Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Cancer Podcast for living, understanding and defending

your Catholic beliefs. A lot going on as far as the Eucharist goes. We have all this kind

of bad news that we've had in recent years about Catholics not accepting the real presence

of Jesus in the Eucharist or maybe not even knowing the teaching, which is in some ways equally

or more horrifying. But always there has been, since certainly since the Protestant Reformation,

there has been this ongoing debate between Catholics and Protestants about what exactly

are we doing when we're celebrating what most communities would call communion.

And what did Jesus mean with all that stuff he said in John 6? Because the Catholic certainly

looks at John 6 and says, well, he's talking about the Eucharist there. And the Protestant person

looks at that and says, well, he's not talking in the way that you Catholics say that he's

talking. So this time we ask about being wrong about the six chapter of John's Gospel and get

into why Catholics aren't wrong about John 6. Carlo Bussard is here as our guest.

Carlo Apologist here at Catholic Answers, author of a whole bunch of books, including the new

relativism. You can get all his books over at shop.catholic.com. Carlo, thanks for being here.

Hey, Si. Thanks for having me, buddy. It's great to be with you.

Yeah, we're going to be pulling from some of the material in my book, Meeting the Protestant

Response, how to answer common comebacks to Catholic arguments.

Oh, okay. So meeting the Protestant response. All right. The follow-up to meeting the Protestant

Challenge. That's right. Yeah. So the chat meeting the Protestant Challenge is directed at defending

Catholic beliefs against alleged contradictions with the Bible and meeting the Protestant

responses, defending our Catholic arguments and the Bible passages that we appeal to justify our

beliefs against Protestant responses. So that's what we're going to be doing today. We often

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