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Catholic Answers Live

#11360 Weird Questions - Jimmy Akin

Catholic Answers Live

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Questions Covered: 02:28 – Does the Holy Spirit have chromosomes since the Holy Spirit came over Mary and she became pregnant with Jesus? 03:26 – Did Zoroaster Fulfill all of the prophecies for a savior hundreds of years before Jesus did? 10:55 – Does time always move forward, and is there time in heaven? 18:44 – I’ve been listening to a lot of stories on Bigfoot and aliens lately. What are The Church’s teachings in regard to these types of creatures/sightings? 21:56 – We are not supposed to spread ashes of the deceased, but relics of saints are spread far and wide. Is there a reason for these seemingly illogical practices? 28:17 – What sacraments can Angels administer? And can they confect the sacraments? We know the Angel at Fatima gave the children communion. I’ve also heard of an angel that had heard confession for someone and was disguised as a priest. (Not sure how true that one is though.) 35:57 – Why do Muslim woman cover their heads, and Mary and Elizabeth covered their heads, but CHRISTIAN women these days do not. (I’m certainly not campaigning for Christian women to wear hijabs. I was just wondering.) 51:53 – What are we to make of the “sword of St. Michael” — the straight line of seven monasteries, all of them built on a mountain or tall hill, and stretching from Ireland to Israel? Each monastery was built in a different time by different people, and yet they all appear to line up perfectly, as if by design. *Was* it by design? And if so, whose, and to what end? …

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Catholic Answers Live, a little weird music there for you, because it's

0:19.3

weird questions with Jimmy Aiken today.

0:21.4

We got a whole bunch of weird questions coming up this hour, Jimmy Aiken, of course,

0:25.5

senior apologist here at Catholic Answers in the proprietor of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious

0:29.9

world.

0:30.9

Jimmy, thanks for coming back for another hour of weirdness.

0:32.9

Yeah, my pleasure.

0:33.9

By the way, I wanted to follow up on something we mentioned in the last hour.

0:37.2

I mentioned the uplift universe, which is a science fiction universe where intelligence

0:42.9

is bestowed on creatures that don't already have intelligence.

0:49.3

And I said, I thought, although I could have been wrong, I thought the author was David

0:53.2

Gerald.

0:54.2

It's not.

0:55.2

David Brynn, who was the author of that.

0:57.6

So I just wanted to make that correction.

0:59.7

Cool.

1:00.7

All right.

1:01.7

I hadn't heard of it.

1:02.7

So I'll check that one out.

1:04.4

The Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world is a little bit of a possible contact with the aliens

1:13.3

today.

1:14.3

Is that right?

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