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#11363 Why Do Catholics Make Graven Images - Trent Horn

Catholic Answers Live

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Open Forum – Questions Covered: 06:20 – What is the Catholic understanding of imputed righteousness vs infused righteousness? 17:06 – Is it wrong to say praying with the saints instead of praying to the saints? 23:40 – How can I support my nephew who is changing genders from a Catholic perspective? 37:23 – Why do Catholics keep making idols/statues/icons/graven images, when God specifically asked you not to make graven images? 42:37 – How do we know that God hasn’t moved on from the Catholic Church like he did with the Jewish faith? 48:10 – How do we have faith in the current situation in the Holy Land? 52:26 – How come Jesus is from the tribe of Judah and his cousin John was from the tribe of Levi? …

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Welcome to Catholic Answers Live, David Matheson, sitting in for SciKellet today.

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Of course, many of you would know that if you've heard me host a program before, I'm normally the fundraising director here at Catholic Answers.

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We're not going to be talking about that today, although I do always like to say to all of our supporters, we appreciate what you do for us.

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In fact, without the support of our donors, we would not exist because we don't get any money from the Vatican.

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We don't get any money from any Bishop's Conference. It is solely the generosity of our individual supporters that help us to do all of the great things that we do.

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In fact, just while we're waiting to get things online here with Trent Horn, who is our first guest today?

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Trent Horn is our one. Tom Nash is our two two hours of open forum.

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So go ahead and load up those phone lines. In fact, the number to call is 888-318-7884.

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Again, it's 888-318-7884. We are wrapping up some connection issues right now.

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We'll have Trent Horn here on the line for the first hour of open forum in a moment, but go ahead and get call that number, get on the list, and we'll get your questions answered.

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In the meantime, I just wanted to share in fundraising one of the things that we find as we talk to our supporters.

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I think Psy Kellett, when he goes on the road, he finds very often the same sort of thing.

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A lot of folks just don't realize the scale and the breadth of what we do here at Catholic Answers.

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So I thought I would just kind of go through a little bit of a list.

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And if this, some of this may be brand new to you, so if you don't know that we do this, you should certainly check it out.

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So as obviously you know, we do the radio show here at Catholic Answers.

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Catholic Answers live, and we have a whole suite of podcasts as well from shameless popery to Jimmy Aiken's Daily Defense to the Council of Trent.

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Of course, our first hour guest at Trent Horn is the host of that one.

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But if you haven't been to our website, Catholic.com, you should absolutely check that out.

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We do books and booklets, shop.catholic.com is a place you can go for that.

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Our School of Apologetics online, our speakers bureau.

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