#12391 What Saints Battled Addiction? Healing and Devotion - Scott Weeman
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🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“What Saints Battled Addiction?” This episode delves into healing and devotion, offering practical advice for those struggling with addiction. Additionally, we explore the role of devotion in the healing process and address concerns about judgment when returning to the Church during recovery. Tune in for a thoughtful discussion on these important topics.
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Questions Covered:
- 0:00 – What Saints Battled Addiction?
- 15:35 – What is your advice on how to overcome sexual addiction?
- 33:35 – What are your thoughts on having a devotion to help with healing?
- 36:15 – I’m on the road to recovery. I have a fear of being judged while trying to return to Church. How is recovery and the church intertwined?
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| 0:11.5 | Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers live. I am Cy Kellett, your slightly tired host, slightly tired, only because we just finished the annual Catholic Answers |
| 0:43.0 | apologetics conference yesterday. It was fantastic. If you've never heard Dr. David Anders speak, |
| 0:49.6 | he was a highlight. Amy, I will bet you've never heard Amy Hamilton speak. |
| 0:54.7 | She hasn't done a great deal of public speaking. |
| 0:57.8 | The two of them were magnificent. |
| 1:00.0 | And then each of our guys brought it. |
| 1:02.5 | And I think part of it is we had a really good theme this year. |
| 1:06.0 | It was about evangelization. |
| 1:08.1 | It was very practical and helpful about how to become evangelizers. And then we just |
| 1:12.7 | had 700 really cool people show up. And we just had a great time. So I want to thank everybody for |
| 1:20.3 | that. Thank everybody who came. I hope everybody made it home safely. It was just great. But boy, |
| 1:26.6 | you do feel tired after it. And so we decided, |
| 1:32.3 | you know what we'll do for Monday? We'll just have a great show. And that we'll get a great |
| 1:35.8 | guests. And then I can, nothing will rely on my energy. So we do have a great guest. And we |
| 1:42.1 | always have a great show when Scott Weeman is here. |
| 1:53.3 | Scott Weeman, the author of The Twelve Steps and the Sacraments, and the founder of Catholic in Recovery, |
| 1:59.2 | this is always an interesting hour to me, because it's a bit different than what we usually do, |
| 2:08.2 | but nonetheless, connected to what we do, because everything we do is, well, it better be connected to the love of Christ, or there's no point in us doing it. |
| 2:20.8 | So if you have addiction and recovery questions, if you have questions about 12-step programs or rehabs or family or whatever. |
| 2:23.1 | And you don't want to be Catholic. |
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