The Beauty and Challenge of Being Catholic - Hearing the Faithful

On Being with Krista Tippett

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🗓️ 1 May 2008

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We received hundreds of essays in response to our query about what anchors and unsettles our Catholic audience. So we asked some of you to speak about your tradition. The moving reflections we heard prompted us to depart from our usual format and bring you a fabric of voices from the Church itself.

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0:00.0	I'm Christa Tippett, today the beauty and challenge of being Catholic.
0:10.8	We break form at this hour to listen to lay Catholic voices on the force of this vast
0:15.9	and ancient tradition on their lives, the way they struggle with it, the sources of their
0:20.8	love for it.
0:22.4	Even to be a lapsed Catholic, we hear, is a complex state of being.
0:27.4	I don't anticipate going back to the Catholic Church, but I will always love what my mother
0:32.1	told me the Church was about, justice and love, and the courage of intelligence and conscience
0:38.8	in the face of conventional wisdom.
0:41.1	The Catholic Church does have such an amazing grasp on something beautiful about the human
0:46.7	being.
0:47.7	It's the fact that I love it so much that I fight it so much maybe.
0:53.1	This is speaking of faith, stay with us.
1:00.2	This public radio podcast is supported by the Fetzer Institute as part of its campaign
1:04.8	for love and forgiveness online at loveandforgive.org.
1:09.0	I'm Christa Tippett.
1:10.8	This hour, a departure from our usual format.
1:14.6	After Pope Benedict's visit to the US was announced, we invited Catholic listeners to reflect
1:20.0	on the state of Roman Catholicism as seen through their eyes.
1:24.2	We ask them, what do you take solace in and find beautiful about this faith?
1:29.6	What anchors and unsettles you in and beyond current headlines about the Church?
1:35.0	What hopes, questions and concerns are on your mind as you ponder the state of the
1:39.8	Church and its future?
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