#12224 How to Talk About Converting When Your Spouse Isn’t Open to the Faith - Jim Blackburn

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🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this heartfelt episode of Catholic Answers Live, we address one of the most difficult situations a Catholic can face: What if your spouse is resistant—or even hostile—to the idea of conversion? We offer practical and pastoral advice on how to approach this conversation with patience, love, and truth, without pushing them away.

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Questions Covered:

07:17 – How does the soul know whether it’s in heaven, hell or purgatory?
12:49 – How do I bring up the conversation about converting to a spouse who is not friendly to Catholicism?
20:01 – Why don’t we hear about the intercession of the Old Testament saints?
23:34 – Can a person be in good standing with the Church and be an annihilationist?
33:41 – How can I have a more genuine relationship with Jesus?
37:20 – Why are the eastern right patriarchs not named cardinals?
41:34 – Why do Catholics do Eucharistic adoration but other churches like the Orthodox don’t?
45:29 – What was the purpose of the dream of Pilot’s wife, Claudia?
51:05 – I don’t think belief in annihilationism jeopardizes being in good standing with the Church. JRR Tolkien would agree with me. Can you clarify your thoughts?

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0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back to Catholic Answers live.
0:33.4	As promised, Jim Blackburn, who gets up in the middle of the night when he feels a song coming on,
0:40.7	is our guest, Jim, a longtime member of the Catholic Answers family, and author of several Catholic Answers books,
0:48.7	and ready to take your calls on anything. 8883-187-884. I say all of that, but you know the real important thing about Jim.
0:55.2	He's the founder of Catholic Questions.com. Catholic Questions.com, you can go to Catholic
0:59.1	Questions.com and get your Catholic questions answered. They have an app. They have a phone number.
1:05.5	You can send them actual mail with a stamp on it if you were born before 1941, all kinds of ways to get your
1:16.5	questions to Jim Blackburn. Hello, Jim Blackburn. Hello, Sykele. Thanks for having me.
1:21.7	Was I correct about you sometimes just, there's a song gets in your heart and you wake up and sing
1:26.1	in the middle of the night?
1:31.4	You know, you have to ask my wife.
1:33.7	I don't remember that happening, but maybe she does.
1:34.4	Does she tell you that?
1:40.2	No, but I bet if she did, she'd be like, Blackburn's singing in the dead up night.
1:41.8	That's where I was going with that.
1:42.8	Boom!
1:44.9	Just drop that on you.
1:46.8	I've been working on that all afternoon.
1:49.0	Sorry, Jim.
1:50.1	Take one up beside there.
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