Is your anger messing up your apologetics?

Matthew Walther is next.

Hello and welcome to Focus the Catholic Cancer's podcast

for Living Understanding and Defending Your Catholic Faith.

I'm Psy Kill at Your Host.

And it's a delicate time to talk about anger for this reason.

There is a lot to be angry about.

There's a lot in the secular world to be angry about.

There's a lot in the church to be angry about.

But we want to be giving an account of our faith

that draws other people towards the faith.

Most especially draws our children towards the faith.

So we were really impressed with the reflections

of Matthew Walther, who we have on this episode,

who's the editor of the lamp, a new Catholic magazine.

When he gave us some reflections in the magazine

about how anger is actually getting in the way

of the presentation of the faith these days,

particularly anger, frankly, at our Holy Father,

Pope Francis, and anger that is creating a kind of cycle

of being angry at the Pope, consuming a lot of Catholic media

that's angry at the Pope, becoming more angry at the Pope,

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