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Episode 112: Binding and Loosing - The Church’s Power to Govern Souls

May 11, 2025 • A Catholic Life • Episode 112

In today’s episode for the A Catholic Life Podcast I cover why and how the Catholic Church possesses from God Himself the authority to bind people to certain laws.

1. The Various Kinds of Law – Is the Catholic Church Too Legalistic?

2. Ecclesiastical Laws and the Church’s Authority to Bind and Loose

3. Primary of St. Peter and His Successors

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