Hi, this is Cy Kellett. Merry Christmas. Catholic Answers Live is preempted today and tomorrow on the EWTN Network.

So we thought we just share with you a great conversation we had a couple years ago with Jimmy Aiken about the star of Bethlehem.

The love of God has come to us in the infant of Bethlehem.

Signs and wonders accompanied his birth.

And who better than Jimmy Aiken to discuss those signs and wonders with us. So enjoy. And Merry Christmas, once again.

Thanks for a wonderful 2024. We'll see you soon on Catholic Answers Live.

Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for Living, Understanding, and Defending Your Catholic Faith.

This time, a little bit of understanding.

What exactly is the star of Bethlehem?

There's been all kinds of interesting speculation, and you know what?

You know who loves a good mystery?

Jimmy Aiken, as matter of right, he's got his own mysterious world.

So we posed him this question. What is the star of Bethlehem? Can you solve that mystery for us? Here's what Jimmy had to say.

Hello and Merry Christmas, Jimmy Aiken. Merry Christmas, Cyril Kellett. Oh, we have a certain image. I just think I spoke with you about this the other

day off the air that comes from the media. You know, once you get a media image in your head,

even as a kid, the star is a certain thing. But there's a lot that we think is said about the star

and the gospel is not said. Right. But there are some things we can know about the star.

Yeah. So, go ahead. So there are a number of possibilities that people have raised for what the star could be.

Oftentimes, you'll hear a lot of people say, well, it must have been some kind of miraculous thing.

It's like not a normal star because the wise men are following it.

And normal stars don't move around that way.

You can't they, I mean, even the planets, which do move against the background to fix stars, they don't lead you around by the nose.

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