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#11063 Can We Trust the Proto-Evangelium of James? - Tim Staples

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🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Open Forum – Questions Covered: 03:35 – When comparing John 3 and John 6, If infants are called to be in the faith, why don’t we allow infants to take communion in the west? 12:30 – What reasons do we have to trust the proto-evangelium of James? 19:05 – Why pray for those in purgatory if the point is for them to be there to be purged? Wouldn’t that defeat the purpose? 28:00 – I recently heard that only 20% believe in the real presence. How do we talk to people about this and help them better understand? 39:02 – If there’s multiple layers to heaven and people are on different layers, can they still interact? 44:48 – On a college campus what is the most important thing to share about the Catholic faith to guide them towards God? 50:45 – Can a Catholic receive ashes from a non-Catholic ash service? Can you receive ashes more than once? Can a female give ashes?   …

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Catholic Dance with live on this Tuesday afternoon.

0:19.4

Thanks so much for being here with us.

0:21.4

I'm Sy Kelly at your host Tim Staples is our guest both hours today.

0:25.9

He's still going to be shocked when the show is over that it went so fast, but two hours

0:29.5

of open forum with Tim Staples 888-318-7884, triple eight, 318-7884, you can call and ask

0:39.0

about whatever you like.

0:40.0

You want to ask about God, you want to ask a moral question, you got a question about

0:43.8

the Bible, a question about Jesus or the church, whatever.

0:48.0

You are welcome here.

0:49.0

888-318-7884, Tim Staples, senior apologists here at Catholic Answers, the author of a whole

0:55.2

bunch of stuff, and many of which you can find for free at our website, Catholic.com,

1:00.2

but probably most famously, for behold your mother, a biblical and historical defense of

1:04.7

the Marian doctrines.

1:06.0

Thank you for being here, Tim.

1:07.4

Well, it is my pleasure, Sy Kelly, am I on here because I'm not here in anything.

1:11.5

Oh, now there you go.

1:12.5

Ah, now I can hear it.

1:13.5

All right.

1:14.5

Oh, you needed the microphone apparently.

1:15.5

I, yeah.

1:16.5

The old Tim Staples didn't need microphones, but they could hear me in Texas.

1:20.1

Yes, right.

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