Tim Staples returns to Focus with a question taken from his School of Apologetics course "Evidence for the Church": Did Jesus really give his authority to a human institution?

Tim Staples returns to Focus with a question taken from his School of Apologetics course “Evidence for the Church“: Did Jesus really give his authority to a human institution?

Cy Kellett:

Did Jesus found a church to have his authority and power? Tim Staples is next.

Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I am Cy Kellett, your host. I emphasize Catholic really hard right there because we’re going to defend the Catholic faith today.

Every Christian would say Jesus came with authority, teaching with…

Clearly Catholic bishops need closer collaboration with lay Catholics if we are ever going to get past the leadership models that led to the sex abuse crisis.

Clearly Catholic bishops need closer collaboration with lay Catholics if we are ever going to get past the leadership models that led to the sex abuse crisis. But what is appropriate lay participation in keeping bishops honest? Jason Negri discusses one model being pursued by the Daniel Coalition, a local effort for reform in Lansing Michigan.

Can the laity hold bishops accountable? Jason Negri, next.

Cy Kellett:

Hello, and welcome again to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding and defending your Catholic faith. A great deal of suffering in recent decades around the se…

The call to evangelize has only grown more important, though it may look different today than it did in 100 A.D. Fr. Simon Esshaki talks about the call from Jesus Christ for all Christians to go out into the world, sharing the good news.

With his death and resurrection, Jesus completes the great work of our salvation and gives us the perfect sign that he has conquered sin and death.

A prominent strain of Christianity denies free will as it strives to defend the omnipotence of God. But does such a strategy turn God into a monster?

Does neuroscience, or any science, pose a challenge to believing human beings have free will? Trent Horn joins us for a discussion of today's fashionable denial of the fact of free will.

Karlo Broussard responds to an atheist critique of the God of the Bible, that he is a narcissist whose ego makes him hungry for the worship of his creatures

Apologist Karlo Broussard responds to a common atheist critique of the God of the Bible, that he is a narcissist whose ego makes him hungry for the worship of his creatures. Does the Bible really give us such a creepy Lord? And even if he is not creepy, why does he insist on worship?

THE ARTICLE:

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/is-it-egotistical-for-god-to-demand-your-love

Cy Kellett:

Is God an egocentric, narcissist maniac? Karlo Broussard, next. Hello, and welcome to Focus The Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m C…