#12401 Catholicism and Works? – Why Aren’t You Catholic - William Albrecht
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🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Can Catholics be saved by works?” This episode explores the relationship between faith and works in Catholicism, addressing concerns about the New Testament’s reliability and the emphasis on works over faith. Additionally, we delve into questions about the Catholic view on Mary and the reasons behind the Church’s baptism practices. Tune in for a thoughtful examination of these important topics.
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Questions Covered:
- 04:25 – I am not Catholic or Christian because there is too much fiction in the New Testament for it to be reliable.
- 11:59 – I am religious, but I am not Catholic because of the issues with organized religion.
- 18:00 – Catholics seem to put too much emphasis on works not faith. Why do Catholics put emphasis on Works?
- 30:07 – I am struggling with the Catholic view on Mary?
- 46:30 – Where in scripture does it layout the current financial hierarchy of the Catholic Church? Second: Why do Catholic not do full immersion Baptisms?
Transcript
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| 0:11.5 | Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome to Catholic Answers live. My name is Edgar Lujano filling in for Sykelet today. He will be back tomorrow. So don't hold your breath because |
| 0:38.1 | today is going to be a fun two hours. As usual, whenever I get to be on the side of the glass, I have a lot of fun with a lot of people that I like. Second hour, we're going to have Father Sebastian Walsh. It's going to be an ask a priest. If you have a question for a priest, Father Sebastian Walsh is the guy to ask. |
| 0:54.9 | He's a Norbitine. |
| 0:55.6 | So if you know anything about the Norbitines, they are solid, solid, incredible priests. So wait for that for second hour. But this hour, we have the one and only my good friend, William Albrecht. And we're doing something a little different. Instead of talking about, you know, church fathers, patristics, because, you know, |
| 1:12.7 | patristic pillars, why not? |
| 1:14.6 | Instead of doing that, we're actually going to ask those who are not Catholic to call in |
| 1:18.8 | and give us the reasons why they're not Catholic, and they can talk to William about those |
| 1:22.8 | reasons. |
| 1:23.4 | William, welcome to the show. |
| 1:25.8 | Brother, I am thrilled and pumped to be here with you. very happy to be able to dialogue with anybody that does want to call in. I don't care of your evangelical. Or even if you're Catholic, and maybe you have on your mind, hey, you know what, William and Edgar, I am Catholic, but I'm working through a lot of issues. We'd love to dialogue with you. Are you |
| 1:44.2 | Orthodox? We'd love to talk with you. Anyone with anything on their mind about the faith? Why aren't you Catholic? Why are you having issues of the faith? Brother, I'd love to dialogue with them. Yeah, absolutely. You know, a lot of the times when we do these, why aren't you Catholic, we with our guys that they, you know, their main bread and butter is not always the East. |
| 2:03.9 | So we'll on occasion we'll get questions from, from our Orthodox brothers and sisters. |
| 2:08.3 | But we don't always, you know, we never dive deep. |
| 2:11.3 | But if you are not Catholic, if you are an Orthodox brother or sister and you want to talk to William about why you're not Catholic, This is the show to do it. So give us a call 888-3187-884. That's AAA-31-Truth. And William will talk to you about, you know, give them your reasons why you're not Catholic. Now, William, you've done a whole lot of stuff over Patristic Pillars. You go live, what, every, how many times per week? |
| 2:36.2 | I try to go at least five times per week. |
| 2:38.7 | Okay. |
| 2:39.0 | And I primarily open up the lines that anyone, you're evangelical, are you Orthodox? |
| 2:44.1 | And I love dialoguing with all people, Brother Edgar, and to be very clear about it, |
| 2:49.1 | I have near and dear friends that are Orthodox |
| 2:51.6 | and near and dear friends that are evangelical. The goal is to dialogue in a charitable manner. |
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