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#343 Is Tradition Reliable? - Joe Heschmeyer

Catholic Answers Focus

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It seems like Scripture is so solid, and Tradition is so ephemeral. Why should we trust that God has revealed himself to us in Sacred Tradition?

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Is Catholic tradition really trustworthy?

0:02.6

Joe Heshmeyer is next.

0:08.7

Hello and welcome to Focus the Catholic Answers Podcast

0:11.5

for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith

0:14.8

on Psychele at your host.

0:16.6

And one of the things we Catholics have to defend

0:18.9

is this idea that we're taught almost from the beginning

0:21.4

of our catechism, that God reveals Himself to us

0:24.3

in both Scripture and tradition.

0:26.9

And the Scripture one feels really solid

0:30.4

and the tradition one, well, what are we

0:34.0

just supposed to make of that?

0:35.0

And that's why we asked Joe Heshmeyer

0:36.9

to come in and explain to us the Catholic understanding

0:39.8

of God's revelation of Himself in tradition

0:42.5

and why you should trust it.

0:45.0

Here's Joe.

0:52.5

Joe Heshmeyer, a new Apologist here at Catholic Answers.

0:55.8

But welcome, thanks for being with us.

0:57.7

Thanks, it's good to be here.

0:58.9

I mean, you're not a new Apologist,

0:59.9

but it's new to call you an Apologist,

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