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#12145 Can a Sacrament Like Baptism Be Valid If Given Under False Identity? - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

What happens if someone receives a sacrament while pretending to be someone else? We explore a wild baptism scenario involving identical twins and what it means for the validity and liceity of the sacrament. Plus, we tackle guardian angels, Mass in space, miracles, and the mystery of God’s plan. Join The CA Live Club Newsletter: Click Here Questions Covered: 02:52 – Considering most of your show is about theology I was wondering if you experience anything more on the personal side.  13:25 – Would it be permissible for a Catholic to believe that God knows all possible multiverses and chose to create the one we are in where we have freewill and God reveals himself and incarnates as Jesus to help us know God, but that the universe basically runs on its own and our choices are our own. Would that be a way to reconcile that God has a plan, but that we also have free will?  18:20 – Why does God allow miracles in some cases but not others, especially in reference to Matthew 18:19 which states, “Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven”? For example, why does this not apply when groups of people are praying for someone to be healed and they are not.  23:25 – Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except by me.”  Did he mean that he, Jesus Christ is the door, or did he mean “the way, the truth, and the life” is the door? Or both?  28:42 – Does Mary have the same kind of guardian angel as we do? Could it possibly be Gabriel? Is there any value in contemplating the guardian angels of others?  34:49 – You mentioned something about shared death experiences (where someone else will be in the room when someone is dying and someone will be in the room who is not dying and they both experience the visions) in one of your videos. Have you come across any contemporary accounts of these that are credible? Asking for my friend who is a grad student in philosophy.  37:46 – I was wondering about Holy Mass and space travel.  if you were traveling near lightspeed, let’s say 99% , You start to experience some heavy time dilation. Specifically at 99% light speed you’re you are experiencing 14% of the time that passes on Earth relative to an observer on Earth. Would your Sunday obligation depend on Earth time or ship time assuming there’s a priest on the ship? I figured it out that there will be about one day for a week so you could do mass everyday, but I was also wondering about calculating the date of Easter while you’re on a relativistic speed journey. Would the priest need to start Mass at the short time that it’s still Easter on Earth?  43:30 – Is it a correct understanding of the teaching of the Catechism of the Council of Trent to say that the expression “God died” is not to be understood literally but rather figuratively (i.e., anthropomorphism and/or synecdoche)?  46:25 – Let’s say there are two identical twin sisters, Kait and Leia. Neither are baptized, but Kait wishes to become baptized. For reasons, Leia does not want her sister to be baptized, and so has her sister kidnapped. Leia pretends to be her sister Kait and receives the sacrament. Question: When the priest says, “I baptize you *Kait in the name….”, how does this affect the validity and liceity of the sacrament? Is Leia actually baptized? What about Kait?

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers live.

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I am Cy Kellett, your host, and we've got two great hours to look

0:22.1

for. Jimmy Aiken with us, both hours. And it's an Ask Me Anything of the Internet variety. We have got

0:29.2

tons of questions. Well, we get tons of questions from the Internet. We get tons of questions from

0:33.5

all different sources. And Jimmy collects them up for us, and we get to do these shows where we just answer questions

0:40.4

from the Internet.

0:41.1

I always find these kind of fun because sometimes you get questions.

0:44.3

Well, first of all, you can get questions from people who can't call during the show for

0:48.1

one reason or another, and that's fun.

0:49.4

But it's also fun just to get maybe a variety of questions.

0:54.8

We get an interesting variety of questions from the Internet.

0:57.9

Jimmy Aiken, of course, is senior apologist here at Catholic Answers, the podcaster behind,

1:02.7

well, I don't even know how the podcasting world is surviving while he's here.

1:07.3

He's on so many podcasts now.

1:08.8

I'm not sure how it's still going on. But of course,

1:12.3

Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World and many other podcasts. Hello, Jimmy Aiken.

1:16.6

Hello, Cy Kellett. And this is just one more podcast that I'm on. So don't worry,

1:20.9

I'm still feeding into the podcast world, even at the moment. Is there such thing as Catholic

1:26.5

podcasting without Jimmy Aiken?

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I don't know about that.

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And of course, Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world is you look at things from the perspective of both

1:37.0

faith and reasons, so I'm not limiting that to just being a Catholic podcast.

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