Catholic Answers Live - Meeting the Protestant Challenge

Questions Covered:

• 05:30 - If Mary had to be free of the stain of original sin in order to conceive Jesus, then wouldn’t her mother have had to be free also in order to conceive Mary, and so on? 
• 12:12 - Why is there a ten-month preparation for baptism and initiation into the Church when you baptize infants with no preparation? 
• 19:08 - If Mary was perpetually a virgin, then why does the Bible insist on referring to Jesus as Mary’s first born, making it sound as though there were other children that followed him? 
• 28:40 - How can God never change but also take on a human nature at a certain point in time? 
• 35:00 - Why do Catholics deny Communion to non-Catholics if they are not heretics or damned? 
• 44:00 - Why does the Catholic Church accept the Protestant baptism? I am orthodox and we reject Protestant baptisms. 
• 49:40 - Can a lay person bless other people, especially someone outside of your family?