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Jimmy Akin
2 years
Realized that it was 30 years ago today--August 22, 1992--that I was received into the Catholic Church.
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28 years ago this morning, on August 22 (Queenship of Mary), I was received into the Catholic Church in my wife's hospital room, using the emergency, shortened form of the rites. Since I was 27 at the time, I've now been Catholic for the majority of my life.
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I urge everyone to pray fervently for our brother James White, that the doctors will be able to successfully address whatever issue he is facing and that he will have a smooth and swift recovery!
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Please pray for my friend @HwsEleutheroi as he's currently having emergency surgery this afternoon. Follow this post and I will post any updates as they arise. #Prayer
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June 1, 1993 was my report-to-work date at Catholic Answers. By divine providence, it’s also the memorial of St. Justin Martyr, patron of apologists. Today–June 1, 2023–is thus my 30th anniversary as a professional apologist
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Happy Easter, everybody!
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Merry Christmas, everybody!
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The Vatican is doing an online survey to be submitted to the Synod of Bishops. They are interested in hearing from a wide range of people who may or may not be active Catholics. You can share your views here. The deadline is August 15.
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@HwsEleutheroi @RealCandaceO James, James, James. As *I've* explained to you before, the exact boundaries of the canon aren't an urgent issue if you have a Magisterium. It's only if you assume sola scriptura that it becomes critical. Maybe a video will help. I'll get back to you!
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@MikeWingerii Separated brethren = brothers in Christ (validly baptized) who are separated from the Catholic Church (not in full communion). They were not considered automatically unsaved prior to Vatican II. There are explicit papal references from the mid 1800s to the contrary.
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Merry Christmas, everybody!
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4 years
Happy Easter, everybody!
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Here's the first of the two debates I just did with James White. This one is on Sola Scriptura. The second debate--on peace with God/justification--will be up tomorrow, and I'll post it here.
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Please pray for a young man I know who is struggling with several serious issues and going through a tough and critical time.
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Here's the 2nd debate I did w/James White last week. People have commented that they liked my cross examination of White in the first debate. They will be *especially* interested to see my cross examination of White in *this* one:
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Please pray for a gentleman who had a heart attack tonight and his wife (I was with both of them)! EMTs restarted his heart and took him to the hospital, but prayers are still needed!
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Today's my 24th anniversary as a professional apologist. I started at CA on June 1 (memorial, Justin Martyr, patron of apologists), 1993.
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Merry Christmas, everybody!
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7 years
I just received a prayer request from a man whose marriage may be ending imminently. Please keep him and his family in your prayers.
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Please re-tweet to help spread prayers on his behalf!
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2 years
That moment when you're a Medieval artist . . . and your patron wants you to draw an elephant in a manuscript . . . but you've never seen an elephant. . . .
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Happy Easter, everybody!
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4 years
Please enjoy this video of ducks changing their minds.
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@Ampeg888 If it's *possible* that someone might survive a horrible disease without going to the doctor, what's the point of going to the doctor?
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5 years
Merry Christmas, everyone!
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@DrJordanBCooper Well, this is sad. Dr. Cooper apparently doesn't know the history of Catholic Answers at all. We have not been telling Protestants for 40 years that they are under anathema. I have been working at CA for 30 years, and I have regularly made the point they are NOT under anathema.
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Merry Christmas, everybody!
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3 years
We've been working on arranging this for a while, and now I'm able to announce it! SIGN UP TO GET INFO:
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2 years
Dear @elonmusk , when you are overlord of Twitter (fingers crossed!), could you arrange for users to be able to dismiss "What's happening" content they don't want? I don't want the distraction of the Irish Daily Mirror's item, which they admit is "risqué"
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After all the people it's been de-platforming, I can't say I'm sorry to see Twitter getting a taste of its own medicine.
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@snarehead365 @Trent_Horn The fact that John has such realistic language in John 6 and a strong emphasis on the need for the Eucharist ("Unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no life in you") strongly supports a realistic understanding of the Real Presence on John's part.
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@EDIK993 @joerogan I'd be happy to oblige! Got lots of weird and interesting stuff to talk about! 😊
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2 years
In case you see it on social media, as awesome as the idea that there might be a "dead pope hammer," the Vatican has denied this. BTW, Dead Pope Hammer is a pretty good name for a heavy metal band.
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5 years
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! Be thankful for one another!
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1 year
@watruckos You are not in submission to the actual Roman pontiff. Therefore, you are a schismatic.
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7 years
Happy Easter, everyone!
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Merry Christmas, everyone!
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2 years
@IamKindSpirit @Pontifex @cnalive For a person who uses the Twitter handle "Holy Spirit," I'd be careful about charging other people with blasphemy.
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@jackmurphylive Would be happy to send you a copy of my book The Bible Is a Catholic Book. It's easy to read and about how the Bible came to be.
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5 years
If you have chronic allergies like me and think you may not be able to get Kleenex, I have one word: Handkerchiefs. 🙂
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@FeserEdward @catholiccom Actually, I didn't say it is "reasonable to hope that Judas was saved." I said, "It thus appears that we don’t have *conclusive proof* that Judas is in hell, and there is still a *ray* of hope for him."
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Join me tomorrow at Noon Central Time for the annual "Alone Together for Christmas" hangout! Everyone's welcome, and I'll be answering viewers' questions! You can go to YouTube and have it remind you that the livestream is coming up. @mys_world
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Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!
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@BonifaceXP Enjoy the penalties of calumny!
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Jimmy Akin
4 years
Thanks to @timotheeology for having me on his show for an interesting and vigorous discussion!
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4 years
WOW! You can see something cooking off in the wake of the initial explosion before the MASSIVE BLAST happens! No way this was just "fireworks." Pray for the people of Beirut!
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BREAKING: Massive explosion rocks Beirut; reports of many injured
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@kensuzuk @FeserEdward @Trent_Horn @CapturingChrist Always happy to talk with Joe Rogan. In fact, my interests overlap with his in very significant ways.
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Psst! Don't tell Bill. Pass it on.
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@catholiccom @ThomasReeseSJ @RNS @directorsilk Agreed. Divine revelation has already made this clear, particularly for the Father and the Son. Both are "he." In the case of the Spirit, the gender depends on the biblical language and the noun being used.
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@JuanCon82155794 I have no idea how geography in the afterlife works. Purgatory can certainly be conceptualized as a place. It can also be conceptualized as a process or event. In Benedict XVI's words, it can't be calculated in terms of earthly time, and the same's like true of earthly space.
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If you don't HAVE the coronavirus, you can't GIVE the coronavirus to someone more vulnerable. Staying uninfected is a physical work of MERCY--and of LOVE! #DontBeASpreader
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Have a blessed Ash Wednesday, everybody!
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No, Pope Francis isn't changing the Lord's Prayer. Info on the latest media blunder.
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@DrJavierDeLaHe1 Well, I'm an educated Christian, & I consider these possibilities openmindedly. I'd be curious to know what evidence you see for vampires as humans more-than-psychologically dependent on ingesting blood. I'm open (not convinced) on alien abductions, and I've *done* spoon bending
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Former CIA head James Woolsey has released a book claiming the Soviets were behind the JFK assassination. Mysterious World WILL be following up on the story! @mys_world
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@fshsjmjm @catholiccom King David will be in resurrection of the dead, but this is not what Jeremiah is referring to. Jeremiah is referring to a future king of the Davidic dynasty. This prophecy is fulfilled through Jesus, the Son of David. "Raise up" here means raised to power, not life.
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Sorry, @dominos . I was going to order a pizza from you, but your website(s) insist on me initiating the order process before I can even see the menu (or so it seems). That's too hard-sell. I don't like being railroaded. I'll order from someone who treats their customers better.
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2 years
@IustusEt Swim! I assume due to the lack of relevance of your comment that we're playing a game where we name random verbs.
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@FelixTu09186106 Well, partitioning all the religious evidence we have, that's not what the scientific evidence suggests--either about prayer or about survival of death.
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@CatholicClo Don't be sad! Go to whatever parish is available, do what you need to do to receive the sacraments, and supplement whatever faulty catechesis they offer by reading what the Church actually teaches (e.g., the Catechism of the Catholic Church or its Compendium). God bless you!
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The nice thing about trying to decide whether food has gone bad is that if you simply defer the decision, the problem will solve itself.
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YAY! The Mars Perseverance probe has successfully landed and is preparing to search for ancient (or modern) signs of life!
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Just finished recording the March shows for Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World. Topics include: Time Travel, the Phoenix UFO Incident, Adolf Hitler's religion, and the Cold War Russian Woodpecker. #MysteriousFeedback
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3 years
Here's a really fascinating conversation I had with Austin of Gospel Simplicity on Catholic and Protestant perspectives on justification and salvation. Check it out!
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@peoriapiper @La_Qubana Documentation? Unless someone can cite the NASA study and it can be found, this should be regarded as a pious (but false) rumor.
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Happy birthday, Thomas Sowell!
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@Catholic_vs Be careful. Caricature--which is by definition deliberately false--is a refuge to escape dealing with people actual positions. It's a version of the straw man fallacy at best and slander/libel at worst.
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@Trent_Horn Media blackouts is a key. There's a reason the press doesn't report suicides, and the same reason applies to mass shootings (it encourages copycats). Also, ending "gun-free zones"--the one type of place a shooter can have confidence he won't face opposition.
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@_voidzero I also do not have the time to go looking into others' sponsorships or other claims looking for problematic material. I'm just me, and I don't have a research staff to vet things for me. I just try to spread the word and trust God with the results.
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@squeaky_time @FreeBeacon @catholiccom It is *exactly* an archbishop's job to alert a member of his flock when that member is doing something contrary to the Catholic faith. He cites the relevant parts of canon law *showing* that it's his job.
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@JLLiedl It is being done by dioceses around the world. The Vatican's Dicastery for Communications is also doing an online version, and they contacted me and various Catholic online figures in different language groups and asked us to assist.
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Amen!
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One of the best videos opposing Critical Race Theory that you’ll ever see. 👏🏼🇺🇸
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Friday at noon Eastern, I'll be debating Gideon Lazar on Pints with Aquinas. The topic is whether the Earth is only a few thousand years old. Lazar says yes; I say no.
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This image seems appropriate.
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Congratulations to @Trent_Horn on a good debate last night!
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@deschutes0 If there is a future mark of the beast from Revelation 13, it will--at a minimum--involve the equivalent of emperor worship, and it likely will be an invisible, spiritual mark like the original mark of the beast was--and like the mark of Christ from Revelation 14 was.
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My new Kindle book "Was Jesus Married? The Startling Evidence That Would Surprise Millions" is an answer to popular books like "The Da Vinci Code" that claim he was. It also ties in to next week's episode of @mys_world , on "Holy Blood, Holy Grail":
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@SloshuaReynolds @d5_day @eduardojuan2 @catholiccom Baptism before birth IS possible. In fact, in 1901 Pope Leo XIII approved a reply from the Holy Office (now the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith) allowing the use of antiseptically treated water in uterine baptisms to prevent infection.
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@TaylorRMarshall That's why Yoda usually uses Latin word order!
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@FingersDetached "A world without God" = "A square circle" = "A four-sided triangle." No such thing. God is a necessary Being. 🙂
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Was watching YouTube and just ran into the most synesthesia question ever: "What's your favorite color of the alphabet? Mine's triangle!"
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Apparently I've got some fans in the younger set! (But then, given the number of parents I hear from who talk about how their children like @mys_world , it isn't completely unprecedented.) 😊
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. @dlongenecker1 Since the Catholic Church has a billion (10^9) members, shouldn't it be a *giga*-Church rather than just a mega-Church?
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Folks may have recently seen news stories claiming that scientists have now documented from a brain scan that dying people have their life flash before them, as reported in Near Death Experiences. Turns out the story was junk. Here's a takedown.
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