Rev. M. P. Hill
127 episodes listed below
Old-school Catholic answers, argued point by point.
Catholics Ready Answer presents Catholic doctrine as a sequence of formal challenges and answers. Its episodes move through chastity, the Trinity, tradition, tolerance, superstition, science, and occult movements with the patient severity of a catechetical argument.
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Catholics Ready Answer preserves a distinctly older form of Catholic apologetics. It is structured, formal, and unapologetically argumentative. Recent sections move alphabetically through disputed questions, treating each one as a case to be answered rather than a topic to be casually explored. The pattern is steady: an objection is stated, the terms are narrowed, and the answer proceeds by appeal to Catholic teaching, scripture, reason, history, and the authority of the Church. The show has little interest in banter. Its energy comes from careful opposition. One episode argues that virginity and chastity are not impossible ideals, because grace, prayer, self-denial, and avoidance of temptation belong to the Christian account of moral life. Another takes the Trinity as the central example of mystery, distinguishing what exceeds reason from what contradicts reason. Tradition receives similar treatment, not as rumor passed from mouth to mouth, but as the Church's continuous witness. The section on tolerance sharply separates charity toward persons from compromise with error. Episodes on superstition, spiritism, and theosophy show the series at its most combative, rejecting occult claims, fortune-telling, spiritistic gatherings, and vague impersonal divinity as either fraud, confusion, or religious danger. The scientific material follows the same pattern. Spontaneous generation becomes an argument about whether life can be explained without creation. Modern listeners should expect a firm Catholic frame and a polemical view of rival beliefs. The appeal lies in the discipline of the form. Rather than chasing topical news or personal testimony, Catholics Ready Answer offers a compact archive of doctrinal defense, with each episode closing the circle between objection and answer.
Made for: Suited to listeners interested in Catholic apologetics, religious argument, and formal defenses of doctrine. It will appeal most to those who prefer measured reasoning over conversational spirituality.
What sets it apart: Its strength is its tract-like structure: objection first, distinction next, conclusion last. Few religion shows sound this deliberately like a public-domain apologetics manual being read aloud.
Discover a compelling defense of Christian beliefs and practices in the face of modern criticism. This insightful guide covers ninety-eight topics in alphabetical order, providing clear explanations of Catholic teachings on each subject. (Adapted from the book by Maria Therese)
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
A structured Catholic apologetics series that answers objections through scripture, church history, and tightly framed doctrinal argument.
Catholics Ready Answer turns a Catholic reference work into a sequence of narrated arguments, usually stating an objection before building the doctrinal answer.
Papal infallibility gets a scripted Catholic-and-non-Catholic dialogue; your inner cross-examiner gets a chair.
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A careful Catholic rebuttal of socialism built on definition, distinction, and consequence.
Section 86 takes socialism on its own ground and presses the harder question: if labor is supposed to generate all wealth, what happens to the cases that do not fit that neat rule? The writing stays close to the fault lines.
A restrained defense of papal infallibility that stays focused on the doctrine's central distinction.
This passage takes papal infallibility seriously without dressing it up. It sets up a calm exchange between a Catholic voice and a blunt objection, then keeps the argument tight: the doctrine is not about private inspiration or a dramatic voice from above, but about providence…
A careful defense of papal primacy that links Peter, Rome, councils, and Church unity.
It frames papal primacy as the primacy of the Bishop of Rome, tied directly to the primacy given to St. Peter and carried on by his successors.
A patient Catholic rebuttal to Hume, science, and the urge to explain miracles away.
It frames miracles as a dispute over proof: Hume's appeal to universal experience, the claim that miracle reports cannot be proved real, and the concern that science loses meaning if natural law is interrupted.
A measured case for the Mass as sacrifice, grounded in scripture and old arguments.
This episode treats a familiar Catholic fault line as a question of worship: what the Mass is, and why sacrifice sits at its center. It moves from Protestant objections to a plain definition of sacrifice, then into the Last Supper and the Moses and Hebrews parallels that give…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
This episode argues that living a chaste life in virginity is possible through faith and prayer, countering claims that it's impossible for human nature.
This episode addresses the objection that the Trinity contradicts logic by explaining it as a divine mystery accepted through faith, not reason.
This episode addresses the objection that tradition is unreliable as a source of religious knowledge by arguing that Christianity itself depends on reliable tradition, including the authenticity of the Bible and the establishment of an infallible church.
This episode discusses the Catholic perspective on tolerance versus love in religious matters, arguing that love of neighbor is a higher duty than mere tolerance.
This episode critiques Theosophy from a Catholic perspective, examining its origins, beliefs about the soul and reincarnation, and its rejection of a personal supreme being.
Section 86 takes up socialism by pressing on its central economic claim.
Section 70 opens with the blunt claim that all men err, and that the Pope should be no exception.
The chapter opens with an objection: the Bishop of Rome’s primacy is said not to rest on Scripture, but on a struggle for supremacy.
The section takes up miracles.
This episode takes up the Mass.
This episode critiques indifferentism, arguing against the idea that religious creeds are merely personal preferences and emphasizing the importance of truth over the motto 'deeds not creeds'.