DEBATE: Did Mary Have Other Children? William Albrecht vs. Turretin Fan @CapturingCatholicism

Capturing Catholicism In this live debate, William Albrecht (Catholic) and Turretin Fan (Protestant) square off on the proposition: Did Mary have other children?

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DEBATE: Did Mary Have Other Children? William Albrecht vs. Turretin Fan

Capturing Catholicism 2026-05-23 | In this live debate, William Albrecht (Catholic) and Turretin Fan (Protestant) square off on the proposition: Did Mary have other children?

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Proof that Catholicism is Real | Our Lady of Soufanieh

Capturing Catholicism 2026-09-17 | Reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary, wounds that disappeared, and decades of eyewitness testimony—why have so few people heard of Our Lady of Soufanieh? Noah McKay joins me to investigate the evidence surrounding Myrna Nazzour, confront skeptical explanations, and explore what the full story could mean for Catholicism.

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0:00:00 Introduction
0:05:02 Overview of the Soufanieh miracles (1982–2025)
0:11:02 How it began: the first oil and Fr. Zahlaoui's eyewitness account (Nov 1982)
0:16:48 Why Fr. Zahlaoui is a credible witness
0:19:48 The first apparitions of Mary and her first message (Dec 1982)
0:27:57 The Syrian secret police investigate Myrna
0:43:26 Why olive oil? Its meaning in Christianity
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0:46:13 Oil from copies of the icon: the Los Angeles testimonies
0:55:53 How much oil? 250 grams in a single night (1987)
0:58:27 Video of the icon dripping oil inside a locked niche
1:01:46 Oil from Myrna's body: 1,200 people anointed in one service
1:04:50 Seven lab analyses: pure olive oil
1:09:16 The oil's strange properties: it evaporates and doesn't stain
1:14:16 The third and fourth apparitions (Jan–Feb 1983)
1:19:08 The fifth apparition: purgatory and church unity (March 1983)
1:28:14 The stigmata begin (Nov 1983)
1:36:24 The 1987 stigmata: wounds open on Holy Thursday
1:45:32 The 1990 stigmata: a Paris neurologist watches the wounds open
1:50:57 The ecstasies: no pain, no reflexes, a knife under the fingernail
1:56:47 The ecstasy messages: unity, the Eucharist, Mary, and Peter
2:08:38 Catholicism or Orthodoxy? The Syriac Orthodox patriarch
2:14:19 Objection: these are just private revelations
2:17:12 The healings: Alice's paralyzed arm
2:25:34 Ruling out natural explanations: was it fraud?
2:30:53 Myrna's character: the woman mopping the stairs
2:34:53 Could the oil, the wounds, and the ecstasies have been faked?
2:41:40 Insanity, hysteria, and psychosomatic explanations
2:48:05 Was it a demonic deception?
2:54:17 Closing thoughts

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If youre Catholic, watch this now.

Capturing Catholicism 2026-09-17 | On September 14, 2026, during daily mass, Fr. Brent Bowman became "physically overwhelmed" during the consecration of the chalice.

Original video: youtube.com/live/Nr_YnX3MM8s?si=0oY5t4Q2w3sBM1_A
Fr. Bowman's statement: archspm.org/statement-from-father-brent-bowman-regarding-eucharistic-experience-during-mass

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Christian vs. Muslim: Did Isaiah Predict Jesus?

Capturing Catholicism 2026-09-15 | Does Isaiah 53 prophecy the suffering and death of Jesus, or have Christians misread the passage? William Albrecht and Shabir Ally face off over the identity of the Suffering Servant in this Christian–Muslim debate.

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He Knew His Bible. He Still Missed This About Mary.

Capturing Catholicism 2026-09-12 | Full interview: youtu.be/YBaCBJh2WeA

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His Pastor Thought It Was Ridiculous. It Was Catholic Teaching.

Capturing Catholicism 2026-09-11 | Full interview: youtu.be/YBaCBJh2WeA

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The Pope is in the Bible. No One Proved Us Wrong.

Capturing Catholicism 2026-09-10 | Suan Sonna, C'Zar Bernstein, and I are convinced the Bible teaches the papacy. In this stream, we take your calls.

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“Unbelievably Weak”: Princeton Philosopher on Gavin Ortlunds Arguments

Capturing Catholicism 2026-09-10 | Full interview: youtu.be/YBaCBJh2WeA

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BREAKING: Another Princeton Philosopher Converts to Catholicism

Capturing Catholicism 2026-09-09 | Princeton philosopher Noah McKay investigated Catholic miracles and found himself facing a choice he never expected. In this candid Catholic conversion story, he reveals the evidence that challenged his Protestant beliefs, and why following it came at a personal cost.

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0:00:00 Introduction
0:02:31 Fundamentalist Baptist roots
0:06:05 Young earth creationism collapses
0:15:23 Debates and analytic philosophy
0:19:52 Hopeful agnosticism
0:26:36 Parents and Jonah
0:30:41 Arguments for God at 17
0:38:39 The problem of evil
0:44:42 Divine hiddenness
0:48:00 Miracles and the resurrection
0:53:56 An afternoon as an agnostic
0:57:00 Inerrancy and annihilationism
1:01:52 The youth pastor laughs
1:06:57 Swinburne and Catholic philosophers
1:09:57 Keener's miracle cases
1:12:16 The moral argument fails
1:14:51 Moral knowledge and beauty
1:18:18 "Why isn't this clearer?"
1:23:39 Grad school, Draper, Plantinga
1:31:10 Living like an agnostic
1:33:42 The Protestant roller coaster
1:36:06 Meeting Joe Schmid
1:39:04 Catholic miracle cases
1:42:20 Catholicism or agnosticism
1:44:08 Relics in the Bible
1:47:04 Mary's perpetual virginity
1:48:57 Peter, the keys, and James 2
1:51:10 Why sola scriptura failed
1:53:51 Irenaeus and church history
1:56:13 Gavin Ortlund and the papacy
2:02:05 Entering the Church
2:03:26 Mary and the rosary
2:08:21 Catholicism is irresistible
2:11:50 A new religious epistemology
2:16:52 Why God stayed hidden
2:19:01 The Catholic way of knowing
2:24:03 Miracles then and now
2:25:41 Closing thoughts

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Why You Keep Choosing Lust Over God

Capturing Catholicism 2026-09-06 | Full interview: youtu.be/TX4VgeGsdqE

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Protestant Apologist Tried to Debunk the Papacy. He Failed.

Capturing Catholicism 2026-09-05 | In this livestream, I'm joined by Suan Sonna and C'Zar Bernstein to respond to Protestant YouTuber @TestifyApologetics who recently outlined his reasons he rejects the papacy.

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The Trap That Keeps Catholics Stuck in Lust

Capturing Catholicism 2026-09-05 | Full interview: youtu.be/TX4VgeGsdqE

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The Strongest Argument Against Hell | Joe Schmid

Capturing Catholicism 2026-09-04 | In this clip, Catholic convert Joe Schmid explains how he overcame his strongest objections to Hell.

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The Clearest Catholic Contradiction | Joe Schmid

Capturing Catholicism 2026-09-03 | In this clip, Joe Schmid evaluates the alleged Magisterial contradiction re: "No salvation outside of the Church."

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He Tried to Refute Catholicism. Then He Converted.

Capturing Catholicism 2026-09-01 | Joe Schmid had every major objection to Catholicism you've probably heard, and he took them more seriously than most. Here he lays out what they were, and the one change in his thinking that did more to dissolve them than any single answer.

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0:00:00 Introduction
0:01:52 Objection 1: Morality
0:04:20 Miracles vs. moral intuitions
0:07:26 How intuitions change
0:10:40 The debunking story
0:14:03 The epistemic lottery
0:18:44 "If you were there with Christ"
0:22:13 Objection 2: Hell
0:27:02 Proportionality and heavenly grief
0:29:15 Models of hell
0:31:43 Are mortal sins infinitely grave?
0:35:55 Proof-of-concept answers
0:38:57 Objection 3: The Bible
0:41:30 Why Scripture isn't perspicuous
0:46:59 Literary devices and authorial intent
0:54:03 Old Testament violence
0:58:31 The canon
1:01:30 Objection 4: Magisterial contradictions
1:04:02 The 200-page document
1:05:25 Religious liberty and EENS
1:08:33 Ways of being united to the Church
1:12:31 Obligation vs. culpability
1:16:46 Objection 5: Theological objections
1:18:07 Trinity and Incarnation
1:21:23 Divine simplicity
1:25:44 Divine timelessness
1:27:35 Objection 6: The problem of evil
1:30:25 Theodicies and skeptical theism
1:34:45 Did the miracles seal the deal?
1:36:37 Was Fatima demonic?
1:39:30 The pattern of miracles
1:43:51 To atheists and agnostics
1:45:57 To Protestants

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Why Demons Cant Explain Catholic Miracles

Capturing Catholicism 2026-08-31 | Can Catholic miracles like Fatima be explained by demons? Joe Schmid responds.

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Protestants are Panicking Over Catholic Miracles

Capturing Catholicism 2026-08-28 | In this live, Joe Schmid joins 3 other Catholic converts to respond to @redeemed_zoomer and others on Catholic miracles. Do Catholic miracles prove Catholicism?

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Apostate Filmmaker Tried to Debunk Fatima. He Failed.

Capturing Catholicism 2026-08-21 | An apostate cinematographer spent 100 hours trying to take down the Fatima photo evidence with lens distortion, calibration charts, and CGI complaints. Ethan Muse and I respond live and explain what he got wrong.

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The BEST Padre Pio Documentary (His Life and Miracles)

Capturing Catholicism 2026-08-18 | Padre Pio was photographed, filmed, medically examined, and investigated by his own Church for half a century — and the evidence survived everything they threw at it. This Padre Pio documentary tells the complete story of the greatest miracle worker since Jesus, and makes the case that Catholicism is true.

Ethan Muse's article on Padre Pio: motivacredibilitatis.substack.com/p/st-pio-of-pietrelcina

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00:00 Introduction
01:59 The Man in the Fishbowl
03:50 September 20, 1918
05:42 The Doctors Arrive
11:35 The Thermometers
14:17 The Church Turns On Him
19:32 The World Shows Up
24:08 The Pilgrims Come in Waves
30:09 Bugged
32:28 September 1968
34:36 What Does All of This Mean?
41:59 The Church Catches Up
43:31 The Big Objection
46:44 Where Does This Leave Us?

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David Wood Cant Answer This Dilemma

Capturing Catholicism 2026-08-12 | For over a decade, David Wood has trapped Muslim apologists with one question: what do your own sources commit you to? Today I ask that question of David's own sources — and the result is a second Protestant Dilemma he can't answer.

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Ecclesia Antiqua's original article: substack.com/@ecclesiaantiqua/p-197012749

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Orthodoxys Lies Were Just Fed to Joe Rogan

Capturing Catholicism 2026-08-06 | Andrew Wilson told Joe Rogan that nobody knows how Orthodoxy's most famous "Holy Fire" miracle is produced. This video is about the people who know.

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Orthodoxys Greatest Miracle is a Lie

Capturing Catholicism 2026-08-04 | Every Easter in Jerusalem, "Holy Fire" appears inside the tomb of Christ — and millions believe it doesn't burn and comes straight from heaven. I went looking for how it really starts, and what I found is worse than you think.

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Mary Answered This Protestant Pastors Prayer... (WILD Story!)

Capturing Catholicism 2026-07-31 | A committed Protestant pastor shared an experience involving his young daughter that nearly made him fall out of his chair. The timing, and his response afterward, raise a difficult question about what we’re willing to accept when we ask God for an answer.

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Bart Ehrman Just Made Wes Huffs Dilemma Worse

Capturing Catholicism 2026-07-30 | Protestant apologists spent all week clipping a tiny segment of Bart Ehrman's new video where he says Wes Huff was right. They skipped the rest of the video where the most famous agnostic scholar alive calls Wes's story about your New Testament "absolutely false."

Protestant Dilemma video: youtu.be/X3sXYGWdI94
Clickbait Ruslan Response Stream: youtube.com/live/9iwz4IRRvHc?feature=share
Original article from Ecclesia Antiqua: ecclesiaantiqua.substack.com/p/the-protestant-dilemma

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Did I Clickbait Wes Huff? (@RuslanKD Response)

Capturing Catholicism 2026-07-29 | Wes Huff recently accused me of clickbait and Protestant YouTuber @RuslanKD said that was "great." In this video, I'm joined by C'Zar Bernstein and Stephen Boyce to respond to Ruslan.

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0:00:00 Introduction: What Clickbait Actually Is
0:04:03 Ruslan's Video Begins: The Wes Huff Tweet & Ratio
0:06:10 Disagreement Doesn't Make Clickbait
0:09:47 The One-Page Argument: How the Video Was Framed
0:11:27 The Timeline: Early Access & Wes's Comment
0:13:53 Counting Heads vs. Engaging the Argument
0:16:26 Post-Conversion Backlash & an Open Invite to Ruslan
0:19:36 Ruslan Mischaracterizes the Argument
0:22:55 Who Really Preserved the Church Fathers?
0:29:10 Super Chats: Are Protestants More Easily Offended?
0:33:00 The Protestant Dilemma Laid Out
0:35:45 The "Functional Canon" Claim & the Seven Disputed Books
0:41:06 Revelation: The Most Heavily Disputed Book
0:48:20 "Discovered, Not Created": Reliability vs. Infallibility
0:50:47 Liturgy, Manuscripts & Bishops Guarding the Text
0:56:00 The Papacy Objection: Councils Sent Their Canon to Rome
1:03:37 The Old Testament Problem: Same Men, Deuterocanon
1:06:22 Athanasius's List & Books for Catechumens
1:10:36 The Marian Dogmas & Development of Doctrine
1:16:08 Where Are Mary's Bones? Dueling Arguments from Silence
1:21:05 Church History Isn't a Buffet Line
1:23:46 The Threefold Office & Apostolic Succession
1:30:25 Right About the Canon, Wrong About Everything Else?
1:33:25 What "Reliable" Actually Means
1:35:53 No Council Chose the Canon — a Pope Affirmed It
1:39:38 "Which Church?" & the Two Horns Restated
1:42:57 Church Uniformity, Trent & Luther's Canon Within a Canon
1:46:14 Super Chat: The Canon Is a Matter of Faith
1:47:36 Canon Criteria & Who Wrote Hebrews
1:53:46 Super Chat: Reliability Isn't a False Equivalence
1:58:01 Reliable About X but Unreliable About Y? The Historian Analogy
2:03:06 The Shepherd of Hermas, First Clement & Apostolic Origin
2:10:05 Wrap-Up: Follow C'Zar & Stephen

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Mike Wingers Best Argument Against the Pope Backfires Spectacularly

Capturing Catholicism 2026-07-28 | Mike Winger's go-to argument against the papacy tries to use the words of Pope St. Gregory the Great to suggest a Catholic pope rejected the papacy. Papacy scholar Erick Ybarra joins the show to dig into the primary sources, and the fuller picture looks nothing like the one Mike tells.

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0:0:00 Intro: Responding to Mike Winger on Pope Gregory the Great
0:0:38 Meet Erick Ybarra
0:2:07 Clip: Winger's Objection from Gregory's Letters
0:7:00 Framing the Response
0:8:06 The "Killshot": "Precursor of Antichrist"
0:10:49 Roadmap: Five Points
0:11:42 Point 1: The Hierarchical Principle
0:15:24 Point 2: Supreme Authority & Servant Leadership (Pastoral Rule)
0:22:40 Peter with Cornelius vs. Ananias & Sapphira
0:26:01 Paul: "Not That We Have Dominion Over Your Faith"
0:31:03 Scholars on Gregory's Model: Moorhead & Cantor
0:34:46 Point 3: The Primacy of Peter in Gregory
0:37:53 "The Care of the Whole Church Committed to Peter"
0:41:15 An Orthodox Scholar Weighs In: Demacopoulos
0:45:14 Point 4: The Supremacy of Peter's Chair
0:46:05 "Who Can Doubt Constantinople Is Subject?"
0:52:24 The "Three Chairs of Peter" Objection
0:59:20 Discipline Beyond Rome: Dalmatia, Milan, North Africa
1:07:55 Rome Overturns Constantinople: John & Athanasius
1:13:19 Dudden, Pelikan & Demacopoulos on Papal Primacy
1:19:01 Point 5: The Universal Bishop Controversy
1:22:44 Universal Authority, But Not the Title
1:31:39 Answering Schaff's "Inconsistency" Charge
1:34:15 Aftermath: Phocas Declares Rome "Head of All Churches"
1:39:29 Three Options: Denial, Inconsistency, or Harmony
1:43:16 Closing Thoughts

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3 Questions for Protestants

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There’s No Way Out of Wes Huff’s Dilemma

Capturing Catholicism 2026-07-24 | Protestants like Wes Huff face a new, unanswerable Protestant Dilemma. In this video, I explain why they should either reject the 27-book New Testament, or they should become Catholic.

Ecclesia Antiqua Substack article: ecclesiaantiqua.substack.com/p/the-protestant-dilemma

Responses to Wes Huff's Video on why he's not Catholic:
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How to Defeat Lust with Fr. Cajetan Cuddy

Capturing Catholicism 2026-07-24 | Struggling with lust? Fr. Cajetan Cuddy shares expert, Dominican advice on overcoming this temptation once and for all.

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0:00 Intro
0:58 The Rubber Band Method (What Not to Do)
3:27 Sexual Desire Is Good — the Goal Isn't Feeling Nothing
5:18 Rabid Dogs or Puppies? The Jansenist Mistake
7:54 Intellect, Will, and Steak on Good Friday
11:31 "What's Marriage?" — Feeling Drawn vs. Giving Consent
15:02 The Devil's Blackmail
17:41 Sponsor: Relay
18:51 When Does It Become Sin?
20:39 Don't Become "Father Descartes"
22:21 Two Tests: Did You Plan It? Did You Hit the Gas?
23:58 Have a Plan: Turning to Sensible Goods
27:39 Even at Its Best, It Isn't Real
29:06 The Acquired Taste — and Your Future Marriage
31:41 For the One Who Feels Helpless
33:47 "Close That Window" — a Moment of Clarity
34:57 Two Checks and a Dumpster: Why We Settle for Less
41:05 Therapy, Confession — and Why It's Not Really About Sex
44:04 God's Judgment: Causal, Not Penal
47:44 Delayed Gratification & What Chastity Really Means
50:41 No One Is Lonelier Than the Unchaste
54:15 Should You Study the Science of Addiction?
57:50 A Multifaceted Approach: Health, CBT, the Anxiety Train
1:04:06 Moral Motivation: Why Be Good at All?
1:08:16 What Actually Helps: Rosary, Adoration, Real Friends
1:12:09 "I'll Never Be Free of This"
1:14:45 St. Thérèse and the Zero
1:21:53 Is This Demonic?
1:25:30 Father's Final Counsels: Sex Is Not Bad
1:28:50 Two Ways to Get to Heaven (Only One Works)
1:30:49 Can Pleasure Make You Happy?
1:35:09 A Prayer for Those Struggling

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Insanely Cool Live w/ Matt Fradd (Ask Us Anything)

Capturing Catholicism 2026-07-23 | Matt Fradd joins Cameron Bertuzzi. They fight to the death.

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Catholic Priest vs. Protestant Scholar on Sola Scriptura, the Eucharist, & More

Capturing Catholicism 2026-07-22 | In our first in-person dialogue ever, I invited Fr. Cajetan Cuddy and Dr. Austin Freeman to the studio to discuss Sola Scriptura, the Eucharist, and what unity between Catholics and Protestants might look like.

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0:00:00 Introduction
0:01:28 What Unites Us
0:04:43 Fr. Cuddy's Conversion Story
0:09:41 Church Before Scripture?
0:10:47 Tradition I or Tradition II?
0:14:37 The Interpretation Problem
0:19:26 What Is Tradition?
0:25:57 The Papacy & Infallibility
0:30:26 Inspiration vs. Infallibility
0:32:57 The Interpretive Regress
0:38:09 Good & Bad Traditions
0:41:17 Is Scripture Itself Tradition?
0:45:35 The Holy Spirit's Role
0:47:36 Testing the Spirits
0:54:05 Marian Dogmas & Erring Councils
0:58:09 How Is Revelation Known?
1:04:28 Do You Need the Bible to Be Saved?
1:06:48 The Canon of Scripture
1:21:11 Turning to the Eucharist
1:23:14 Reformed Real Presence
1:30:36 Defining Transubstantiation
1:33:23 Biblical Objections
1:36:34 What About John 6?
1:40:17 Aquinas & Substantial Presence
1:42:24 Free-Floating Accidents
1:45:12 The Multi-Location Problem
1:47:27 Is It Really Impossible?
1:57:25 "This Is My Body"
2:00:23 Redefining the Terms?
2:03:22 The Ascension Objection
2:05:46 The Sacrament of Charity
2:07:33 Who Acts in the Sacrament?
2:13:33 The Passover Connection
2:21:04 "Not Far from the Kingdom"
2:23:45 Eucharistic Miracles
2:28:19 What Would Unity Look Like?
2:35:09 Why Isn't Freeman Catholic?
2:39:45 Was the Early Church Reformed?
2:41:07 Communion in Both Kinds
2:46:21 The Pew Study Objection

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Catholic vs. Atheist: Was Fatima Miraculous?

Capturing Catholicism 2026-07-19 | In this live debate, Catholic apologist Ethan Muse defends the proposition that Fatima was a miraculous event against atheist YouTuber James Fodor.

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Demolishing EVERY Objection to Eucharistic Miracles

Capturing Catholicism 2026-07-09 | Eucharistic miracles are under attack, and the loudest voices aren't skeptics on Reddit, they're credentialed Catholic scholars insisting the whole thing is bad science. Watch to the end to see whether a single objection holds up once you actually look at the evidence.

Matthieu's Substack: matthieulavagna.substack.com/profile/posts

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0:00:00 Introduction
0:02:06 What would count as sufficient evidence?
0:03:35 The evidence across five cases
0:04:18 Fraud, misidentification, or miracle?
0:05:09 The main objection: no DNA profile
0:06:17 The Lanciano miracle
0:10:04 Objection: the record comes too late
0:10:46 Objection: the fake WHO report
0:12:43 What Transancos concedes about Lanciano
0:16:02 Buenos Aires: the 1992 miracle
0:18:53 Buenos Aires: the 1996 host
0:20:49 A fair point: human DNA alone proves nothing
0:22:12 The five lines of evidence
0:25:59 Objection: unanswered questions
0:27:14 Objection: was the investigator an atheist?
0:28:31 Objection: was the test really blind?
0:30:50 Tesoriero's account of the meeting
0:34:18 Zugibe's blind analysis, on camera
0:38:41 Objection: Tesoriero denies evolution
0:40:16 Objection: Zugibe was Catholic
0:42:49 Objection: Castanon Gomez is unreliable
0:44:21 Objection: the false mystic Katia Rivas
0:45:15 Objection: tested into compliance
0:52:24 Objection: the video was edited
0:54:22 Objection: no peer-reviewed studies
0:59:58 The bacteria theory (Kearse's experiment)
1:07:16 Could it all be a fraud?
1:16:08 Why is there no DNA?
1:17:43 Can science prove the Real Presence?
1:20:34 Objection: are Catholics required to believe?
1:22:40 Extraordinary claims, extraordinary evidence?
1:25:00 Where this skepticism leads
1:27:27 Conclusion

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Did Alex OConnor Just Debunk Marian Apparitions?

Capturing Catholicism 2026-06-17 | In this video, Ethan Muse joins me to discuss Alex O'Connor's objections to Marian Apparitions like Zeitoun and Fatima.

Original video: youtu.be/CWDSKjfv9kw?si=P5T5juISOWVD3JFN

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Does the Bible Prove Itself? Kevin Fernandez vs. Turretin Fan

Capturing Catholicism 2026-06-06 | In this live debate, Kevin (@SinceAD33) and Turretin Fan (@TurretinFan) debate the proposition: "Scripture authenticates itself so that man can assent with divine faith that it is inspired." TF takes the affirmative, and Kevin takes the negative.

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LIVE CALL-IN: Was Mary Assumed in Heaven? (w/ Suan Sonna, Ethan Muse, and William Albrecht)

Capturing Catholicism 2026-05-28 | In this call-in show, I'm joined by Suan Sonna, Ethan Muse, and William Albrecht. We will defend the Catholic belief that Mary was assumed into Heaven.

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Did Pope Leo Just Declare War on AI? (feat. Vatican Insider Devan Patel)

Capturing Catholicism 2026-05-27 | Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, reframes the entire AI debate as a question about what it means to be human. Catholic lawyer and AI strategist Devan Patel — who convened the Vatican's AI Ethics Summit and works at the intersection of Rome, Washington, and Silicon Valley — joins Cameron to unpack what Leo actually said and what it means.

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Catholic Miracles Are Stronger Than You Think | Ethan Muse

Capturing Catholicism 2026-05-15 | Full video: youtube.com/live/bWv5Ghkb4jw?feature=share

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Protestantism Makes Zero Sense | Ethan Muse

Capturing Catholicism 2026-05-15 | Full interview: youtube.com/live/bWv5Ghkb4jw?feature=share

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Why Ethan Muse Converted to Catholicism

Capturing Catholicism 2026-05-14 | In this livestream, Ethan Muse joins Cameron Bertuzzi to reveal his full journey from being a hard-core atheist to full-blown Catholic.

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0:00:00 Introduction
0:02:53 Baptist upbringing and the character of Jesus
0:06:01 Drifting into atheism
0:08:33 Sophisticated arguments for atheism
0:12:43 The reliability of cognitive faculties problem
0:22:23 Beauty as a pull toward theism
0:25:32 Mystical experience reading Grothendieck
0:30:36 Perennialism phase
0:36:33 Drawn to Jesus and liberal Christianity
0:41:58 Why liberal Christianity fell apart
0:45:33 Retreating to religious pluralism
0:47:39 Superchat: Orthobros drama with David Wood
0:49:06 Superchat: Caleb Jackson - support from Protestant community
0:49:27 Superchat: Did Ethan get the suit yet?
0:49:55 Superchat: Fulton Sheen prayer
0:49:59 Superchat: Something in the pipeline for the channel?
0:51:12 Superchat: Thanks from Mando
0:51:18 The Shroud and Our Lady of Zeitoun
0:55:53 Why Protestantism didn't make sense
1:01:08 Drawn toward Coptic Orthodoxy
1:03:34 Providentially pulled to Catholic Mass
1:05:27 Superchat: How does Fatima disprove Eastern Orthodoxy?
1:09:17 Superchat: Formulating the miraculous argument
1:11:33 Superchat: Voluntary vs involuntary faith
1:13:37 Superchat: Why Mary appeared as a young girl
1:16:39 Superchat: Did moral realism play a role?
1:19:08 The marks of the true church
1:28:30 Catholicity and final confidence in Catholicism
1:32:09 Discovering Catholic miracles after conversion
1:36:50 Why it's better that miracles came after
1:39:54 Superchat: The Mormon-Catholic war on X
1:43:47 Superchat: Greetings from Brazil
1:44:39 Superchat: Demonic encounter that led to Catholicism
1:45:48 Superchat: Ethan Muse merch?
1:47:00 Superchat: Scripture parallels and church history
1:48:03 Plug for the Understand the Fathers series

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What St. Ignatius HID in His Letter to the Romans

Capturing Catholicism 2026-05-11 | Protestant apologists love to cite St. Ignatius' letter to the Romans as concrete evidence that there was no early bishop of Rome, and hence, no pope. But is that actually true? No, and we demonstrate why.

Dr. Boyce's YT channel: @FACTSwithStephenBoyce
Link to purchase Dr. Holmes' The Apostolic Fathers: amzn.to/4btjDKu
Link to full series: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLApvbEt6NwQpgfildIYvETBZ7FnuZt430

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00:00 Intro
01:27 Letter Reading
10:43 Discussion Intro
12:58 Reflections

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NEW Evidence for Early Popes!

Capturing Catholicism 2026-05-04 | Genuinely new evidence in a 500-year-old debate is rare. But that's exactly what my friend found sitting in the early Christian sources, and, IMO, it changes everything we thought we knew about the early papacy.

Arguments from silence are WEAK video: youtu.be/1-7Rk9Ud4GI
My friend's Substack article: ecclesiaantiqua.substack.com/p/were-there-early-bishops-of-rome?r=7ozok9&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

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Why Im More Convinced Catholicism Is True Than Ever (Live Q&A)

Capturing Catholicism 2026-05-01 | In this impromptu live Q&A, I answer your questions and share why the evidence for Catholicism — from Fatima and Tixtla to Padre Pio's stigmata — has only become more overwhelming the deeper I look. We get into the recent Gavin Ortlund back-and-forth (and a possible debate with Ethan Muse or C'Zar Bernstein), my conversion story and the Bayesian analysis behind it, and why I think the "big boy miracle arguments" deserve to be front and center. I also tease an upcoming video on the papacy, talk about confession, the Padre Pio script, family reactions to my conversion, Redeemed Zoomer, Trent Horn vs. Alex O'Connor, and more.

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0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:53 Opening prayer
0:01:42 What I'm working on (Padre Pio, papacy, Levana interview)
0:04:56 Joshua Charles shoutout
0:05:17 Other Marian apparition videos?
0:09:26 Hawaiian shirt buys post-conversion
0:10:24 LGBTQ pilgrimage at the Vatican
0:12:06 How was your conversion process?
0:15:17 How long does each video take?
0:18:09 Direction of the new channel
0:19:11 Hawaiian shirts and identity
0:20:16 Should I write a book on my conversion?
0:21:11 My conversion story (and the Bayesian analysis)
0:24:54 Why I'm more confident than ever Catholicism is true
0:27:39 Argument for Mary's holiness from Luke 1
0:29:25 Vasula Ryden
0:30:14 A video with Dr. Brant Pitre?
0:31:18 The "big boy miracle arguments"
0:34:51 What do miracles prove? (Fatima vs. Zeitoun)
0:38:29 Eucharistic miracles and Lanciano
0:40:01 Healing miracles and the Bayesian case
0:43:13 Stigmata and Padre Pio
0:47:33 Greater miracles than Jesus (John 14:12)?
0:47:47 Redeemed Zoomer and the mainline Protestant communion
0:51:18 Are you in any ministry? (Knights of Columbus)
0:52:24 What if my priest teaches falsehoods?
0:55:51 What's confession been like?
1:00:59 What Catholic object should I 3D print?
1:02:46 What's been your favorite video on the channel?
1:04:57 How did you hear about Ethan Muse?
1:08:36 Gavin Ortlund response and arguments from silence
1:11:46 Ex-TBI student converting to Catholicism
1:13:14 Ex-Muslim receiving first communion
1:15:21 Hail Mary for those seeking
1:16:51 Maria Valtorta's Poem of the Man-God
1:18:21 Sam Shamoun
1:19:18 Florypes Denna (60 years on the Eucharist)
1:19:50 Alleged magisterial contradictions
1:21:53 Patron saints (St. Maximilian Kolbe)
1:25:30 More Ethan Muse projects coming
1:28:18 Why Protestants struggle to make a positive case
1:30:39 Why we should be pushing miracles
1:34:00 Pray for Ethan's Pints with Aquinas appearance
1:35:14 Channel membership
1:36:11 How did your family react to your conversion?
1:36:58 Contact email for business inquiries
1:39:02 Are you cutting more lawns with your brother?
1:39:58 Trent Horn vs. Alex O'Connor debate
1:41:31 Closing thoughts and tease for the papacy video

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Why Are Protestants So Inconsistent?

Capturing Catholicism 2026-04-29 | Gavin Ortlund produced a response to my 2-minute video pointing out his inconsistencies on arguments from silence. Does he refute me?

Bernstein's paper: brill.com/view/journals/evqu/96/4/article-p340_6.xml?srsltid=AfmBOoolIFyJUwLie5UpM-JXkB9d31DG0_InXL3jnDtCUbZvLO3Y7Gqf
McGrew's paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12136-013-0205-5
Lange's paper: jstor.org/stable/2504447

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00:00 Intro
01:16 Two Test Cases
05:00 Silence, A Neutral Standard
12:00 School Shooter Analogy
13:59 Calibration
17:55 Ignatius
24:13 The Luke Parody
26:13 What Gavin Could Have Done
29:32 Closing

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Gavin Ortlund vs. Gavin Ortlund

Capturing Catholicism 2026-04-27 | Stay tuned for our upcoming video on St. Ignatius' Letter to the Romans.

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Is the Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano Real? Ethan Muse vs. Dale (from Real Seekers)

Capturing Catholicism 2026-04-24 | AFTERSHOW: youtube.com/live/ximDEyRgQ3A?feature=share

For over 1,300 years, the Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano has been venerated as bread turned to flesh and wine turned to blood. Catholic apologist Ethan Muse and Protestant Dale from Real Seekers debate whether it's truly miraculous — or whether there's a natural or even demonic explanation.

Ethan's Substack articles on Lanciano:
1 - substack.com/home/post/p-173099859
2 - substack.com/home/post/p-191255179

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Capturing Catholicism 2026-04-23 | The heart of the Fatima debate.

Fatima Debate Review w/ Ethan Muse & Joe Heschmeyer

Capturing Catholicism 2026-04-23 | In this review, I'm joined by a panel of guests (Ethan Muse, Joe Heschmeyer, Christian Wagner, and Kevin (from 33 AD)) to review Ethan's recent debate with Sean Luke on whether Fatima was a demonic deception.

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