Episode Details

*We almost kept them all to Ten Minutes. *

• Luke: The Question of Scrupulosity
• Gomer Communication after 10 years of Marriage
• Joe: Dating Fast (how's your mom's car?)
• Betsy: Chernobyl show and any new (non-FIRE) Podcasts
• Mora: Catholics in the Public Square vs The Benedict Option
• When is Justice Appeased in Identity Politics
• Gomer: Fr. Morris leaves the priesthood
• Gomer: and is Puching McCarrick in the Face true justice?

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• For the Catholic Suffering from Scruples — Scrupulosity might look foolish or even funny to outsiders, but for people gripped in its claws, it's hellish. I mean that literally: it feels like we are locked away from God and His love. Scrupulosity is a coil of fear, doubt, guilt, and despair.
• Ten Commandments for the Scrupulous — Below is a guide for folks who have this condition. It was written first by a Redemptorist priest, Father Don Miller, some thirty years ago, and has been amended by Father Thomas Santa. I hope it helps you if you're torturing yourself with thoughts rooted in scrupulosity.
• About Scrupulous Anonymous - Scrupulous Anonymous — Since 1964, a very important part of the mission of the Redemptorists and Liguori Publications is ministering to those afflicted with scrupulosity, a religious form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). We do this by publishing Scrupulous Anonymous Newsletter. Some people may be troubled about past sins, others agonize about problems of obedience and purity, and many worry about sin where there is no sin. Their fear and anxiety prevent them from making decisions lest they be wrong ones.
• Why I Wish Jonathan Morris Had Remained a Priest — Why I Wish Jonathan Morris Had Remained a Priest COMMENTARY: There are burdens, often undeserved, that accompany every path in life. The priesthood is no exception, and the burdens of our life are not without blessings.
• Dealing with Scruples - Catholicism.org — “A scruple is then an exaggerated, unreasonable fear of sinning where there is in reality no sin. This groundless fear of sinning causes doubt and trouble of mind. The scrupulous person becomes a prey to continual fear of sin, past, present and future, in the most innocuous circumstances. He is afflicted with endless doubt and mental anguish, causing a confusion of his judgment with regard to what is lawful and what is forbidden, between what is trivial and what is serious. His morbid fear of doing wrong only obscures his judgment and multiplies his doubts, and these in turn increase his fear, so that he comes to take alarm from quite insignificant and unreasonable motives.”
• Why Conservatives Struggle with Identity Politics | National Affairs — In this quasi-religio