Reflections on Change, Unresolved Topics, and Society's State

Welcome to Episode 181 of the Being Human Podcast: Harrison Butker’s Anger: Making Sense of Current Events

This week, we’re announcing our newest project: a live call-in show during which Dr. Greg Bottaro and Dr. Bryan Violette try to make sense of the latest news headlines. Among other news headlines, this episode includes a discussion of the football commencement speech heard round the world (Harrison Butker’s controversial graduation address at Benedictine College).

Discussed in this episode:

• The new live CatholicPsych Show 
• Harrison Butker’s commencement speech: the good, the not so great, and everything in between 
• Reactions from the public and media to Butker’s controversial statements
• Context for Butker’s comment about homemakers, marriage, and motherhood 
• Butker’s angry and ineffective chastisements against bishops vs helping a person in leadership affect change
• Butker’s immature and pejorative statement about Natural Family Planning as a form of birth control
• Butker’s narrow mentality about the Latin Mass
• The Latin Mass and reverence: Reverence has to do with the heart and with obedience, not in the externals.
• President Joe Biden’s poor witness causing tremendous confusion about what it means to be Catholic
• Misconfusions about the pro-life perspective

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