​In a culture that chases power and pleasure, a culture that embraces relativism, just how are students supposed to stay Catholic during college?  

Topics we discussed:

• The challenges facing college students today,
• Relativism
• How students can connect to their campus centers and form intentional friendships,
• How college students are called to both evangelize and be aware that their environment effects them
• What steps students can take to actively discern their vocation,
• What parents, grandparents, and friends can do to help support the faith of their college students

Resources we mentioned:

• ​​Prayer and Action in the Salina Diocese
• ​​Fellowship Of Catholic University Students ​
• Statistics about the reality of when people leave the Catholic Church​
• Catholic Answers​​
• Catholic Answers Live App​​

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Find Father Gale Hammerschmit 
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• On Facebook​
• Listen to Father Gale's weekly homilies

​Let's talk about a permanent, indestructible sign left by Mary showing the proof of the Gospel. 

Show Notes ​​​​

​Topics we discussed:

• The history of the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe,
• The details of the image that appears on the tilma,
• The conversion of Mexico after the apparition of Our Lady
• How the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe makes the incarnation physically present
• The connection of Our Lady of Guadalupe to the Holy Spirit 

Resources we mentioned:

• Our Lady of Guadalupe
• The special role of the Virgin Mary in the history of the Americas
• Celebrating Lepanto in the Age of ISIS
• Viva Cristo Rey!
• What To Do After You Consecrate Yourself to Mary
• 'Rosarium Virginis Mariae' written by Saint Pope John Paul II
• The Marian Prayer of Saint Ildephonsus of Spain

Images mentioned in this episode: 

Find Dr. Mike Scherschlig, STD, and Holy Family School of Faith:
• Online

If you go to Siena, you can see the head of Saint Catherine. In Rome, you can visit the foot of Mary Magdalene in a church. What is going on here? 

Topics we discussed:

• Just what is a relic,
• Relics in Scripture and the early Church,
• Relics and Theology of the Body,
• Relics to make a pilgrimage to go see
• Accusations against the credibility of relics of the true cross

Resources we mentioned:

• The etymology of the word 'relic' 
• Catechism of the Catholic Church paragraphs 1674-1676
• What Scriptures Says About Using Relics 
  
• Holy Land pilgrims share heart-stopping moment
• Letters from Saint Ambrose
• Augustine's Confessions and the reality of relics in the early Catholic Church
• Saint Cyril of Jerusalem on the relics of the true cross
• Myth: A ship could be built from the relics of the True Cross
• The Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in Clyde, Missouri 
• Rome and Relics​
• The Stories of These Relics of the Crucifixion Will Blow You Away

Find Holy Family School of Faith:

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