The Crisis of Fatherhood
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
What do children most deeply long for from their fathers? Dr. Sri kicks off a 3-part series on fatherhood by discussing the crisis of fatherhood in our culture and explaining what true fatherhood looks like. Today, drawing from Scripture, Dr. Sri reveals how God the Father provides the perfect model of authentic fatherhood.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Ascension. |
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| 0:11.0 | Hi, I'm Edwards Three, and welcome to all things Catholic, where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:29.3 | Many years ago as a university professor, I did something with my class that I had never done before. I asked all my students to take an anonymous survey about fatherhood. I asked them |
| 0:35.4 | two simple questions. It was an anonymous survey. It said, |
| 0:38.1 | describe some things you appreciated about your father's involvement in your life. And then the |
| 0:43.0 | second question was, describe some things you wished your father did better in his relationship |
| 0:47.1 | with you. Just two simple, open-ended questions. Now, why did I do this? Well, I had been invited to go |
| 0:53.4 | give a talk at a Catholic parish on fatherhood, which I was honored to do. The only problem was, I was just a brand new dad at the time myself. I only had one kid, and she was under two years old. I didn't have much experience with fatherhood. I wanted to learn from the wisdom and experience of the dads I was speaking to. But I did some research and study |
| 1:11.5 | some church teachings on this. But then I had the idea that, well, I have students in my class |
| 1:16.1 | that are 18 to 24 years old every day and they've had the experience of fatherhood themselves. |
| 1:22.7 | And so I wanted to learn from them. And that's why I asked them those two basic questions. |
| 1:27.0 | What did you appreciate about your father's involvement in your life? And what do you wish your father might have |
| 1:32.7 | done differently? So I got all those surveys and put them in my briefcase and brought them home |
| 1:39.0 | and we had dinner and eventually put our baby down. And late at night, I remember going to my study |
| 1:43.1 | room to pull those surveys out to just take a glance at them. And late at night, I remember going to my study room to pull those surveys out |
| 1:44.7 | to just take a glance at them. |
| 1:47.0 | And I'll never forget that night. |
| 1:49.7 | I remember sitting in my rocking chair |
| 1:51.3 | and reading one after another. |
| 1:54.9 | And it was so devastating |
| 1:56.8 | to hear the heartache, |
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