Ever hear phrases like, if you're not angry, you're not paying attention.

Joe Hechmeyer challenges those ideas next.

Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding,

and defending your Catholic faith, Joe Hechmeyer, with us this time.

I'm Sy Kelly at your host, and we talked with Joe about anger, specifically about the growing

anger industry, the outrage industry that is all around us.

There's certainly plenty to be outraged about in the modern world.

But just how much of that is healthy and good for us?

How much of it should we be listening to?

How much of it should we be paying for?

And beyond those natural questions about how much of it is healthy or good for us,

there's the supernatural questions.

At what point does this outrage industry become an offense against the gospel?

Maybe even a sin, maybe even a very grave sin for us?

Finding that place where we are not sinning in our outrage and not encouraging others

to sin by stoking outrage, but also not just burying our heads in the sand and not being aware

of or attentive to justice and the demands of justice in the world today.

Here's what Joe Hechmeyer had to say.

Joe Hechmeyer, author of a man named Joseph Guardian for Our Times.

Thanks for being here with us.

I'm thrilled to be here.

I'm angry, Joe.

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