rant · moment 12 of 13
The Jerry Sandusky 'Rush to Judgment' Book Gift
from Matt Lauer of The Vatican · #75
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
2 minThey open a mailed gift live on air: a book claiming Jerry Sandusky was wrongly convicted, and marvel at the audacity of whoever sent it along with a tangent about a meat tenderizer assault story.
- 52:59Tim asks Shannon about growing up in a Roman Catholic Italian family and whether she attended Catholic school.
- 53:11Shannon's mother was born-again Christian while her father was Catholic, and they let her choose her own path from an early age.
- 53:35Tim notes there wasn't really a community of born-again Christians in Brooklyn where Shannon grew up—it was all Roman Catholic.
- 53:58Shannon felt a little left out when her friends went to CCD after school while she didn't participate in those programs.
- 54:23Tim expresses skepticism about Catholic communion, finding the concept odd even though he doesn't argue with believers about it.
- 54:41Tim explains that Catholics believe the consecrated wafer actually becomes the body of Christ, not metaphorically.
- 54:56Tim argues that if God truly transformed the wafer into Jesus's flesh, there should be visible evidence—hair, teeth, something—not just a cracker that looks and tastes like a cracker.