January 24, 2006
Media Note
(Jimmy Akin)
I'm supposed to be on Relevant Radio at about 11:40 a.m. Pacific (2:40 p.m. Eastern) to talk about the Michael Schiavo situation.
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September 15, 2005
Radio, Radio
(Tim Jones)
There is a kind of archetypal image in American culture, of the young teenager, hidden in their room with a battery-powered transistor radio, listening to music that was very, very different from what they heard in their parent's home. People who grew up in the fifties still recall how hearing Little Richard or Elvis opened up for them a new world (for good or ill).
I still have a vivid memory of hearing Paul McCartney and Wings' "Jet" on a similar little radio and thinking that my life had changed forever. Having grown up on Hank Williams, church music and Broadway tunes, hearing the Beatles or Stevie Wonder simply was a whole 'nother universe. It was much more than music, it was the common culture of my generation. Listening to American Top Forty on Sunday afternoons was like picking up a secret signal from Underground Command Central.
But The Rock and Roll became big business and listening to the radio inevitably became boring. ClearChannel is, for me, sure proof of the second law of thermodynamics; the universe is destined to dissipate and run down, becoming a thinly dispersed, dark cloud of matter at a uniform temperature just above absolute zero (unless Jesus comes back!).
So it was kind of cool to find myself delicately twiddling with the nobs on my radio tuner at home, the other day, patiently trying to pull in the weak signal of a new Catholic station in our area. It reminded me of how I had to finesse that old transistor to try and get my favorite AM station as a kid.
Relevant Radio is a growing network of Catholic stations across the U.S., carrying Catholic talk programming. Radio worth listening to! It's like Underground Command Central all over again, but without the acne.
We are blessed to have a parishoner who leaped out in faith and got the station (KDUA - 96.5 FM) up and running. They broadcast from our parish hall (Rogers, Arkansas) and have only a few precious watts of signal power, but have plans to beef up in the future.
In the mean time, I get to hear faithful Catholic programs, including Fr. John "Tell It Like It Is" Corapi and Catholic Answers Live!, which frequently features our favorite apologist, Jimmy "Not Bad for a Texan" Akin. The static, for the time being, just adds to the counter-cultural thrill.
You can find out more about Relevant Radio at their WEBSITE, including broadcast schedules and locations.
Start praying! Maybe Relevant Radio will come to your area, too.
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August 10, 2005
Last Week's Show (August 4, 2005)
(Jimmy Akin)
DOWNLOAD THE SHOW (REAL AUDIO).
DOWNLOAD THE SHOW (MP3--YEE-HAW!!!).
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Is there such a person as Lillith? Are there female demons and angels?
- Has the Vatican mandated that we all stand after Communion until everyone has received?
- How can God is all good, why does he allow us to suffer forever in hell?
- Where are Scriptural bases for the enthronement of the Sacred Heart?
- How to respond to someone who says that you won't get along with someone based on his astrological sign?
- Has Jimmy ever heard of Fr. Hempsch and "healing the family tree"?
- If all come to the Father through Jesus, where does that leave those before the time of Christ and those who have never heard of Jesus?
- A brief follow-up on earlier astrology question.
- Can the souls in purgatory pray for us?
- What were the highlights of Pope John VIII's reign?
- How do the 95 Theses square with Vatican II? Would Vatican II have prevented the Protestant Reformation?
- How much of a "hassle" will it be for the caller's husband to get an annulment?
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August 03, 2005
CAL On MP3--Now Available!
(Jimmy Akin)
This is not the final, final version of the page, nor is currently integrated with the calendar, nor do we have an RSS feed set up yet, but . . .
C.A. LIVE IS NOW AVAILABLE ON MP3 FOR YOUR DOWNLOADING PLEASURE!
Enjoy!
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July 29, 2005
This Week's Show (July 28, 2005)
(Jimmy Akin)
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Has Jimmy heard of this unapproved apparition?
- Who are the Fathers and Doctors of the Church?
- Can women be ordained priests or bishops validly?
- What does the language of divinization mean?
- What are the seven hills of Rome? Is Vatican Hill one of them?
- Must Catholics believe in purgatory (caller has trouble with this, with the "sale" of indulgences, with salvation, etc.)
- Did purgatory exist and was there anyone in it prior to the time of Christ?
- How to refer to a monsignor or a bishop in conversation?
- Should the caller attend a wedding where the parties are living in sin prior to the wedding?
- Why does God let the devil run amok after he refused to serve? Why do evil spirits obey Jesus?
- What to do about priests supporting homosexuality?
- What does the Church teach about trans-gendered people?
- What's the difference between being published "with ecclesiastical approval" and the nihil obstat and imprimatur?
- How to tell if a prayer or pious work currently carries an indulgence?
- How would one report a miracle that one felt one had experienced in connection with the intercession of John Paul II?
- Can consecrated chalices, etc., be sold?
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July 15, 2005
This Week's Show (July 14, 2005)
(Jimmy Akin)
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Why do people complain that Catholics pray to "dead people" when the saints are "alive"?
- Did Jesus' bestowal of the keys on Peter do away with Old Testament passages dealing with the requirement of rest?
- What does "several" mean in the Church's norms on indulgences?
- Where did Cain get his wife?
- How to pick a new parish.
- How to resist temptation.
- Do priests carry documentation that prove that they're priests? What about priests of the Old Catholic Church of Antioch?
- Is it licit to use glass for chalices and ciboria?
- Shouldn't Jesus have original sin if he was fully human and, as Paul says, "All have sinned"?
- Son is moving into an apartment with both male and female roommates. Can he help his son move in?
- How was the Bible put together, and how to defend its accuracy against those who point to the non-canonical "gospels"?
- Can Catholics join Scientology?
- Catholic told Protestant friend to pray that his late mother "accepted Jesus Christ" before she died. Was this okay?
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July 08, 2005
This Week's Show (July 7, 2005)
(Jimmy Akin)
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Is it okay for the caller to pray for her dog?
- What is meant by penal substitution and what is the Catholic position on it? How do we understand Jesus quoting Ps. 22 on the Cross?
- An Evangelical asks about the Catholic teaching on usury.
- How to respond to the claim that if we are sick that we are in some way possessed and we don't have enough faith to be healed?
- An Evangelical asks about prayer to the saints.
- How to understand the statement that the Church of Christ "subsists in" the Catholic Church?
- Can a Protestant receive the last rites?
- How to evaluate claims regarding the Holy Spirit having a feminine character?
- How to evaluate claims that very few people actually commit mortal sin?
- Can souls from purgatory manifest in apparitions?
- Did Jesus have a guardian angel during his earthly life?
- How does the Church regard psychology and counselling?
- If we aren't allowed to spread a person's ashes after cremation, why do we have relics in altars?
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June 24, 2005
This Week's Show (June 23, 2005)
(Jimmy Akin)
HIGHLIGHTS:
- What does it mean for us to offer up Jesus' sufferings to the Father? Why would we do that?
- Is there a move to "restore" the order of the sacraments of initiation?
- Can Jimmy recommend Lives of the Popes by Richard McBrien? What is an alternative resource?
- Is B16 changing the way things have been historically done in canonizations by holding off on the canonization of a French priest?
- If Mary was conceived without original sin, why does the Church hold out the possibility that she died physically?
- What does the word porneia mean in the passages where Jesus talks about divorce?
- Does the Catholic Church ignore the first thousand years of Church history and why does it regard itself as the true Church rather than the Greek Orthodox church?
- Are deacons traditionally ministers of the chalice? How does this square with using extraordinary ministers for distributing the host?
- Is there a resource written by an ex-SSPXer on the problems of this movement?
- What is one to think of Thomas Merton? How to deal with those who rely on his more Buddhist-sounding stuff?
- How can a sex offender find resources to help him live the Catholic life?
- Why don't we hear priests talking more at Mass about the state of our souls?
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June 17, 2005
This Week's Show (June 16, 2005)
(Jimmy Akin)
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Why are people able to get divorced, annuled, & remarried today as opposed to a few decades ago?
- Did Pius XII say that when the Jews return to Israel it will mean the world is coming to an end in a generation?
- Does God hear your prayers if you're in a state of mortal sin?
- What is the bird Prothonotary Warbler named after? (answer after the first break)
- How to square the the salvation of catechumens with the Catechism's statement that baptism is the only assured means the Church knows of for entry into eternal beatitude?
- If God could have Mary be conceived without original sin, why doesn't he do this for everyone?
- How to check out reported papal statements that the Church didn't do enough in WWII for Jewish people?
- Gentleman has been told that he can't receive Communion because he's divorced until he gets an annulment. True?
- Why does Fundamentalist get mad when we tell him the Pentateuch wasn't written by Moses at our Bible study?
- Is B16 likely to allow a greater us of the Tridentine Mass? What's he likely to do to improve the liturgy generally?
- Person in video says that practice precedes theology, that we do things first and them make up explanations for them later. True?
- Can a deacon get married again if his wife dies?
- Are we to consume the Host immediately after we receive Communion in the hand?
- Where to get evidence for Peter having a successor in Rome?
- How to respond to Fundamentalists who get offended when he tells them the Catholic Church is the true Church?
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June 10, 2005
This Week's Show (June 9, 2005)
(Jimmy Akin)
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Is the current rite of Mass a "revised" order of Mass?
- Why did folks make signs to Zechariah when John the Baptist was born if Zechariah wasn't deaf?
- Why was Moses told to take the sandals off his feet because he was standing on holy ground?
- What does Jimmy think of von Balthasar's work "Dare We Hope That All Men Be Saved"?
- What are reasons to accept apparitions and miracles?
- Can one register in two different parishes in two different dioceses?
- What are some books proving the divinity of Christ and defending him against higher critics and skeptics?
- Why do Protestants say "For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory" as part of the Lord's Prayer?
- Will Jimmy be writing about Mary as "Co-Redemptrix," "Mediatrix," and "Advocate"? How to understand the title "Mediatrix of all graces"?
- How does the Mass as a sacrifice compare to the Old Testament sacrifices?
- How to know if someone is possessed?
- What is the origin of the Pope Joan myth?
- What does Jimmy think of a claim in the Ignatius Study Bible that Jesus celebrated Passover on Tuesday in keeping with an Essene solar calendar?
- Can the Latin caller have his kids chrismated (confirmed) in an Eastern rite church?
- How to refute Protestants who try to work the Catholic Church into the book of Revelation?
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