Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” There is something about the challenge of raising children in a world gone mad that is finally motivating the slow learners (some of them at least) to enter into a discussion beyond sports, romance novels and the latest social media fad. Anxiety, depression, self-harm, gender confusion and talk of suicide among teens is reaching pandemic levels. Join Jack and Tom Hampson as they reflect on the mess in the public school system and beyond. A mess tha...
May 08, 2023•34 min•Ep. 354
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Two consistent questions I get "What is CRT.?.. and once understood...but why would anyone seek to divide humanity?" Marxism claims that some groups and classes of human beings are good and others bad, so to perfect itself, humanity must isolate and eliminate the bad people. Solzhenitsyn came to realize instead that the dividing line between good and evil lies within every, single, individual human heart. Pope Benedict XVI wrote, “the fat...
May 06, 2023•45 min•Ep. 353
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” We are invited to a full and mature spontaneity in a relationship that is born from the perennial attraction of masculinity and femininity. The fruit of the discernment of the impulses of one's own heart! Join Linda and Jack as they discuss Audience #48 that Pope John Paul II presented on November 12, 1980. "Every day the power of " Man and Woman He Created Them, a Theology of the Body "...the great body of work that John Paul I...
May 03, 2023•32 min•Ep. 352
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The Italians have a beautiful expression for Love: ti voglio bene. Though commonly translated as "I love you," more literally it means "I want what is good for you." This phrase reminds us that love is not primarily about what good feelings may be stirring within. It is a decision of the will...to see the good in another and "ti voglio bene"...To want their good, to desire what is good for my beloved! Love and Responsi...
May 01, 2023•39 min•Ep. 351
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "We must face the difference between two philosophies of human nature which must be traced back to fundamental differences in their philosophy of God--anthropocentric humanism and theocentric humanism: theocentric humanism recognizes that God is the center of man; it implies the Christian conception of man, sinner and redeemed, and the Christian conception of grace and freedom. The second kind of humanism believes that man himself is the cente...
Apr 29, 2023•42 min•Ep. 350
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Eros, which according to Plato, is the impulse, or desire, of pure ideas that lifts the soul toward the transcendent...and all that is true, good and beautiful. In the Symposium, Plato describes the stages of ero's influence: it lifts the soul of a human being from the beauty of an individual body to that of all bodies, thus to the beauty of science, and finally to the Idea of Beauty itself. Join Linda and Jack as they discuss Audience #47 tha...
Apr 26, 2023•41 min•Ep. 349
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Many Young people, and many older people... have had the the experience of feeling they were in love with someone who at first seemed absolutely wonderful, only later to become greatly disappointed in the person, disillusioned about the relationship and perhaps even pessimistic about the opposite sex as a whole. John Paul II explains why this often happens to both men and women, and how we can avoid such disillusionment in the future. Love and Resp...
Apr 23, 2023•43 min•Ep. 348
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Is the Heart accused or called? Since Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, we find not simply skepticism...for they are surely the three great 'destroyers' of the Human Heart. Join Linda and Jack as they discuss Audience #46 that Pope John Paul II presented on October 29, 1980. "Every day the power of " Man and Woman He Created Them, a Theology of the Body "...the great body of work that John Paul II began to share almost as soon as...
Apr 19, 2023•36 min•Ep. 347
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” " I always knew I was different. I could never quite put my finger on it but I always knew that I was not like the other boys. I always felt disconnected from my same-sex peers like I somehow just didn’t belong. Today I am a forty-something east coast-dwelling, happily married father of three wonderful children. I am a public high school teacher and a lifelong Catholic Christian who is very active in the Church and passionately in love with Je...
Apr 17, 2023•42 min•Ep. 346
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Jay W. Richards, PhD, is Director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family and the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow in Religious Liberty and Civil Society at The Heritage Foundation. He is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute and Executive Editor of The Stream . Jay is author or editor of more than a dozen books, including the New York Times bestsellers Infiltrated (2013) and Indivisible (2012); The Human Ad...
Apr 14, 2023•34 min•Ep. 345
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The abortion pill and human remains to be used as fertilizer. We are spiritual being living in "disconnection". The Eucharist is the way to "Communion" Luke 24:13-35 Don't forget to sign up for our Newsletter!! JPll Renewal Center email list Subscribe to Jack's Substack Please consider being a Sponsor! "The future of humanity passes by way of the family"--John Paul II. Please send donations to support our wor...
Apr 13, 2023•22 min•Ep. 344
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "A man, eating lunch at a restaurant, notices an attractive woman at another table and is immediately drawn to her beauty. His heart stirs, and he finds himself wanting to see her again."--Ed Sri There is a solution to the pain and suffering we cause one another! Authentic love...and finally it comes down to "who man is to woman, and who woman is to man." Love and Responsibility is truly life transforming. John Paul II's vi...
Apr 12, 2023•42 min•Ep. 343
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Linda and I will resume our regular program next Wednesday beginning with Audience #46 "Man and Woman He Created Them, A Theology Of The Body" This Wednesdays Special Feature Will Be Love and Responsibility; The Attraction Of A Woman's Body. Love and Responsibility is truly life transforming. John Paul II's vision for love is so captivating that it will change the way you think about love, friendships and relationships as a whol...
Apr 11, 2023•3 min•Ep. 342
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "The controversy over transgenderism arose a few years ago seemingly out of nowhere. But when it did arise, it erupted like a cultural Mount St. Helens."--Thomas Hampson Read the entire article Here: "The Trans Quagmire--How We Got Here" Tom Hampson has been an investigator for over 50 years. As Chief investigator for the Illinois Crime Investigating Commission he directed an eight-year investigation into the sexual exploitation...
Apr 10, 2023•42 min•Ep. 341
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Pope John Paul II wrote, “Many problems darken the horizon of our time. We need but think of the urgent need to work for peace, to base relationships between peoples on solid premises of justice and solidarity, and to defend human life from conception to its natural end. And what should we say of the thousand inconsistencies of a “globalized” world where the weakest, the most powerless and the poorest appear to have so little hope! It is in this wo...
Apr 07, 2023•44 min•Ep. 340
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” What is wrong with Bill and Sally having sex outside of marriage if each person consents and each person derives some pleasure from it? In a culture of lust and use, where love has been reduced to a feeling or an emotion...or to the physical, sexual act...nothing. The problem? We are made for more, much more...and there are repercussions to this almost universal use of one another...lust for money, power and sex...we are more than a body, and in a ...
Apr 05, 2023•46 min•Ep. 339
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "But I know Satan's Masterpiece. That is, the thing he made to ape, attack, and pervert God's Creation, which he hates. As an arrogant, lofty spirit, he loathes our bodies . As a sexless, loveless rationalist, he's revolted by reproduction . As a metaphysical terrorist, he's addicted to rebellion. So the Enemy who strives to destroy us (as proxies for a God he cannot harm) fixes his steely gaze on our soft and vulnerable pa...
Apr 03, 2023•38 min•Ep. 338
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Love and Responsibility is truly life transforming. John Paul II's vision for love is so captivating that it will change the way you think about love, friendships and relationships as a whole! Book Referenced: Men, Women and the Mystery of Love by Edward Sri Practical insights from John Paul II's Love and Responsibility Don't forget to sign up for our Newsletter!! JPll Renewal Center email list Subscribe to Jack's Substack Pleas...
Mar 31, 2023•44 min•Ep. 337
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Author Kevin Wells joins Jack and shares a part of his incredible journey to the heart of Christ. For more info on the Sisters of Mary's work for the poor: worldvillages.org/poverty Or: priestandbeggar.com Or Burst: A Story of God's Grace When Life Falls Apart. "The way we serve is to have a constant crown of thorns." - Ven. Aloysius Schwartz Email Kevin Wells: [email protected] Don't forget to sign up for our Newsletter!!...
Mar 28, 2023•41 min•Ep. 336
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The CDC, Center for Disease Control, is sending out an LGBTQ inclusive self-assessment guide to all schools in the country. The agency wants to find out how committed schools are to providing a safe and inclusive environment for these students. I thought the CDC's mission was the control and prevention of disease? Link to Tom's Recent Article, Division 44 Join Jack and Tom Hampson from the Truth Alliance Foundation as they discuss Divisio...
Mar 24, 2023•42 min•Ep. 335
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” G.K. Chesterton said, "When a man stops believing in God, he doesn't believe in nothing, he believes anything." Jesus then said to the Jews who believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free" (Jn 8:31-32). Scripture References: John 12:27; 31-32 1 John 5:18-19 John 18:37 John 8:44 Cardinal Caffarra, address given at the fourth annual Ro...
Mar 21, 2023•35 min•Ep. 334
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world passes away, and the lust of it" (1John 2:26-17). and the lust of it...In a Friday tweet, Gov. Pritzker of Illinois declared he was "proud" to establish March 10 as "Abortion Provider Appreciation Day" in Illinois. Not to be outdone, president Joe Biden claimed Mon...
Mar 17, 2023•48 min•Ep. 333
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Our Regular Wednesday Show featuring Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body will resume after Lent. Please consider listening to my series with Father Ryan Browning on "Spiritual Warfare", based on St Ignatius and the Discernment of spirits. Beginning with Podcast # 14! Don't forget to sign up for our Newsletter!! JPll Renewal Center email list Subscribe to Jack's Substack Please consider being a Sponsor! "The future...
Mar 15, 2023•3 min•Ep. 332
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A man had a near death experience and in it had a vision of demons who were themselves surprised at how naive and gullible human beings are. They easily reject what is true, good and beautiful, and that they are created in the Image of God, while at the same time readily accept the lies and distortions told to them by mere men, no matter how false and outrageous they are! Don't forget to sign up for our Newsletter!! JPll Renewal Center email l...
Mar 14, 2023•28 min•Ep. 331
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The Culture of Death versus the Culture of Life. How to quickly know which side someone is on in a conversation or discussion. Love the sinner, hate the sin. The solution to the crisis of our time will not be found by looking out but by looking in! Don't forget to sign up for our Newsletter!! JPll Renewal Center email list Subscribe to Jack's Substack Please consider being a Sponsor! "The future of humanity passes by way of the famil...
Mar 10, 2023•30 min•Ep. 330
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Do I Look To Desire "A Body To Use, Or A Person To Love?" In answering this question two fundamental truths should be kept in mind: first, that man, men and women, are called to live in truth and love; and second, that everyone finds fulfillment through the sincere gift of self. Join Linda and Jack as they discuss Audience #45 that Pope John Paul II presented on October 22, 1980. "Every day the power of " Man and Woman He Create...
Mar 08, 2023•39 min•Ep. 329
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A Lenten Reflection: Our bodies are Theological. They were created to express love, to love as God loves. Our bodies, in fact our bodies alone, make visible the invisible, the spiritual and the divine. Don't forget to sign up for our Newsletter!! JPll Renewal Center email list Subscribe to Jack's Substack Please consider being a Sponsor! "The future of humanity passes by way of the family"--John Paul II. Please send donations to...
Mar 06, 2023•38 min•Ep. 328
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This battle begins and ends at the level of the human heart, your heart and my heart. What does it take to turn this situation around? In answering this question two fundamental truths should be kept in mind: first, that man, men and women, are called to live in truth and love; and second, that everyone finds fulfillment through the sincere gift of self. Join Linda and Jack as they discuss Audience #44 that Pope John Paul II presented on October 15...
Mar 01, 2023•34 min•Ep. 327
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "In this entire world there is not a more complete, more perfect image of God, Unity, and Community than marriage and the family." --Pope John Paul II Married couples, have you ever thought of your spousal union and family as the most completer, most perfect image of God in the entire world? Joining Jack today are authors Debbie and Dan Staresinic who have written a book that may be the most important little book that you have ever owned....
Feb 27, 2023•37 min•Ep. 326
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A rallying cry to stand up for the innocence and well-being of our children. They deserve a culture and a nation where they can flourish. Please read Pope John Paul II's "Letter to Families" This battle begins and ends at the level of the human heart, your heart and my heart. What does it take to turn this situation around? In answering this question two fundamental truths should be kept in mind: first, that man, men and women, are c...
Feb 24, 2023•41 min•Ep. 325
