Episodes
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Stephen White: Behold the sin
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Monday Nov 27, 2023
"It's one thing to be lost and know you're lost," said Stephen P. White the Executive Director of The Catholic Project in his newest article about faith and public life called Behold the Sin. "But many people today don't even recognize they are lost and need to heal."
Since 2019, Stephen has led The Catholic University of America's response to the clergy abuse crisis, focusing on the collaboration of clergy and the laity. He served as executive producer for the award-winning podcast, Crisis: Clergy Abuse in the Catholic Church.
For over a decade, Mr. White has been a fellow in Catholic Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC. His work focuses on the intersections of faith, politics, and culture, frequently applying Catholic social teaching to contemporary issues. Mr. White is the author of Red, White, Blue, and Catholic (Liguori Publications, 2016) and writes a bi-monthly column for The Catholic Thing.
Learn more about the Ethics & Public Policy Center at https://eppc.org
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Kristen Van Uden: Catholic fight against communism
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Monday Nov 20, 2023
"For over half of the twentieth century, across nearly half the globe, the Catholic Faith was repressed, restricted, or outright illegal," reports Kristen Van Uden in her upcoming book When the Sickle Swings. "From secret Masses in the prisons of Cuba, to clandestine clergy in the catacombs of Bratislava, to showdowns with Soviet tanks on the streets of Brno, Catholics resisted communist persecution in every way they could. Like their ancestors before them, they risked it all for their Faith. Kristen is the editor of Catholic Exchange and author spokesperson at Sophia Institute Press. Her first book, When the Sickle Swings: Stories of Catholics Who Survived Communist Oppression, will be available from Sophia Institute Press on November 21, 2023. She has been featured on a wide range of media platforms including Coast to Coast AM, First Things, and Sensus Fidelium. Book information, original articles, and links to interviews can be found at her Substack, On the Wheel.
Pre-order Kristen's new book at https://sophiainstitute.com/product/when-the-sickle-swings/
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Carrie Gress: The feminism fallacy
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Monday Nov 13, 2023
"It is time for honest women to recognize that feminism has not been the boon for women that it has been presented as. To be sure, there have been many advances under feminism, such as laws against sex and pregnancy discrimination, custody laws for mothers and many social and economic opportunities, says Carrie Gress, mother, author, philosopher and teacher. "But to focus on these genuine improvements is to overlook the irreparable harm feminism has done to legions of women."
Carrie is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a Scholar at the Institute for Human Ecology at Catholic University of America. She has a doctorate in philosophy from the Catholic University of America and is the editor at the online women’s magazine Theology of Home, and she is a frequent radio and podcast guest and has appeared on Fox, BBC, CBC, EWTN, OAN, and Russia Times television. She is the author of Nudging Conversions , Ultimate Makeover, The Marian Option, and Marian Consecration for Children, The Anti-Mary Exposed and Theology of Home. Her most recent book, The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Destroyed Us, is the focus of this podcast.
Follow her at http://www.carriegress.com
Monday Nov 06, 2023
David Bonagura: The beauty of St. Jerome
Monday Nov 06, 2023
Monday Nov 06, 2023
“St. Jerome is best known for compiling the Latin edition of the Bible, called the Vulgate, and rightly so,” said David G. Bonagura, Jr., an adjunct professor of classical languages at St. Joseph's Seminary, New York, and adjunct professor of theology at Catholic Distance University. He serves as Religion Editor of The University Bookman, the flagship publication of the Russell Kirk Center. He is the 2023-2024 Cardinal Newman Society Fellow for Eucharistic Education. “He is also known for a famous quotation: ‘Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.’ But there is more to St. Jerome than this. We have 123 of his letters, written in a style equivalent to the modern essay, on a variety of topics. His letters of consolation stand out as some of the greatest examples of Latin prose and of pastoral care." The book contains seven letters written by St. Jerome from the years 389–412. In addition to translating the letters, Mr. Bonagura wrote an extended introduction to St. Jerome’s life, work, and thought. He also wrote a brief paragraph before each letter identifying the deceased, the bereaved, and the context.
Learn more about Mr. Bonagura's new book from Sophia Institute Press at Jerome’s Tears: Letters to Friends in Mourning and find out more about Mr. Bonagura at https://www.davidgbonagurajr.com
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Dom Cingoranelli: Focusing on God’s Will
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Monday Oct 30, 2023
"In this day and age, there is a great deal of focus on affirmation, which can be great. But we're not called to provide affirmation to the error in someone's ways," says Dom Cingoranelli, who recently wrote an article for the Catholic Stand called "The Advantage of An Outward Focus." Dom is a Benedictine-educated cradle Catholic—a revert to the faith—and an Oblate of St. Benedict. Recently retired from consulting to management in the CPA profession and elsewhere, he and his wife of 45+ years attempt to live according to the three pillars of Church authority--Scripture, Tradition and the Magisterium. Dom encourages everyone to live with an outward focus, making God’s will and others’ needs the targets of your attention. God wants to use each of us for His greater glory where we’re at, now, in the moment. This requires us to look up and out- up to God, and out, for our neighbor.
Read the full article and others at: https://catholicstand.com/the-advantage-of-an-outward-focus/
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Sister Mary Josefa: Brides of Christ
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Monday Oct 23, 2023
"We hope this book will be helpful not only the young girls who have this aspiration to religious life, but also to their families to take away some of the misconceptions about religious life," said Sister Mary Josefa of the Eucharist about the new book that she and the sisters of her community recently wrote called Brides of Christ (Sophia Institute Press, 2023). Sister Mary Josefa of the Eucharist is a Benedictine nun in Missouri. Their new book invites the reader into the rhythms of their contemplative life through the course of the day and cycle of the year. "It is a very joyful, a very interior way of life, a very close union with God."
To learn more, visit:
- The Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles website
- The new book, Brides of Christ, from Sophia Institute Press
Monday Oct 16, 2023
Alec Torres: Saint Strength
Monday Oct 16, 2023
Monday Oct 16, 2023
"Saints did not respond to the evil around them, the negativity around them, the sin around them with anger or with anything less than love," says Alec Torres is the co-founder and president of Allo-graph, a writing communications, and design firm. Alec has written for some of the most prominent leaders in the world—including President Donald Trump and Kevin McCarthy. Through years in the public and private sectors, he has penned op-eds that appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Reuters, ABC, CNN, RealClearPolitics, National Review and more. "The Saints really did live out Christ's call to love their enemies and to pray for those who persecuted them."
You can find his new book Persecuted from Within: How the Saints Endured Crises in the Church on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, and Sophia Institute Press.
Monday Oct 09, 2023
John Martignoni: Blue Collar Apologetics
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Monday Oct 09, 2023
"Most of us know what we believe as Catholics, but often we're unclear on why we believe it," says EWTN's John Martignoni. In his new book Blue Collar Apologetics: How To Explain and Defend Catholic Teaching Using Common Sense, Simple Logic, and the Bible. "At a time when vast numbers of Catholics are slipping away from the Faith, God has tasked you and countless other Catholics with understanding it so you will be prepared to defend it."
Martignoni was born Catholic but didn't learn the faith growing up. He was a so-called cafeteria Catholic for a couple of years until getting hold of Scott Hahn’s “Conversion Story” talk and delving deeply into apologetics. He's the director of the Office of the New Evangelization; Diocese of Birmingham; founder and president of Queen of Heaven Catholic Radio; 1480 AM in Birmingham; founder and president of the Bible Christian Society. He also hosts “EWTN Open Line”, a live, nationally-telecast, call-in radio program on Bible apologetics.
Follow John at https://www.biblechristiansociety.com and buy his new book at https://sophiainstitute.com/product/blue-collar-apologetics/
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Patrick Flynn: The best Argument for God
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Monday Oct 02, 2023
"When the medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas addressed the best arguments against God in his masterwork, the Summa Theologica, he listed only two. The first was the problem of evil: How can God — who is perfectly good — exist alongside that which is against Him? His second: Is God really needed to explain the world?" asks Patrick Flynn, author of The Best Argument for God, his newest book. Flynn is a re-converted Catholic, philosopher, writer, musician, fitness and martial arts enthusiast and husband and father of five living in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
In this landmark work, Flynn presents the best arguments for God while also addressing the strongest objections. He evaluates whether it’s simpler to believe in God or not, and he provides numerous arguments from philosophy, science and plain common sense. Additionally, you will discover how even the traditionally held attributes of God point to His existence.
Flynn blogs at Chroniclesofstrength.substack.com and hosts the Philosophy for the People podcast with Dr. Jim Madden.
Monday Sep 25, 2023
Bear Woznick: 12 Rules for Manliness
Monday Sep 25, 2023
Monday Sep 25, 2023
"Deep in every man's heart is a call to live the heroic way, to champion a cause greater than himself," writes Bear Woznick in his new book 12 Rules for Manliness: Where Have All the Cowboys Gone. "The everyday hero goes beyond the ordinary in the little moments of his life and rides high in the saddle as he achieves his principles and dreams."
In 12 Rules for Manliness, adventurer Bear lays out a plan to help men learn how to develop a proper personal creed, and then define themselves by the hardships they endure in pursuit of that mission. Bear is a World Champion surfer, certified ninja black belt and sought after speaker. He is the host of The Bear Woznick Adventure radio program and EWTN's motorcycle based immersive reality-show series, Long Ride Home with Bear Woznick. A Benedictine oblate, Bear is the author of several books including A Surfer's Guide to the Soul, Deep Adventure—The Way of Heroic Virtue, and 12 Rules for Manliness: Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? published by Sophia Press. Learn more about "Bear's Man Cave" and "Bear's School of Manliness" at DeepAdventure.com.