The State of the Catholic Church with a man who knows J.D. Flynn is next.

Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers Podcast for living,

understanding, and Defending Your

Catholic faith. I'm Cy Kellett, your host, and I recently had an opportunity to

sit down with the editor-in-chief of the Catholic News Agency, J.D. Flynn, to talk about the state of the

Catholic Church. We have the release of the McCarick report. We have

Fritelli Tooty. We have a rise, the rise of a whole new kind of Catholic media which has a bit of an angry tone to it, not making a judgment, just saying that that's the case.

We have an angry Catholic media out there, so we thought we'd sit down with JD who lives it every day

as the editor-in-chief of Catholic news agency has got reporters all around the world

and knows a great deal and just ask him what is the state of the church today so don't forget to

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All right, let's take a few minutes with J.D. Flynn on the state of the church today.

J.D. Flynn editor, is it right to say editor-in-chief? Do you have that title?

I do indeed.

All right, that's a good title to have. Editor-in-chief of the Catholic News Agency.

Here's my problem. I don't know what to make of the situation of the church right now. I don't have a good metaphor for it. I don't have a good like, oh, this is like that period.

And so I want you to help me there, and I particularly want you to help me because

evangelization, apologetics, catachesus, these are the things we do at Catholic answers.

And they don't seem adequate to the moment in some way.

I want to do them.

I want that to be what we do and to do it well.

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