In John 6, Jesus says, "Did I not choose you twelve? Yet is not one of you a devil?" What can we learn this Lent from looking at the apostle Judas? 

Topics Discussed:

• Judas priests, 
• The danger of clericalism, 
• Shame, 
• We're more than the sum of our weakness 
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Resources We Mentioned:

• 4 Things We Can Learn from the Apostle Judas​
• The Love of Jesus for Judas
• Brene Brown at TED2012: Listening Shame
• The Litany of Humility
• Outside the Walls with Timothy Putnam 
• St. Maximilian Kolbe on Serious Sin from The Catholic Gentleman
• Here Are 5 Reasons I Hate Confession (But Still Go Anyway)
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The apostles run away, but Mary stands at the foot of the cross. Why? Because she is a warrior - but a warrior of weakness. 

Topics Discussed:

• The Passion and the Joyful Mysteries, 
• The Wedding Feast at Cana, 
• Mary as the New Eve, 
• The Virgin Womb and the Virgin Tomb, 
• Mary at the Cross 

Articles We Mentioned:

• ​The Gifts of the Magi
• Does Jesus Rebuke His Mother at the Wedding of Cana?
• Mary, the New Eve
• Early Church Fathers on Mary as the New Eve
• The Virgin Tomb of Christ
• The Spirituality of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the Little Flower
• Why I Absolutely Love Saint Therese of Lisieux
  
  

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If you walk into an ordinary Catholic parish, you'd get the feeling that things are going well for the Catholic church in America. And they're just not. The numbers show that they're not. And that sense of complacency is a big part of the problem. This episode of The Catholic Podcast discusses how bad it is in the Catholic Church today, and how we can change things with the New Evangelization.

Topics Discussed:

• How bad is it for the Catholic Church in America? 
• Why are people leaving the Catholic Church? 
• How can we change things? 
• What is the New Evangelization, and what does that mean for our lives as Catholics?  

Articles We Mentioned:

• ​Pew survey: Percentage of US Catholics drops and Catholicism is losing members faster than any denomination
• Key findings about American Catholics
• Half of U.S. adults raised Catholic have left the church at some point
• Leaving Catholicism
• The number of U.S. Catholics has grown, so why are there fewer parishes?

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