#12295 Am I Catholic If I Don’t Practice? Baptism, Judgment, and Conversion - Steve Ray
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🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Am I Catholic Without Catechesis?” This episode explores the nuances of faith and practice, addressing questions like the implications of baptism and confirmation without catechesis, responses to Seventh Day Adventist beliefs about death, and the role of Catholic schools in adhering to Church teachings. Tune in for a thoughtful examination of these important topics.
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Questions Covered:
- 11:54 – Am I catholic if I was Baptized and confirmed, but I wasn’t Catechized or practice?
- 20:59 – What is a good response to the Seventh Day Adventist idea of a sleep death?
- 29:04 – At the time of Judgement, do we bypass heaven if we receive the apostolic pardon?
- 33:49 – Do Catholic schools need to abide by the Catholic church for curriculum?
- 45:05 – Why did you discount the Second Judgement in your answers for Seventh Day Adventist?
- 49:55 – How can I navigate converting to Catholicism when family isn’t supportive?
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| 0:37.2 | Joe Heschmire away, but boy, we have a great show for you. We're going to do Ask Me Anything for Non-Catholics. If you're not a Catholic, this isn't Ask Me Anything for you. You can call and ask whatever you'd like about the Catholic faith, whether it's a challenging question or a curious question, whatever it is. It's for non-Catholics. |
| 0:54.9 | Second hour, William Albrecht will be here with us and help us with it. And first hour, |
| 0:59.9 | Steve Ray himself, a convert to the Catholic faith. And a long time now convert to the Catholic |
| 1:08.1 | faith, but one who has helped many people make the journey that |
| 1:12.6 | we call crossing the Tiber, that is crossing that river towards the Catholic Church. |
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| 1:34.2 | something else that I wanted to share here at the beginning of the show, and this will just take |
| 1:38.6 | a minute. We're going to ask you to help us pray, if you would. A member of the Catholic Answers family, having a tough day today. |
| 1:47.9 | You all know Trent Horn, and many of you know Laura Horn from her YouTube channel or from |
| 1:52.8 | various other things she's done. She's quite an extraordinary person, very, very positive, |
| 1:57.8 | very faithful person, mother of three. And she carries a heavy cross. |
| 2:03.4 | She's the wife of Trent Horn, and she's sick. So we wanted to ask you for your prayers for her. |
| 2:09.8 | She has a, I don't know if it's done, but she's going in today for a surgery on the brain because she has |
| 2:20.2 | an early stage cancer of the brain, and so we're all praying for her. And it turns out, |
| 2:28.0 | I did not know this, but it turns out that the horns, Trent and Laura, have a connection |
| 2:33.6 | to the venerable Aloysius Schwartz. |
| 2:37.8 | And if you don't know about the American priest, Aloysius Schwartz, who died in 1991, |
| 2:42.9 | he basically spent his entire life as a missionary founding orphanages to help orphans in the Philippines and then South Korea. |
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