#11088 Did Mary Have to be Baptized? - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 31 March 2023

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Questions Covered: 03:46 – My son’s future sister-in-law is a nun, does she have to wear her habit to the wedding? 10:52 – Did Mary need to be baptized and did she get baptized? 15:28 – If annulment means a marriage is invalid, what does that mean for the time the couple spent together? 18:34 – Hypothetically if there was a medicine created that allowed you to live forever, should you take it as a Catholic? 30:00 – In the Baptist tradition they bring people to Jesus through the roman’s road. What do we do in the Catholic Church to bring someone to a relationship with Jesus before bringing them to RCIA? 36:09 – Are there any places where Paul teaches eternal conscious torment as an understanding of hell? 46:54 – how is it that the Jews could stone people if they were not allowed to do capital punishment? …

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0:00.0	Well, welcome back to Catholic Cancer's Live. I am Sikell at your host, Jimmy Aiken is our guest.
0:22.5	One million people are on the phone lines and we are having some fun to an open forum.
0:29.8	If you would like to be one million and one, just give a call 888-318-788-4 as lines open up,
0:36.6	you'll get through, but right now they're actually all full. So maybe jot it down, use it later.
0:42.6	888-318-788-4, Jimmy Aiken of course, senior apologists here at Catholic Cancer's and approaching
0:49.2	a major anniversary, just a couple months away. In August on mysterious, whoa, well,
0:56.8	they're two actually. I was thinking of the one in June, but I'm going to mention the one in June.
1:01.1	In August on mysterious world, we're having our fifth anniversary and so we're going to have
1:06.4	a special anniversary show where we read or play recordings of people describing their own
1:13.3	mysterious experiences. But earlier than that, as of June 1st, it will be my anniversary as an
1:23.2	apologist, a professional one at least. I reported to work on June 1st, which by coincidence turned
1:30.8	out to be the feast of St. Justin Martyr, patron saint of apologists, so I thought that was very
1:36.2	providential. And I reported to work back in 1993, and since this is 2023, that means June 1st
1:44.4	will be my 30th anniversary as a professional apologist. Wow, Jimmy, that is so cool. That is really
1:51.1	cool. 30 years and now more than 25 of them on this program, because a few years after you got
1:58.8	here, you started this program. Yeah. Now, I should say, I shouldn't let you distract from something I
2:05.3	was going to mention, because I know it's a burning question for people who are watching the video
2:10.0	version of the podcast, because during the break, you came back into the studio with my hat on.
2:18.5	Wearing a gray sock hat, and between the gray sock hat, and the blue checkered plaid shirt,
2:31.2	and the salt and pepper beard for good measure. Oh, do you totally have your
2:38.3	northern like Washington state or Canada? Yeah, it was a little bit lumberjacks.
2:44.2	Rainy day trucker thing going on. Yeah, I put the hat on because I said to Sarah when I came
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