#12368 Is NFP just Catholic Birth Control? | AMA: Catholicism w/ Tim Staples - Tim Staples

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🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

“Is NFP just Catholic Birth Control?” In this episode, we explore the nuances of Natural Family Planning and its distinction from contraception. Additionally, we tackle questions about the salvation of non-Catholics who have committed mortal sins and the criteria for canonizing laypeople like Carlo Acutis. Tune in for a thoughtful examination of these important topics.

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Questions Covered:

10:05 – Is NFP ‘Catholic Contraception?
22:23 – Can someone who is not Catholic and committed mortal sin at some point in their life still be saved?
45:07 – What would be the grounds for canonizing a person who is not a priest, bishop, religious or martyr like Carlo Acutis?

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0:00.0	Buying or selling your home, real estate for life can connect you with a pro-life real estate agent.
0:05.7	When Real Estate for Life receives a referral fee, they donate 65% to Catholic Answers.
0:11.4	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back to Catholic Answers live. Always fun to talk with Steve Ray.
0:33.6	Always fun to talk with our next guest, Tim Staples. We got Tim for the hour, and you can ask
0:38.0	him anything. I've already got a question. I'm going to ask him, but you can ask him whatever you like.
0:42.6	8883187-884 is the number, 3187-884. Tim is the author of Behold Your Mother, a biblical and historical
0:52.8	defense of the Marian doctrines,
0:55.5	the book of Mary for our time, and maybe we'll give a few of those away today to callers.
1:01.7	We'll see if we're able to do that.
1:03.8	But also the author of many other things, and also senior apologist here,
1:07.8	and also the guy who when there's a talk somewhere or a conference or something
1:14.5	will stay until the last question is answered. That's what he would be you got more questions.
1:20.5	He will stay and talk to you about Jesus, about the Bible, about your difficulties with the
1:27.4	whatever. He'll stay until all the questions are answered. He's not going to do that today. We're kicking him out of here in an hour, so if that's what you're expecting, that's not going to happen. Tim Staples, thanks for being here. Hey, it is great to be with you, my brother, but you are right. I can't think of anything I'd rather to do than talk about Jesus.
1:46.5	No, I know. You know that thing as Tim, I've seen it so much. I know that that is absolutely,
1:52.8	absolutely the truth. I know, I got to say this, you know, because of the situation with Charlie Kirk.
1:59.8	I just wanted to mention that, you know, and I know Trent
2:03.9	actually met him and they were setting up actually a little get-together and to have a dialogue
2:11.2	with our own Trent Horn and Charlie Kirk. And Trent has said that Charlie was just a great guy and I had never met him.
2:19.5	That was a guy I really did want to talk to.
2:22.7	You know, I would love to sat down with him because I watched him many times online and I was so impressed with this guy, 31 years old.
2:31.8	And he's been doing it, you know, since his teen years.
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