148: Embracing Culture Within Liturgy ft. Shannon Schmidt
The Catholic Feminist
Claire Swinarski
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
When someone states their skin color or culture--"I'm a Black Catholic." "I'm a Polish Catholic." "I'm a Hispanic Catholic." It can be tempting to want to wave it off. We're all *one family*, right? Why do these differences matter? But today's guest is here to talk to us about how our church is bigger than our culture, and therefore, all of our cultures must be allowed to be present.
Shannon Schmidt is a mom, podcaster, and biracial Catholic with a passion for theology and our church. We discuss how her race plays into her faith and why she thinks it’s important for her to embrace her Black Catholic label. Shannon and I also chat about how to fight against using orthodoxy as a shield, the importance of de-centering any one particular culture to instead become a beautifully diverse family, and what’s been bringing her closer to God lately. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Catholic feminist episode 148. Today we are talking all |
| 0:06.2 | about embracing culture within our liturgy. Today's episode is brought to you |
| 0:11.1 | by the classic Learning Test. |
| 0:13.2 | Head to CLT exam.com to learn about this alternative to the SAT and ACT. |
| 0:19.1 | Today's episode is also brought to you by Select International Tours. |
| 0:23.4 | I know this may not seem like a great time to plan international travel, |
| 0:26.8 | but they are currently planning for 2021 and beyond. |
| 0:29.9 | Head to select International Tours. com slash feminist to learn more. |
| 0:36.8 | Welcome to the Catholic feminist, |
| 0:38.7 | a podcast for strong women who want to be informed, |
| 0:41.5 | inspired, and intentional. I'm your host, inspired, and intentional. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm your host, Claire, and I'm so glad you're here. Hello everybody happy Wednesday I hope that the weather is starting to get a little nice wherever you are. |
| 1:04.0 | It actually snowed last weekend, but today is beautiful, so that is great. |
| 1:08.2 | Up here in Wisconsin, you never really know. |
| 1:10.9 | Just a couple things before we get started. I wanted to let you all |
| 1:14.8 | know that you can currently add the next Catholic feminist book on Goodreads. |
| 1:19.0 | It's called In Full Bloom and if you're a Goodreads user adding it to your to read list is |
| 1:24.4 | actually super helpful also we're approaching 150 episodes what the what I |
| 1:31.2 | still remember starting this podcast and telling my husband I was going to make 10 and then re-evaluate |
| 1:36.0 | so the fact that 150 is only a couple weeks |
| 1:40.0 | I mean if I had a producer besides myself I would put in a laugh track right now because |
| 1:45.2 | that's how I'm feeling but for our 150th episode we are going to do a Q&A like a good |
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