Why Does Suffering Exist?

Every Knee Shall Bow (Your Catholic Evangelization Podcast)

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4.9 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

How can a loving God allow suffering to exist? This question may be one of the most asked questions about Christianity. Michael Gormley and Dave VanVickle begin a new series on the Problem of Pain where they respond to this question. They begin by discussing why suffering exists, why God allows it to exist, and where God is at in our suffering.

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Suffering becomes transformed in the cross and resurrection. It becomes something that purifies and refines us so that we can draw closer to our Lord and grow our compassion and humility.

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0:00.0	suffering becomes transformed in the cross and resurrection, both of them, into something that is
0:06.5	salvific.
0:28.7	Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, every knee shall bow, your weekly Catholic podcast on evangelization and discipleship.
0:37.3	My name is Mike Gomer Gormley, and I'm joined today, as always, by my friend, my compatriot, Dave, the Snowman Van Vickle.
0:37.9	How are you doing, Dave?
0:38.9	I'm okay.
0:40.3	The snowman, I hate it.
0:43.3	It is a winter wonderland out here.
0:45.5	How do you deal with the snow?
0:46.6	I know you hate it.
0:47.6	You've said it many times.
0:49.1	Yeah, I mean, I avoid it like the play.
0:56.4	Like, I, um, it's interesting because we're going to talk about the problem of pain and that I like I'm I just avoid it as much as possible.
0:59.8	So do you know that I only have.
1:01.4	Okay, I'm going to count for you.
1:03.7	I'm going to reveal something to this to our audience.
1:05.7	Do you that I only have four pairs of pants?
1:06.6	Okay.
1:07.7	In the world.
1:09.0	Like that's it.
1:15.0	Two of those are suits, are suits, you suits you know yeah dress pants so and then two are dress pants so like i don't i don't have like like i if i'm out i'm in shorts so if you have a pair
1:21.0	of jeans you've already cut them to be mid thighs so that your quads can show. No, actually, that's so funny.
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