APACT: 2021/07/14 - Catholics Coping With The Fact That The Church Has Left Us

This week on A Podcast About Catholic Things, Eric (The Ambassador of Common Sense) and Dan (The Ambassador of Nonsense) discuss problematic and sometimes scary actions of the bishops in America (psst--Bishop Callahan vs Father James Altman). There have been problems with bishops before, but the unprecedented situation we find ourselves in is that the Bishop of Rome is now one of them… and his power in the church is absolute. So what do we Catholics do? Where do we turn, when the bishops won't give us the sacraments? Where is Catholics turn in the past, like during the persecution of Elizabeth I and The Church Of England?

In current events, Hungary is facing opposition for its anti-gay laws. American troops being bombed as Taliban slowly takes back Afghanistan. Tokyo to ban observers during Olympics. Biden signs a 72 point executive order that probably won't do what it proposes. Confederate statues come down in Charlottesville. Thousands of Cubans take to the streets and American Cubans want action from Biden. Richard Branson makes it to space--neat but not quite practical. Fire in a Covid isolation ward caused by exploding oxygen???

In the Land of Nonsense, kids don't know about TMI. Federal judge blocks warning signs on bathrooms. A python bites another python. A naked woman found wedged between two buildings.

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