Hello and welcome to Focus the Catholic Answers Podcast for Living Understanding and Defending

Your Catholic Faith. I'm Psy Kellet, your host. And the conditions of the world and the church

in recent decades have given us a whole lot of writing, some conversations through documentaries

and all the other media about what are we to do now as Catholics? There's this kind of a spirit

of what are we to do now? I think everyone from whatever part of those various spectrums they might

come from, they know that we can't do business in the 21st century the way we did in the 20th century

because something has changed, something has shifted. The ground is different that we walk on these

days. And I have to say I'm reading a book now called Confessions of a Catholic Worker and it

falls into that genre, I would say. We'll ask the author what he thinks of the what are we to do now

kind of reflection on the on Catholic life. But it's at the very head of that class, the very top

of that class, Dr. Larry Chap is its author. He's a retired professor of theology at to sales

university near Allentown in Pennsylvania. And he's famously a Catholic worker and you might see

him as his writing in the various Catholic media or occasionally I think secular media. Dr. Larry

Chap, thanks for being here with us. Hey, it's my pleasure. Thanks for having me. Am I right to

say that to place you in a genre, so to speak, of I'm thinking of, you know, even of the Benedict

option, for example, I'm not saying that was coming up with the same answer, but it's the same

question, which is what are we supposed to do now that this has happened and whatever the this is?

Yeah, I think it's very much sort of in that genre of a kind of a Benedict option type thing. I

have my, you know, small disagreements with Rod Dreyer and his approach in that book. But essentially

he's saying something very similar to what I'm saying in this book is that the nature of modern

culture does not allow us to simply drift anymore. It doesn't allow us to sort of status quo

Catholicism of let's just get along to get along to get along. That our culture is imposing a

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