How to Respond When the Church Lets You Down (Part 2)

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Do you ever feel helpless in the face of the challenges within the Church? Challenges within the Church are not new to this generation or even this century. There have always been crises within the Church. So, how does God work through these crises? Dr. Edward Sri examines some of the past crises of the Church and highlights the good that has come from them. He offers encouragement for anyone feeling discouraged in the current times.

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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 last week's episode we began looking at the concerns many people have over the
0:18.0	state of the church today whether it be at our local parishes sometimes people
0:21.7	wonder why can't we have better preaching or more
0:23.7	effective solid Orthodox Categesis? How come we can't have better liturgy and music or sometimes
0:29.7	we have questions about decisions that are made on the national level or even
0:33.8	the international level coming from Rome and sometimes we've even experienced
0:37.8	sin and scandal in our Catholic Church. As ordinary lead people what are we to do what are we to make of this what are we to do? What are we to make of this? How are we to respond?
0:45.8	We can sometimes feel helpless. But yet we saw how God has a plan.
0:51.2	God has a plan to bring true reform in his church like he always does
0:56.0	raising up the great heroes, the great saints as he's done from the very early
0:59.8	church all the way to today and we as lay people play an important role in this
1:05.1	renewal and one of the things we're going to take a look at today is the mystery of
1:09.6	that plan how God has worked in times of crises in times before.
1:15.0	From the very early church through the medieval period
1:17.5	to the time of the Protestant Reformation
1:19.3	through the Enlightenment and secular modernity
1:22.1	and where we are today in postmodernism
1:24.3	God has always responded in times of crisis through his church, allowing the church
1:30.6	to take on the diseases of the world in order to the not only for those of us within the church, but healing for evangelization and for the rest of the world around us.
1:46.0	That's what we're going to take a look at.
1:47.0	How does God work through the mystery of his church, through times of crisis, to bring the medicine we need. That's what we're going to
1:54.1	look at in this week's podcast. So welcome to all things Catholic. I'm your host
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