Episode 60: Living the Life A Catholic Supplemental: An Interview with Thomas Daly

11/29/2019

In today's episode we interview a genuine lapsed Catholic to learn about the religious life of a normal person in the modern Catholic Church. This is methodologically problematic, but we are going for a flavor not like gospel truth.

Andrew had fun editing this one, here's the songs playing in the background:

"For You" - Zeeky Beats
"Sunsets" Aso
"Happiness" - CrazyJazz
"Return" - Mingu5
"Your Favorite Place" - Joey Pecoraro
"Out For A Walk" - Mingu5
"Waves" - Matt Quentin
"Dreams" - Joakim Karud
"ill never know _ green tea" - nymano

I am hoping these are all under some kind of creative commons license and I'm not gonna get sued. Anyone who wants to sue me can reach me at pankaceplace@gmail.com

2 Comments

Marian

2/1/2020 03:20:34 am

Really interesting, Thomas's experiences differ quite greatly from my own experiences growing up catholic in a catholic part of Germany in some points but are really similar in others.
For example, there is no sunday school here, religious lessons are a part of regular school (despite supposedly seperation of state and church) but there will be special courses for first communion and confirmation but those are like for a year each not your entire youth. The big party with envelopes of money is first communion here, confirmation is much simpler, you have a sponsor (can be a parent though) but get no special name (you got one at your christening already).
Here there is normally just one weekday mass (mostly on wednesday) which is quite short, there are some churches in bigger cities that have more weekday masses but not your small town church. Confession is nearly no longer practised here, only very few very devout or very old people go and sourly 99% of people in mass on sunday reciving communion haven't been to confession that week. Lately sunday masses aren't that full anymore even in little villages, too, this Christmas (one of two times a year i go to church to please my parents) was the first time there were free seats left and nobody standing. People are leaving the Church in droves here.

Ben

2/7/2020 08:06:14 am

Wow that's interesting. I didn't realize that southern German STILL did the Catholic classes thing, though Travis Dow has talked about it in his shows. People not going to confession seems wild to me, given its central place in Catholicism historically. Also, I would think that if you are going to go to masses and stuff, confession would be the thing that feels best? Like if you are a believer getting personally forgiven by God would seem to be really comforting. But, outsider perspective.

The fact that people are leaving in drives is pretty similar across most religions rn, for better or worse.

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