#12413 How Did We Come to a Crisis of Identity? - Angela Franks
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🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“What led to our current crisis of identity?” In this episode, we explore the complexities of identity in today’s society, touching on topics such as the experiences of LGBTQ individuals and the political landscape surrounding these issues. We also discuss how religious orders are addressing the needs of those facing identity crises, providing a comprehensive look at this pressing topic.
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Questions Covered:
- 04:06 – How did we come to a crisis of Identity?
- 30:34 – I’m a gay person, thank you for focusing on who not what.
- 36:30 – How do you make sense of all of this and the politics behind it?
- 50:25 – Is there any religious order talking about how to minister to people suffering through an identity crisis?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers live. I am Sy Kellett, your host, happy to be back here. |
| 0:20.0 | For the first time, at least since I've |
| 0:21.5 | been here, we had Columbus Day Off. And it was very odd to a lot of us. Why do we have Columbus Day |
| 0:26.8 | off? And it turned out that, it turns out that every now and then, the Feast of All Saints is on a |
| 0:33.2 | Saturday. And that happened this year. And usually we get the major Catholic feasts off. |
| 0:38.2 | And I guess the board decided here at Catholic Answers, well, they're not getting All Saints Day off. |
| 0:43.1 | So Columbus Day is, I don't know, the next best thing. I'm not sure, but we got Columbus Day off. |
| 0:48.2 | So this is Monday for me yesterday. I'm glad we did get to replay an episode with a really popular episode where Joe Heschmire defended the papacy, took on any objection that we could think up for him to the papacy. And I'm glad we were able to play that, but this is Monday for us in a certain sense. And thank you for being here with us. What a way to start the week. All of that was to just get around to saying, what a way to start the week. One of America's best theologians is on with us today, Dr. |
| 1:14.5 | Angela Franks, a truly extraordinary Catholic theologian, writer, and speaker, known for her sharp insight into the modern world's |
| 1:22.6 | confusions about love and freedom and the human person. She's now assistant professor of theology at the Catholic |
| 1:28.4 | University of America. And in my hand here, I have her latest book, Body and Identity, A History of the Empty Self. |
| 1:37.7 | Dr. Angela Franks, thank you very much for being here with us. |
| 1:40.8 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:42.5 | If you want to call and talk to Dr. Franks about identity, about the |
| 1:45.7 | confusions around identity and our time, you are welcome to call 8883187-884. I think that mark of a |
| 1:53.9 | really good scholar is when you read a book that has all the depths of scholarship, but you can |
| 1:59.9 | read it. And I was very comfortable reading this. |
| 2:01.9 | So I think you know your material. |
| 2:04.8 | Thank you. |
| 2:05.7 | That's really good to hear. |
| 2:06.6 | Yeah, it was quite readable. |
| 2:08.2 | And it's from University of Notre Dame Press. |
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