We are living in a highly religious age. Secular gospels and dogmatic faiths promising salvation are all around us. So what is the belief system, the religious vision, that is displacing Christianity as the assumed narrative by which our post-Christian, modern societies live? And what is the religion that we ourselves need to be converted out of, if we are to be fully converted to the Christian faith?"It is possible to do many Catholic things, and yet not have a Catholic mind. This is especially true in our post-Christian age.It is to be expected. As the ideas that provide the grounding of a culture shift, many people will continue their usual religious practices even as, without noting it, their view of the world is subtly changing. This is not meant as a critique of any individual person. It is simply the dynamic of a time in which the Christian faith is being abandoned and replaced by another very different and quite potent way of viewing the world."Monsignor James Shea has served as the sixth president of the university since 2009. He is a Catholic priest of the Diocese of Bismarck, North Dakota.You can get the book here: https://www.ctsbooks.org/product/the-religion-of-the-day/(0:00) Opening Credits (0:25) Introduction by Dr Jonathan Reyes(21:39) Chapter 1: The Religion of the Day(36:38) Chapter 2: Twelve Aspects of Modern Progressive Religion(1:47:06) Chapter 3: Some Further Notes on Progressive, Neo-Gnostic Religion(2:14:13) Chapter 4: Catching All the Diseases of the World(3:14:56) Chapter 5: Fighting the Battle Inside the Church(4:01:30) Chapter 6: The Winning Stance(4:23:11) Conclusion: The Kingdom, the Tribulation and the Patient Endurance

Every human society possesses a moral and spiritual imaginative vision, a set of assumptions and ways of looking at things according to which life proceeds.

'From Christendom to Apostolic Mission' is an attempt to contribute effective strategies to engage our own time and culture once more with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and – for a weary world – to awaken the Catholic imaginative vision.Monsignor James Shea has served as the sixth president of the university since 2009. He is a Catholic priest of the Diocese of Bismarck, North Dakota."A compelling Christian narrative is called for, one that provides a counter to the secular vision, that helps Christians understand and fend off false gospels. There needs to be a re-articulation of the truth that can provide those who are languishing under the malnourishment of the modern spiritual diet a way out of their predicament."You can get the book here: https://www.ctsbooks.org/product/from-christendom-to-apostolic-mission/

(0:00) Opening Credits

(0:32) Preface

(3:57) Introduction

(13:01) 1 The Place of a Ruling Imaginative Vision in Human Cultures

(35:24) 2 Christendom and Apostolic: Advantages and Challenges

(56:35) 3 The Current Climate

(1:07:49) 4 Developing a Pastoral Strategy for this Transitional Time

(2:12:54) 5 The Key Task: Conversion of the Mind to a New Way of Seeing

(3:04:21) 6 Conclusion

When Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost became Pope in May 2025, he chose the name Leo XIV, echoing Pope Leo XIII, whose 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum laid the foundation of Catholic Social Teaching.

First published during the upheaval of the Industrial Revolution, Rerum Novarum addressed the struggles of workers, the threats to family life, and the dangers of both unregulated capitalism and socialist ideologies. It champions the dignity of the human person, just wages, private property, and religious freedom.

Reprinted and recorded as an audiobook in 2025 to mark the election of Pope Leo XIV, this landmark Church document speaks powerfully to today’s world of rapid economic and technological change.

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