#11040 Is Fasting Harmful? - Tim Staples

Questions Covered: 04:08 – I have been struggling with a lot of anxiety. When I pray, sometimes I get peace and sometimes I don’t. I pray the rosary, I do devotions, etc. Can you help me know if maybe I’m missing something so I can be at peace?  12:54 – One version of Matthew 1:25 says Joseph did not have marital relations until Mary had the firstborn son. But does that mean Mary wasn’t a perpetual virgin?  21:52 – Why did the 12 Apostles end with the apostolic age? Why didn’t they keep reinstituting the 12?  35:00 – My wife is a nutritionist and doesn’t fully understand fasting and that it’s harmful for our hormone balance and metabolism. She wants to know how you could be doing something harmful to your body for the sake of spiritual gain.  42:13 – Tim said he used to be pro-death penalty but now that he’s a Catholic, does not because the Pope says it’s a development of doctrine and supersedes the bible. How can he do that?  50:25 – I’m a new Catholic. How can the Church maintain unity within the setting of having different “branches”, like the SSPX? …