#12698 What Would It Take for Catholics and Orthodox to Reunite? Marriage Validity and Confession - Tim Staples

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🗓️ 1 May 2026

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Summary

“What would it take for Catholics and Orthodox to reunite?” This question opens a discussion on the complexities of Christian unity, while also addressing varied topics such as the validity of a non-Catholic marriage without civil ceremony, the necessity of confession after salvation, and the differences in gospel accounts of the women at the tomb.

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Questions Covered:

01:35 – What would it take for the Catholics and Orthodox to reunite?
14:48 – Is my mom’s marriage valid? She and he are non-Catholic but baptized. She didn’t get civilly married, but it was a public ceremony with witnesses. Both were married before, but those previous spouses have died.
18:30 – I was told that once you are saved there is no need for confession. How does a Catholic respond to that?
29:29 – I heard a Protestant say we have the same spirit that raised Lazarus from the dead. Is that true?
35:00 – Why do the four gospels list different women at the tomb?
40:16 – My wife and I are converts. We were non-Catholics when we married. It was a non-Church ceremony at an embassy. There were not vows. But it was a legal marriage. Are we married in the Church? Do we need to have it convalidated?
47:27 – Does the Church infallibly teach that Mary had no actual sin?
51:05 – Could you comment on how the prodigal son narrative relates to the act of confession? Is this parable an example of confession?

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0:40.8	doing and ask me anything.
0:43.3	The first hour just flew by with Tim Staples, but lucky you that we get to have another
0:47.9	hour.
0:48.8	This time we have from one strong, masculine Catholic guy to another William Alperk the patristic pillar himself
0:56.4	how's it going brother it's great brother going to be tough to follow up the incredible Tim
1:01.1	Staples but glad to be here man glad to be here brother how you doing I'm doing great I'm doing
1:05.0	great well it's it's good to have you on the show because it's always a it's always a blast
1:08.6	when we have you on well if you have a question that you want
1:11.6	to ask, William, you're more than welcome to call us. There's some lines open and a couple of
1:15.9	carryovers from the last hour. But if you have a question for William, 8883187884, that's
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1:29.8	But, William, I have a question for you before we get going to the calls.
1:33.6	So you and I have constantly discussed orthodoxy.
1:37.5	You covered it a lot over on your channel on Patristic Pillars.
1:41.7	And what was it?
1:43.3	This past year, we had, is it the 1700 year anniversary
1:47.0	of the Council of Nicaea where we had, where we had Pope Francis visit, and I think he was there
1:52.9	with the bishop of the patriarch of Constantinople. Am I correct on that? Well, correct. So I saw that
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