Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Cattle Against As Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

On today's episode, I want to talk about the Church Fathers, Catholic doctrine, and

a universal point of agreement that we can find in the Church Fathers.

What I'm going to bring this up is I've noticed kind of an inconsistency among some Protestant

apologists.

What they do is they'll say, okay, Catholics believe in the immaculate conception of Mary,

or you believe in Mary's bodily assumption, or you believe in these other certain dogmas

and doctrines that only appear explicitly late in the Church Fathers, either after the

Council of Nice, or maybe even before, but they're more implicit.

There might be disagreements amongst the Fathers about how to articulate them.

Some maybe even seeming to not affirm the doctrines.

As a Protestant apologist, we'll say, look, if the apostles taught the bodily assumption

of Mary, for example, why don't we see that in all the Fathers and see it in the early

Fathers?

If it were an Apostolic teaching, we would expect to see it more in the Fathers than we do

later in Church history after the Council of Nice.

Now, I don't want to get into a full defense of the bodily assumption of Mary.

If you want to learn more about that, you can go back to a previous episode of my podcast.

I'll try to find it and link to it in the description below.

I think I recorded it on the feast day of the assumption to talk about the patricistic

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