This recording is in two parts. The first half explains how I became a Christian (through a baseball autograph from Tom Monaghan), then an Episcopal priest, and then how I became a Catholic Christian. The second half is a presentation on the Anglican Personal Ordinariates and a public Q&A session on that topic.

A special thanks to an Anglo-Catholic friend Tony Clark who recorded this talk and edited it.

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How do we understand Paul’s doctrine of matrimony and marital roles when he writes:

• Saint Paul: “For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the Church” (Eph 5:23)
• Saint Paul: “Let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands (Eph 5:24).

Listen and find out! It’s actually very beautiful and encouraging for both husbands and wives.

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• The Apostle Paul was celibate and yet he called himself a “father”.
• Did Christ really prohibit calling all men “father”? If so, why did Paul call himself a spiritual “father”?
• Learn how the Catholic discipline of celibacy and spiritual fatherhood are related in Saint Paul and in the Catholic Church.

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Was Paul a Catholic priest? Yes, he refers to his “priestly ministry” in Romans 15:15-16. He administered the sacraments, called himself a “steward of the mysteries”, and he was even celibate! Join us as we look at the priestly language of Paul’s Epistles.

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Join us as we examine the origin of the Eucharist in Old Testament typology. Saint Paul deeply understood this continuity and speaks of the Lord’s Supper and the “table of the Lord” with sacrificial language. We’ll also take a look at how the Council of Trent examined specific passages in the epistles of Paul with respect to transubstantiation and the Real Presence.

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No doubt, this topic should raise some eyebrows among the Protestants listening to this podcast series.

Many non-Catholic students of Paul’s epistles assume that purgatory is the farthest thing from his mind. They may be surprised to learn that the Catholic Church looks to Paul as a defender of the doctrine of purgatory and prayers for the dead.

Join us as we make the case for Paul’s doctrine of purgatory and prove that he did in fact pray for the dead.

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“Are you a born again Christian?”

In this episode we examine what Paul taught about being “born again” in the context of the sacrament of baptism – as the Apostle calls it “the washing of regeneration” (Titus 3:5). We also find in Paul the doctrine of original sin, the custom of infant baptism, and also the relationship of the sacrament of baptism to the sacrament of confirmation. Join us as we plow through about 25 Scriptural passages in the works of Saint Paul as they touch upon the sacraments of baptism and confirmation.

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Learn how Martin Luther doctored the text of the Bible by putting a word in Saint Paul’s mouth so as to justify Luther’s own peculiar doctrine of justification.

Saint Paul uses the word “alone” more than any other New Testament author, but he never uses it in conjunction with faith. The only place in Scripture where the word “faith” and the word “alone” exist together is within the Epistle of James: “You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone” (James 2:24). Here we find the phrase “faith alone,” but it is categorically rejected – James asserts that Christians are not justified by faith alone.

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In this second podcast, we explore the history of Pauline interpretation extending from the heretic Marcion in the second century on through Martin Luther, and finally in the liberal German revisionism of F.C. Baur. As Saint Peter wrote two thousand years ago, within the writings of Saint Paul, “There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures” (2 Pet 3:16). Mindful of these words we observe how thinkers have reshaped Paul in their own image according to their own prejudices.

Godspeed,
Taylor Marshall

Get started by listening to this first podcast of the series!

In this message we look at the Apostle Paul’s background as a Jewish Rabbi and the significance of his conversion for first century Christians and its importance for us today. In particular we examine the details of Paul’s conversion and discover the how it led to the foundational doctrine of Catholic Christianity – that the Church is the Body of Christ.

Godspeed,

Taylor Marshall

Listen to the First Episode: Rabbi Saul Becomes Apostle Paul.

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