#12738 What Has Tim Learned After 25 Years of Apologetics? Faith and Authority - Tim Staples
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🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“What has Tim learned after 25 years of apologetics?” In this episode, Tim reflects on his extensive experience in Catholic apologetics, addressing questions such as the obligation of Catholics to follow Ember Days and the trustworthiness of the Catholic Church’s authority. He also tackles challenges faced by parents with children who have left the faith and discusses the complexities of interfaith dialogue regarding the nature of God.
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Questions Covered:
- 02:00 – What has Tim Staples Learned after a quarter -century of doing Catholic Apologetics?
- 14:55 – Are Catholics still obliged to follow Ember Day?
- 18:20 – Why should we trust the Catholic Church and its authority? My friend is a non-Catholic and is concerned he will be deceived. He is trying to trust the Catholic Church but doesn’t know how.
- 41:34 – My adult son has left the faith and challenges me about it. He sent me a video of someone saying if Adam and Eve are the parents of humanity, how did we end up with so many races and genetic backgrounds. How would we answer this?
- 49:15 – Why does the Catechism teach Muslims worship the same God, when the God of the Koran is so vastly different from the God of the Bible? Is there a way to tell if another monotheistic religion worships the same God or not?
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| 0:34.3 | Tim, look at that all the lines are full. |
| 0:35.6 | Should we take those calls that are there? |
| 0:37.1 | I mean, I don't know. |
| 0:37.7 | I guess we will. |
| 0:39.0 | I'll get to those calls because I'm supposed to change the topic for this hour, but I'm not going to because there's, I don't want to hang up on all these people. Let's do it. Yeah. We'll get to all of them. I got a question for you, though. because you and I are approaching our birthdays coming up. |
| 0:56.0 | I know you're just a young, |
| 0:57.1 | young, all of them. I got a question for you, though. Yes. Because you and I are approaching our birthdays |
| 0:55.5 | coming up. I know you're just a young, young whippersnapper compared to me. Because I was already |
| 1:02.5 | two weeks old when you were born. I was, I was already baptized by the time you were born. |
| 1:08.7 | Gosh, I can't imagine being your age. |
| 1:11.4 | I really can't. |
| 1:12.2 | I know. |
| 1:12.5 | It's not easy to be as old as I am. |
| 1:14.4 | But someday you'll get here, Tim. |
| 1:17.2 | God willing. |
| 1:18.0 | But you've been an apologist, you've been a Catholic apologist for what? |
| 1:22.1 | Like half of that? |
| 1:23.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.2 | Isn't that crazy? |
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