Lord Help My Unbelief: Doubts or Difficulties?

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Do you find yourself struggling with certain Catholic moral teachings or doctrines sometimes? Today, Dr. Sri explains the difference between doubting and turning to God with our difficulties accepting everything the Catholic Church teaches. Using examples from the Gospel, he offers us practical tips to help us entrust our questions to God with great faith.

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“Doubt is trusting our own intellect more than the revelation of God.”
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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life.
0:10.0	Do you have a friend or family member that has a lot of difficulties with the
0:16.6	Catholic faith? They just find some things just really hard to believe they've got
0:20.2	a lot of questions. Maybe it's about doctrine, maybe they have questions about
0:23.8	Mary or purgatory or confession and oftentimes a lot of people today have questions
0:29.2	about moral issues. Do your friends or family members that wonder, why does the church teach this
0:33.6	on these moral issues here? I hear a lot of questions, especially around sexuality.
0:38.1	You know, people all say things like, you know, what's the big deal? We love each
0:42.0	other, we're married, we just don't feel like we can have another child right now so contraception
0:47.0	What's wrong with artificial birth control or maybe it's the other end they They really want to have a child.
0:52.8	We've been longing to have a child.
0:54.0	We've been trying and trying and trying.
0:55.5	It's been so hard.
0:56.8	Surely God wants us to have a child.
0:59.0	So what's wrong with in vitro fertilization? I hear a lot of questions, especially today about
1:05.2	homosexuality. So many questions around that. You know people saying things like, you know,
1:09.7	I wouldn't live like that, but if they want to live that way and they really love each other they should
1:13.7	express their love however they want they should be able to have marriage you know however
1:17.4	they want you know why does the Catholic Church have to say that homosexual acts are wrong and people have questions about this.
1:25.0	Sometimes the biggest questions aren't about doctrine or moral teaching.
1:30.0	It's just questions that come up in our own life and our own walk with God. It's personal
1:35.5	Maybe things happen. We experience some suffering our world turns upside down and we're wondering
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