Why the Roman Catholic Church? | Prof. Paige Hochschild

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🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Professor Paige Hochschild discusses the necessity of the Roman Catholic Church, emphasizing its divine origin, the importance of community and unity, and how it serves as a dwelling place for God's majesty through prayer, liturgy, and sacraments.

This lecture was given on November 15, 2022, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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About the speaker: Dr. Paige Hochschild is a professor of historical and systematic theology at Mount St. Mary's University (MD), specializing in Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and the early Church. She also teaches philosophy courses at the Seminary at Mount St. Mary's. She has written a book on the place of memory in Augustine's theological anthropology, and publishes on the Church, education, tradition, 20th c. theological debates within the Church (Scripture, history; marriage).

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0:39.2	these recordings with your friends because it matters what you think. All right, so why the church?
0:55.0	And I had some conversation with Pia and that was really helpful.
0:58.0	And he had some of his own very interesting questions.
1:01.0	I am actually going to start by reading a prayer.
1:04.0	Here, I'm going to go to pray. I'll read it to you.
1:07.0	And part of the reason I'm doing this is that this prayer on your handout is from morning prayer from last Wednesday, which was the Feast of St. John Lateran.
1:16.9	And as I read it, it just seemed to me that it embodied everything I want to talk about, especially in the first half of the paper.
1:24.3	So, all right.
1:26.2	Oh, God, who from living and chosen stones prepare an eternal
1:30.3	dwelling for your majesty, increase in your church the spirit of grace you have bestowed,
1:36.0	so that by new growth your faithful people may build up to heavenly Jerusalem through our Lord Jesus Christ,
1:41.6	your son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, forever and never. Amen.
1:47.4	Okay, so it's often observed that having a major feast day about a building is kind of weird,
1:52.6	because usually feast days are at celebrations are about people and things that people have done.
1:57.7	Have any of you been to Rome?
2:00.1	I'll stop.
2:01.0	Best one in my area. Did you go to St. I'll stop. Best one with my hair you.
2:01.9	Do you go to St. John Lateran?
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