#12748 How Do We Deal With Suffering? Advice and Theology - Tim Staples
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🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“How do we deal with suffering?” This question opens a discussion on the Catholic perspective of suffering, contrasting it with Protestant views. The conversation also addresses practical advice for supporting a friend who has lost a loved one and offers insights on how to cope with suffering while experiencing it.
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Questions Covered:
- 01:34 – Protestant theology deals with suffering very differently. How do we deal with suffering?
- 14:50 – What are we supposed to deal with suffering while we are in it?
- 29:57 – My friend lost her husband recently. Do you have any advice on what I can say to her?
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| 0:35.3 | You're welcome to call with your questions about suffering and the Catholic understanding of suffering 8883187, 884. We might even say the Catholic |
| 0:44.3 | understanding of the mystery of suffering, because I don't think anybody claims to know |
| 0:49.5 | the depths of an understanding of what God intends with the suffering that we see all around us. |
| 0:58.6 | But certainly we can have some understanding, and that's what we'll talk about this hour, |
| 1:03.7 | 8883187-884. |
| 1:06.2 | Tim Staples, senior apologist here at Catholic Answers, the author of Behold Your Mother, a biblical and |
| 1:11.5 | historical defense of the Marian doctrines. Welcome back, Tim. It is good to be with you, |
| 1:16.1 | Cy Kellett. You look better now that you have one more kid confirmed. With each confirmation, |
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| 1:29.7 | Yep, another one confirmed. That's great. Well, let me, you haven't always been Catholic. |
| 1:35.1 | Yeah. So Protestant theology, maybe particularly, I think, you grew up Baptist? That's right. |
| 1:40.9 | Baptist and I was later a minister in an assembly of God, Pentecostal community. |
| 1:46.0 | So that theology then deals with suffering very differently than we do. |
| 1:51.0 | Can we talk about the difference? |
| 1:52.0 | Yeah, that's a good question, and it really opens up lots of questions, doesn't it? |
| 1:59.0 | But that's what this hour is all about. Yeah, I mean, |
| 2:02.6 | Protestant theology in general does not deal with suffering as we do as Catholics. And I think |
| 2:10.4 | they fail to appreciate the biblical texts that are so rich. You know, Colossians 124, St. Paul says, I fill up that which is lacking |
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