Do Daleks Have Souls? Star Wars Catholicism & More Weird Questions – Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World

Is every prayer a kind of telepathy? On Halloween, Jimmy Akin takes listener questions with Cy Kellett, from ghosts who never ask for Masses to Star Wars’ religious roots, time travel, and whether Daleks have souls.

https://youtu.be/DWGYFrO-RfU

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  • 0:00:00 – Intro
  • 0:00:46 – Programming note: Weird Questions Month
  • 0:01:00 – Today’s weird questions
  • 0:01:58 – Catholic Answers Live: Halloween with Cy Kellett
  • 0:03:01 – Jimmy’s Mysterious World plug on Catholic Answers Live
  • 0:03:57 – Why don’t all ghosts ask for Masses? (Philip)
  • 0:14:08 – Is All Saints a holy day of obligation this year?
  • 0:14:57 – Why would God allow residual hauntings? (Jim)
  • 0:21:30 – Is it moral to use AI that could cost a coworker’s job? (Jordan)
  • 0:30:06 – Do non-saints’ bodies stay incorrupt? (Daniel)
  • 0:32:01 – Catholic themes in Star Wars (Miguel)
  • 0:39:39 – Are a family’s guardian angels friends? (My Home-T D 6 S V)
  • 0:44:37 – Could your guardian angel console Christ in Gethsemane? (Teresa)
  • 0:49:53 – Jimmy Akin Podcast plug on Catholic Answers Live
  • 0:53:03 – Basil Rathbone, Sherlock Holmes and Son of Frankenstein
  • 0:54:04 – Is prayer telepathy? Do the saints communicate telepathically? (Basil)
  • 1:06:27 – Thank you to Patrons
  • 1:06:56 – Sponsor: Miss D’s Honeybees
  • 1:07:41 – Sponsor: Fr. Dwight Longenecker
  • 1:08:58 – Jimmy’s next book
  • 1:09:25 – Can God speak to us in the womb? (Brianna)
  • 1:14:44 – What would you change in history? (Robo Squid)
  • 1:18:01 – Dark Shadows and the secret bunker
  • 1:22:14 – Time travel with no choice of destination
  • 1:28:26 – Do Daleks have souls? (Maximilian)
  • 1:33:44 – Why would God let a ghost stay on earth? (M Jul 84)
  • 1:41:20 – Clockwise or counterclockwise rosary? (Grant)
  • 1:43:03 – Mysterious Feedback: #428 The Devil’s Bible, Jesus Was an Alien?, Psychic Powers in Heaven, and Weird Questions
  • 1:53:04 – Your mysterious feedback
  • 1:53:37 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
  • 1:53:42 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
  • 1:54:19 – Next Time: More Weird Questions
  • 1:54:31 – Share the show
  • 1:54:41 – Get your Mysterious merch
  • 1:54:49 – Show notes
  • 1:54:56 – Become a Patron
  • 1:55:08 – Sponsor: The Grady Group
  • 1:55:23 – Sponsor: Rosary Army and School of Mary
  • 1:55:46 – Outro

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Father Dwight Longenecker. Are you inspired by sharp, witty writing about faith and culture? Does imaginative, thought provoking content help you see the world, the church and yourself with fresh vision? Popular convert, Catholic priest and author Father Dwight Longenecker writes daily at his Substack and at his award winning website, Standing on My Head, where you can read answers, apologetics and explorations of the mysteries of this world and the next. Read his blog, get his new book, Bloodshed and Blessing, and be in touch at dwightlongenecker.com.

Miss D’s Honeybees, a small family-operated honey company that specializes in making delicious all naturally flavored honeys and loose-leaf teas. With sweet options like chocolate, salted caramel, and lemon, or savory like garlic jalapeño ginger honey they have something for everyone. A portion of Miss D’s Honeybees’ proceeds help fund educational and housing programs for the poor in a small town in Mexico. Taste something sweet and do some good. Visit missdshoneybees.com and use discount code “mysterious” for 20% off your first order.”

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The Weekly Leo – 14 October 2026

Pope Leo XIV (file photo) (VATICAN MEDIA)

This version of The Weekly Leo covers material released in the last week, from 3 October 2026 to 14 October 2026.

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The Practical Joker (TAS) – The Secrets of Star Trek

A charged particle cloud infects the Enterprise computer and it starts pranking the crew. In TAS S2E3, Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler weigh forced 1970s gags against Star Trek’s very first holodeck.

https://youtu.be/JjztDSJdYLA

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Time-Travel Mass Before Jesus? Jesus’s DNA, Psychic Conversion & More Weird Questions – Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World

Could a priest who traveled back in time say Mass before the Last Supper? Jimmy Akin takes listener questions on Catholic Answers Live with Cy Kellett, from Mary’s DNA to Malachi Martin and the Michigan Melon Heads.

https://youtu.be/4xA8ASUulOk

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Chapters:

  • 0:00:00 – Intro
  • 0:00:41 – Programming note: Weird Questions all October
  • 0:00:58 – Today’s weird questions
  • 0:02:05 – Catholic Answers Live: a dust storm, a thunderstorm and propinquity
  • 0:07:09 – Would psychically possessing someone make their conversion count? (Max)
  • 0:15:19 – Jimmy’s Mysterious World plug on Catholic Answers Live
  • 0:17:45 – Were Mr. Eko’s baptisms on LOST valid? (Will)
  • 0:21:35 – Did Mary contribute DNA to Jesus? (Todd)
  • 0:27:04 – Is it blasphemous to call God and angels aliens? (Jager Vom Abilene)
  • 0:37:09 – A plastic menagerie and a secret YouTube message
  • 0:41:24 – How credible was Malachi Martin? (Patrick Abbott)
  • 0:45:56 – What does relativity add to Newton? (Fimiliar Galaxy 9)
  • 0:52:04 – Thank you to Patrons
  • 0:52:36 – Sponsor: Miss D’s Honeybees
  • 0:53:18 – Sponsor: Fr. Dwight Longenecker
  • 0:55:08 – How should the long lifespans in Genesis be understood? (Virginia Charlotte)
  • 1:03:31 – Jimmy Akin Podcast plug on Catholic Answers Live
  • 1:09:01 – Is there a Catholic connection to the Michigan Melon Heads? (Boom Botz)
  • 1:14:08 – How much evidence is there for charismatic gifts today? (Julian)
  • 1:22:09 – Is cosmetic surgery a form of mutilation? (S. Medrano)
  • 1:33:44 – Could a time-traveling priest consecrate the Eucharist? (Titus Constantine)
  • 1:40:50 – What are the ethics of computers running on human brain cells? (Dog Fight 2018)
  • 1:43:44 – Mysterious Feedback: #427 The Butterfly People of Joplin, Missouri
  • 1:53:10 – Your mysterious feedback
  • 1:53:45 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
  • 1:53:50 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
  • 1:54:38 – Share the show
  • 1:54:50 – Get your Mysterious merch
  • 1:54:58 – Show notes
  • 1:55:05 – Become a Patron
  • 1:55:13 – Sponsor: The Grady Group
  • 1:55:33 – Sponsor: Rosary Army and School of Mary
  • 1:55:56 – Outro

This Episode is Brought to You By:

Rosary Army. Featuring award-winning Catholic podcasts, Rosary resources, videos, and the School of Mary online community, prayer, and learning platform. Learn how to make them, pray them, and give them away while growing in your faith at RosaryArmy.com and SchoolOfMary.com

The Grady Group, a Catholic company bringing financial clarity to their clients across the United States. Using safe money options to produce reasonable rates of return for their clients. Learn more by visiting GradyGroup.us.

Father Dwight Longenecker. Are you inspired by sharp, witty writing about faith and culture? Does imaginative, thought provoking content help you see the world, the church and yourself with fresh vision? Popular convert, Catholic priest and author Father Dwight Longenecker writes daily at his Substack and at his award winning website, Standing on My Head, where you can read answers, apologetics and explorations of the mysteries of this world and the next. Read his blog, get his new book, Bloodshed and Blessing, and be in touch at dwightlongenecker.com.

Miss D’s Honeybees, a small family-operated honey company that specializes in making delicious all naturally flavored honeys and loose-leaf teas. With sweet options like chocolate, salted caramel, and lemon, or savory like garlic jalapeño ginger honey they have something for everyone. A portion of Miss D’s Honeybees’ proceeds help fund educational and housing programs for the poor in a small town in Mexico. Taste something sweet and do some good. Visit missdshoneybees.com and use discount code “mysterious” for 20% off your first order.”

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The Weekly Leo – 7 October 2026

Pope Leo XIV greets a newly-wed couple at the General Audience on September 9, 2026 (VATICAN MEDIA)

This version of The Weekly Leo covers material released in the last week, from 1 October 2026 to 7 October 2026.

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Amok Time (TOS) – Secrets of Star Trek

Vulcan biology gets its first real explanation, and it nearly kills Spock. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler break down TOS S2E1 “Amok Time” — the salute, the fight music, and two plot holes nobody ever patched.

https://youtu.be/sJVxYVTitcI

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Can Science Show the Soul Survives Death? Join My New Courses

Can science show the soul survives death? Jimmy Akin announces two fall courses for the Rhine Education Center: one on near-death experiences and reincarnation-type cases, and Introduction to Parapsychology.

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The Grady Group, a Catholic company bringing financial clarity to their clients across the United States. Using safe money options to produce reasonable rates of return for their clients. Learn more by visiting GradyGroup.us.

Father Dwight Longenecker. Are you inspired by sharp, witty writing about faith and culture? Does imaginative, thought provoking content help you see the world, the church and yourself with fresh vision? Popular convert, Catholic priest and author Father Dwight Longenecker writes daily at his Substack and at his award winning website, Standing on My Head, where you can read answers, apologetics and explorations of the mysteries of this world and the next. Read his blog, get his new book, Bloodshed and Blessing, and be in touch at dwightlongenecker.com.

Miss D’s Honeybees, a small family-operated honey company that specializes in making delicious all naturally flavored honeys and loose-leaf teas. With sweet options like chocolate, salted caramel, and lemon, or savory like garlic jalapeño ginger honey they have something for everyone. A portion of Miss D’s Honeybees’ proceeds help fund educational and housing programs for the poor in a small town in Mexico. Taste something sweet and do some good. Visit missdshoneybees.com and use discount code “mysterious” for 20% off your first order.”

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When Does Holy Water Stop Being Holy? (& More Weird Questions)

Does a blessing survive the water cycle? Could uplifted animals have souls? Jimmy Akin and Cy Kellett take on tickling, Hitler’s parents, Revelation’s scorpion-tailed locusts and baptism before birth, with Dom Bettinelli.

https://youtu.be/pkDHx5HfM4w

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Chapters:

  • 0:00:00 – Intro
  • 0:00:41 – October is Weird Questions Month
  • 0:03:26 – The topics Jimmy will cover
  • 0:04:23 – Catholic Answers Live: Weird Questions
  • 0:05:50 – Jimmy’s Mysterious World plug on Catholic Answers Live
  • 0:06:48 – …Arkansan or Arkansawyer?
  • 0:07:37 – Does holy water stop being holy? (Justin)
  • 0:09:23 – …Water means liquid water
  • 0:11:03 – …Blessed steam and blessed ice
  • 0:11:30 – Could angels be saints from other universes? (Megan)
  • 0:12:16 – …What an angel is
  • 0:15:04 – …Angelomorphic Christology
  • 0:17:30 – Would uplifted animals need God to give them souls? (Xevoz Fighter)
  • 0:19:45 – …Traducianism and creationism
  • 0:24:13 – …Which animal Jimmy would uplift
  • 0:28:17 – Why do people laugh when tickled? (Bruce)
  • 0:28:29 – …Knismesis and gargalesis
  • 0:31:14 – …Rats love to be tickled
  • 0:35:19 – …Grooming, play and social bonds
  • 0:36:03 – Why atheists expect aliens and believers don’t (G Readings)
  • 0:41:35 – …Both arguments fail
  • 0:43:05 – Could contraception have prevented Hitler? (Gabriel)
  • 0:44:10 – …What the Church means by contraception
  • 0:47:00 – …Why history is so fragile
  • 0:48:52 – …The Boys from Brazil
  • 0:49:20 – More than one way to skin a cat (Amanda)
  • 0:51:07 – …Did people really skin cats?
  • 0:52:38 – Thank you to Patrons
  • 0:53:12 – Sponsor: Miss D’s Honeybees
  • 0:53:54 – Sponsor: Fr. Dwight Longenecker
  • 0:55:02 – Why did humans lose their hair? (Cy Kellett)
  • 0:58:07 – …Exhaustion hunting and sweat
  • 1:00:25 – …Bipedalism and lifelong marriage
  • 1:01:28 – …Skin tone, sunlight and vitamin D
  • 1:05:29 – The Jimmy Akin Podcast: anointing and messiahs
  • 1:06:41 – …The number of Jesus
  • 1:08:08 – Why would a demon choose damnation? (S. Medrano)
  • 1:09:28 – …Sin makes you stupid
  • 1:11:31 – The scorpion-tailed locusts of Revelation 9 (Titus Constantine)
  • 1:12:38 – …Newspaper exegesis
  • 1:13:40 – …Hal Lindsey’s attack helicopters
  • 1:15:04 – …Charles Manson and the Beatles
  • 1:16:22 – …Demons from the abyss
  • 1:20:11 – If nuclear war wiped out humanity, what would God do? (Rebecca Lynne)
  • 1:23:21 – …Starting over, as after the dinosaurs
  • 1:25:41 – Abortion and excommunication (The Gutsy Grape)
  • 1:27:14 – …Why politicians aren’t excommunicated
  • 1:29:38 – …Who can lift the excommunication
  • 1:31:45 – Time travel and a moving Earth (AJ)
  • 1:34:04 – …No ultimate frame of reference
  • 1:35:51 – …Why the aliens speak English
  • 1:39:05 – Baptism before birth? (Dr. Tafazzi)
  • 1:40:04 – …The Holy Office on disinfectant in baptismal water
  • 1:41:28 – …The amniotic sac and the placenta
  • 1:44:07 – Mysterious Feedback: #426 Mark Twain Super-Psychic
  • 1:44:22 – …Ashley’s drawing of a vision
  • 1:45:37 – …Huck Finn’s moral conflict
  • 1:50:08 – …Data’s head and the club dues
  • 1:50:55 – Your mysterious feedback
  • 1:51:29 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
  • 1:51:40 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
  • 1:52:08 – Mysterious World Bookstore
  • 1:52:16 – Get your Mysterious merch
  • 1:52:23 – Show notes
  • 1:52:30 – Become a Patron
  • 1:52:39 – Sponsor: The Grady Group (Peter’s Barque)
  • 1:53:25 – Sponsor: Rosary Army and School of Mary
  • 1:53:47 – Outro

This Episode is Brought to You By:

Rosary Army. Featuring award-winning Catholic podcasts, Rosary resources, videos, and the School of Mary online community, prayer, and learning platform. Learn how to make them, pray them, and give them away while growing in your faith at RosaryArmy.com and SchoolOfMary.com

The Grady Group, a Catholic company bringing financial clarity to their clients across the United States. Using safe money options to produce reasonable rates of return for their clients. Learn more by visiting GradyGroup.us.

Father Dwight Longenecker. Are you inspired by sharp, witty writing about faith and culture? Does imaginative, thought provoking content help you see the world, the church and yourself with fresh vision? Popular convert, Catholic priest and author Father Dwight Longenecker writes daily at his Substack and at his award winning website, Standing on My Head, where you can read answers, apologetics and explorations of the mysteries of this world and the next. Read his blog, get his new book, Bloodshed and Blessing, and be in touch at dwightlongenecker.com.

Miss D’s Honeybees, a small family-operated honey company that specializes in making delicious all naturally flavored honeys and loose-leaf teas. With sweet options like chocolate, salted caramel, and lemon, or savory like garlic jalapeño ginger honey they have something for everyone. A portion of Miss D’s Honeybees’ proceeds help fund educational and housing programs for the poor in a small town in Mexico. Taste something sweet and do some good. Visit missdshoneybees.com and use discount code “mysterious” for 20% off your first order.”

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The Weekly Leo – 30 September 2026

The crowds in St. Peter’s Square (@Vatican Media)

This version of The Weekly Leo covers material released in the last week, from 21 September 2026 to 30 September 2026.

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Tomorrow’s Enterprise (SNW) – The Secrets of Star Trek

Two Uhuras, a year apart, and a Scotty who died in one timeline: the Strange New Worlds Season 4 finale (Episode 10) plays like a pilot for Kirk’s Year One. Dom Bettinelli and Jimmy Akin weigh its heart against its physics.

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