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The Catholic Church, its faith, culture, and history are explained clearly and simply for anyone curious about historic Catholicism. Faithful to the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
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Romans Road or Road to Rome? (#484) (opens the original)
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The Romans Road is the gospel many of us first learned: all have sinned, the wages of sin is death, Christ died for us, confess and believe, call on the Lord. Those verses are true. This episode asks why a handful of lines from Romans 3, 5, 6, and 10 should be the front door of the whole Bible, and why Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount so often has to be managed after the fact. Greg traces the habit from Luther’s claim that Romans is the “purest Gospel” through the revivalist “plan of salvation,” and t
The Catholic Bogeyman, Part 2: Responding with Love (#483) (opens the original)
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A myth does not want a conversation. It wants you on defense: ten charges in a minute, each one cheap to shout and expensive to answer. This episode is about refusing that game without refusing the person. Love runs both ways — toward the critic, and toward the Catholic who has been worn down by family, forwards, and the pressure to win dinner. You may walk away. You may pray and keep the relationship. You may live a life in Christ that the plot cannot cast as a dupe, and leave the rest to time
The Catholic Bogeyman, Part 1: A Myth, Not an Argument (#482) (opens the original)
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Anti-Catholic propaganda is not a pile of arguments waiting to be answered one by one. It is a story: a pure church, a theft, a long night, a remnant, a monster with a face. That story has kept the same shape for five hundred years. It works by emotion, not evidence. Once the plot is in place, facts become scenery and you cannot fact-check a myth. This episode is about recognizing that narrative for what it is. The next episode is about how to respond. SUPPORT THIS SHOW Considering Catholicism i
Ed the Candidate, Part 2 (#481) (opens the original)
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In the second conversation, Ed turns from his own story to the people who write in every week and say they are exactly where he was two or three years ago. He talks about the things that actually help: treating your relationship with God as the most important thing in your life, finding a few trustworthy voices and ignoring the rest, asking yourself honestly what is holding you back (usually authority or the demand that every last question be answered first), and accepting that the process takes
Ed the Candidate, Part 1 (#480) (opens the original)
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Ed is no longer just considering. After four-plus years of conversations on this show, he is now a candidate in the mid-year OCIA cohort at our parish and will enter the Church on the Feast of Christ the King. Sitting at the secret compound (earth-movers optional), he talks about what it actually feels like to walk into Sunday Mass as a newbie: the missed genuflection, the missed missal, the Laurel-and-Hardy choreography in the back pew, and the sudden realization that Catholic liturgy demands a
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