Offbeat Questions

We pick our favorite weird, wild, and wacky questions about Catholic Faith, and Senior Apologist Jimmy Akin answers them.

Questions Covered:

• What kind of prayers for a sports team are appropriate?
• Is it true that a medieval pope had a previous pope dug up and put on trial?
• Have some saints and popes used tobacco?
• If life exists on other planets, did Jesus incarnate there also?
• Today would we keep a beheaded John the Baptist alive with pumps and stuff?
•  How much of your body mass can you lose before you lose your soul?
• If a Catholic is eating a hot dog on a ship and crosses into a time zone where abstinence is required, is it a sin to finish the hot dog?
• Could an artificially intelligent and sentient creature be saved? What is required to have a rational soul?
• Throughout the series Black Mirror, a recurring theme is digital duplicates of human consciousness getting treated with cruelty as they are enslaved by and pitted against actual body-and-soul human beings. As Catholics, who are we rooting for? The humans or the AIs?