#12598 Why Isn’t Fish Considered Meat? Communion and Saints’ Names - Tom Nash
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Why isn’t fish considered meat?” This question opens a discussion on dietary laws and traditions within the Church. Other topics include the role of extraordinary ministers of holy communion, the appropriateness of taking a female saint’s name for confirmation, and the Church’s stance on organ donation, showcasing a variety of inquiries related to faith and practice.
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- 31:44 – Why isn’t fish considered meat?
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| 0:11.5 | Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back to Catholic Answers Live as promised. Tom Nash here with us this hour. |
| 0:33.6 | I am Cy Kellett, your host, and there are two lines open. |
| 0:37.4 | So if you've got a question about the Catholic faith, whether you're Catholic or not, |
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| 0:48.5 | Tom is the author of several books, and I've had yawn last few times and haven't mentioned |
| 0:53.2 | the books, Tom, and I feel bad about it. |
| 0:55.0 | And I know you wrote 20 Answers the Rosary. And we gave it away the other day. |
| 0:59.9 | Praise God. But that's like, that's the least of your mighty efforts. Tell us about the other books. |
| 1:05.9 | The, I had a book, and I do have a book on the biblical roots of the Mass. I've originally published |
| 1:13.5 | way back in 2004 by our friends at Ignatius Press and more recently by our friends at |
| 1:18.7 | Sophia Institute Press. And also my book, To Whom Shall We Go, the biblical case for the Catholic |
| 1:25.1 | Church from our friends at St. Paul Center, Armaeus Road, which they can get very easily online from their website. Always encourage the good Catholic sales. Yeah. Give them the sales, give us the sales. May I also available from Catholic.com. That's our friends in Ohio, Omaeus, May I ask right? Yes, and we also might, the, to whom shall we go is also available at our shop.cathcathic.com. Shop |
| 1:46.6 | dot catholic.com. I'm glad we did that. Hey, Sean, our good friend from Port Perry, Canada. Yeah. |
| 1:52.4 | He had he called with a serious question, but then he did like a comedy routine, which was good. He did a good comedy. It was funny. But we never got to his question. |
| 2:01.7 | So, Sean, you want to ask, you want to ask Tom your question? |
| 2:05.6 | I will. Thank you so much, Cy. Just before I do, I don't know what connections you have with the various Catholic publishers, Tom, but I wish one of them would somehow try to |
| 2:18.8 | obtain the rights to reprint fundamentals of Catholic dogma by Ludwig Ott. It's almost |
| 2:24.5 | impossible to obtain. Is it really? I didn't know that. I thought either Tan did something. I saw, |
| 2:29.2 | but yeah, I have an old... Recently they did? Ah, gosh, I saw a more recent edition of Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, and I can't remember immediately the publisher. I'll look it up, Tom, while you take his question. Okay, because they want an arm and three legs for it on Amazon. Yeah, well, there's always, you know, check on A books and things like that. There's various places to maybe check. But yeah, but what was your question, brother? |
| 2:52.3 | By side? |
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