#12130 Could Hobbits or Vulcans Become Catholic Priests? - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 29 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

If intelligent alien or fictional species like Vulcans or Hobbits existed, could they be ordained as priests? We dive into this speculative theology question and also explore Marian devotion, dowsing, near-death experiences, and papal infallibility.

Questions Covered:

02:59 – Would other intelligent creatures (like hobbits or vulcans) become priests?
08:29 – Could a Catholic holding all that the Church teaches on Mary believe that she’s overemphasized?
12:03 – What are the “living waters” discussed in John 4?
15:32 – I’ve seen your videos on dowsing. Is dowsing for future events permissible, or is it considered divination?
24:55 – Can a consecration be valid if one item is defective?
30:58 – Why do most people who have Near-Death Experiences that are not religious or mention Jesus?
36:01 – How do you meditate on the rosary while saying the vocal prayers?
40:21 – When Jesus talks about “a divided kingdom” and the demons, what is he talking about?
46:20 – If the pope were to make a definitive statement, could half of it be infallible and the other half be fallible?
51:44 – What are the limitations of a bishop over the liturgical functions of a diocese?

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0:32.2	Jimmy Aiken, our guest, and it's asked me anything.
0:34.3	I'll tell you, let me give you that one line open.
0:36.9	This is a great day for calling
0:38.3	Jimmy A. You don't usually get a day like this where a line or two will be open at various
0:43.9	points during the show. Usually they just stay full. So take that as a sign. This is your day to call.
0:48.7	8883187-884. Jimmy Aiken, I mentioned the first hour and then forgot to follow up on it.
0:56.3	Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World and the episode that dropped today on Jimmy Aiken's
1:01.7	Mysterious World, but I didn't ask you about the Jimmy Aiken podcast.
1:06.0	Yeah, so let's see. Monday is going to be March 31st, and I've got an episode coming up on the Jimmy Aiken podcast on what is the gospel?
1:19.5	Because you hear this term getting tossed around a lot, and you hear a bunch of different theories, particularly in the Protestant community, but also in the Catholic
1:27.5	community, about what it means. So I go through those theories, I point some of them anyway,
1:34.0	some of the more common ones, and I point out problems with them. And then I look at, so how
1:40.5	does the Bible understand the concept of the gospel?
1:45.0	Because you can figure it out.
1:47.3	And there's actually more than one way the Bible articulates the gospel.
1:52.9	And there was an earlier way that it was articulated,
1:57.1	and then there was a later way that it was articulated.
2:00.4	But the Bible does not understand the
2:03.4	gospel to be the message of how to get saved. That would make the gospel about us. You know, how do we
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