#12429 Can Catholics Celebrate Halloween? - Jimmy Akin
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🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Can Catholics celebrate Halloween?” This episode explores this timely question along with intriguing topics such as George Washington’s potential deathbed conversion to Catholicism and the marital status of Pharisees.
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Questions Covered:
- 02:15 – Can Catholics Celebrate Halloween?
- 21:19 – Do we know if George Washington had a deathbed conversion to Catholicism?
- 34:04 – Were Pharisees required to be married? If so, does that mean Paul was married?
- 38:09 – Why does the bible say that all of our sins will be forgiven but it also says we will stand in judgement for all of our sins? Which is it?
- 47:33 – Is The Great Warning real? If so, what is it? I’ve seen Catholic organizations pushing this.
- 52:01 – Which Church Father do you recommend I start studying first?
- 05:54 – Why did Jesus say he wouldn’t go to the feast in John 7 but he ended up going in private?
- 18:37 – What is acceptable and not acceptable when praying to the saints?
- 34:00 – I’m Protestant looking into the faith. I can’t get over the idea of Mary being sinless? A Daily Defense
- 46:20 – I heard a protestant interpretation of John 6 saying it can’t mean the eucharist because John didn’t pay attention to the sacraments of the last supper. What is the Catholic response to this?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers live. |
| 0:18.4 | It's Friday. |
| 0:19.6 | Jimmy Aiken's here. |
| 0:20.6 | I'm looking forward to some groovy music. Time to |
| 0:22.1 | have some fun. I'm glad Jimmy's here. I needed a couple hours of fun and interesting conversation, |
| 0:27.7 | and that's what usually happens with Jimmy's here. If you've got a question, you can ask anything |
| 0:31.9 | you'd like today. 8883187-884. Triple-8-387-884. |
| 0:38.0 | There's only one restriction. |
| 0:38.9 | You've got to have a phone. |
| 0:40.1 | As long as you've got a phone, anybody can call, ask whatever they like of Jimmy Aiken. |
| 0:44.5 | Jimmy is senior apologist here at Catholic Answers. |
| 0:46.8 | The podcaster behind Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world and the Jimmy Aiken podcast, author of a daily Defense, Teaching with Authority, The Father's No Best, |
| 0:57.3 | the Bible is a Catholic book, many other books and articles and all kinds of stuff. |
| 1:03.1 | Hey, Jimmy Aiken, thanks for being here with us for a Friday. |
| 1:06.1 | Oh, my pleasure. How are you doing, Sikellet? |
| 1:08.1 | I'm doing pretty well. I'm pretty well. I'm looking forward to the next two hours. |
| 1:12.6 | Haven't been abducted by space aliens again recently, have you? |
| 1:16.6 | I know they were giving you some trouble a while back. |
| 1:19.6 | We've entered into arbitration, and I can't really talk about it, Jimmy. |
| 1:24.6 | Okay. |
| 1:25.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.6 | I'm sure the memory blocks don't help either. |
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