#12221 Catholic Dating Advice: Can It Work with a Non-Denominational Christian? - Steve Ray

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🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In this episode of Catholic Answers Live, we tackle a wide range of thought-provoking questions from callers seeking clarity on Catholic teaching and practice. The highlight question: Can a Catholic date a non-denominational Christian—and make it work spiritually and relationally? Steve Ray offers pastoral wisdom and theological insight into navigating interdenominational dating with truth and charity.

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Questions Covered:

14:02 – How do I defend our claim that the woman in Revelation 12 is Mary?
18:21 – Can the saints return to earth in spirit, and can they audibly communicate with us?
29:51 – How do I get over past hurts and addictions?
33:27 – What advice can you offer me? I’m Catholic dating a non-denominational girl.
36:20 – Why are we not supposed to wear hats when praying? When did that tradition start?
41:21 – My grandmother has bought into the prosperity gospel. What advice do you have for approaching her?
48:16 – How do I help my Protestant friend trust in the Church’s authority to interpret scripture?
53:48 – You mentioned a great book on the geography of the holy land. What is the name of it?

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0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers live. I'm Cy Kellett, your host. Delighted to be here with you.
0:36.0	Great Monday show. Second hour, we're going to
0:37.7	talk a bit about mental health from a Catholic perspective with a very fine psychologist, Dr. Greg
0:44.4	Bataro. And lots of times, I think, you know, because the spiritual and the psychological are very,
0:51.5	very close to one another, people sometimes want to know is, is,
0:55.5	what's the proper way to get help for mental health issues and what's the proper way to,
1:02.1	which things belong to the spiritual realm alone and which things belong under the microscope
1:08.1	of science? So we'll talk about all that second hour. This hour,
1:12.7	welcome back to America. Steve Ray is here with us. He's been over in Rome. As you know,
1:17.6	he spends a good deal of his time taking people on pilgrimages, the various places around the
1:23.8	world, but in particular, the city of Rome. This hour will do ask me anything with Steve.
1:29.1	You're welcome to call with your questions.
1:30.3	8883187-884.
1:35.1	Steve Ray, in addition to the apologists, I mean, excuse me, to the pilgrimages, a wonderful
1:41.0	apologist and writer, many fine books, and you can find all of his stuff at
1:46.1	Catholicconvert.com. Catholicconvert.com. Steve, very welcome. Well, thank you. I can't answer
1:53.6	questions on everything. Kind of like Jimmy Aiken can do that. But I mean, I'm not a canon lawyer,
2:00.1	you know, that kind of thing. But I do love answering
2:02.8	questions on apologetics. And normally we do a Q&A for non-Catholics. And that's always kind of
2:08.1	interesting. But how long have you been on the air now with the Catholic answer, Cy?
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