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With election season passions heating up, Catholics are more willing than ever to excommunicate each other online. But what, exactly, does it take to be put out of the Church? We asked the king of careful distinctions, Father Sebastian Walshe. Cy Kellett: Can we just get the bad people out of the Catholic Church? Father Sebastian Walsh joins us next. Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending the Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. I don’t like to pick on Twitter too much. Lots of great stuff happens on social media and…

Father Hugh Barbour helps us get ready for the Feast of St. Michael with a reflection on angels. Who are they? What do they do? And how, without having bodies, do they get anything done? Cy Kellett: What is the deal with angels? Father Hugh Barbour 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, and we’ve got the feast of Saint Michael coming up. Michael the Archangel. Is he the highest angel? Is he close to the highest angel? Well, we’ll talk about that. But we want to…

It’s one thing to believe in God based on philosophical proofs. But what about the claim that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is the true God who has intervened in history? What justifies belief in this claim? Jimmy Akin explains. Cy Kellett: Why believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob? Jimmy Akin next. Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. Last time, we asked Jimmy about the Kalam argument. Does it prove God’s existence? There’s a whole area of phil…

What if you could get a personal message each day from beyond this world? Millions of people seek such messages in astrology charts and readings. But the Church has a better “astrology,” in which God really does have a message for you each day of the year. Cy Kellett: A surprising look at astrology, next with Father Hugh. Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic answers podcast for living, understanding, and explaining the Catholic faith. Please remember to subscribe at Apple, or Stitcher, or what’s the other one, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts. Please, give us that…

Jimmy Akin joins us and we gave him two simple tasks—explain the Kalam Cosmological Argument and tell us whether it proves that God exists. Jimmy obliged. Cy Kellett: Does the Kalam cosmological argument prove God exists? Jimmy Akin explains. Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. The Kalam argument has become very popular in recent decades, actually after some neglect. It has done so as you’ll hear in this podcast because it’s been promoted by a certain apologist, part…

Father Hugh Barbour joins us to explain why Catholics have feast days that celebrate sadness. This time we cover the twin feasts of Christ’s Cross and Mary’s sorrow. Cy Kellett: Making feasts out of sorrowful things… Father Hugh Barber is next. Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers Focus, the podcast for living, understanding, and defending the Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. In a certain sense, the Catholic faith is about turning from sorrow to celebration, but sometimes we quite literally celebrate sorrowful things. This month over two days, we celebrate t…

If I do not know who I am, I cannot know what to do or even what will make me happy. Joe Heschmeyer explains why Christ has the definitive answer on each person’s identity, and how meeting him settles our identity questions. Cy Kellett: Is it possible to know yourself without knowing Jesus? Joe Heschmeyer right now on Focus. Hello and welcome to Focus, Catholic answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host, and these are without question confused times and among the things that we’re confused about, and this is kind o…

A recent survey is heartbreaking for those who know Jesus is God come among us. Larger percentages of Christians no longer believe this. Karlo Broussard explains why we can be confident that Jesus is, in fact, God. Cy Kellett: American confusion over the person of Jesus. Karlo Broussard with us next. Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending the Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. I’m just going to read you the first line or two of a story from Newsweek magazine that all of us around here found a bit disheartening and …

If you can think, you can pray. If you can desire, you can pray. Father Hugh Barbour explains why including God in the things you are already doing can turn your life into a life of prayer. Cy Kellett: Actually, you do have time to pray. Father Hugh explains next. Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. We all feel … Well, we shouldn’t say we all, but lots and lots of us feel overwhelmed much of the time, and we’re overwhelmed in part because we don’t have time. We just feel like we’r…

How can the Catholic Church teach that we need to worry about losing our salvation through mortal sin when the Bible teaches that we have been sanctified once and for all? Karlo Broussard tackles another Protestant challenge. Cy: Are your future sins already forgiven? Next, with Karlo. Hello, and welcome to Focus, The Catholic Answer’s podcast for living, understanding and defending the Catholic faith. Remember to subscribe to Focus wherever you get your podcasts. And if you would, please give us that five star rating and help us to grow this podcast. Some of our Protestant friends tell…

The recent story of a priest who discovered he had never been baptized unleashed a torrent of anxieties and questions around the sacraments. We ask Father Hugh, why is the Church so inflexible about how sacraments are celebrated? Cy: Just how important is precision in the celebration of the sacraments? Father Hugh Barbour is next on Focus … Hello, and welcome to Focus the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett your host, and you probably heard about that priest in Michigan, at least he thought he was a priest, but it tu…

How can the Catholic Church teach that our justification is a process when the Letter to the Romans says that our justification is a one-time event? Karlo Broussard can’t help himself, he just has to keep meeting Protestant challenges to Catholic belief. Cy Kellett: What does it take to get right with God? Karlo Broussard next. Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding and defending the Catholic faith. Please, don’t forget to subscribe to Focus at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. That way you’ll be…

From ancient times, Christians have celebrated the Assumption of Mary on August 15. In modern times, the celebration of the Coronation of Mary has been joined to that feast. Father Hugh Barbour reviews the history and theology of these Marian celebrations, and explains why they should fill you with joy. Cy Kellett: We’ve got a special episode in honor of Mary, our queen right now on Catholic Answers Focus. Hello and welcome to Focus. The Catholic Answers Podcast for living, understanding and defending the Catholic faith. Don’t forget to subscribe, wherever you subscribe for your p…

Popes are not saints. They are not prophets. They are not world leaders, or media stars, or even theologians. They can be these things, but none of these things are essential to the pope’s job. Joe Heschmeyer, author of Pope Peter, explains why this is good news. Cy Kellett: A less stressful way of looking at the papacy today on Catholic Answers Focus. Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your faith. Remember to subscribe to Catholic Answers Focus wherever you get your podcasts, whether that’s Apple podcast, Spotify, St…

What does Catholic tradition actually teach about racism? Did Jesus have anything to say about it? Father Hugh Barbour explains how the ancient Faith deals with a term coined in the modern world. Cy Kellett: Racism in the light of divine revelation right now on Focus. Hello and welcome to Focus, The Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding and defending the Catholic faith. Remember to subscribe wherever you subscribe, maybe at Apple podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, that way you’ll be notified when new episodes are released and please leave us that five star review, it does help to…

Did God really make the universe out of nothing? Is there really any such thing as “nothing”? Trent Horn tackles the difficult concept of “nothing” as he explains where we got everything. Cy Kellett: Did God really make everything out of nothing? That’s on Focus right now. Cy Kellett: Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding and defending the Catholic faith. Remember to subscribe to Focus on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, wherever else you might get your podcasts, that way you’re notified when new episodes are …

These days one can almost feel that God is asleep. Does he not see the chaos, confusion, and injustice of the modern world? Father Sebastian Walshe, the author of Secrets from Heaven, joins us to consider today’s realities in the light of the gospel stories of Jesus asleep in the storm. Cy Kellett : Is God asleep during these tough times? Right now on Catholic Answers Focus. Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding and explaining the Catholic faith. Remember to subscribe to Focus on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, wherever you get your podcast…

Apologist and author John DeRosa tackles the idea that the God of the Bible is violent and unworthy of being worshiped. As he does in his book One Less God Than You, DeRosa shows how this meme-level argument against God comes up short. Cy: Is the God of the Old Testament a homicidal maniac? Right now on Focus. Hello and welcome again to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending the Faith. As always, please take a minute to subscribe to Focus on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher. I’m pretending like I know what these things are, but you know what they a…

Father Hugh Barbour takes us on a tour of the role of Christ’s Transfiguration in the life of the Church. Starting with what happened, and explaining where the feast originated, he helps us grasp the relationship of the Transfiguration to our own spiritual lives. Cy: What’s the deal with Christ’s transfiguration? Father Hugh is next. Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding and defending the Catholic faith. Remember to subscribe, to Focus on Apple podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcast. That way we’ll get…

Taking our cue from his new book One Less God Than You, we ask author and apologist John DeRosa how to respond when we are told that religion is for the weak-minded! Also, Cy does some role-playing as a German atheist… …