Catholic Answers Forums - Radio (Catholic Answers Live) http://forums.catholic.com Discuss our media activities, shows and future projects en Sat, 18 May 2013 15:38:33 GMT vBulletin 30 http://forums.catholic.com/images/misc_khaki/rss.jpg Catholic Answers Forums - Radio (Catholic Answers Live) http://forums.catholic.com Can a priest curse someone? http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=786530&goto=newpost Tue, 14 May 2013 00:06:22 GMT A few months after my parents married in the church the priest who married them found out that my father was already married by the church in another town so he went to my parents house to confront my father. I was told that when the priest confronted my father about it that he (the priest) curse my father and all his descendants. Does a priest has the authority to do this? Can I be cursed for something my father did before I was born? I really would appreciate if anyone can help me understand this. Thanks, D A few months after my parents married in the church the priest who married them found out that my father was already married by the church in another town so he went to my parents house to confront my father. I was told that when the priest confronted my father about it that he (the priest) curse my father and all his descendants. Does a priest has the authority to do this? Can I be cursed for something my father did before I was born?

I really would appreciate if anyone can help me understand this.

Thanks,

D ]]> Radio (Catholic Answers Live) mrbusdriversir http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=786530 Is the Old Testament finished? http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=784706&goto=newpost Wed, 08 May 2013 21:06:56 GMT Do Jews continue to add to what we call the Old Testament? If not, when was the "book" considered complete and why was it considered complete? I know we, as Christians consider it fulfilled, but what about Jews? ]]> Radio (Catholic Answers Live) SoulPatch http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=784706 Peter Kreeft May 17th! http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=783620&goto=newpost Mon, 06 May 2013 11:46:22 GMT I am so happy to see that the inspirational Peter Kreeft will be on the show on the 17th of May to discuss the role of logic in apologetics. I was looking forward to this show a few months ago but it was cancelled I believe.

Has anyone else read his book Socratic Logic? I received it as a birthday gift last year and now view it as an indispensible learning tool; seriously I intend for it to stay in my family for generations-it's THAT good. :thumbsup:

Any good questions for the show? ]]> Radio (Catholic Answers Live) HombreconHambre http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=783620 Fr. Mark Toups on Catholic Answers regarding his Oremus program http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=781578&goto=newpost Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:30:08 GMT I listened to Fr. Mark Toups on Catholic Answers discussing his program Oremus : A Guide to Catholic Prayer. It is a program to help people deepen their prayer life. I was wondering if anyone had this program in their parish and what the response was to it? I listened to Fr. Mark Toups on Catholic Answers discussing his program Oremus : A Guide to Catholic Prayer. It is a program to help people deepen their prayer life. I was wondering if anyone had this program in their parish and what the response was to it? ]]> Radio (Catholic Answers Live) brikar http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=781578 Looking forward... http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=781396&goto=newpost Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:07:07 GMT I am looking forward to Tim Staples' two hour show on the 31st of May! :thumbsup:

Hope he touches on things that will help me. ]]> Radio (Catholic Answers Live) Lormar http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=781396 I love Tim Staples, but.. http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=780900&goto=newpost Sun, 28 Apr 2013 02:16:18 GMT It seems to me that his answers sometimes tend to run 20 minutes long when they could be more like 2 minutes. Maybe he's trying to cover all the bases by preemptively answering any possible objection that might arise before they arise, but I think it would serve the show and the audience better to allow more callers and more questions which can be dispatched thoroughly yet more quickly. Other than that, GREAT JOB TIM!:thumbsup: ]]> Radio (Catholic Answers Live) Gabriel Serafin http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=780900 Cruise http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=780405&goto=newpost Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:10:48 GMT On the radio you are advertising the November cruise. Is there a place on the forums to discuss it? Linda. On the radio you are advertising the November cruise. Is there a place on the forums to discuss it?
Linda. ]]> Radio (Catholic Answers Live) st julie http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=780405 Advertised radio shows on CA http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=779942&goto=newpost Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:21:51 GMT Are the advertised radio shows on catholic.com podcasts? Like if I miss the 2 shows that were advertised, will they become podcasts so I can catch them again? Are the advertised radio shows on catholic.com podcasts? Like if I miss the 2 shows that were advertised, will they become podcasts so I can catch them again? ]]> Radio (Catholic Answers Live) Issa87 http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=779942 Podcasts -- where did they go? http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=778550&goto=newpost Mon, 22 Apr 2013 01:12:55 GMT I don't see any new podcasts after the first hour of Friday April 12th. I don't see them on iTunes, in the iTunes store, or in my own iTunes (I subscribe). I also don't see them (downloadable) on the radio page of the CA website.

Where are the podcasts? When will they be posted?

Is anyone else having this problem? ]]> Radio (Catholic Answers Live) GwenL http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=778550 America Needs Fatima??? http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=777389&goto=newpost Thu, 18 Apr 2013 04:12:06 GMT I have been getting mail from an organization called "America Needs Fatima". Have read some things about them that makes them sound like a cult. Are they what they seem to be or kind of far out? Are they a legitimite catholic organization? ]]> Radio (Catholic Answers Live) Joyce Ann Berni http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=777389 last friday,s hour 2 podcast? http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=777312&goto=newpost Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:14:40 GMT What happened to hour 2 of last friday,s podcast? thanks md What happened to hour 2 of last friday,s podcast? thanks
md ]]> Radio (Catholic Answers Live) dwyermd http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=777312 Robert Spencer on CAL today: 4/12/13 http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=775548&goto=newpost Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:26:15 GMT Good morning and God bless. New York Times best-selling author Robert Spencer will be the featured guest on Catholic Answers Live for two hours today to discuss the topic of his latest book, Not Peace but a Sword: The Great Chasm Between Christianity and Islam, published by Catholic Answers Press. Callers whose questions are taken on-air will be eligible to receive a *_free_* copy of the book. For those who are not able, and for everyone else, the hardcover and digital book will be available at a 25% discount until midnight tonight (4/12/13). Click here (http://shop.catholic.com/not-peace-but-a-sword-the-great-chasm-between-christianity-and-islam-digital.html) for the digital version. Click here (http://shop.catholic.com/not-peace-but-a-sword-the-great-chasm-between-christianity-and-islam.html) for the hardcover version. Good morning and God bless.

New York Times best-selling author Robert Spencer will be the featured guest on Catholic Answers Live for two hours today to discuss the topic of his latest book, Not Peace but a Sword: The Great Chasm Between Christianity and Islam, published by Catholic Answers Press.

Callers whose questions are taken on-air will be eligible to receive a free copy of the book. For those who are not able, and for everyone else, the hardcover and digital book will be available at a 25% discount until midnight tonight (4/12/13).

Click here for the digital version.

Click here for the hardcover version.

If you are interested in finding out more about the book, or you would like to see the table of contents and a sample chapter, you should visit notpeacebutasword.com. ]]> Radio (Catholic Answers Live) Jon Sorensen http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=775548 Website Links http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=774242&goto=newpost Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:37:31 GMT Many times I am listening to the broadcast in the car and think - oh, I'll make sure to visit that website later when a website is given out. Usually though I forget what the website is or where it is mentioned in the program so that I can go back and listen to just the website listed. (If I try to re-listen to what I've already heard I many times accidentally tune it out as I multi-task) Is there a place where the websites mentioned during the show are linked? I've been to the show pages and can't find them there, what am I missing? ]]> Radio (Catholic Answers Live) Crafty_Fraggle http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=774242 Doubting the Eucharist - 22nd March show http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=772121&goto=newpost Wed, 03 Apr 2013 05:38:15 GMT Hi all,

During the show with Fr Pacwa on 22nd March, a caller (I think his name was Denis, if I remember correctly) stated that he was a former Catholic and now did not believe in the Real Presence, specifically citing John's Gospel. He said that while John doesn't use the word "symbolic" with regards the Eucharist (in the "Bread of Life" discourse) neither does he use the word "literal". Denis then pointed out that throughout this Gospel, Jesus uses figurative language to mean something else, for example, "temple" to mean his body in John 2, being born "again" to mean - he didn't say, so I'll fill it in here - faith, baptism and life through the Spirit, "living water" to mean the Spirit, and so on, concluding that when Jesus said "my flesh" he similarly meant this figuratively to mean something else.

Now, while Fr Pacwa gave a good response, I don't think he really tackled this question, which is one I've heard Protestants bring up before.

I actually think it's a good objection, as far as it goes. However, it does suffer from not reading the text closely enough. If this was all that was going on in John's Gospel, it would be difficult not to concede the issue to some degree, but a closer reading shows that actually a person using this argument has missed precisely John's meaning.

There is much figurative speech in the Gospel (rather, Johanine riddling, which Jesus does a fair bit in this Gospel), but there is also a pattern that goes with it, namely: figurative-mistaken understanding-corrective. Why? Because John is trying to emphasise that faith and true belief in Christ must go beyond the earthly appearance to the spiritual truth. As Jesus says, "If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?" (John 3:12 RSV)

So, here are some examples (all quotes from RSV):

John 2:19:
Quote:
Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."
Figurative.

John 2:20:
Quote:
The Jews then said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?"
Mistaken understanding.

John 2:21:
Quote:
But he spoke of the temple of his body.
Corrective.

John 3:3:
Quote:
Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
Figurative.

John 3:4:
Quote:
Nicode'mus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?"
Mistaken understanding.

John 3:5:
Quote:
Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
Corrective.

John 4:10:
Quote:
Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, `Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
Figurative.

John 4:11:
Quote:
The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; where do you get that living water?
Mistaken understanding.

John 7:37-39:
Quote:
On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and proclaimed, "If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink.He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, `Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.'" Now this he said about the Spirit, which those who believed in him were to receive; for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
Corrective.

John 11:11:
Quote:
Thus he spoke, and then he said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awake him out of sleep."
Figurative.

John 11:12:
Quote:
The disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover."
Mistaken understanding.

John 11:14:
Quote:
Then Jesus told them plainly, "Laz'arus is dead..."
Corrective.

Now, the interesting thing is when we get to John 6, we don't see anything like this at all!

For example,

John 6:51:
Quote:
I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh."
Figurative.

John 6:52:
Quote:
The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"
Mistaken understanding.

Where we would expect to find a corrective in this pattern, instead we find:

John 6:53:
Quote:
So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you..."
A greater emphasis on the so-called "figurative".

Nowhere in the chapter or anywhere else in the Gospel, does Jesus use the term "bread from heaven" or similar ones employed here and make it clear that he means something else, e.g. Scripture or faith. Rather, he continues to emphasise the reality of his body and blood.

In fact, he even forces the point (which is remarkable, because it's not something Jesus usually does): "Do you take offense at this?" (John 6:61) and "Do you also wish to go away?" (John 6:67) as if goading his audience and disciples to reject him. This is very unusual behaviour for Jesus, who throughout the Gospel tries to make clear his more figurative or symbolic speech.

I'd invite Denis (if that indeed was his name!) to re-think his objection, and also invite comments :D

Jonathan ]]> Radio (Catholic Answers Live) jonathan_hili http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=772121 Whatever happened to the Who Wants To Be an Apologist program? http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=768934&goto=newpost Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:41:36 GMT I'm a fairly new listener, and I recently have been listening to the old archived shows. I noticed they don't do the Who Wants to be an Apologist programs anymore like they did back then. Just wondering why that is? They seemed pretty fun!:) ]]> Radio (Catholic Answers Live) Robyn p http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=768934 <![CDATA[Rosalind Moss' conversion story]]> http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=768750&goto=newpost Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:49:33 GMT I have been trying to locate the audio of the conversion story of Rosalind Moss, but have been unsuccessful. I've heard it a least a couple of times on EWTN radio and each time I've heard it, I just can't describe how it made me feel. I have someone in mind who I would like to listen to it, so if anyone can point me to a place where it can be downloaded or purchased, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you. Dave ]]> Radio (Catholic Answers Live) diehlda http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=768750