Greetings, parish orphans, and retrogrades.

Today, I'm going to be talking about fear and trembling, the topic which Soren Kierkegaard

dealt within an effective Protestant Christian manner over 200 years ago.

And yet I think we can do better.

I think we can take on fear and trembling

the concept of anxiety in a Catholic way and in a, in a fact, efficacious way that will make

all of the postmoderns that have treated of this topic from the 1800s, especially in the late 20th century, blush, because

there's a more effective approach that has been elected to be neglected over those 150 years

that comprise the advent of psychology. Today, Whitney, to talk about this is someone

that's become an expert on the subject. Patrick Coffin. How are you, Pat? Wow, an expert in

anxiety and fear. Thanks, Tim, question mark. It's great to be with you, sir. It's funny you you were on my show talking about how to beat

anxiety and here we are talking about the same thing because it's not going away there is like a giant

paul right a giant funeral paul over the world it seems the news gets from bad to worse and

you and i've talked about this off the air a few years, it felt like we were all galloping toward an abyss.

Now it feels like the abyss is galloping toward us.

It's something that affects Republicans, Democrats,

traditionalists, progressives, liberals, conservatives.

You know, with our 24-7 doom scrolling news

and people spending so much time,

staring at their black, their black phone screen.

And it's very bad for your mind. It's very toxic.

And so we have to realize that this is,

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