Ask Me Anything: Catholicism w/ Jimmy Akin | June 13, 2024 | Catholic Answers Live

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TOPIC: Ask Me Anything: Catholicism
GUESTS: Jimmy Akin

QUESTIONS ASKED:
00:00 - Introduction
04:03 - Does the trial of Pope Formosus disprove Papal Infallibility?
10:50 - Does time exist in the Church triumphant and the Church suffering as it does for the Church militant?
17:56 - How can we explain to an animal rights activist that humans have greater value and dignity?
24:36 - What’s the morality of interacting with algorithms that can influence others to encounter questionable material?
31:09 - I want to start defending the faith. How do I defend the words “Praying to” when referring to Mary?
36:42 - What is the Catholic perspective of the orthogonality thesis within general purpose intelligence research?
42:29 - In your recent debate with James White on Sola Scriptura you argued the different ways “Word of God’ was used. What resource did you use to build that argument?
46:33 - My wife and I both grew up Catholic but never got married in the Church. Do we have to get our marriage blessed by the Church? We now live like brother and sister.
51:05 - My son is in college and questioning whether God is real. How do I start a conversation with him without scaring him away?

[caliburnblade]

I had an argument against a protestant about intercession of the saints, I said that prayers to the saint was alien to them because they removus scriptura the book of tobit before they sola scriptura the bible. He became silent.

[Misael-Hernandez]

Saints are God's jewels, in my opinion.

[dave_ecclectic]

43:37 Wojohowitz. It's spelled just like it sounds. 😀

[ozzietad]

I did 12 years at catholic school and never missed mass until I was 15-
We were told we could pray to Mary- but not in a way she could grant wishes.
It was more like she was gods receptionist.
So we could pray to Mary and basically ask her to pass our prayers on to god.
Put a post it note on his things to do. Put in a good word for us. And as she’s female and a mother- there was an assumption she may have been slightly more approachable on some subjects.
I don’t believe in any of it now-
But I was in the Legion of Mary. ( we had a very grumpy priest who had to run our group-in his lunch hours- a group of about 6 little 9 year old girls. It always felt like he was begrudging being there- which made sense years later when we heard what he had been up to with the boys, so it was decided it was best they made him hang out with little girls in his lunch hour rather than wandering the schoolyard when there were rumours afoot. He was later charged but took the cowards way out rather than give his victims justice)
But the Legion of Mary was the first committee role I had- as the treasurer. We took minutes and had an agenda and prayer lists and a small smooth of money for the biscuits we served at our meeting.
And it was about Mary!

[dannymack]

There is no verse in the bible that says pray to Mary Jesus"s mother, but there is a verse that says many will revear her. So it's ok to revear her.

[michaelthomas]

What Catholic network was he referring to as bad?

[WayneDrake-ukgg]

Protestants "pray to the Saints" all the time, they just refuse to acknowledge it, and bring in verbal distinctions. For example, if they pray through Scripture, they are essentially praying "with" the human author. Same if they meditate on a Wesley, Whitfield, Edwards, etc, sermon. Likewise, when they watch an RC Sproul sermon on YT (though they may have to wait a few centuries before he's in the company of Saints 😂😂😂)