#12223 Did St. Jerome Reject the Catholic Bible? Responding to Protestant Claims - Alex Jurado
Catholic Answers Live
Catholic Answers
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In this episode of Catholic Answers Live, we tackle one of the most persistent Protestant arguments against the Catholic canon: Did St. Jerome actually reject the Deuterocanonical books? Some claim he supported a 66-book Bible—so what’s the truth? We unpack what Jerome really believed, what he said about the Septuagint, and how his writings have been misused.
Help support the work we do by donating! Catholicanswersradio.com
Join The CA Live Club Newsletter: Click Here
Invite our apologists to speak at your parish! Visit Catholicanswersspeakers.com
Questions Covered:
- 14:05 – How do we respond to protestants that will use St. Jerome to support their 66 book canon?
- 24:37 – What are the differences between the Greek, and Russian Orthodox churches and why do they disagree so much?
- 31:13 – Who was the author that helped write Hebrews?
- 34:22 – How does the Church judge when one is really inspired?
- 43:34 – Was Mark plagiarized from Luke and Matthew?
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Buying or selling your home, real estate for life can connect you with a pro-life real estate agent. |
| 0:05.2 | When Real Estate for Life receives a referral fee, they donate 65% to Catholic Answers. |
| 0:11.5 | Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers Live. |
| 0:32.7 | I'm Cy Kellett, your host. |
| 0:33.9 | Thanks for being here with us on this Tuesday afternoon. |
| 0:36.0 | Maybe it's a Tuesday evening where you are. Maybe it's Tuesday night or even Wednesday morning where you are. And as we like to say, wherever you are, we're glad you're here with us. If you've got a call today, the number is 8883187-884. Not if you've got to call, if you've got a call. It sounded like I said, if you've got to call. If you've got a call, |
| 0:55.2 | 8883187-884, first hour we have an internet sensation, second hour we have Jim Blackburn. That's the way |
| 1:01.9 | we've laid it out today. And the internet sensation, the voice of reason, we've had them on here |
| 1:08.7 | before and really has attracted a huge audience on all of the places. |
| 1:15.3 | YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, you should follow them, find them, and follow him on Instagram, |
| 1:20.2 | where he's defending the Catholic faith, he's sharing the Catholic faith, and he's doing it in a way that |
| 1:28.0 | just connects with thousands and hundreds of thousands of people. Alex Gerardo, thank you |
| 1:32.9 | very much for being here with us. Well, Cy Kellett, thank you so much for having me back on Catholic |
| 1:39.1 | answers. I'm very excited because this is the first time that you are hosting the show with me. |
| 1:44.3 | It's only my second time on the show. |
| 1:45.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:46.0 | But this is the first time that I get to do it with you. |
| 1:47.8 | So I'm very excited. |
| 1:49.6 | Although I would have preferred Edgar, but it's okay. |
| 1:51.7 | I'm a big fan of yours, too, so it's okay. |
| 1:53.6 | Don't worry. |
| 1:55.2 | I feel bad about this, but you were breaking up there a little bit at the end. |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 12 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Catholic Answers, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Catholic Answers and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.