Ask Me Anything: Catholicism w/ Jimmy Akin | June 6, 2024 | Catholic Answers Live

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TOPIC: Ask Me Anything: Catholicism
GUEST: Jimmy Akin

QUESTIONS ASKED:
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:10:37 - Did Peter know he was the first Pope?
00:14:02 - What is the morality of using VPNs to bypass geo-restrictions on content?
00:20:40 - Would my mother-in-law who passed prior have met my recently born daughter in heaven?
00:29:40 - Anything that cannot be backed up book, chapter, and verse in the New Testament did not come from God, it came from the men trying to instruct God”
00:31:51 - Wouldn’t it have been better for God the Father to lay down his own life rather than his son’s?
00:35:50 - What is the Catholic church's teaching on being a soldier?
00:42:04 - How can I explain the Cherubim and Seraphim hierarchy to a Jehovah witness?
00:47:39 - Luke 9:49-50 there is someone other than Apostles exorcizing demons, does this mean that people other than priests can drive out demons?
00:51:31 - Did the altars in the Old Testament become unsanitary with the amount of blood from sacrifice?

00:56:10 - Are martyrs automatically saints?
00:57:47 - Is the role of the diaconate expandable?
01:01:56 - What is the difference between Eucharistic Adoration with Exposition and in the tabernacle?
01:07:09 - Was the date of Friday, April 3 of the Crucifixion calculated on the Julian calendar or Gregorian?
01:09:59 - What is the legitimacy to the story of the Nephilim?
01:17:23 - Where can I find information on how to get an exorcism in my area, is this reserved for only Catholics?
01:19:22 - What was the mood of the apologist when Pope Benedict retired?
01:27:56 - Can you explain Paul's teachings on women wearing coverings for angels not other interpretations?
01:37:48 - How can we have peace with God when we are able to fall into mortal sin on any day?
01:41:26 - Why is this divorce seen as a big deal?
01:47:46 - Is lying against the Holy Spirit different from blasphemy of the Holy Spirit?

[Catholiclady]

My husband and I had this same question about VPNs when we lived in Germany and used them to watch netflix, etc. Good practical question.

[jmh]

Jimmy’s brain should studied. It’s like a constantly updated encyclopedia, dictionary-not to mention all religions, philosophy etc etc etc. truly amazing gift!!!

[Catechuman]

Jimmy, you don't have enough pipes!

[aWitness]

What does a person with no family left do when their soul is in danger ans the church isnt even open to listening...?

[dr.tafazzi]

I found Jimmy's take on the Netflix question underwhelming. In viewing something, nobody's OWNERSHIP in the proper sense of the word is infringed. Copyright is in a different moral category than ownership of actual things. If I have a chair and a guest sees it, then makes a copy of the chair for them to use, I have no right to ask money from them, even if I'd have "lost a sale" in the event in which the guest wanted a chair that looked like mine so badly that if he were forcefully prevented from copying it by the state, he'd buy it from me.

So if Terms of Service are not binding on your conscience (which they're not) then go ahead and use a VPN for netflix.

[authorityfigure]

The recent view that genesis 1-11 is a different genre than the rest of the book is really annoying to me. I haven’t seen anyone point out how they can back up this claim grammatically, historically, or traditionally.