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#11288 Open Forum - Jimmy Akin

Catholic Answers Live

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Questions Covered: 01:44 – Can and should the Filioque be removed now? Or is it still important to keep it? 06:25 – Is it okay to attend a non-Catholic wedding of a fallen-away Catholic? Does being a godparent or confirmation sponsor have any bearing on that? 14:18 – Does the Church’s teaching on self-defense include the right to bear arms? If it does, how does this fit with bishops and the pope calling for more gun control? 20:56 – Is it acceptable to smoke medical marijuana? 28:51 – In Luke 17:22-37, was Jesus talking about the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 or about his second coming? 39:39 – Why was Fr. Frank Pavone laicized? 46:49 – I’ve heard that Pope Gregory Great did not accept the book Maccabees in a debate on the Canon of scripture. Is this a misrepresentation or a valid argument? 50:30 – If only God can hear our thoughts, does it make sense to pray interiorly to the Saints or Our Lady? …

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0:00.0

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0:16.0

Welcome back to Kathy Gantz was live. I'm Sy kill at your host Jimmy Aiken is our guest. It's open form. You're welcome to call

0:24.0

with whatever question you've got for Jimmy eight eight eight three one eight seven eight eight four triple eight thirty one truth.

0:31.0

Jimmy I want to say a special thank you for you to be here because I know this is your fifth hour of radio today.

0:36.0

So it is yeah. Yeah we did some hours earlier for for future airing and you and you also get requests to do interviews and

0:45.0

and and so out and know you were doing interview with somebody's a five hour radio day for me. Yep. But you love doing radio though.

0:53.0

You're not one of those people who minds it. No. I've done four hour live streams by myself. Have you really no one else there?

1:00.0

Oh like you do your thanks getting your big things. Oh Christmas. That's when you do it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

1:06.0

And you enjoy it. It's fun today. Yeah. It's fun. It's stimulating. Well good. We got a lot of fun and stimulating stuff.

1:14.0

To go it's so funny to me that I said framily before and you and Darren heard it. Framily. Framily was all that what it was. Yeah.

1:22.0

And it's funny because usually when you make an error like that you hear it. I didn't hear it at all. Like you guys actually surprised me when you said you just said framily.

1:29.0

I didn't realize that I had done it. So I get an old eight and eight.

1:35.0

And I just took we just took the break and I didn't even get a Scooby snack from anybody after all that.

1:45.0

I'll tell you what also visiting the studio with our good friend Penelope is our friend Yalanda.

1:51.0

Yalanda got a text question from her nephew Robert from Woodstock Canada and he wanted me to ask you this question Jimmy.

2:01.0

Robert asks can and should the Filioque be removed now or is it still important to keep it?

2:10.0

Well it's going to depend on on the answer to the question removed from what.

2:16.0

And in the in Eastern Catholic rights that that you know for example use Greek as their language of the creed.

2:25.0

Not only should it be removed but it has been removed and the Vatican wanted it removed because the Greek didn't fully correspond in part because the Greek if I remember correctly didn't fully correspond to the meaning in Latin.

2:39.0

This was a sensitive issue it was causing friction including between Catholics and for example Eastern Orthodox and the Catholic Church is trying to promote Christian unity and hopefully eventual reconciliation with the Orthodox and continuing to have something like that in liturgy that Eastern Catholics were saying would not foster that goal.

3:06.0

And so during the reign of John Paul II it was decided that this should be omitted from from the creed when people are saying it in Greek.

3:15.0

And so I think it's fine for it to be removed from that now the question is what about in other parts of the Latin right where it where the Filioque and we should explain what that is for people who may not know.

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