409: Post-Covid19 Catholicism: 10 Predictions of What Might Change in Catholic Practice [Podcast]
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Dr. Taylor Marshall
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🗓️ 12 May 2020
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| 0:00.0 | How will the practice of Catholicism change after Corona, after COVID-19? |
| 0:12.0 | Catholicism, the dogma, the doctrine, the morality, it can never change, but the practice, for good or for |
| 0:20.8 | bad, that can change. And today I'm going to make 10 predictions of what's going to |
| 0:26.5 | happen on the ground in your local parish, in your local diocese, in the church, in in Rome after the COVID-19 crisis. We've already seen a lot of |
| 0:38.4 | changes and I'm going to go through 10 predictions of what we might see in not only the months to come, perhaps years to come, |
| 0:47.0 | perhaps decades to come. |
| 0:49.6 | So the first change relates to the Sunday obligation. We've already seen this all over |
| 0:56.7 | the world. I think it's almost universal that the Sunday obligation has been taken away. |
| 1:01.6 | Traditionally in Catholicism it is a mortal sin to |
| 1:06.6 | skip Sunday Mass or to skip a holy day of obligation unless you ill, unless you're taking care of someone who |
| 1:15.5 | was ill or you're taking care of a child or mass is too far away, over an hour |
| 1:21.6 | way. In these cases you're excused from attending the Holy |
| 1:24.9 | sacrifice of the Mass. Otherwise you're morally obliged. You must go there on pain of |
| 1:30.4 | mortal sin. It's a big deal. A lot of people are like, why would God care if I go to church on Sunday? Because we are not heretics. We are not pelagians. We believe we can only do good by grace. We can only get to heaven through Jesus |
| 1:44.8 | Christ and so we need weekly to be restored in Christ that happens at the holy |
| 1:50.8 | sacrifice of the Mass. Now what we've seen because of the contagion we've |
| 1:58.7 | seen bishops say well there are no masses and where masses have reopened like here in Texas and places |
| 2:05.4 | the bishops have said the obligation is not in effect so if you don't feel |
| 2:11.0 | comfortable if you're scared or nervous, you are not obliged to attend on Sunday. |
| 2:17.8 | And I was thinking to myself, well, this is understandable. |
| 2:22.4 | I'm not thoroughly critical of it, but we all know we're going to have COVID-19 one year from now, and we're probably going to have COVID-19 two years from now. It's not going away. Simple say, well, what about when we get a vaccine? |
| 2:36.2 | Well, we have the flu vaccine. That doesn't work. The flu is a mutating disease. It seems that COVID is the same kind of thing. So COVID's going to be with us. So will we ever get back to a Sunday obligation? Another problem related to this is people are habituated since they are seven years old to |
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