Hello, and welcome again to Focus, the Catholic Answers Podcast for living, understanding,

and defending your Catholic faith.

I'm Sy Kelly at your host, Tim Staples here with us again.

This time to talk about justification.

And when we think about the things that kind of divide Catholics and Protestants' justification

and always one of the top, maybe the top among those, and I was thinking I might say to

you, Tim, first of all, welcome Tim Staples.

And it is great to be with you, my friend.

I was thinking I might say to you, well, this is a big issue between Catholics and Protestants,

but I'm going to tell you something as a cradle Catholic, which you are not and I am.

Yes.

I don't think this is a big issue between Catholics and Protestants.

I think this is a big issue Protestants have with Catholics because as a kid raised in

the Catholic Church, we were taught about

salvation, but nobody talked much about justification.

It wasn't that's not how we were taught.

And so often I felt as a child or as a teenager, maybe unprepared to talk to Protestants about

this because I didn't know what they were talking about.

So that's the way of starting.

I guess a Catholic to ask for a Protestant now Catholic, a Catholic, Tim Staples, what is

justification?

Yeah, you know, one kind of simple way to look at it, it's the process whereby I, a sinner,

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