July 15, 2004 Show

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Highlights:

  • What is a hermaphrodite and should they do anything to change their condition?
  • Does Jn 7:16 or Jn 6:38 prove that Jesus wasn’t divine?  Did Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, or Clement of Alexandria teach that Jesus wasn’t divine?
  • How does one handle being disheartened or discouraged by constantly interacting with people who oppose the Church?
  • Clarify the USCCB statement "Interim Reflections of the Task Force on Catholic Bishops and Catholic Politicians"?
  • When Jesus became man was there a change in God?
  • Do the different beliefs of Catholics negate our description of the Church as "One" and suggest that we are as divided as Protestants?
  • Considerations in voting for someone whose moral stance on important issues is okay but has previously broken the law?
  • Should stillborn babies be baptised?
  • What happens with infants or fetuses at the Resurrection of the Dead when our souls are reunited with our bodies?
  • How to respond to Atheists who deny the necessity of a first mover?
  • Biblical evidence that those invincibly ignorant of Jesus Christ can still be saved?

Cold & Flu Threedux

A reader writes:

Jimmy,

How could anyone catch a cold or the flu from the blood of Christ.

I have never had any fear of getting sick from the Precious Blood of Jesus.

You need not have any fear of getting sick from the Precious Blood. However, you do have reason to be feaful  of getting sick from the germs deposited on the chalices/fingers/etc. of those distributing Holy Communion.

The sacred species are not a threat, but any germs attached to them are threats.

Cold & Flu Threedux

A reader writes:

Jimmy,

How could anyone catch a cold or the flu from the blood of Christ.

I have never had any fear of getting sick from the Precious Blood of Jesus.

You need not have any fear of getting sick from the Precious Blood. However, you do have reason to be feaful  of getting sick from the germs deposited on the chalices/fingers/etc. of those distributing Holy Communion.

The sacred species are not a threat, but any germs attached to them are threats.

Michael Crichton Will Be Hacked!

Crichton has already written about the nebulous, non-scientific values ascribe the the variables in the Drake Equation.

Despite not having a whit more evidence, a group of scientists who aren’t going to be listened-to seriously, have decided tha the chance of a nearby extraterrestrial civilization is much higher than most think.

GET THE UNSUBSTANTIATED STORY.

Conspiracy-oriented minds might wonder if this the beginning of the "disclosure" that precedes The Facade.

The UFO community will certainly wonder about that.

This Isn't Exactly News But . . .

HITLER ORDERED PIUS XII TO BE KIDNAPPED.

Fortunately, the general ordered to do it didn’t carry out the order.

Pius XII was aware that he was likely to get kidnapped by Hitler, and (so I’ve read in books about him) left instructions that he was to be considered to have resigning the papacy as soon as he was abducted, so that he couldn’t be used (as well) as a political tool by Hitler and so that a new pope could be elected.

Fortunately, those contingency plans never had to be activated.

This isn’t exactly news, but I’m glad it’s getting attention in the press, as it puts the kibosh on the idea that Pius XII was sympathetic to or in league with Hitler. In fact, the two men despised each other.

I wonder if this story has anything to do with John Cornwell’s recent retraction of his charge that Pius XII was "Hitler’s Pope."

This Isn’t Exactly News But . . .

HITLER ORDERED PIUS XII TO BE KIDNAPPED.

Fortunately, the general ordered to do it didn’t carry out the order.

Pius XII was aware that he was likely to get kidnapped by Hitler, and (so I’ve read in books about him) left instructions that he was to be considered to have resigning the papacy as soon as he was abducted, so that he couldn’t be used (as well) as a political tool by Hitler and so that a new pope could be elected.

Fortunately, those contingency plans never had to be activated.

This isn’t exactly news, but I’m glad it’s getting attention in the press, as it puts the kibosh on the idea that Pius XII was sympathetic to or in league with Hitler. In fact, the two men despised each other.

I wonder if this story has anything to do with John Cornwell’s recent retraction of his charge that Pius XII was "Hitler’s Pope."

July 8, 2004 Show

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Highlights:

  • How is it that there exist different numberings for the 10 Commandments?
  • Did Jesus save us when he died on the cross or when he rose from the dead?
  • Do Catholics have to pay a priest to pray them out of purgatory?
  • What is contemplative prayer?  What forms of Christian meditation are ok?
  • Are there any other days of the year besides Sundays on which Catholics should not work?
  • Can Catholics be divorced?  Is divorce and remarriage in the case of adultery okayed by Scripture?
  • How is it that the NT Greek word for cross also means stake?
  • What is the reason for the four rules James requires the Gentiles to adhere to in Acts 15?
  • Is it licit for two baptized individuals get married outside of a Church building, e.g. on the beach?
  • Before the Gospel is proclaimed, is the entire congregation supposed to make the sign of the cross on their head, lips, and heart, or only the priest or deacon?  Is one supposed to strike their breast during the Hail Holy Queen?
  • What is a good Catholic Greek interlinear New Testment?  Is there something similar for the OT?
  • Is the phrase "God helps those who help themselves" in the Bible?

Live From Titan–IN COLOR!

Y’know how in all the TV shows that were on in the mid-1960s (Gilligan’s Island, Bewitched, etc.) there was a transition made from filiming in black and white to filming in color? It was customary to add a tag line "In Color!" after the switch was made, to encourage people to go out and buy those new-fangled, blurry color television sets.

Well, the boys at NASA have now added color to their images of Titan, based on spectral analysis of the chemical composition of what the Huygens lander is snapping pictures of.

Bear in mind, that if you were on the surface of Titan, you wouldn’t see these colors. It’s too dark. At that distance, the sun itself is "a cold-hearted orb that rules the night, and robs the colors from our sight. Red is grey and yellow white," but the boys at NASA decide what is  right, and what is an illusion.

Here’s an image colorized for what Titan would look like if you shone very powerful bright lights on it (and in which, NASA explains, the two rock-like objects below the center of the picture are about 6 inches and 1.5 inches across, respecively):

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DAILY PLANET: Today Saturn Girl of the Legion of Super-Heroes released a statement saying, "I am very gratified that the boys at NASA have released photos of my homeworld, Titan, that better convey to the public the visual impression it makes on eyes properly accustomed to the dark. Now can some optometrist here on Earth help me replenish my supply of super-pupil-contracting fluid?"

MORE SATURN SYSTEM PHOTOS.

July 1, 2004 Show

More results from the volunteer program (Try It!).

A special holler out to Adam Nolte for doing the July 2004 shows!

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Highlights.

  • What is the nature of the Holy Spirit and what is the proof from Scripture?
  • Scriptural proof of the existance of both particular and general judgements?
  • The Assumption: before or after the death of Mary?
  • Veil wearing by women at Mass?
  • Is it ok to hold hands during the Our Father at Mass?
  • Who was Melchizedek?
  • What does it mean to "bear our cross" or "bear the cross of others"?
  • Is the pronoun "you" plural in Greek when Jesus gives Peter the Keys in Mt 16?  How about the similar passage in Mt 18?
  • What if one were to die while living with one with whom he/she has been remarried outside of the Church while waiting for an annulment to process?
  • What happened to the saints who were raised at the time of Jesus’ death, and was St. Joseph one of them?
  • Should one use insurance from an employer who supports an abortion provider?
  • Who wrote the book of Revelation?