22: Archbishop Charles Chaput: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World

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🗓️ 9 May 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia speaks with the same direct, guile-free way he writes. As a pastor of a large American city, he knows his audience: They are largely post-Christian, cynical about “organized religion,” and don’t abide clichés and easy grace.

Archbishop Chaput (pronounced SHAP-you) is also a member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi tribe, the second Native American to be consecrated a bishop in the United States and the first Native American archbishop. You might say he comes from a non-immigrant family.

I spoke with him about his latest book, Strangers in a Stranger Land: Living the Catholic Faith In a Post-Christian World, a sort of follow-up to the thesis he laid out seven years ago in First Things journal essay, “Catholics and the Next America.” That America is here. Ignited Catholics eager to spread the gospel…not so much.

Chaput has been called “alarmist” by the usual suspects in the lamescream media. Christian realist is more accurate. As Christian leaders go, His Excellency is hard-headed and soft-hearted, not the other way around. You’ll find this a conversation worth sharing after you enjoy it yourself.

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0:53.0	Yes, indeed, welcome to this edition of the Patrick Coffin show. I can't wait to introduce the guest to you and dive deep into his latest book.
1:07.0	It's called Strangers in A Strange Land, but the context here is how different America is today compared to the America of oh let's say Ozzy and
1:15.0	Harriet Dick Van Dyke Carol Burnett. Likewise the Catholic Church in this
1:19.6	country has undergone some changes in her self-understanding about how to reach this new America
1:24.1	with the Gospel.
1:26.4	The book, Strangers in a Strange land, living the Catholic faith in a post-Christian world, was
1:30.4	written by my guest this hour. He is Archbishop Charles Shapue, the Archbishop of Philadelphia,
1:35.7	also the author of Living the Catholic Faith and Render Unter Caesar. I'm so glad to have you,
1:40.9	your excellency. Welcome to the show. Thank you Patrick
1:43.6	I'm glad to be with you. About seven years now you wrote in First Things about
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