#12067 Why Confess to a Priest Instead of Going Straight to God? - Tim Staples
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🗓️ 13 February 2025
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| 0:11.5 | Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers Live. I'm Cy Kellett, your host, Tim Staples, with us both hours today doing one of my favorite things to do with Tim Staples, |
| 0:40.2 | and one of my favorite shows that we do overall, and that is Tim talking to non-Catholics. |
| 0:45.4 | If you're not a Catholic and you'd like to talk about the Christian faith, you'd like to talk about God, |
| 0:49.6 | you'd like to talk about the Bible, Jesus. Whatever it is, we would love to take your call 8883187-884, |
| 0:57.0 | triple-8-384. So if you are a Catholic, hang on, we got the other four days of the week for you today. |
| 1:06.0 | We're holding the phones for non-Catholics. We would like them to have the opportunity to make their challenge, to ask their question, to satisfy a curiosity, whatever it is. 888-3187-884. |
| 1:20.3 | One thing I hear all the time about Tim, especially from people who have grown up in any |
| 1:25.4 | kind of evangelical background, he speaks my language. He talks like I talk. And that's because that's how Tim grew up. |
| 1:32.3 | He's a convert to the Catholic faith. He's the author of Behold Your Mother, a biblical and historical defense of the Marian doctrines. |
| 1:39.3 | And he is senior apologist here at Catholic Answers. Hello, Tim Staples. |
| 1:43.3 | Hello, Cy Kellett. It is great to be with you. So I get to do what the rest of the world does. |
| 1:48.8 | Discriminate against Catholics for two hours. |
| 1:51.7 | I hadn't thought of that. Well, congratulations on that. No Catholics allowed. Now, maybe that will endear us with, you know, the rest of the world. |
| 1:59.6 | Right. That we're officially |
| 2:01.0 | anti-Catholic. Yes. Right. So Catholics, your second-class citizens today, stay off the phones. |
| 2:09.6 | But you know what? This is what people do. Well, technically I'm Catholic. All right. Here's the deal. |
| 2:15.0 | Look, we know that technically, if you're baptized, you're a Catholic, but if you're not practicing |
| 2:19.5 | the Catholic faith, if you're left the faith, we'll count that as you're not a Catholic. |
| 2:24.8 | We would like you to get your—you know what we'd like? |
| 2:26.9 | We'd like you all to come into the Catholic Church and be regular receivers of the Catholic |
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