This Week's Show (June 16, 2005)

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HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Why are people able to get divorced, annuled, & remarried today as opposed to a few decades ago?
  • Did Pius XII say that when the Jews return to Israel it will mean the world is coming to an end in a generation?
  • Does God hear your prayers if you’re in a state of mortal sin?
  • What is the bird Prothonotary Warbler named after? (answer after the first break)
  • How to square the the salvation of catechumens with the Catechism’s statement that baptism is the only assured means the Church knows of for entry into eternal beatitude?
  • If God could have Mary be conceived without original sin, why doesn’t he do this for everyone?
  • How to check out reported papal statements that the Church didn’t do enough in WWII for Jewish people?
  • Gentleman has been told that he can’t receive Communion because he’s divorced until he gets an annulment. True?
  • Why does Fundamentalist get mad when we tell him the Pentateuch wasn’t written by Moses at our Bible study?
  • Is B16 likely to allow a greater us of the Tridentine Mass? What’s he likely to do to improve the liturgy generally?
  • Person in video says that practice precedes theology, that we do things first and them make up explanations for them later. True?
  • Can a deacon get married again if his wife dies?
  • Are we to consume the Host immediately after we receive Communion in the hand?
  • Where to get evidence for Peter having a successor in Rome?
  • How to respond to Fundamentalists who get offended when he tells them the Catholic Church is the true Church?

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."