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Father Stephen Gadberry

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#194 Father Stephen Gadberry - The Unconventional Priest

Are they taking kneelers out? Some are. You know, what's really cool is, like, there's a resurgence in those. Part of—there was a—one of the unfortunate things about Second Vatican Council is there were some people who were out there who took it and just did what they wanted to with it. They interpreted it the way that they wanted to, so they stripped their churches, like,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#194 Father Stephen Gadberry - The Unconventional Priest

Are they taking kneelers out? Some are. You know, what's really cool is, like, there's a resurgence in those. Part of—there was a—one of the unfortunate things about Second Vatican Council is there were some people who were out there who took it and just did what they wanted to with it. They interpreted it the way that they wanted to, so they stripped their churches, like,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#194 Father Stephen Gadberry - The Unconventional Priest

Are they taking kneelers out? Some are. You know, what's really cool is, like, there's a resurgence in those. Part of—there was a—one of the unfortunate things about Second Vatican Council is there were some people who were out there who took it and just did what they wanted to with it. They interpreted it the way that they wanted to, so they stripped their churches, like,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#194 Father Stephen Gadberry - The Unconventional Priest

got rid of all these traditions, like the nailers, for example, bad or music or art, took terrible liberties to interpret the stuff the way they wanted to interpret it. And it went to an extreme. So what we're seeing now is like, so for example, the liturgies,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#194 Father Stephen Gadberry - The Unconventional Priest

got rid of all these traditions, like the nailers, for example, bad or music or art, took terrible liberties to interpret the stuff the way they wanted to interpret it. And it went to an extreme. So what we're seeing now is like, so for example, the liturgies,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#194 Father Stephen Gadberry - The Unconventional Priest

got rid of all these traditions, like the nailers, for example, bad or music or art, took terrible liberties to interpret the stuff the way they wanted to interpret it. And it went to an extreme. So what we're seeing now is like, so for example, the liturgies,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#194 Father Stephen Gadberry - The Unconventional Priest

It was just like, take the kneelers out, take the sacredness out of it, and make it more like a social gathering, is how a lot of people responded to it. What we're seeing now, though, is more people are coming back to those traditions of saying, there is a social element, but it's got to be a sacred moment.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#194 Father Stephen Gadberry - The Unconventional Priest

It was just like, take the kneelers out, take the sacredness out of it, and make it more like a social gathering, is how a lot of people responded to it. What we're seeing now, though, is more people are coming back to those traditions of saying, there is a social element, but it's got to be a sacred moment.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#194 Father Stephen Gadberry - The Unconventional Priest

It was just like, take the kneelers out, take the sacredness out of it, and make it more like a social gathering, is how a lot of people responded to it. What we're seeing now, though, is more people are coming back to those traditions of saying, there is a social element, but it's got to be a sacred moment.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#194 Father Stephen Gadberry - The Unconventional Priest

If we want to hang out and just listen to fun music, we can put on iTunes or something, or Spotify, or we can go to a concert, we can go out to a restaurant, go to Pizza Hut or something. But if we want to encounter God, there has to be a sacred element. So people are putting the kneelers back in, bringing sacred music back.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#194 Father Stephen Gadberry - The Unconventional Priest

If we want to hang out and just listen to fun music, we can put on iTunes or something, or Spotify, or we can go to a concert, we can go out to a restaurant, go to Pizza Hut or something. But if we want to encounter God, there has to be a sacred element. So people are putting the kneelers back in, bringing sacred music back.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#194 Father Stephen Gadberry - The Unconventional Priest

If we want to hang out and just listen to fun music, we can put on iTunes or something, or Spotify, or we can go to a concert, we can go out to a restaurant, go to Pizza Hut or something. But if we want to encounter God, there has to be a sacred element. So people are putting the kneelers back in, bringing sacred music back.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#194 Father Stephen Gadberry - The Unconventional Priest

Get rid of that. Well, that would be some of the priests or the bishops that— They were just doing what they wanted and not following the tradition. So they weren't doing what the church was teaching in those moments. It was just disobedience. There's really no other answer to it other than that. They weren't doing what they were told to do.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#194 Father Stephen Gadberry - The Unconventional Priest

Get rid of that. Well, that would be some of the priests or the bishops that— They were just doing what they wanted and not following the tradition. So they weren't doing what the church was teaching in those moments. It was just disobedience. There's really no other answer to it other than that. They weren't doing what they were told to do.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#194 Father Stephen Gadberry - The Unconventional Priest

Get rid of that. Well, that would be some of the priests or the bishops that— They were just doing what they wanted and not following the tradition. So they weren't doing what the church was teaching in those moments. It was just disobedience. There's really no other answer to it other than that. They weren't doing what they were told to do.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#194 Father Stephen Gadberry - The Unconventional Priest

I think so. I think so. I mean, we're all sinners. We're all broken people. Some people are intentionally... Some people, well, all of us mess up. Some people are, like, intentionally acting badly, you know, against those. I don't have a lot of experience, you know, with that. You know, let me back up a little. So, like, I was in Rome for four years. I was at the Vatican all the time.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#194 Father Stephen Gadberry - The Unconventional Priest

I think so. I think so. I mean, we're all sinners. We're all broken people. Some people are intentionally... Some people, well, all of us mess up. Some people are, like, intentionally acting badly, you know, against those. I don't have a lot of experience, you know, with that. You know, let me back up a little. So, like, I was in Rome for four years. I was at the Vatican all the time.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#194 Father Stephen Gadberry - The Unconventional Priest

I think so. I think so. I mean, we're all sinners. We're all broken people. Some people are intentionally... Some people, well, all of us mess up. Some people are, like, intentionally acting badly, you know, against those. I don't have a lot of experience, you know, with that. You know, let me back up a little. So, like, I was in Rome for four years. I was at the Vatican all the time.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#194 Father Stephen Gadberry - The Unconventional Priest

Got to meet the Pope a number of times, a bunch of cardinals and bishops from all over the world and stuff. So, like, I know a lot of people in power. And I've never met anyone that's, like,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#194 Father Stephen Gadberry - The Unconventional Priest

Got to meet the Pope a number of times, a bunch of cardinals and bishops from all over the world and stuff. So, like, I know a lot of people in power. And I've never met anyone that's, like,