Questions & Answers
842 questions answered by Dr. Robert Sungenis on Scripture, the papacy, the sacraments, geocentrism and creation.
- What did Jesus mean, quoting Psalm 82, when He said "you are gods"?
- Have you thought about doing a Bible study instead of answering the same questions over and over?
- What does Paul mean by handing a man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh in 1 Corinthians 5?
- Is Michael Heiser's interpretation in The Unseen Realm correct?
- Do Matthew 14:5 and Mark 6:20 contradict each other about Herod's attitude toward John the Baptist?
- Who decided which books belong in the Bible, and why does the Catholic Bible have more books?
- Was Judas's greatest sin his betrayal of Christ or his despair of forgiveness?
- Was the Jewish canon closed before Christ, and where does the canon of Scripture come from?
- Do Exodus 32:13 and Deuteronomy 4:40 promise the Jews the land forever?
- Did Isaiah 1:13 change or abolish the law about animal sacrifice?
- In Exodus 32, what did Moses conflate when he tried to persuade God not to destroy Israel?
- Do liberal scholars rightly claim Azazel in Leviticus 16 was another god?
- In Revelation 9:11, is Apollyon Satan or a fallen angel?
- Why were Protestants allowed to help translate the New American Bible?
- Were the Book of Enoch and other books quoted in Scripture inspired?
- Was Charlie Kirk right that ekklesia in Matthew 16:18 does not mean church?
- Do you believe St. Paul wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews?
- How did God communicate with His people between Noah and Abraham?
- Did Old Testament Jews address God as Father, and why attack Jesus for it in John 5:18?
- Do any Bible translations omit Cainan from Luke 3, following Papyrus 75 and Codex D?
- Were the Greek and Hebrew texts corrupted by heretics, leaving only the Vulgate safe?
- How did the modernist scholar Raymond Brown gain such popularity?
- Which biblical chronology is most correct, and how do you date Adam?
- Why does the New American Bible translate Luke 1:28 the way a Protestant would?
- What does Jesus mean in Luke 18:8, 'when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?'
- Does 'uncovering nakedness' in Leviticus mean only intercourse, and what sin was committed against Noah?
- Why does Jerome translate the same Greek word as 'supersubstantial' bread in Matthew 6 but 'daily' bread in Luke 11?
- Did Noah and Abraham know each other, since their lifespans overlapped?
- What is the 'holy kiss' of Romans 16:16, and does it still bind Christians today?
- Does Genesis 13's land promise to Abraham contradict Hebrews 11, which says he never received it?
- Was St. Paul a misogynist?
- Is the death of one-third of mankind in Revelation something likely to happen before the Antichrist?
- Matthew 21:16 follows the Septuagint's 'perfected praise,' but the Masoretic has 'ordained strength'; which is right, and does it affect inerrancy?
- Is the virginity test of Deuteronomy 22 an error, since the hymen can break without intercourse?
- Why did the Jews say they had no law to kill anyone at Jesus's trial, yet claimed the right to stone the adulteress?
- Does St. John Chrysostom's reading of Song of Songs 2:4 foreshadow the Mass?
- What is your view of Noah's curse on Canaan in Genesis 9, and how was it fulfilled?
- If Abraham was 'as good as dead' and unable to procreate, how could he father a child through Hagar in Genesis 16?
- Why does 1 John 2:22 apply to Mormons, who claim to accept the Father and the Son as separate beings?
- Did Jesus die in AD 30 or AD 33?
- Old covenant
- Does Isaiah 55:10 deny the water cycle?
- What did Moses actually see in Exodus 33?
- Why circumcision and how is it a sign?
- What are your thoughts on KJV-only claims and textual differences?
- Which scripture texts have serious unresolved textual variants?
- Do the commandment against images and Jesus fulfilling the Law forbid statues?
- Were the Pharisees good or bad?
- Why did God kill 70,000 men because of David's census?
- Why Is Jesus Described as a "Hard Man"?
- Why did God command the destruction of Canaan?
- Is there any truth to the Synoptic Problem and the idea of a lost “Q” source behind Matthew and Luke?
- How should Matthew 24 be divided between AD 70 and the end of the world?
- Did Solomon's temple violate an earlier ban on cutting stone with iron tools?
- How do you reckon the start date of the 70-year Babylonian captivity?
- Why does Luke 2:22 say 'their purification,' and was Jesus presented with the five-shekel ransom?
- Are today's Jews really the Jews, or a different people?
- Was the Masoretic Text altered to remove prophecies of Christ?
- Is Colossians 2:16 the best verse to answer a Seventh-Day Adventist about the Sabbath?
- Why didn't the disciples answer the 'Jesus is from Galilee' objection by pointing to His birth in Bethlehem?
- Are the modern Catholic Bible translations (RSVCE, New American Bible) reliable?
- The Shroud of Turin shows nail wounds in the wrist, but Padre Pio's stigmata were in the hands. How do you reconcile that?
- Why does the NRSV translate Genesis 1:2 as 'a wind from God' instead of 'the Spirit of God'?
- An atheist says there are no original manuscripts of the woman caught in adultery, yet it's in our Bibles. How do you answer?
- Does 1 John 5:18 mean the born-again do not sin, or do not continue in sin?
- Does the Greek greeting 'chaire' in Luke 1:28 mean the angel treated Mary as his superior?
- In Galatians 2, did St. Paul rebuke St. Peter, or was it someone else?
- When Jesus was lost for three days, were Joseph and Mary a day and a half out before turning back?
- Why was Jesus in the tomb only two nights, unlike the sign of Jonah's three days and three nights?
- Why is 3 Maccabees not in the canon while Ezra is?
- Did the children of Israel build the pyramids in Egypt?
- Do Elijah and Enoch still await glorified bodies, and does Apocalypse 11 foretell their return and martyrdom?
- What group or denomination does Jesus describe in Matthew 7:21 ('Lord, Lord')?
- Why did the Jews reject the deuterocanonical books, and when was the Tanakh's canon set?
- Is it a sin to own Protestant Bibles, and can their translations be trusted?
- Was the Book of Daniel written in the 6th century BC or the 2nd century BC?
- Does Sirach 12 ('do not give to sinners') contradict Jesus in Matthew 5, or is it supersessionism?
- Does Wisdom 8:19-20 teach the pre-existence of the soul?
- What does Sirach 7 mean about having a care of your daughters' bodies?
- Does it matter whether God or Moses is the one speaking in the Pentateuch?
- What made Saul so special before his conversion that Jesus singled him out?
- What does Exodus 32:14 mean when it says the Lord repented of the evil He planned to do?
- Do liberal scholars move the dates of biblical books like Daniel to deny genuine prophecy?
- Why did people mistake Jesus for Elijah or John the Baptist, and will Elijah return?
- What does St. Paul mean by baptism for the dead in 1 Corinthians 15:29?
- Why did the Old Testament have a female judge, Deborah, if women are not to have authority over men?
- Did the priest Uriah sin by building a pagan altar for King Ahaz?
- How is it just for later generations to be punished for their forefathers' sins?
- What is happening in the 'bloody husband' passage where God seeks to kill Moses?
- Why does God say in Genesis 18 that He will go down to see if Sodom is as bad as the outcry?
- How can Ezekiel 20:25-26 say God gave Israel laws that could not save and had them offer their firstborn by fire?
- Why didn't the Apostle John call Jesus's 'brothers' cousins if they were only cousins?
- Is the Syriac Aramaic Peshitta valuable for reading Jesus's words, and did He speak Aramaic?
- Why was there no successor to the chair of Moses after Joshua?
- In Job 38:31, is it accurate to say that Orion fell to the Earth?
- What does our Lord mean by the two swords in Luke 22?
- Was the Apocalypse written in the 90s AD or in the 60s AD, and how do you defend the later date?
- Was Aquinas wrong to deny water above the firmament, and how does Augustine read Genesis literally?
- Did Peter really leave his wife and children, since the Bible mentions only his mother-in-law?
- If the Epistle to the Laodiceans were found, could the Church add it to the canon, or is that closed?
- Did Jesus beat people with the whip in John 2, or only drive out the animals?
- How do liberals interpret 'the synagogue of Satan' in the Apocalypse?
- How do you reconcile the apparent contradiction between 2 Kings 9:27 and 2 Chronicles 22:9 on Ahaziah's death?
- Do the records of other civilizations corroborate Joshua's long day?
- Why does Jesus say 'poor in spirit' rather than 'rich in spirit' will inherit heaven?
- Do the new X-ray tests on the Shroud of Turin show the 1988 carbon-14 date was flawed?
- What does St. Paul mean by 'law' in Romans 7?
- Was Jonah swallowed by a whale or a special fish made by God?
- Did the witch of Endor really summon Samuel, or was it demonic trickery?
- Why don't Jesus and the apostles quote the apocryphal books, and does Esther's absence from the Dead Sea Scrolls matter?
- Did the Church determine the canon of the Bible, or discover it through evidence?
- In 2 Timothy 3:15, what are the 'sacred writings' Timothy knew from childhood?
- In Exodus 32, does 'rose up to play' mean the Israelites held an orgy?
- In Matthew 18, what does it mean to treat someone like a pagan and a tax collector?
- Was Christ born on December 25th, and can it be proven?
- How is a biblical papyrus manuscript dated?
- If Mary had no labor pain, why does Revelation 12:2 describe her in pain?
- Are there reliable records of Jesus's life between ages 12 and 30?
- What does Hebrews 6:4-8 mean, and why does it say it is 'impossible' to be restored?
- What is the meaning of the disturbing story of the Levite's concubine in Judges 19?
- Should the Old Testament commands to destroy the Amalekites be taken literally or spiritualized?
- What is the 'sin unto death' in 1 John 5:16, and is it blasphemy against the Holy Spirit?
- Why didn't Jesus warn Judas against suicide the way He warned Peter about denial?
- Why was a man stoned for gathering wood on the Sabbath when Jesus criticized strict Sabbath-keeping?
- Was 'Holy Spirit' added later to the biblical text, as C.K. Barrett argues, and is 'Spirit of God' always the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament?
- Is 2 John 1:10-11 about people of different religions, or about groups like Protestants and Mormons?
- Is there a change in the promise of descendants between 'numerous as the stars' in Genesis and 'numerous as sheep' in Ezekiel 36:37?
- Does John 15:6 describe believers who fall away, or (as free grace claims) a man never joined to the vine?
- Are the sons of God in Genesis 6 a divine-human race producing the Nephilim, as Michael Heiser and others claim?
- Did Solomon actually sleep with his 700 wives, or were they mostly political marriages?
- Since Abraham is called a prophet in Genesis 20:7, can we also call Adam and Noah prophets, as Islam does?
- In Genesis 3:15, is the better translation 'she' or 'he' who shall crush the head of the serpent?
- What does 'because of the angels' mean in 1 Corinthians 11:10 about women's head coverings?
- Will there be a third temple, and who are the two witnesses of Apocalypse 11?
- What do you think of the archaeological finds of Ronald Wyatt?
- Since women could not be circumcised, how were they saved under the old covenant in Galatians and Acts?
- If Matthew 23:9 says to call no man 'father' on earth, why do we call priests 'father'?
- In Genesis 2:18, does 'helper' (ezer) imply subservience, and should it be translated 'rescuer' instead?
- Did Moses use source material from Adam, Abraham, and others to write Genesis, and does that answer the JEDP hypothesis?
- What do the 144,000 in the Apocalypse represent?
- Before Jesus returns, will someone who dies at 100 be considered a youth, as Isaiah 65:20 says?
- Are Mary Magdalene, Mary of Bethany, the woman caught in adultery, and the woman who anointed Jesus's feet the same or different women?
- Will you debate Jimmy Akin over his denial of God's commands against the Canaanites and Amalekites?
- What does Daniel's phrase 'time, times, and half a time' mean?
- Would Abraham have committed a serious sin if he had refused to sacrifice Isaac?
- Will Paul be counted among the twelve apostles of the Lamb in Revelation?
- What does the moon turning to blood and the sun being darkened signify in Scripture?
- Do the textual variants in our Bible copies ever change a Catholic doctrine?
- Did the Josiah reforms change the Hebrew religion, as Margaret Barker claims?
- Are Daniel chapters 13 and 14 (Susanna, and Bel and the Dragon) really part of inspired Scripture?
- Was Joshua assumed into heaven in Zechariah chapter 3?
- Is St. Paul's teaching that women cover their heads in church based on the book of Enoch?
- If we are not certain which manuscript reading is correct, how can we call the whole Bible inerrant?
- What did God mean when He changed His mind and said He would not do the evil He had planned?
- Does the word 'until' in Matthew 1:25 disprove Mary's perpetual virginity?
- Did the Hebrews copy Genesis from Mesopotamian myths like Enuma Elish, or is it the reverse?
- Why was David not punished for acting like a priest when Uzzah was struck dead?
- Which Catholic Bible commentaries and catechisms would you recommend for an orthodox reader?
- How do you decide which textual variant belongs in the Bible?
- Were the pyramids built by fallen angels or lost ancient technology, as the Book of Enoch and similar theories claim?
- Did the new moon have any religious significance in itself in the Old Testament, or only in connection with sacrifices?
- Is there an official Catholic teaching on the Olivet Discourse?
- Does the Bible condemn homosexuality itself, or only when it is tied to other sins like temple prostitution or pederasty?
- How do you harmonize the two accounts of David's census in 2 Samuel 24 and 1 Chronicles 21?
- Does Proverbs 25:3 defend the geocentric model?
- Is geocentrism Catholic teaching?
- Are there scientists who support geocentrism?
- What is geocentrism?
- What is the ultimate lesson geocentrism teaches us about creation and redemption?
- What does geocentrism teach us about divine immutability and providence?
- How should Catholics respond to modern cosmology (Big Bang, expanding universe)?
- What do critics most often misunderstand about geocentrism?
- What is the theological significance of an Earth-centered universe?
- How does modern physics actually confirm geocentrism rather than disprove it?
- What scientific and philosophical errors led to the dominance of heliocentrism?
- How did the Church's position on heliocentrism change after Galileo, and why?
- How do Scripture and Church tradition support geocentrism?
- What does Einstein's relativity actually say about motion and rest?
- What evidence today supports a geocentric cosmology?
- What role does cosmology play in Catholic theology?
- Why does modern science resist revisiting the question of Earth's motion?
- How did the Galileo affair distort this harmony?
- How do the Fathers and Doctors of the Church defend the compatibility of geocentrism with reason?
- How do the Fathers and Doctors of the Church interpret these passages?
- How does Scripture support geocentrism?
- How does relativity affect geocentrism?
- What scientific experiments prove or disprove Earth's motion?
- What evidence today supports geocentrism?
- Why does the Church no longer defend geocentrism?
- Why is geocentrism rejected today?
- When did geocentrism end?
- When did geocentrism start?
- When was geocentrism disproved?
- When was geocentrism accepted?
- When was geocentrism made?
- Who theorized geocentrism?
- Who proposed geocentrism?
- Who started geocentrism?
- What is the Tychonic system and why does Robert Sungenis favor it?
- Have you ever debated AI like ChatGPT on geocentrism?
- Who was Giovanni Riccioli, and what did he contribute to geocentrism?
- If the earth is stationary, how do engineers calculate spacecraft trajectories and gravity-assist maneuvers?
- How does geocentrism explain claims that the earth once rotated faster, giving a 360-day year?
- Is Aristotle's argument for the earth's centrality a good one?
- If geocentrism is true, would NASA know, and are they concealing it?
- Why do scientists refuse to debate you on geocentrism?
- Has Mercury's perihelion been integrated into the neo-Tychonic model?
- Is heliocentrism a heresy, and can holding it damn a person?
- What journals or scientific missions might confirm geocentrism in the future?
- Are galaxies arranged in concentric shells around Earth?
- What single quantitative test would confirm a stationary Earth while explaining parallax, Doppler shifts, CMB alignment, and tracking?
- If Earth is fixed, does the universe rotate daily, and what about faster-than-light speeds or frame-dragging?
- Why does every country still teach heliocentrism if geocentrism cannot be disproved?
- What does the Hebrew word chug mean in Isaiah 40:22?
- Do objects beyond Saturn move faster than light?
- Does Father Ripperger believe in geocentrism?
- Can Scripture alone prove that the Earth is spherical?
- What progress has been made on carbon-dating research and so-called “Hildegardian metaphysics"?
- Has Galileo Was Wrong been updated in light of the James Webb Space Telescope findings?
- Does the phrase "the heavens declare the glory of God" support geocentrism?
- In geocentrism, do the stars revolve around the sun or around the earth?
- In geocentrism, do the moon landings and spacecraft distances give the game away?
- If the sun orbits the earth daily in the geocentric model, what causes a year?
- If the earth rotates, why don't tall buildings and earthquakes change its spin?
- What is your view of the Tychos model and its rotating, Mars-centered universe?
- How does the Foucault pendulum work in a geocentric universe?
- If the earth doesn't move, how could the Three Gorges Dam slow its rotation?
- Does evidence that the universe is 'flat' disprove geocentrism, which requires a spherical universe?
- If you had the money, which experiment would you perform to test geocentrism?
- What is wrong with the Greek idea of antipodes that Lactantius argued against?
- Do gyroscopes prove that the earth is moving?
- How can the moon move at the same speed in the geocentric and heliocentric systems?
- What is the fastest way to disprove a flat earth?
- Is there anything to the concave Earth theory?
- Does the Hubble tension prove the Earth is at the center of the universe?
- Is the rotating universe like the gears of a clock, and is that why time is so precise?
- What is the single biggest reason you believe in geocentrism?
- Why didn't geocentrism catch on the way flat-earth belief did?
- What is the best flat-earth argument, and how do you respond to it?
- Did Galileo really disprove Ptolemy, or could Ptolemy's model be adjusted and still defended?
- What is the best way to teach geocentrism to young children who already know the accepted model?
- Do you find geocentrism easier to defend than young-earth creationism?
- If the Church's last authoritative statement affirmed geocentrism, why did Pope John Paul II give a speech affirming a non-geocentric universe?
- Why is the moon not full when the sun and moon are on opposite sides of the sky with no object between them to cast a shadow?
- What first caused the earth to be fixed and motionless when it was created?
- How can stellar parallax be explained equally well in the geocentric and heliocentric systems?
- When I discuss geocentrism people get angry without real arguments; will the Church ever boldly embrace it?
- If the earth were moving, would we see great vortexes like the Great Red Spot on Jupiter?
- Which model is more accurate, the Ptolemaic or the Tychonic?
- How does the geocentric model explain the seasons and the changing length of daylight through the year?
- If the soul is the life of the body, how do transplanted organs and blood cells stay alive apart from the body?
- What is the best way to argue with a Hegelian, and did the Church ever condemn Hegel?
- Why didn't God keep Satan in everlasting chains instead of throwing him to earth to tempt us?
- Do Mary's words in the Magnificat, distinguishing soul and spirit, imply a trichotomy of body, soul, and spirit?
- Is there proof outside the Bible that demons exist?
- When exactly did the fall of Satan take place, and is that when evil entered existence?
- A psychic gave me a reading with 'future words'; is it wrong to take part in that?
- Apart from the Scriptures, what proof do we have that the Holy Spirit dwells in believers?
- Why did God cast the fallen angels down to earth to tempt mankind?
- What is your opinion on all the recent UFO and extraterrestrial claims?
- Does 'today I have begotten you' mean Christ became God's Son at a point in time rather than by eternal generation?
- When the Fathers say the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father "through the Son," is that the same as the Filioque?
- Is God the Father the father of Jesus, or is the Holy Spirit, since the Spirit came upon Mary?
- Is Yahweh God's eternal covenant name, and how far back in history does it go?
- If God never changes, why does Scripture show Him angry, jealous, or regretful?
- In what sense is God one; do the three persons share one body?
- Did God really regret creating man in Genesis 6:6?
- "Only the Father Knows the Day or Hour" - Does This Imply Limited Knowledge?
- Did the Father Give the World to the Son as a Gift?
- Has God Written How We Die?
- Can God Change His Mind?
- Is God ontologically masculine?
- Are natural disasters God's punishment for our sins?
- What is the best Old Testament evidence that God is triune?
- Why did modern thinkers return to Greek philosophy and bypass the Church?
- In what sense is man still in the image and likeness of God after the fall?
- Do you still hold that open theism must be examined and has some good points?
- Do you reject St. Thomas's Aristotelian biology and physics, or both?
- Do animals have souls, and are those souls immortal like ours?
- Are human souls feminine because the soul is 'receptive'?
- Is secularism a real thing, or just a category of the mind, since nothing exists outside Christ's kingdom?
- If Jesus is God, why did the Father give Him life in Himself, words to speak, and authority?
- Does 1 Corinthians 15:46 ('the physical first, then the spiritual') conflict with man being created in God's image?
- Is the Holy Spirit more accurately described as God's breath or God's love?
- What is the 'spirit' of a person, and are the soul and spirit the same thing?
- Is infinity real, or just a concept, since you can always add one to any number?
- Did mathematics and physics exist before God created the world, and does God know them?
- Do the devil and demons always need God's permission to act, as in the Book of Job?
- How can God 'repent of the evil' He planned in Exodus 32:14 if He is all good?
- Do the devil and demons always need God's permission to act, as in the Book of Job?
- What is the soul, and how can we know or prove that it exists?
- Are there only three named angels, or is there a fourth?
- Is God bound by the rules of logic?
- Was God's love only able to be expressed through the fall of Adam?
- Could Planck-scale particles be a bridge to the spiritual realm?
- If the Fathers condemned Greek philosophy, why is it central to Christian thought?
- Does God pass through time the way we do?
- If we are pro-life, must we also oppose killing animals and eating meat?
- Does Jesus have a guardian angel, since He has a human soul?
- In a nutshell, what is Thomism, and what does it mean to call oneself a Thomist?
- What was the problem with William of Ockham and nominalism?
- Why does God sometimes stop helping sinners and even give them over to their sin?
- When does the soul leave the body, when the heart stops or the brain stops?
- Why do men have much harder lives than women?
- Is each person assigned both a good angel and a bad angel at birth?
- What does Scripture actually tell us about the fall of Lucifer?
- In Romans 7:23, does the body have its own will toward sin?
- How should I first study the Summa Theologica?
- What does the punishment of the devil in Genesis 3:14 mean, and how does cursing the serpent punish Satan?
- Does substance ultimately boil down to information, as William Dembski argues in his metaphysics of information?
- In the Glory Be, what does the word 'it' refer to in 'as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be'?
- What is Satan's psyche like? Is he a total lunatic?
- What is the Catholic position on fairies, nymphs, and gremlins, and the claim that they were really aliens?
- If demons have free will, can a demon ever turn back and follow God again?
- How do I explain the Trinity to my nine-year-old daughter?
- Does Catechism 370 (God is neither male nor female, pure spirit) disprove that God is ontologically male?
- Can the devil and false prophets perform miracles, and what are the limits of their power?
- When the devil offers Jesus any kingdom during the temptation, does that mean there is no nation the devil does not control?
- What does the title 'God of hosts' mean?
- What do you think of process theology, and does God really have emotions?
- Why should Christians stay away from movies and books like Harry Potter?
- How can you tell if someone is a Freemason without asking them directly?
- Is Catholicism pantheist, holding that God includes and interpenetrates the universe?
- Does El Shaddai mean "the many-breasted God"?
- Is the sensible world solid and mind-independent, or a hologram in the mind of God?
- What is the precise meaning of soul, mind, and heart in the greatest commandment?
- Why does the Bible say nothing is impossible with God when God cannot lie?
- Why would God create humans if He foresaw that most of them would go to hell?
- What do you think of Mary's Little Remnant, the sede group claiming the Church has been apostate since the 12th century?
- Did Christianity vanish in the West when the Roman Empire collapsed?
- What does papal infallibility actually mean, and what does it not mean?
- What is apostolic succession and where is it in the Bible?
- Christian Bergsma on Dei Verbum
- In Matthew 18:18-20, how does the authority to bind and loose relate to Catholics and non-Catholics?
- If a Catholic couple marry themselves, why did the Vatican object to the SSPX marrying people?
- Was there nothing dogmatic in the documents of Vatican II?
- How do you answer SSPX and sedevacantists who cite St. Athanasius to justify schism?
- What can the laity do to stop wicked bishops and cardinals from public apostasy?
- Further on the anti-Copernican decrees
- Who holds the seats of the other eleven apostles today?
- Was St. Augustine really a Neoplatonist allegorizer, or was he literal and critical of pagan philosophy?
- Is the consensus of theologians binding on us the way the consensus of the Fathers is?
- Where can I read the Church's anti-Copernican decrees of 1616 and 1633?
- What do you think of Pope Leo XIV?
- Do immoral popes break apostolic succession?
- Has the teaching of the "Two Swords" been condemned by the Church?
- What is your assessment of Pope Leo XIII?
- Can a papal apostolic exhortation contain error, and did Benedict XVI mishandle Matthew 27:25?
- Did Vatican II's documents actually contain errors, or did liberals just misinterpret them?
- Without a pope, how can the Eastern Orthodox settle disputes about the Fathers?
- Are Latin Mass communities schismatic, and could Pius V bind future popes on the Mass?
- Does Vatican II's 'subsists in' make the Church invisible and contradict Humani Generis?
- How do you answer Jay Dyer's claim that Unam Sanctam and Vatican II show the Church contradicting itself?
- What justifies the Crusades, and do they contradict Christ's teaching?
- What is the ordinary universal magisterium of a pope, and must every such document receive internal assent?
- What makes an anti-pope an anti-pope, and who has the authority to declare one?
- If a bishop orders you to shut down your Catholic channel, are you obligated to obey?
- How do you answer James White's claim that medieval forgeries were essential to the development of the papacy?
- What is sacred tradition, and are the writings of the Church Fathers sacred tradition?
- What must a Catholic deny in order to no longer be considered Catholic?
- Should Catholics disillusioned with Pope Francis leave for the Orthodox Church?
- Does Pope Francis's Evangelii Gaudium 247 contain heresy in saying the Jews' covenant was never revoked?
- Did Peter receive the keys of the kingdom uniquely, or did all the apostles receive them?
- Did Robert Bellarmine teach that a heretical pope can be deposed?
- In Luke 9, Jesus says whoever is not against us is for us. Can that apply to Protestants?
- Does the Catholic Church have a fixed list of doctrines you must believe to be saved?
- Did Cardinal Schonborn write the Catechism, and can it contain errors?
- What are the problems with popular Catholic apologetics today?
- Is Pope Francis Catholic, and could he be removed?
- Is the Didache a reliable document reflecting early Church beliefs?
- If the Church cannot err in morals, how did it engage in the slave trade and write papal bulls approving it?
- Is the CDF's 1976 Inter Insigniores statement on head coverings magisterial, and does it override the requirement?
- How do you show a Protestant that apostolic authority really was passed on to the Church?
- How should a Catholic respond to problems in Vatican II or with Pope Francis?
- How should I respond to Latin Mass Catholics drifting toward sedevacantism and doubting the Novus Ordo?
- What are your views on Byzantine Catholics?
- How does the Mystical Body of Christ relate to the 'People of God' in Lumen Gentium?
- Is the story of St. George and the Dragon real, and are canonizations infallible?
- What are some good books against sedevacantism?
- Is Archbishop Vigano's demand that Pope Francis be judged a heretic and removed a valid argument?
- Can you name five problems with the Second Vatican Council?
- How literally should we take 'no salvation outside the Catholic Church' given the exceptions like invincible ignorance?
- If the Jews had no infallibility in Jesus' time, why do we need it, and how did the Pharisees make converts worthy of hell?
- Is the ban on women priests infallible, given that Pope Francis said Ordinatio Sacerdotalis was not infallible while Cardinal Ratzinger said it was?
- Was Nestorius ever formally excommunicated and condemned as a heretic?
- Does the apostles' grumbling in Matthew 18 about who is greatest prove Peter had no authority?
- How many Catholic rites are there, and can a Catholic attend them, receive communion, or become a priest in them?
- What is your opinion of Regnum Christi, and is it a cult?
- If the hierarchy keeps teaching liberal untruths, how can we be certain the Church is still worthy to follow?
- Why was the Church so brutal in some of its persecutions and executions, such as that of Michael Sattler?
- How do we prove that the Church is infallible without falling into circular reasoning?
- Does Fiducia Supplicans fall under papal infallibility, and can I disagree with it?
- Is the 1993 Pontifical Biblical Commission still magisterial?
- Does a heresy have to be condemned by the Church before a layman can call something heresy?
- Did Jerome make mistakes in the Vulgate, such as translating Ur as 'fire' in Nehemiah 9:7?
- Given corruption in the Church, wouldn't it be better not to concentrate authority in one person?
- If St. Peter's was built with indulgence money, why do Catholics believe in indulgences?
- What do you make of Brother Peter Dimond and the sedevacantist claim that the pope is not the pope?
- Is the criticism of Pius XII for not speaking out against Hitler during World War II merited?
- Should a Catholic leave the Church for the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod because of the apostasy of the Magisterium?
- Do you think the next pope will be conservative or traditional?
- Was Leo X right to condemn Luther's thesis that burning heretics is against the will of the Spirit?
- Can the Magisterium's fallible acts harm souls, given John Paul II's support for evolution?
- Did scandals and early structures disprove apostolic succession?
- Why believe in one authoritative Church if Revelation names seven churches?
- Is every local church a ‘pillar and foundation of the truth’ so no single Church is needed?
- Why are men not as loyal as women?
- Was the marriage of Joseph and Mary sinful because it never produced children?
- If usury is a sin, why does the parable commend putting money in the bank to gain interest?
- Is tithing or almsgiving obligatory in the new covenant?
- Has the Church changed its teaching on capital punishment?
- Can a priest or a pope have invincible ignorance?
- Should a Catholic refuse to attend a cremation?
- Does the Old Testament levirate marriage law still apply today?
- Can a divorced and remarried Catholic receive communion on a case-by-case basis, and did Amoris Laetitia settle it?
- Can women be catechism teachers in the Catholic Church?
- How much of today's science derives from Kabbalah and the occult?
- In Matthew 19, does the "exception clause" allow divorce and remarriage?
- Did Darwin borrow from Adam Smith, and does evolution justify usury or capitalism?
- What is the Catholic view on end-of-life palliative care and life support?
- Does the Holy Spirit work through AI on the soul of the person using it?
- Under what conditions could slavery be morally acceptable?
- What is John Paul II's theology of the body and personalism, in essence?
- Can transhumanism and brain-machine interfaces replicate the human soul?
- Should we obey if God commanded today what He asked of Abraham or Saul?
- Is the heresy of Americanism present in the MAGA movement's mindset?
- How does the annulment process work, and why must I get a civil divorce first?
- How do individualistic, anti-monarchical Protestants reconcile that heaven is a kingdom under Christ the King?
- How should Catholic parents approach educating their children?
- When may a Catholic use violence to fight evil or protect his family, and when should he leave it to God?
- Are Catholics obligated to help people in other countries the same as their own family and neighbors?
- Is it a sin to consume vulgar music, as it is to consume pornography?
- Why is charity greater than faith (1 Corinthians 13)?
- Is just war an actual doctrine of the Catholic Church, and how do we know something is Church doctrine?
- In 1 Corinthians 11:16, are head coverings required, or should we just not be contentious?
- Is the command to be fruitful and multiply still binding on Christians today?
- Is a miscarriage the same thing as an abortion?
- Can a Catholic marry against his parents' wishes if both he and the girl are Catholic?
- If an unbelieving spouse leaves, can the believing spouse remarry (1 Corinthians 7:15)?
- Is it okay for Christians to participate in or celebrate Halloween?
- How can moral acts not named in the Ten Commandments be left to individual conscience?
- Should young Catholics learn Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and are they actually helpful?
- If abortion is murder, should the woman and those who help her face punishment?
- What does the Church say about attending parties on Fridays, and what about modern party culture?
- Are remarriages without an annulment mortal sins, and why have annulments exploded in number?
- Should we ignore IVF, or is it a moral concern?
- How many glasses of wine can a Catholic drink without being a drunkard, by New Testament standards?
- Do the 'woes' of Luke 6 mean the rich will have a hard time entering heaven?
- Is the primary purpose of marriage to have children, or to share love between the spouses?
- Is Vatican II's teaching on religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae) a heresy?
- Why is contraception a sin?
- If my wife will not wear a head covering, is she sinning, and am I?
- How do we reconcile establishing the social kingship of Christ with his saying 'my kingdom is not of this world'?
- Is gambling a sin?
- Is the age of reason a hard-and-fast seven years, or a general rule of thumb?
- Is Fiducia Supplicans' blessing of 'two people who love each other' rather than the couple a deceptive trap?
- If your company sells earplugs to a military like NATO or the IDF, do you share moral responsibility for how they are used?
- Does the end of Romans 1 teach that homosexuals are given over to a reprobate mind and cannot be saved?
- When and how did the Catholic Church have police powers, and how do we answer skeptics who say the church had people killed?
- How do I raise my children to keep the faith and not grow indifferent to it?
- If 1 Corinthians 6:18 says fornication is the only sin against the body, why isn't gluttony also a sin against your own body?
- Did Moses live a life of chastity by refraining from sexual intercourse, and can a married man practice chastity that way?
- How should a father handle teenagers, especially teenage boys?
- Are Christians obligated to give to every homeless beggar they see?
- Must we forgive someone who has not repented or asked for forgiveness?
- What are your thoughts on artificial intelligence?
- Is finasteride, a hair-loss drug with fertility side effects, immoral to use?
- After Fiducia Supplicans, how do I tell my friend in a same-sex union that it is gravely sinful?
- What does it actually mean to bless a same-sex couple, and does the blessing confer anything?
- Is it easy or hard to commit a mortal sin?
- Before Vatican II were there really three distinctions of sin: venial, grave, and mortal?
- Is it a mortal sin to cuss at the pope, and can a pope go to hell?
- Do the saints condemn the dancing of men and women, and do you agree with that teaching?
- What is the Catholic position on frozen embryos?
- Has the Church changed its teaching on what happens to infants who die without baptism?
- Why does the Church call marriage a sacrament, and why can it not be dissolved?
- What is the Anointing of the Sick, and who can receive it?
- Is the Catholic priesthood biblical?
- What does Confirmation do that Baptism did not?
- Why do Catholics confess their sins to a priest?
- Is the Eucharist really the body and blood of Christ?
- Is the Mass a sacrifice, and how can it be the same sacrifice as the Cross?
- What becomes of the Eucharist after the Last Judgment?
- Was your retraction of Malachi 1:11 as proof of the Mass as sacrifice correct, since the Fathers used it?
- Why are the bread and wine consecrated separately at Mass, and does a death occur at the altar?
- Is a godparent who has left the faith still the child's godparent?
- In 1 Samuel 21, why did David and his men have to abstain from sexual relations to eat the holy bread?
- Why does John omit the institution narrative if John 6 teaches the Eucharist?
- If the Mass propitiates repeatedly, how is it superior to OT sacrifices?
- Are Catholics required to believe in the Aristotelian "substance and accidents" theory of the Eucharist?
- Does the Aristotelian distinction between substance and accidents still explain the Eucharist adequately?
- Is the Eucharist invalid if the priest is living in serious sin or an immoral lifestyle?
- What does John 6:62 mean, and how does it relate to the Ascension?
- Why did Jesus rebuke Nicodemus for not knowing about being born of water?
- Did circumcision remove original sin like baptism, and are all the Holy Innocents in heaven?
- Why can some sacraments be valid outside the Catholic Church but not others?
- Do churches outside the Catholic Church have a valid consecration of the Eucharist?
- During Mass, how do we know the hosts taken from the tabernacle are consecrated?
- Is the sacrament of confession only necessary when you have a mortal sin?
- How can a Catholic defend the propitiatory sacrifice of the Mass given the new Jerome Biblical Commentary?
- Why is repentance required before baptism, given verses like Mark 1:14-15?
- If I go to confession and do my penance just before Mass, do I still say the penitential prayers at the start of Mass?
- If the Eucharist is needed for resurrection, what happens to Protestants who have only baptism?
- Is the anointing of the sick the same as the last rites?
- Can a priest make water holy by his will alone in necessity, or must it be properly blessed?
- How do I answer the claim that Christmas was placed on December 25 to convert pagans?
- Can a couple who cannot have children still have a valid marriage?
- What do you think of the new Mayan Rite of the Mass?
- What is required for a valid baptism, and does baptism save you?
- Do the Lutherans still hold the sacrifice of the Mass, and what is consubstantiation versus transubstantiation?
- What happens to unbaptized infants, and does the catechism's limbo of the innocents apply?
- Are family celebrations like anniversaries allowed on Fridays?
- Must a woman's head covering in church hide all her hair, and can she just wear a hat?
- How can I know my priest stands in an unbroken line of apostolic succession?
- Why don't you defend the Traditional Latin Mass with the same energy you give to other issues?
- In Acts 2:38, which is the better reading, the Douay-Rheims 'do penance' or 'repent'?
- How do baptism and faith relate, and why does Ephesians 2:8-10 mention only faith?
- Should women hold authority in the Church, and what about the push for deaconesses?
- How can we offer a plenary indulgence for the souls in purgatory and still keep our own plenary indulgence?
- Reading the Council of Trent, which is more important, baptism or the Eucharist, or are they equally important?
- Do Catholic churches distribute only bread at communion, and when did the Church teach that both the body and the blood are present under the bread alone?
- Is a baby saved initially through baptism and the faith of his parents, and when must he have his own personal faith?
- I had a vasectomy because of my wife's high-risk pregnancies; is confession enough to rejoin the Church?
- What constitutes sacrilege, and is clapping in church a sin?
- Are indulgences given during the sacrament of the last rites?
- Can a blessed item be blessed again, and what does a blessing actually do?
- Is a baptism valid if performed in a Lutheran church by a female pastor?
- How is baptism of desire compatible with Canon 5 of Session 7 of the Council of Trent?
- What are your thoughts on Communion services with no priest, where a layperson distributes pre-consecrated hosts?
- My brother had a stroke and cannot speak or write clearly; how can he go to confession?
- Is exclusive psalmody or a cappella singing required in worship?
- Does 'born again' mean baptism, or does it mean a renewal of the mind?
- Since God placed Adam in the Garden of Eden, did He create Adam outside the garden, and if so, why?
- What is the origin of the Sabbath, and when and how did people first know to observe it?
- What was the sin Adam and Eve committed? Was it just eating a piece of fruit?
- What is the date of creation?
- How did the great light of the first day form the firmament on day two and the stars on day four?
- Did Adam and Eve have children before or after the fall?
- What does CAI hold about Walt Brown's hydroplate theory and the mechanism of the flood?
- Why doesn't the seventh day of creation end with 'evening and morning'?
- How does God's institution of the rainbow in Genesis 9 work?
- How can there be 24-hour days before the sun was made on the fourth day?
- Does Genesis teach a young earth, and did the 1909 Biblical Commission settle the age of creation?
- What do you think of Protestant creationist groups like Answers in Genesis?
- How long were the childbearing years of the patriarchs before the flood?
- How can I grasp why one seemingly small first sin brought such extreme consequences on all mankind?
- Did God give Adam and Eve language at the moment of their creation, and was it Hebrew?
- What passages teach that God created time, space, and matter?
- How long were Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden before the fall?
- If dinosaurs were created alongside man, why did they go extinct?
- Did the Church Fathers teach that the devil tempted Adam before Eve?
- What does 'the earth was divided' in Peleg's days (1 Chronicles 1:19) mean?
- Are dinosaurs an evolutionist myth, or the bones of an extinct 'phoenix bird'?
- Did St. Augustine err in reading Genesis to teach an instantaneous creation?
- Where did Cain's wife come from?
- Were the monsters of Greek mythology genetically engineered by a lost pre-flood civilization?
- Do Catholic apologists who teach evolution do so out of malice?
- If evolution is false, why would some human groups be said to resemble primates more than others?
- Did Noah get drunk because he failed to account for a change in atmospheric pressure after the flood?
- What was the mark of Cain, and what purpose did it serve?
- Can the Big Bang be reconciled with the six days of Genesis 1?
- Why did God reject Cain's offering while accepting Abel's?
- What scientific argument disproves macroevolution, and what does Humani Generis say about it?
- In Genesis 2:20, was God looking among the animals for a helper for Adam, and did Eve hear the prohibition directly?
- Why aren't the planets mentioned in the Genesis 1 creation account?
- Do the 'giants' of Genesis 6 mean the reported giant skeletons and Nephilim?
- When were the angels created, before or during the first day of creation?
- Was the serpent in Genesis a literal snake, and did it have legs before the curse?
- Even if Eve had not sinned, would she still have had some pain in childbirth, and would that apply to Mary?
- If Adam was the first human, why was Cain afraid of other people when he was banished in Genesis 4:14?
- In Catholic doctrine, are plants living beings?
- Is belief in a young-earth, six-day creation a fundamentalist Protestant position?
- Did Adam have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit before the fall, and how did that differ from us after baptism?
- Why do dark-skinned people stay dark after migrating to low-sun regions, and does skin color have its own DNA code?
- How do we answer the claimed contradiction between the order of creation in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2?
- If there had been no death before the fall, how would Adam and Eve's descendants have populated the earth, and would there be room?
- How can you prove evolution is false to someone who holds it as a dogma because of constant propaganda?
- How did animals reach their separate parts of the world after the ark, and why are there no fossils along their migration trails?
- Is the creationist claim that no creature ate meat or died before the fall correct?
- After the flood, how did we get different races, and how did animals like kangaroos reach Australia?
- Was the atmosphere's pressure much higher before the Flood, explaining longer lifespans and larger creatures?
- Is it heresy to believe in the evolution of the human body?
- Did St. Basil, St. Augustine, or any Church Father teach that animals died before the fall?
- How do you convince a Catholic that the Genesis narrative, not evolution, is true?
- What is the firmament of Genesis, and what is it made of?
- Is it a heresy, or at least savoring of heresy, to say there was death before Adam?
- How can David have experienced the beatific vision if Benedictus Deus says no one did before Christ?
- After the Second coming and the judgement, who will live on the new earth and ho will live in the new heaven?
- Do Matthew 5:19 and 11:11 teach that there are ranks in heaven?
- Do the souls in heaven have any agency in this world?
- In Matthew 24, why did the disciples ask about the end of the world when Jesus spoke of the temple?
- Is the suffering of the damned eternal, or could the bodily punishment be finite (annihilationism)?
- In Numbers 16 men are swallowed by the earth; does this mean hell is in the center of the earth?
- What is hell like?
- Where were Moses and Elijah before and after the Transfiguration?
- Could an antipope be the Antichrist, since a true pope cannot be?
- Will we recognize our loved ones in heaven?
- How can anyone go straight to heaven if we have all sinned?
- Did the Second Coming already happen in the first century, so that we are now in Satan's 'little season'?
- Will there be animals in heaven, and what will heaven actually be like?
- Is the Second Coming a contingent event, or is its day and hour fixed?
- After death, do souls wait for the Second Coming to receive their glorified bodies?
- Do most souls go to hell?
- What triggers Christ's second coming?
- Will we fully comprehend mysteries like the Trinity in heaven, or will they remain forever a mystery?
- Did Old Testament holy figures bypass Purgatory, and is there time and suffering in the afterlife?
- Since Dante and St. John Damascene say Emperor Trajan was freed from hell, can souls in hell be saved?
- After His death, did Jesus descend into hell itself or into a waiting place of the righteous souls?
- Are the accounts of people who died, went to heaven or hell, and came back real?
- Why did the early Fathers hold premillennialism, and how did Augustine change it?
- What do you think of the 'era of peace' prophecies popular among Catholic mystics?
- Why did the great miracles like raising the dead cease after the death of the Apostles?
- Is the Luisa Piccarreta 'Divine Will' movement a cult or a false apparition?
- What will the Antichrist be like?
- Will Catholics still be on earth when the bottomless pit opens in Revelation 9?
- Is the fire of purgatory literal, and are there trustworthy books about it?
- What does it mean that we will judge angels, and when did the angels fall?
- Does 'marrying and giving in marriage' in Matthew 24:38 point to the LGBT movement as a sign of the end?
- How do the physical bodies of Jesus and Mary enter a spiritual realm that has no physicality, and how is the kingdom taken by force in Matthew 11:12?
- A growing group at my Catholic church prays for people in hell, and my mother wants to join. What is your opinion?
- Does there need to be a physical third temple in Jerusalem for Jesus to occupy when he returns?
- Does Revelation teach that hell lasts forever for the angels, and what about for humans?
- Will the reign of the Antichrist and false prophet last three and a half or seven years?
- Does the lake of fire in Revelation 20 mean eternal conscious torment, annihilation, or something else?
- Will there be eating and drinking in heaven, and what will heaven be like?
- Does the Bible prophesy that Israel would become a nation again in the twentieth century?
- Were the sieges of Jerusalem and Constantinople figures of the Apocalypse?
- Does Scripture identify the ethnicity of the Antichrist?
- Is the new earth already built in heaven?
- If there is no marriage in heaven, why was there marriage in the Garden of Eden?
- Is the famous sermon of St. Leonard of Port Maurice on the fewness of the saved reliable?
- What does the Catholic Church teach about purgatory?
- How does Jesus complete the redemption by ascending to the Father in John 20:17?
- Why do sacrifices please and appease God?
- Is there a consensus of the Fathers supporting penal substitutionary atonement?
- Is salvation by desire the same as baptism of desire?
- Does Psalm 139:16 teach Calvinism?
- If Old Testament sacrifices did not take away sins (Hebrews 10:11), what was their point?
- When does a soul receive the Holy Spirit, and what is the difference between sanctifying and actual grace?
- Was Judas Iscariot predestined to betray Jesus and be damned?
- In what sense did God 'redeem' Israel from Egypt, and was a price paid?
- Does Isaiah 53:10-12 teach that the Father poured out His wrath on the servant Jesus?
- How do Arminian Protestants describe salvation if they reject once-saved-always-saved?
- Is the 'eternal covenant of redemption' biblical?
- What is the Abrahamic covenant, why did it pass through Isaac and not Ishmael, and is it still in force?
- If God kept Mary from Original Sin, why doesn't He keep others from it?
- Why not simple forgiveness; why blood sacrifice; is Jeremiah 32:35 against sacrifice?
- Did Jesus pay for all sins ‘in full,’ leaving only belief to us?
- How do you reconcile Romans 2:13 with Paul's later statements about justification?
- If Adam's sin brought death to all automatically, shouldn't the Second Adam's salvation automatically bring life to all?
- Can anyone be certain of their salvation in this life?
- Does Romans 9 teach Calvinist unconditional election?
- Did Pelagius get a bad rap, and does genuine free will require some 'autonomy' from God?
- Is it right to create a 'Hebrew Catholic Rite' that reintroduces Jewish laws and customs?
- Is the distinction between actual and sanctifying grace useful in refuting the 'L' in Calvinism's TULIP?
- If Sunday is the first day of the week, why do we rest on it when God rested on the seventh day?
- Why do you call molinism a fudge factor, and can free will be reconciled with God's foreknowledge?
- To whom did Christ pay the ransom for our sins?
- Does the New Testament abolish the whole Mosaic law, or only its ceremonial part?
- Is it the blood of Christ or His death that redeems us?
- Can someone like Cornelius be righteous through general revelation, without knowledge of Christ?
- Does 'sanctified by the blood of the covenant' in Hebrews 10:29 prove the man was saved?
- Is faith a single gift from God, or something we can grow in ourselves?
- Do works save you, or do works reveal that you are saved?
- In 1 Corinthians 9, could Paul really become 'disqualified,' and is he speaking about salvation?
- Does 2 Peter 1:9 describe a believer who fails to add virtue to his faith and loses his salvation?
- What was the trigger for the first coming of Christ in the fullness of time? Was it the building of the second temple?
- Do good works done before baptism and confirmation increase anything?
- What are the major problems with the Free Grace teaching that you stay saved even if you stop believing?
- What is the difference between the ransom theory of atonement and penal substitution, and is either correct?
- Is there Scripture to show a non-Catholic that there are degrees of sin?
- Are invincible ignorance and baptism of desire well-substantiated, or is there room for doubt?
- Since the Father draws us in John 6:44, are there people God does not draw?
- When God hardened Pharaoh's heart, did He remove Pharaoh's free will?
- Is justification an internal change of the soul or only a forensic covering?
- How do you answer Calvinists who say that rejecting monergism means taking partial credit for your own salvation?
- If the Old Testament Hebrews fulfilled their purpose by bringing forth the Messiah, what purpose do modern Jews serve?
- What is your opinion of Nietzsche?
- What are Aquinas's five ways, and do they prove God exists?
- Are the Gospels historically reliable?
- What is the evidence that Jesus rose from the dead?
- How do you answer an atheist who says religion only matters to people with full pockets and full stomachs?
- How do I answer Protestants who cite Romans 3:23 ('all have sinned') and 1 Timothy 2:5 ('one mediator')?
- Should Catholics be concerned about the fate of the Temple Mount or the Al-Aqsa Mosque?
- Can you analyze "In Defence of Roman Jurisprudence and Humanism" by Fr. Mario Alexis Portello in "Latin Mass Mag?"
- Is Israel still God's favorite people, and will the Jews convert en masse before the end?
- What is the mission of Zionism?
- What was the religion of Jesus Christ?
- How do we know which is the true church between the eo and rcc
- Do Muslims worship the same God as Christians?
- Did Fr. Chris Alar Teach Correctly on Jews and Zionism?
- What is supersessionism?
- Can a Catholic own and pray before Eastern Orthodox icons?
- Have you heard about an interfaith complex being built in Moscow with a church, mosque, and temple?
- How should a Catholic begin a conversation with a Baptist about conversion?
- How do you answer pagan 'virgin birth' myths that resemble the Gospel?
- Does invincible ignorance apply to Muslims, since they know of Jesus from their scriptures?
- Do anti-Zionist religious Jews have the same biblical reason as Catholics to reject the claim that God gave Israel the land forever?
- Is today's Judaism a sin?
- How do you answer someone who says you are only Catholic because of where you were born?
- What arguments would you use to prove to an atheist that God exists?
- If the pope says all religions are a path to God, why evangelize, and how did this idea arise?
- Muslims are promised 72 virgins in heaven; what do Christians get?
- What led you away from Protestantism to Catholicism?
- How do we answer scholars who claim Judaism has its roots in paganism and that the Old Testament Jews were originally polytheists?
- Should a Catholic visit the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi, where a church, a mosque, and a synagogue stand together?
- Does Protestantism inherently lead people to correct Christ himself, especially the Bible-only and progressive Christians?
- A new Catholic acquaintance keeps speaking of 'becoming.' Is that a New Age idea?
- What is the best argument against an Eastern Orthodox claim that the Roman Catholics are the ones who broke away?
- Does the Catholic Church recognize all Orthodox dogmas and sacraments as correct, even though they do not reciprocate?
- Does Deuteronomy 2:25 apply to present-day Jews who reject Christ?
- How can Scripture record events and quote Christ word for word as if by eyewitnesses when it was written years after the events?
- Should Catholics keep the Saturday Sabbath rather than Sunday, as Polycarp did?
- How would you share the Catholic faith with a Seventh-day Adventist?
- Isn't the Eastern Orthodox view of ecclesiology more consistent with the first-millennium Church?
- What should we make of the Eastern tradition of venerating Adam as a saint?
- What do you think of other dimensions like in sci-fi shows, and does a multi-dimensional universe exist?
- What did the Michelson-Morley experiment show, and how do geocentrists read it?
- How big is a Planck particle, and how does the Planck field relate to the ether?
- Was the Fizeau experiment independent of the refractive index of the medium?
- Could the ether be the same as the dark matter scientists cannot find?
- Can precise clocks really measure time running differently at your head than at your feet?
- Does general relativity let light travel faster than C, or only in coordinate speed?
- Is LIGO's detection of gravitational waves real, or is it detecting the ether?
- If the Michelson-Morley experiment were performed on the Moon, what would be observed?
- What is the speed of light in a vacuum versus empty space?
- What is pilot-wave theory, and does quantum action at a distance point to an ether?
- The Michelson-Morley Experiment on the Moon
- What was the Michelson-Morley experiment, and what did it prove?
- How does motion affect mass in relativity?
- What are length contraction and time dilation?
- Is time a real fourth dimension, or did Einstein invent it?
- How does the ether stretch out to let starlight reach Earth so quickly?
- Is there any convincing evidence that black holes exist?
- Why does general relativity allow the universe to expand faster than light but not to rotate?
- How can we disprove quantum oddities like superposition and entanglement?
- Why can't VLBI detect the earth's rotation, no matter how many sources it observes?
- Why do satellites orbit the earth in about 90 minutes while the stars take 24 hours?
- What did Ron Hatch discover about GPS that supports geocentrism?
- In the geocentric model, does gravity increase as you travel toward the center of the Earth?
- Can matter be divided infinitely, or is there a smallest particle?
- Does the force of gravity really exist, and where does its energy come from?
- Can quantum mechanics work in a Newtonian geocentric model?
- Does an ethosphere of stagnant ether drifting with the Earth survive the Michelson-Gale experiment?
- Is Tesla's zero-point energy real, and can it be harnessed?
- Is the fact that the Lorentz contraction cannot be proven the real weak spot of special relativity?
- Is there a plausible mechanism behind the Casimir effect?
- Was the second law of thermodynamics introduced only after the fall?
- In the geocentric universe, what keeps the stars fixed in their constellations as the whole universe rotates?
- Is the Bohr model of the atom wrong, and are subatomic particles waves rather than particles?
- How does the ether contribute to planetary motion, and how large are its effects compared with other forces?
- Did the Lavoisier and Cavendish experiments prove we can create water from hydrogen and oxygen?
- Does Newtonian physics work everywhere in the universe, or only in a local frame?
- Do GPS signals really travel slower eastward, and does that support geocentrism?
- Is there a time requirement for the detachment from sin needed to gain a plenary indulgence?
- What do you think of Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, the visionary and stigmatist?
- What are your thoughts on arguments against the Luminous Mysteries of the rosary?
- Is attending weekly confession a bad thing?
- Why do some Catholics seem extraordinarily gifted spiritually while most of us feel ordinary?
- Why didn't God save John the Baptist from such a horrific death, given his greatness?
- Are blessings of pets appropriate?
- Are the modern charismatic movements genuine works of the Holy Spirit?
- Are dulia, hyperdulia, and latria just different levels of worship, and can we honor Mary as Israel honored David?
- What is your opinion of St. Faustina's Diary if parts of it seem self-serving?
- Is the 'dark night of the soul' when God stops communicating with a saint?
- How do I work with grace to fight against the urges of the body?
- Does Catholic redemptive suffering add to the finished work of Christ?
- Which is better, the monastic life or marriage?
- How literally should we take the promises attached to devotions like the scapular and the St. Gertrude prayer?
- Can a Catholic in a state of grace be possessed, or does needing deliverance prove he was never saved?
- Some of the 14 Stations of the Cross have no clear basis in Scripture; are they handed down by tradition?
- Was it wrong for the Church not to venerate Emperor Constantine as a saint, and should it be corrected?
- Is it legitimate for the Church to accept consecrated single people who vow lifelong celibacy?
- Did some female saints claim to have sexual relationships with Jesus?
- What do I do if my prayers feel like nothing but asking God for things?
- Why does Satan possess certain people himself rather than send his demons, and is possession by Satan personally rare?
- What is the difference between the world as an enemy of the soul and the world as the place in which we live?
- Do you have to pray out loud for a saint to hear your request for prayers?
- What is the Catholic view of Sigmund Freud and psychology?
- Thomas a Kempis says you cannot be happy both here and in heaven; how should we understand that?
- If the bishop ignores my complaint that a priest broke the seal of confession, does it just come down to his word against mine?
- How can you recognize the signs that you are not in a state of grace, and how do you know if you are being scrupulous?
- Is the cosmic microwave background left over from the light of the first day of creation?
- If the earth is fixed, how can the James Webb telescope stay at Lagrange point L2?
- What physical mechanism produces the quasar redshift dipole?
- Why does the quasar redshift dipole not point to the galactic center?
- Why do you think we waited so long to return our attention to the Moon After Nearly 6 Decades???
- Why do alternative explanations of redshift imply centricity
- In what ways does redshift lead to geocentrism?
- If not the Big Bang, where does the cosmic microwave background come from?
- Is the 'axis of evil' still there, or has newer data made it disappear?
- Is the firmament a solid dome?
- Do the earth's magnetic poles reverse, and does that affect dating the age of the earth?
- Does the Big Bang have anything to do with evolution?
- What evidence shows the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy and where we are in it?
- Is space finite, or is the universe infinite?
- Does uranium decaying to lead prove billions of years, or could lead have been created from the start?
- Is chaos a real thing, or something Big Bang believers made up?
- Is radioactive decay the 'death' of an atom, and did it exist before the fall?
- If you took the same measurements from another galaxy, would they still point to Earth as the center?
- Can a supernova's nebulae show a young Earth, and how does the James Webb Telescope refute the Big Bang?
- Why is radiocarbon dating unreliable as proof of an old earth?
- What is your take on Gödel's rotating universe, and does it support the cosmological principle?
- Why is radiometric dating unreliable for dating rocks billions of years old?
- Do you believe the moon landing was real?
- Do astronomers still propose the Oort Cloud, and do comets prove a young universe?
- Who was the priest who supposedly invented the Big Bang, and does his opinion lend the Church's credence to it?
- What are your thoughts on stellar evolution, supernovas, and white dwarfs?
- If someone does the First Five Saturdays, how do they avoid the sin of presumption, since the devotion promises salvation?
- In what year or era did Mariology become excessive and overindulgent?
- Why did Mary marry St. Joseph if she was to remain ever-virgin?
- Why the virgin birth; was Mary of Davidic line; did her sinlessness matter?
- What happened at Fatima, and why did World War II follow?
- Why did the Vatican reject the titles "Mediatrix" and "Co-Redemptrix" for Mary?
- Is the Fatima phrase 'in Portugal the dogma of the faith will always be preserved' a mistranslation?
- How do the stars on the tilma of Our Lady of Guadalupe relate to the stars in the sky?
- Was Mary conceived righteous like Eve before the fall, or reborn in the image of Christ?
- Was the consecration of Russia actually done, and can Russia still be bad if it was?
- What is the difference between the minimal and maximal views of Mary as Mediatrix of all Graces?
- What will the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart look like, since traditional Catholics pray for it?
- Can a church-approved Marian apparition turn out to be demonic, and are approved apparitions infallible?
- During the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima, did the stars and moon also move, and what is the geocentric explanation?
- Did our Lady actually die before being assumed into heaven?
- Why did Mary need to be immaculately conceived, and why must a Catholic believe it?
- If Jesus is the new Adam, is Mary the new Eve?