#12278 What Is the Role of Popes in Approving Ecumenical Councils? - Alex Jurado

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🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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“What Is the Role of Popes in Approving Ecumenical Councils?” In this episode, guest apologist Alex Jurado from Voice of Reason addresses the necessity of papal approval for early councils, explores how Jesus grew in knowledge, and discusses the connection between Mary’s Assumption and 1 Cor. 15:55.

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Questions Covered:

08:59 – How did Jesus grow in knowledge? And did he have knowledge of his passion from a young age?
14:30 – What’s the necessity for popes to convene and approve ecumenical councils particularly the earliest councils of the Church?
17:46 – Is there a connection between Mary’s Assumption and 1 Cor. 15:55?
21:52 – Why did the person who touched the ark dropped dead but people who stole it didn’t. Why is that?
24:24 – Is it ok for a priest to consecrate a large amount of hosts and give them to a homebound person?
30:31 – Has Pope Leo expressed any opinion on Same sex unions?
32:10 – How would you explain to children deep theological questions?
43:40 – How many of the 10 commandments would exist today if there weren’t any religions?
48:48 – Why do Protestants have a different canon of scripture?
52:09 – If Jesus descended into hell to retrieve souls to enter heaven, does that mean those souls were suffering?

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0:35.8	I am Cy Kellett, your host.
0:38.2	And I got to say, Colin Donovan, it's pretty good for somebody just coming back from vacation.
0:43.7	I don't think Darren believes me when I say it, but you're not quite right in front of a microphone when you come back from vacation.
0:49.7	It takes a little while.
0:51.7	Every day, every day it's like a vacation for me, and I come back, and that's
0:55.4	why I struggle in front of the microphone. But Colin, just hitting it out on the park there.
0:59.7	Hey, it's still asked me anything this hour. Our guest, this hour, Alex Herato, who, yes, I pronounced
1:07.5	his name wrong once, and the lady called me up and scolded me about it.
1:11.0	She was very nice about inner scolding.
1:12.7	But Horado, the J in Spanish, is pronounced as if an H in English.
1:20.4	And I didn't do that right last time.
1:23.5	Alex Horado is the Voice of Reason.
1:26.2	And you can check out, if you just check out the Voice of Reason on YouTube, you will get all kinds of wonderful, informative, and charitable, and helpful, and genuinely Catholic videos.
1:38.8	And so we've been delighted to kind of have an association with him begin to develop.
1:43.6	We really have been, because we, you know, there's two levels to it.
1:48.3	There's the head and the heart with this stuff.
1:50.0	And so when we associate with these young apologists for us, it's important that both of them
1:56.2	are there, that there's a heart for the caller, a heart for the faith, and for sharing it, and for
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