#12735 How Do I Explain That Jesus Is God? Mary and Orthodox Views - William Albrecht
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🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“How do I explain that Jesus is God?” This question leads to a discussion on the nature of Christ and the Trinity, while also addressing related topics such as the historical disagreements between Catholics and Orthodox on the canon of scriptures and the evolving emphasis on Mary in the Church. Additional questions touch on interfaith relationships and early church governance.
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Questions Covered:
- 03:35 – When did Catholics and Orthodox begin to disagree on the canon of scriptures?
- 15:00 – Why don’t we hear anything about Mary? It seems like the Church has much more emphasis on her now than in early church?
- 24:28 – How do I explain to my family members that Jesus is God?
- 35:20 – My son is dating a Ukrainian Orthodox girl. Are they in line with the Roman catholic church? Can you give me 3 similarities and differences between the two?
- 42:46 – I’m Not Trinitarian because Jesus has a proper name, the Father has a proper name. But the Holy Spirit does not have a proper name.
- 47:47 – Was there more of a democracy of bishops in the early church? I don’t want to jump into a system similar to Mormonism again.
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| 0:11.5 | Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers live. I am Cy Kelly, your host, William Albrecht, our guest, our good friend William Al Albrecht. That's the way I should say, because he is our good friend. And he's been just rendering great service to us for a long time now. And we turn to him whenever we've got an opening pretty much. William's name comes up. And today we're going to ask you, why aren't you Catholic? |
| 0:54.7 | Is that right, William? |
| 0:55.5 | Is that what you were expecting the question to be? |
| 0:57.1 | Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, definitely. Okay, good. For a second there, I was like, is that what we're doing? Yep. Do you ever get that panic when you just go on the air and you're like, am I remembering this correctly? I do. I get that panic quite often sometimes. |
| 1:09.2 | Yeah, so, okay, so why aren't you Catholic? |
| 1:11.7 | If you're not a Catholic, you go to the top of the line 888-3-1-8-7-884. |
| 1:15.5 | Anybody can call. We'll take a call from anybody. But we're on these days, especially at this time of the year, when, you know, in a month or two or three, most parishes will start their R-CIA or O-CIA process. |
| 1:33.3 | And so this is a great time to be encouraging people. |
| 1:36.2 | Hey, you know, you've been thinking about the Catholic Church. |
| 1:38.9 | How about coming and doing some inquiry classes? |
| 1:41.2 | There's no obligation. |
| 1:42.1 | Nobody requires anything. |
| 1:43.5 | You don't register for anything. |
| 1:45.0 | You don't go on the Vatican's list yet, you know. You don't go yet on the Vatican's list, but |
| 1:51.3 | if you, you know, so maybe you're not a Catholic and you want to tell us why. And we'd love to |
| 1:57.2 | talk about it and encourage you, if you're thinking about coming close to the Catholic Church, to come closer. 8883187-884, AAA-3184. William, a wonderful apologist, and especially |
| 2:11.2 | devoted to the early church, to the church fathers, to what's called patristics, but we talked to them |
| 2:19.9 | about all kinds of things, orthodoxy and, oh my goodness, you never met anybody. Maybe Tim |
| 2:25.1 | Staples, who loves the Virgin Mary as much as William. I'm getting that pretty much right, |
| 2:31.5 | right? You got that right, without a doubt. I'm known for my mariology. You're correct about that. Yeah, it's good to be known for your Mariology. I have a feeling that you know when will be really good time to be done for your mariology? The moment of death. I think that's going to be a great time. That's what it'll matter, man. That's when that's going to come in handy. |
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