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The Deacon Frederick Bartels Show

by Deacon Frederick Bartels

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  • 38-The Parable of the Wedding Feast and the Meaning of the Wedding Garment

    October 9, 2026 · 23 min

    The gospel reading at Mass for this next Sunday, the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, is from Matthew chapter 22, where Jesus gives us the parable of the Wedding Feast. Like all of Jesus’ parables, it is filled with inexhaustible moral and…

  • 37-The Sola Scriptura Dilemma

    October 2, 2026 · 25 min

    Protestants hold that the Bible is the sole infallible rule of Christian faith. Does the Bible teach as much? And does the Protestant doctrine of sola scriptura line up with Christ’s plan for his Church? That’s what we’re going to get…

  • 36-Does Redeemed Zoomer Misrepresent Nostra Aetate and other Church Documents?

    September 25, 2026 · 51 min

    In a video Redeemed Zoomer released 3 months ago titled, "The gay jew who CHANGED Catholic theology (Gregory Baum)," he talks about Vatican IIs Nostra Aetate and other magisterial Church documents. Does he represent these documents…

  • 35-The Parable of the Laborers in the Vinyard

    September 18, 2026 · 17 min

    In this Sunday’s liturgy—the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time—we hear the parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard, found in Matthew’s gospel chapter 20. As is the case with all of Jesus’s parables, this one is interesting and filled with…

  • 34-The Protestant Dilemma

    September 11, 2026 · 17 min

    In this episode, we look at an essay on Ecclesia Antiqua’s Substack page, written by C’Zar Bernstein. His essay presents what he calls “The Protestant Dilemma: Why Protestants Must Rely on Catholic Bishops for Their New Testament.” If you…

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  • 33-Responding to Wes Huff's Reasons for Rejecting the Papacy

    August 28, 2026 · 34 min

    Wes Huff released a video some time in the past in which he gave six reasons for why he's not "Roman Catholic." One of those reasons is his rejection of papal supremacy. In this video, I debunk his claims and show that he does not fairly…

  • 32-Catholic Guilt?

    August 21, 2026 · 10 min

    This episode discusses the concept of “catholic guilt.” Maybe, as a Catholic and Christian, you feel guilty for past sins. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? On the other hand, maybe you’ve heard someone accuse Catholics of feeling…

  • 31-Responding to Redeemed Zoomer's BIGGEST Reason for why he's not Catholic!

    August 14, 2026 · 26 min

    The voice you heard at the beginning is Richard Ackerman, known as Redeemed Zoomer. He is a Presbyterian and has a large YouTube channel with about 700 thousand subscribers. In this episode, I respond to what he says is his biggest reason…

  • 30-The Divine and Human Natures of Jesus Christ

    August 7, 2026 · 14 min

    All Christians believe that Jesus is God in the flesh. But few take the time to learn more about what that really means. We might believe that Jesus is God and man and that he is the Lord. And that’s all well and good. But if we don’t dig…

  • 29-What is the Human Moral Conscience?

    July 24, 2026 · 22 min

    Is the human conscience kind of like those old Disney cartoons, where there’s an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other, and you feel caught in the middle, confused and unsure, listening to them argue back and forth? Or is it…

  • 28-Responding to Protestant Objections to the Papacy

    July 10, 2026 · 19 min

    The voice you just heard is from a video clip of Mike Winger. Mike is a Protestant Christian who doesn’t think that there’s evidence for the office of the pope or the papacy in the bible. He’s one among many thousands of other Protestant…

  • 27-Morality of Obligation vs Morality of Happiness

    July 3, 2026 · 14 min

    This episode explores two approaches to making moral decisions. When we make a choice to comply with the moral law, do we do so out of a sense of obligation, such as to avoid some type of punishment? Or, on the other hand, do we do so…

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The Deacon Frederick Bartels show explores the Bible, spirituality, prayer, Christian tradition and doctrine, and other related topics from the Catholic perspective.