Catholic Unscripted 16. More Rupnik +abuse crisis belief & disbelief & What's holiness?
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- Опубликовано: 7 янв 2025
- With Mark Lambert, Katherine Bennett and Gavin Ashenden.
Mark Lambert is the author of a well-known Catholic blog at marklambert.blo...
He is a husband & father of five who studied Catholic Theology for five years. He has been published in the Catholic Press and has a huge network of Catholic friends across the world who keep him up on the pulse of Church affairs.
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Katherine Bennett
BA in theology. MA in political philosophy. PGCE secondary ed. commissioned as deanery mentor for evangelisation by Arch John Wilson 2022. Formation lead at St Boniface Parish. Catholic Voice public speaker.
Confirmation catechist. Former stand up comic
Blogger you tuber etc
Daughter. Wife. Mother. Step mother.
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Gavin Ashenden
ashenden.org
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Dear Gavin, and I use the word dear intentionally in that I feel a kinship with you and other fellow Catholics who travel on what often feels a long lonely walk in this secular world. The culture in which we live can be ugly and oppressive and I find welcome respite in watching certain Catholic videos. I find yours especially refreshing. You are doing important work for Our Lord and I thank you.
So many gems in here I lost count. "Limping to Mass"; "The worst Rosary you do is the one you don't do"; "Imago Dei" "I don't feel lonely anymore". Many thanks and God bless!
The importance of humor in the church: one of the delights here is learning English slang. I had to look up “telling a porkie pie.” You are all gems.
A fascinating and very uplifting conversation about holiness. As one up to my neck in the Anglican swamp this was like the sound of a rescue team reminding me not to despair. Thank you all.
Thank you so much. It’s great see and hear people who agree with me BUT who express it so much better than I possibly could.
It's a great help to know that we are all in this together!
With all this talk of Holiness, can I recommend a book I am half way through by Scott Hahn called "Holy is His Name". Wonderful. Great conversation. As has been noted, it's so nice to feel accompanied along the Way.
You three have such chemistry and intellect. I love these discussions. Each of you offers something unique and are capable of commentary which really edify us listeners. Keep it up and thank you!
Mother Teresa suffered from depression until her last few days on earth when her attitude and face radiated joy 😊
That was refreshingly positive & hopeful without being Pollyanna-esque. Well done.
The world is happy to judge Christinas by standards that it completely ignores for itself.
In a way, they are acknowledging the truth of the faith by expecting us to be better.
@@sandraelder1101 Yes indeed.
Thank you all again. Yes it can be quite lonely trying to be Catholic and raise a Catholic family at present. Your podcasts are an encouragement to keep plodding on.
Thanks for watching Brenton!
I too feel lonely in my quest to be Catholic and also appreciate your podcasts and writing. It is easy to confuse 'nice' with Christian.
I think the whole ‘Nice’ thing is a real problem
In the way it obscures what Christianity really is - I’m very pleased we can dilute the isolation a bit …
We are here with you Marian! God bless you!
I particularly identify with ‘limping’ to the sacraments & rosary to keep me going another day. Another great episode; these mean a lot to me.
As ever, Dr Ashenden, you 'hit the nail on the head'! As Benedict XVI said, the best proof of the Church is not to be found in apologetics but in the art and saints She has produced. As for sin, Christ's parables make it very clear that the Church will have both saints and sinners until the end of time. Chesterton once said you could leave your umbrella behind in any Protestant Church and get it back whereas in a Catholic Church is will be nicked. Why? Because the Catholic Church is the Church for sinners, which is why you find sinners there! The Church of saints and the Church for sinners - what more do you need? I also resonate with what you said about the unreliability of conscience. I must also be a psychological 'bread case'!
Jesus also upset the orthodoxies and expectations of his time. "The sabbath is made for man..."
CORRECT. THE APPETITES ARE CHANGED FROM WITHIN.
Thank you very much. Love your content, you clarify so much
13.00 Good point Katherine. I find this very helpful. Thank you.
Thank you so very much for your inspired sharing of the faith. I am a Catholic in the American South. You make me so proud to be part of the Mystical Body.
Thank you for this.
Grateful for your encouragement.
Hello?? That was 2 weeks ago ?? Im glued every week!! Where are ye ?? Theres so much to say !
As an Orthodox Christian, I have to say that there is no role for humour in the Church, or even in the life of a Christian. The Fathers say that Christ never laughed, even as a child, so neither should we. It is anathema to a sober mind. When St. Basil's sister reposed, at her funeral he said that her greatest virtue was not her lifelong virginity, or her compassion, but the fact that she never laughed.
Thank you for talking about 'leadership' generally: but about Christian leadership above all. I was, once, a member of the Church of England: and remember it at its best, with a local 'scholar-vicar', and Michael Ramsey down the road as Archbishop of Canterbury. The problem with Christian leadership today is not confined to the Roman Catholic Church, unfortunately: it is poor across the board in the Western Churches. Part of the problem is the 'career-clergy' who appear to select very few PETERs or PAULs (or MARYs!!); but many who follow the 'Gospel of Niceness': of being kind to everyone. That type of gospel did not get Jesus of Nazareth crucified: although it is an approach which will make you an acceptable member of White's Club. But how I wish you would not keep taking 'pops' at non-Roman Catholics, Gavin. CHRISTIANS are going to need to recognise one another if we are to confront the current trends, within and without, the Church. Just as the Nations have Governments which are the enemy of the people, so the Churches appear to have been infiltrated by enemies of Jesus of Nazareth. They try to dscourage Christians from learning about JESUS, and prefer to divert them into Identity Politics, and so forth.
Well done Gavin ...for not swearing . Now I will stop laughing and get on with watching and listening .
" The more you experience the holiness of God the greater the sense of contrast , between us and Him ." Such a good point to rase and perhaps also points to the question of do we really want to experience His holiness ? As well it clarifies why Satan and its minions are attacking Church and family .
Thank you !
Did i just here a catholic say the pope is not infallible? ( Gavin) Well as an orthodox welcome to the club!! But sadly we have a would be pope in the phanar,aka Bart.
As an orthodox if we must have a pope, please give me the successor to saint Peter and not a washed out byzantine bureaucracy in the phanar living of the sweat of orthodox believers in his patriarchy and generous wealthy donors in Greeceand USA and Erdogan and CIA. . And of the greek government.
Christians!
Gavin i am sorry. But mother maria of Paris +1945 Ravensbruck is of the LEVEL of Mother THERESSA and St Francis. As much as i love 99% of what u say and that is as a member of the Orthodox Church, that comment denying the outstanding holiness of a mother maria and a bishop Luke of Simferopol, as examples, by that blanket statement of , 'You cannot find this holiness anywhere else" ,i am hurt by deeply. DEEPLY HURT. !
And as you smugglrd bibles to USSR you would know i hoped.
I as an orthodox acknowledge and love the weatern saints including the munich prirst who died denying hitler etc. But sad you seem to deny orthodoxy any sainthood. I am deeply saddened.
Your defence of Rupnik debauchery is both lame and unconvincing. From what I've read this guy is more Alerster Crowley than Jesus Christ. Tell the truth and shame the devil, that's what I say.
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