9/4/24 - Canon Benjamin Norman, ICKSP - Dealing with Fallen Away Children

Canon Benjamin Norman, ICKSP currently serves as Chaplain of the ICKSP Oakland Apostolate at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church in Oakland, California. He was ordained in 2018.     In Today's Show:

• Can Father explain this part of Ezikiel 28:9 - "Wilt thou yet say before them that slay thee: I am God; whereas thou art a man, and not God, in the hand of them that slay thee?"
• My three sons were all raised in the Catholic faith from birth and educated in Catholic schools. Yet, as adults today, none of them are practicing their faith or even hold belief in god anymore. If they were to pass away today, would there be any hope for their salvation at all?
• In some high feasts or extra important TLM Masses, there is a 4th person, I think a priest, who wears a cope the entire time. What is his position?
• How does Canon respond when you try to evangelize someone about the Catholic faith and they become very angry and vulgar?
• Will traditional seminaries admit someone who was previously married but received an annulment?
• Did Adam and Eve ever age?
• Are we required to do penance after we confess? I ask because I went to confession and the priest had a strong accent that made it hard to understand. Because of this, I didn't hear what I was supposed to do afterwards. I told my mother what happened, and she said that the confession didn't count, and that I had to return back to confession. I then told her no, because God has already forgiven my sins so there was no reason to do that. Who is in the right?
• Is it permissible for a Catholic to play an instrument in a Protestant worship service?
• Should lay people ever make announcements during the Mass over the PA system after the homily?
• What were some of the pre-reform abuses in the TLM?

 

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