#11377 Open Forum - Tom Nash

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🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 05:14 – Where did all the sects of Judaism come from in the time of Jesus and where did they get their authority? 10:37 – Intercessory pray and redemptive suffering How was St. Therese of Lisieux able to intercede for a person who was put to death and sway him if God cannot affect his free will? 16:51 – When did praying to Mary become a thing in Catholicism? 23:27 – How do I respond to the claim that if 2 popes contradict each other in ex cathedra statements, we are challenging divinely inspired teaching? In other words, do we do what we accuse protestants of doing? 31:40 – Why is it that the apocrypha aren’t accepted by the Jews, and why then do we accept them? 36:48 – I’m Methodist and my church just split because of female clergy. What does the Catholic Church say about female clergy? 44:12 – How should we treat the LGBT community? 50:03 – Is it better to pray in a church or in a chapel with the eucharist exposed? …

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Cathergance's Live. I'm Cikella your host as happy as always to be here. Just
0:22.8	thrilled to get to be here with you. Thank you for being here with us on this Thursday afternoon. Got
0:27.3	open forum, both hours today. And open forum means if you have a question about the Catholic faith,
0:32.3	whatever it is, it is welcome here, 888-318-7884. And you don't have to be Catholic to call,
0:40.4	anybody can call. You got a question, you want to know about Jesus, you want to know about the saints,
0:44.4	you want to know about the Bible, you want to know about the sacraments, church history, whatever
0:49.4	you got. You want to know about the moral teachings of the church. If you're not a Catholic, if you're
0:54.1	Catholic, whatever you are, if you've got a question, 888-318-7884. Second hour, Jimmy Aiken will be here with
1:01.7	us. First hour, Mr. Tom Nash is here with us. Tom has been serving the church for a long time. He was
1:08.1	the theology advisor at the EWTN network for a long time. He's the author of a couple of very fine
1:14.1	books, maybe even more than a couple of very fine books, but I'll name these two. Tom is the author
1:18.3	of the biblical roots of the mass that you can get from Sophia Institute Press. He's also the author
1:22.9	of what did Jesus do, the biblical roots of the Catholic church from incarnate word media,
1:29.4	and at that, Tom is a contributing apologist here at Catholic Answers. Tom Nash, thanks for being
1:34.5	with us. Great to be with you, and the Catholic Answers live audience again is Si. Have you got
1:41.3	your Halloween costume picked out yet, Tom? I have not, but I will be one way or another. I've
1:48.9	tried to go out trick or treating with the kids. Not my own kids, God kids, or nieces and nephews,
1:55.2	but I don't think I can pull that off anymore. But no, I'm always looking forward to Halloween because
2:02.6	where else can you get an opportunity to say, God bless you to people who come to your door and ask
2:07.4	for candy and where else can you have the opportunity to dress your kids up as saints and have them
2:13.8	go out and say, hey, who's saying mine? And get free food. You don't have to pay for
2:19.8	opportunity to evangelize. Yeah, eight and eight, three, one, eight, seven, eight, four is a number,
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