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🗓️ 8 February 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to Focus the Catholic Cancer's podcast for Living Understanding and Defending |
0:11.4 | Your Catholic Faith. |
0:12.4 | I am Psy Kellet, your host, and among the things we hear is that if the Catholic Church |
0:17.5 | was just lighten up on some of this morals stuff, we'd attract a lot more people. |
0:23.8 | And it may be true in certain cases, but it's also true that the moral life of the church, |
0:29.0 | the moral teachings of the church, even the moral demands of living the Catholic life |
0:33.5 | are attractive to many people, one of whom is our guest, Tim Staples, Senior Apologist |
0:38.0 | here at Catholic Answers. |
0:39.4 | And you hear that, Tim, you hear, you know, if the church would just lighten up and stop |
0:45.1 | focusing on, well, contraception, or you name it, then it would attract more people. |
0:55.0 | And nothing could be further from the truth. |
0:58.5 | You know, Psy, I don't share this part of my conversion story that often, it's kind |
1:04.6 | of a sentence in my story that I've shared for the last 30 plus years. |
1:10.8 | But the presentation, the Catholic presentation of the moral law was a key component in |
1:19.1 | my Odyssey to the Catholic faith. |
1:22.6 | And it really began with contraception. |
1:26.0 | Now, if you remember Psy, when I was in my battles with the famous Sergeant Matt Dula, |
1:38.6 | he was a mind-blower for me. |
1:41.6 | And I'd never met a Catholic who knew his Bible that, you know, like he did. |
1:48.2 | And he was amazing at how he would respond. |
1:53.6 | And it sent me in a, you know, a tizzy, you know, because I'm scrambling, going, wait |
1:59.0 | a minute. |
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