103 How John Paul II Answers the Modern Crisis
The Art of Catholic with Matthew Leonard
Matthew Leonard
4.9 • 831 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Humanity is having an identity crisis of major proportions. People don't know who they are. And it's literally wreaking havoc across the world at this very instant. And St. John Paul II saw it coming. In fact, he provided the answers before many of the questions were even posed.
Expanding upon the work of St. Thomas Aquinas and others, he developed a philosophy of the person called, appropriately, "personalism." It's a way to make sense of who we are and the dignity each of us possesses.
Matthew Leonard and Dr. John Crosby, an eminent philosopher at Franciscan University of Steubenville, discuss the Holy Father's famous way of looking at the human person so that we can understand more deeply who we are…and help the world figure it out, too.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the art of Catholic. |
| 0:05.7 | So God created man in his own image. |
| 0:17.6 | In the image of God, he created him, male and female. |
| 0:20.9 | He created them. |
| 0:22.8 | Welcome to the art of Catholic. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm Matthew Leonard. |
| 0:24.8 | I am |
| 0:25.0 | so glad to have you with me wherever you are in the world. The passage you just |
| 0:29.3 | heard me read is Genesis 127, it's one with which I am sure you are familiar, |
| 0:34.0 | but I think today you're going to come to a deeper appreciation of just how |
| 0:38.2 | amazing and unique you are as a human being created in the image of God. |
| 0:42.9 | What we're going to do in this episode |
| 0:45.1 | is to explore some of the fundamental ideas |
| 0:47.3 | at the heart of the teaching of Saint John Paul II's |
| 0:50.5 | philosophy, which is known as personalism. |
| 0:53.6 | And this is huge because John Paul II's teaching |
| 0:56.4 | is extremely important for what's going on in the world today. |
| 0:59.8 | Let's be honest, humanity is having an identity crisis |
| 1:02.4 | on so many levels, and it's like the Pope knew what was coming and spoke right to it decades ago. Now before I tell |
| 1:09.7 | you about my wonderful guest who is going to break this down for us I'd like to |
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