Donald Wallenfang, OCDS, PhD, Emmanuel Mary of the Cross, is a Secular Discalced Carmelite, Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, and founder of myinteriorcastle.com a website featuring online mini-courses about Catholic theology, philosophy, and spirituality that you can take from home at your own pace! Wallenfang specializes in Catholic theology and philosophy, Carmelite spirituality, phenomenology and metaphysics. He teaches courses in philosophy, theology, lay ...
Mar 04, 2023•56 min
Ryan O'Hara is the host of Better Preach , a podcast for anyone who gives talks (Youth Ministers, Catechists, Priests and Deacons, Volunteers for Religious Ed, Missionaries on College Campuses) to Catholic audiences and wants to communicate more effectively. He also servers as the Marketing Strategist for Saint Paul’s Outreach an organization dedicated to building Catholic missional community, transforming a generation, on college campuses and beyond. We talk about communication, evangelization,...
Feb 18, 2023•56 min
Timothy P. O’Malley is the Director of Education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life , where he also serves as Academic Director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy . He teaches and researches at Notre Dame in the areas of liturgical-sacramental theology, catechesis, and aesthetics. He is a member of the executive planning team for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Eucharistic Revival. His new book, ‘Becoming Eucharistic People: The Hope and Promise of Parish Life’ , is published by A...
Feb 12, 2023•56 min
Simone Rizkallah is currently the Director of Program Growth for Endow Groups . She is also an Institute of Catholic Theology Fellow, a Witherspoon/John Jay Institute Fellow and an Acton Institute Fellow. She has led local chapters of the ecclesial movement of Communion and Liberation in Virginia and Arizona and the Washington, D.C. based non-profit organization In Defense of Christians. She is also a member of Women Speak For Themselves. As the daughter of immigrants from the Armenian Diaspora ...
Feb 05, 2023•56 min
Jordan Daniel Wood is a Catholic theologian and stay-at-home dad of four young daughters. He holds a PhD in Historical Theology from Boston College. His first book was published in 2022, The Whole Mystery of Christ: Creation as Incarnation in Maximus Confessor (University of Notre Dame Press) . He is currently translating Maximus’s Letters for Catholic University of America Press, and is co-translating F. W. J. Schelling’s Original Lectures on the Philosophy of Revelation , a project that recent...
Jan 14, 2023•56 min
Fr. Sean Hagerty, SJ, is the vocation promoter for the UEA Province. That means that Fr. Hagerty is responsible for accompanying men who are discerning a life in the Society of Jesus. He joined the Jesuits in 2012, after having served in the U.S. army. He has ministered in prisons, campus ministries and hospitals, and conducted research into just war, moral injury and the reintegration of soldiers into the Catholic community. He was just ordained a priest in 2022. We spoke with him about the pro...
Jan 07, 2023•56 min
Michael Lofton, host of the youtube channel Reason and Theology , joins us to continue our focus on the incarnation, providing us with an Eastern Catholic perspective. Listen and share!
Dec 31, 2022•56 min
Derek Rotty (derekrotty.com), joins us to talk about a recent series of pieces using art to meditate on the Incarnation. You can find The Art of Advent series at https://catholicexchange.com/author/derekrotty/ . Listen and share.
Dec 24, 2022•56 min
Joe Heschmeyer, staff apologist at Catholic Answers, joins us to talk about the mystery of the Incarnation.
Dec 18, 2022•56 min
Dr. Timothy Muldoon, pastoral theologian at Boston College and author of a number of books on Ignatian spirituality, the theology of the laity, and marriage and family, joins us to talk about his new book published through Orbis Books entitled How to Remake the World Neighborhood by Neighborhood. The book tells how Community Renewal International built a movement to heal racial tensions, create bonds of friendship, and cure the loneliness and depression that blights our communities in cities acr...
Dec 03, 2022•56 min
Allison Gingras joins us to talk about her new book on Ave Maria Press, Signs of Faith: My Unexpected Journey with Sacramentals, the Saints, and the Abundant Grace of God.
Nov 26, 2022•56 min
Dr. Leonard DeLorenzo, from the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame, joins us to talk about his new book Our Faithful Departed: Where They Are and Why It Matters available on Ave Maria Press . This book explores the Communion of Saints rooted in Catholic anthropology and incarnated through personal experiences. We talk about how to wrap our minds around this mystical communion and how to strengthen that communion through communal practices....
Nov 19, 2022•56 min
Dr. Marcellino D’Ambrosio ( “Dr. Italy” ), Co-founder and Director of The Crossroads Initiative , is the author of five books and hundreds of articles. In 2019, Dr. D’Ambrosio published the groundbreaking Bible study on the life of Jesus Christ filmed in the Holy Land, Jesus: The Way, the Truth, and the Life , presenting alongside Jeff Cavins and Dr. Edward Sri. In 2022, he became the co-author and co-presenter of What We Believe: The Beauty of the Catholic Faith , together with Dr. Andrew Swaff...
Nov 12, 2022•56 min
Matthew Benfield has had an eventful year. He was confirmed in the Catholic Church, completing a 10-year journey of faith, completed a consecration to the Sacred Heart, to Jesus through Mary, and runs a popular TikTok account ( TheologiaViatorum ). We talk about his conversion, the importance of living compassionately, and communicating the Gospel effectively.
Oct 29, 2022•56 min
In Living Beyond Sunday: Making Your Home a Holy Place, married couples Adam and Haylee Minihan and David and Pamela Niles share what has helped them make their homes a place of encounter with God–a place where saints are being made. This book goes beyond the aesthetic or surface-level attributes of a Catholic home. Beyond that, it shares how to foster holiness in all the little moments in Catholic family life.
Oct 24, 2022•56 min
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Oct 16, 2022•56 min
Dr. Mark Giszczak, Associate Professor of Sacred Scripture at the Augustine Institute , recently wrote the book “Bible Translation and the Making of the ESV Catholic Edition.” In this book, He covers the conversations that preceded the ESV project and the promulgation of the Vatican document on translation, Liturgiam authenticam (2001). The meeting of the minds represented by the ESV translation philosophy and the Vatican’s own translation norms is remarkable. Dr. Mark Giszczak specializes in Ol...
Oct 08, 2022•56 min
JonMarc Grodi, Executive Director of the Coming Home Network and Host of The Journey Home on EWTN, joins us to talk about the continual call to conversion that leads us to a life of Virtue. Patrons can access extra segments - Learn more and listen at https://www.patreon.com/posts/72900101 .
Oct 05, 2022•56 min
Fr. Patrick Mary Briscoe, OP was recently named the editor of Our Sunday Visitor , the weekly national Catholic newspaper found at OSVNEWS.COM. Father Patrick comes to OSV from the English edition of Aleteia.org, the global Catholic news and spirituality website, where he served as editor-in-chief. This spring, Father Patrick was nominated to serve as a Eucharistic Preacher, a work he has undertaken to support the USCCB-led National Eucharistic Revival, and along with his Dominican brothers, he ...
Sep 25, 2022•56 min
Paul Fahey, co-founder of Where Peter Is , has recently written a necessary and helpful article on r ecognizing and preventing spiritual abuse in the Catholic Church called "The Place Where you Stand is Holy Ground." This type of abuse is not often talked about, but leaves lasting scars, and is a major contributor to the "rise of the nones."
Sep 18, 2022•56 min
Have we been conditioned to act on our gut instinct, our first impression, or do we take the time to look beyond our primary instinct and to our second thought? So often Jesus saw beyond the immediately obvious and into underlying motivations. As scripture says, "man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks on the heart." Kristin Putnam and I discuss what it might look like to reconsider our polarized impulses and ponder situations and circumstances more deeply.
Sep 10, 2022•56 min
Rachel Bulman is a regular contributor to the Word on Fire blog, an author with two forthcoming books, and co-hosts the Youtube show “Meet the Bulmans” with her husband, Dcn Jason Bulman, who was recently ordained to the Diocese of Orlando. They join us on-air to talk about their practice of hospitality and their expression of vulnerability as a part of a lifestyle of evangelization.
Aug 28, 2022•56 min
Dr. Ann M. Garrido ( https://www.anngarrido.com/ ) is associate professor of homiletics at Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, Missouri, ( https://www.ai.edu/ ) where she previously directed the school’s Doctorate of Ministry in Preaching program. Garrido has served as the Marten Faculty Fellow in Homiletics at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of multiple books, including the award-winning Redeeming Administration, Redeeming Conflict, Let’s Talk About Truth , and the topic...
Aug 20, 2022•56 min
Sr. Alicia Torres, F.E. is on the Executive Team for the USCCB's National Eucharistic Revival. She joins us to talk about the initiative, and her own experience with Christ in the Eucharist.
Aug 14, 2022•56 min
Brett Salkeld is Archdiocesan Theologian for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Regina in Saskatchewan and is the co-host of the Thinking Faith podcast. His latest book, Transubstantiation: Theology, History, and Christian Unity , is available on Baker Academic Press. Today we talk about his Church Life Journal piece, Guilt, Responsibility, and Purgatory: How Traditional Catholic Teaching Can Help Us Think About Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations ....
Jul 31, 2022•56 min
Matt Regner is the Director of Liturgy and Evangelization at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Madison, Wisconsin. He recently wrote a thoughtful essay Parishioners Don't Belong at the Parish published in the Church Life Journal . We talked over several points from the article about the end goals of evangelization. Patreon supporters get an extra 19 minutes of conversation. Learn More ....
Jul 23, 2022•56 min
Casey Phillips is the director of Evangelization at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Lexington, KY, and the co-host of the podcast The BaptiCatholic Show . He joins us to talk about Evangelization in a Catholic context.
Jul 16, 2022•56 min
What picture pops into your head when you envision "the Church?" Whose faces are situated next to yours in the family portrait above God's mantle? The answer to this question has implications on how we live out our faith, practice evangelization, and make disciples. It's the fundamental question of "Who Belongs?" Fr. Josh Johnson joins us to discuss his new book, On Earth as It Is in Heaven: Restoring God’s Vision for Race and Discipleship. This book follows Fr. Josh’s journey of serving as the ...
Jul 09, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Michael Grasinski, President of Ruah Woods Institute , and Rob Stamper, Curriculum and Education Specialist, join us to talk about the Institute and their TOB Curriculum for Catholic Schools. We also discuss the nature of the TOB as a Christian Anthropology and key element of a Worldview that emphasizes the dignity of the human person. Patreon supporters get an extra 9 minutes of conversation as Michael and Rob share their initial encounter with the Theology of the Body. Learn more at https://ww...
Jun 25, 2022•56 min
Deacon Charles Beard joins us to talk about the Sacred Heart of Jesus, how we experience his love, and how that love urges us to live compassionately.
Jun 11, 2022•56 min
