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Highlights:

  • What is the mystical body of Christ and who belongs to it?
  • Can two baptized Catholics get married outside the Church and still receive Communion?
  • King James Bible: Friend or Foe?
  • How did the Church get based in Rome?
  • Who was Melchizedek?
  • Can a bishop change the Creed?
  • Why is there an excommunication for abortion but not murder?
  • What are the penitential psalms?
  • What is RCIA and should reverts attend it?
  • Did Jesus turn water into grape juice at Cana?
  • Where do people get the idea that a thousand years before Christ there was another virgin birth?
  • Any good books on the Reformation era?
  • Why did God have Joshua, et al., slay the inhabitants of whole towns?
  • What about the promises where Jesus says we can ask anything we want and God will give it to us?
  • How could Mary be the mother of God when God the Son existed from all eternity, before Mary?

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."

8 thoughts on “This Week’s Show”

  1. Jimmy,
    As a follow-up to the 2nd item you listed on the show, are there any canonical regulations around 2 Catholics in an invalid marriage getting their child baptized? My sister-in-law married a divorced Catholic in a Unitarian(Doh!) ceremony because while he was in the process of getting an annulment, that process was not(and still isn’t I think) complete. She may be pregnant and I am guessing that they may want the baby baptized.

  2. Jimmy,
    Ever consider doing a list of questions asked in a particular Q&A show for the whole set of shows on Catholic.com Sometimes I want something fun to listen to so I’ll pick one at random. Othertimes I’d like to hear an answer to a question I have, and having a list of the questions asked as a pop-up or heads-up display would be really keen.

  3. Re: Reformation history.
    Fr. Philip Hughes’ “Popular History of the Reformation” is excellent, as is the section in Harry Crocker’s “Triumph”.

  4. Re: Sven/Melchizedek/coffee. My wife and I read that in Hebrews too and after 31 years I STILL make the coffee every morning. Sometimes it really does help to read the instructions [bible].

  5. Re: Sven/Melchizedek/coffee/brain drippings. Of course after so many years of being the first one up in the morning, and making the coffee, perhaps an evolutionist would say that I am guarding the entrance to the cave while my mate sleeps.[lazy bones]Or I could be rising early to greet my creator and get my day off on the right foot.

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