#12105 How Can We Defend the Faith Without Anxiety? And More Questions - Tim Staples

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🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Sharing and defending Catholicism can be overwhelming—how can we do it with confidence and peace? Tim Staples offers practical advice and answers more on the Wailing Wall prophecy, Eucharistic Adoration, and the role of the Trinity in Baptism.

Questions Covered:

08:15 – Why is a Wailing Wall leftover from the temple (Mt 24, there will not be a stone leftover)?
19:31 – What is Joseph referring to in Gen 50:19?
23:58 – How can we defend the faith and not be anxious?
42:00 – How do you explain Adoration to a Protestant?
50:55 – Do we have to believe in the Trinity for the Baptismal regeneration to occur?

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0:48.1	The number to call if you have a question is 8883187-884, triple-eight, three-18-eight-7-8-8-8-4. Once again, the hour is ask me anything,
0:59.3	ask me anything about Catholicism, asking me anything about Christianity, about theism in general.
1:03.8	Any questions you have, AAA-3187-884. And fortunately, you won't be asking me anything,
1:09.5	because I sure wouldn't be able to give you a good answer.
1:11.6	But we have someone in studio who certainly can, our very own senior apologist, author of innumerable articles on our website, Catholic.com, author of books like nuts and bolts, and of course, behold your mother.
1:24.6	It is our very own Tim Staples.
1:27.0	Welcome back to the show, Tim. It is great to be
1:29.4	with you, my friend. Ready to rumble. Ready to rumble with every caller who wants to rubble.
1:35.2	The phones are filling up right now. Still got a couple lines open. Triple-8-3-187-884. Again, it is
1:42.3	ask me anything, anything you like with Tim Stables, and go ahead, Tim.
1:47.1	Yeah, and I'd just like to say, before we get started, isn't it a great day to be Catholic?
1:52.5	Every day, absolutely. Yes, sir. I just thought I would toss that out.
1:55.9	Yes, sir. You know, we have such an incredible gift, the gift of faith, that you and I did, now you're a cradle
2:04.0	Catholic, right?
2:04.8	That's correct.
2:05.8	So you're the really good guy to have here with me in order to make this point, but we
2:12.0	did absolutely nothing to merit the gift of faith we've received, right?
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