Did the early Church Fathers really teach Sola Scriptura?

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Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus.

I am Cy Kellett, your host, and we do hear from time to time

folks who say they came into the Catholic Church because they read the Church Fathers, and they

understood through reading the Church Fathers that the Catholic

Church is the church that goes right back to the Apostles and to Jesus himself.

But there are some who will read into the Church Fathers a more Protestant

understanding and say no when I would read the Church Fathers I find a defense

really there of what I believe as a Protestant.

And here to help us kind of sort that out

is Sean McAfee.

Sean is the author of Reform Yourself and other books.

He's the founder and editor of Epic Pugh.com and contributes to many

online Catholic resources. He holds a master's degree in dogmatic theology

from Holy Apostles College and Seminary. He's made a temporary profession as a lay

Dominican and he lives with his family in Italy. Hello Sean.

Hello, Cy, thanks for having me.

Thank you for being here with us because I was reading articles that you wrote for Catholic answers magazine, the finest Catholic publication in the world and

You you tackle just this bit about that Protestants will sometimes use the church fathers against Catholics.

To Catholics that might be surprising because we kind of think that the church fathers

are Catholic. Yeah, I would say so and I enjoyed your

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