#288 Who Gets to Be Called a Catholic? - Fr. Sebastian Walshe

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🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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With election season passions heating up, Catholics are more willing than ever to excommunicate each other online. But what, exactly, does it take to be put out of the Church? We asked the king of careful distinctions, Father Sebastian Walshe. Cy Kellett: Can we just get the bad people out of the Catholic Church? Father Sebastian Walsh joins us next. Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending the Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. I don’t like to pick on Twitter too much. Lots of great stuff happens on social media and…

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0:00.0	Can we just get the bad people out of the Catholic Church?
0:02.8	Father Sebastian Walsh joins us next.
0:09.2	Hello and welcome to focus the Catholic Answers
0:11.6	podcast for living, understanding, and defending the Catholic answers podcast for living understanding
0:13.4	and defending the Catholic faith I'm Cy Kelle at your host and I don't like to pick
0:17.4	on Twitter too much lots of great stuff happens on social media and lots of people
0:21.6	get a lot of positive things out of it.
0:23.6	But one of the things you notice on Catholic Twitter is we tend to excommunicate each
0:28.4	other a lot.
0:29.4	There's a lot of people who be like throwing each other out, calling each other heretics, trying to drive one another out of the
0:34.9	church for various reasons. And it's not to say that there aren't heretics or there aren't things that are
0:40.4	really outrageous being said that need to be challenged on Twitter.
0:44.0	But we thought with all of this kind of tendency to throw people out of the church, to label people
0:48.9	heretics, and sometimes it's church leaders that we're throwing out.
0:52.6	Well, why not ask somebody who really knows,
0:54.3	a really top-notch philosopher and theologian?
0:58.2	Actually, what does get you out of the Catholic Church?
1:01.0	What gets you in?
1:02.1	What do you need to have to be associated as a
1:04.7	member of the Catholic Church and what gets you out? Actually I was I found myself
1:09.0	surprised by his answers on both of those counts.
1:12.6	So Father Sebastian Walsh joins us in a second.
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