Life as a married Catholic priest and why most preaching is terrible

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🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Father Joshua Whitfield is a priest of the Diocese of Dallas and the author of The Crisis of Bad Preaching. He’s also a married man and a father of six. This week, Father Joshua joins Ashley and Zac to talk about his vocation as a husband, father and father, why most Catholic homilies are just plain awful and why he still has hope for the upcoming synod on synodality. Ashley and Zac also discuss a recent semi-secret gathering of bishops, theologians and journalists and whether or not God still speaks to us in our dreams. Links from the Show: Register to join Ashley, Zac and Father Eric in Italy this September Not many Catholics care about the synod. But I’m not ready to give up on it yet. Father Josh: A married Catholic priest in a celibate world Bishops have frank conversations with lay theologians about Pope Francis, U.S. Church and Vatican II in semi-off-the-record meeting The Crisis of Bad Preaching Join Jesuitical in Italy! Wondrium special offer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Fordham University is sponsoring an online panel titled Taking Responsibility.
0:05.6	Jesuit educational institutions confront the causes and legacy of clergy sexual abuse.
0:11.6	The panel will take place Thursday April 21st from 530 to 7.30 p.m.
0:16.6	Eastern. Speakers are Karen Terry of John J. College. Gerard McLone, S.J. and Paul Eli of Georgetown, Don Afredis, and Maka Black Elk of Red Cloud Indian
0:27.6	School. Learn more and register for a Zoom link at Fordham. edu slash taking responsibility panel. Hello and welcome to Jesuitical, a podcast by the Young Hip and Lay editors of
0:50.9	American Media. That lay part means we aren't Jesuits, but we work with them.
0:54.9	Join us each week for a smart Catholic take
0:57.0	on faith, culture, in the news.
0:58.5	Often over drinks.
0:59.6	I'm Ashley McKinless, and I'm joined by Zach Davis.
1:02.1	Good to be with you, Ashley, and welcome to the home stretch of Lent, which we're rolling into this weekend.
1:07.0	Yeah, how you feeling?
1:09.0	Pretty good. Holy week is one of my favorite liturgical weeks of the year so I'm pretty psyched actually for all the various liturgies going on.
1:17.4	Yeah, how about you? Our colleague Jim McDermott who we've had on the pod before, wrote this article called,
1:23.8	Feel Like You're failing at Lent?
1:25.5	Maybe that's the point, and I took great heart in that.
1:28.6	So you do feel like you're failing at?
1:30.4	Yeah.
1:30.8	I guess I have less consternation about it probably than you do.
1:33.6	I know that, yeah.
1:35.6	But almost there.
1:36.7	Almost there.
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