#12308 How Can We Comfort the Suffering? Apostles and Evil - Tim Staples
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🗓️ 1 August 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“What can we do to comfort the suffering?” In this episode, we explore this vital question alongside topics such as the selection of the apostles and the reasons behind God’s allowance of suffering and evil.
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Questions Covered:
- 04:00 – How to discern between Catholic and Protestant apologetics?
- 21:24 – How were the apostles chosen?
- 23:47 – How can we comfort the suffering (2 Cor 1:3–5)?
- 28:41 – Why does God allow suffering and evil?
- 45:50 – Do we receive the full Eucharist with just the host?
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| 0:11.5 | Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back to Catholic Answers Live, as promised Tim Staples here with us. |
| 0:34.5 | Senior Apologist here at Catholic Answers, the author of Behold Your Mother, a biblical |
| 0:39.1 | and historical defense of the Marian doctrines. Pretty much the book we give out, I don't want to |
| 0:44.8 | make it like a promise, but a lot of times when people ask about Mary, that's the book we give to |
| 0:49.0 | them. As you heard last hour, we gave that book out. It's the go-to book about Mary. And for our time, you know, you need a new |
| 0:57.0 | book. You need a new Marian book probably, you know, every 30 years or so, the church needs a new |
| 1:03.9 | one for a new generation. And you just happen to write the one for this generation. Well, I appreciate |
| 1:09.8 | that. Yeah, well, I appreciate that. |
| 1:11.8 | Yeah, well, I'm sure Mary does too. |
| 1:12.5 | I hope so anyways. |
| 1:15.4 | I don't know. |
| 1:17.3 | It's a practice. |
| 1:22.3 | Behold your mother is a biblical and historical defense of the Marian doctrines. |
| 1:23.3 | So check it out. |
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| 1:48.1 | man it's funny to see she's 17 man that's not right that can't be right can't be right |
| 1:54.4 | can you believe that that girl she graduated high school a year early she's going to john paul |
| 1:58.9 | the great here oh she is she is. She decided to... |
| 2:01.8 | Next month, I guess. Okay. Or whenever they start. And she's like, you know, three years, |
| 2:08.8 | I'll have my college degree, dad, at 20 years old. I hope the theology professors know she's |
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