Do I have to accept all of the councils of the Church? Tim Staples, next.

Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers Podcast for Living Understanding and Defending

Your Catholic Faith. I'm Psy Kell at Your Host, and this time we address what I think is kind of

a disturbing trend in the contemporary Church and the Catholic Church around the world. And that is

not people who are, you know, wild on the fringes rejecting Church teachings, but people who seem

very, very solid in their Catholic faith, who seem, by all external evidence, to be practicing

that faith, celebrating the sacraments, accepting what the Church has to say, but also at the same time

questioning or being suspicious of or expressing suspicion about the Second Vatican Council.

That is, that council is kind of a dividing point for many people. And many are not sure.

Am I required to accept this council? It seems like so much has gone wrong since this council,

is it the fault of this council? And all that, well, we thought Tim Staples is the guy to ask

about that. In part, because Tim has a new course for the Catholic Answers School of Apologetics

called Evidence for the Church, in which he tackles this very question among many other questions

about the Catholic Church. I hope you'll check it out at schoolofapologetics.com. As a matter of

fact, we're very proud of the School of Apologetics. Their magnificent lectures, the videos are beautiful,

lots of supplementary materials, and you get a college level course, you don't get the college

level credit, and you don't have to take a final exam or write a paper, but you get all the material,

you'd get an college level course from Tim, Evidence for the Church, and from the other apologists on

different topics. You can check that out, as I said, at schoolofapologetics.com. Here's what Tim had to

say about whether or not Catholics can reject a council of the Church.

Well, once again, welcome, Tim Staples. It is great to be with you, my good friend,

Sy Kelly. Thank you for being with us. We're kind of drawing our conversation the last few times

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