Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers Live. I am Cy Kellett, your host, so happy to be here with you on a Tuesday afternoon, or maybe it's a Tuesday evening, or even a Wednesday morning where you are. We're going to have a lot of fun. We've got Carlos second hour. We've got Tim Staples first hour. Both hours ask me anything. All you got to do is dial the phone. 888-3187-884. Do you have to be Catholic to call? No, you do not. Do you have to be Christian? No, you do not. Do you have to be a believer of any kind? You absolutely do not. We love talking about the Catholic faith. And if you've got a question about it, this is the time to call. 8883187-884. We're going to take a few minutes out of this hour and a few minutes

out of next hour also to do some fundraising. We do that just four times a year. It doesn't take a

tremendous amount of money, but it does take some money to keep this show going so that we can

give it away free

wherever it is broadcast, and we need your support to be able to do that. This is our quarterly

Pledge Drive, as I said, we'll just take a few minutes. We're going to let Tim work really hard

this hour, no use having them here if he's not going to answer questions. Amen. And, well, he's

pretty good at raising money, too, though. But, so I'm just

going to give that number out one more time, and then that's it. And then you call and get on the line,

and we'll get your question answered. Whether you are Catholic or not, if you have a question

about the Catholic faith, 8883187, 884, Tim Staples is senior apologist here at Catholic Answers, the author of Behold Your Mother,

a biblical and historical defense of the Marian doctrines, and he and I together have an assignment to

raise $20,000 this hour. We have a $20,000 dollar-for-dollar match, so any dollar you give

is going to be matched 100% up to $20,000. That number to call 888-291-8,000. 8-8-8-8-8-8-8. 13 of our

coworkers are on the line right now. More will get on the line as the hour progresses. Great time to

call is early in the pledge drive.

For one thing, it gets us off to a great start. For another, that means that line will be open

later in the pledge drive when most of humanity will call because that's how we human beings are.

We procrastinate. So could you pick up the phone right now? Be our first caller 888291-8,000. I'll tell you what. I'll tell you when the first call comes in,

$20,000 to raise this hour, but we have a $20,000 for dollar match. One other match to mention,

and then I'm going to give it to Tim, and that is there's a second match for anyone who starts a new

monthly pledge. You want to start a new monthly pledge, $10, $15, maybe you could do $30, $40, $50 a month, all matched

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