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🗓️ 30 August 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Anyone can and should condemn the sins of the priests and cardinals that have been all over the news. The real challenge is to ask God what he is expecting us to do within this time, our time, in history. If he has created us to live in these difficult times for Catholics, he must be calling us to some great task to help bring renewal to his Church and individual souls.
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0:00.0 | How are your names? |
0:08.0 | My name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is a sentient presence. |
0:10.9 | So I had previously made a video, kind of a stream of consciousness length, at least a video |
0:16.4 | on the news that's come out of Pennsylvania. |
0:20.0 | My guess is that more and more states, more and more dioceses, more and more states are |
0:25.2 | opening up the, what they call a statute of limitations. |
0:28.2 | Maybe able to reach back further and further to see what kind of cases have existed. |
0:32.0 | This is another video on that and I apologize. |
0:34.9 | You might be getting enough of this. |
0:36.2 | Maybe you're getting too much, you're getting super discouraged and I apologize for |
0:40.2 | that, but it actually is what we need to do right now. |
0:43.2 | This is the work of our age. |
0:45.3 | It's become really clear that in 2002, the church took steps, right? |
0:50.5 | And if you work in a church, if you volunteer in a church, you know that from top to bottom, |
0:54.8 | all of our interactions with youth have completely changed from the clergy person to the lay |
1:00.4 | volunteer, top to bottom, front to back. |
1:02.8 | The whole thing is like our interactions with youth have changed to protect the youth, |
1:07.3 | right? |
1:08.3 | So that's reform, reform of the whole thing. |
1:09.6 | But I don't know if we got to the heart of it, which is real repentance. |
1:12.9 | You can have reform without real repentance. |
1:16.4 | And I think what's happening is with the grand jury in Pennsylvania, what the Lord is |
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