A Bishop Speaks on the Abuse Crisis
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
“How can we stay with a Church that has so many problems?” Dr. Sri unpacks key insights from Bishop Barron’s recent book “A Letter to a Suffering Church” - a book that takes a hard look at the clergy abuse scandal and offers hope and some practical ways forward.
If you don't have time to read it, listen to this brief summary of the many gems in this helpful book.
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Learn more about this book by Bishop Barron https://www.sufferingchurchbook.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic Catholic where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:15.1 | It has been a very hard year for the Catholic Church and for all of us as |
| 0:22.0 | Catholics in the wake of the |
| 0:23.8 | priestly abuse crisis the sexual abuse crisis as we've seen one layer after |
| 0:28.6 | another after another the scandal unfold and all the cover-ups and many of us feel very shaken in this year and we all have family and friends I know who maybe also really blue, very discouraged and I might be angry and bitter. Some of them may leave some of them, it just gives them more |
| 0:43.8 | firepower to be angry at the church and an excuse for having left the church, whatever the |
| 0:48.5 | case may be. |
| 0:49.5 | I want to spend a little time revisiting all this here one year later and I want to share with you |
| 0:53.9 | some wonderful insights from a Bishop who has done so much to talk about this |
| 0:58.8 | write about it and give us much encouragement and he has written a brand new book that just came out |
| 1:05.0 | recently called a letter to a suffering church a bishop speaks on the sexual abuse |
| 1:09.6 | crisis you know who it's from it's from Bishop Robert Barron. I just got my copy of this book here in the last week |
| 1:16.9 | It's a quick read a short read I want to encourage you to get this book. Maybe share it with some of your friends and family. I'll put in the show notes how you can find this book, maybe share it with some of your friends and family. |
| 1:22.8 | I'll put in the show notes how you can find this book. |
| 1:25.2 | But I also know some of you are busy and you're not going to read this book right now, |
| 1:28.4 | which is why I think it's so important I want to spend some time unpacking |
| 1:32.1 | some of the great gems in this book, things that I think would be really helpful for us, |
| 1:36.5 | to encourage us in this difficult time, to give us a little guidance, and also maybe to share with others about why we're still Catholic and why we need to stay with |
| 1:46.7 | the church. |
| 1:48.1 | So I want to talk about that in today's episode, but first I'm going to take a question |
| 1:51.9 | from one of our listeners, So this is from Jessica. |
| 1:54.6 | Jessica emailed me here this week. She says she listens to the podcast. |
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