Catholic Answers Live - Open Forum

• 01:30 - A friend of mine says historically the transubstantiation was just developed by the authority and the clergy to get people to give more money and to control the church. She also said that priests are celibate because the church didn’t want to pay for wives and children. Are either of these statements true?
• 11:30 - What do you think of the book “Purgatory” by Father FX Schouppe?
• 16:15 - How does retirement work with Jesus saying not to store up treasures?
• 19:25 - Why do we have to wait until children are born for them to be baptized? If there is a surgery done where they must be taken out of the womb and then put back in, could they be baptized during that time?
• 22:00 - Could you talk about Hebrews 10:29, specifically where it mentions “sanctifying”? When I was having a dialogue with some Calvinists, they said he who is being sanctified is Jesus himself but to me it seems that it’s talking about a person who is falling away from the faith.
• 34:15 - What are the origins of saints being a patron of a specific cause?
• 43:20 - Can humility bring about harm to other people if you ask for it for yourself?
• 47:50 - What is the origin of Christmas as a holiday? I’m a high school student and today in class a student and teacher told me it’s a pagan holiday. Could you give some clarification as to where they may have gotten that from and if it is indeed a pagan holiday?