#11967 Ask Me Anything - Trent Horn

12/05/24 • -1 min

Questions Covered:

06:08 – How do I defend infant baptism?
13:28 – I’ve heard the Church has banned and burned books. Is this true? What is the Lesser Key of Solomon?
18:49 – What are your thoughts on options for fathers getting to veto abortions of their own children?
28:30 – According to science, a fetus is not alive till it gets the heartbeat. Which means comparing it to an alive grown human is wrong.
30:48 – Why does God tolerate our free will if he knows we pick things that are not good for us?
36:18 – Is it Simony to purchase a blessed item?
41:40 – Can Catholics be universalists?
47:34 – My friend asked, how could Mary hear our prayers if she is in heaven?
51:32 – How do I defend the faith against the Orthodox who claim we are inconsistent especially the filioque but yet doesn’t require eastern Catholics to say it?

Questions Covered:

06:08 – How do I defend infant baptism?
13:28 – I’ve heard the Church has banned and burned books. Is this true? What is the Lesser Key of Solomon?
18:49 – What are your thoughts on options for fathers getting to veto abortions of their own children?
28:30 – According to science, a fetus is not alive till it gets the heartbeat. Which means comparing it to an alive grown human is wrong.
30:48 – Why does God tolerate our free will if he knows we pick things that are not good for us?
36:18 – Is it Simony to purchase a blessed item?
41:40 – Can Catholics be universalists?
47:34 – My friend asked, how could Mary hear our prayers if she is in heaven?
51:32 – How do I defend the faith against the Orthodox who claim we are inconsistent especially the filioque but yet doesn’t require eastern Catholics to say it?

Questions Covered:

00:30 – What spiritual advice do you have for someone who is discerning Catholicism?
12:49 – Is it disobedient or sinful for us to receive communion kneeling if we’ve been requested to receive standing?
18:06 – If I’m given a heavy penance and can’t complete it before the next mass, can I receive communion?
23:26 – Is my marriage valid since I wasn’t married in the Catholic Church?
29:33 – How do I work in a family who is not Catholic? How do I celebrate advent with them?
36:17 – Was Jesus’ body always present before coming to earth?
46:01 – If our desire to sin evaporates when we are in the presence of God, then why does purgatory exist?
53:14 – What is the chronological order of, the presentation of Jesus, visit of the Magi, flight to Egypt and the massacre of the innocent?

Questions Covered:

02:30 – Why was the early church so divided on things like the dating of Easter?
12:29 – Did Mary have a choice to say no since God had already made her without sin?
17:45 – Did the events of Joshua actually happen? If not, what consequences would that have?
30:20 – How do I defend the Marian Assumption to protestants?
36:17 – How do I remember and internalize epiphanies that I have during prayer?
43:37 – How do last rites and apostolic pardon tie into redemptive suffering?
50:07 – When are teachings infallible? How do we figure when something is open for discussion, like female priests?