#11940 Ask Me Anything - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 16 November 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 02:20 – in the sacrament of Holy Orders, clergy progress through ranks—deacon, priest, and bishop—implying they receive the sacrament multiple times, each with additional spiritual authority. Does this mean they receive the full sacrament once, with additional authority “unlocked” at each level, or is each stage more akin to receiving a fuller portion of the sacrament over time? If they receive the same sacrament with varying levels of authority, wouldn’t that mean Holy Orders is actually three different types of sacraments that are slight variations of each other? 08:25 – Mt 7:13-14. Is it wrong for me to read this as a motivational passage instead of a somber one? 13:17 – Will you do an episode of Mysterious World on our Lady of Champion? 15:47 – What are your thoughts on the mystic Luisa Piccarreta? 20:38 – How do we find a happy balance between taking responsibility for actions that lead to bad thing happening to us vs bad things just happening? 29:03 – What are your thoughts on Exodus 4:24? 35:38 – What is the best way to dispose of Catholic literature? 43:27 – Why is it that Catholicism removes consent and stewardship from its moral philosophy? 52:04 – How do I respectfully approach my pastor to bring back passing around the basket for the offertory? It was discontinued during COVID and never brought back. …

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0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers Live, hour two of an Ask Me Anything show here on a Friday evening with you with a number to call.
0:39.3	If you want your question on the air is 888-3187-884-3-831-truth is the number to call.
0:47.8	And as you know, if you heard the first hour, the guest today, the guest today is our own senior
0:53.9	apologist, author, speaker, podcaster,
0:56.5	debater, weird questions, answerer, enjoyer. It's Jimmy Aiken, and Jimmy is back, ready to take
1:02.7	more questions from you for this hour. My name is Thomas Graff. I'm filling in for Cy Kellett today,
1:09.4	as he just takes normal afternoon off. Needs to unwind a little bit, blow off some steam, and I'm filling in for Cy Kellett today as he just takes normal afternoon off.
1:11.3	Needs to unwind a little bit, blow off some steam, and I'm filling in for him in the host's
1:15.5	chair until he returns on Monday. So Jimmy, if you are ready, we will dive back into the questions
1:20.9	that our callers have. Oh, no problem, man. You know, it's, I guess we want to be a little careful in what we reveal about
1:30.3	Si when he's not here, like the fact that he runs on steam power, you know. Right, right. I may have let
1:37.5	slip that he's a bit of a steampunk, what's the word for someone who's half, half robot, half human,
1:44.0	cyborg, is that thing? Cyborg, yeah. Yeah, half robot, half human, cyborg?
1:44.6	Is that the thing?
1:45.1	Cyborg, yeah.
1:45.6	Yeah, Cy is a steampunk cyborg.
1:47.5	I apologize to Cy.
1:48.4	And he would acknowledge the punk part, definitely.
1:50.9	I'm just not sure he would acknowledge the steam part publicly.
1:53.9	Right, right.
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