This podcast is late, late, late, and we are sorry, sorry, sorry. The blame falls solely on my (Emily’s) shoulders. I have had the most insane conflagration of deadlines and events the past two weeks, and that, combined with the normal work of mothering three small children and running a household, pretty much broke me. So, mea culpa, mea cupla, mea maxima culpa. As my penance I will unlock an essay I wrote a couple years back on parish switching and post it below.

All that being said, here is the much overdue latest episode, where we discuss the merits of parish shopping—why you might want to do it or not want to do it, when you should do leave when you should stay, and how we have all made those decisions over the years. If you are a canon lawyer, we ask that you kindly skip this episode, because we probably made about a dozen canonical errors regarding the nature of parishes and our obligations, and you will not be able to handle our lack of precisions. But hopefully nobody else is listening to us for canonically precise definitions of parishes. That’s what The Pillar is for!

Show Notes:

:A Faith Like Honey: On Parish Switching, Liturgical Living, and Helping Children Become Disciples” by Emily Stimpson Chapman

The Catholic Table by Emily Stimpson Chapman

The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher

Building the Benedict Option: A Guide to Gathering Two or Three in His Name

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