Are There UFOs in Religious Art? (And More Weird Questions!)

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In this episode of Catholic Answers Live (May 25, 2018, 2nd hour), Jimmy answers the following questions:

02:33 Why do we associate good with “up” and down with “bad”?

04:11 Why do some Medieval religious paintings look like they have spacemen and UFOs in them?

08:15 Could a priest or the pope bless an entire ocean and make it holy water?

16:24 How can we solve the “Trolley Problem” for self-driving cars? Does it make a difference if the five people who get hit are nuns and the one person who lives is an escaped convict?

23:28 Did Mary or Jesus ever get sick? Could they?

29:00 If we colonize another planet in the future, how would the Church on Earth communicate with Catholic colonists? What would need to be done before sending Catholics to such a colony?

35:40 If strong Artificial Intelligence (AI) is created, would it falsify the Church’s teachings on the soul? How likely is such the development of such intelligence?

45:00 Is it ever okay to lie to a Cyberman?

49:37 Is the multiverse theory at all compatible with Christianity?

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Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."