In this episode we review and analyse episode 2 of season 8, entitled ‘Into the Dalek’. The Doctor enters the innards of his arch enemy in an attempt to save its life… and its soul. But what about the soul of the Doctor himself? Join Jimmy Akin, Stephanie Zimmer, Fr. Cory Sticha, Dom Bettinelli and Fr. Roderick for discussion, analysis and informed speculation!

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In this episode of Catholic Answers Live, Jimmy takes on the following questions:

• Can we “interpret Scripture with Scripture”?
• What does the word “desuetude” mean and how does it relate to women’s head coverings?
• Can we wear pictures of people other than saints?
• Is leaving candy before a statue of Baby Jesus okay or is that idolatry?
• Is the Church contradicting Scripture with its teaching that the use of force in legitimate defense is okay?
• Do we grow in our relationship with God in heaven?
• Can Latin Catholics attend the Melkite rite?
• Is the ice bucket challenge a Satanic ritual? Do you have to mean for a ritual to be Satanic for it to actually be Satanic?
• What does a former Catholic who has been attending a non-Catholic church need to do to return to the Faith?
• Thomas Aquinas’s arguments may prove the existence of a God, but how do you prove the existence of the God of the Bible?
• How does it work when a person has enough evidence for the existence of God but they choose not to convert?
• How to deal with religious compulsions? Are they sinful?

In this episode Jimmy joins Fr. Roderick Vonhögen, Stephanie Zimmer, Fr. Cory Sticha and Dom Bettinelli to review the first story of the new season of Doctor Who, "Deep Breath."

This is part of the SQPN podcast series The Secrets of Doctor Who, which will be reviewing all 12 episodes of this year's season of Doctor Who.

To learn more about the series, visit doctorwho.sqpn.com.

Jimmy will also be adding new theological podcasts, in and among the 12 episodes of Secrets of Doctor Who.

Jimmy appears on Catholic Answers Live in this episode of the podcast and answers these questions:

• Why does the book of Baruch not appear in some early lists of the Old Testament canon?
• Are we sinning if we don’t have a different disposition when praying to Mary and the saints than when praying to God?
• Did St. Jerome write anything concerning Tobit being inspired, given the question of the Sadducees in Matthew?
• Would it be appropriate or even mandatory for the Blessed Sacrament to be removed from the Tabernacle if someone is going to speak in a church?
• How has the Church changed its evaluation of the writings of St. Faustina Kowalska?
• Is it better to serve the poor by giving them money or making sandwiches and passing them out?
• How to explain to an ex-Catholic (now Protestant) why they shouldn’t receive Communion in the Catholic Church? Also, how to explain why Transubstantiation does not occur in Protestant services?
• What is the official Church teaching regarding the idea that Mark was the first Gospel written and that Matthew and Luke used Mark and a lost source known as Q?
• Is the Church the New Israel?

(Original Airdate: December 9, 2013)

Pope Francis recently released a major new document on evangelization—how to share the gospel of Jesus with others.

In this episode of Catholic Answers Live, Jimmy discusses the document and the implications it has.

In this episode, Jimmy discusses the issues:

• Is Pope Francis the most misunderstood pope in recent history?
• Is the press malicious or just incompetent?
• Does the Pope hate capitalism?
• How should we understand Pope Francis’s treatment of Islam?
• What level of authority does an apostolic exhortation have?
• How did Pope Francis write this document?
• Are there translation problems in this document?
• What is the major thrust of the document? Should we evangelize “without words”?
• Does Pope Francis understand his pontificate as being “to the world” in addition to “to Catholics”?
• What are the priorities of Pope Francis’s pontificate?
• What to make of the interview with an atheist journalist that was taken down from the Vatican web site?
• What level of authority do press interviews with the pope have?
• Should the Vatican web site publish papal press interviews?
• What is the Acta Apostolicae Sedis?
• Will Pope Francis do major specific things in his pontificate? Is he an innovator or an implementer?
• What to make of Pope Francis washing the feet of a Muslim girl on Holy Thursday?
• Does Pope Francis hate the Traditional Latin Mass?
• Why shouldn’t we read our own preferences into what the pope says and does?
• Will the rule on women’s foot washing be changed? Should we be upset about this?
• What gravity should we attribute to rubrics in the liturgy, and how does it relate to the doctrines in the hierarchy of truths?
• How to understand John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis in relation to each other?

(Original Airdate: December 9, 2013)