#248 Is Fear a Sin? - Fr. Hugh Barbour, O. Praem.

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🗓️ 18 May 2020

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Is fear a sin? Is it just an emotion? How are Christians meant to understand fear? Is there such a thing as fear that is actually a gift from the Holy Spirit? Father Hugh Barbour fearlessly tackles a host of questions about fear. CK: Is fear a sin? Father Hugh Barbour, next. Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I’m Cy Kellett, your host, and it’s a time of fear. There is a good deal of fear all around us. It’s in part because of the virus certainly, but we can live in a frightened age in many ways. We have our strange fears, sometimes nameless, sometimes they h…

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0:00.0	Is Fear of Sin? Father Hugh Barber next.
0:02.8	Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I'm Cy Kellett, your host, and it's a time of fear.
0:12.8	There's a good deal of fear all around us.
0:14.8	It's in part because of the virus, certainly.
0:17.6	But we kind of live in a frightened age in many ways.
0:20.5	We have our strange fears sometimes nameless sometimes they have a name
0:27.0	and an object connected to them so we'll talk a bit about fear today in this
0:31.7	episode and to help us do that we welcome Father Hugh Barber
0:35.1	a Norbertine priest. Here I am. And I don't know if you remember this father
0:40.7	but when I was young there was a Pope name John Paul the second.
0:45.7	Yes I do recall. Are you calling? Yes. Yes. Okay I am older than you are. Oh yeah okay so I didn't
0:50.6	know how your recollection was this weekend. Really?
0:53.2	Congratulations.
0:54.2	60 on May 16th, yeah.
0:56.2	You seem like a very young 60.
0:58.8	You don't feel that.
0:59.8	I don't know.
1:00.8	Well, no, I don't, I don't, any different when I was 20, but that's, right,
1:05.8	that's a question of feelings.
1:06.9	Yeah.
1:07.9	Okay, so, Pope John Paul, he gets elected Pope, and he comes out and he says,
1:15.0	be not afraid.
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