How to Respond When the Church Lets You Down (Part 1)
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
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🗓️ 28 May 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
What do you do in the face of concerns over the state of the Church? There are problems in the Church on the parish level all the way to the Vatican. So, how do we understand these problems and what role do each of us play in truly reforming the Church? Dr. Edward Sri weighs in on this topic and offers his advice on how to respond to it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edwards Three, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life. In my travels I meet so many Catholics from around the world who share with me their concerns over the state of the church. |
| 0:21.0 | It can be really hard sometimes. We can get discouraged. We could feel |
| 0:25.2 | helpless. We could feel frustrated, you know, and this can happen at the local |
| 0:29.1 | level. It could be at our local parish. Maybe we disagree with a decision our pastor made or we wish the preaching would just be so much better or |
| 0:36.5 | or the catacasis is problematic. It's not faithful to the teachings of the church or the |
| 0:40.8 | liturgy and the music isn't beautiful. What do we do in those situations? |
| 0:45.7 | It could be at the diocesan level or the national level. We wish our bishops were more courageous. |
| 0:51.4 | We wish our local bishop would make different decisions and better |
| 0:54.6 | appointments and stand up for truth more maybe. Or maybe it could be on the international |
| 1:00.4 | level, it could be in Rome, the leadership leadership in Rome leadership at the Vatican making |
| 1:04.4 | decisions that aren't good and then and then we can think about all the scandal and |
| 1:10.7 | sin that has come out into the open the last couple decades in the church. |
| 1:14.8 | In these moments, what do we do? Many lay Catholics can feel helpless, but I want to |
| 1:21.8 | remind you that every, every Christian disciple, every Catholic has a crucial |
| 1:27.7 | role to play in God's plan to bring about true reform in his church. |
| 1:34.3 | Every Catholic, you don't have to be a priest, a deacon, a bishop, a sister, no, no, even a lay |
| 1:39.0 | person, an ordinary lay person has a very important role to play in God's plan and he's inviting us to give our best, |
| 1:47.8 | to give our whole selves to help be a part of the renewal, the true reform of the Catholic Church, like the heroes |
| 1:56.2 | and the early church did and the great saints throughout the ages. |
| 1:59.7 | What is that role we're all called to play? |
| 2:01.6 | That's what we'll look at in this week's podcast. So welcome to all things Catholic. I'm your host, |
| 2:05.4 | Edwards Three, and I'm just recently back from leading a pilgrimage in Rome where we got to |
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