#1173 - Chatting with an Ex-Catholic About Catholicism
The Counsel of Trent
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🗓️ 17 June 2026
⏱️ 124 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I've read the Church Fathers, but the difference is I think that there are some that go to the Church Father's writings to know what to believe, |
| 0:07.0 | and I read them in the sense of, let me see what those who came before me believe. |
| 0:11.2 | If Clement saw both Protestants and Catholics today, I think you'd say you both are in the wrong in some areas. |
| 0:15.5 | Because I don't want to be disparaging of Protestants, but it seems like that's like a common attitude. |
| 0:19.4 | Trent, you're absolutely correct. Welcome to the Council of Trent. |
| 0:22.6 | My guest today is Michael Pagano. |
| 0:26.6 | He is the host of true Christian ministry. |
| 0:30.6 | He is a Protestant, does a lot of great evangelism, a former Catholic. |
| 0:34.6 | We'll be talking about that. |
| 0:36.6 | But he does a lot of great work, |
| 0:38.8 | just evangelizing people, even travel to other continents to share the good news about Jesus Christ. |
| 0:44.1 | So Michael, welcome the Council of Trent. |
| 0:46.4 | Thank you for having me, Trent. Super excited to be here. |
| 0:48.8 | Oh, yeah, absolutely. We chatted, did we originally touch base at the gospel, the debate, the gospel truth, yeah, |
| 0:59.5 | the gospel truth debate where I debated Anthony Rogers. |
| 1:03.4 | Yes. |
| 1:03.5 | Because you were there because that was the big whole debate weekend. |
| 1:06.4 | Yeah, I got a random phone call. |
| 1:07.8 | Like, you know this debate's happening down the street from your house? |
| 1:09.8 | And I saw the whole lineup and I was like, I'm going. |
| 1:12.2 | And then I saw you and had an opportunity to talk with you. Yeah, no, that was great. And then saw the work that you were doing. So I thought we would chat a little bit, especially about, you know, agreements is, but probably more differences where you're at, like in your faith journey. But first, I thought it would be good to start off that I think both of us, |
| 1:27.9 | before the show we were talking about this, that we both sense that sometimes in the YouTube, |
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