This Week’s Show (June 23, 2005)

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HIGHLIGHTS:

• What does it mean for us to offer up Jesus’ sufferings to the Father? Why would we do that?
• Is there a move to "restore" the order of the sacraments of initiation?
• Can Jimmy recommend Lives of the Popes by Richard McBrien? What is an alternative resource?
• Is B16 changing the way things have been historically done in canonizations by holding off on the canonization of a French priest?
• If Mary was conceived without original sin, why does the Church hold out the possibility that she died physically?
• What does the word porneia mean in the passages where Jesus talks about divorce?
• Does the Catholic Church ignore the first thousand years of Church history and why does it regard itself as the true Church rather than the Greek Orthodox church?
• Are deacons traditionally ministers of the chalice? How does this square with using extraordinary ministers for distributing the host?
• Is there a resource written by an ex-SSPXer on the problems of this movement?
• What is one to think of Thomas Merton? How to deal with those who rely on his more Buddhist-sounding stuff?
• How can a sex offender find resources to help him live the Catholic life?
• Why don’t we hear priests talking more at Mass about the state of our souls?

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." View all posts by Jimmy Akin