Category: Weird

Podcast: Download MYS322: The Vatican has released new rules for evaluating reports of supernatural phenomena. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli conclude their two-part discussion by looking at the rules themselves; the possible categories; and how the investigations are to be carried out. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Watch… Continue reading New Rules for Evaluating Supernatural Phenomena (Apparitions, Visions, Eucharistic Miracles, Catholic, Vatican, Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith)

Podcast: Download MYS321: In May 2024, the Vatican issued new norms for how to evaluate reports of supernatural phenomena. In the first of a two-part discussion, Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine how the new rules radically change the way these phenomena are classified. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email… Continue reading Why the Vatican Changed Its Rules for Evaluating Supernatural Phenomena (Apparitions, Visions, Eucharistic Miracles, Catholic, Vatican, Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith)

Podcast: Download MYS320: Whitley Streiber’s 1987 book Communion told his story of alien abductions and became a bestselling book and movie. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine Streiber’s claims about the Visitors he describes and ask what really happened. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Watch this episode and… Continue reading Whitley Streiber’s Communion (Aliens, UFOs, Visitors, Abduction)

Podcast: Download MYS319: Throughout history, there have been books some people considered scripture and others didn’t. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss one of those books, Jubilees. What was does it say? Could any of it be true? What should Christians today think of it? Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by… Continue reading Lost Scripture? Jubilees (Missing Book of the Bible?)

Podcast: Download MYS318: A deathbed vision is a vision that someone has just before they die and they’ve been reported throughout history. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss how they’re just being scientifically studied only recently, what they are, what happens in them, and what they might tell us about the afterlife. Get all new… Continue reading Deathbed Visions (Afterlife Research)

Podcast: Download MYS317: After reviewing the history of unicorns from pre-history to today, Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the reality that unicorns have existed and still exist; the basis for the historical accounts; and what the future holds for them. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Watch this… Continue reading The Truth About Unicorns

Podcast: Download MYS316: Pop culture imagines unicorns as horses with a single horn in their forehead and associates them with cartoons and rainbows and social movements. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore their deep roots in history and long association with the Christian faith and whether there could be real unicorns. Get all new episodes… Continue reading Do Unicorns Exist?

Podcast: Download MYS315: We regularly give Patrons the opportunity to ask Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli their mysterious questions and make them available exclusively to Patrons first and then later to the whole audience. This time the questions cover Frankenstein’s monster; the Piedmont UFO flap; pyramids and floods; and more. Get all new episodes automatically… Continue reading The Soul of Frankenstein’s Monster (& More Patron Questions)

Podcast: Download MYS314: It’s a fifth Friday, so Cy Kellett of Catholic Answers Live is asking Jimmy Akin weird questions from listeners, about topics like getting married after civilization collapses; what is Sh’ol; can Padre Pio still absolve living penitents; and more weird questions. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email… Continue reading Marriage After Civilization Is Destroyed (& More Weird Questions)

Podcast: Download MYS313: Some skeptics say that if God were real, then we’d see miracles of amputated limbs regrown and we don’t. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine a reported of just that, where a young manin 17th-century Spain regrew his leg. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Watch… Continue reading The Miracle of Calanda (Regrown Limb! Amputated Leg!)