Mind-Control Parasites – Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World

Mind-control parasites have been a staple of science fiction for decades. But Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli reveal that not only do they exist in real life, they sometimes affect humans!

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The Weekly Francis – 12 September 2019

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 1 September 2019 to 12 September 2019.

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Homilies

Messages

Prayers

Speeches

Papal Tweets

  • “Try to keep quiet a moment and let God love you. Try to silence all the inner voices, and rest for a second in His loving embrace. #ApostolicJourney #Mozambique” @Pontifex 5 September 2019
  • “No one is more insignificant than a priest left to his own devices; therefore, our prayer is that of our Mother: I am a priest because the Lord has regarded my insignificance with kindness (cf. Lk 1:48). #ApostolicJourney #Mozambique” @Pontifex 5 September 2019
  • “Let’s not forget that the names of our poorest brothers and sisters, written in heaven, have this inscription next to them: these are the blessed ones of my Father. #ApostolicJourney #Mozambique” @Pontifex 6 September 2019
  • “Jesus proposes a first golden rule for everyone: ”Do unto others as you would have them do unto you“ (Lk 6:31); and he helps us to discover what is most important: to love us and help us. #ApostolicJourney #Mozambique” @Pontifex 6 September 2019
  • “The Lord is the first to trust in you, and He also invites you to trust in yourselves; He invites you to encourage one another, and join Him in writing the most beautiful page of your lives. #ApostolicJourney #Madagascar” @Pontifex 7 September 2019
  • “Our life and our talents are the result of a gift woven between God and the many silent hands of persons whose names we will only know in Heaven. #ApostolicJourney #Madagascar” @Pontifex 8 September 2019
  • “Let us turn in prayer to the Holy Virgin on this day when we remember her birth, the dawn of salvation for humanity. #Angelus” @Pontifex 8 September 2019
  • “Akamasoa, ”City of Friendship“, is the expression of the God’s presence God who decided to live and remain always in the midst of His people. Seeing these radiant faces, I give thanks to the Lord who has heard the cry of the poor. #ApostolicJourney #Madagascar” @Pontifex 8 September 2019
  • “Happy are you, happy is the Church of the poor and for the poor, for she lives imbued with the fragrance of her Lord, she lives joyfully proclaiming the Good News to the throw-aways of the earth, to those who are God’s favorites. #ApostolicJourney #Madagascar” @Pontifex 8 September 2019
  • “What must one do to be a good Christian? The answer is simple: we have to do, each in our own way, what Jesus says in the Beatitudes. #ApostolicJourney #Mauritius” @Pontifex 9 September 2019
  • “Thank you for your warm welcome. May God bless you all you. May His love and mercy continue to accompany and protect you! #ApostolicJourney” @Pontifex 9 September 2019
  • “Christ is the hope of the world: His Gospel is the most powerful leaven of brotherhood, freedom, justice and peace for all peoples. #GeneralAudience” @Pontifex 11 September 2019
  • “Today we celebrate the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary. I invite everyone to turn to Our Lady. Let her inspire you with a Christian outlook, so as to live like and imitate her Son Jesus ever more.” @Pontifex 12 September 2019
  • “I wish to endorse a global event, to take place on 14 May 2020 on the theme Reinventing the Global Educational Alliance. http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/pont-messages/2019/documents/papa-francesco_20190912_messaggio-patto-educativo.html” @Pontifex 12 September 2019

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The Unicorn and the Wasp – The Secrets of Doctor Who

The Doctor and Donna encounter Agatha Christie and, of course, a murder-mystery ensues. Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha enjoy the fun detective tropes, but also make some comparisons with a later episode that features a real-life artist, “Vincent,” and see how differently they come out.

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The Enemy Within (The Original Series) – The Secrets of Star Trek

The first Trek transporter accident splits Kirk into good and bad versions of himself. Jimmy, Dom, and Fr. Cory discuss this Jekyll and Hyde story and its examination of whether our positive and negative traits are simple divisions of good and evil.

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The Mad Gasser of Mattoon – Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World

In the midst of WWII, the people of Mattoon, Illinois, were terrorized by a madman using gas to disable his victims. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine this 75-year-old unsolved mystery and the theories about it, and then offer up a dramatic twist to the story you may not expect.

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The Weekly Francis – 05 September 2019

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 3 August 2019 to 5 September 2019.

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General Audiences

Messages

Speeches

Papal Tweets

  • “Saint John the Baptist who bore witness to the Messiah by dying for the truth, pray for us!” @Pontifex 29 August 2019
  • “In our daily relationship with Jesus, and in the strength of His forgiveness, we rediscover our roots.” @Pontifex 30 August 2019
  • “Video” @Pontifex 31 August 2019
  • “In today’s Gospel, Jesus invites us to selfless generosity, to open the path towards a much greater joy: that of participating in God’s own love. #Angelus” @Pontifex 1 September 2019
  • “Now is the time to rediscover our vocation as children of God, brothers and sisters, and stewards of creation. In this #SeasonOfCreation, I invite everyone to dedicate themselves to prayer.
    http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/pont-messages/2019/documents/papa-francesco_20190901_messaggio-giornata-cura-creato.html” @Pontifex 1 September 2019
  • “This is the season for letting our prayer be inspired anew by closeness to nature, which spontaneously leads us to give thanks to God the Creator.
    http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/pont-messages/2019/documents/papa-francesco_20190901_messaggio-giornata-cura-creato.html” @Pontifex 1 September 2019
  • “This is the season to reflect on our lifestyles and to undertake prophetic actions.
    http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/pont-messages/2019/documents/papa-francesco_20190901_messaggio-giornata-cura-creato.html” @Pontifex 1 September 2019
  • “We are beloved creatures of God, who in His goodness calls us to love life and to live it in communion with the rest of creation.
    http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/pont-messages/2019/documents/papa-francesco_20190901_messaggio-giornata-cura-creato.html” @Pontifex 2 September 2019
  • “Creation, a place of encounter with the Lord and one another, is “God’s own social network”, which inspires us to raise a song of cosmic praise to the Creator.
    http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/pont-messages/2019/documents/papa-francesco_20190901_messaggio-giornata-cura-creato.html” @Pontifex 2 September 2019
  • “May God, the lover of life, grant us the courage to do good without waiting for someone else to begin, or until it is too late.
    http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/pont-messages/2019/documents/papa-francesco_20190901_messaggio-giornata-cura-creato.html” @Pontifex 2 September 2019
  • “The Holy Spirit, when we invite Him into our wounds, anoints our painful memories with the balm of hope, because the Spirit restores hope.” @Pontifex 3 September 2019
  • “I invite you all to join me in prayer, that God, the Father of all, may consolidate fraternal reconciliation throughout Africa, which is the only hope for solid and lasting peace. #ApostolicJourney #Mozambique #Madagascar #Mauritius” @Pontifex 4 September 2019
  • “I invite you, each within your own heart, to pray for our brothers and sisters who have lost their lives or who are suffering because of the hurricane in the Bahamas” @Pontifex 4 September 2019
  • “The pursuit of lasting peace is a mission that involves everyone. It calls for strenuous, constant and unceasing effort, because peace is like a delicate flower trying to blossom on the stony ground of violence. #ApostolicJourney #Mozambique” @Pontifex 5 September 2019
  • “Try to keep quiet a moment and let God love you. Try to silence all the inner voices, and rest for a second in His loving embrace. #ApostolicJourney #Mozambique” @Pontifex 5 September 2019
  • “No one is more insignificant than a priest left to his own devices; therefore, our prayer is that of our Mother: I am a priest because the Lord has regarded my insignificance with kindness (cf. Lk 1:48). #ApostolicJourney #Mozambique” @Pontifex 5 September 2019

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Dragonfire – The Secrets of Doctor Who

The 7th Doctor drops a Companion and picks up a new one in his adventures on Iceworld that involve a freezing criminal, a pirate named Glitz, and a “dragon” that looks like it should be fighting Sigourney Weaver. Jimmy, Dom, and Fr. Cory talk about the departure of Mel and arrival of Ace in the midst of this adventure.

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Context Is For Kings – The Secrets of Star Trek

Continuing their review of Season 1 of Star Trek Discovery, Jimmy, Dom, and Fr. Cory discuss the introduction of the Discovery, her crew, and her enigmatic mission and Burnham’s first steps to becoming part of them.

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Virus Souls, John Wayne Prayers, Cloning Unicorns, and More Weird Questions – Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World

In months with five Fridays, we bring you a “Weird Questions” edition of Catholic Answers Live where Jimmy Akin gives shorter answers to all kinds of questions, including this time whether a virus has a soul; praying to John Wayne; video game morality; cloning unicorns; and the Mandela effect.

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The Weekly Francis – 28 August 2019

This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 8 August 2019 to 28 August 2019.

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General Audiences

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Papal Tweets

  • “May the Lord open our hearts to the needs of the poor, the defenseless, those who knock on our door to be recognized as a person.” @Pontifex 22 August 2019
  • “All of us have been created in the image and likeness of God and have the same dignity. Let us stop slavery! #IDRSTA” @Pontifex 23 August 2019
  • “May God who remembers us, God who heals our wounded memories by anointing them with hope, God who is near to lift us up from within, help us to build up the good and to console hearts.” @Pontifex 24 August 2019
  • “In today’s Gospel, Jesus explains how in Heaven there is no ”limited number“, but in order to get there, already in this life we must pass through the ”narrow gate“: loving God and our neighbour. And this is not easy! #Angelus” @Pontifex 25 August 2019
  • “Whoever draws near to God will not stumble, but strives ahead: beginning anew, trying again, rebuilding.” @Pontifex 26 August 2019
  • “The light of God enlightens those who welcome it.” @Pontifex 27 August 2019
  • “We ask for the grace not to be lukewarm Christians, living on half measures, letting love grow cold.” @Pontifex 28 August 2019

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