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Saint In Progress, Episode 26: Truth, Entertainment, and Spectacle
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Saint In Progress, Episode 26: Truth, Entertainment, and Spectacle

As a society, we are hurtling ever-faster toward wanting to be entertained at all points in time. But the celebration of the sacred liturgy is not something that should be entertaining.
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In this episode, Mike starts off talking about an episode of The UnBelievable with Dan Aykroyd that not just gets its facts horrendously wrong, but does so in a way that makes the Catholic Church look bad (in a subtle, passive-agressive sort of way.)

Then after talking about a statement that then-Fr. Robert Prevost (now Pope Leo XIV) made back in 2012 about how we can’t allow the liturgy to become spectacle, Mike breaks that open and gives real-life examples of what liturgy turned into spectacle looks like.


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