#11580 Open Forum - Jimmy Akin

Questions Covered: 02:02 – How do I defend the deuterocanonical books? 05:42 – I’m a convert and my husband is atheist. His main question: If God is good then how did he create suffering? 16:19 – If a man has a vasectomy and later repents and goes to confession. Are he and his wife required to abstain from relations indefinitely? 20:26 – If a priest blesses a cloud, will it rain holy water? 22:04 – Regarding the prophecy of Illumination of conscience at Garabandal. If it comes to pass, will the sins we confessed be washed away from our knowledge? 29:22 – What’s the difference between the deuterocanonical and the apocrypha, and how do we defend it? 32:20 – Was the Creed the only document that came out of the Nicene council? 36:12 – Is it immoral to eat more intelligent animals like dolphins and octopus? 37:57 – Is there a reason other than a mortal sin to go to confession? 41:36 – I’m a fertility care practitioner. I always advise couples who had vasectomies to not have relations during the woman’s fertile days. Is this morally acceptable to do? 47:59 – How does one receive communion in the Church if one is divorced but was never married in the Church? 51:48 – Could you help clarify CCC 1650? …