Well, that was close. Welcome back. Catholic Answers Live.

At one minute before the top of the hour, we met the match.

So thank you so much for your help and for your generosity.

One more hour to go, and then we are done fundraising for the year.

This hour, we have a $20,000 match again.

So we start at zero for this hour, $20,000 match. And we still,

there is lots of money left in the $65,000 match, the second match for anyone who gives a new monthly pledge. I'm Sykelet. Our guest is Tim Staples. We're going to answer lots of questions,

but I will come to you again and ask you to help us out if you have not yet.

We only come to you four times a year. We do forward funding here, meaning that we try to raise

the money to stay on the air for the next three months. We can't do anything without you. I mean zero.

We do zero minutes of radio all year without your help. There are 13

lines open right now. Perfect time to call. Early in the hour is the best time to call because you

will not wait at all and you'll leave a line open for someone else later in the hour. So if you're

going to give this hour and you already know it, if you don't already know it, let me convince you

right now. Please give this hour 888-291-8,000. Who will be the first one to help us eat into that $20,000 for

dollar match? Catholic Answers, this radio program and all the other media we make is given away

free. Some of it is, well, this show, for example, is on 400 radio stations

around the U.S. and it's also on apps and websites and stations all around the world. That's why we

get calls from all around the world. But we need you here to pay for it in order to be able to do that. That's what you have done for 27 years.

We could not be more grateful for that. It really is a partnership. Like we love to do what we do,

but we are well aware we cannot do even a minute of it without you. So let me just tell you

where it is right now. And then I'll let Tim talk and answer some questions.

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