Welcome back to St. Thomas Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire and happy Easter. I suspect many of you are familiar

with the Protestant pastor Doug Wilson. He's often been described as a Christian nationalist. He

recently made the news for arguing that the law shouldn't permit Catholics to process down the street

with images of Mary or with the Eucharist. Catholic church bells would be okay, right? Catholic

church bells would be okay, but a parade in,

a parade in honor of the Virgin Mary, carrying an image of the Virgin Mary down Main Street,

no, right? So what about the Eucharist? What about the Eucharist? What about a Eucharistic

procession? That's a, that's a new one. I would say, I would say,

probably not. It would depend on what was being done around it, how it was being conducted,

but basically public displays of idolatry. And look, obviously, Doug is a controversial figure. He is not afraid to take

his ideas to their logical limits, even if that makes people uncomfortable. And to be honest,

he's been kind of on the periphery of my own awareness for a while now. So when I was invited to

debate him, I wasn't 100% sure what to expect. But I agreed, and I'm glad that I did. I find him gracious, thoughtful,

amiable, and I'd be happy to debate or dialogue with him again on any number of topics.

Now, obviously, there are a lot of issues upon which we clearly disagree. And one of those

issues is what brought me to Moscow, Idaho in the first place. The doctrine in question is

Sola Scriptura or Scripture alone? More specifically, is the Bible our only infallible rule of faith?

Protestants like Doug are going to say yes. Catholics like me are going to say no. It isn't,

and in fact, it can't be. As the Second Vatican Council says, it is not from sacred scripture alone that the church

draws her certainty about everything which has been revealed.

Instead, we accept both sacred tradition and sacred scripture with the same sense of loyalty

and reverence.

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