#12461 Why Stay Catholic If Orthodox Have Valid Sacraments? - William Albrecht

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🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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“Why stay Catholic if Orthodox have valid sacraments?” This episode explores the unique aspects of Catholicism, addressing questions like the interpretation of Jesus’ image in Catholicism compared to Orthodoxy and whether it’s acceptable to disagree with a priest on teachings. Join us for a thoughtful examination of faith and tradition.

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Questions Covered:

03:51 – Why stay Catholic if the Orthodox have valid sacraments?
12:25 – The images of Jesus tend to be the same in Orthodox Churches. Why does His image seem to be up for interpretation in Catholicism?
17:14 – Is it ever okay to disagree with your priest about a Catholic teaching?
19:50 – Since Catholics need to believe in the Papacy, how can the Orthodox be in communion?
29:25 – Why is it a big deal that the Orthodox don’t accept the Papacy since they accept everything else?
36:30 – Why is there an emphasis on the need to believe in the Assumption or the Immaculate conception?
44:30 – Why would it matter if you are Orthodox or Catholic, if we both can be in heaven?
49:37 – How can one Pope claim he couldn’t add the filioque to the creed and another claimed he could?

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0:32.0	Happy Monday, everyone.
0:33.4	My name is Edgar Luano, producer for the show,
0:36.1	and a fill-in host on occasion when
0:38.9	Sye is out and about gone fishing or doing who knows what else.
0:43.4	So it's always fun to be with you guys here, especially on this wonderful Monday where we have
0:47.5	an awesome two hours.
0:49.1	My good friend today, William Albrecht, the patristic pillar himself, who runs patristic pillars. It's good to have you on, man. I love hosting the show with you. Brother, I'm thrilled and pumped to be with you. Every time I get to join you, we have a great time. Now, I want to be clear, I have a great time no matter what when I'm on Gaffiganist. You're just gassing me up now. That's what you're doing.
1:12.0	No, no, I love it, man.
1:12.4	I love it.
1:13.6	I'm glad to be here as well.
1:14.6	This is great.
1:26.1	And I think we've got a great topic to talk about as well. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Well, if you have a question, we're going to be taking questions on orthodoxy. So if you have any questions about Eastern Orthodoxy or one of the different Orthodox churches that are out there,
1:32.8	if you're an Orthodox person yourself, you want to give us a call and maybe question Catholicism. There's no man to call other than William Albright. Man, you have done so many debates online. It's hard to keep up
1:38.1	with all the debates that you do. So with that, with with that, tell me a little more about
1:43.2	patristic pillars and all the content that you do online.
1:46.2	Yeah, we really, really focus in on approaching the faith from the very beginning, from the root.
1:52.8	So we go to the Old Testament, of course, you go to the New Testament.
1:55.6	But then we go and we look at the early fathers.
1:58.0	How do the early church fathers, those figures I call patristic pillars, how do they confirm our Catholic faith? And as you bring up very, very, very rightly
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