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#436 Debunking Common Pro-Choice Arguments - Trent Horn Jun 29, 2022

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With the Supreme Court weighing in on abortion, all the old pro-choice arguments are being dragged out again, and they haven’t gotten any stronger. Trent Horn breaks down some of them with us. Cy Kellett: Are clever pro-choice arguments really that clever? Trent Horn is next. Cy Kellett: Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host, and we’re joined by Trent Horn this time. And Trent is the perfect person to talk to. He’s been doing pro-life advocacy, pro-life apologetics...

#435 God Is Present to You - Sr. Regina Marie Gorman, OCD Jun 27, 2022

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BONUS EPISODE God Is Present to You For the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (June 24), Sister Regina Marie Gorman reflects with us on the ways God remains ever-present to us. The joy of that presence is the key to every life. Cy Kellett: Is it really possible to live in intimacy with God? Sister Regina Marie Gorman is next. Cy Kellett: Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. I had the great privilege recently of talking with Sister Regina Marie Gorman, a well-known sister, a wom...

#434 Is Speciesism the New Racism? - Logan Gage Jun 22, 2022

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PETA has an ongoing campaign against “speciesism,” saying humans have no right to use animals. But is speciesism—even though it sounds like “racism” or “sexism”—really such a bad thing? Cy Kellett: Is being a speciesist as bad as being a racist? Dr. Logan Gage is next. Cy Kellett: Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. And one of the things that we’ve been saying for years is, “In order to defend the Catholic faith more and more, you...

#433 Can I Know Anything For Sure? - Pat Flynn Jun 15, 2022

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Apologist Pat Flynn, from the Philosophy for the People podcast, gets down to basics with us to defend the idea that we can, indeed, know things with certainty. This defense of knowledge helps when we are confronted with the argument that no one really knows anything for sure. Cy Kellett: How can we even know anything? Pat Flynn is next. Cy Kellett: Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host, and Pat Flynn is here with us today to help us settle something that is very unsettled and it ...

#432 Is Pentecost the Birthday of the Church? - Fr. Hezekias Carnazzo Jun 08, 2022

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It’s common to hear the feast of Pentecost referred to as the birthday of the Church because it marks the day when the Apostolic Church received the Holy Spirit in a definitive and powerful way. But is this the same as birth, or is something else happening at Pentecost? Father Hezekias Carnazzo, founder of the Institute for Catholic Culture, is our guest. Cy Kellett: When exactly was the church born? Father Hezekias Carnazzo is next. Hello, and welcome to Focus the Catholic Answers Podcast for living, understanding and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host, at l...

#431 Should the Bible Be Rated NC-17? - Trent Horn Jun 01, 2022

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One strategy used by those who want to denigrate the Bible is to say it doesn’t meet Christian standards of what is acceptable in the media. It’s a clever move, but is it true that the Bible is too sexy and violent for respectable reading? Cy Kellett : Should the Bible be reserved for mature audiences only? Trent Horn is next. Cy Kellett : Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host, and if you’re going to defend your Catholic faith you’re going to have to defend the Bible....

#430 Peter (Not His Profession of Faith) Is the Rock - Suan Sonna May 25, 2022

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Some Christians claim that Peter, the man, is not the rock on which Jesus builds his Church, but Peter’s profession of faith is. Actually, no. Apologist Suan Sonna explains why. Cy Kellett: Did Jesus really found the Catholic church with a pun? Suan Sonna is next. Cy Kellett: Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers Podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. And if you engage at all in defending the Catholic faith, one of the things that you will have to defend is the papacy. And in order to do that, you’re goi...

#429 Is Francis Pope: Munus vs Ministerium - Michael Lofton May 18, 2022

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An argument has been spreading that Francis is not the pope because Benedict retained some of the papal powers. We ask apologist Michael Lofton to explain the munus/ministerium debate. Cy Kellett: What about the theory that Pope Benedict resigned only part of the papacy? Apologist Michael Lofton is next. Cy Kellett: Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers Podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host, and our guest this time is Apologist Michael Lofton. Michael Lofton has actually been quite critical of Pope Francis, and so we t...

#428 You Don’t Need the Silver Bullet Proof for God - Logan Gage May 11, 2022

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Ever wished for a killer proof to convince all of Twitter that God exists? Logan Gage, head of the philosophy department at Franciscan University, says there is actually a better strategy. Maybe just point to the variety of evidence, and help others to see it. Cy Kellett: I know you want it, but you don’t need that one killer argument to prove God’s existence. Dr. Logan Gage is next. Cy Kellett: Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers Podcast for living, understanding and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host, and especially in this, it used to b...

#427 Los Cristeros: The Catholic Warriors of Mexico - Christopher Check May 05, 2022

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Chris Check, president of Catholic Answers, joins us for a Cinco de Mayo bonus episode to discuss some of the struggles faced by the Catholic Church in 20th Century Mexico. It’s a dramatic story with astonishing heroes and heroines, and nasty villains, one of whom called himself, “The personal enemy of God.” ...

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