#12548 Is It Suicide If I Stop Taking Meds? Church Teachings and Hell - Tom Nash
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🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Is It Suicide If I Stop Taking Meds?” This question raises important considerations about mental health and Church teachings on morality. Additionally, the discussion touches on the implications of the diocese of Duluth allowing ad orientum worship and examines the biblical context of violence, providing a broad perspective on faith and ethics.
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Questions Covered:
- 01:45 – The diocese of Duluth began allowing ad orientum. Is it better? What does this mean for the Church?
- 14:41 – Could you go over the Greek Gen 12:5 and wording of their relationship?
- 18:52 – My father-in-law, who hasn’t practiced, asked me, If he stopped taking his meds and dies, would this be considered suicide? He is afraid of going to hell.
- 28:48 – How does the bible justify and not justify violence?
- 41:47 – How can the CC be the true Church if the bible says to not add or take away from the bible and the CC added the catechism?
- 47:06 – What is the role of AI in our daily lives?
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| 0:11.5 | Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Hello, welcome back to Katha Hans was live. I'm Sikellat, your host, as promised, Tom Nash |
| 0:35.9 | here with us. Tom working on his third hour |
| 0:40.0 | of work with me today. Are we still friends, Tom, after now, of coming up on three hours of working |
| 0:45.3 | together? Yeah, we are. I haven't worn out my welcome. Just don't tell the people of Ohio that I have |
| 0:50.2 | problems with Ohio because I lived in Ohio, and I am an ecumenical wolverine. I love Ohio State University. It's a good rivalry. Rivalry should make you better. Hatred is not to be part of sportsmanship. I just said you love Michigan more than you love anything else on Earth. We can check the recording. Okay, I did go farther than that. Okay, no, don't check the recording. |
| 1:11.3 | Instant replay. |
| 1:12.0 | I realized as I was saying it, no, that's not what you said. The number is 888-3-18-7-884. You can ask Tom, whatever you like. And we're going to get to everybody that's on the phone right now, so if you just hang on. I wanted to ask you about this, Tom, because Edgar |
| 1:28.0 | told me that the Diocese of Duluth, which is in Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota, they began |
| 1:37.9 | allowing Odd Orientum celebration of the ordinary form of the mass. |
| 1:44.8 | Ot orientum, the priest not on this side of the altar where people are used to him, but come |
| 1:50.2 | around on this side of the altar where we've gotten used to him not being. |
| 1:54.8 | So what does all this mean? |
| 1:56.3 | What does this mean to the church? |
| 1:57.2 | This is certainly an option that is allowed within the church. It is? It is. It is something |
| 2:03.3 | that can be regulated by interlocal diocese. Some have prevented for a while when Mother Angelica |
| 2:09.8 | started off. She wanted to have it odd orientum, and that was. Would you need the permission of the |
| 2:16.5 | bishop to do that? Or is it like... |
| 2:18.3 | Well, he certainly has the authority to regulate the liturgy. |
| 2:23.5 | Sure. |
| 2:24.3 | But in this guy, I think it's good because, you know, people think, oh, he's got his back to the people. |
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