Is it sinful to watch media that takes the Lord’s name in vain?
• 18:40 - What would the feeling be if we were in heaven but our loved ones didn’t make it? Would we be sad?
• 22:50 - What’s the best way to introduce my significant other to Catholicism?
• 28:25 - How accurate is C.S. Lewis’s space trilogy scientifically?
• 33:15 - It seems like we don’t have free will because our choices are either caused or uncaused. If they’re uncaused, then they’d be random; but if they’re caused, there’d be a chain of causality going back outside ourselves so they wouldn’t be our choices. What’s the Catholic resolution to this?
• 45:08 - Where is hell?
• 48:06 - Should I have a litmus test for a parish before I join?
• 50:48 - If the priest prays the apostolic prayer over you before you die, do you skip purgatory?