Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Cancer's podcast for living, understanding, and defending

your Catholic faith.

I'm Sy Kelly, your host, and today we talk a bit about the parish.

There's lots of concern about what we should be doing as Catholics in the world today.

Podcasts like this are one answer.

We got radio shows, we got TV shows, we got programs and processes coming out our ears.

But the vast majority of Catholic life, the vast majority of what we do as Christian

people is in and through the parish, the parish is central, it's the heart of all of it.

So why are we not talking about the parish?

As a matter of fact, if we get parish life right, maybe we get the whole of Christian

life right, and that is a beautiful presentation to make to the world.

Our guest this time is JD Flynn.

JD is one of the founders of, and today one of the proprietors of the pillar at pillarcatholic.com.

JD, thanks for being with us.

Hey, Sy, thanks for having me, and before we talk about the parish, since we're on the

show here, I just want to sort of tear down the fourth wall a little bit.

That was Sy's, if you're listening to the show or watching the show, I guess, that was

Sy's third take doing that, and it's my fault.

I was sitting in a way that didn't work for the camera, and then I was sort of slouching

in a way that didn't work for the, so Sy had to keep doing it over and over again.

Can I just say that I think your third take was the best take?

I mean, I really...

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