When We Get it Wrong

when it comes to our faith

This week on the Raised Catholic podcast, we’re exploring the idea of wrongness when it comes to what we believe about maybe the most important topic there is - how we view God and the nature of our lives. This is big stuff, and if you were born and raised Catholic, you have certainly heard from a family member or priest about the ‘one true church’ or the heresies that ‘others’ are perpetrating in other denominations, faiths, or even across the pew from ‘us’. We cradle Catholics can experience quite a lot of fear about ‘straying’ or ‘cafeteria Catholicism’ or questioning what we were taught even as far back as childhood.

But the likelihood that any church or any one human has it 100% right when it comes to an all-knowing, eternal, invisible God and how that God works and the best ways for us to practice our faith is —- kind of statistically impossible, right? As Christians, opening ourselves in humility to questioning what we believe and why, and what we do and how our actions line up with the teachings of Jesus can be kind of scary, I know. But the alternative which many Catholics are subscribing to these days, is to take a stalwart, unyielding, critical and defiant culture-warring Catholicism that we hear preached either in person or online, and to just let that brand of Catholicism drive.

But letting someone else’s wholesale view of God and faith drive the car of our one wild and precious life may be the most dangerous thing we can do.

Listen to Raised Catholic episode 180: When We Get it Wrong on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, and then come on back here to the comments to chat about a belief or faith practice you’ve been considering lately. I’ll see you there.