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#11240 The Early Church Fathers - Marcellino D'Ambrosio

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🗓️ 15 July 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 15:19 – What was the early church like and what did they call themselves? Did the early church fathers differ on anything other than the pope? 20:54 – comment on Dr. D’Ambrosio’s book and the comment (has cantored at Mass Dr. has been at) 31:47 – Who are the early Church fathers that are most closely related to the apostle John and what were their teachings on salvation? 37:23 – Why don’t Protestants recognize that the early church as Catholic? What do protestants think about the early church fathers? 46:41 – When Mary went to go visit Elizabeth, how did she get there? Does Dr. Ambrosio have any insight? …

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0:00.0

Welcome back, Kathy Hansen's live.

0:18.7

As promised, Dr. Marchalino Dembrosio here with us this hour.

0:22.2

You can find out all about him and what he does over at DrItaly.com.

0:25.6

We're going to talk about the early church fathers.

0:29.0

We talk about all kinds of different things with Dr. Dembrosio, but I'm quite anxious

0:33.2

to hear what he has to say about the early church fathers.

0:36.8

He's traveled where they lived and he's going to tell you a little bit about his going

0:40.3

to travel some more coming up here and you can travel with him next April on pilgrimage.

0:46.3

The early church fathers, first of all, Dr. Dembrosio, thanks very much for being here

0:50.8

with us.

0:51.8

Hey, it's a pleasure, Si.

0:53.3

I love being on Catholic Church's life and talking to you.

0:56.0

Well, thank you.

0:57.0

Thank you.

0:58.4

You know, I have a feeling that there's a lot of people who hear early church fathers

1:04.0

and they're like, what is their place in all of this?

1:06.6

Because they're not, what they wrote isn't Bible, it's not scripture, it's not church

1:11.4

councils.

1:13.0

Why do we have this whole category called early church fathers?

1:17.4

Yeah, well, we have it because back in the early days of the church, you know, there

1:23.0

are arguments about what, in fact, Jesus taught and what he intended for us to believe

1:29.2

and what the scriptures were, what books are in the Bible, was Jesus God, was he man, was

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