BONUS: How Do We Trust in Church Authority? (with Bishop Cozzens) (2024)

The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 29 December 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

"In this special bonus episode, Bishop Andrew Cozzens joins Fr. Mike Schmitz to talk about his role as a bishop of the Catholic Church, his involvement in the Catechism in a Year podcast, and why we can continue to trust in the authority of the Church despite the brokenness of its leaders at times. Bishop Andrew Cozzens is the Bishop of the Diocese of Crookston in northern Minnesota. He currently serves as the chair of the
USCCB Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis where he has been tasked by the Bishops with leading a three-year National Eucharistic Revival."

This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB.

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Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

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0:00.0	My name is Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the Catechism in a year
0:08.8	podcast. In today's pre-launch episode, I have Bishop Andrew Cousins with me who's going to be our special
0:13.8	guest that introduces the second pillar of the Catechism later on. Now he's
0:17.4	introducing the pre-introducing the second pillar of the Catechism. Today we had
0:22.3	Jeff Kavans, we have others who will be after Bishop Cousins. Jeff talked about the Creed and the second pillar of the Catechism is the sacraments and that third pillar is life in Christ the moral life the fourth pillar is of
0:35.4	course prayer but today in this first episode the catechism will start in January 1st
0:40.8	but in this first pre-ep episode I guess I'll say say it like this, he's going to be sharing with us a little bit about his background as a bishop, his involvement in the Catechism in a year, he'll also offer us some guidance as we prepare to learn about the authority in the mission of the church, which are so critically important, especially as we launch into this whole year of studying the catechism, what God has to say through his church to us in our day and age.
1:04.0	So without anything further, I am so grateful, Father.
1:07.0	Father, Bishop, I remember when you're Father Cousins,
1:10.0	but I'm so grateful to have you Bishop of Cousins.
1:15.0	Delighted to be with you, Father Mike. It's an honor to be on your podcast.
1:17.0	Oh, he's just, this is such an incredible.
1:19.0	It really is a gift.
1:20.0	When we asked, who could be the person to introduce that second pillar, I was like, well, I don't know, what about Bishop Cousins? Because he, when you taught at the seminary, the seminary that I had also had gone to, I was already gone, unfortunately, because everyone that I talked to who had
1:35.0	your Sacramento's class in particular your class on the Eucharist they were just
1:39.4	raving about this class and I'm like why why did I get ordained so early is my question and why didn't I
1:45.1	get to have father cousins now bishop cousins as my seminary professor but I'm
1:50.6	so grateful for this could you give us you know there's some people who might be listening to this podcast who don't know of your story.
1:58.0	Would you mind just kind of sharing with us how you got to be where you're at right now?
2:14.1	Yeah, I'm very happy to share you know I grew up in a good Catholic family and had the blessing of a family that you know shared the faith with me and actually I wanted to be a priest from very young age I had my first communion in first grade my parish
2:18.5	priest pulled me out of the other first grade class and for some reason chose
2:21.8	me to make my first communion early so I could serve mass with him.
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