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Clarifying Catholicism
by Clarifying Catholicism
www.clarifyingcatholicism.org
Episodes
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The Historical Saint Peter (The Papacy Part 1)
This series, which draws on Klaus Schatz’s phenomenal Papal Primacy, will attempt to paint an accurate picture of the development of papal authority. I will do so by trying my best to present an honest history of the pope’s role. Because to understand the pope’s authority, one has to understand…
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Seeing Dead People (The Historical Jesus Episode 10)
"Jesus was seen and heard by multiple people at different times, as well as at the same time. Jesus was the victim of violence. His presence instilled fear and doubt in some participants. He spoke fairly briefly and offered comfort before disappearing. He gave guidance, made requests, and issued...
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What did the Apostles think would Happen after Jesus Died? (The Historical Jesus Episode 9)
"Allison argues, as do most historical Jesus scholars, that even Jesus misunderstood His Father’s plan for Him. This would make sense given His statement in Mark that not even the Son will know when the resurrection will happen."
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Was Jesus’s Body Stolen? (The Historical Jesus Episode 8)
"Pope Gregory the Great, a highly intelligent man, once heard a story that a dead Roman craftsman, who was buried in a church, began shouting “I burn! I burn!” The next day his clothes were found but no body was there. Pope Gregory believed that this man had gone to Hell. This shows that mystical...
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Was Jesus Actually Buried? (The Historical Jesus Part 7)
"Most scholars agree that Jesus was tortured and killed in perhaps the most humiliating fashion of the age. If Christians didn’t bother covering that up, why would they obsess over how He was buried? It would make no sense to let the embarrassment of the crucifixion stand but take issue with how…
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Jesus’s Appearances to Peter and Paul (The Historical Jesus Part 6)
"The evidence is abundant. The fish-catching story in Luke 5 actually belongs after Mary Magdalene sees the empty tomb, and this is significant. As I’m about to explain, it means that I lied in last episode. We actually DO know when the first appearance to Peter was that Paul mentions. It was...
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The Historicity of the Resurrection Apparitions (The Historical Jesus Part 5)
"As we covered in our segment on memory research, this does NOT imply Mary didn’t see an empty tomb. On the contrary, given how little the two accounts share, it is more plausible that Mary saw an empty tomb, told this experience to several people, and we ended up with two very separate accounts...
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The Earliest Resurrection Accounts (The Historical Jesus Part 4)
"If I said, “In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue. He wanted to find India but instead arrived in North America,” you could probably tell that the first half of the sentence came from a different source. And you’d be right. “In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue” is a pre-existing nursery…
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Historical Jesus Studies Today (The Historical Jesus Part 3)
"Every memory a person forms undergoes distortions, and the more time that passes, the more distortions occur. And remember, Jesus died roughly around 33 AD. St. Paul’s letters, the earliest written accounts of Jesus, did not appear until around 51 AD. That’s 18 years of distortion, and though…
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A History of Historical Jesus Studies (The Historical Jesus Part 2)
"Popes discouraged Catholics from getting involved with historical Jesus studies. In fact, there were dozens of decrees throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries forbidding Catholics from studying the Bible outside of Church-sanctioned activities. As harsh as this sounds, I don’t blame the...
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The Importance of Historical Jesus Studies (The Historical Jesus Part 1)
Some of you may recall from my Ecumenical Councils series that the Church spent hundreds of years discussing, deliberating, and murdering each other over the identity of Christ. There’s a big difference between Jesus being some wise guy and Him being the incarnate Son of God. Even within His...
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The Destructive Effects of Transgender Procedures (The Science of Catholic Teaching Episode 6)
"But do these treatments work? Lawrence Mayer and Paul McHugh write 'Adolescents with gender identity disorder have poor anxiety tolerance. Seeking sex reassignment surgery is a defensive solution and a mechanism for control of anxiety. The thought of not having a solution for their distress...
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Pornography's Harmful Effects: (The Science of Catholic Teaching Episode 5)
"Today’s media makes pornography one of the most difficult addictions to break. Even scrolling through social media surrounds us viewers in temptation. There is nothing liberating about being trapped by our base sexual desires. If anything, containing sex to marriage actually liberates us, as it...
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Health Risks Associated with Homosexual Lifestyles (The Science of Catholic Teaching Episode 4)
"There’s something beautiful, almost magical about the realization that what you are doing is participating in a procreative action. That is something that same sex intercourse cannot do. The point of this episode isn’t to say that people with same-sex attraction should be demonized, hated, or...
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The Dangers of Pre-Marital Sex and Cohabitation (The Science of Catholic Teaching Episode 3)
"More sexual partners seems to correlate with higher divorce ratings. In 2000, the Center for Disease Control began tracking women who had reported different numbers of extramarital partners. Within five years, only 5% of women with 0 sexual partners before marriage had divorced. Women who had...
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The Sexual Revolution's Fallout (The Science of Catholic Teaching Episode 2)
"The problem with introducing sex into stages one or two is that we still view others as tools for pleasure. The purpose of Christian marriage is to provide a guide and framework for sex to occur appropriately. Marriage, in the Church’s eyes, ensures that sex is a mutual expression of...
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The Logic of Christian Marriage (The Science of Catholic Teaching Episode 1)
"In having relations with someone of the opposite sex, you are 1) admitting you desire them, 2) admitting they can fulfill you in a way you cannot fulfill yourself, 3) renouncing the possibility of having sex with anyone else and giving yourself to them and your children, and 4) imitating God’s...
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A New Catholic Philosophy (Xavier Zubiri's Sentient Intelligence Episode 12)
"I believe that Zubiri’s work has aptly demonstrated that Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics are no longer a sustainable backbone for theology to rest upon. Essentially, it’s time for the Church to move on from a sola-Thomistic approach. Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics make too many…
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What is Knowledge? (Xavier Zubiri's Sentient Intelligence Episode 11)
"Thus, knowledge depends on reason, which depends on being, which depends on truth, which depends on judgment, which depends on logos, which depends on reality, which depends on real content. Basically, a thing’s explanation depends on the real content of said thing. But, since we can never…
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What is Reason? (Xavier Zubiri's Sentient Intelligence Episode 10)
"Now, reason has three moments. First is inquiry or searching. This means that reason has an inquisitive character. The second is in-depth intellection, which means its search is for a more thorough understanding of reality. The third is called intellective measuring. This means that reason not...
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What is Being? (Xavier Zubiri's Sentient Intelligence Episode 9)
"Simply put, according to Zubiri, a thing’s being is basically is how it relates to other things that are in the network of reality. And a thing’s being is defined by the sense of towards that reality impresses upon the intellect via the thing’s interaction with other things. I know this cup’s...
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What is Truth? Part Two (Xavier Zubiri's Sentient Intelligence Episode 8)
"Truth is intellective actualization, just as sweat is epidermal actualization or sight is the actualization of your eye. It is, indeed, a physical moment. It means when the intellect is at work, it produces truth, just as when your eyes are at work, they produce sight. The production of truth…
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What is Truth? Part One (Xavier Zubiri's Sentient Intelligence Episode 7)
"Truth is the moment that reality is brought to our intellect’s presence. Basically, while reality is constantly forming around me, regardless of my intellect’s participation, truth strictly concerns my intellect’s participation in the formation of reality. Essentially, in that moment reality and...
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What is Judgment? (Xavier Zubiri's Sentient Intelligence Episode 6)
"At this moment I’d like to reinforce a key theme in Zubiri’s philosophy that this series has led up to. Reality, intellection, and logos are dynamic. They are dynamic because their operations are shaped by other things over time. If a species, over millions of years, loses its ability to see the...
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What is Logos? (Xavier Zubiri's Sentient Intelligence Episode 5)
"At this moment I’d like to reinforce a key theme in Zubiri’s philosophy that this series has led up to. Reality, intellection, and logos are dynamic. They are dynamic because their operations are shaped by other things over time. If a species, over millions of years, loses its ability to see the...
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What is Reality? (Xavier Zubiri's Sentient Intelligence Episode 4)
"Reality is not something we reach for or grasp for. It is something we are born into. From our earliest pre-intellective moments, our sense organs are being shaped, molded, into how they will later intelligize, as Zubiri will later say truthify, the world. And along the way to mature…
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Xavier Zubiri's Radical Realism (Xavier Zubiri's Sentient Intelligence Episode 3)
"Again, primordial apprehension is the most basic apprehension humans experience. It is just raw stimulation. We experience this as babies before we can even form concepts about the world. And this is what makes Zubiri’s philosophy radically realist, for before we even attempt to rationalize the...
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Problems with Modern Metaphysics (Xavier Zubiri's Sentient Intelligence Episode 2)
"For the Ancients and Scholastics, the senses are inferior to the intellect, which is located in the soul. For the Rationalists, the senses are also inferior to the intellect, which is, this time, located in the mind. For Kant, the Senses are organized by the intellect, but the intellect never...
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Problems with Ancient Metaphysics (Xavier Zubiri's Sentient Intelligence Episode 1)
"Why should being belong to things themselves, rather than the process of knowing things? Why should we equate being, truth, and reality? How can we assume that knowledge belongs to the soul rather than the body? Why does the spiritual, assuming it exists, have so much power over the physical…
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The Importance of Vatican II's Continuity (Discontinuity or Reform Episode 8)
"The Second Vatican Council’s integrity relies on its continuity, but so long as there is skepticism of the council’s continuity, whether that comes from progressives or traditionalists, its realization will be greatly hindered. Thus, an attack on Lumen Gentium’s interpretation of NSOC should be...
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Vatican II vs. Florence (Discontinuity or Reform Episode 7)
"Each conciliar document has a fundamentally different intention, the former focusing on Christian unity with the East, not formally commenting on the subject of other religions, and the latter systematically and thoroughly commenting on that matter; given their different intentions, there is...
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Lumen Gentium’s Theology of Other Religions (Discontinuity or Reform Episode 6)
“Lumen Gentium 16 holds considerable magisterial weight in its theology of other religions. It was carefully crafted by a commission of bishops and theologians, approved by a consensus of bishops from across the world and in union with the pope, contains sententia fidei proxima teachings, intends...
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Florence and No Salvation Outside the Church (Discontinuity or Reform Episode 5)
"This episode has demonstrated that it would be problematic to categorize Cantate Domino’s expression of No Salvation Outside the Church as an infallible statement. Though it was endorsed by a council and pope, neither the council fathers nor the pope actually drafted it. It seems to present a...
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How to Analyze Catholic Doctrine (Discontinuity or Reform Episode 4)
"Analyzing the source, type, intention, assumption, scope, reception, and interrelation of magisterial statements can help to distinguish their abiding principles from their changeable expressions and applications. These criteria can also be used to evaluate whether two seemingly incompatible...
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How Doctrine Develops (Discontinuity or Reform Episode 3)
"This episode has demonstrated that the Church is not only obligated to restate or reapply its fundamental principles to changing situations but that failing to do so would ironically yield discontinuity. This is why the theologian Henri Bouillard writes, “a theology which is not up to date is a...
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A Brief History of No Salvation Outside the Church (Discontinuity or Reform Episode 2)
"That said, several Church Fathers considered the Hebrew prophets of the Old Testament and pagan philosophers like Socrates to be within the confines of the Church, since Christ was partially revealed to them as universal wisdom, or logos. However, once a Jew or pagan had heard the Gospel, their...
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The Opponents of Vatican II (Discontinuity or Reform? Episode 1)
"Theologian Richard John Neuhaus observes, 'The irony is in the agreement between Lefebvre and the liberal party of discontinuity.' Additionally, the consequences of either side being correct are similar. If even one conciliar principle is demonstrably discontinuous, it could throw into question...
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Non-Infallible Catholic Teachings (Teaching Authority in the Catholic Church Episode 8)
"The second big debate surrounding infallibly taught doctrine is about moral issues that Jesus didn’t directly teach about and instead rely more on ethical systems derived from reason alone. Take contraception, for example. Where does Jesus say that contraception cannot be used by couples?…
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Infallible Teachings in the Catholic Church (Teaching Authority in the Catholic Church Episode 7)
Obviously, a pope speaking on an airplane is very different than every bishop in the world agreeing about something. And bishops all agreeing that Jesus is the Son of God is very different than the bishops all agreeing that Jesus’s favorite food was, indeed bacon. So, when the Church teaches, the...
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Papal Infallibility (Teaching Authority in the Catholic Church Episode 6)
"Time after time, throughout the earliest ecumenical councils, Rome’s position won out, even though Rome was hardly a political powerhouse after the rise of Constantinople. Between Monophysitism, Nestorianism, Monothelitism, iconoclasm, and others, the Roman positions ultimately defeated heresies...
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The Infallible Authority of Bishops (Teaching Authority in the Catholic Church Episode 5)
"Remember that Jesus promised indefectibility to the Church as a community; it doesn’t reside in one individual person, though there is one very notable exception I’ll touch on soon. However, when all bishops, who dual wield the awesome indefectibility of the Church as a community and as an...
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Four Misconceptions about Bishops (Teaching Authority in the Catholic Church Episode 4)
"In episode one of this series, we justified the Church’s teaching authority by exploring scripture. Specifically, we explored the biblical basis for bishops, who were ordained by a ritual called the “Laying on of Hands,” which evolved into what Catholics today call the Sacrament of Holy Orders....
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What is a Magisterium? (Teaching Authority in the Catholic Church Episode 3)
"Magisterium this. Magisterium that.” I’m honestly astonished by how frequently I hear Catholics throwing that word around without properly understanding what it means. Let’s break it down."
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Sentences, Propositions, and Developments (Teaching Authority in the Catholic Church Episode 2)
Yes, indeed, our feeble human words fail to convey the almighty Word of God. But, given how we Christians believe that God created us with a similarity, or likeness, to Him, we can use our feeble human words to analogously speak about God, relative to our experiences.
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The Origins of the Catholic Church's Authority (Teaching Authority in the Catholic Church Episode 1)
"Why does the Catholic Church have so many rules? And with over 2,000 years of councils, papal documents, and catechesis, does every Church teaching have the same amount of relevance today? These are a few questions I hope to answer throughout this series on Church teaching authority."
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What Can we Learn from the Ecumenical Councils (The Ecumenical Councils Episode 24)
In part twenty four of this series about the ecumenical councils according to the Catholic Church, Will Deatherage explores a few trends he observed from the ecumenical councils.
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Vatican II (The Ecumenical Councils Part 23)
In part twenty three of this series about the ecumenical councils according to the Catholic Church, Will Deatherage examines the Second Vatican Council, which responded to problems of the modern world.
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Vatican I (The Ecumenical Councils Part 22)
Clarification: Gallicanism was NOT the idea that the Church is subservient to the state in matters of doctrine; it is the idea that local bishops must accept a papal doctrine for it to be valid, which led to the state attempting to manipulate its bishops on a mass scale. In part twenty two of…
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Trent (The Ecumenical Councils Part 21)
Corrections: St. Peter's is not a cathedral, should have said Pope Julius III, NOT Julius II In part twenty one of this series about the ecumenical councils according to the Catholic Church, Will Deatherage examines the Council of Trent, which responded to Protestantism's doctrinal challenges...
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Lateran V (The Ecumenical Councils Part 20)
In part twenty of this series about the ecumenical councils according to the Catholic Church, Will Deatherage examines the Fifth Lateran Council, which responded to a king's attempt to assert power over the pope.
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