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Catholic Answers
Catholic Answers Focus, the world's premier podcast on Catholic apologetics, helps you explain and defend the Catholic Faith. If you want to take a deep dive into the reasons behind Church teaching, Catholic Answers Focus is for you.
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Oct 26, 2022 • 0sec
#456 Was Genesis Re-interpreted After Scientific Discoveries? - Jimmy Akin
Did Science Kill the Biblical Worldview?
Astrophysicist (not historian) Neil deGrasse Tyson gives a little history lesson about how science forced Christians to give up the biblical worldview. Is this real history, or did he make it up? We asked Jimmy Akin to give us a take.
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Oct 19, 2022 • 0sec
#455 Is “Christofascism” a Thing? - Joe Heschmeyer
Joe Heschmeyer joins us for a look at the growing popularity of the word “Christofascism.” What does it refer to, and are Catholics who want to spread the Faith guilty of it?
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Oct 12, 2022 • 0sec
#454 Does the Church Encourage Superstition? - David Anders
Dr. David Anders joins us for an in-depth look at the accusation that the Catholic Church is superstitious. The Catholic relationship to superstition might at times be complicated, but the complications have a very Catholic remedy.
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 familiar with the need to defend the faith against objections, but sometimes, we end up defending the faith more against a misimpression or a suspicion about the faith, and superstition i...

Oct 5, 2022 • 0sec
#453 Doing Catholic Apologetics with Muslims - Charbel Raish
Charbel Raish, founder and chief executive of Parousia, one of Australia’s leading Catholic media apostolates joins us for a discussion of his early embrace of Islam and his subsequent rediscovery of Catholic Faith.
Cy Kellett:
Charbel Raish from Sydney, Australia. Thanks for being with us.
Charbel Raish:
Thanks for having me.
Cy Kellett:
From Parousia Ministries.
Charbel Raish:
That’s right.
Cy Kellett:
And is that, that’s-
Charbel Raish:
Parousia. Parousia. Yeah, it was, we’re known as Parousia Media for a long time, but then we dropped the word media because we do s...

Sep 30, 2022 • 0sec
#452 The Sinister Plot of the Transgender Movement - Don Johnson
Today’s children face many new adversities that past generations could never have imagined. Filmmaker, Don Johnson sits down to discuss his new film Dysconnected, and the truth behind this radical movement thats being pushed on our children.
Dysconnected: The Real Story Behind the Transgender Explosion
Cy Kellett :
Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Ct Kellett, your host, and very happy to welcome my friend Don Johnson this time to talk about a new film that Don has. This is actually a very bus...

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Sep 28, 2022 • 0sec
#451 Did God Really Make Men and Women Equal? - Deborah Savage
Theologian Deborah Savage, currently teaching at Franciscan University in Steubenville, discusses the Catholic view on gender equality, highlighting the ancient origins of gender roles and the recent efforts to redefine the relationship between men and women. She delves into the Hebrew wording of Genesis 1 and 2 to uncover new insights into God's revelation of the meaning of womanhood and manhood, emphasizing the concept of equality and the unity between the two genders.

Sep 21, 2022 • 0sec
#450 Can Catholics Follow Astrology? - Jimmy Akin
Can Catholics follow astrology? Jimmy Akin, host of Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World, joins us to discuss the Catholic approach to astrology. Does the Bible forbid it? Can a Catholic follow the daily horoscope? Is there any reason to believe in astrology at all?
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. Jimmy Akin is our guest this time and we wanted to ask him about astrology. Actually, astrology been around, I guess, about as long as people have been around, but very ...

Sep 16, 2022 • 0sec
#449 St. Cyprian of Carthage’s Advice on Enduring Persecution - Ben Safranksi
What can our forebears teach us about dealing with persecution? In this bonus episode, we ask theologian Ben Safranski how one very important early Christian – Cyprian of Carthage – dealt with Roman persecution in some surprising ways.
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Sep 14, 2022 • 0sec
#448 Meeting the Rapture Challenge - Karlo Broussard
Are Christians going to be taken up and out of the world before the big trouble with the anti-Christ begins? Catholics say no, that is a false view of God’s revelation regarding the end times. Our guest, Karlo Broussard takes up a popular Protestant challenge: How can the Catholic Church teach that faithful Christians will experience the final trial when the Bible teaches that Christians will be raptured before such a time?
Cy Kellett:
Karlo Broussard, apologist here at Catholic Answers. Thanks for being with us for focus.
Karlo Broussard:
Cy Kellett. Thanks for having me.
Cy Kellett:
Y...

Sep 7, 2022 • 0sec
#447 Was Sodom and Gomorrah Really About Homosexuality? - Mary Healy
The Bible has relatively few passages about homosexuality, and modern thinkers have found ways to explain some of them away. For example, is Genesis 19 really about homosexuality or is it really about a failure of hospitality? Dr. Mary Healy, a member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, gives us a bracing Catholic answer.
Cy Kellett: Hello, and welcome to Focus the Catholic Answers podcast for Living, Understanding and Defending Your Catholic Faith. One very delicate area of Christian apologetics in our times is homosexuality. There’s a great deal of confusion abou...