#12420 Can God Hear Our Mental Prayer, Infallibility, and Church History - Jimmy Akin
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🗓️ 18 October 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Can God hear our mental prayer?” This episode explores the nuances of prayer and divine communication, alongside intriguing questions about the establishment of early churches by the apostles, the concept of infallibility, and the comparison between the Catholic and Pentecostal churches. Tune in for a thoughtful examination of these important topics.
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Questions Covered:
- 07:33 – Are we able to trace back what churches the other apostles established?
- 13:50 – What did you see in the Catholic Church that made you open your eyes to converting?
- 21:45 – Would it be possible for a year of divine judgment? If yes, then why doesn’t he?
- 28:55 – Can the pope ever break from the seat of Peter?
- 36:55 – What Catholic study bible do you recommend? And which translation?
- 39:43 – How does the Pentecostal church compare to the Catholic Church?
- 44:04 – Can God hear our mental prayer? Was Jesus a good boy as a kid?
- 46:43 – How do we reconcile parts of the church that have been corrupt in the medieval ages and the infallibility of the church?
- 53:00 – What is infallibility
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Catholic Answers live, Jimmy Aiken, our guest, I'm Cy Kellett, your host, and it's asked me anything, and you're like, |
| 0:23.1 | yeah, but I'll never get in. |
| 0:24.2 | No, you can get in. |
| 0:25.1 | There's two lines open right now. |
| 0:26.7 | I don't know why there's two lines open, but there are. |
| 0:28.4 | If you've got a question for Jimmy, 888-3187-884, Jimmy Aiken, senior apologist here at Catholic Answers, |
| 0:38.3 | the podcaster behind Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World |
| 0:40.6 | that is wildly popular. |
| 0:42.9 | I never go anywhere to give a talk or anything |
| 0:45.6 | where somebody doesn't go, |
| 0:47.1 | I love Jimmy Akin's mysterious world. |
| 0:49.2 | And I'm like, can we make this all about me? |
| 0:51.1 | And they're like, no, I wanna talk about Jimmy. |
| 0:53.8 | But now we got the |
| 0:54.7 | Jimmy Aiken podcast added to the mix. That's Mondays. Monday's Jimmy Aiken podcast, I'm giving |
| 1:02.6 | you your schedule now. Monday's Jimmy Aiken podcast, Fridays, Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world. |
| 1:08.4 | What's up with, if you want to do last Monday, next Monday, just tell me what's up |
| 1:12.4 | with the Jimmy Aiken podcast. Well, this last Monday, I had an episode come out on racism, |
| 1:21.9 | and I talked about racism. I talked about the ways people tried to defend it in the past, using the Bible. And I talked about racism. I talked about the ways people tried to defend it in the past, using the Bible. |
| 1:29.9 | And I talked about why it's nonsense that, you know, the human family is one human family and cosmetic differences, like what your skin color is, what your hair color is, what your eye color is. |
| 1:45.6 | None of that matters to God. |
| 1:47.1 | And therefore, none of it is to matter to us either. |
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