When Leadership Fails, What Can the Faithful Do?

Every Knee Shall Bow (Your Catholic Evangelization Podcast)

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4.9 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

How can the Church be renewed from within? How do we faithfully follow our conscience while acting with prudence? Mike Gormley and Dave VanVickle explore how saints, popes, and everyday men and women—including themselves—have embraced the real work of the Kingdom, responding to the failures of Church leadership not with bitterness, but with holiness and give tips on how you can too!

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“The fact of the matter is that no matter the office, no matter the charism, holiness has always trumped everything when it comes to authority in the Church and so what I’d say is like, if you are frustrated with Church leadership, be holy. Be a saint!”

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0:00.0	The fact of the matter is that no matter the office, no matter the charism, holiness has always
0:05.5	trumped everything when it comes to authority in the church.
0:09.3	And so what I would say is like if you are frustrated with church leadership, be holy,
0:14.0	be a saint. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to every knee shall bow your weekly Catholic podcast on evangelization and discipleship.
0:32.9	My name is Mike Gomer Gormley, and I am joined today by Dave the angry model Van Vickle.
0:41.0	You look so angry when you were flexing just there.
0:43.3	Really?
0:44.1	Yeah.
0:44.8	You were like making a grimacing face.
0:47.0	Oh.
0:47.6	The model part is weird to me.
0:49.8	I mean, I look like Shrek.
0:53.5	You do look like Shrek. You look like Shrek's You do look like Shrek.
0:55.3	You look like Shrek's dad who's seen some things.
0:58.4	Yeah, exactly.
1:00.6	Honestly, I like to describe myself more like
1:03.2	Beast from Beauty and the Beast,
1:04.7	but then I'll never turn into the Prince.
1:06.8	I have a giant library.
1:09.1	I'm very grumpy.
1:10.5	I don't like people around, but I would like that special someone.
1:18.3	Can I tell you a funny story about Shrek?
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