59: Catholicism, Ecumenism, and Offensiveness—Tim Staples

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🗓️ 23 January 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In most social circles today, if you announce that you’re a Buddhist, that’s cool; you’re like a celebrity. If you say you’re into yoga retreats, that’s wonderful. Even if you say you’re a Christian (understood as Protestant) everything is still more or less groovy, unless you’re one of those fundamentalist types that believes Jesus really rose from the dead.

But announce you’re Catholic? Better get ready for the inquisition. Tim Staples knows all about it. Tim was raised Southern Baptist, later became an Assemblies of God youth pastor, and is now the director of apologetics and evangelization at Catholic Answers.

In this interview, Tim goes off-road to talk about life as a Catholic in a post-modern culture. How has the papacy of Pope Francis been a game changer? Some have implied or accused Pope Francis of being a heretic. Tim weighs in with his take.

Last year was the commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the revolt now called the Protestant Reformation. How can Catholics talk about about the breakaway that had led to constant, and predictable, splinterization of so many different denominations, each contradicting the others is various ways?

And what is ecumenism, anyway? What should the endgame be for our prayers “for Christian unity”? Tim Staples has been debating, writing about, and pondering all these questions for 30 years. Listen and learn.

In this episode you will learn:

Specific examples of how to interact with people who disagree
How life as a Catholic is, in a certain sense, different under the unpredictable papacy of Pope Francis
Why ecumenism can’t possibly mean merely being nice and collaborating on projects
How to recover from an awkward start to an interview!
That Jesus Christ founded one Church

Much more!

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 59 of the Patrick Coffin Show.
0:04.0	Warning, a following podcast contains ideas and arguments that might challenge your worldview.
0:09.0	This guy, Patrick Coffin, I've seen him write pop fiction, about a deer hunter, catch him if you can,
0:17.0	and don't even think he wears a watch.
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0:23.0	You're tired of secularist bullies punching your values in the face.
0:28.0	You're looking for smart commentary that doesn't sound like NPR,
0:31.0	with our annoying voices.
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0:37.0	If you answer true to any of these, you've come to the right place.
0:41.0	You're about to meet the innovators and influencers who are restoring the Judeo-Christian
0:46.2	foundations of our culture right here on the Patrick Coffin Show.
0:51.6	And now here's your host, Patrick Coffin.
0:57.0	Glad you're with us.
1:01.0	Welcome to the show.
1:02.0	The Patrick Coffin show is about faith and culture
1:04.1	and going upstream to the sources of truth and life and goodness and all things Jimmy
1:10.1	Stewart. Joining me is my longtime friend, associate at Catholic Answers live Mr. Tim
1:15.4	Stapels the Director of Apologetics and Evangelization himself a former
1:19.3	Protestant he was a couple different kinds of Protestant before he joined the Tiber Swim team and Tim Stapels.
1:26.5	Great to have you back, man.
1:28.8	It is great to be with you.
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