Can You Give Candy to the Baby Jesus? (And More!)

CatholicAnswersLogoIn this episode of Catholic Answers Live, Jimmy takes on the following questions:

  • Can we “interpret Scripture with Scripture”?
  • What does the word “desuetude” mean and how does it relate to women’s head coverings?
  • Can we wear pictures of people other than saints?
  • Is leaving candy before a statue of Baby Jesus okay or is that idolatry?
  • Is the Church contradicting Scripture with its teaching that the use of force in legitimate defense is okay?
  • Do we grow in our relationship with God in heaven?
  • Can Latin Catholics attend the Melkite rite?
  • Is the ice bucket challenge a Satanic ritual? Do you have to mean for a ritual to be Satanic for it to actually be Satanic?
  • What does a former Catholic who has been attending a non-Catholic church need to do to return to the Faith?
  • Thomas Aquinas’s arguments may prove the existence of a God, but how do you prove the existence of the God of the Bible?
  • How does it work when a person has enough evidence for the existence of God but they choose not to convert?
  • How to deal with religious compulsions? Are they sinful?

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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."

One thought on “Can You Give Candy to the Baby Jesus? (And More!)”

  1. Hi Jimmy,
    These are very wonderful teachings / information I would wish to be privy to but unfortunately,I am not able to access the audio devices from the cyber I go to and just wish I could find them in another mode.
    I once attended some training workshop somewhere and as I was listening to some sharing from another lady about her life ordeal that she was not able to understand,the Holy spirit prompted me to ask her which Church she goes to and she confessed to me that she is a catholic but at some points due to life challenges she found herself going to the mosque and became a muslem for some time.
    She later got a conviction to go back to her Church,Catholic and she came back and resumed her worship style as before and even receiving the Eucharist.
    It was then I realized that she needed to go back to the priest for further advice before resuming and that it was why she could not get even breakthroughs in her prayers,and later things changed drastically having met the priest.

    God’s blessings and Love,
    Maurice.

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