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Episode 68 - Presenting a Pro-Life Message to a Pro-Choice World

7/29/2019

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Topics we discussed:​​
  • Steve Wagner's 10-second pro-life argument
  • Avoiding the abortion "double-bind"
  • Learning argumentative martial arts
  • Letting those who are pro-choice argue for the pro-life cause
  • The moral act and double effect
  • How to answer common pro-choice objections with charity​

Resources we mentioned: 
  • "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie 
  • "The Developing Human: Clinically Orientated Embryology" 7th Edition 
  • How to Win the Person Instead of the Argument by Joe Heschmeyer
  • "Maria Goretti Didn't Die for Her Virginity" by Simcha Fisher 
  • Undeniable Pro-Life Quotes from Norma McCorvey – the Woman Behind Roe v. Wade
  • The movie Joyeux Noël

​ Find Holy Family School of Faith:
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Episode 67 - Beating the Summer Noon Day Devil

7/22/2019

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Topics we discussed:​​
  • What acedia is
  • How we battle against the noon-day devil
  • Why acedia is rooted in an idolatry of ourselves
  • Working with our hands
  • Taking a cue from Christ and fighting the devil with Scripture 

Resources we mentioned: 
  • Daily Rosary Meditations with Holy Family School of Faith 
  • The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times by Dom Jean-Charles Nault
  • The Art of Manliness Podcast: The Quest for a Moral Life
  • Father Mike Schmitz's video on Acedia
  • St. Benedict Knew How to Beat the Blues by Elizabeth Scalia​​
  • Acedia and Me by Kathleen Norris
  • iBreviary app
  • Rebecca K. Renyold's poem about Psalm 23​

​ Find Holy Family School of Faith:
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Images mentioned in this episode:
  • L'Angélus by Jean-François Millet

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Episode 66 - What Draws Young Catholics to the Church

7/15/2019

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Topics we discussed:​​
  • Why young adults are Catholic
  • What draws young adults to Mass (both a particular Mass or a particular parish)
  • What young Catholics wish the powers that be knew or did differently 
  • What young Catholics think is being done well in the Church today
  • What recommendations young Catholics have for how to reach millennials and younger 

Resources we mentioned: 
  • Joe's Facebook thread asking young Catholics questions about their faith
  • Meg Hunter-Kilmer's mission as a Catholic hobo missionary 
  • Saint Benedict Joseph Labre
  • The USCCB's twitter thread asking millennials about their Catholic faith​
  • The Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration

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Episode 65 - Finding Hope Through Scandal: One Priest's Response to the Abuse Crisis

7/5/2019

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Having lived through the scandal as a newly-ordained priest, Fr. Joseph Scholten, a priest of the Diocese of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, offers a Christological perspective on the sexual abuse scandal from which the Catholic Church is still reeling. Along the way, he offers some good advice on how to deal with our own brokenness, and how to speak into the pain of those who have suffered from, or been scandalized by, abuse.

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