#11734 Ask Me Anything - Tim Staples

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🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 00:45 – Is in Persona Christi limited to the priest celebrating the mass or does it extend to the magisterium? 10:04 – Is there a possible connection between “calling no man father” and people in the New Testament being baptized and assigning their spirituality on those who baptized them? 17:04 – At what point is a marriage considered sacramental outside the Catholic Church? 22:33 – Why should I become Catholic if my western rite Orthodoxy is so similar without the baggage? 46:12 – My father is not a Catholic and is battling cancer. I’ve been offering holy communion for him. Is that allowed? What does the Church say about cremation? 49:59 – Should we respond with ‘because God said so’ when approaching social issues in apologetic debates? …

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0:00.0	And Welcome to Catholic Answers Live. If you're just joining us, we're in the middle of two hours of Catholic apologetics and evangelization. Our topic today is
0:24.4	Ask Me Anything about the Catholic faith. Doing an AMA with our own Tim Staples,
0:30.7	senior apologist here at Catholic Answers, of course author of Behold Your Mother, and many, many
0:36.1	other things. In fact, Tim, of course, as I said, he was with us in the first hour and you
0:41.6	were talking about the book of John and the emphasis on Jesus's
0:45.4	divinity in the context of baptism and it made me think of the talk that you
0:48.8	recorded a few years ago now is a multi-part audio series if you will called Living Bread.
0:55.2	Oh yes yes I remember that it was before I even started working at Catholic
0:58.8	Answers I downloaded it and it was really enlightening and so Tim has obviously been with Catholic answers a long time
1:05.4	and has contributed a lot to the work of this apostolate and you can find many things that he
1:09.7	does he has done and that he does on Catholic.com of course our website.
1:15.0	But once again my name is David Matheson. I am sitting in for Saike Hella today.
1:18.0	Normally I am the fundraising director here at the Apostolate, but we're not doing that today.
1:21.6	Again, if you are looking for apologetics you're looking for explanations of the Catholic faith
1:25.8	You were looking for evangelization you are in the right place. It's what Catholic answers is all about and it is what we were especially about here on the show Catholic
1:33.8	answers live. Tim Staples again senior apologist is our guest and Tim we got to the
1:38.6	question from Chris in Madera, California before the end of the first hour
1:42.4	but we didn't get to the answer. Yes. in Madera, California before the end of the first hour,
1:42.7	but we didn't get to the answer.
1:44.3	Yes.
1:45.3	We got to a little bit, maybe, but go right ahead.
1:47.2	Answer the question.
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