#11387 Open Forum - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 04:30 – When did priests start wearing clerics? 08:10 – Why is there a difference in presentation between fornication and adultery in the Old and New Testaments? 12:30 – Why do they consider Mary as the Immaculate Conception? Is it mainly because of the apparition in Lourdes and Mary identifying herself as so? 14:53 – Where does the long list of mortal sins come from? 22:45 – Why is there such animosity between the Freemasons and the Knights of Columbus? 30:02 – What is the reason Catholics are not taught to heal the sick, make blind men see or raise the dead? 32:37 – Why do eastern and western Catholics have different canon laws? Is canon law infallible? 37:08 – How do I approach my priest who doesn’t properly offer the words of absolution? 42:12 – Is it appropriate for me to use an old, damaged bible for crafts? 46:03 – Why would Mary have to be sinless? …

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Cathy Gant, I don't know why I said welcome back, I guess I should just
0:19.4	say welcome to Cathy Gant, I'm glad you're here, I'm Sy Kelly at your host, I'm welcome
0:23.0	back, maybe you were here with us yesterday, 888-318-7884 is our number, it's an open forum,
0:28.4	Jimmy Aiken is our guest and you can ask whatever you like, I want to make sure that everybody
0:34.8	knows that they can call whether you're Catholic or not Catholic, whether you're a Christian
0:39.0	or don't know anything about the Christian faith, whether you're a question is a religious
0:43.0	question, a philosophical question or something else, science, science fiction, Jimmy likes
0:46.9	talking about it all, it's an open forum, open to you, open to your question, 888-318-7884,
0:55.4	or triple 8-318-7884, Jimmy Aiken of course, his senior apologist here at Catholic
1:02.0	Answers and the author of, oh look I have one right here, the father's no best, your
1:06.8	essential guide to the teachings of the early church and a whole bunch of other things,
1:10.4	he's also the proprietor of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world, hello Jimmy Aiken, hello Cyril
1:15.4	Tellet, how are you doing today? I am doing much better than last time we spoke, I was
1:19.7	sleeping through the week last week and I'm awake this week, so it's nice to see you
1:24.1	again awake. Yeah, likewise. When you were gone, Chris Czech hosted on one day that I was
1:30.7	on the show and he asked if the leaves had started to turn in Arkansas yet, and they hadn't
1:39.3	so much at that time, but now they definitely have lots of color on the trees besides green,
1:46.8	got yellows, oranges, reds, I even put a picture on Facebook of a whole line of trees
1:52.5	that were just brilliant red. Oh, how nice. Yeah, that's very nice, so you're getting
1:57.1	the cool evenings now. Oh yeah, it's our high on Monday is supposed to be something like
2:03.9	47 degrees and it's going to get down to freezing. Oh my goodness, a high of 47, I know
2:09.7	that, I mean I guess it's just when you live in Southern California long enough because
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