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#12068 Why Can’t Non-Catholics Receive Communion in the Catholic Church? - Tim Staples

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🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Tim Staples tackles tough questions from non-Catholics, covering topics like bad popes, and why non-Catholics can't receive Communion.…

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0:32.1

All the lines are full.

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That's good because we're enjoying talking with non-Catholics today.

0:36.8

Nice opportunity to have those

0:39.1

dialogues. And if you're not a Catholic, this hour's for you as well. Tim Staples is our guest,

0:44.5

convert to Catholic faith himself, senior apologist here at Catholic Answers. The author of

0:48.9

Behold Your Mother, a biblical and historical defense of the Marian doctrines, and ready to talk with you about the Catholic faith.

0:56.4

Is there something that is sticking in the craw about the Catholic faith, something you're curious about, something you'd like to challenge, whatever it is.

1:03.3

As long as you're not Catholic, pick up that phone and call 8883187-884.

1:09.9

We were talking with Michael in Buffalo, and he was talking about some young people

1:14.1

who were actually quite attracted to the Catholic Church, but are worried because they don't

1:18.2

particularly caught into, I like that, and particularly caught into Pope Francis. So you said

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you wanted to put a bow on it when we came back. Yeah, and Michael,

1:29.0

it's such a great and important question. But the second part of your question was, you know,

1:34.4

how do we know when we've had a bad pope? Well, one thing we can know, and yes, we've had

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bad popes. I mean, you know, Alexander the six, you know, the poor guy,

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he gets hammered and he should because he had six children. Obviously, he was not married,

1:52.7

Seichel. You're not supposed to do that when you're Pope? That's right. Come on, Alexander.

1:56.9

But you know what? He handled the Americas really. Yes, he did. He's the one who, that's why we have Columbus in the new world.

2:03.6

He did a pretty good thing in changing the entire world.

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