Jacob Phillips makes the case that obedience and freedom are not opposites, from Christ's death on the cross to the everyday experience of caring for a dying relative. He applies the same idea to assisted dying and the migration debate, arguing that Catholic teaching holds love of neighbour and love of country in tension rather than opposition.

Chapters:
0:00 Obedience Is Freedom: the central idea
1:29 Care as freedom: feeding a dying relative
2:49 Assisted dying and abortion
4:26 Tom Holland, progressivism and secularised Christianity
5:45 Benedict XVI and the Christian roots of the Enlightenment
6:31 Migration, love of neighbour and love of country
8:21 A Church too polarised to hold the balance
9:34 Loving your neighbour without losing your country

Watch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI4nxG3nA0E

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Host: Andrew Cusack
Guest: Jacob Phillips
Production Team: Arcadia Digital

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