BONUS: Bishop Barron on Why Remain Catholic?

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Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 29 August 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Friends, in light of the recent scandals, I know many people are wondering whether they should remain in the Catholic Church. And I totally get that; the outrage is warranted. But in this time of crisis, I beg you not to flee, but to fight--not violently, with the weapons of the world, but with the weapons of the Spirit. We need you.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. This is Brandon Vat, the content director at Word on Fire.
0:09.6	I know earlier today we shared our conversation with Bishop Aaron about the sexual abuse crisis,
0:14.8	but Bishop had a little bit more to say. And so he recorded a second clip answering the question,
0:19.9	why remain Catholic? I know a lot of people are in such despair over the abuse crisis that their
0:26.4	impulse is to leave the church. And it's that impulse that Bishop Aaron is responding to in this
0:31.6	second clip. So sit back and enjoy.
0:39.3	Hey everybody, this is Bishop Aaron. I want to speak to you again about this terrible
0:43.3	crisis we're passing through in the church, this crisis of sexual abuse and the countenance thing of it
0:48.0	by some of Bishop's. I know I spoke to you a couple days ago, but what's been striking me recently
0:53.8	is the number of people who seem to be calling for the abandonment of a church. Like because of
0:59.5	this crisis, it's time for us to leave the church. We simply had enough. Now can I just say this?
1:05.0	I totally understand people's feelings. I share them the feelings of anger and frustration.
1:13.1	I get it. I get it. But can I also suggest I think this is precisely the wrong strategy at this
1:20.4	moment in the church's life. Leaving is not what we ought to be doing. What we ought to be doing is
1:26.0	fighting. Now let me explain that with a little historical reference. One of my great heroes is
1:32.4	Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln, of course, operated politically at one of the most convulsive times
1:38.7	in our national history when slavery was threatening the very foundations of American democracy.
1:45.6	I mean, Lincoln knew from the beginning of his career that the nation, as he put it, couldn't
1:49.8	survive half slave and half free. But he saw more profoundly too. That slavery as an institution
1:56.6	was repugnant to the very principles of American democracy. Now we can hear that
2:04.0	in the Gettysburg address. In a way, it's sad that this becomes so cliche that we all memorized it
2:10.1	in high school. But let's go back to those words. Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought
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