Day 123: The Pope (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 3 May 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Who is the Pope? Today, we focus on the role of the Pope in the Catholic Church as the Vicar of Christ and pastor of the entire Church. The Catechism teaches us that the institution of the papacy dates back to that powerful moment in the Gospel when Jesus changed Simon’s name to Peter, the “rock”, and handed him the keys of the Church. Fr. Mike unpacks this pivotal moment and helps us understand why the Pope is so foundational to the Faith. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 880-887.
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 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast, |
| 0:09.5 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down |
| 0:14.0 | through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by |
| 0:17.5 | Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic |
| 0:21.7 | Church, discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. |
| 0:26.4 | It is Day 123. Congratulations for making it to today. We're reading paragraphs 880 to 887. As always, |
| 0:32.7 | I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow |
| 0:37.5 | along with any recent version of the catechism of the Catholic Church. Also, you can download |
| 0:41.5 | your own catechism in your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash cI. And I know |
| 0:46.9 | that there are those of you who have successfully resisted up to this point, but if you'd like to |
| 0:52.2 | finally give in, you can click follow or subscribe |
| 0:54.6 | in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. It is day 123. We're reading |
| 1:00.1 | paragraphs 880 to 887 talking about the Episcopal College and its head, the Pope. So remember |
| 1:05.7 | yesterday, I talked about Presbyterate refers to the priesthood, right? Episcopacy, Episcopacy refers to the |
| 1:14.1 | bishops. So the Episcopal college, also we talked about colleges, right? Not like a university, |
| 1:18.5 | but has a collegial character. There's this commonality and a unity that is given to the bishops. |
| 1:25.1 | They have a college, right? There is the Episcopal college, which refers to |
| 1:29.6 | the collegiality or the communion of the bishops. And of course, the head of the Episcopal college, |
| 1:34.9 | which is the bishop of Rome. That's going to be like, basically, there's no need for any more |
| 1:39.8 | introduction than that, because we're talking all about today, the bishops united with the Holy Father, |
| 1:45.2 | the role of the Holy Father that he has been uniquely assigned by Jesus Christ. |
| 1:49.6 | You know, the Holy Father is the successor of St. Peter and to St. Peter, Jesus gave the |
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