49: What Is Catholicism? -- Father Thomas Joseph White, OP
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Patrick Coffin
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🗓️ 14 November 2017
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The last couple of shows have been on the intellectual-nerd side. Here’s another one! Father Thomas J. White, OP, of the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC, has distilled the essential of Catholicism into a single volume, The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism. I devoured the book (insofar as you can devour a work that relies on Thomas Aquinas’s methods and language) in a few days despite being a slow reader. His style is accessible and his prose elegant with a whiff of humor here and there.
All of that comes through in this interview, as Father White gets down to basics of foundations of Catholicism.
After listening, you will know:
- What the gospel really is
- The philosophical and biblical basis for the Catholic Church’s main claim to be founded by Christ
- What Scripture is and why we can trust the New Testament as an historical document
- A simple way to explain the Trinity
Question of the week: How would you finish the sentence, “I”m Catholic because…..” Or, “I’m not Catholic because….”
Resources recommended in this episode:
The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism by Father White, OP
Theology and Sanity by Frank Sheed
Ignatius Study Bible, RSV Second Catholic Edition by the Holy Spirit and the sacred authors.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode number 49 of the Patrick Coffin Show. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey welcome to the show, this is the Patrick Coffin Show. |
| 0:07.0 | Today we're going to talk about the biggest ism in the world, Catholicism. |
| 0:10.5 | What is the Catholic faith? |
| 0:11.6 | What's Catholicism? |
| 0:13.0 | Is it just a religion? |
| 0:14.0 | Is it a set of lenses? |
| 0:16.0 | Is it the body of Christ? |
| 0:18.0 | Is it all of the above? |
| 0:19.0 | Is it none of the above? |
| 0:20.0 | What exactly is this ism called Catholicism? Today we're going to pick the mighty |
| 0:24.7 | brain of an expert in the Catholic faith, the claims of the Catholic Church and the philosophical |
| 0:29.6 | foundations for Catholicism, right here on the Patrick Coffin Show. I want to start with a quote from this fine book. |
| 0:36.0 | This is the distillation of three volumes by Rumble and Cardi called Radio replies. |
| 0:40.0 | I was honored to write the forward, but the original preface to this book |
| 0:44.4 | was written by a guy called then Monsignor Fulton Sheen. It's a famous sentence but this is |
| 0:49.2 | where it's from you can find information how to get this book in the show notes at patricovend. |
| 0:53.4 | Media. Here's the quote. So this is how the intro to the first edition begins. |
| 0:57.8 | There are not over a hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church. |
| 1:03.2 | There are millions, however, who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic |
| 1:06.6 | Church, which is of course quite a different thing. |
| 1:10.4 | Today, Catholicism. The why and the Wherefore Behind the Claims of the Church in 2003 and is well known for his work in |
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