Dr. J. Budziszewski

And I believe Christ promised it wouldn't.

I think that's part of what it means to say the gates of hell will not prevail.

So what did that do to all these objections that I had?

Well, it didn't mean, oh, the church must be the true church.

So, okay, changed my mind about justification, changed my mind about Mary.

No, they were all still there, but it meant that they were no longer objections.

They were now obstacles.

They were no longer things where the Catholic church can't be true because of this.

They were now the Catholic.

It's got to be true.

But then what do I make of this?

Am I wrong?

I need to investigate this much further.

that's a you're in a different place there yeah and that took time that took time a big turning point for me was in 1998 this was some years before coming becoming catholic still but when the um when the catholic church in dialogue with with one of the world lutheran federations uh released the joint declaration on the doctrine of justification they revoked the mutual anathemas yep that was stunning i thought i thought to myself at the time the reformation is over it's only a matter of time now um

Well, I think the first thing is to try.

I think we need to reconnect with our common sense.

Most of the crazy things that we believe, for example, there are 95 genders.

Oh, by the way, do you know what the latest gender to come down the pike is?

No.

Xeno gender.