What was that thorn in St Paul's flesh, Father Hugh Barber, is next?

Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers Podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith.

I'm Cy Kellett, your host.

And you may be surprised to find this out, but almost every single one of our listeners

is a living human being who struggles with sin.

Because being a living human being means struggling with sin.

And that's what this episode is about.

Often that passage in the second letter of the Corinthians where St Paul talks about the thorn in his flesh the angel

of Satan that comes to you know abuse him we think of that as a physical ailment

and it may well be but there's a very long tradition in the Catholic Church that is not a physical

element, that it's a sin or a proclivity to sin or an inclination to sin that St Paul just

couldn't overcome.

There's really good news in that interpretation of it,

really joyful news and Father Hugh Barber gets right into it. Before we get

into that conversation with Father Hugh Barber, however, I would ask you to

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could you that helps to grow the podcast now we'll find out from Father Hugh what one long

tradition in the Catholic Church teaches about that thorn in St Paul's

flesh and why that is really good news for you and me.

I want you to help me to St. Paul from the second letter to the Corinthians.

He talks about a thorn in the flesh that was given to him, an angel of Satan to beat me, to keep me from being too elated.

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