Welcome back to James Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire. And as many of you may already know,

Redeem Zuma recently released a video where he laid out 14 examples of what he believed were

Catholic contradictions. Four of them were claims that he made were the Catholic Church, he said,

had contradicted itself in infallible declarations. Now, Trent Horn has already done a fantastic

reply looking at all 14 of those.

But it's really hard to do justice to 14 largely unrelated topics and to give them the time and attention they deserve.

So I'm not going to even try to do that.

I'm going to go deep on three of the issues that he presented.

So on the list of infallible contradictions, I'm going to leave alone for now. And if you want me to cover these issues, let me know here in the comments, or better yet, over in shamelessjo.com on my Patreon, leave it in the comments there. If you want me to cover some of these other alleged contradictions, I can get into that. But again, I'm going to link to Trent's video at the end. It's fantastic. But on the alleged infallible contradictions, Healyant's four, the question of salvation outside the church, the history of icon veneration, and the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of Protestant baptism. I'm going to leave those three alone and focus on the strange history of conciliarism and the question whether popes or ecumenical councils

have the last word if there's a conflict between the two. Those are the four that he views as

infallible. The other ones, he doesn't claim that they're, you know, like a silver bullet,

oh, the church infallibly contradicted herself. That would be, you know, the end of Catholicism.

But here's got ten others where he views a contradiction that he at least thinks undermines the church's

authority. So that's going to be things like the history of the sacrament of confession,

the death penalty. Can Catholics participate in non-Catholic worship? Usory, we're going to

leave all of those alone and focus on a much more obscure one for many of you,

which is when you go up to receive communion, should you receive the host or should you receive from the chalice or both?

And a contradiction he alleged occurred in history, and we'll get into that.

And then more of the last five that he had were about the

Pope's political authority and universal jurisdiction, divorce and remarried people receiving

communion, religious liberty. We're going to leave those alone and focus on whether the mass must

be in the common language. And the reason I'm doing this is largely this. I think Trent does a great

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