Day 251: Authorities in Society

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

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🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The Catechism shows us that, in order for any good in society to last and flourish, legitimate authority must be instituted and respected by all. Furthermore, it is our duty as those under authority to obey those invested with authority. Fr. Mike acknowledges that most of us resist authority, but he bolsters the Catechism’s claim that legitimate authority in society is good and necessary. “Anarchy doesn’t work.” Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1897-1904.

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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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to The Catechism in a Year Podcast,
0:09.2	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down
0:13.4	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in the Year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:17.2	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity
0:22.2	in God's family as we journey together to our Heavenly Home. This is day 251. We are reading
0:26.6	paragraphs 1897 to 1904 as always, I am using the ascension edition of the Catechism,
0:32.3	which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version
0:36.4	of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own Catechism in a year reading
0:40.2	plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash C-I-Y and lastly, you can. Click follow or subscribe
0:45.8	in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications because today is day 251. We're
0:50.3	reading, as I said, paragraphs 1897 to 1904. We're in a new article, article 2, participation in
0:55.7	social life. Remember, we're talking, we talked. Maybe this little review is redundant for the
1:00.4	third time in a row, maybe even fourth time in a row. But what we talked about is human dignity
1:04.9	and the dignity of the individual, the human person. But now we've been talking about community
1:09.5	and the need for community. Yesterday, we kind of dived deeply into conversion and society that
1:16.8	society is essential. Remember, we need to live in community. We need to live in a society,
1:21.2	but that society and conversion go hand in hand. That while human beings, individuals,
1:28.1	living community, that individual has to, has to, we all have to allow our hearts to be converted
1:34.5	because the society can't convert our hearts, but our converted hearts can change our society.
1:40.2	That's kind of a brief way to put it. Maybe I should have said that yesterday, but today we're
1:44.0	talking about authority. And so participation in social life, beginning with this notion and the
1:48.9	reality that we belong to an authority. Now tomorrow, we'll talk about the common good.
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