And Welcome to Kathy Ganters Live, David Matheson, sitting in for Cy Kelleth this afternoon.

Sighs a little under the weather.

We hope to have him back very soon.

Keep him in your prayers and hopefully that will accelerate

his healing and his recovery.

And he will be back in this chair, as I said very shortly.

Again, my name is David Matheson I'm normally the fundraising

director here at Catholic Answers but always happy to spend some time with you here on

Catholic Answers Live as one of the backup hosts. I find it to be a lot of fun and

of course it's always good to sit down with the

varying guests that we have. It is two hours as we say of apologetics and

evangelization as I said in the first hour. If you're not familiar with the

term apologetics it is essentially just explaining and defending the Catholic faith,

whether it's to a someone of complete unbelief or someone who is a committed devout Catholic and just has a few questions about some of the deeper

aspects of what we believe as Catholics and everything in between and if you fall in that spectrum

this is your day because here on this Tuesday afternoon

we are now entering into the second hour of an ask me anything about the

Catholic faith anything about the Catholic faith is fair game and the number to call is 8883187884.

Looks like we've got a line or two open right now. So if you have that burning question,

that question is spelled on your mind or

maybe was asked recently at dinner by one of your kids or one of your parents and

you couldn't answer that question but want to get the answer. I've got the

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