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The Counsel of Trent

#864 - FFAF: Where are the Gen-Z Catholic Apologists?

The Counsel of Trent

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of free-for-all-Friday Trent examines the need for a younger generation of Catholic apologists.

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0:00.0

What does the future hold for apologetics in the church, especially here in the US and the English speaking world?

0:06.7

Something Catholic Answers has been involved in for a long time, but we always have to keep our eye on the future. That's something I've been thinking about a lot.

0:13.2

Welcome, Council Trent Podcast is Free for All Friday, Monday and Wednesdays we talk

0:17.2

Apologetics and theology. Friday, this Friday it's apologetics. It could be all sorts of

0:21.6

different topics, but it's whatever I feel like

0:23.8

talking about and this has been really weighing on my heart recently and it's

0:28.1

motivating me to change up a little bit of what I'm doing not not drastically, but putting myself onto a different trajectory, something

0:36.4

I'm concerned about when it comes to the future.

0:38.7

I think happens a lot for people as you get older, you start your young adult life life really thinking a lot about your own future like

0:45.8

what's my career going to be who's my spouse going to be what's my vocation what am I

0:50.0

going to a children how am I going to make my place in the world how am I going to provide how am I going to make my place in the world, how am I going to provide, how am I going to

0:55.0

build up my family in a culture that's increasingly opposed to Christian values

1:00.4

for example. So this is something that people do at the beginning of your adult life, you think a lot about your future.

1:07.0

But as your adult life continues on and especially once you get to the point where you feel like you've answered a lot of those questions and you know what you want to do, you start thinking about other people's futures.

1:17.0

You start thinking about your children's future, your grandchildren's future, and you start to transition to thinking okay what can I what kind of legacy

1:24.2

can I leave what can I do in the world do for the glory of God that will benefit the kingdom of

1:29.5

God and the body of Christ and provide these spiritual rewards and benefits to others, maybe in future generations.

1:36.7

What can I do to serve the body of Christ in the future?

1:40.7

And a lot of them involves how can I serve the body right now.

1:43.0

So that's what I want to talk about

1:46.1

because we were having a discussion of Catholic answers

1:49.0

not too long ago I was with the other apologist and senior staff. We were talking about what are we going to do in six months?

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