#11727 Ask Me Anything - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 02:24 – Could life have come about naturalistically? 06:10 – My wife is agnostic. How do I reply to the questions, why should she care, and why should she believe that it’s the Christian God that exists? 16:39 – My convert friend is asking how do you know when something is dogma vs doctrine? 28:45 – Within the holy family, did Joseph have the spiritual authority of Mary and Jesus? 30:55 – What is the rule of the magisterium in regard to translation of the bible and why should we heed to those translations? 36:08 – How specific does my confession have to be for it to be valid? 41:55 – How do we know that St. Ignatius of Antioch’s letters are reliable? 45:05 – Can an unbaptized person receive the sacrament of confession? 47:35 – Has the use of extraordinary ministers of holy communion been abused? 52:20 – There are verses in the bible that say that miracles are signs, but it also says the devil will use them. How can the Church confidently say that the miracles it approved of are from God and not the devil? …

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0:00.0	I'm going to Hello, and
0:17.0	welcome to Catholic Answers Live. I'm Cy Kelly, your host.
0:19.0	So happy to be here with Jimmy Aiken for two hours, right?
0:22.0	We've got Jimmy for two hours, two hours of
0:23.9	asked me anything and the limit on that is the word anything. So go ahead and ask
0:28.6	anything you like 888 2, 3187884 888 31187884.
0:33.0	3118784.
0:35.0	I think if I sound a little hesitant even to give out the numbers because before we even
0:40.8	started the show about maybe a minute before we started the show,
0:43.4	every single line was already full.
0:45.2	I think the word got out that Jimmy Aikens here.
0:47.4	But don't worry, lines will open up 8883,
0:50.7	3,8, 7, 884 for the four of you who don't know, Jimmy Aiken is senior
0:56.3	apologist here at Catholic Answers and the proprietor of Jimmy Aiken's
1:00.8	mysterious world. Hello Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world. Hello, Jimmy Aiken.
1:04.4	Hello, Saiklet, how you doing?
1:06.0	I am doing very well.
1:07.3	I am very impressed.
1:09.4	It must have been on the calendar.
1:12.4	People saw it, and they all called before the show even started so
1:17.2	lots of questions to get to but I the most important question for me on my
1:20.8	mind is what's dropping tomorrow morning on Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world.
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