#12664 Were the Gospel Authors Apostles? Confession and Eucharist - Tom Nash
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
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Summary
“Were the authors of the Gospels the apostles, specifically Matthew?” This question opens a discussion on the authorship of the Gospels, while also addressing varied topics such as overcoming objections to confession from family, the Church’s stance on the death penalty, and advice for presenting the case for the Eucharist to friends.
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Questions Covered:
- 01:00 – Were the Authors of the gospels the apostles, specifically Matthew?
- 05:20 – I’m a convert. How do I overcome my parents’ objection to confession?
- 18:51 – The CCC 2267 goes against the death penalty but the bible says it’s permitted. Why is the Church trying to get rid of it?
- 23:45 – What advice would you have for my son who is presenting the case for the eucharist to his friends, some of whom are protestant?
- 33:54 – excluding papal infallibility, what’s the possibility for a pope to lead his people into theological error?
- 41:20 – How does it work for the accidents of the eucharist still being of bread?
- 46:03 – Is the use of contraception allowed in certain circumstances?
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| 0:32.9 | Tom Nash, our guest, Catholic Answers live. |
| 0:35.1 | I'm Cy Kellett, your host, and Guadalupe's on the line |
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| 0:49.4 | if you have questions for Tom, we're holding the line for you, 888-3-1-8-884. Guadalupe, you got any follow-up for Tom on |
| 0:57.6 | how the Gospels were composed? So I guess the one follow-up I have is that I've heard it |
| 1:05.2 | discussed previously on Catholic Answers, I believe from Jimmy Aiken, about the Apostle John. The |
| 1:10.6 | Gospel of John may not have been |
| 1:12.5 | written by the actual Apostle John, but from another John who was considered a beloved, |
| 1:19.0 | just in terms of how he was treated, the fact that he was banished, pointed to him being |
| 1:24.8 | of a higher rank than someone like the Apostle John who would have been |
| 1:28.6 | poor and not as highly regarded. |
| 1:31.3 | Yeah, it's a good question that we can have the Apostles. |
| 1:35.0 | It could be a disciple of John and therefore still attributed to John. |
| 1:38.3 | What I can say in summary, though, is that regarding the Gospels, and just as a summary point |
| 1:43.4 | from Dr. Petrie, who I mentioned, |
| 1:45.1 | he says, in fact, no anonymous gospel manuscripts exists, and he, that is, Petri, provides a list |
| 1:53.6 | of both complete and fragmentary manuscripts that date from the second to the fifth centuries. |
| 1:59.7 | Each one is ascribed to one of the four |
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