#12112 How Do You Respond to the Claim That the Catholic Church Is a Cult? - Andrew Petiprin

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🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Some Protestants argue that Catholicism is a cult—how should you answer? Andrew Petiprin tackles this common objection and discusses misconceptions about the Church, early Christian history, and the differences between Catholicism and other denominations.

Questions Covered:

12:25 – I’m Protestant. How would you respond to the claim that the Catholic Church is a cult?
23:04 – Why do people have misconceptions about Catholicism, especially to other Christians faiths?
35:45 – What do you recommend doing to dispel someone from the idea that Catholicism is just another denomination?
44:35 – How would I respond to the claim that the Church for the first 700 years was trying to limit its ideas?
52:05 – I’m Protestant but my son is Catholic. My daughter’s father-in-law told me that he was going to go to hell for not converting me. How do I respond?

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0:32.9	I am Cy Kelly, your host, our guest, Andrew Pettiprin, this hour.
0:36.9	And as promised first hour,
0:38.3	we're going to talk about his brand new book, a wonderful book from Catholic Answers Press called
0:42.5	The Faith Unboxed, freeing the Catholic Church from the containers people put it in.
0:47.1	Is Andrew Pettiprin saying that the Catholic Church needs to be liberated?
0:52.6	Well, not the church itself. He's saying that we, we put the church
0:58.3	in boxes. We have certain ways of thinking about the church, what it is, whose it is, who it's for,
1:06.4	all of those kinds of questions. And we often put limits that God doesn't put on the church.
1:13.9	And it's his.
1:14.4	It belongs to him.
1:15.2	I'll just give you a little preview of what we're going to talk about.
1:18.0	It belongs to him.
1:18.7	So he gets to tell us who it's for.
1:20.9	Andrew Pettiprin.
1:22.0	I'm reading from about the author, Andrew, in the back.
1:24.7	So this is what they said about you. Andrew Pettiprin is founder and editor of
1:27.9	the Space Salvi Institute. He's a columnist at Catholic World Report, the host of the Ignatius
1:32.7	Press podcast, and he's the co-author of a book we talk about a lot here on this show. Popcorn with the
1:39.0	Pope, a guide to the Vatican film list. Welcome, Andrew Pettoprin. Glad to be back, sign. I didn't use the word
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