When Leadership Fails, What Can the Faithful Do?

How can the Church be renewed from within? How do we faithfully follow our conscience while acting with prudence? Mike Gormley and Dave VanVickle explore how saints, popes, and everyday men and women—including themselves—have embraced the real work of the Kingdom, responding to the failures of Church leadership not with bitterness, but with holiness and give tips on how you can too!

Snippet from the Show

“The fact of the matter is that no matter the office, no matter the charism, holiness has always trumped everything when it comes to authority in the Church and so what I’d say is like, if you are frustrated with Church leadership, be holy. Be a saint!”

Shownotes

Quotes

“Be who you’re meant to be and you will set the world on fire.” - St. Catherine of Siena

“Holy Father, I say to you and all your brothers, be not cowards but men”- St. Catherine of Siena to Pope Gregory

“You cannot manage the Church out of a crisis.” - Pope Benedict

“Holy faithful confrontation and deep reverence can coexist.” - Mike Gormley

“We should never complain about the heirachy until we’ve fasted for them, until we’ve prayed for them, and until we’ve done some kind of penance for them because then we’re at least trying to come from a better place.” - Mike Gormley

How to Have Good, Holy, Healthy Conflict:

• Make sure your emotions don’t override the content that you mean to get across 
• Start with the heart, clarify your intention 
• Don’t use “always” and “never”
• State facts as neutrally as possible, then open up conversation to the other person, and then end with interpretation