98: Defending the Faith Without Raising Your Voice ft. Kathryn Jean Lopez
The Catholic Feminist
Claire Swinarski
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Political conversations these days tend to get ridiculously heated. How can we speak the truth of the Gospel without becoming a clanging cymbal? Political writer Kathryn Jean Lopez is here to help us understand some tenants of Catholic communication, understand how to keep the hope in a despairing world, and helping us break out of our political boxes. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Catholic feminist episode 98. |
| 0:04.0 | Today we're talking all about how to defend the faith without raising your voice. |
| 0:08.0 | Today's episode is brought to you by Sock Religious for 10% off a pair of comfy cozy Catholic socks. sock at checkout. Today's episode is also brought to you by audible. For a free |
| 0:24.1 | audio book head on over to audible trial.com slash Catholic. |
| 0:28.0 | Welcome to the Catholic 7ist, a podcast for strong women who want to be informed, inspired, |
| 0:35.9 | and intentional. |
| 0:36.9 | I'm your host, Claire, and I'm so glad you're here. Happy Wednesday. I am really excited about today's guest. We are chatting with |
| 0:55.9 | Catherine Jean Lopez, a writer for National Review, all about talking about |
| 1:00.8 | controversial topics with people that we love. |
| 1:03.7 | We get into Catherine's story and why this is so important to her. |
| 1:06.9 | We get into how she covers abortion law in such a tricky, hard-hitting time. |
| 1:12.4 | I mean, I don't know about you guys but I have such a hard time |
| 1:15.2 | sometimes reading the news around abortion. It's so emotional, it's so intense, everyone is |
| 1:21.9 | 5,000% sure that they're right |
| 1:24.0 | and everyone else is wrong. |
| 1:25.6 | Everyone brings their own baggage and history |
| 1:27.8 | and life experiences. |
| 1:29.2 | And it makes the whole situation just very, very heated all the time and it can be really hard to |
| 1:35.0 | talk to people when you disagree with them specifically around such |
| 1:38.3 | emotional topics but Catherine writes about abortion a lot and so it was such a joy to chat with her about how she's able to |
| 1:45.4 | immerse herself in that world so much when it is so hard-heading and emotional right now. |
| 1:50.4 | It was so great to chat with her. I'm really excited to have her on and without further ado let's just jump on into our conversation with Catherine Jean Lopez |
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