#12050 AMA: Catholicism - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 1 February 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 3:46 – How do I convince a hardened atheist that God exists? Or even the historical figure of Jesus? 05:58 – How do we properly understand typology as pointing towards the New Testament? 14:10 – What does Jimmy think of the new document Antiqua et nova? Does he have any advice for the everyday person? 18:08 – I have a friend who doesn’t believe God loves sinners and uses Ps 5:5 as evidence. Are there other verses to combat this? 22:15 – What exactly are charisms from the Holy Spirit and how does one discern them? 32:25 – Our visiting priest doesn’t say “do this in memory of me” when consecrating the bread but does it for the wine. Is this valid? 36:15 – Can you assure me and help me further understand how God exists? 43:00 – If the pope were to time travel, would the seat be vacant? 49:06 – Would it be okay to ask a priest to bless my new firearm? 52:49 – I’m teaching my kids the Glory Be, and it says “world without end” at the end of the prayer? Why does it say that? …

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0:33.6	A lot of interesting questions today.
0:35.1	Interesting questions so far.
0:37.1	Questions we don't usually get. And that's a lot of fun when Jimmy's here. I saw somebody on, or maybe one or two people over on YouTube saying, are the questions better when Jimmy Agin's on? And I sometimes think, yeah, they are. Because people know they can ask whatever they want. 8883187-884 is a number. If you've got an interesting question, call. Those make the show
0:58.3	good. 8883187-884. Jimmy is senior apologist here at Catholic Answers and ready to take your
1:07.0	questions. Today's Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious world is weird questions, as a matter of fact.
1:13.4	So check that one out.
1:14.5	That's every fifth Friday?
1:16.5	Yes.
1:17.0	Uh-huh.
1:17.3	What is that?
1:18.1	Is that twice a year?
1:19.8	I'm trying to think.
1:20.1	Oh, no, it's more than that.
1:21.4	There's more than two.
1:22.4	Oh.
1:22.9	It's more than twice a year.
1:23.9	I forget how many months. I think it's like five months out of the year, frequently have a fifth Friday. It depends on when the month starts in the week,
1:32.0	but the longer months, like February, it's 28 days. There's never a fifth Friday unless
1:38.9	it's a leap year that has 29 days and it starts on just the right day to let that last 29th day be a Friday.
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