It's time to ask: What’s the point of a Catholic parish?

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🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Have you ever wondered why most Catholics practice their faith in a local parish church? Is it simply to attend Mass and participate in the sacraments? Is it to find a meaningful community? Is it just because their family has always attended there? With the church facing serious demographic challenges across the United States, and amid a rapidly shifting religious culture, the established parish model can no longer be taken for granted. In this fourth and final discussion on America Media’s new, groundbreaking documentary, “People of God: How Catholic Parish Life is Changing in the United States,” Ashley and Zac, together with Jim McDermott, S.J., and Sebastian Gomes, try to answer the overarching and critical question in the face of the uncertain future of parish life: What’s the point? Watch “People of God: How Catholic Parish Life is Changing in the United States” Follow on your podcast app: Hark! The Stories Behind Our Favorite Christmas Carols, an all-new season releasing Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Jesuitical, a by the young hip and lay editors of America
0:15.5	media.
0:16.5	That lay part means we aren't Jesuits but we work with them.
0:19.2	Join us each week for a smart Catholic take on faith culture in the news, often over drinks. And welcome to a
0:24.8	special bonus episode of the podcast. We are continuing our series on parish life here in the
0:30.4	United States on the back of America's brand new groundbreaking
0:34.2	documentary People of God how Catholic Parish life is changing in the United
0:37.9	States which you can watch now it's again America magazine
0:40.8	or work slash people of God and you can go back and listen to our other conversations
0:45.1	about parish life, which are also in your feed.
0:47.9	And I am joined again by Father Jim McDermott,
0:51.2	Sebastian Gomes, and my usual co-host, Ashley McKinless.
0:54.3	Welcome back to the podcast, everyone.
0:55.9	Thank you.
0:56.9	Sebastian, how does it feel to be carrying all of Jesuatical on your shoulders?
0:59.9	He'll be. Heavy lies the crown. I appreciate you more Ashley, you canless. You have to do this
1:10.0	with Zach every week? I know it's brutal. You guys are getting a glimpse. was that
1:15.0	was that every week? I know it's brutal. You guys are getting a glimpse into the suffering,
1:16.0	Sebastian. Sebastian, I'm wondering if you could introduce us to this last parish
1:20.0	that we haven't talked about yet in cutoff Louisiana.
1:23.0	Sure, so it was really important for us to go to a place that was in the south, first of all, because you might have noticed a trend that each of the four parishes that we visited are in different regions of the country.
1:34.1	So we went to one in the northeast in Boston.
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