Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Cancer's podcast for living, understanding, and defending

your Catholic faith.

One of the most popular conversations we've ever had here, if the internet is to be believed.

And I think in this case, it is one of the most popular conversations we've ever had

here at Catholic Cancer as well as a conversation with Tim Staples about the book of Enoch.

So we thought, well, let's go back to Tim and ask him about other non-canonical works.

And see if we can regenerate that enthusiasm in this time about the gospel of Thomas.

Tim Staples, of course, senior apologists here at Catholic Answers in the author of Behold

Your Mother, A Biblical, and Historical Defense of the Marion Doctrine.

Tim, thanks for being here.

It is, as always, wonderful to be with you, my friend.

So the gospel of Thomas, I would tell you a funny story that Darren told me about this.

Before he became a Christian, he was thinking about being Catholic.

Is that right?

When you were thinking about me, he goes into a Christian bookstore and he says, do you

have any Catholic books?

And the guy says, well, we have the gospel of Thomas, that was all they had.

So I guess he figured the Catholics are into that non-canonical stuff.

But first of all, why is it called a gospel?

But it's not in the scriptures.

Yeah.

Yeah.

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