How does the Holy Spirit lead the Church? Jimmy Aiken, next.

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

Understanding and defending your Catholic faith.

I'm Cy Kelle at your host.

And a question came to us via the email

about just how does the Holy Spirit lead the church?

And I think it's obvious to anybody why this question would have a

particular urgency now because a lot of people are kind of asking these kinds of

questions because when people are unsettled and upset about the condition of

the church we turn to the Holy Spirit and we're like,

what's up? Are you here? Are you paying attention? Do you see this? And so we have to go back to asking basic questions.

Well, how does the Holy Spirit lead the church? If you're going to ask

a basic question like that, nobody better to ask than Jimmy Aiken. He's got a brand new book.

This is the new book, The Words of Eternal Life, True Happiness and Where to Find It? Jimmy, we happiness, and where to find it?

Jimmy, we asked, how does the Holy Spirit lead the Church?

Jimmy Aiken, thank you very much for being here with us, appreciate that.

Oh, my pleasure, Cy.

I want to share some of the problems I have of understanding my own Christian faith. Among them how Jesus can be both

God and man, it seems inexhaustible, how the scriptures can be both fully human writing and also be the word of God.

I never never seems to come to a final, oh I get the whole thing now,

and how the Holy Spirit could be the leader of the

church but the church is still such a flawed institution. So you're laying

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