Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

And welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast. I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist

and Speaker, Trent Horn. We've got a special in studio version of the Council of Trend

Podcast today. I'm doing one of my regular quarterly visits to Catholic Answers 2020

at the Lesb in San Diego. Always fun to be here, to be in the studio, to see all of my

colleagues and to be able to record Council of Trend episodes here in the studio where we

record Catholic Answers live and Catholic Answers focus. For this episode, we're going to

talk about open questions about marriage and dating. I have two excellent guests to help

me. The questions are provided by our patrons at trendhornpodcast.com. So if you want to

provide questions for open mailbag episodes, we do these pretty frequently. You can submit

your questions there. Just go to trendhornpodcast.com. You also, if you become a premium subscriber,

get access to bonus content or Catechism Study Series. Soon we'll be having a new Testaments

Study Series. All that and more at trendhornpodcast.com. Do check it out. Now onto the topic of today's

show. Open mailbag, marriage and dating. Let me introduce our guests to help us answer the

questions that were submitted to us about how should Catholics look at being married,

being dating, discerning the married life. My guests are Marie Bates, assistant producer

here at Catholic Answers. She represents our newly married host. You've actually had,

we've done this show before. You've undergone somewhat of a change.

Yes. David and I were just dating, actually. We weren't even engaged when we lasted this

show. So this will be fun today. I know. I'm really excited that the last time we did

the open mailbag, you and David were just the young, happy dating couple. Now you're the

young, happy married couple and special news for everybody. Yeah. Baby on the way. Baby

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