Hello and welcome to focus the Catholic answers

podcast for living understanding and defending your Catholic faith I am

Sykelet your host and what defending your

host and what about this one? What about the the advice we sometimes get

that we should

preach the gospel always but when necessary use words I know you've heard it because people say it all the time and

as much as there might be some truth in the fact that our lives should constantly be sharing the gospel

with others, even when we're not speaking, we should be demonstrating the gospel.

Is it really true?

Is that an effective strategy as far as sharing the faith

goes? Especially given the conditions of the world today, is it enough just to preach the gospel

with our lives? and then only on those

occasions when it's necessary to use words. We've got a wonderful guest here to

help us kind of evaluate that.

He's gone through a kind of conversion in his own life

about whether or not that's an effective strategy.

Dr. Thomas, Tommy Hine is our guest.

He's an attending physician at Massachusetts General Hospital,

an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. Like his wife, Dr. Nancy, he's a double board

certified in internal medicine and pediatric and worked primarily as an adult

hospitalist, which I think if you don't know what that is, Dr. Gregory House, I think that's

basically what it is. I'm going to ask him, but I that's basically what it is.

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