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Crucify Him: What Palm Sunday Reveals About Our Choices (opens the original)
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Palm Sunday isn't just a reflection on the Passion of Christ—it's a challenge to our daily lives. As we walk through the readings, we’re confronted with the question: Do we really choose Jesus, or are we still shouting ‘Crucify Him’ every time we sin? In this raw reflection, TJ Haynes breaks down the Gospel reading like you’ve never heard before, calling out the uncomfortable truth that every time we sin, we reject Christ. It's not just about the crowd in the Gospel—it’s about us. How often do w
Catholics Falling Down a Rabbit Hole (opens the original)
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It’s easier than ever for Catholics to fall down a rabbit hole. It usually doesn’t start with something obviously false—it starts with a real concern, a confusing moment, or a question that deserves an answer. But when we stop approaching those questions with precision, humility, and the mind of the Church, we can slowly find ourselves following a trail of assumptions that leads somewhere very different from where we started. In this episode, I look at some real examples of Catholic rabbit holes
Prayer and the Divine Office (opens the original)
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It's time for prayer to return to the Catholic family, and individual Catholic life; especially in the discovery of the Divine Office Prayer is disappearing from Christian families. Pope Leo is putting his finger on a much bigger problem: modern life has conditioned us to expect immediate results, while the spiritual life simply doesn’t work that way. In this episode of FireBranded, I talk about why Catholics need to recover a real habit and lifestyle of prayer, what happens when prayer seems to
Do Catholics REALLY Want Good Catechesis? (opens the original)
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When catechesis challenges us, do we really want better catechesis in the Church, or do we prefer to call for silence and submission to our opinions? Catholics have spent decades blaming poor catechesis for the crisis in the Church. There's some truth to that. But what happens when clear Catholic teaching challenges those same Catholics to re-think what they think is true about Catholicism, the Church, or the history of Theology behind Catholic teaching? This episode examines that contradiction
The Real Crisis in the Catholic Church (opens the original)
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Catholics have heard the phrase “crisis in the Church” repeated so often that it has become a catchall explanation for nearly everything: weak preaching, poor catechesis, liturgical abuse, corrupt bishops, Vatican II, the Novus Ordo, and every controversy coming out of Rome. But what if those things are not the crisis itself? In this episode, T.J. Haines argues that the deeper crisis is a growing inability among Catholics to recognize, receive, and reason from truth. That loss has left many Cath
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