This Week's Show (Jan. 27, 2005)

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HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Fornication clarification.
  • Prophecy of St. Nilus.
  • A JimmyAkin.Org reader challenges me on the legal obligation for Friday penance.
  • What sins cry out to heaven?
  • Is the Trinity mentioned in the Old Testament and did the Jewish people expect the Messiah to be God?
  • Does gaining an indulgence cut down on temporal punishment in this life or purgatory?
  • What do I think of the New American Bible?
  • Did John the Baptist hear the Voice from heaven at the Baptism of Jesus?
  • Is Masonry Satanic?
  • What about the Gospel of Thomas?
  • Nostradamus: Friend or Foe?
  • Tell me about the Greek Orthodox. (NOTE: This caller has a West Texas accent that you can contrast with my East Texas accent.)
  • Why do people only reference Vatican II documents and not prior councils?
  • Seder meals, the Last Supper, and did Transubstantiation happen at the Las Supper? Did Judas take Communion?
  • A Lutheran asks if he can become Catholic and be a good Catholic without praying to the saints himself as long as he acknowledges the practice in principle.
  • What is a commentator at Mass?
  • How to respond to one who claims that the Virgin Birth is an Egyptian myth and that the papacy was founded by Constantine?
  • Are we eating Jesus in the Eucharist?

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."