Did Jesus give the church a sacrament of confession? Or not, Carlo Rousseauard is next.

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

your Catholic faith. I'm Psy Kellett, your host. And a series of strange things happen in the 20th

chapter of John's Gospel, particularly in verse 23. And these things leave us with a bit of a

controversy today about what exactly did Jesus mean when he said to the apostles,

who sins you forgive are forgiven them, who sins you retain are retained. Did he mean that we

are to go out and proclaim the Gospel? And when people accept it, we can say your sins are forgiven,

and if they don't accept it, we can say your sins are retained? Or did he mean something else?

And what does breathing on them and giving them the Holy Spirit have to do with all of this?

Here's what Carlo Rousseauard had to say.

Apologist Carlo Rousseauard, thank you for being with us.

Host of Catholic Answers live, Psy Kellett, thank you for having me.

You guys all do that to me. The author of several books, one of which is meeting the

Protestant Challenge, and you've got a forthcoming book, which is also going to meet intellectual

challenges posed to Catholics by Protestant folks. That's correct, but it'll be a little bit

different. It will be different, and so it's going to be what will be the form of this.

Yes, so whereas meeting the Protestant Challenge was addressing objections that took the form,

how can the church teach X when the Bible says Y, which is an alleged contradiction,

concerning our belief in the Bible and our beliefs as Catholics. My forthcoming book

is going to look at ways in which Protestants rebut counter object to the classic Catholic

arguments that have been given some day one concerning the papacy, Mary, the saints,

justification, etc. So we're going to look at those Protestant counters or comebacks and then

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