Catholic Answers Live - Open Forum

Callers choose the topics during Open Forum, peppering our guests with questions on every aspect of Catholic life and faith, the moral life, and even philosophical topics that touch on general religious belief.

Questions Covered:

 

• 06:34 - Is Mary’s glorified body in heaven? Are any of the other saints in heaven with their glorified bodies? 
• 15:31 - At the end of time, will the damned souls be reunited with their bodies? 
• 19:00 - My friend said that I shouldn’t be critical of modern day “prophets” or televangelists because they do bring some people to God. How can I respond to that? 
• 22:24 - In the Protestant church, I see pastors leave to go to other denominations for more money. How do Catholic priests get jobs at Churches? Do they just go where they are offered the best money? 
• 29:55 - In the Latin Mass, why does the altar server lift the garment of the priest when he raises up the Eucharist? 
• 33:16 - Was Jesus physically buried in the ground? 
• 35:34 - How do angels and demons act in our lives? 
• 41:29 - Why is it so difficult for a priest to leave the priesthood? Married people can get a divorce and annulment, but they make it so hard for priests to leave. 
• 46:12 - What is our moral obligation as a Catholic employee if our employer creates products that we are not sure are moral, for example, the production of recreational marijuana? 
• 50:20 - How is it possible for us to offer Christ’s body and blood, soul and divinity in the Divine Mercy chaplet, when Jesus is not ours to give? 
• 52:00 - Is Thomas a part of the apostolic succession since he was not present when Christ established the priesthood with the others?