#12020 AMA: God in Art, Mary Magdalene as an Apostle, and Explaining Catholic Teachings on Contraception - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 11 January 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 02:15 – How can I respond to my Orthodox friends who struggle with depicting God the Father in Catholic artwork? 12:00 – How can I respond to questions that Mary Magdalene was an apostle and even wrote a book of the Bible? 19:50 – How does your Catholic faith help during holidays or moments of loneliness during the year? 28:45 – Can you explain why Jesus in the New Testament said things directly when teaching to fulfill the scripture of the Old Testament? 43:06 – I live with a brother who claims to be Pro-life, but doesn’t fully agree with teachings on contraceptives. How can I best explain this to him? 48:51 – Is it okay for a non-Catholic to use Holy Water or have a bottle at home? 50:04 – Is it true that the Pope is infallible when canonizing Saints? …

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0:00.0	anything?
0:01.5	And you can really ask them anything.
0:02.9	If you can dial 8883187884 and if you're somewhere, if you're on a part of the planet
0:08.8	in which that number connects with us, you can just ask Jimmy whatever you'd like to ask him.
0:13.8	888311.
0:15.0	Or if you can stick other numbers in front of it and have it connect with us, you're welcome to call and ask me anything.
0:20.6	Yeah.
0:21.3	For most places, I think that would be 01.
0:24.6	01 followed, yeah, because 01 is the country code for the U.S.
0:28.6	Yeah, so give it a try, wherever you are.
0:31.7	And then there's other ways to call, too.
0:33.3	People got these internet calling things and stuff.
0:35.7	I don't know how it all works anymore, but if you can get to us, we'll be happy to talk with you.
0:40.5	And you can ask Jimmy, when Jimmy says, ask me anything, he pretty much means anything.
0:44.8	Except sports. I mean, you can ask me about sports, but I won't have a good answer.
0:51.0	Probably.
0:52.9	I wonder if maybe you, like, if someone was like like Timmy I have a sports question for you
0:56.6	it's about the ancient Olympic games where were they held uh Olympus okay see you know
1:02.7	Olympia uh all right Olympia actually you know I've actually been there oh yeah um I've also
1:10.8	been to marathon and I've walked been to Marathon, and I've
1:12.2	walked, I didn't run it, but I walked the race course that a marathon is named after.
1:17.0	You, like that 20-something mile? Yeah, but the race course, it's a certain number of laps. I
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