#12728 What Is the Catholic Church? Homosexuality in Families - Tim Staples
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
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Summary
“What is the Catholic Church?” This question opens a discussion about the Church’s identity and mission, while also addressing how to navigate family dynamics when dealing with issues like homosexuality. Additional topics include the challenges of engaging with an evangelical perspective on the Catholic Church and fostering relationships with family members who hold anti-Catholic views.
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Questions Covered:
- 06:45 – What is the Catholic Church?
- 13:48 – How do I deal with family who is fully immersed in homosexuality?
- 28:57 – I’m evangelical. The premise that the Church that Jesus founded was the Roman Catholic Church is false.
- 49:07 – My mom is a evangelical, former Catholic and anti-Cathoic. How do I bridge that gap and have a relationship with her?
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| 0:11.5 | Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back to Catholic Answers Live, as promised, Tim Staples, our guest, and during the break, Tim introduced himself to me because we haven't seen |
| 0:39.1 | each other been so long. I went away, and I don't think I had seen you for a while before that, |
| 0:44.0 | but it's very nice to see you again, too. Yeah, it's good to see you, Bob. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 0:49.8 | You can call me, Bob. You can call me Ray. You can call me Ray. You'd call me Jay. R.J. |
| 1:13.6 | Whatever you would like. What is, Edgar, is it asked me anything this hour? What are we doing this hour? You better tell me. You better tell me. Yes. Oh, questions from evangelicals. Oh, yeah, we want evangelical Christians to call and ask whatever they'd like about the Catholic faith. 8883187-884, AAA 3187-884. All right, I'll tell you what. I'll just get into a question, and then we'll let those evangelicals dial. |
| 1:21.6 | Let's do that. I love, don't you? I mean, you got to love talking to evangelicals, because we're just, you know, we're united on so much you know yes you know and they're the they're kind of culture |
| 1:32.7 | warriors with us as well and they really love Jesus and they're active in the culture |
| 1:39.7 | as well as in the church I'm glad I I love that that you do that. You start out with what unites us. |
| 1:46.4 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:46.9 | Because the whole world is about what divides us these days. Everything in the world is about what divides us. And you've got to go, okay, Jesus, that's a pretty big deal. Yeah. That's uniting us. That's right. The Blessed Trinity, Jesus, the redemption of Christ on the cross, the resurrection as a historical event. |
| 2:03.0 | I mean, there's so... The Blessed Trinity, Jesus, the redemption of Christ on the cross, the resurrection as a historical event. |
| 2:03.4 | I mean, there's so much that we agree on. |
| 2:06.7 | And, man, when you're in a crazy cultural situation, yeah, situation. |
| 2:12.0 | It's an amazing situation. |
| 2:13.3 | When you're in a situation like this, you really do need each other. And you really, it's like when I was in the Marine Corps and we were on, we were on alert back in the Gaddafi days. And so we were 12 on 12 off and you're, you know, you can, you know you can go at any time, go to war. Yeah. |
| 2:35.0 | You know, thank God it never happened when I was there. |
| 2:37.0 | But when you're in a situation like that, you know, all of a sudden the guy next to you, |
| 2:43.0 | maybe, you know, that argument isn't all that important anymore. |
| 2:47.0 | Right. |
| 2:48.0 | Especially if he might have my life in his hands in a few weeks here or whatever. |
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