#12378 What’s the Church’s Stance on Unapproved Apparitions, Mary, and the Eucharist - Tim Staples
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🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“What’s the Church’s stance on unapproved Marian apparitions?” In this episode, we explore the Church’s position on various mystical experiences, along with discussions on the challenges faced by those considering Catholicism, including recent controversies like the LGBT Mass in Rome, and the biblical roots of the Eucharist as a re-presentation of sacrifice.
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Questions Covered:
- 03:00 – What’s the Church’s stance on unapproved Apparitions?
- 10:43 – My Protestant friends were looking into Catholicism, but stepped back because they are finding leaders in the Catholic Church to back up non-Catholic ideas like the recent LGBT Mass in Rome
- 31:05 – My Protestant Objection: Jeremiah 7 mentions idolatry worshipping the queen of heaven in the Temple of God. That seems like how Catholics treat Mary.
- 44:11 – Where did the idea of re-presenting a sacrifice come from in Scripture with the Eucharist?
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| 0:32.4 | My name is Edgar Luano, producer for the show and filling in for Sy Kellett today. |
| 0:37.6 | I always get to have fun whenever size out. |
| 0:39.5 | So here we are. |
| 0:40.3 | And what great day than to have Tim Staples in the studio with us, the man himself. |
| 0:48.0 | Tim, it's good to have you in the studio. |
| 0:50.5 | It is wonderful to be with you, Edgar. |
| 0:53.4 | And I got to tell the folks, I just got back from |
| 0:55.9 | Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada at a conference that was absolutely incredible. I mentioned this to you, |
| 1:04.2 | Edgar. We almost doubled the population of this town with our conference, because we had roughly |
| 1:10.4 | around 800 people, but the town only |
| 1:12.6 | has a thousand people in it. But it was a diocesan-wide event celebrating Our Lady of Sorrows, |
| 1:21.6 | and it was just incredible. Yeah, with the numbers there, I mean, this town, this was like huge for them. |
| 1:30.7 | You know, all the restaurants and like are like, yeah, man, we got to get some more food ready for all these people that are here. |
| 1:37.1 | But it was just awesome. |
| 1:38.4 | Not only was I able to do a couple of talks there and meet some of the Chis most wonderful people up there |
| 1:45.0 | in Winnipeg. Actually, about an hour south of Winnipeg, the town is called St. Molo. |
| 1:53.8 | I'm glad they don't speak Spanish because... |
| 1:55.9 | Yeah, bad. That's right. But there's actually a Molo family up there. |
| 2:02.8 | I met some of the folks. |
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