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Back to SearchWhy Is the Eucharist So Important to Catholics? (#44)
Episode 44
In the first of a series of lessons on the Eucharist, Greg explains why it's such big deal to Catholics when it's only a medium-sized deal to Protest…
3 years, 9 months ago
Making the Eucharist Matter Again (#40)
Episode 40
The bishops of America are deeply concerned that too few Catholics understand, believe in, or take the Eucharist in a "coherent" way. And so, they ha…
3 years, 9 months ago
Book Club: A Tale of Two Priests (#41)
Episode 41
Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory and Shusaku Endo's Silence both tell the story of a persecuted Catholic priest forced to choose between marty…
3 years, 9 months ago
What Does it Mean to ”Be Catholic?” (#42)
Episode 42
Who is, or isn't, "Catholic?" What do you have to believe or do to "be Catholic?" What about people who don't or won't do those things? Are they stil…
3 years, 10 months ago
More Protestant Questions About the Pope: Can He Just Make Stuff Up? (#39)
Episode 39
In Episode 32, I answered Ed's question, "Why do Catholics have a pope?" But we kept going, and covered the everything from whether the pope can make…
3 years, 10 months ago
A Protestant Asks, ”Why Do Catholics Have a Pope?” (#38)
Episode 38
Ed asked why Catholics have a pope, which seems crazy to them. I gave him an answer that most "cradle Catholics" wouldn't typically give.
3 years, 10 months ago
Book Club: Is ’The Lord of the Rings’ the Greatest Catholic Story of the 20th Century? (#37)
Episode 37
Some argue that the novels of JRR Tolkien, particularly his 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy, are the greatest Catholic novels of the 20th Century. Genera…
3 years, 10 months ago
Welcome to ”Book Club!” What Makes a Story ”Catholic?” (#36)
Episode 36
We're launching a new recurring feature on the podcast: "Book Club." In this first installment, Cory and I talk about what, exactly, makes a story "C…
3 years, 10 months ago
A Protestant Asks About the Virgin Mary (#35)
Episode 35
My Protestant friend Ed finally got around to asking me about the biggest problem that Protestants have with Catholicism: the Virgin Mary.
3 years, 10 months ago
A Culture of Life? Or a Culture of Death? (#33)
Episode 33
I was asked to speak at a conference just a few days after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the Dobbs decision. Here's what I said.
3 years, 10 months ago