Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic answers podcast for living, understanding and defending your Catholic faith. I am Cy Kelly, your host, and we're going to talk about original sin this time. You won't find the words original sin in the scripture. Sometimes this is a doctrine of the church that is rejected by some of our fellow

Christians and it just doesn't make sense to some people.

And so we're going to work our way through one of the basics really of

Catholic apologetics talking about original sin in a way that that truly gets at

what the church is talking about when she's talking about original sin. Joe Heshmire is our guest and he's got a brand new book.

Well, I say brand new, but it's new, let's call it new.

The Eucharist is really Jesus how Christ's body and blood are the key to everything we believe and he's also the

podcaster behind shameless pope the shameless potpourri podcast Joe Heshmire

thank you for being here with us my pleasure all right so original sin I'm gonna read you My pleasure. All right, so Original Sin.

I'm going to read you what somebody wrote on Reddit about Original Sin.

Oh, good.

I don't think it sounds promising so far.

I don't think it gives people's names on Reddit. They have

user names. Maybe, okay, maybe this comes from Mr. C. C. L. then and I apologize to

Mr. C. C. C. L. If this is not your post, I'm not good at reading the

Internet. I will preface this, says Mr. C.C.L.

By saying that I have had a bit of difficult run of things lately with regards to my

faith and some things, some components of it, both theological and teaching based have been

bothering one such is the concept of original sin so much of the moral

teaching of the church highlights the innate dignity and value of humans and by extension seems to imply an

innate goodness to humanity even if we are imperfect and capable of great evil.

How then is this squared with the doctrine of original sin in which we are born sinful and tainted?

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