Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I am Cy Kellett, your host.

There's four marks of the church. It's one holy Catholic and apostolic. Pretty much every

Christian would agree to that. And so we focus on the apostolic

nature of the early church this time with our guest Tim Staples.

Tim is director of apologetics and evangelization

here at Catholic Answers, the author of Behold Your

Mother, a biblical and historical defense

of the Marion doctrines.

And hello Tim.

Cy Kelle, it is always good to be with you man.

So Jesus founded an Apostolic Church, was that his intention right from the get?

Amen.

You know Jesus was too smart to name his church.

You ever notice he didn't say,

hey, go out and tell everybody the name of the church is blank.

He was too smart for that. Why? Because anybody can usurp a name, but what Jesus

did is he gave us four marks. And these four marks cannot be usurped by any other community.

Attempts are made.

Yes, right, right.

But my friends, one holy Catholic and apostolic

applies to one body in this world.

And that is what we call you know I say Jesus didn't name the church and yet you know the great saint Pashin who is the Bishop of Barcelona, fourth century and also a father of the church.

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