05:39 - I love these episodes! I’ve got a question for you - if humanity ever encounters another intelligent species in outer space (or the inner earth or whatnot), would someone from said species be potentially eligible to be elected Pope (assuming they met the other qualifications), or is that office explicitly limited to humans? 10:55 - What are your thoughts on the Omicron Variant? 18:02 - My ten-year-old brother would like to know if it’s possible that Bigfoot could be an alien 24:42 - If you had conjoined male twins, could one get ordained and the other married? Does the extent of conjunction affect the answer? 31:54 - I know that it is fine for Catholics to believe in evolution, and I do. But recently, I have read some academics who argue that human morality is a product of evolution. That is, people who acted in anti-social ways were ostracized by society and more likely to die, and therefore people having our current moral orientation evolved through natural selection. Can this view be reconciled with Catholic understanding, or is it in opposition? 41:11 - What evidence is there for ball lightning? I saw it roughly 20 years ago and was fascinated. But at that time there were no pictures or good theories. 46:22 - IF parents and Godparents can present a newborn child for Baptism…could someone, say a son, ask a priest to forgive the sins of their mother, or father, who are essentially, due to the advanced nature of Alzheimer’s babies? 1:00:30 - There’s been a lot of talk at my work about “mercury being in retrograde” and that it makes everything on earth topsy-turvy. Could this really effect things on earth? I thought this was completely unfounded but then I thought about how the moon controls the tides and how people seem to act crazier when there’s a full moon… Would love Jimmy’s opinion on this! 1:11:36 - If Adam and Eve didn’t commit original sin but some other descendent did, say Cain, would we have a split line of humanity? One line with a fallen nature and one without? 1:15:55 - To my understanding, animals’ souls lack the necessary ingredient of reason to be eternal, so their souls perish with their bodies when they die. In Numbers 22, the Lord opened the mouth of Balaam’s donkey, so he could speak to his owner. It appears that God raised Balaam’s donkey’s nature for a moment to include the use of reason to speak and convince Balaam of his sin. What would have happened to the donkey if he had died in that state? If he momentarily possessed a rational soul required for eternal life, and he used it to obey God by convincing Balaam of his sin, would the donkey have then had the possibility of eternal life in heaven? 1:28:59 - What exactly is happening in the book of Tobit when Sarah’s husbands keep dying? Is a demon really killing them? If so, how? Possessing Sarah and causing her to kill them, possessing the husbands and having them kill themselves? Some other way? 1:34:02 - If God is beyond time (time is not a concept for God), could the Passion of Jesus still be going on and then conceivably my since could make the pain that Jesus endures even more… and then the opposite, if I sin less, Jesus receives less pain? 1:43:00 - Say there was a global catastrophe that caused much destruction and prevented communication between the Americas and Europe. No one in the Americas knows if anyone still lives in Europe and has no way of finding out. In this scenario, would it be prudent for American cardinals to elect their own pontiff, or should they hope that papal succession is safe in Europe? 1:49:00 - Did Jesus know how to build an airplane? Is there a way to say that he didn’t without calling in to question his divine omniscience as the 2nd Person of the holy Trinity? 1:52:45 - What’s the real deal with Ed and Lorraine Warren. I can assume that the movie prelude statement about them being commissioned by the Church is a stretch or even a lie. Though, they do have a bunch of supposed possessed items, one being the Anna Bell doll. My curiosity is intrigued on this, I can’t imagine the Church would enlist lay people to do this type of work. Is it all just a lie?
@papuciowy1465
2 жыл бұрын
@Masto Hey, can You tell me where can I ask a 'weird' question for Jimmy Akin?
@love_humanity503
2 жыл бұрын
Prayer for persecuted Christians in china 🇨🇳
@dominickyeo
2 жыл бұрын
What would happen to your soul if you were assimilated by the Borg with no probability of rescue and your body is kept alive indefinitely?
@caterinadc5567
2 жыл бұрын
1. "Indefinitely" will still eventually end because all biomatter eventually degrades. Plus, even if we presuppose the Borg develop some super-duper-special technology that prevents telomeres from shortening (or something), the Borg are notoriously casual about letting thousands of drones die at once for the sake of science experiments or other goals. Basically, drones ain't gonna live 'forever,' one way or another. (And the world does eventually end one way or another.) 2. Technically Voyager lore reveals that many drones retain their human distinctiveness and interact in a sort of interconnected dream world during regeneration cycles. The way they live and interact in that space would presumably have implications for their souls, so in that regard just being a drone doesn't necessarily mean someone's effectively 'dead' and no longer growing or making moral choices as a soul. They may still practice growing in patience, charity, humility etc in the interconnected space where their individuality is reasserted. Just my two cents. :)
@kitstr
2 жыл бұрын
According to Aquinas, the definition of man is ‘a rational animal’. So as long as the aliens are rational animals they can be baptized.
@killianmiller6107
2 жыл бұрын
That thumbnail tho
@catholiccom
2 жыл бұрын
*Cy gets existential *
@lucidlocomotive2014
2 жыл бұрын
How do I get my question answered? I sent one to jimmy last week.
@hollypepen4012
2 жыл бұрын
What happened to the weird questions music?
@TheToadPad
2 жыл бұрын
I hate to complain, but I've got the sound turned up in my earbuds to 100% and it's hard to hear this podcast as I do my morning chores. Usually I can run the vacuum cleaner while listening to stuff, but not this morning. Any way you can make it louder on your end? Thanks in advance.
@caterinadc5567
2 жыл бұрын
You should maybe talk with an audiologist to make sure your decibel range is safe before continuing that practice. It's usually dangerous to crank up music (especially into our ears) to drown out external noises: it destroys our hearing in ways there's no coming back from. I love to listen to podcasts while doing chores, but I *always* put that on hold during the noisiest activities (like vacuuming) because the necessary volume level seems unfortunately too dangerous. You don't want to eventually find out that *all* podcasts are hard to hear, even when not vacuuming, because the problem is now in your own ears.
@TheToadPad
2 жыл бұрын
@@caterinadc5567 Do you work for Catholic Answers and can adjust the volume setting? No, I didn't think so.
@NicklasNylander87
2 жыл бұрын
If you dont have noise cancelling phones, I recommend them. Then one does not need max volume even if the podcast has poor quality
@caterinadc5567
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheToadPad I wasn't trying to offend you. I know an audiologist and was just trying to raise this as a concern for you to be aware of, because as far as I'm aware, most audiologists recommend never cranking the volume to drown out external noises. It accelerates hearing loss, and I don't want that for you. Maybe you have a super-quiet vacuum cleaner. But every vacuum I've used has been too loud for me to safely crank a podcast louder, so again, I'm just reiterating this out of love for you. Not to bother you. Hearing loss can't be reversed, just treated by varying (and expensive) degrees, and you don't want to walk down that path further or faster than you need to.
@TheToadPad
2 жыл бұрын
@@caterinadc5567 You're not reiterating this out of love for me. You're reiterating it because you enjoy putting in your two cents. Sometimes the best way to "love" people is to treat them like adults. You're not an audiologist. You don't work for the show. You're just having fun telling me what to do and then acting sad because I'm not interested. Glad I could be part of it. Enjoy your day.
@Bazerkly
2 жыл бұрын
"Big Bug"
@jcsmith3806
2 жыл бұрын
I have a question, why do you pray memorized prayers from the rosery? Why do you feel speaking in Latin is important when god understands all languages? Why do you feel like lighting candles is important? Why do you feel like creating saints and then burying them for good luck actually does anything? Do you not see how Catholicism carries right over into voodoo with all of the rituals and traditions?
@caterinadc5567
Жыл бұрын
Why do you pray memorized prayers like the 'Our Father'? Why do you reject someone speaking in a language that even you acknowledge God understands? Why do you attempt to rigidly constrain people to pray only in the silence of their minds, and not pray with their whole bodies including by the symbolic act of lighting candles? What are you talking about regarding "creating saints and then burying them for good luck", as that doesn't exist and wouldn't be Catholic teaching if it did? Do you not see how the Catholic Church was founded by Jesus Christ himself, and faithfully preserves his teachings on the rock of Peter through the power of the Holy Spirit, whom Jesus granted to the Church to protect her and lead her into all truth? God invites you to come home to the Church he founded. He is waiting to adopt you fully into his family, and give you every gift Jesus died to give you, through the one, holy, Catholic and universal Church Jesus established.
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