This is Father Joseph Anthony Cress and this is Father Patrick Brisco.

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Well, Father Patrick, we're back at it again.

Got another round and kicking things around.

So yeah, just catch me up.

What's the general things in your life right now?

Yeah, that's great. Well, for me, I mean, it remains the same, trying to find the good and

Catholic news, which is a difficult and exciting prospect. I mean, a lot of people,

one thing that I'm always trying to say

and I'm gonna take a moment to say it now

is that everything that's going on in the church

doesn't impact necessarily our relationship with Christ.

And I think this is the thing, right?

People see news about the church coming up

and they get distressed, they get frustrated,

they despair about the state of the quality of the church, the church

as ministers, but the reality is that my life with Christ is just that, my life with Christ.

Now of course it doesn't mean that the church doesn't matter. Of course the church

matters a lot because Christ in his infinite wisdom has decided to mediate

all the graces of salvation through the church. So the church is very important and

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