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#11932 Ask Me Anything - Jim Blackburn

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Questions Covered: 06:58 – When do thoughts become mortal sin? 15:57 – If you die wearing a brown scapular, do your loved ones have to pray for you? Do you have to go to purgatory? 20:42 – I’m just now returning to the Catholic faith. I’m meeting with my priest tomorrow. How do I properly prepare? What should I expect? Send words of eternal life and secrets from heaven 32:13 – I was in line for confession and the priest stopped right before I got to go. What do I do at that point? Can I receive communion since my intention was there? 42:02 – Will parents be culpable for their children’s sin before they reached the age of reason? 47:01 – What are the miracles attributed to the Miraculous Medal? Is it Just superstition? 51:50 – What is the Church position on immigration law? …

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Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back to Catholic Answers Live.

0:31.6

It's Ask Me Anything this hour.

0:33.4

Our good friend Jim Blackburn is here from Catholic Questions.

0:38.4

Catholic Questions.com or the Catholic Questions app or the phone line or smoke signals or letters.

0:43.6

They will answer your questions about the Catholic faith any way you get them to them.

0:49.1

And Jim is here to answer your questions personally today.

0:52.2

8883184. Is there something you would like to know about

0:56.8

the Catholic faith, maybe about the person of Jesus, maybe about the sacraments of the church,

1:01.5

the Bible, the bishops and the pope, or whatever, the moral teachings of the church. You are

1:07.1

welcome to call this hour whatever your relationship or lack of relationship with the Catholic Church might be,

1:13.2

if you want to ask a question, we'd love to have the conversation with you.

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8883187-884.

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Jim Blackburn, I mentioned all that other stuff.

1:23.1

A long-time apologist, a very long association with Catholic answers.

1:28.5

He's a very old person,

1:33.2

and he's been doing this for a long time. Hello, Jim Blackburn. Wait, it got out of control on me again at the end there. I was doing fine, and then it got out of control on me. How are you? How are you,

1:39.3

Jim? I'm doing well. It was nice to see you at the Catholic Answers Conference in September.

1:46.0

Very nice to see you.

1:47.0

I don't think I've been on the show since then. I was on the show right before the conference.

1:53.0

But then to go, and we had a booth at the conference, and one of my apologies, Chris, was with me.

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