Church and/or State?

Godsplaining

Dominican Friars Province of St. Joseph

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🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Catholics are no doubt involved in politics - take JD Vance for example. What is the relationship between church and state like? Should Christians obey the state? What does the historical context look like? On this episode of Godsplaining, Fr. Patrick and Fr. Bonaventure break down everything we as Christians need to know about church and state. St. Michael's Lent & EXODUS90 https://exodus90.com/ Subscribe to our channelhttps://www.youtube.com/c/Godsplaining Support the Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/godsplaining Shop our NEW merch store: https://godsplaining.org/store/ Shop Books Written by the FriarsSt. Dominic's Way of Life: https://www.amazon.com/Saint-Dominics-Way-Life-Knowing/dp/1681929392Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly: https://www.amazon.com/Prudence-Choose-Confidently-Live-Boldly/dp/1681927322/ Connect on Social MediaFollow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/godsplaining/Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/godsplaining/Follow us on X: https://x.com/godsplaining To learn more about the Province of St. Joseph visit: www.opeast.orgTo support the Province of St. Joseph visit: www.dominicanfriars.org

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0:00.0	This is Father Patrick Briscoe.
0:07.0	This is Father Bonameter Chapman.
0:08.6	Welcome to Godsplaining.
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0:21.9	miss an episode. Yeah, the bell. We have, oh man, I love the bell. I don't know what is. I do. I like
0:27.2	the notifications on my phone. Oh yeah? Yeah, I feel like I see things that are great. Like, for example,
0:32.5	I was just standing there looking at my phone, waiting for it to do something, you know,
0:36.8	and the AP sent me a
0:38.6	notification that there was a guy who had a brilliant new way to fight fires and I read an amazing
0:44.9	article about that wow because he like built these tanks basically to refill helicopter
0:50.5	uh helicopter cruise more quickly with water
0:55.1	yeah and totally changed firefighting in certain regions of
0:58.6	California perfection you need the notification you gotta have it
1:01.2	I wouldn't have known that if you
1:02.3	if you didn't know that I mean
1:04.5	game over and all I could tell you about that story was what I read on the
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