Joe interviews former seminarian Marco Cassanova on the many conversions he experienced, including exiting the hookup culture. Today, Marco helps others along the path to an integrated Faith through Desert Stream Ministries.  Show Notes: Desert Stream Ministries  cath_pod_131.mp3 File Size: 132258 kb File Type: mp3 Download File ..read more

MaryGrace Straub shares her experience of two conversions: a FOCUS conference and reading Genesis with new eyes. The people, experiences, and advice that led MaryGrace to Jesus are all here, along with host Jennie Punswick, today on The Catholic Podcast. Show Notes: Holy Family School of Faith FOCUS the_catholic_podcast_-_ep_130.mp3 File Size: 120147 kb File Type: mp3 Download File ..read more

We take a break from our Lenten series of conversion stories to have a conversation about friendship, and welcome the newest member of the CathPod team. Shownotes: School of Faith Rosary Meditation, Jesus Through Friendship Lovegood Music the_catholic_podcast_-_ep_129.mp3 File Size: 105788 kb File Type: mp3 Download File ..read more

How a simple Christian witness and the power of the Eucharist led John Leyendecker from being a teenaged alcoholic and drug dealer to a Catholic missionary. Show Notes: John's FOCUS witness (before his beard grew in) John's witness on The Journey Home with Marcus Grodi the_catholic_podcast_-_ep_128.mp3 File Size: 38983 kb File Type: mp3 Download File ..read more

How can you learn to love the Bible more this Lent? And what does it mean that a Catholic Bible podcast (The Bible in a Year podcast) been one of the most popular podcasts in America this year? To answer those questions, Joe spoke with Jeff Cavins, the brain behind the Great Adventure Bible Timeline and Great Adventure Bible, which helped to give rise to the Bible in a Year Podcast. Show Notes: Bible in a Year PodcastGreat Adventure Catholic BibleThe Bible Timeline the_catholic_podcast_-_ep_127.mp3 File Size: 26417 kb File Type: mp3 Download File ..read more

What makes Catholic education distinct? Helping us to answer this question is Father Nick Blaha. We discuss the topic of Catholic education and the role that students, teachers, and parents play in succesful, and unsuccesful Catholic education. ​Show notes: CHRIST THE KING CATHOLIC SCHOOL Faculty Formation - Holy Family School of Faith The Catholic School on the Threshold of the Third Millennium the_catholic_podcast_-_ep_126.mp3 File Size: 116661 kb File Type: mp3 Download File ..read more

More than ever (particularly now, with fears about COVID), we live in an age of disposable everything. What does that view of the environment, and the world around us, do to our view of other people? In today’s episode, Joe and Jennie talk about the idea of “human ecology,” the link between the pro-life movement and a healthy view of environmentalism. ​Show notes: John Paul II, Centesimus Annus Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate the_catholic_podcast_-_ep_125.mp3 File Size: 32815 kb File Type: mp3 Download File ..read more

St. Thomas Aquinas is famously brilliant, and famously holy. How can we become a little bit more like him? (And what does he have to say about raising teenagers?) Show notes: Thomas Aquinas, Puer Iesus St. Thomas Aquinas’ 4 Ways to Grow in Wisdom: Part 1 (Shameless Popery) St. Thomas Aquinas’ 4 Ways to Grow in Wisdom: Part 2 (Shameless Popery) the_catholic_podcast_-_ep_124.mp3 File Size: 42641 kb File Type: mp3 Download File ..read more

For much of the Church's history, St. Joseph was largely ignored. These days, he's the second most-cited Saint (after his wife) in the papal Magisterium, and Pope Francis recently declared this the Year for St. Joseph. So what's the big deal about St. Joseph, and what can we learn from him? Pope Francis, Patris Corde episode_123.wav File Size: 232877 kb File Type: wav Download File ..read more

Show Notes: Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth, Vol. 3: The Infancy Narratives Blessing of Chalk "God, King, Sacrifice: The Gifts of the Magi" (Shameless Popery)"The Logic of Revelation" (Shameless Popery) episode_122.mp3 File Size: 29820 kb File Type: mp3 Download File ..read more