How did the modern world turn out to be so abusive of children, Bishop Thomas Papraki, next?

Hello and welcome to Calvigancer's focus, the podcast for Living, Understanding, and Defending Your Faith, I'm

Cy Kelle, your host, and today we tackle a tough subject with a tough bishop.

Let me just say it right out. The modern world has become abusive of children.

We congratulate ourselves on being an open society, a free society, a modern society

with modern values, but we need to stop congratulating ourselves.

We're hurting our children.

We have built a society that is over-sexualized and far too violent and this is traumatizing

our children and leaving them with hurts and we need to stop

building ourselves up and thinking that we're better than previous generations.

What we need to do is start protecting our children, start keeping them free from the traumas

that we are inflicting upon them

because we want to have a society that

is enjoyable for adults and easy for adults

to access all kinds of pleasures.

Many of those pleasures not good for adults, but they're disastrous for children.

Bishop Pappraki is the Bishop of Springfield, Illinois.

He has come to the attention of many Catholics and has become

kind of a leader among many Catholics because of his strong, forceful defense of human life in all of its stages and his clarity

that the Catholic Church is not going to give up until human life is protected in all of its

stages. One of those stages is childhood and we need to do a

better job of protecting human life in the childhood stage. More about that

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