Ladies and gentlemen, as you know, I am not Roman Catholic, but I was brought up in the Catholic

Church, and I follow on occasion some Catholic philosophers online. One of them is Dr. Edward Faser, who's written some great books on Aquinas

and has written a great book on the existence of God, five proofs for the existence of God,

or five proofs that God exists. And I've had Ed on the program before.

He wrote something just last week right after the Pope died that I think will launch our

discussion here today with a fabulous guest that I'll have on.

But before I get to our guest, let me read you what Dr. Faser said about

selecting a new pope. He said, quote, when a pope dies, the press will predictably praise

his personal kindness and concern for the poor and marginalized. In part, this is merely

politeness of the kind appropriate when any person dies.

But it also seems to be what is emphasized in commentary on who a pope's successor ought to be.

The liberal, secular world's idea of a good pope is essentially a social worker with the personality of

Mr. Rogers. It is impatient with the idea that the main reason the papacy exists is to preserve

the doctrine handed down to us by the apostles and to unite the faithful around that doctrine.

Okay, I got to give Dr. Faser a round of applause for that.

Because whether you're Catholic or not, that is exactly what someone who is a Christian ought to be doing.

We ought to be preserving the doctrine

handed down to us by the apostles and to unite the faithful around that doctrine. The idea

that a pope or any of us should be a social worker with the personality of Mr. Rogers is not

what the scriptures say. And to talk about that more, we have a fabulous

guest who I've had on several times before because he is so good, although he's a bit,

he's a bit green. He's a, he's a youngster at 83 years old. He is the great Dr. Erwin Lutzer, and he's written so many great books. One of his

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