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Pints With Aquinas

DEBATE: Is it WRONG to pray to the Saints in Heaven?

Pints With Aquinas

Matt Fradd

Stthomasaquinas, Saintthomasaquinas, Mattfradd, Theology, Catholic, Dominican, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.86.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Cameron Bertuzzi joins me for another debate - this time about praying to the saints.

We discuss:
- Catholic versus Protestant understandings of the word “prayer.”
- The relationship between the saints in heaven and Christians still on earth.
- What Scripture says about this topic.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

G'day, g'day, g'day, and welcome to Pints with a Quinus.

0:05.8

My name's Matt Fred, and today I want to share with you a debate that I engaged in with

0:11.2

Cameron Batuzzi from Captain Little, capturing Christianity several months ago now.

0:16.8

It was originally just for our patrons.

0:19.3

We have done several debates on Patreon, on the Eucharist, Solicitora, Pres.

0:24.4

The Saints, Purgatory, all these different things.

0:27.6

But we decided to share this with you today because we're very generous.

0:32.3

Also, I think it's really important that you as a Catholic understand how to respond

0:36.8

to those who object to Catholics praying to the Saints.

0:39.8

I should point out that if you're a Protestant, you're awesome.

0:44.9

And I'm glad to have you here.

0:47.1

And this is not like a debate where either of us were trying to slam dunk each other.

0:52.2

We were just trying to share the position as best we could in a humble way.

0:56.6

So I'm going to be playing this video and I'll scroll through to the eight minute 24

1:04.0

second of this debate because there's a lot of kind of intro and you don't want intro.

1:07.6

Who wants intro?

1:08.6

Not this guy.

1:09.6

Let's just get into it.

1:11.8

So we'll play it and you let me know what you think in the comments section below.

1:15.6

I would love your opinion.

1:16.8

If you're a Protestant especially, what do you think of the arguments I made?

1:19.8

If you're a Catholic, what do you think of the arguments Cameron made?

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