Corrupt Church History, Saints Reading Minds, and "Mary Did You Know?"

Ask Father Josh (Your Catholic Question and Answer Podcast)

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🗓️ 10 December 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Father Josh answers questions about how to talk about corruption in the Church’s history, whether the saints know our thoughts, and whether Mary knew that Jesus was God.

**Glory Story (2:05)

Feedback (3:59)
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Do Saints Know Our Thoughts? (9:04)
Dear Fr. Josh,

In one of your podcasts, you said that the Devil does not know our thoughts. Do the saints know our thoughts? I have always prayed silently to them.

Thank you.

Angela

Corrupt Church History (11:22)
Hey Father!

Thank you for your ministry. You're my commute buddy on the way to teach grade eight American History in a public school ... Given that the Catholic Church was the only game in town for 1500+ years if you loved Jesus, we've been talking a bit about the role it played in history.

I was well formed by my experience in RCIA ... so I am able to answer student questions about the Church teachings. I had a good humanities education, so I can also answer about other faiths and protestantism in general enough ways.

Here's my question⁠—how do I address some of the awful things that happened in Church history? Like how the Church treated scientists during the Age of Reason, or the selling of indulgences during the Crusades, or Christopher Columbus and other explorers wiping out entire cultures of native people … People then knew that murder was wrong, and that heaven couldn't be accessed through monetary donations to a greedy pope or bishop, and this all still happened.

I've talked about how people generally do the best they can, and how churches are run by perfectly imperfect men who are representatives of their time. [My students] seem to be OK with the answer of imperfect people being in charge ... but their natural conscience is telling them that someone should have tried harder to stop some of these shameful things done in the name of God. I'd love some advice.

Thanks!

-Heatherle

Did Mary Know? (17:49)
Father Josh,

You’ve been talking about “Mary Did You Know” for a while now; when are you going to talk about that on the show?

Blair

Resources
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Broken and Blessed: An Invitation to My Generation
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How to Pray Like Mary
Matthew 16:19: Peter is given the keys to the Kingdom
The Dogma of the Immaculate Conception

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0:00.0	What's up and welcome to Ask for the Jage to podcast why get to listen to your questions.
0:06.9	Pray with them and hopefully respond in such a way that it's helpful for you and your
0:10.6	walk to award eternity and your walk to a becoming a particular saint.
0:14.4	God is ours for you and all of us to be.
0:16.6	Here's how the show goes if you are a first time listener you can hit me up with three
0:20.6	to five questions dealing with morality, the spirituality, the interior life, spiritual
0:26.0	life.
0:27.0	I'm a relationship advice dogma doctrine discipleship evangelization, catac ECIS list goes on
0:33.4	and on and on.
0:34.4	I will then sit with your questions pray with them spend time discussing them with
0:38.2	other theologians and try to get back to you with some advice that is helpful for you
0:42.1	to grow in virtue.
0:43.1	However, here's a disclaimer I'm not perfect and so every now and then my advice might
0:47.5	not actually in fact be helpful for you.
0:50.4	If that's the case then I really want to encourage you and give you the freedom to reject.
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0:58.3	with Jesus Christ.
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