#12290 Re-Engaging Fallen Away Catholics w/John Sablan - John Sablan
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🗓️ 19 July 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Can Latin Mass bring Catholics back?” In this episode we are joined by Catholic Speaker John Sablan to talk about re-engaging fallen away Catholics. We discuss the potential of the Latin Mass in revitalizing faith, alongside discussions on using personal businesses for evangelization, reaching those curious about sacramental life, and effective ways to engage with fallen-away Catholics. Tune in for a thoughtful exploration of these important topics.
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Questions Covered:
- 21:46 – Is it a good idea to use my new woodworking business as a way to have a good Catholic influence for evangelization?
- 32:09 – How do you reach out to the people who can seem to figure out the mystery of sacramental life?
- 37:16 – How can the Latin Mass play a role in bringing Catholics back?
- 45:21 – What’s a good approach to converse with a fallen away older Catholic man to bring him back?
- 50:04 – My friends told me the reason they can’t become Catholic is because they don’t have the time for all the classes. Wouldn’t it be better to go back the older way that was a shorter process?
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| 0:37.0 | Darren did a good job on this one. |
| 0:38.5 | John Siblant is with us now, and he's the co-founded World Ablaze, a Catholic Apostolate, |
| 0:46.5 | focused on evangelizing and discipleship, and super, just a wonderful advocate for and defender of, but more of engaging people with the Catholic |
| 1:00.8 | faith, I would say, his ministry. You were in technology before you were in ministry, right? |
| 1:06.7 | I actually, I'm doing, I do both. Oh, you still do both. Yeah, i still do both yeah i still do both so i'm |
| 1:12.6 | evangelizing in the cyber technology world every day how big is your brain like i i can't even do |
| 1:18.9 | one job like you it's not that big size really but the lord yeah the lord grants grace to those |
| 1:26.2 | yes that's true he does um but we're going to talk a little bit about, I mean, I like the idea that we're going to talk about disengaged Catholics, Catholics who aren't engaged at, because that's your thing, that's your passion is. But I was said, and I, Edgar got this, and I think he might have gotten it from you, but the, the, the, the, the, the, the, a Pew study came out. We talked about it a little bit on the air, but we didn't, I don't think I really dug into it. I didn't realize this. Forty-seven percent of U.S. adults have a personal family connection to Catholicism. 13 percent of U.S. adults engage in weekly mass, daily prayer, and annual confession. |
| 2:01.7 | 13%. So we have a vast mission field, I would say, within the Catholic Church. |
| 2:07.9 | Is that what your view is? |
| 2:09.5 | Oh, yeah, absolutely. So those are familiar with it. Pew Research put this out in, I think, June 16th, |
| 2:15.5 | and they did a study around, right, the personal |
| 2:19.4 | connection to the Catholic Church. And it kind of came, it broke down in four different |
| 2:23.9 | categories. The one you described was the 20% of those who identify as being Catholics, but |
| 2:29.3 | only 13% of that 20% actually. I read that wrong then. Oh, that's even worse. then oh that's even worse holy smokes yeah because |
| 2:37.5 | it was it was really kind of uh trying to tease out those who pray daily those who attend mass weekly |
| 2:44.5 | and those who go to confession once a year so we're talking you know bare minimum catholicism right |
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