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#12209 Why Does the Church Celebrate Marian Apparitions If They’re Private Revelation? - Jimmy Akin

Catholic Answers Live

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

If Marian apparitions are considered private revelations, why are events like Our Lady of Guadalupe on the Church calendar? We explain the Church’s distinction between public and private revelation—and why some apparitions are recognized liturgically. Join The CA Live Club Newsletter: Click Here Invite our apologists to speak at your parish! Visit Catholicanswersspeakers.com Please help support our mission by donating! Catholicanswersradio.com Questions Covered: 01:52 – Do Protestants receive the Holy Spirit in (valid) baptism? If so, then why would they need to be Catholic?  04:06 – Protestants are claiming that the book of James was written before the Council of Jerusalem and together with Acts 15 shows that James doesn’t understand the Gospel because he emphasizes works. How would you respond?  12:21 – Is our time set in stone?  14:47 – If Marian apparitions are private revelation, why does the church recognize apparitions such as our lady of Guadalupe on the church calendar?  17:10 – What are your thoughts on the studies done that aim to determine if prayer is an effective medical tool. I’m referring specifically to prayer groups praying for the patients and not the patients themselves. Also if a non-Christian group prayed for the patients and it was shown to be effective… what would this mean?  28:30 – If the catholic church doesn’t accept a Mormon baptism because of their understanding of God… why does the catholic church accept a marriage when the people involved have a misunderstanding about the nature of the marriage [it doesn’t line up with our beliefs about marriage]?  32:34 – Jesus sent his disciples to heal the sick, expel demons, purify the lepers and resurrect the dead (Matt 10). Why do we not hear much about the resurrection of dead people, but only of exorcism and healing of sickness?  36:45 – Thanks for your important work! Could you explain how the Old Testament practice of sacrificing an animal then eating it is really a sacrifice?  43:03 – Could you explain what Christian non-exclusivism entails. And more importantly, what the biblical and patristic evidence is that this is an acceptable/non-heretical position. I watched the Theology Unleashed videos you were in, and feel like this position would change entirely how I see everyone, Christians and non-Christians. Also, are there not things like the in-filling of the Holy Spirit and gifts of the Holy Spirit, that devotees of other religious traditions cannot experience or share in, outside of explicit faith in Jesus.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers Live. I'm Cy Kellett, your host. Thanks so much for being here with us today.

0:19.9

We have a pretty darn

0:21.1

good show for you today. Two hours with Jimmy Aiken, senior apologist here at Catholic Answers.

0:25.4

The creator of both, the Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World, one of the most popular documentary

0:29.8

podcasts in the world, and the Jimmy Aiken podcast, and the author of The Bible is a Catholic

0:35.0

book, a Daily Defense, and many other books. And all of our questions

0:39.2

are already in, because it's an internet, asked me anything with Jimmy. Today, Jimmy gets about,

0:44.4

let me try and I'll carry the two, 3.7 billion questions from the internet each month. So we have a

0:50.2

lot of fun from time to time getting him to answer some of those on the air. Jimmy Aiken, welcome.

0:55.4

How do Cy Kellett?

0:56.3

How you doing?

0:57.0

Very, very well.

0:57.9

I think $3.7 billion might be an exaggeration, but you do get a lot of questions.

1:03.5

I do, yes, and I do my best to answer them.

1:06.5

That's a lot.

1:07.2

That's a lot of work.

1:10.8

But maybe we're helping you then.

1:12.4

We'll get some of them taken care of on the air today.

1:16.1

I will, I'm going to try to do my very best not to give out the phone number, but you know me.

1:21.6

I might, but don't call because we're all the questions are already in.

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There's about, well, there's a lot of them to get to, so I'm going to get right to the questions.

1:31.3

Nicholas, oh, I forget, we get these, the internet names are good sometimes.

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