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\n \n \n The boys are back at it again, just the two of them. Gomer reminisces on chopped n skrewed music and Hans Urs von Balthasar. Luke wonders what happens after we get sick of the anti-hero.
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Luke is gone, but Gomer has a great chat with Sara Alexander of Anchor Well Mental Health Services in Sugar Land, TX.
\n\nThe two talk about wellness, post-partum depression, and WEIRD parenting. Stay tuned to find out what that acronym stands for. Enjoy!
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The Shannon Gormley stops by to chat with Luke. Gomer is also there, but it's easy to forget that in this one.
\n\nThe guys and Shannon discuss Franciscan, Facebook mom groups, introversion, and Luke new bald head, among other things. Enjoy!
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On the list of topics today: Band of Brothers, Durable Trades, The New Polity Conference, and, of course, roofing.
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Luke is buzzed and the guys take 30 minutes to start Ten Minute Topics. Everything old is new again. In fairness, Luke is celebrating a new job.
\n\nQuestions discussed today include beige Catholicism, getting started in Catholic media, and whether it's impolite to ask your husband not to get fat.
\n\nEnjoy!
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The guys talk about Gomer's new roofing job and the value of honest work.
\n\nIn other job news, Luke has a new job! And - like the good old days - he cannot (yet) talk about who he's working for.
\n\nAlso discussed: human agency, scummy roofing companies, and the movie BlackBerry. Enjoy!
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The boys are back! Catching Foxes never says die.
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The guys are back in the studio discussing Steubenville. Some things don't change. We love you, Steubenville Conferences!
\n\nAlso included: Atomic Habits, Noelle Gross, divorce, Cincinatti, and the inability to do push-ups as a 41-year-old man.
\n\nEnjoy!
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It's a little meta, admittedly, but it's still a good chat. Luckily, the Star Wars prequels still get mentioned. The guys chat about deconstruction, profiting from Christianity as a brand, and why you can't show your children Raiders of the Lost Ark too early in life (they'll hate it).
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Several Taylor's come up as topics alongside the Oscars, business books, and why we have to remember the human beneath the arguments we don't like.
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No Gomer this week. We switched him out for someone interesting, though!
\n\nAnthony D'Ambrosio, the writer and director of Triumph of the Heart, stops by the podcast to talk about the movie and the value of art.
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Is YouTube Shorts making us worse people? Why aren't content sites designed with the user in mind anymore? How is Tim Allen doing these days? All these questions, and more, get answered on this week's episode.
\n\nOkay the Tim Allen part is a lie, we still aren't sure how he's doing. If you know him, tell him we want him on the podcast.
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Luke and Gomer are back at it again talking about TV shows and movies. Included on the docket this week: Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Band of Brothers, Breaking Bad, and more!
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First, the Twitter Argument.
\nSecond, 3 things we are looking forward to in the next year.
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I was lucky to interview Jacob Imam about the merger between higher education and Catholic social justice principles, especially on the dignity of non-exploitative work and of the trades. Jacob lives in Steubenville, Ohio with his wife and kids and works at New Polity. He and Michael Sullivan launched the now approved College of St. Joseph the Worker.
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Mrs. Ruvi stops by the show to talk with Luke about life, Five Iron Frenzy, liturgy, and her many podcasts. We aren't stopping the show, we promise. Probably.
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Things don't need you to judge them. Luke and Gomer discuss not having an opinion on everything, nihilism, Bishop Strickland (for the sweet, sweet download numbers), and how Luke's obsession with boygenius might just make him a secret Gen Z.
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Even if you haven't seen the newest season of Loki, you'll enjoy this episode. Loki, T.S. Eliot, and God of War all make appearances in this one. Enjoy!
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We talk about a lot of things but stumble into the Israel-Hamas conflict when Luke brings up WTF with marc maron on his comments. We talk about how theological diagrams won't save us, how philosophy can console us when theology cannot, and how to be human.
\n\nAlso, Minnie was on the Move in the Carey Apartment and cockroaches the size of my head were on the move at the Gomer Classical Academy.
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Luke and Gomer discuss whether ministry will ever pay a just wage, Marian receptivity, beauty in the grotesque, and all manner of worldy smart-sounding topics. Only one f-bomb was dropped this episode, so keep your ears open for it.
\n\nThe ratio of pay to workload in ministry is the scariest thing this year. Happy Halloween!
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Luke and Gomer discuss the nature of sin and how it's structurally isolating. The guys get quite real on this one, hence the two hour episode, so get comfortable before listening.
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It's episode 400! And it went up late...some things never change.
\n\nAmanda, the Ministry of Agency Herself, shows up this week. She's a fellow Steubie U (wink, nudge) graduate, and it's sure to be a good time.
\n\nFor centuries, many men and women have left everything to give their lives to contemplation. FREE is a journey into the inner self of man. We have obtained permission to enter and talk to people who rarely utter a word, in places that remain closed to the world: THE MONASTERIES.
\n\nWhat leads a person to strip himself of the world he knows, to withdraw from it for the rest of his life? How does such a person think? FREE approaches great questions of man's existence, with only one objective: to listen to them.
\n\nGo see FREE on Thursday, Nov 2! Check out the trailer below and the website linked below to buy your ticket.
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There's only so much Fr. David Hust to go around, so it's back to just Luke and Gomer. They talk Catholic schools (again), creativity and ADHD, and how nonprofits can learn from the for-profit sector.
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Fr. David Hust joins Luke and Gomer this week to reminisce about college (obviously) and discuss the state of the modern Church. Strap in, it's a long one!
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It's a classic Catching Foxes episode this week, so strap in. Gomer finds a productivity religion, Luke already found one, apparently, and they both get mad about mediocre Catholic schools. Enjoy!
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Riverside wasn't terribly kind to us this time, but after technical issues, we're back!
\n\nWe're Luke-less this week. However, like the hydra, we've added three heads after losing one. That's roughly how that myth goes, I'm pretty sure.
\n\nIt's a great conversation about race and Catholicism. Strap in and prepare to be varying degrees of uncomfortable. It's good for you.
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Normally Luke and Gomer reminisce about college without a strong purpose. This time, they reminisce so The Mothership will tweet this episode. Please?
\n\nLuke and Gomer discuss five things they each brought back from their time in Franciscan's Austria program and how those lessons apply to them as actually grown adults.
\n\nIf you didn't believe they were elder Millennials, Gomer unironically says the phrase "school slapped different," three separate times. We give him points for trying. Play this audio Where's Waldo with us and see if you can find all three!
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Luke and Gomer talk about our Western obsession with constant growth.
\n\nAlso on the docket for today's episode: flying is the worst, men are dumb in groups (but amicably fun), divorce (yikes), and Apple Vision Pro (again). Enjoy!
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Guess who's here...it's Dave VanVickle!
\n\nDave "Clubber Lang Gym for Men" VanVickle stops in to give us his thoughts on exorcisms and the morality of the UFC.
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We're changing our upload schedule! Turns out people listen to more podcasts on Tuesdays than Fridays and we need that sweet, sweet ad money.
\n\nWe've got a fun round of Ten Minute Topics for this one! Highlights include silverback gorillas, the Catholic imagination, and FHA loans. If that set of topics doesn't intrigue you, frankly, we don't know what will. See you next Tuesday!
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Luke and Gomer have Rose M. Rea on the show to talk about her book Defend Us in Battle: The True Story of MA2 Navy SEAL Medal of Honor Recipient Michael A. Monsoor. Of course, when you have three Franciscan grads in one place, the Mothership will also be talked about.
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Usually, we can blame Luke and Gomer for the late uploads. This time it's on Producer Joe. Whoopsie! We've got topics, though!
\n\nLuke and Gomer discuss fear of the Lord, how men and women can have proper friendship, and Luke's transformation into the Kanye West of Catholic podcasting.
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That thing Luke's been not so subtly hinting at? We talk about it in depth. Also, Barbenheimer makes its return, Cross Creek Tavern's origin story is revealed, and Producer Joe reaches for the bleep button frequently.
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It's not too late to talk about Barbenheimer, right? Luke and Gomer rank Christopher Nolan movies, continue to discuss meta-modernism, and consider whether Barbie is actually a properly conservative film.
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BONUS: Kateri Gormley, Gomer's oldest, joins us on the show to make fun of her dad for 10 minutes.
\n\nTop Gun: Maverick which Tom Cruise used to save movie theaters, is a welcomed change of pace, but also is out of place. YouTuber Thomas Flight breaks down Modern movies (High Noon), Postmodern movies (No Country for Old Men, Pulp Fiction) and Metamodern movies (Everything, Everywhere, All at Once) to talk about this.
\nVideo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xEi8qg266g
\nTitle: Why do Movies Feel So Different Now?
This video by Thomas Flight does a great job in tying together previous conversations we have had about David Foster Wallace’s talk on the usefulness of irony (1950s and 1960s America) and when it becomes a deeply disturbing problem as it becomes the norm (1980s onward). We now get what post-modern movies are trying to do because they've been doing it for decades now, only with bigger budgets and with superheroes: "Ok, I get it, you’ve subverted my expectations yet again. Wow. But only you didn’t, because I knew you would do exactly that. I saw it coming".
\n\nGomer's example is Amazon’s newest season of the Jack Ryan series. When the selfless friend and philanthropist, the head of W.H.O., turned out to actually be an off-the-charts drug-dealing, torturing psychopath, my wife and I were like, “Yeah. Sure. Whatever.” It fell flat because it was more of the same plot-twisting nothing.
\n\nAnother aspect of the rise of post-modernism and meta-modernism:
\nYou know you're getting rich as an artist while real suffering is happening all around you and in the world, even in the lives of the people who love and watch your movies or enjoy your art. So, you draw attention to the process self-reflectively. You point out that, yeah, this is silly, but it’s fun. Maybe we can have fun together doing this. This is why there is a compulsion to stand up on stage at whatever awards ceremony and become an activist. You don't just thank your cast and crew, but must draw attention to the evils in the world around you and condemn them.
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Gomer and Luke chat for 1 hour on the horribleness of getting into a rut, Luke's understanding of "strategy", the movie the Sound of Freedom, and Gomer asks a random biblical question: What happens if we delete John 6:4?
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Gomer workshops his talks on his children (in between episodes of the mediocre Halo series) and Luke contemplates how to end his time at Notre Dame well.
\n\nPatreon merch is en route and it is glorious!
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Use the code CF15 for 15% off your order! Also, that's Willie on the website! Promo Code: CF15NET Ministries: Apply to be a missionary/ If you know someone who could serve to be a missionary, share with them about NET Links:What Are The Big 5 Personality Traits? | Thomas.co — Many modern and traditional studies in psychology point to 5 basic dimensions of personality. Evidence of this theory has grown over the years with the principle theory emerging in 1949. The five broad personality traits described by the theory are extraversion (also often spelled extroversion), agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism.\r\n\r\nDr Jordan B Peterson on Twitter — \"There is nothing Christian about #SocialJustice . Redemptive salvation is a matter of the individual soul.\"Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls: Mary Pipher, Ruth Ross — Everybody who has survived adolescence knows what a scary, tumultuous, exciting time it is. But if we use memories of our experiences to guide our understanding of what today's girls are living through, we make a serious mistake. Our daughters are living in a new world. Reviving Ophelia is a call to arms from Dr. Mary Pipher, a psychologist who has worked with teenagers for more than a decade. She finds that in spite of the women's movement, which has empowered adult women in some ways, teenage girls today are having a harder time than ever before because of higher levels of violence and sexism.Quote by Neil Postman — “What is peculiar about such interpositions of media is that their role in directing what we will see or know is so rarely noticed. A person who reads a book or who watches television or who glances at his watch is not usually interested in how his mind is organized and controlled by these events, still less in what idea of the world is suggested by a book, television, or a watch. But there are men and women who have noticed these things, especially in our own times. Lewis Mumford, for example, has been one of our great noticers. He is not the sort of a man who looks at a clock merely to see what time it is. Not that he lacks interest in the content of clocks, which is of concern to everyone from moment to moment, but he is far more interested in how a clock creates the idea of \"moment to moment.\" He attends to the philosophy of clocks, to clocks as metaphor, about which our education has had little to say and clock makers nothing at all. \"the clock,\" Mumford has concluded, \"is a piece of power machinery whose 'product' is seconds and minutes.\" In manufacturing such a product, the clock has the effect of disassociating time from human events and thus nourishes the belief in an independent world of mathematically measurable sequences. Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God's conception, or nature's. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery he created. In Mumford's great book Technics and Civilization, he shows how, beginning in the fourteenth century, the clock made us into time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers. In the process, we have learned irreverence toward the sun and the seasons, for in a world made up of seconds and minutes, the authority of nature is superseded. Indeed, as Mumford points out, with the invention of the clock, Eternity ceased to serve as the measure and focus of human events. And thus, though few would have imagined the connection, the inexorable ticking of the clock may have had more to do with the weakening of God's supremacy than all the treatises produced by the philosophers of the Enlightenment; that is to' say, the clock introduced a new form of conversation between man and God, in which God appears to have been the loser. Perhaps Moses should have included another Commandment: Thou shalt not make mechanical representations of time.”\r\nSt. Basil the Great quote — “When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.”Gratuitous Simpsons Clip — I know you can read my thoughts, boyAmerican Football - Every Wave To Ever Rise (ft. Elizabeth Powell) — A gorgeous song","content_html":"Let's chat masculinity.
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We were going to talk about Apple's Vision Pro and then go from there. Instead, we talk about Intellectual Formation and then talk about Apple's Vision Pro.
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We fixed Gomer's audio! And we talk about predestination and the theology of the keys.
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Let's chat about art.
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We talk Guardians of the Galaxy and Shakespeare. Then Luke brought it all together. Like a boss.
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Luke welcomes back Katie Prejan McGrady. And boy, did we have a conversation. Katie came on to talk about TV and Ted Lasso. We talked about TV and Ted Lasso. We also talked about how COVID changed the dynamic amongst Catholic creators, why Ted Lasso is a show that needs to be binged, Trump, Matt Fradd and of course, Katie's new love for soccer! U-S-A! U-S-A!
\n\nYou can find Katie on lots of things, which you should already know about. Check her out on Sirius XM's The Katie McGrady Show airs daily on The Catholic Channel, Sirius XM 129, from 2 to 4 p.m. ET. She also had a podcast with her husband Tommy on the Hallow app. (Luke had a great time getting drinks with Katie and Tommy at a conference in 2017? 2018? Time has lost all meaning)
\n\nShe also has a podcast called 'Like a Mother' on OSV, numerous books, and of course, the Ave Explores podcast. I think this is Katie's third or fourth appearance on Catching Foxes. Glad to have her back. Good people, that Katie McGrady.
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"Our hearts are heavy and light. We laugh and scream and sing. Our hearts are heavy and light." - Jamie Tworkowski , To Write Love on Her Arms
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Great chat about engineering parenting vs shepherded parenting. There’s a lot we can’t control. But there are some things that we can.
\n\nLuke plans to take Everleigh to the Symphony once a month. Gomer already showed The Dark Knight to to his wonderful and impressionable children.
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Gomer quits and then we talk gay weddings for 40 minutes.
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The Tridduum? Check. The Japanese and kids? Check. Other Catholic things? Check.
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Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.
\n\nNow would be a join the Catching Foxes Patreon community. Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge. www.patreon.com/cf
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Thanks to Joe Coleman for producing Catching Foxes!
\n\nAnd thanks to Luke and Gomer for being so great!
\n\nAnd big thanks to the Man upstairs for cheesy lines from the 90s!
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\n\nWeekly episodes resume Friday, March 31.
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\n\nWe also talk about Five Iron Frenzy, the greatest band to ever band. And probably a few other things I am forgetting.
\n\nMAJOR thanks for Producer Nick (Nick Sciarappa) from Clerically Speaking for editing this episode!
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We continue the exploration of Internal Family Systems within a Catholic context, especially as it relates to common wounds we experience. Crazy Insightful: "Even secular psychologists see habitual porn and masturbation as a 'Shame Cycle.' Many classify addictive masturbation as a form of 'self-harm'."
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Luke and His Mom Talk About Sports and Stuff.
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\nFixed that weird metronome thing. You do have to delete your original download and then redownload the episode to hear the fixed version. Never let Luke edit your podcast.
We interview Dr. Greg Bottaro about what's really wrong with modern therapy and how the Theology, Philosophy, and Anthropology of Saint John Paul II can bring hope and healing to people. We end the discussion on the topic of Internal Family Systems approach ("parts work") and pick it up from there next week! Check out the links for more information!
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First, the most glorious ADHD interaction over Gomer's rejection of medicine and doctors because he's scared. Then, Luke says Uncle Wade says the universe is no longer centered around our generation. Third, Gomer lists Coen Brothers' movies and Luke rates them.
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We talk about Gomer's trip to the Holy Land, how he got violently sick the day he arrived in Jerusalem and how God made it amazing.
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Originally recorded 9/25/22.
\n\nLuke and Gomer sit down with Clark and Andrea to discuss the real-world impact of Medical Assisted Suicide. Clark's mom, a longtime MS sufferer, was diagnosed with cancer. Due to Canada's permissive laws on Euthanasia, circumstances in her life pushed her in that direction. However, Clark and Andrea's love would slowly change her heart not only toward life but toward the Giver of Life. Hear their story.
\n\nYou need to hear their story and inform yourself with the links included in this episode.
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In the Year of our Lord 2022, on September 3rd,
\nGomer and Luke interviewed Luke's favorite soccer podcast hosts, Taylor and Joe from the Total Soccer Show.
\nWe talk MLS, English Premiere League, favorite memories, and of course, predictions for the World Cup.
Gomer knows absolutely nothing about anything, so if you:
\n\nThen you should give this episode a listen! It is actually a lot of fun. The best part is listening to Luke try to show how knowledgeable he is and impress the soccer show guys!
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I sit down and chat with Matt Meeks of Catholic Ventures and Anthony D'Ambrosio, Head of Product at Catholic.Store and founder of Catholic Creatives.
\n\nCatholic Ventures acquired Catholic Creatives because Matt Meeks saw the movement that Anthony is his team had begun and wanted to ensure that it would keep rolling. Anthony and Matt have worked together and are now collaborating on bringing creative and talented folks together in Catholic.store where you'll find big and small Catholic publishers, jewelry makers, artists, and Sock Religious.
\n\nThere is a new Catholic aesthetic in town and it doesn't look like shitty modernist Crayola-level crap. It's excellent and big-time Catholic publishers are finally taking notice.
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This episode was recorded on October 18, 2022, before I left for the Holy Land. Brian Jones is back. We talk about morality, the Catholic vision, in the context of how do we teach it today to a motley crew of high school students.
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\n\nInsights you'll get from this episode*
\n\nAlso, my audio software did not capture Dr. Hahn's audio all that well. SORRY!
\nhttps://stpaulcenter.com/product/holy-is-his-name-the-transforming-power-of-gods-holiness-in-scripture/
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Luke likes raising money for the Church. Kevin Fitzpatrick is incredibly good at it. This show is the lovechild of their brains and experience.
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What happens when we adopt a thousand other jobs that we never used to do? DIY but not for yourself.
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_House of the Dragon vs. Rings of Power! Who wins? Who loses? Why is Gomer so easily replaceable? _
\n\nIn the end, we have a thirty-minute discussion on Quentin Tarantino and how Gomer likes him sorta because of Trent Horn, which causes Luke to lose his mind.
\n\nNate Hoffman is a co-worker of mine at the parish. He's also a podcaster, Handsome Guys Cry Too. And a Lord of the Rings fanboy.
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“I have earnestly desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer." -Luke 22:15
\n\nLuke contemplates the classic TLM move while Gomer pounces, dances, and pontificates.
\n\nAlso, Shia and the good Bishop. Our thoughts (please, Matt Fradd, share the Shia)
\n\nThen we conclude with a review of House of the Dragon.
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Gomer goes to prison, but first to preschool. There he learns about "Desert Joy".
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Fr. Justin Fletcher is a priest of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter. He was an Episcopal priest, married with kids, and converted to Roman Catholicism. He is also a student and lover of the Catholic liturgy and explains things so incredibly well. I interviewed him about two months ago in my house at 9pm with my buddy, Brian Jones, and we ended around 2am, which was awesome. This was my first recording using my new soundboard and I screwed up MY microphone. So I apologize.
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**PROBLEM: **When goes a good thing become a bad thing? What if temperance looks a lot different (and maybe harder) than just not getting drunk or endlessly binging shows? Worse of all, what if temperance bores me to death and I don't want to do it anymore?
\n\nCCC #1809: Temperance is the moral virtue that moderates the attraction of pleasures and provides balance in the use of created goods. It ensures the will's mastery over instincts and keeps desires within the limits of what is honorable. the temperate person directs the sensitive appetites toward what is good and maintains a healthy discretion: "Do not follow your inclination and strength, walking according to the desires of your heart." Temperance is often praised in the Old Testament: "Do not follow your base desires, but restrain your appetites." In the New Testament it is called "moderation" or "sobriety." We ought "to live sober, upright, and godly lives in this world."
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Main question: What happens after the gimmick is done?
\n\nWhat does a culture of gimmicks do to the human person? What is your culture connecting you to?
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\n\nI bring up a lot of cultural issues that go along with liturgy: heretical hymns published in Catholic hymnals, confusion over what the Church is asking of us liturgically, music issues in the Mass, liturgical vs. devotional music, and the role personal prayer plays in the "wild creativity" that Pope Francis blames in part for liturgy wars today.
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I love Dr. Abigail Favale and her work in the Church is much needed. Her new book, The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory by Ignatius Press is out and is poppin' fresh. We discuss the main figures of the feminist movement and the core of their philosophies as it shifts into the gender movement: Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Sanger, and Judith Butler.
\n\nThen Luke walks in. Literally, he walked straight into her conference room where Dr. Favale was recording and joined the show. His audio sucks because he's on his phone. I spent 40 minutes just trying to make it sound better. This is what you get.
\n\nAnywho, good conversation. And boy do I miss Lukey.
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John DeRosa is an incredible Catholic who runs the Classical Theism Podcast. He interviewed me for the show and we decided to dual-release it. His version will come out in a couple of weeks or so because, unlike me, he plans ahead for months. We talk about why the sacraments are not "super-added" to simple gospel faith, but are integral to it.
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We interview Fr. David Hust to talk about the things priests do and how they should do them well: weddings, funerals, confession, and the Holy Mass. This show is basically in three parts: Confessions, then Mass in general, then the Weddings/Funerals topic. We also reference "Mass of the Ages, ep. 2" which was pretty incredible at explaining how the liturgy when from Latin Mass to Novus Ordo without being jerks about it.
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First, you are burning out. Second, it's not entirely your fault. Third, here's how to take steps to change it all.
\n\nBrian started his job as one full-time person replacing two full-time people, plus a part-time assistant. The things that were happening on the job were insanely counterproductive, but also looked very busy. Why are certain things happening the way that they are took reframing the context within which much work was done. "Why am I reprinting the Roman Missal? It's right there with you. You don't need 7 copies of 90% of it printed in binders."
\n\nMary ran the bulletin. It used to take 20 hours a week to do and required a minumum of 10 business days for publication. She reduced it to 4 hours and staff members can send her stuff on that Monday morning. She realized the bulk of her work was spent taking parishioner bulletin submissions that were 2-page Word Documents and condensing them. Instead, she created a free Google Form and specified the character limit maximum. Now, parishioners self-edit and create a paragraph of text instead of an essay.
\n\nBut what if your boss cannot tell the difference between doing good work and looking busy? What if your corporae culture looks like everyone is a damn day trader on Wall Street. Everyone is monitoring 12 inboxes but no one is moving the needle and everyone is stressed out!
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Temporary Co-Host, Brian Jones, returns to NOT talk about the liturgy. Instead, we discuss his time in a Cleveland inner-city charter school as a teacher and compare/contrast institutional schooling (public, charter, private, parochial) with homeschooling (hybrid, classical, and Robinson Curriculum).
\n\nWe also talk about the stupid "super Catholic" pressures we put on each other when it comes to schooling, number of kids, age of marriage, etc.
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(originally aired 08/2021, "What do Catholics Say about the Atonement?" on the Classical Theism Podcast)
\n\nJohn is a fantastic man. He's a high school math teacher at a public school and defends 2,000 years of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on the side. He really does love the God of classical theism. This was initially aired on his great podcast: Classic Theism Podcast, episode 160.
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\nWhat do Catholics believe about the atonement? Why does it matter that some guy died 2000 years ago? How can we distinguish Catholic views from Reformed protestant views of the atonement? How might we understand Leviticus 16, Isaiah 53, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Romans 8:3, and 1 Peter 2:24 in light of the Catholic view? Michael Gormley joins us to tackle these issues head-on.
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We discuss the liturgy wars from a different framework. Not the annoying "This is more/less reverent" but rather, what are the context and conditions of our current situation that produces malformed Catholics? Why do Catholic lose their minds over the removal of silly nonessentials that get added into the liturgy where they should not be?
\n\nFormation and Culture matters.
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This guy.
\n\nWe start with a bloody crucifix in my parent's house in 6th grade and then the OSU frat life, to seminary, to engagement with his now-wife, to the military, to law school, to an oil company to 11 kids and counting.
\n\nWe discuss his St Paul-like conversion within Catholicism, his annoyance with Traditional Latin Mass communities as a grown-ass man, dealing with Pope Francis's comments that cut him deep, his experience of Iraq during wartime, and keeping his faith alive all along the way.
\n\nFinally, we talk about things like what it's like having 11 kids today and how he deals with stupid comments.
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Yeah. I miss Luke, too.
\n\nWe discuss all things liturgy in this second half of our conversation. Vatican II's theology was great, but its pastoral implementation, which is ironic, was miserable. Also we find out Dr. Larry Chapp is an adult Altar Boy... An ALTAR MAN!
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Gomer interviews Dr. Larry Chapp about Hell, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Tradicals in the Church. He's loud, opinionated, fun, and smart as HELL. We dance around Nouvelle Theologie, Thomas Aquinas, and the state of the Church.
\n\nThis is part 1 of 2.
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We got Kanye West's older brother, Christopher, and his friend, Mike Mangione to talk theology of the body, gender, genitals, generation, music, waterskiing, and God is Beauty, a retreat Saint Pope John Paul II gave to artists in 1962. Incredible stuff
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Chapters!
\n\nFr. Gregory Pine, O.P. talks about his new book. Well, he wants to but Gomer doesn't let him for the first 60 minutes. Instead, GOMER HAS QUESTIONS! Recorded on Feb 23, 2022, so, you know, better late than never!
Special Guest: Fr. Gregory Pine, OP.
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\n\nWe talk about Russia as a people, government, and civilization.
\nThen we talk about the last Catholic Stuff You Should Know episode.
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Spoiler review. Don't plan on watching the movie? Then you will still love this episode as we discuss the bigger themes, film, and the hero's journey.
\n\nThis review contains spoilers. The spoiler horn is sounded at the very beginning. If you have no interest in this movie, I think you will still get something out of this, especially the art of film and how Grunge still owns us in our late 30s and 40s. Now if you will excuse me, I have to plop in all of the ads and record a new one because Luke got sick and his voice is shot.
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\n\nWhy ‘Something in the Way’ as the main thematic music?
\n\nThe Central Theme: the response to trauma and the obstacles of existence
\n\n\n\n\n“Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.” - Han Urs von Balthasar
\n\nIn this regard, the teaching of Sacred Scripture is unequivocal. The Israelites were already encouraged to love one another: "You shall not take vengeance or bear any grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbour as yourself" (Lv 19: 18). At first this commandment seems restricted to the Israelites, but it nonetheless gradually takes on an ever broader sense to include the strangers who sojourn among them, in remembrance that Israel too was a stranger in the land of Egypt (cf. Lv 19: 34; Dt 10: 19). - John Paul II
\n\nThe world needs God. We need God. But what God do we need? In the first reading, the prophet tells a people suffering oppression that: "He will come with vengeance" (Is 35:4). We can easily suppose how the people imagined that vengeance. But the prophet himself goes on to reveal what it really is: the healing goodness of God. And the definitive explanation of the prophet's word is to be found in the one who died for us on the Cross: in Jesus, the Son of God incarnate, who here looks at us so closely. His "vengeance" is the Cross: a "No" to violence and a "love to the end". This is the God we need. - BXVI to German Bishops
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Matt Fradd is helping Fr. Jason rescue orphans in Urkaine. Find out more here and financially support the mission. https://pintswithaquinas.com/ukraine
\n\nTiredness and Hyperactivity/Hyperpassivity. I-tiredness vs. we-tiredness. I am not tired “of you” but “with you.” God sanctifies space: Garden of Eden. God sanctifies time: Sabbath rest. Sabbath is the rest from work, that then enables us to offer worship.
\n\nLent: glorified self-improvement vs charity towards our neighbor.
\n\nHans Urs von Balthasar (Heart of the World): Obedience to the church means we do it NOW, within the framework of the Church. Sabbath day is a day of not-to, a day free of all in-order-to. But you have to cut off work. Saturday night is crucial for Sunday mornings’ grace. Vespers. Lord’s Day. etc.
\n\n“God’s paradise is a utilitarian’s Hell.”
\n\nShared Prayer, Mission, Fellowship, Learning. From this shared life, stuff will just start. It will just start happening. You don’t need anything else other than time and regularity. So can you create a space where these things just happen and when they do happen, can you cultivate these things?
\n\nLuke’s one thing he would change about his Young Adult Ministry: the Core Team happened and it was “You need to just be friends and pray together.” Fellowship, friendship, needs to precede Mission. Mission brings us together, as a friendship rooted in a common good. But if the communion doesn’t happen, if friendships are not actually made, then the mission becomes a driver to hyperactivity and loses its connection to actual mission. It’s externalized because it hasn’t made friends yet.
\n\nSometimes it fails because of God. Sometimes it fails because of us.
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Pre-gaming topics
\nGomer: Neighbors are so freaking frustrating right now with their drugs and cussing in front of my kids, with their VH1 and rap music and fast cars!
\nLuke: You know, Gomer, there is a Rent Crisis going on in a America and you just demonized renters. (war ensues)
\nLuke's real pre-game topic: The Multiverse of Madness: we’re hair-metal and grunge is on its way.
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\n\nLuke Processes the Super Bowl Loss
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Aaron: Best super bowl food and what will Luke be drinking as he cheers on his Bengals?
\nCarey Dip: Cream Cheese, diced sweet onions, diced kosher dill pickles, pickle juice to taste, sit overnight. It’ll thicken overnight.
Sean: If you could destroy one social media platform in order to help humanity, which would it be?
\n\nRyan: I struggle with how to write this one so I will do the best I can... I know you have talked about it but it is really coming out, even more so because of COVID and is moving faster. I believe it is the weaponization of calling things you don't agree with as dis- or mis- information. How does this all end?...
\n\nAlycia: Can someone please explain this synod on synodality? I don’t understand what we (The whole Church) are doing…
\n\nMichael: Ideas on how a meeting about meetings is actually impactful to the church and if maybe the church should focus less on community/world impact and more on feeding its congregation that’s starving?
\n\nThomas: What are you guys reading right now?
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Navigate Around, my friends, with the chapters.
\n\nLuke is in a magazine and his team is in the Super Bowl! Gomer updates us on his family situation, including depression, exercise, and Reading Aloud. Then we talk about Stress Management, Health, and Prayer.
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(sorry for the audio - Gomer's recording gear was left at Church when he did EKSB during his lunchbreak, which seems to fit the theme nicely)
\n\n"The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash. (Kafka, quoted by Byung-Chul Han in his _The Nation _piece.)
\n\nGomer contemplated quitting because he's doing a hundred things and realized that so is Luke with his Notre Dame executive degree. It's a bit much, but we are doing this to ourselves. Over and over again. My dad worked a fulltime job, volunteered with the Knights of Columbus, and was a dad. He didn't write a blog or "create content" for his tribe. He was a dad when he wasn't a credit department supervisor for Texaco's refinery division.
\n\nSide hustle culture, burnout culture, FIRE aftermath, etc. are all telling Gomer one thing: "You're burning out and you're doing this to yourself."
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Luke and I are chatting away when JD calls in the middle of the show. So we put him on and talk about what it is like reporting on the Church and for the Church. And why some people don't like it.
\n\nThe third part of the show we recorded the following morning. We talk about a new "healthy focus" in our lives (which involves Apple Watches), screen time for kids, and more!
Special Guest: JD Flynn.
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CF Merch! The sad death of Bob Saget, a birthday quote from then-Pope Benedict, Gomer's back pain and his sedentary life, best WW2 movies that a 12 year old can watch, and Wendell Barry's "The World Ending Fire".
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The Great Resignation is leading to over 9 million US jobs unfilled. People are opting out of the workforce right now for a host of reasons- money, unsustainable workloads, pandemic fears- and others are opting out of the very idea of a career. Luke and Gomer chat about the reality of work/life balance when the whole economy is built upon workaholism-as-virtue.
\n\nThanks to Catholic Match, Betterhelp.com, and Monk Manual!
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We talk about Gomer's general (not specific) malaise in ChurchWork and his fears of "getting out." Let me remind you, this is not about Gomer complaining about work per se, but the general feeling of impending doom and his inability to get the hell out of Dodge into a non-churchy job.
\n\nWe talk about "Senlin Ascends", which is Book 1 of 4 in the Tower of Babel Series by Josiah Bancroft.
\n\nThen we pivot to the show "Heroes" and how it failed us all in season 2. Gomer uses the Theme. NBC all rights reserved.
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Guest: Nathan Smith, Director of Ecumenism for Glenmary Home Missioners and the Field Representative for USCCB on Ecumenism
\nPodcast: Glenmary Unity: “Interviews and discussions from Christian ministers and theologians on ecumenical efforts between Catholics and Evangelical and Pentecostal groups.” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/glenmary-unity/id1561579846
*How Luke introduced us via email: *
\n“Nathan, meet Gomer. Gomer, meeting Nathan. Nathan is now a Catholic that works for Glenmary doing ecumenical work. He was a Protestant pastor, loves Benedict and Balthasar and dresses very well.
Nathan, one time Gomer and I spent 8 hours in rural Mingo Junction eating $0.25 wings and drinking $5 pitchers until it closed. It was awesome. Gomer, Nathan has to endure standing next to during the US - Mexico game after I'd been drinking since 2:30 pm. I lead an awesome life.
\n-Luke”
*Topics range from: *
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Interesting Nonprofit updates at Luke's Notre Dame ongoing studies. We talk about a fascinating thing: contract failure and market failure.
\n\nGomer rethought his Libertarism due to the realization that corporations have more money than many governments. Anarcho-capitalism sounds nice (if you have money).
\n\nThanksgiving plans for the boys. Luke goes to the Cabin in the Woods. Gomer invites The Woodlands.
\n\nEpic failures in Proposals for both Luke and Gomer. Shannon likes to tell this story.
\n\nAnd we close with comments on Fr. James Jackson's arrest for child porn. This was Gomer's confirmation sponsor. Gomer knew him really well when he was in high school but hasn't maintained contact in 20 years, so there's that. Real talk: I was utterly and completely shocked at this accusation. I hope he's innocent but it doesn't look good.
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Surprised by Joy!
\nAppleTV show, Invasion
\n20th Anniversary of Band of Brothers
\nFiction/Reading as a conduit to understanding
\nVinyl Records as Japanese Tea Ceremony, Integrity, and Slowness
\nGomer’s Anima Technica Vacua experience at Life Night
\nFriday Morning at 11am, say a prayer for the Gormley family
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*Marvel/Disney Topic: * The Three Worst Marvel Movies
\n\nMeta: Lithuania loves Catching Foxes
\n\nAlso, we chat about US nearly going to Nuclear War.
\n\nGomer's chapter-in-a-real-book: Wisdom and Wonder is now on sale!
\nWhich leads us into The Book Saga of Luke.
*Main Topic: Anima Technica Vacua. *
\nWhat it is, how it's got ahold of Elon Musk, why it's Grace vs. Nature, and how Media Strips us of Legacy.
\nENOUGH!
We end with Discord Questions from our Patreon supporters.
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Meta Podcast Time
\n-"meta" is good enough for Facebook!
\n-Audio not loud enough, so now Gomer researched LUFS
\n-Dan Benjamin and Merlin Mann’s Back to Work means a lot to us
Scared Shitless
\n-Gomer's two greatest fears now
\n-Luke's Newest Fear
\n-High School: what was your biggest fear?
\n-Fears Gomer has learned to overcome?
So I have a book!
\n-Gomer is now a published author!
\n-but it is just one chapter in a book
*So, Halloween! *
\n-What did you do? Anything weird or annoying happen?
Hope’s 401K Question
\n-She now qualifies for 401K and wants to know how to be ethical!
The Mouth of Sauron
\n-Why did you send this to me? because it is funny
Gomer Consumes AppleTV with his wife
\n-Ted Lasso, on Season 2 episode 5: “Rom Communism”
\n-Foundations, caught up to live
Luke Looks for Suggested Reading
\n-Luke is 7 more hours left of his Eisenhower biography, so he wants a History/Biography break.
\n-Luke has a six-cycle book thing: 1. Novel 2. God book 3. History 4. Non-Fiction 5. Biography 6. Classical Literature
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What's new with Pints with Aquinas? How much can one man hate technology? Fradd will show you the way. Also, he's got a new book! Plot twist: it's on St. Thomas Aquinas. Post retwist: it's about Aquinas' prescription on how to be happy.
Special Guest: Matt Fradd.
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WW2 and the French vs. Americans, World History is Paved in blood,
\n*How do we move on after sin, violence, war, tragedy? *
\nHahn's "The Decline and Fall of Sacred Scripture"
\nThe Human Condition is not erased because we are Catholic (Original Sin still undoes humanity), Modernity's Mindsets,
Then: Movies! which leads us to THE BATMAN Trailer,
\n\nFinally: Live Show in Houston (maybe), and Thank you Patrons!
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Things are getting dark for Luke.
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Managing Decline?: 2% drop in Mass attendance per parish, per year. Average Sunday Mass is 1/3 full. This has been getting worse - and it's be tracked and known - for 20 years, but no one has done anything. They got used to the decline. They got used to the emergencies without the urgency that crises can motivate. Beacons of Light, criticized by Rod Dreher as trying to put a nice spin on dire circumstances, is also evangelization and discipleship centered.
\n\n*What are the Families? *
\n\n_Luke's Money Quote: _I don’t think people get how bad it actually is! The Emergencies are everywhere. The Catholic Church is an afterthought!
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We chatted with Jonathan Blevins as he takes the plunge from full-time parish Director of Evangelization to full-time Twitch Streamer. We talk about online culture, the dangers of VR, the importance of Catholics being in this space, and what's it like being Ninja's brother, the most famous esports gamer in the world.
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Topics include:
\nWhat do you do if you're afraid of sex?
\nHow do you cultivate the right kind of knowledge of your partner before marriage?
\n"Noone could be a man unless his father has died. "- Freud
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First: We got an update for Gomer's family and Luke's return to grad school work.
\n\nAlso: "Fundraising is a Grind" and Parish Development. Baby Boomers got 70% of the wealth, but are the most generous. Gen Xers set the culture and Millennials drive Pop Culture.
\n\nThen: Erin, Luke's wife, ruins their car out of stubbornness, Gomer spent hundreds on his latest YouTube hobby (lighting), and we discuss the Disney Movie Renaissance.
\n\nFinally: We talk about the passing of Norm MacDonald.
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Four parts: Gomer's latest YouTube obsession, but it's more altruistic. Then 3 practical, yet sexy questions from Patreon supporter Moira. Luke discusses an awful picture of an employee and posits: "being miserable is not a personality." Finally, we conclude with Woodstock 99.
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The Artist plays with symbols without necessarily knowing fully what they mean. And when Art is bent to tell a moral and not a story, it becomes Propaganda.
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We start the show talking about the recent Provincial Assembly (thanks for the invite, Fr. Roberts and Fr. Cahill!) and then stuff about Church life and not giving a crap about a bunch of Church stuff.
\n\nThen Luke brings up some documentary on the Traditional Latin Mass (that's not anti-Vatican 2) and Luke goes off on a rage about those who seem to think that the TLM is magic and will fix everything when the FREAKIN' NAZIS HAD THE LATIN MASS AND THOSE FREAKS COMMITTED GENOCIDE!
\n\nFinally a chat about daughters dating and what it was like hanging out with parents.
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Milli Vanilli, The Darkest Timeline, Millennial Analogies;
\nBishops and their Gomer;
\nClassical Theism Podcast (this monday with gomer);
\nGomer's Intimidation by Luke;
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\nPeak Luke
\nA Redemptive Story from that night
\nLuke wears Grandpa's pants (and Grandma's blouse)
\nForgotten Ruin book series and Gomer's Daughter talking about "suppressive fire"
\nPatreon Question: How do you get over a very serious relationship breakup
\nGomer's Theology: How the ancient catholic church viewed "Church" differently than we tend to do in today's Americanized, Protestantized Christianity, especially in evangelization.
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Luke and Gomer talk money and the Church (not the Vatican, but fundraising).
\n\nThen Gomer updates everyone about Shannon and what's next there (minute 40ish).
\n\nFinally, as Luke tries to hang up, Gomer demands Luke tells him all about the new audiobook Luke's listening to about the Late Night wars between Leno and Conan.
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Kevin Heider is the best and we owe him a TREMENDOUS amount of gratitude.
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"U.S.S. Gloria, this is Mission Control, do you copy?"
\n"Houston, this is the U.S.S. Gloria, good to hear your voice
\nWe are coming out of the eclipse now
\nI see the sunlight, it's beautiful
\nThe sunlight is beautiful"
Jesus Christ, light of the world, You never did forget me.
\nAnd when I bled in darkness, You held me, still held me.
\nWhen desperate nights I cursed You, You loved me, still loved me.
\nJesus Christ, You dry the tears, You break my heart of stone.
\nYour words are life cut marrow through the darkness to the bone
\nA heart of flesh You gave me; Only You can save me.
\nSavior! Daylight!
\nI am coming home!
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Saturday: Last full day of school, if Luke can get his paper done today.
\n\nTension in a program like this that is executive, and nature of time crunch, you are constantly forced to prioritize how much time and attention to give each individual task. Tension in Luke’s cohort: Luke loves intensity of the schedule- Meeting after meeting, decision after decision, restraint after restraint- but the others are upset that it’s too intense and things are getting lost in the shuffle. But that’s the point. You’re becoming a better non-profit executive, not an expert, researcher, or professor. You just need the ground under your feet.
\n\nGomer bought a minivan for cash after telling his wife “We aren’t getting a minivan today.” He didn’t even pull out of the parking lot yet before he made the decision. It checked the boxes and was inexpensive enough.
\n\nGomer likes talking shit about people. Why? You are called to be a tiny god, but you aren’t acting like it, so you stomp on others to fake elevate yourself. A micro-dose of divinity. Sin as false-theosis, self-divinization is always pulling God down to our level, whereas divine filiation is God lifting us up to His level, as it were. The goal is to feel more than human, but I cannot do that for myself, so I have to bring down other humans. Yet, to be “more than human” in reality is to be humble, realizing that you can’t make yourself more than human on your own, you need God to do that. But why work? Why asceticism and mortification? If I have free will, where does God’s grace come in? The hypostatic union is the only answer!
\n\nAlso, the woman who cut my hair was flawless. She was dead quiet. Never small talked with me once other than “do you want what you got last time.” And that was it. Once she hummed along with the song for like 15 seconds but that was more pleasant than disruptive.
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Main Topic: discussion around Dr. Tracey Rowland's "What did Dostoyevsky mean when he said ‘Beauty will save the world’?"
\nOpening Banter: Luke's test on non-profit boards led Gomer to ask about a FICTIONAL Catholic non-profit.
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Luke's "one that got away" who dumped him because he failed college. Gomer misses his podcast wife.
\nTake Gomer to the Woodshed
\nGomer's sad moment in Father's Day was a homily that went nowhere for 40 minutes, but everything else was fantastic.
Luke has an "A" right now for grad school, worth 5 points, but it still counts!
\n\nThen Luke goes on and on about how much he loves his cohort and the school and the basilica and yadda, yadda, yadda.
\n\nAlso, "Hi, Paul!"
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"Ask Michael's Wife Anything"
\nAnd our Patreon superheroes did ask her anything. We got 25 questions in about 15 minutes at 9:00 PM on Thursday night. Join our Patreon page and get access to early releases, bonus content, and our new and very lively Discord Server of Doom.
*We talk: *
\nNASCAR- why she likes it, how she got into it, and why it's important to her;
\nHomeschooling and our Classical approach,
\nand then a ton of questions about being married to an idiot like me.
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Luke's at Notre Dame! (And he forgot his microphone!)
\n\nFirst: Six Types of Working Genius in Gomer's home and with a co-worker.
\nSecond: Season 2 non-spoiler review of "For All Mankind".
Question: How do you handle screen time with your kids?
\nQuestion: How do you have a sucessful long-distance relationship?
\nQuestion: If I were the pastor, these are the Top Three Things I would do
Luke's at Notre Dame!
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The Working Genius Podcast by Patrick Lencioni.
\n\nIDEATION
\n Wonder
\n Invention
\nACTIVATION
\n Discernment
\n Galvanizing
\nIMPLEMENTATION
\n Enablement
\n Tenacity
-Luke killed a mouse, Gomer’s wife killed a scorpion, while Gomer was naked
\n-Take Gomer to the Woodshed: Nonviolence and the violence in protests follow-up
Gomer D.I.S.C. profile for staff, majority of which were “Stability” but the YM were “Innovative.” The YM is where you find the creatives and the envelope-pushers, but the rest of staff had the Stable personality, and so they hate change as a part of their personality. So you have a real reason why no one paints the walls or puts up beautiful artwork or challenges the status quo. Luke's experience of the “Catholic Creatives” working group where the culture screamed: New things are respected (and expected)!
\n\nRemember, each of the six types of working genius are verbs, it’s who you are and what you do. This idea of the verb really opened Luke to the process of the Working Genius as a process. Looking at these different approaches, however, really helped Luke see where he was strongest and weakest, where my strengths were, and also how Catching Foxes came together. Also, we both suck at Tenacity! (thanks for keeping us alive, Kate.)
\n\nA few examples:
\n**Discernment: **Sometimes the hyper-spiritualizing of “all things” leads to false action. We think “God put this on my heart” but that doesn’t mean we don’t think through the problems, or MAYBE that's just our way of smuggling in our ideas in a religious context. I mean, who's going to question God's will for your ministry?!
Galvanizing: We forget that we aren’t just speaking to the people in the pews, but to the staff! We need to galvanize the staff, inspire them, and move them. We need to minister to their needs in a way that gets them involved in a mission.
\n\nEnablement: No more victims of unvoiced expectations, or worse, shifting unvoiced expectations! Enablement is not the same as letting someone do their job description, but training, working with, feedback, coaching, etc. Help them do the right thing- connect and cooperate.
\n\n-Luke and I both suck at Tenacity!
\n\nJune 4 - Pints with Jack podcast, BETTERHELP, Tilma Parish, Redacted Coffee
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We start talking about Sacred Architecture and crappy churches, which moves the conversation to Sacred Artwork and how we advance them without getting lost in the lameness of the fad or the trendy. Then halfway we hit on the topic of arguing with your spouse. We end with a "Keeping up with the Kardashians" moment of "Take Luke out to the Woodshed".
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Luke and Gomer talk about goodness and why people always want to be right in the Church, even when we damn our adversaries needlessly.
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Banter: Dr. Dre seems to have suffered from insecurity due to the lack of success around the Aftermath album.
\nMain Topic: Luke's prayer life sucks. Gomer gives amazing advice.
\nLife Lesson: Do NOT, under any circumstances, forget about Dre.
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Gomer and Luke start out with some banter, then follow-up.
\n\nThe topic for today is contrasting "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" with "For All Mankind" in the areas where they treat social issues. Gomer bashes the crap out of Marvel for their inability in this show to not be on the nose and praises the writers and actors of "For All Mankind" so creating such compelling characters that you actually think they are, you know, human. Just when you think the villains are pure villains, they aren't. Just when you think the one-dimensional man is a bigot, he's not. Just when you think the mission will finally succeed, it doesn't. Or does it? Cap demand we "do better" but AppleTV actually does!
\n\nTwo Follow-Ups, Main Topic, followed by complaining about Restrictions.
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We each brought a topic, but I sidetracked the Hell out of us both.
\n\nTopic One: Gomer's critique of the bloody Marxist critique of corporations stealing our future, and Luke's reasoned response involving Catholic Creatives and art stuff.
\n\nTopic Two: GOMER CAN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT ATONEMENT THEOLOGY, but today's twist is how Gomer discovered via YouTube how much the Orthodox hate Catholics and how the Taylor Marshall of American Orthodoxy is an old woman.
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Special thank you to all of the Patrons and fans of the show that have prayed for the Gormley family!
\n\n*Topic One (about 20 minutes): * We are healing and still hurting a lot, too. I have read every email, comment, and text from you all and even read them to my wife before her D&C surgery.
\n\nTopic Two (about 40 minutes): Gomer has been doing a lot of reading and research into Atonement theology, especially as it revolves around St. Paul's enigmatic phrase, "Works of the Law". There's a great podcast and interview with Dr. Matthew Thomas on John DeRosa's "The Classical Theism Podcast". They discuss the Second Century Fathers and their concepts of what "works of the law" means (spoiler: it doesn't mean what Martin Luther said). Also applicable is the Dr. Bergsma book Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls where the second to last chapter goes through the Essene theology of the very phrase "Works of the Law". In fact, it is the title of one of the scrolls they found! (Spoiler: it isn't at all what Martin Luther said it was).
\n\nTopic Three (About 15 minutes): Wokism, BLM, MeToo, LGBT+ Activism and Luke's theory that the Christian underpinnings of the culture are preventing it from getting more violent. Gomer disagrees a bit, but not entirely.
\n\nTopic Four (About 15 minutes): Luke teaches Gomer about the Super League, its origin story and its rapid demise. Gomer responds with the philosophy of Aladair MacIntyre's notion of Internal and External Goods to a Practice. And Gomer finds a way to yet again quote Alexis de Touqville's "Democracy in America" and the concept of homo solus.
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Luke and I banter for 20 minutes about grad school, Gomer redoing his office, etc. Then we introduce the subject and Gomer cries a lot.
\n\nThe name of the wood is called "Purpleheart" and it is a South American hardwood that is super dense. The wood will turn brown over time after it is milled, so the use of sealants is a must to keep that intensely beautiful purple shade from fading. Also, its density makes it notoriously hard to deal with, as the sap will gum up your table saw blade very quickly, resulting in a lot of burn marks from the blade onto the wood. But no worries, for purpleheart sands down incredibly well.
\n\nEternal Rest
\nEternal rest, grant unto her O Lord
\nand let perpetual light shine upon her.
\nMay she rest in peace. Amen.
\nMay her soul and the souls of all the faithful departed,
\nthrough the mercy of God, rest in peace.
\nAmen.
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Have you ever had a debate with a famous person about Jesus entirely in your head? This is Gomer's failed tale of reaching Joe Rogan.
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We love SEEK, so we made a very Catching Foxes podcast for the virtual SEEK21 conference this year and it was ...not allowed. Well, it's Good Friday and I don't want to record a new episode, so here it is, with a FRESH new introduction!
\n\nHappy Birthday, Lee!
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\n\nThen we talk about rap-as-scapegoat in our culture.
\n\nFinally, Moira asks about whether sexual incompatibility is a secular thing or a Catholic thing, too.
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Gomer's New Bi-Weekly Obession: Home Gyms
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The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations by James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner
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WORK CULTURE.
\nLukey got a new job. I asked, "How'd ya know it's time to move on?" This is a show about figuring out your place, your role, your job, your career, and your culture. It's about when you know to say "YES" to a new opportunity and when to say "NO", too. Culture, especially in Church Work, can be never tricksy!
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Three Main Topics: Gomer talks with two youths who experience the lack of reciprocity between faith and the sacraments, Luke explores the Marxist critique of music culture as future-canceling, and Gomer buys a gun, which sets off Luke's red flags.
\n\n\nParagraph 5. Secondly, scientific and technological knowledge, which is so prestigious today, tends to impose itself as a single model in all fields of knowledge and for all kinds of objects. Its radical orientation towards certainty of an empirical and naturalistic type is opposed not only to metaphysical knowledge, but also to knowledge of a symbolic nature. While scientific knowledge emphasizes the capacity of human reason, it does not exhaust all dimensions of reason or knowledge, nor does it cover all cognitive needs for a full human life. Symbolic thinking, with its richness and plasticity, on the one hand, collects and elaborates reflectively the ethical and affective dimensions of experience; and, on the other, touches and transforms the spiritual and cognitive structure of the subject. For this reason, together with all the religious traditions of humanity, the transmission of revelation, with its concomitant cognitive content, is situated in the symbolic sphere, not in the empirical and naturalistic sphere. The sacramental reality of participation in the mystery of grace can only be understood in the unity of this double dimension of the symbolic experience: cognitive and performative. Where the scientistic paradigm reigns, which is blind to symbolic thought, sacramental thought is obstructed.
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Luke recounts his last two weeks of COVID exhaustion. Gomer smiles and nods, until in the empty youth room at 10:30 at night a woman whispers into Gomer's ear, "Hmmm hello". Then, Patron's topics for five minutes. Good questions!
\n\nQuestion 1: What should dating intimacy look like?
\nQuestion 2: What should/shouldn't we do with a new puppy?
\nQuestion 3: Who would you want to convert to Catholicism and why?
\nQuestion 4: How to deal with a desk/computer job?
\nQuestion 5: Any tips from a season Homeschool family?
"Lightning" Round Questions
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Luke has COVID and is exhausted, so pray for his recovery and that of his wife, too! I interview Matt Fradd, friend of the show and host of Pints with Aquinas. I ask him questions from our Patrons and we talk about his big move up to Steubenville.
Special Guest: Matt Fradd.
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ADHD creates a funny side-effect of distraction that can lead to hilarious places and regrettable obsessions. Gomer and Luke share theirs. Then Luke brings up the main topic of our latest critical review and the absence of civility today.
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Gomer intervened again, but this time it seems to have been very costly. There is chaos where there used to be safety.
\n\nAfter the 30-minute story time, we go into our interview with Fr. Dave Pivonka and Prof. Bob Rice of the Franciscan University of Steubenville!
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Luke asked for topics. Maybe five or so. We got about 57! So we run through a bunch of good, deep, light, and hilarious questions in this episode. But first! Luke talks** GameStonk!! **
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Ssssymbolism conversation continues! And it's Luke's fault, not Gomer's! Luke brings up the meaning behind a King's crown and how society knew where it stood in relation to it. This expands to a whole fascinating look at modern clothing and how hyper-abundance shifts our priorities in how we look, actually making the wearing of formal attire less important.
\n\nWe discuss how symbols in society end up impoverishing that society.
\n\nLuke then asks, _What came first: the destruction of the symbolic meaning or the loss of personal dignity? _
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Luke and I do some quick check-ins regarding the news in DC, why Gomer doesn't watch the news, and how that can be healthy. Then we take a brief detour and talk Project 86, WandaVision, and such, then dive into Symbolic Representation, Mythology, and why the Sacraments just seem like bizarre add-ons to an otherwise rational faith.
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What does A Very Special Carey Christmas look like? What does The Gormley Family Christmas Celebration entail? You'll find out in the opening 10 minutes. Then we dive into our very different New Years' Eve activities for another 20 minutes. We are very wordy, but it all flows into our annual YEARLY THEMES SHOOOOOOOOW!
\n\nLuke evaluates Gomer's 2020 theme of Habit and Gomer evaluates Luke's 2020 theme of Committment. Then they both do some self-examination and get a bit more critical of themselves. AKA, This is where Gomer sucks. We also realize how ADHD impacts us and how to adjust accordingly. For instance, Luke prays the Rosary when he gets to a certain part of the highway and Gomer lays out his stuff
\n\nThe Year of Humility. Gomer realized through abandoning social media that he has been justifying his own self-righteousness and gossipping about others if he perceives an injustice by that person to him. Alasdaire MacIntyre talks about the virtues of Justice, Humility, and Patience are all required to acquire a new craft. Justice means giving to experts and mentors their due. Humility (and humiliations) means repeated failures in public in order to get the flywheel spinning on learning a new talent. Patience means being patient with myself as a stumble forward. This applies to Gomer's workouts and scheduling appointments with doctors and dentists. He is getting anxiety just typing this!
\n\nThe Year of Falling In Love with the Process. Luke realized with the Graduate School and the baby, he's going to be drinking from a firehose. This means limiting intentionally all of the other distractions that hit him. Setting minimums allow him to reduce the friction around good actions and habits, but with being open to going longer on the good stuff, like praying for 15 minutes. He should pray for 30, but sometimes that creates a daunting effect on his ADHD mind, so he will only commit to 15 and if it goes longer, great! The goal is to fall in love with the process.
\n\nLuke's Top Fives: Watched the movie Silence, building the Catching Foxes Team, discovering Chess this year, the run that Catholic Stuff You Should Know is currently on, and Everyly being born and all of the things that went into that!
\nGomer's Top Fives: The Carnivore diet, my new leadership position in the parish, writing a chapter in a book that will come out in a couple of months, My New York City trip with Shannon, and Cecilia's First Confession and Holy Communion.
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\n\nA Star Wars Lover’s critique of The Mandalorian:
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Joe Lowery Video on USMNT and what they are doing with possession
\nhttps://twitter.com/joeclowery/status/1338498985275740160?s=20
Christian Rock Renaissance
\nLuke’s ‘What Year is It?’ playlist
\nhttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/1KHLK3SKf8KrGQOsbGsDj0?si=FlCajl--SDW4v1ai-xp22A
American Prodigy: Freddy Adu
\nAmerican Prodigy: Freddy Adu on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com › podcast › american-prodigy-fred...
Amy Grant’s ‘A Christmas Album’
\nAmy Grant - A Christmas Album
Godwin’s Law
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\n\nBuild for yourself scaffolding that leads to life and thriving. We need to get the help that leads to the healing God wants for our lives BECAUSE GRACE BUILDS UPON NATURE IT DOES NOT REPLACE NATURE!
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We gathered patrons' questions two three guys about to enter their 40's about the meaning of getting older, the realization of family life vs. single freedom, what do you miss and how do you deal with your regrets? Skip to your favorite question, because we gotz chapterz.
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Luke and I discuss the astounding book, A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter Miller Jr. Written in the 1950's at the height of the Cold War, Miller saw the specter of nuclear annihilation before him and penned this, one of the most insightful post-apocalyptic books ever written. We explore the themes as well as the original Dark Ages, and the drama of faith and reason. Then Luke ends with a VERY SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!
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We start the show celebrating the Latvian people because THEY LOVE CATCHING FOXES AND CATCHING FOXES LOVES LATVIA. Then, McCarrick.... We don't analyze the report, but instead, we answer your questions about it. This isn't a series of hot takes, but a call to holiness.
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I loved the story, but we look deeper into the emptiness. Not all that glitters is gold, my friends.
\n\nThen we reminisce about the time Luke almost moved in with my family, followed by praising Matt Fradd (backheadedly).
\n\nThen we talk people-watching, party-going, Gomer's comic book obsession as a coping mechanism for his profound loneliness in middle school, and the quote about the "magical" parts of the Bible from Matthew McConaughey.
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","summary":"I loved the story, but we look deeper into the emptiness. Not all that glitters is gold, my friends. Then we reminisce about the time Luke almost moved in with my family. We praise Matt Fradd. Then we talk people-watching, party-going, Gomer's comic book obsession as a coping mechanism for his profound loneliness in middle school, and the quote about the \"magical\" parts of the Bible from Matthew McConaughey","date_published":"2020-11-13T13:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/65d214fc-4af8-4b4b-ab65-ad3b49f0569d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":54884280,"duration_in_seconds":3920}]},{"id":"08a541bc-952e-4c17-aed7-36f73df632bf","title":"Morality as Ideology","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/268","content_text":"This episode is not about the election, but it is absolutely about the election. Luke asks Gomer about what happens when our Christian Morality is wrenched free of Christ and hardens into an ideology used for smashing our enemies. Gomer, agreeing with the premise, fears this pathway leads to the Antinomian dark side.\n\nAntinomianism means anti-law as in the commandment-based morality, rules of right and wrong, good and bad. The opposite of antinomianism is legalism, which views the whole of morality as fully articulated through commands. These are often Protestant terms. \n\nIn Catholic circles, especially in the moral enquiry of the 15-17 centuries, the dichotomy would be between rigorism and laxism, since the Natural Law tradition and the 10 Commandments are such a central portion of our Catholic moral theology. Rigorism and Laxism are, generally speaking, ways of viewing our moral responsibilities in the face of supposed conflicts between human freedom and divine command and which occupies your default position. Laxism means you default to human freedom, because that is how we image God. Rigorism means you default to the Law, because that is how God is sovereign over us creatures.\n\nWhen these are in conflict, neither side seems a good option, which is why St. Alphonus Liguori is the patron saint of Moral Theologians, because his way of navigating these conflicts was through Aequiprobabilism. Confusing? Go check out the Catholic Encyclopedia article on this and you'll leave less sure of anything in your moral life. ","content_html":"This episode is not about the election, but it is absolutely about the election. Luke asks Gomer about what happens when our Christian Morality is wrenched free of Christ and hardens into an ideology used for smashing our enemies. Gomer, agreeing with the premise, fears this pathway leads to the Antinomian dark side.
\n\nAntinomianism means anti-law as in the commandment-based morality, rules of right and wrong, good and bad. The opposite of antinomianism is legalism, which views the whole of morality as fully articulated through commands. These are often Protestant terms.
\n\nIn Catholic circles, especially in the moral enquiry of the 15-17 centuries, the dichotomy would be between rigorism and laxism, since the Natural Law tradition and the 10 Commandments are such a central portion of our Catholic moral theology. Rigorism and Laxism are, generally speaking, ways of viewing our moral responsibilities in the face of supposed conflicts between human freedom and divine command and which occupies your default position. Laxism means you default to human freedom, because that is how we image God. Rigorism means you default to the Law, because that is how God is sovereign over us creatures.
\n\nWhen these are in conflict, neither side seems a good option, which is why St. Alphonus Liguori is the patron saint of Moral Theologians, because his way of navigating these conflicts was through Aequiprobabilism. Confusing? Go check out the Catholic Encyclopedia article on this and you'll leave less sure of anything in your moral life.
","summary":"This episode is not about the election, but it is absolutely about the election. Luke asks Gomer about what happens when our Christian Morality is wrenched free of Christ and hardens into an ideology used for smashing our enemies. Gomer, agreeing with the premise, fears this pathway leads to the Antinomian dark side. This is the war between poles: legalism and antinomianism, rigorism and laxism. There be dragons! ","date_published":"2020-11-06T13:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/08a541bc-952e-4c17-aed7-36f73df632bf.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":71708235,"duration_in_seconds":5121}]},{"id":"eb94a76d-ceb4-46d5-98fc-71ed6e5ccb9d","title":"Gomer Goes to the Woodshed","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/267","content_text":"Hey friends, This episode is in three major parts: \n\n\nFollow-up to the last episode to clarify and to apologize\nTed Lasso, new American Anti-Anti-Hero\nGomer's actions on the sidelines of his kids' soccer games will shock you.\nSponsored By:BetterHelp.com: Get 10% off your secure, specialized counseling at BetterHelp.com/foxes ","content_html":"Hey friends, This episode is in three major parts:
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","summary":"Hey friends, This episode is in three major parts: \r\n1. Follow-up to the last episode to clarify and to apologize\r\n2. Ted Lasso, new American Anti-Anti-Hero\r\n3. Gomer's actions on the sidelines of his kids' soccer games will shock you.","date_published":"2020-10-30T15:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/eb94a76d-ceb4-46d5-98fc-71ed6e5ccb9d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":57993583,"duration_in_seconds":4142}]},{"id":"05d9acc6-e5fc-4e98-a74d-c078c0bb3a9a","title":"Gomer Yells at Priests, with Clerically Speaking","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/266","content_text":"Humble and obedient priests, Fr. Harrison and Fr. Anthony, from the podcast join us this week so Gomer can yell at them. Not them, per se, but all God's priests as a collective. They take it like warrior-poets and then distill their own struggles finding God in the midst of the Church in crisis. \n\nAlso, I've added a new sound - a cow mooing - to the already popular sound of a kitty kat meowing. You'll get it when you hear it. ","content_html":"Humble and obedient priests, Fr. Harrison and Fr. Anthony, from the podcast join us this week so Gomer can yell at them. Not them, per se, but all God's priests as a collective. They take it like warrior-poets and then distill their own struggles finding God in the midst of the Church in crisis.
\n\nAlso, I've added a new sound - a cow mooing - to the already popular sound of a kitty kat meowing. You'll get it when you hear it.
","summary":"Humble and obedient priests, Fr. Harrison and Fr. Anthony, from the podcast join us this week so Gomer can yell at them. Not them, per se, but all God's priests as a collective. They take it like warrior-poets and then distill their own struggles finding God in the midst of the Church in crisis. ","date_published":"2020-10-24T09:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/05d9acc6-e5fc-4e98-a74d-c078c0bb3a9a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":73142165,"duration_in_seconds":6075}]},{"id":"82235d64-4997-428e-a46a-95e41ec6fa03","title":"The Real Jurassic World Rules","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/265","content_text":"What happens when Gomer takes a clip from Jurassic World and uses it to interpret MTV's \"The Real World\" from the 1990's? Not hilarity, according to my wife. Also, WHY AM I NO LONGER CONSIDERED A FAITHFUL CATHOLIC?! Sponsored By:BetterHelp.com: Get 10% off your secure, specialized counseling at BetterHelp.com/foxes Links:Jurassic World Wu Explains The Makeup of the I-Rex HD - YouTube — Jurassic World Wu Explains The Makeup of the I-Rex HD\r\nFirst 10 Minutes of the First Ever 'Real World' Episode | MTV - YouTube — First 10 Minutes of the First Ever 'Real World' Episode | MTV\r\n","content_html":"What happens when Gomer takes a clip from Jurassic World and uses it to interpret MTV's "The Real World" from the 1990's? Not hilarity, according to my wife. Also, WHY AM I NO LONGER CONSIDERED A FAITHFUL CATHOLIC?!
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Hey! We talked about some stuff. What Gomer will include, who knows. But I need to enter the show notes, so have create the episode.
\n\n*Consecrated life!
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\nThere are a ton of great religious orders in the country that go back generations. Maybe take some time to check a few of them out. The Archdiocese of Cincinatti is hosting a Zoom get together for people interested in consecrated life. Check it out. Or dont. You an adult. You're free to ignore your vocation.
Luke talks about FIFA and enters into an existential crisis about the death of small towns and cities. This leads to a broader conversation about martyrdom and "emergencies" for the Church and the world.
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We hit up our Patreon fans (Facebook folks, coming soon!) for questions and BOY O BOY did we get a lot! We're talking questions about putting Pronouns in your email signature, is "authenticity" overplayed, have you ever had conflicts with female friends, how do you and Luke resolve conflict, how much better is Gomer and Luke, and more!
\n\nWe hit about 10-ish questions, even one about Luke's favorite Dayton pizza place, and each one is less than 10 minutes in our answers. BUT DON'T WORRY, Gomer still manage to sneak in a reference to Greek Mythology.
\n\nAlso, the "Lightning Round" is literally no different from the regular question/answer format, except I put a lightning strike before each question.
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Luke opens with a song. A terrible, terrible song.
\n\nGomer goes through the September Challenge with interesting comments on food and diets from various folks.
\n\nThen Taylor Marshall (meow) comes up on the show, along with Fr. James Martin.
\n\nHere's the deal. After we did this show I was cleaning the playroom in my house while my wife and kids were at the YMCA. While doing mindless labor, I listened to Catholic Stuff You Should Know, "Drinks after Lord's Day", and realized that we kind of talk about the same thing- but one's from a priest perspective and the other is from our sad minds. I think you should listen to it after our show.
","summary":"Luke opens with a song. A terrible, terrible song. Gomer goes through the September Challenge with interesting comments on food and diets from various folks. Then Taylor Marshall (meow) comes up on the show, along with Fr. James Martin. Here's the deal. After we did this show I was cleaning the playroom in my house while my wife and kids were at the YMCA. While doing mindless labor, I listened to Catholic Stuff You Should Know, \"Drinks after Lord's Day\", and realized that we kind of talk about the same thing- but one's from a priest perspective and the other is from our sad minds. I think you should listen to it after our show.","date_published":"2020-09-18T14:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/b6394fc7-757e-48cf-b36e-65386c512bbc.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":64671161,"duration_in_seconds":4619}]},{"id":"4e146199-f5b8-4b47-838b-af8fb694e29d","title":"Origin Stories","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/260","content_text":"PATREON:\n\nJoin Patreon at any tier to join the September Challenge (Diet, Movement, Cognition, and Prayer). Special thanks to Marygrace for getting her fiance a Patreon account for his birthday. Thomas, enjoy the artwork, buddy! Thanks for listening! Also, shout out to Fr. James H. who donated a ton of money to us, which will enable \"Torches Together LLC\" to be a thing! \n\nYou should really read the Iliad and the Odyssey. \n\nFinally. I just realized it is 9/11. Never forget the soldiers or the civilians who died because of, or as a result of, this murderous act. Sponsored By:BetterHelp.com: Get 10% off your secure, specialized counseling at BetterHelp.com/foxes Links:Latte Liberals: Al Sharpton Now Morning Joe's Voice Of Reason On Violence In NYC & Defund The Police - YouTube — Latte Liberals: Al Sharpton Now Morning Joe's Voice Of Reason On Violence In NYC & Defund The Police\r\n","content_html":"Join Patreon at any tier to join the September Challenge (Diet, Movement, Cognition, and Prayer). Special thanks to Marygrace for getting her fiance a Patreon account for his birthday. Thomas, enjoy the artwork, buddy! Thanks for listening! Also, shout out to Fr. James H. who donated a ton of money to us, which will enable "Torches Together LLC" to be a thing!
\n\nYou should really read the Iliad and the Odyssey.
\n\nFinally. I just realized it is 9/11. Never forget the soldiers or the civilians who died because of, or as a result of, this murderous act.
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Sorry for the delay. Life is a never ending gauntlet of suffering, loss and bitter partings. Anywho, Gomer was unable to record. Luke put out a few random requests for pitch-hitters on Twitter and Instagram, AND SO MANY OF YOU RESPONDED!
\n\nThis was such a fun epsiode to record. I think you'll enjoy it.
\n\nThere are three interviews on this epsiode. First, Luke chats with Lucas Hennesey, a friend from colllege and normal life, about being a 'Traddie,' the Latin Mass, and being a person of faith in a world quite often hostile to it.
\n\nThen Luke chats with Bernadette Dalgetty from An Eldless Pursuit, a husband and wife wedding photogtpahy team. They chat about the creative process, starting a business and other stuff. Very cool chat.
\n\nAnd then. It finally happens. Sarah Rose Bort and Sarah Rogers make their much anticipated debut. We chat about our experience leading ministdry together, the importance of mentorhsip, what happens when a leader with a "strong personality" leaves (I'll let you guess who that leader was), and other stuff that I cant remember.
\n\nThree unique conversations that I very much enjoyed. I think you will as well.
\n\nThe September Challenge Continutes!
\n\n[So much fun stuff happening on our Pateron right now. Engage your FOMO that we all know you have. Support us on Patreon and partake in the September Challenge! www.patreon.com/cf
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I didn't have power at all yesterday due to Hurricane Laura. In fact, at around the 1-hour mark of this episode you will hear as the power went out in the middle of the show! Luke and I continued and wrapped up by him chatting with me over my phone while we both recorded our own ends on our own laptops. That's the glory of not relying on Skype to provide the actual recording, just the interaction.
\n\nOK, enough of that.
\n\nWe are going to launch a September Challenge for Patrons here. The goal is mental and physical health as COVID gets really, really old. More information to follow. All Patrons can join in at any Tier (thinking of you, Rebecca!).
\n\nAfter introducing "Sexodus30", we then talk about Luke's Dave Chappell Show experience in the fields outside Dayton with his lightweight wife and how "tired" they were the next morning. "Tired" is Steubie speak for "politely hungover".
\n\nFinally, we end the show with a conversation on the importance of human agency in the context of cognition. Gomer, you see, loves Audiobooks and is an auricular learner, but so much of his investment and instruction with his kids revolves around reading and writing. Luke loves this and reveals that he is on a project recently of handwriting every down at work, including emails, before he sends them, creating a much more thoughtful experience.
\n\nThen my power goes out and we wrap up the show.
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Katie Ruvalcaba, AKA Twitch champion "Mrs. Ruvi", crashes the show with little notice but a lot to share!
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We talk about Comedy and its relationship to truth, insight, and when they go too far. Then we move into the topic of the show: repeating everything Catholic Stuff You Should Know's episode "Addicted to Mediocrity".
\n\nAddicted to Mediocrity
\nhttps://catholicstuffpodcast.com/podcast/2020/07/09/addicted-to-mediocrity.html
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Luke is a "moody douchebag and needs to repent" (his words and not mine!)
\nYouth Ministry
\nThe high school sports and Gomer was fat
\nYouth Ministry once again
\nLuke: “I don’t trust people in ministry who don’t feel like they should be doing something else”
\nGomer: Why I went into youth ministry, professional catholicism
\nLuke: Understanding the calling
\nGomer: Core Team and Community
\nLuke: “the best ministry is by tight community”
\nGomer: “like boy bands…”
\nLuke: on Hanson, Tool
\nGomer: I wanted to listen to CSYSK, but my new audiobook was released, soooo...
\nLuke: introduces the next episode; Addicted to Mediocrity; Watch The Matrix
\nGomer: I loved the idea behind The Matrix 2 & 3
\nLuke Blank Check podcast on The Matrix
\nLuke: intro show topic
\nGomer: Gomer Reads Luke’s tweets on baby sharts (with a sick piano ballad underneath)
\nLuke: I’m totally fine with breast milk
\nGomer: you should be a lactation consultant
\nLuke: intros topic again
\nLuke reads DM to Sarah (with a sick piano ballad, again)
\nGomer: passive-aggressive ma
\nLuke: Vulnerability in honesty
\nGomer: anti-vulnerability as persona
\nLuke: You’re causing more hurt b/c it’s not real!
\nGomer: The W’s are terrible
\nGomer: vulnerability not voyeurism
\nLuke: honesty in presenting on a stage
\nLuke: the medium is the message, podcast lets you unpack, enough distance to analyze and not “I need to get this off of my heart”
\nLuke shares his vulnerability - God’s voice
\nGomer shares his demonic voice
\nLuke and Gomer talk horror movies
\nGomer: Karate Kid with my kids
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Luke thinks Tay-Tay is rebooting the timeline to get us out of the Darkverse. We talk woke culture, Taylor Swift, theology, and fandom.
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","date_published":"2020-07-31T13:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/0c509072-bab3-40d4-9efb-b2d2d3f34df9.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":63731331,"duration_in_seconds":4187}]},{"id":"d2c901d6-5abe-46db-9694-131ad79bf0d4","title":"Gomer Finishes Harry Potter","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/253","content_text":"Five things came together to help me understand the plot of the Harry Potter series:\n\n\nRebecca told me JK Rawlings was super smart and studied a lot about Medieval history.\nThe playfulness of her Latin and her familiarity with it\nThe quote from a few weeks ago about how our brains have so little in common with Medieval ways. of thinking, due in large part to the printing press\nMy best friend persuading me not to read Harry Potter by sending me a photo of her tattoo\nJordan Peterson's book on Jungian psychology, \"Maps of Meaning\". \n\n\n1 COR 15\n\nBut in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death...\n\nBut some one will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies...\n\nThere are celestial bodies and there are terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory...\n\nThus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual which is first but the physical, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. I tell you this, brethren: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.\n\nROMANS 8\n\nFor the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. \n\nGOMER'S THOUGHTS\n\nTelos of a thoroughly moral universe where even matter was moral. Aristotle taught that the nature of a thing had an end, even inert matter, and matter's end was to become gold. All of nature, subject to futility in the eyes of Scripture, would eventually become the highest and most divine substance, which is gold. The Medieval Alchemist saw the Christian task to hurry this process of turning the perishable into the imperishable. Transmutation is the process: the alchemist's craft supplies skill in place of time, which is too slow. Aristotelian universe of Alchemy supplanted by Platonic rejection of telos and rise of Natural Sciences through the ultimate technology of Scientific Method. Even the paintings are serving ends and are moral agents, as everything has a moral signification. Thus, portkeys that muggles can't notice. Thus, the horcruxes that drive the plot of the last book.\n\nThe union of opposites- Harry and Voldemort, first book and the last book. This Stone was to give immortality and the Deathly Hallows are three objects meant to avoid death, two to defeat death and one to hide from death. Harry embraces death and thus had attained life. Voldemort ran from death, though he surrounded himself with it- murder to make horcruxes, Death Eaters, violence, etc. \n\nThere is no technology in wizarding world. They do not get Muggle technology because they are Alchemists living in a pre-scientific world. This is the world of the Alchemist, not the chemist. They have candles, not electricity, which Muggles invented. They don’t get cars and radios and whatnot. Arthur Weasley is fascinated by Muggle technology but even he doesn’t really understand it, and his whole job in the Ministry of Magic is about the illegal use of muggle artifacts!\n\nChrist is the philosopher’s stone in medieval alchemy, redemption of matter, and even the body. This Christianization of the philosopher's stone develops it into both gold transmutation and also Elixir of Life, which preserves the physical body of the drinker. This is why there are two or three biblical citations in the last book. For instance, “And the last enemy to be defeated is death.” Which is found in a church cemetery on a gravestone as they hunt horcruxes. In Medieval alchemy, it is the stone which the builders rejected that has become the cornerstone. Sponsored By:BetterHelp.com: Get 10% off your secure, specialized counseling at BetterHelp.com/foxes Sock Religious: Buy cools stuff at Sock Religious and tell them Catching Foxes sent you!","content_html":"Five things came together to help me understand the plot of the Harry Potter series:
\n\nBut in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death...
\n\nBut some one will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies...
\n\nThere are celestial bodies and there are terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory...
\n\nThus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual which is first but the physical, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. I tell you this, brethren: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
\n\nFor the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
\n\nTelos of a thoroughly moral universe where even matter was moral. Aristotle taught that the nature of a thing had an end, even inert matter, and matter's end was to become gold. All of nature, subject to futility in the eyes of Scripture, would eventually become the highest and most divine substance, which is gold. The Medieval Alchemist saw the Christian task to hurry this process of turning the perishable into the imperishable. Transmutation is the process: the alchemist's craft supplies skill in place of time, which is too slow. Aristotelian universe of Alchemy supplanted by Platonic rejection of telos and rise of Natural Sciences through the ultimate technology of Scientific Method. Even the paintings are serving ends and are moral agents, as everything has a moral signification. Thus, portkeys that muggles can't notice. Thus, the horcruxes that drive the plot of the last book.
\n\nThe union of opposites- Harry and Voldemort, first book and the last book. This Stone was to give immortality and the Deathly Hallows are three objects meant to avoid death, two to defeat death and one to hide from death. Harry embraces death and thus had attained life. Voldemort ran from death, though he surrounded himself with it- murder to make horcruxes, Death Eaters, violence, etc.
\n\nThere is no technology in wizarding world. They do not get Muggle technology because they are Alchemists living in a pre-scientific world. This is the world of the Alchemist, not the chemist. They have candles, not electricity, which Muggles invented. They don’t get cars and radios and whatnot. Arthur Weasley is fascinated by Muggle technology but even he doesn’t really understand it, and his whole job in the Ministry of Magic is about the illegal use of muggle artifacts!
\n\nChrist is the philosopher’s stone in medieval alchemy, redemption of matter, and even the body. This Christianization of the philosopher's stone develops it into both gold transmutation and also Elixir of Life, which preserves the physical body of the drinker. This is why there are two or three biblical citations in the last book. For instance, “And the last enemy to be defeated is death.” Which is found in a church cemetery on a gravestone as they hunt horcruxes. In Medieval alchemy, it is the stone which the builders rejected that has become the cornerstone.
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Luke and I discuss the book Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, How to Watch TV News, and The Shallows by Nicolaus Carr, and how they build the case against TV and the Internet in terms of conveying information density.
\n\nGomer is convinced of the argument because "The Medium is the Message." But, in a fascinating twist, we apply that to the "digital first" online church and what potential pitfalls that can have on a cognitive basis, as well as to the vitality of Christian faith.
\n\nLuke applies it to British self-hating Soccer fans and to the difference between pop art that passes and the Classics that remain.
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She's here! Everleigh Carey is big, beautiful, and a female version of Luke. Oh, but it was a tumultuous birthing experience filled with yogurt, Luke laying down a lot, an emergency C-section, and all the things that make parents anxious. Then Gomer shares about the tragic death of a family member (pray for him) and the need to just be with one another.
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We talk about random things popping into our news feeds, then Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the last season of Mad Men and why it matters, and how Godfather delivers a complicated moral message without being beige moralism. And all of the above as it relates to the death of meaning and the death of the West.
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We start with goofiness. Then go into Gomer's sheer exhaustion with sorting out the facts and the blasts. Thanks to BetterHelp.com for sponsoring this show!
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","summary":"Cussing happens. This is a whole show dedicated to nothing. You may laugh.","date_published":"2020-06-12T13:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/928a4b8d-1400-41db-ad4c-0bea73e59aff.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":86040579,"duration_in_seconds":5377}]},{"id":"91e65a80-9c64-440e-aa46-58dcb51438dc","title":"No Easy Solutions","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/246","content_text":"This show on the racism and riots in our country was recorded last Monday. This is not a news show. This doesn't cover autopsy reports or the President's appearance at various churches/shrines. It walks through bits of history (Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, Reconstruction, Whites Only drinking fountains, etc.) and commentary on today's violence. Start with the JP2 quote from Christifidelis Laici in the show notes. Then listen. Links:The Tulsa race massacre happened 99 years ago today - CNN — Outnumbered African Americans retreated to Greenwood District, but early morning the next day, a white mob started to loot and burn businesses in Greenwood, according to the Tulsa Historical Society and Museum.\r\nIn a span of just 24 hours, 35 square blocks were burned and over 1,200 houses destroyed. Contemporary reports of deaths began at 36, but historians now believe as many as 300 people died, according to the Tulsa Historical Society and Museum.See Killer Mike Deliver Emotional Speech to Atlanta Protestors - Rolling Stone — As protests in Atlanta escalated toward looting and clashes with police, Run the Jewels’ Killer Mike appeared at the mayor’s press conference to deliver an emotional speech pleading with protestors not to vandalize their city.\r\n\r\nThe rapper, the son of an Atlanta police officer, said that while he has “a lot of love and respect for police officers,” mentioning that police department’s “original eight” African-American officers in the 1940s. “Here we are 80 years later, and I watched a white officer assassinate a black man, and I know that tore your heart out” Killer Mike said. \r\n\r\n“I’m mad as hell. I woke up wanting to see the world burn yesterday, because I’m tired of seeing black men die. He casually put his knee on a human being’s neck for nine minutes as he died like a zebra in the clutch of a lion’s jaw.”\r\n\r\nHe continued, “So that’s why children are burning it to the ground. They don’t know what else to do. And it is the responsibility of us to make this better right now. We don’t want to see one officer charged, we want to see four officers prosecuted and sentenced. We don’t want to see targets burning, we want to see the system that sets up for systemic racism burnt to the ground.”Christifideles Laici (December 30, 1988) | John Paul II — 5. We furthermore call to mind the violations to which the human person is subjected. When the individual is not recognized and loved in the person's dignity as the living image of God (cf. Gen 1:26), the human being is exposed to more humiliating and degrading forms of \"manipulation\", that most assuredly reduce the individual to a slavery to those who are stronger. \"Those who are stronger\" can take a variety of names: an ideology; economic power, political and inhumane systems, scientific technocracy or the intrusiveness of the mass-media. Once again we find ourselves before many persons, our sisters and brothers, whose fundamental rights are being violated, owing to their exceedingly great capacity for endurance and to the clear injustice of certain civil laws: the right to life and to integrity, the right to a house and to work, the right to a family and responsible parenthood, the right to participation in public and political life, the right to freedom of conscience and the practice of religion.\r\n\r\nWho is able to count the number of babies unborn because they have been killed in their mothers' wombs, children abandoned and abused by their own parents, children who grow without affection and education? In some countries entire populations are deprived of housing and work, lacking the means absolutely essential for leading a life worthy of a human being, and are deprived even of those things necessary for their sustenance. There are great areas of poverty and of misery, both physical and moral, existing at this moment on the periphery of great cities. Entire groups of human beings have been seriously afflicted.\r\n\r\nBut the sacredness of the human person cannot be obliterated, no matter how often it is devalued and violated because it has its unshakable foundation in God as Creator and Father. The sacredness of the person always keeps returning, again and again.\r\n\r\nThe sense of the dignity of the human person must be pondered and reaffirmed in stronger. terms. A beneficial trend is advancing and permeating all peoples of the earth, making them ever more aware of the dignity of the individual: the person is not at all a \"thing\" or an \"object\" to be used, but primarily a responsible \"subject\", one endowed with conscience and freedom, called to live responsibly in society and history, and oriented towards spiritual and religious values.\r\n\r\nIt has been said that ours is the time of \"humanism\": paradoxically, some of its atheistic and secularistic forms arrive at a point where the human person is diminished and annihilated; other forms of humanism, instead, exalt the individual in such a manner that these forms become a veritable and real idolatry. There are still other forms, however, in line with the truth, which rightly acknowledge the greatness and misery of individuals and manifest, sustain and foster the total dignity of the human person.\r\n\r\nThe sign and fruit of this trend towards humanism is the growing need for participation, which is undoubtedly one of the distinctive features of present-day humanity, a true \"sign of the times\" that is developing in various fields and in different ways: above all the growing need for participation regarding women and young people, not only in areas of family and academic life, but also in cultural, economic, social and political areas. To be leading characters in this development, in some ways to be creators of a new, more humane culture, is a requirement both for the individual and for peoples as a whole[10].\r\n\r\nThree-Fifths Compromise - Wikipedia — The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise reached among state delegates during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention. Whether and, if so, how slaves would be counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxing purposes was important, as this population number would then be used to determine the number of seats that the state would have in the United States House of Representatives for the next ten years. The compromise solution was to count three out of every five slaves as people for this purpose. Its effect was to give the Southern states a third more seats in Congress and a third more electoral votes than if slaves had been ignored, but fewer than if slaves and free people had been counted equally. The compromise was proposed by delegate James Wilson and seconded by Charles Pinckney on June 11, 1787.[1]\r\n\r\nCornerstone Speech - Wikipedia — The Cornerstone Speech, also known as the Cornerstone Address, was an oration given by Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens at the Athenaeum in Savannah, Georgia, on March 21, 1861, delivered extemporaneously a few weeks before the Civil War began with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter. Stephens' speech defended \"slavery\" as a fundamental and just result of the inferiority of the black race, explained the fundamental differences between the constitutions of the Confederacy and that of the United States, enumerated contrasts between U.S. and Confederate ideologies, and laid out the Confederacy's rationale for seceding from the U.S. In particular, he stated that \"Our new government['s] foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man.\"\r\n\r\nTulsa race massacre - Wikipedia — The Tulsa race massacre (also called the Tulsa race riot, the Greenwood Massacre, or the Black Wall Street Massacre) of 1921[9][10][11][12][13][14] took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents attacked black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[1] It has been called \"the single worst incident of racial violence in American history.\"[15] The attack, carried out on the ground and from private aircraft, destroyed more than 35 square blocks of the district – at that time the wealthiest black community in the United States, known as \"Black Wall Street\".\r\n\r\n","content_html":"This show on the racism and riots in our country was recorded last Monday. This is not a news show. This doesn't cover autopsy reports or the President's appearance at various churches/shrines. It walks through bits of history (Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, Reconstruction, Whites Only drinking fountains, etc.) and commentary on today's violence. Start with the JP2 quote from Christifidelis Laici in the show notes. Then listen.
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First, we break down our latest, most convicting 3-star review ("They'd probably agree"). Second, Luke asks, "What am I supposed to do with my anger?" Our answers involve St Francis de Sales, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Rage Against the Machine.
","summary":"First, we break down our latest, most convicting 3-star review (\"They'd probably agree\"). Second, Luke asks, \"What am I supposed to do with my anger?\" Our answers involve St Francis de Sales, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Rage Against the Machine.","date_published":"2020-05-30T06:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/24015796-6e94-4c10-ae88-7ab2c8c8cc10.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":71618479,"duration_in_seconds":4475}]},{"id":"39acda5d-cf34-4ed1-90a4-8c889927a0f0","title":"Marriage Prep with Luke","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/244","content_text":"Quick catchup on Harry Potter reading, then a dive into Marriage Prep, Grace & Nature, a really small bit on Star Wars numbness, followed by Luke examining the non-profit world of giving and how that will and will not affect a lot of churches. Links:Joy-Filled Marriage – Ascension — Helping prepare engaged couples to embrace God’s plan for the sacrament of matrimony is an honor and a privilege. In today’s climate, it is also a challenge. Joy-Filled Marriage is a marriage preparation program designed to meet that challenge. The two components of the program—Life Skills for Couples and God’s Plan for Love—are complemented by a beautiful Couple's Journal. This program offers a comprehensive approach to marriage preparation that covers not only the sacramentality and theology of marriage, but the practical life skills necessary to live out the rich Catholic vision of marriage.\r\n\r\nOne Body: A Program of Marriage Preparation and Enrichment for the New Evangelization: Grabowski, John, Grabowski, Claire: 9781947792579: Amazon.com: Books — In recent years the Church has called for a more intensive formation for couples preparing for the vocation of marriage, both before the wedding and in the months and years to follow. John and Claire Grabowski's One Body: A Program of Marriage Preparation and Enrichment for the New Evangelization is an answer to that call. Through the teaching of Scripture and the Tradition of the Church, One Body guides couples preparing for marriage and living out their vocation in such important topics as forming a new family, marriage as a covenant and a sacrament, sexuality and the gift of children, mutual submission in marriage, fostering intimacy in all of its forms, constructive conflict resolution, and \"investing\" in a marriage. Written with a seamless blend of real-world experience and faithful theology, including resources to strengthen and sustain vibrant Christian marriages, this easy-to-follow program answers the Church's call to dive deeper into this vital sacrament.","content_html":"Quick catchup on Harry Potter reading, then a dive into Marriage Prep, Grace & Nature, a really small bit on Star Wars numbness, followed by Luke examining the non-profit world of giving and how that will and will not affect a lot of churches.
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I have never read Harry Potter. These two have and love it. So we talk.
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From Quarantine self-hatred to Captain Marvel critiques, to the main topic: confront the evil within us and own it or create endless scapegoats.
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You know it's bad when Gomer is listening to Staind. Also, we talk about the falsehood of the American Work Ethic and the dangers of Remote Work without formal processes.
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This is largely an At-The-Movies episode. We have chapters, so enjoy skipping around to what suits you. We also have a bonus interview at the end of the show. Finally, we have two sponsors: PolicyGenius.com and CatholicSocial.Media!
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","summary":"This is largely an At-The-Movies episode. We have chapters, so enjoy skipping around to what suits you. We also have a bonus interview at the end of the show. Finally, we have two sponsors: PolicyGenius.com and CatholicSocial.Media!","date_published":"2020-04-10T06:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/36db3d39-6daf-4ad5-be24-edf23e394aa5.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":89048014,"duration_in_seconds":7420}]},{"id":"a40c2fdf-e2e8-4bba-b09c-daf5098b57e0","title":"Luke is done with online Catholicism.","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/238","content_text":"Luke is not done with Catholicism. Luke is done with online talking about Catholicism.Sponsored By:Catholic Social Media: Catholic Social Media can help – unbranded, gorgeous posts, relevant to our times that It will help you keep the community alive. Just use GOMERWASWRONG and get 4 weeks of free content. Promo Code: GOMERWASWRONGLinks:You Need To Listen To This Leading COVID-19 Expert From South Korea | ASIAN BOSS - YouTube — We want to thank Professor Kim Woo-joo from Korea University Guro Hospital for taking his valuable time to inform our subscribers. He just started his official YouTube channel and even though it’s all in Korean, you should subscribe to his channel just in case he makes important announcements in the future: https://www.youtube.com/user/KUMCbroa...\r\nNYTimes: \"Job Losses Soar; U.S. Virus Cases Top World\" — just zoom out and look at the graph. I didn't realize the right margin was an actual measurement.The Black Donnellys (Pilot Ending) - Snow Patrol - Open Your Eyes - YouTube — The Black Donnellys (Pilot Ending) - Snow Patrol - Open Your Eyes\r\n","content_html":"Luke is not done with Catholicism. Luke is done with online talking about Catholicism.
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What do you hope to have done when the quarantine is lifted? Then our Adult Attention Deficit Disorder kicks in and we tell 20,000 stories literally one right after the other.
\n\nThis one is for the true story-tellers out there. You know who I am talking about: those brave souls who are compelled to one-up each other, to interrupt and talk over each other, just to tell one slightly related story after another. Here's to you, Narcissist!
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Our first ever Livestream right onto facebook.com/catchingfoxespodcast! This was recorded on Monday evening. We talk COVID-19 and... hmmm... YOUR QUESTIONS! Also, Gomer's entire rig - microphone, headphones, USB hub and $3,000 laptop, AND HIS WHITE CLAW CAME CRASHING DOWN!
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*Links and Books
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\nAritcle on marriage we forgot to share last week
\nhttps://www.crisismagazine.com/2020/why-faithful-catholics-get-divorced
Wicked Rive: When the Mississippi Last Ran Wild by Lee Sandlin
\nA riveting narrative look at one of the most colorful, dangerous, and peculiar places in America's historical landscape: the strange, wonderful, and mysterious Mississippi River of the 19th century.
https://www.amazon.com/Wicked-River-Mississippi-When-Last/dp/0307473570
\n\nTitan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
\nJohn D. Rockefeller, Sr., history’s first billionaire and the patriarch of America’s most famous dynasty, is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, a National Book Award-winning biographer, gives us a detailed and insightful history of the mogul. Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller’s exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book indelibly alters our image of this most enigmatic capitalist.
https://www.audible.com/pd/Titan-Audiobook/B00ECGLKLG
\n\nCan't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins
\nFor David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare - poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a US Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. The only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force Tactical Air Controller, he went on to set records in numerous endurance events, inspiring Outside magazine to name him The Fittest (Real) Man in America.
*Gratitus Simpsons Clip to Help Us Through These Times
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\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56zNyjII8Fg
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Luke listens to a podcast that's not Pints with Aquinas and has an idea: let's take the theological concept of Sloth/Acedia, aka, "the noonday devil", and combine it with the complete lack of training or purpose many institutions give employees.
\nGomer applies it to marriages, with less than successful results.
\nThen Luke mocks Gomer's pain when he collapsed on our friends' mom's front yard sobbing.
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Luke fails at Exodus 90, but pretends he doesn't. Luke solves chastity for young adults. Gomer misunderstands Luke's argument for 60 minutes, then gets it and agrees with Luke WITH NUANCE. Then, we discuss carnivore and everyone's favorite Gen Xer's lava butt. Thanks to CatholicSocial.Media for sponsoring this show!
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We talk about everything: Gomer has gone carnivore, Luke hates Presentism and sorta likes Rockefeller, Gomer cries about his lovely daughter, then we have everyone's favorite: LUKE MOVES BACK TO HIS HOME TOWN segment.
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Patrick and Ethan join us and Luke makes it shine like the stars in the Heavens. Gomer largely watches.
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Bishop Barron floated an idea out there: social media is the getting ugly and supposed Catholic Theological Experts are causing a lot the problem, so maybe the hierarchy should do something. But then I'm sitting here asking, "Who will enforce it? The USCCB? Seriously?"
\n\nThen we talk about how, outside of sporting events, there is no real public life, thus Virtual Reality is going to kill us all.
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Special Announcement, Money, Patreon, and then TOPICS! Special Announcement, Money, Patreon, and then TOPICS! Luke loves pregnancy pillows. Gomer loves that Luke loves this. Also, the Novus Ordo Mass, girl altar servers, music, budgeting for couples, sexy time, AND MORE!
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What's better than two dudes talking about female porn addiction? THREE DUDES! Everett Fritz introduces us to Kelsy Skoch, FOCUS employee and Catholic speaker, who both introduce us to the reality of female porn addiction with the new book, "Uncompromising Purity"
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Luke dares to ask the question: "During pregnancy, why don't people ask how much the dad is suffering, HUH?!" Gomer dares to enter the Big Apple for Sexy Paycation 2020. Then we discuss what our 2019 Themes were and our 2020 Themes, ending with a Top Five for 2019!
\n\nLuke is drinking a Ten Fidy, Barrel-aged, very good | Gomer is drinking Vista Bay
\n\nThe Mandalorian ended strongly and on a good note. Erin is not about Disney+ and Luke canceled it without finishing the show. Pregnancy is powerful, which leads us to…
Women, you have it hard, but don’t we dads have it hard, too? Erin is exhausted and now Luke has to do all of the cleaning, podcasting, cooking, and Disney+ watching. “I am so tired. How am I so tired?”
New York was a sexy, sexy trip!
Babymoon in San Antonio! Spending money on the last trip before the first baby.
_Themes are not New Years’ Resolutions. _
\n\nResolutions are stupid because you inevitably over promise but under deliver. Themes are guiding stars or background processes that color all that you do and just hang out, reminding you of something that you need guidance on, not something that you should feel guilty about.
\n\nGomer: Habits
\nGomer wants habits that are good, strong, and healthy, so his is by defining failure as whatever new habit he’s committed to, he has to do it every day or every other day, but never miss two days in a row. It builds habits while leaving room for travel, illness, life, etc.
Luke: Commitment
\nCommitment to his job means not letting things slip.
Luke:
\n5- Buying a House,
\n4- The Ringer Podcast Network and rekindling Luke’s love for the podcast medium and our podcast together,
\n3- Uncut Gem, Joker, Avengers: Endgame,
\n2- Alaska Trip,
\n1- Carey Babies!
Gomer:
\n5- GoFundMe for Small Groups,
\n4- St Louis Trip with Family and Luke,
\n3- Steubenville East with Sr. Miriam,
\n2- Alaska Trip, Joe Rutz’s car, Theresa’s house, etc.,
\n1- SEEK 2019
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the questions: What does Star Wars mean to you? What do you think of the Sequels? What did you think of this movie?
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St. Paul says that the "love of money is the root of all evil." Dave Ramsey quotes the Proverb: "in the house of the wise are stores of choice grains." So we use The Wolf of Wall Street to guide our steps between being lovers-of-self and financially prudent.
\n\n1 Timothy 3:2-4 Now a bishop must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, dignified, hospitable, an apt teacher, 3 no drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and no lover of money. 4 He must manage his own household well, keeping his children submissive and respectful in every way;
\n\n1 Timothy 6:9-11 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and hurtful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evils; it is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced their hearts with many pangs. 11 But as for you, man of God, shun all this; aim at righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.
\n\n2 Timothy 3:1-5 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, fierce, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. Avoid such people.
\n\n**Hebrews 13:5 **Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said, “I will never fail you nor forsake you.”
\n\nJames 1:9-11 Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation, 10 and the rich in his humiliation, because like the flower of the grass he will pass away. 11 For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
\n\nJames 5:1-6 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. 2 Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure for the last days. 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. 5 You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned, you have killed the righteous man; he does not resist you.
\n\nRevelations 3:15-19 “‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot! 16 So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth. 17 For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing; not knowing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. 18 Therefore I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may be rich, and white garments to clothe you and to keep the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see. 19 Those whom I love, I reprove and chasten; so be zealous and repent.
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Mike Mangione is an extremely talented musician and a devout Catholic. Now he tours weekly with Christopher West, who is one of his closest friends. This conversation rips open the veil of artistic achievement, family, how work can destroy your vocation, and how secular art can proclaim the glory of God.
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Michael Federman
\nI’m part of a men’s group who rarely talks about Christ, the Gospel, or the Beatific Vision. Rather, we spend the time really uncharitably attacking Pope Francis, LGBT issues, and talking about the narrowness of who will be saved. To me, we have this backwards. What advice can you give to me about changing the dynamic of this group?
\nIan Ludden
\nDo you have any tips for 20-something-year-old Catholics on how to balance maintaining old (high school, college) friendships with creating new ones? Other than starting a podcast together? :)
\nJared Stremel
\nI am getting married on Saturday, November 30, and would love to hear from you guys some things that would have been helpful to know as a newlywed. I'm going to let that go any direction you want, but I would like to hear something about strengthening the faith of a newlywed couple. Thanks! - https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/183
\nKatie Ruvalcaba
\nI’d like to just hear ten minutes of encouragement on how friggin’ slow and plodding raising kids in the faith is. Just like every day adding in those little graces and disciplines that add up to making a child a saint but which seem to be ineffective in the short run. You could probably just say “it’s ok, it’s gonna pay off in the end, you’re doing a good job. I’m so sorry you’re so tired” over and over for 10 minutes…
\nPaul Martin
\nTotally agree with Katie. Would Love to hear some encouragement or tips on raising kids in the faith with conviction in a time like this when the world seems to be so far against us. also… Living and showing your faith in a secular workplace. I work in a large defense contractor as an engineer. And I want to know better how to show that I am Catholic.
\nAnthony Bones
\nYou guys joke about money but how do you stop yourself from comparing yourself to others who make more? Do you ever struggle with jealousy or anything when you look at other podcasts that have more listeners?
\nFather Brian Hess
\nAn update from Gomer on his prison ministry. (I just started doing ministry at a minimum-security center and I’d be curious about the comparisons)
\nBrendan Gormley
\nWhat is you favorite religious order (can be male or female), and why? Hypothetically, in an alternative universe where you were called to religious life, which do you think you'd join?
\nBradley Stiver
\nYou’re on death row, what’s your last meal?
\nMoira Fleming
\nWhat is some music you listen to that is ostensibly secular but has inadvertently transcendent themes? Or, more specifically, is Sufjan Steves' " To be alone with you" about Jesus or another man?
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We do some follow up from last week’s insanely popular episode and Love and Respect by drawing out the difference between Feminization and Emasculation of the Church today. Then we pull out some great answers by our Patrons when we asked them, “What does Respect mean to you or look like?” Finally, we dive into our central topic: have we forgotten how to tell stories? The contemplative cinema of The Irishman is compared to mainstream superhero movies, and we ask if Netflix can play the role of Cinema Savior or Common Experience Destroyer. Check out the show notes for tons of additional content to watch.
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Disney+, Gomer's dog, THEN SEX, LOVE AND RESPECT!
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Gratuitous Simpsons Clip
\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W647gDp-u-s
\n\nOne of Luke's favorite soccer podcast is back! 'JD & The Rod' are of one several podcasts that gave Luke the courage to pitch to Catching Foxes to Gomer. American Soccer fans need to listen to this. Talking to you, Andrea.
\n\nhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jd-the-rod/id1484028236
\n\nSIbling Horror
\nShort horror stories written by Emma and Matt Fradd. Our plan is to release one per month.
\nhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1483594858
Decent Films
\n\n\n\nAmerican Footall
\n\nIm waiting for the file to finish, so here are three songs that I love from a band I love.
\n\nSo lets just pretend
\nEverything and
\nAnything between you and me
\nWas never meant
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NfnXdXpjL0
What's the alure of inconsequential love?
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqgVws0xZkc
Truth or dare
\nLove is the cross you bear
\nJ'ai mal au cœur, c'est la faute de l'amour
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCP2Lh2L5Ac
Why wont this file load, its almost 4 am. I just want to go to bed.
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We are joined by Rebecca Murphy, former Frannie, former EWTN star, former Youth Minister, current badass. Come and learn from her wonderful life how the Church can suck and how it can be amazing. Thanks to CatholicSocial.Media for sponsoring this show.
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Pssst, the Best Meat's in the Rump.
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'Ohio' the new album from Kevin Heider
\nThe amazing Kevin Heider made a Bruce Springsteen triubute album in the style of Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' It's fantastic. You've love it if you like beauty and important music.
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovIJRloWAhk&list=OLAK5uy_mV4_RALWhHBLm6dggLMAGHn4ybXNoNwhw
'Nebraska' by Bruce Springsteen
\nOne of my favoriet albums of all time. Just the best. - Luke
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxsHA0M8gtM&list=PLiN-7mukU_REqiENrjkvrz8IjpBwQKgSl
Gratuitous Simpsons Clip
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'Best Dad Ever: How My Kids Introduced Me to God the Father' Audiobook Podcast by Brian Kissinger
\nOur good buddy Brian Kissinger wrote a fantastic eBook. The audiobook is aailble for free in podcast form. You need to listen. Now available via Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Podcast Player as well as Apple Podcast. Because God even loves people without iPhones. Just search ‘Best Dad Ever.’
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There goes Hawkeye! Jeremy Renner reportedly coked out and was horribly abusive to his now ex-wife. Then, Luke starts a new segment about how moving back to your high school town is weird. Finally, Luke asks Gomer how scared he is to mess up his kids.
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Spoilers. The horn sounds, so you have been warned. We skip any sort of plot summary and assume you've seen the movie. Three themes of economic injustice, mental health, and isolation interweave into one amazing character study called JOKER.
\n\nWayne Employees (coming home from work) beat up the Joker (coming home from work)
\n\nChapter 3 of CARITAS IN VERITATE by Pope Benedict XVI
\nFRATERNITY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY
\n\n\n“In fact, if the market is governed solely by the principle of the equivalence in value of exchanged goods, it cannot produce the social cohesion that it requires in order to function well. Without internal forms of solidarity and mutual trust, the market cannot completely fulfil its proper economic function. And today it is this trust which has ceased to exist, and the loss of trust is a grave loss.”
\n\n“In the global era, the economy is influenced by competitive models tied to cultures that differ greatly among themselves. The different forms of economic enterprise to which they give rise find their main point of encounter in commutative justice. Economic life undoubtedly requires contracts, in order to regulate relations of exchange between goods of equivalent value. But it also needs just laws and forms of redistribution governed by politics, and what is more, it needs works redolent of the spirit of gift. The economy in the global era seems to privilege the former logic, that of contractual exchange, but directly or indirectly it also demonstrates its need for the other two: political logic, and the logic of the unconditional gift. (Caritas in Veritate, 37)
\n\n“My predecessor John Paul II drew attention to this question in Centesimus Annus, when he spoke of the need for a system with three subjects: the market, the State and civil society[92]. He saw civil society as the most natural setting for an economy of gratuitousness and fraternity, but did not mean to deny it a place in the other two settings. Today we can say that economic life must be understood as a multi-layered phenomenon: in every one of these layers, to varying degrees and in ways specifically suited to each, the aspect of fraternal reciprocity must be present.” - 38
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“Christ took all human suffering on himself, even mental illness. Yes even this affliction, which perhaps seems the most absurd and incomprehensible, configures the sick person to Christ and gives him a share in his redeeming passion” Pope John Paul II, International Conference for Health Care Workers, on Illnesses of the Human Mind, November 30, 1996
\n\n“...stretch out a hand to the sick, to make them perceive the tenderness of God, to integrate them into a community of faith and life in which they can feel accepted, understood, supported, respected; in a word, in which they can love and be loved.” - John Paul II on Depression
\n\nChrist’s public life was a ministry of hope and healing. As Catholics, in imitation of our Lord, we are called to provide hope and healing to others,” they said. “We profess that every human life is sacred, that all people are created in the image and likeness of God and, therefore, a person’s dignity and worth cannot be diminished by any condition, including mental illness.” The bishops called the spike in mental illness, suicide, and drug overdoses a “heartbreaking” crisis, and urged Catholics to help end the social stigma for those seeking support and help in these areas of their lives.
\n\n“Persons with mental illness often suffer in silence, hidden and unrecognized by others,” the bishops said. “We clearly proclaim that there is no shame in receiving a diagnosis of a psychiatric disorder. We affirm the need for education in our communities to remove the unjust prejudice and stigma often associated with mental illness,” they said. Instead, all Catholics should use their unique gifts and talents to help alleviate these problems and to accompany those who suffer, the bishops noted, whether by providing friendship, spiritual support, or professional support if appropriate.
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[We cuss a lot.]
\nConfidence: Gomer thinks it's linked to violence and Luke to self-acceptance. Then we show how Nice Guys and Jerks are the same, but just one of them is better at hiding it. Finally, we talk Hans Urs von Balthasar.
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I read Amy Wellborn's article on The Hack and applying it to social media shenanigans of today. I know dozens of professional ministers that are hanging a question mark on everything now. Walk with me through the pain!
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Our buddy Jon refused to become a Patreon supporter until we got Van Vickle back on the show to talk ghosts, hauntings, and exorcism stories. BUT FIRST! Luke talks about his despair over the Church today, the failure of the bishops to do anything meaningful, and how we are basically still confused by Pope Francis. That's the first 25 minutes. Then ghost stories, kids!
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\nLuke burns down another bridge, but he was right to.
\nThen Luke burns another one down, and I think he was right again.
Then we dive into an amazing S.A. Whitebook quote on Lust.
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Tim Staples, Curtis Martin, Fr. Donald Calloway, Immaculee Ilibagiza... and gomer...? Also, Luke gives us an audio tour of his house. (No footprints) and then Gomer tells Luke a story about his past that Luke has never heard before.
\n\nSo tell me what you want, what you really, really want.
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Recorded August 12: We talk Gomer's need for an assistant, which Gomer denies until a text message comes in and proves him a liar. We talk the Cincinnati scandals, of which Luke knows all the accused.
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To refuse or withhold it can be a grave injustice.221 In determining fair pay both the needs and the contributions of each person must be taken into account. \"Remuneration for work should guarantee man the opportunity to provide a dignified livelihood for himself and his family on the material, social, cultural and spiritual level, taking into account the role and the productivity of each, the state of the business, and the common good.\"222 Agreement between the parties is not sufficient to justify morally the amount to be received in wages.\n\n*221 *\n\n\nCf. Lev 19:13 - \"You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.\"\nDeut 24:14-15 - 14 “You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brethren or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns; you shall give him his hire on the day he earns it, before the sun goes down (for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it); lest he cry against you to the Lord, and it be sin in you.\"\nJas 5:4 - \"Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.\"\n\n\n*222 *\nGS 67 § 2.\n\"This labor, whether it is engaged in independently or hired by someone else, comes immediately from the person, who as it were stamps the things of nature with his seal and subdues them to his will. By his labor a man ordinarily supports himself and his family, is joined to his fellow men and serves them, and can exercise genuine charity and be a partner in the work of bringing divine creation to perfection. Indeed, we hold that through labor offered to God man is associated with the redemptive work of Jesus Christ, Who conferred an eminent dignity on labor when at Nazareth He worked with His own hands. From this there follows for every man the duty of working faithfully and also the right to work. It is the duty of society, moreover, according to the circumstances prevailing in it, and in keeping with its role, to help the citizens to find sufficient employment. Finally, remuneration for labor is to be such that man may be furnished the means to cultivate worthily his own material, social, cultural, and spiritual life and that of his dependents, in view of the function and productiveness of each one, the conditions of the factory or workshop, and the common good.\"Links:James 5:1-6 RSVCE - Warning to Rich Oppressors - Come now, - Bible Gateway — James 5:1-6, ***Warning to Rich Oppressors***\r\n1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. 2 Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure for the last days. 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. 5 You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned, you have killed the righteous man; he does not resist you.Gaudium et spes | Chapter 3 \"Economic and Social Life\" — Justice and equity likewise require that the mobility, which is necessary in a developing economy, be regulated in such a way as to keep the life of individuals and their families from becoming insecure and precarious. When workers come from another country or district and contribute to the economic advancement of a nation or region by their labor, all discrimination as regards wages and working conditions must be carefully avoided. All the people, moreover, above all the public authorities, must treat them not as mere tools of production but as persons, and must help them to bring their families to live with them and to provide themselves with a decent dwelling; they must also see to it that these workers are incorporated into the social life of the country or region that receives them. Employment opportunities, however, should be created in their own areas as far as possible.\r\n\r\nCatechism of the Catholic Church - PART 3 SECTION 2 CHAPTER 2 ARTICLE 7 — Agreement between the parties is not sufficient to justify morally the amount to be received in wages.The Good of Politics | Matthew D. Wright | First Things — Ultimately that hope resides in the City of God, but on a temporal plane, Meador aims to ground the Christian social vision in an intentional life shared with family and friends in local communities. He wants us to become attached to particular places and people, with their unique histories, and to enjoy the everyday gifts of nature by imbibing them thoughtfully and thankfully. A soul that is profoundly attached becomes, in turn, open to a sense of wonder. \r\n\r\n“There is a relationship between enchantment and communal life,” he argues. “Both are premised on the idea that my self is porous and can be penetrated and transformed by the world that exists outside myself.” Thus, local communities are the pathway to social and spiritual renewal, which fortifies the soul against the shallowness of our age and, ultimately, revivifies concern for the common good. ","content_html":"This is what happens when one guy had 3 hours of sleep and the other guy is 3 beers in before the conversation starts.
\n\n2434 A just wage is the legitimate fruit of work. To refuse or withhold it can be a grave injustice.221 In determining fair pay both the needs and the contributions of each person must be taken into account. "Remuneration for work should guarantee man the opportunity to provide a dignified livelihood for himself and his family on the material, social, cultural and spiritual level, taking into account the role and the productivity of each, the state of the business, and the common good."222 Agreement between the parties is not sufficient to justify morally the amount to be received in wages.
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\nGS 67 § 2.
\n"This labor, whether it is engaged in independently or hired by someone else, comes immediately from the person, who as it were stamps the things of nature with his seal and subdues them to his will. By his labor a man ordinarily supports himself and his family, is joined to his fellow men and serves them, and can exercise genuine charity and be a partner in the work of bringing divine creation to perfection. Indeed, we hold that through labor offered to God man is associated with the redemptive work of Jesus Christ, Who conferred an eminent dignity on labor when at Nazareth He worked with His own hands. From this there follows for every man the duty of working faithfully and also the right to work. It is the duty of society, moreover, according to the circumstances prevailing in it, and in keeping with its role, to help the citizens to find sufficient employment. Finally, remuneration for labor is to be such that man may be furnished the means to cultivate worthily his own material, social, cultural, and spiritual life and that of his dependents, in view of the function and productiveness of each one, the conditions of the factory or workshop, and the common good."
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Luke lives in Dayton and was at that spot where the shootings occurred just the evening before enjoying a drumline show. He invites Kevin Heider, a Dayton native, to join us. Yes, we talk about Trump, Gun Control, and other issues. And yes, Luke got permission from Five Iron Frenzy to use their song.
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We started talking about Fiona Apple's "Criminal", then Luke posited that 90's pop was "deeper" because Gen-Xers were angsty and hypersexual. We disagreed, until it came to Ginger Spice. Then, we agreed too much!
\n\nAlso, Gomer is now a boss and Luke wonders if I can make my employees virtuous.
\n\nGomer doubts it.
\n\nEND PART ONE.
\n\nPart Two is all about us screaming at each other for 1.5 hours over the concept of a just or living wage. It's hilarious at how stupid it is.
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Gomer is low-talking because he's the only one awake at his in-laws' house (I mean, it IS 9:30pm, after all). We discuss random stuff, rarely get to a point, and laugh along the way. Also, the ENDING IS WORTH IT!
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Fradd was in Australia for six weeks and hit rock bottom, then went on Healing the Whole Person retreat with Sr. Miriam James (Gomer's hero) and God radically healed him. Then GOOGLE screwed him over. sad.
Special Guest: Matt Fradd.
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I love the Stewart story! Conversion to Catholicism, dead-end unhappy life, a return to the land and farming, and pooping in a bucket, to discovering the grace of enough. Rest assured, her personal commitment to Christ will make you happy you suffered through Luke and me till the bitter end. She's amazing.
\n\nThanks to CatholicStock.com and The Catholic Card Game Generations Expansion!
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The Catholic Young Adult scene is filled with hookups. We ignore this, we aren't doing ministry of any sort. Then we dive into Healing and then Hope. At the end, it's a SHOCKING story of hope and prayer.
\n\nThanks to our sponsors, CatholicStock and The Catholic Cardgame: Generations Expansion (Now on Kickstarter)
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*We almost kept them all to Ten Minutes. *
\n\nThank you, Alaska! We had a great time at The Heights and at Theresa's house!
\nGet ready, St Louis, 'cuz you next! (July 23rd).
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First, Fergalicious.
\nThen, Twittermaggedon.
\nFinally, Luke asks Gomer how we can, outside of faith sharing groups (buy my book!), actually grow in our faith. Gomer lies in order to answer this question. In the end, you'll be enriched, engaged, and engorged on Glory.
\nAlso, OJ SIMPSON AND BILL COSBY ARE ON TWITTER!!! HAPPY FATHERS DAY!
Twitter Rage, Coping Mechanisms, and Evangelical Gomer and the FIRE movement
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My wife and I are Catholic converts from evangelicalism (though my wife was baptized Orthodox, then raised Presbyterian). Easter Sunday 2009 my wife and I entered the church. On Easter Monday 2009 we started our farm. I am a suburban kid who started a sustainable farm (i.e., no farming experience) through the influence of Wendell Berry and Joel Salatin. Since 2012 our only source of income. My wife is at home with our 6 kids under 9--feel your pain Gomer.
\n\nGomer, I have noted you have sometimes brought up Wendell Berry, distributivism, and issues about our modern food system. And you guys are interested in the anima technica vacua, which would be related to our alienation from the food, farming, and natural world that sustains us 3 times/day! You have touched on it, but you have not taken on the conversation of how Catholics ought to think about food and farming. And this could also fit nicely into your "don't put me in a Catholic box" theme of the show--thinking carefully about food and farming is not the sole territory of secular liberals--Catholics should be leading the charge!
\n\nYou can see more about us here:
\nwww.ncregister.com/daily-news/catholic-family-goes-back-to-nature-harvesting-gods-good-earth-and-faith
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD5jnxhne7o&feature=youtu.be
And here is where I went head to head with R.R. Reno of First Things. (I have a lot of respect for Reno and think he is right on most things, but here I think I was dead right!)
\nhttps://www.firstthings.com/article/2014/03/inequality-and-agency
\nhttps://www.firstthings.com/article/2014/05/letters
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30 minutes of chatting, followed by 45 minutes of discussion about Bishop Robert Barron's "Letter to a Suffering Church".
\n\nLord Jesus Christ, through your Incarnation you accepted a human nature and lived a real, human life. Setting aside the glory of your divinity, you met us face to face in the vulnerability of our humanity.
\n\nThough without sin, you accepted sinners, offering forgiveness and placing yourself before even the most unworthy as a servant and a friend. You became small and weak in the estimation of the powerful, so that you might elevate to glory the small and weak of the world.
\n\nYour descent into our nature was not without risk, as it exposed you to the assaults of the darkest and most terrifying of humanity’s fallen desires—our cruelty and narrowness, our deceptions and our denials. All this culminated in the cross, where your divine love was met with the full fury of our malice, our violence, and our estrangement from your grace.
\n\nYou offered yourself to us with innocence and receptivity, and this was met with the abuse of your body, humiliation and mockery, betrayal and isolation, torture and death. All this—even the dereliction of feeling abandoned by God—you accepted. You became a victim, so that all those victimized since the beginning of the world would know you as their advocate. You went into the darkness, so that all those compelled into the dark by human wickedness would discover in you a radiant light.
\n\nGrant we pray, O Lord, healing for all victims of sexual abuse. Purify your Church of corruption. Bring justice to those who have been wronged. Grant consolation to all who are afflicted. Cast your light to banish the shadows of deception. Manifest to all your advocacy of those who have been so cruelly hurt, and your judgment upon those who, having perpetrated such crimes, remain unrepentant. Compel those in your Church whom you have entrusted to safeguard the innocent and act on behalf of the victims to be vigilant and zealous in their duties. Restore faith to those from whom it has been stolen, and hope to those who have despaired.
\n\nChrist the Victim, we call out to you!
\n\nStrengthen your faithful to accept the mission placed before us, a mission of holiness and truth. Inspire us to become advocates of those who have been harmed. Grant us strength to fight for justice. Impart to us courage so that we might forthrightly face the challenges to come. Raise up saints from your Church, and grant us the grace to become the saints you desire us to be. This we ask of you, who live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.
\n\nAmen.
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Luke delays recording to attend a concert and relive the early 2000's, we blame the clergy for speaker-culture, we talk the crappy Atlantic article, we BRIEFLY discuss the terrible Game of Thrones ending; Oh look, Fr Dave is the new FUS President! Then, Gomer's rapid fire: financial independence, peeing, Luke has anger issues, and our Live Show in Appleton was fun!
\n\nHere's this gem from Nat'l Catholic Reporter
\n\n\nLike too many boomer authors, he jumps from a whim to ontology in the twinkling of an eye: The priesthood did not work for Carroll, so the priesthood is the problem and must be abolished. It would be sad if he believed this and did not publish this rubbish. As he does publish it, his influence is pernicious.
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We have the priests from Clerically Speaking on the show (without Gomer for 40 minutes). They talk Catholic Twitter, Friendship vs Fatherhood, Confession as a priest, Political Rage and Self-Sacrifice, Gomer's Anti-Catholic Discussion with a Reformed Baptist, The Role of the Homily, Luke mocks Dynamic Catholic again, The Role and Damage of Professional Laity, and our conclusing BS.
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\n1: No he doesn't.
UPDATE: A super-massive thunderstorm prevented Gomer from meeting and having a nice discussion on Personal Salvation and the Authority of the Church. Thanks, God.
","summary":"Gomer is about to debate an anti-Catholic Protestant and gets some HOT TIPS from Luke on how to engage in a religious argument. Then Luke trashes* Exodus 90 and calls Gomer tubby. *no he doesn't.","date_published":"2019-05-10T06:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/60c7f0d5-3dea-4a5a-b4b0-8aaaf9521235.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":83104834,"duration_in_seconds":5193}]},{"id":"d366eba2-19a3-490d-9a68-b7e18473b180","title":"When Virtue Failed Us.","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/191","content_text":"**NAVIGATE WITH CHAPTERS! \n**The three big ones topics are: Professional Catholicism, Supersessionism, and Harry Truman and the A Bomb. Our smaller, but no less interesting, topics include: \n\n\nGomer's new religion, \nYear of New Things updates, \nGame of Thrones Porn Triggers, \nLuke's housing situation,\n and why Aristotle is not enough to be a good person.\nLinks:Should Christians Evangelize Jews? – Pints with Aquinas — Should Christians Evangelize Jews?\r\nSalvation Is from the Jews: The Role of Judaism in Salvation History from Abraham to the Second Coming: Roy Schoeman, Roy H. Schoeman: 9780898709759: Amazon.com: Gateway — The book traces the role of Judaism and the Jewish people in God's plan for the salvation of mankind, from Abraham through the Second Coming, as revealed by the Catholic faith and by a thoughtful examination of history. It will give Christians a deeper understanding of Judaism, both as a religion in itself and as a central component of Christian salvation.\r\n\r\nTo Jews it reveals the incomprehensible importance, nobility and glory that Judaism most truly has. It examines the unique and central role Judaism plays in the destiny of the world. It documents that throughout history attacks on Jews and Judaism have been rooted not in Christianity, but in the most anti-Christian of forces.\r\n\r\nAreas addressed include: the Messianic prophecies in Jewish scripture; the anti-Christian roots of Nazi anti-Semitism; the links between Nazism and Arab anti-Semitism; the theological insights of major Jewish converts; and the role of the Jews in the Second Coming.Romans 9-11 RSVCE - God’s Election of Israel - I am - Bible Gateway — 9 I am speaking the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit, 2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen by race. 4 They are Israelites, and to them belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; 5 to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed for ever. Amen.\r\n\r\nRomans (Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture): Scott W. Hahn, Peter Williamson, Mary Healy: 9780801036781: Amazon.com: Books — In this addition to the successful Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture (CCSS) series, Scott Hahn, a bestselling author and a leading Catholic interpreter of Scripture, examines Romans from within the living tradition of the Church for pastoral ministers, lay readers, and students alike. The CCSS relates Scripture to Christian life today, is faithfully Catholic, and is supplemented by features designed to help readers understand the Bible more deeply and use it more effectively in teaching, preaching, evangelization, and other forms of ministry. Supported by leading Catholic scholars as well as popular Bible teachers, the series offers a unique level of commentary for Catholic students of the Bible. Its attractive packaging and accessible writing style make it a series to own--and to read! Drawn from the best of contemporary scholarship, series volumes are keyed to the liturgical year and include an index of pastoral subjects.Amazon.com: Truman (9780671456542): David McCullough: Books — The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian.\r\nReadings for Dr. Hahn's Courses — Dr. Scott Hahn - The Official SiteAll Israel Will Be Saved | Article by Scott Hahn — \"All Israel will be Saved: The Restoration of the Twelve Tribes in Romans 9-100\" by Scott Hahn","content_html":"**NAVIGATE WITH CHAPTERS!
\n**The three big ones topics are: Professional Catholicism, Supersessionism, and Harry Truman and the A Bomb. Our smaller, but no less interesting, topics include:
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Luke sings a Disney classic, we talk for 11 minutes about Game of Thrones, then yell at Catholic Twitter for not liking the stuff we like.
\n\nLuke asks, "When you're too busy, what's the first thing to go?" We struggle with pleasing ourselves or the fans, but the fans win when they give us money!
\n\nFinally... Anal Sex. Yes, this is both true and sad.
\n\nAnd we end talking about Marxism.
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Luke encourages us not to do metaphorical hot takes while Notre Dame is burning. Futile. Gomer points out that the best part of the metaphor is that it's just the roof on fire. We're fine down below, hanging out with the cross and altar. Then we dive into MANHOOD. We end with Game of Thrones, Season 8, episode 1 review. SPOILERS!
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Luke and Gomer talk about our experience of praise and worship, and charismatic spirituality, and why it may not work anymore for us. Also, Pope Emeritus Benedict's letter on the scandal is touched upon.
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In this episode, we literally make one joke for 25 minutes about how we can make Luke's potentially new house more sacred. A sacred space, if you will. AND I WILL! Also we discuss the drama and bizarre tweets of the UnplannedMovie Tweeter account.
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We talk Game of Thrones, Luke's last week in ministry, The Lord's Prophecy in 2014 for Luke's life, Discernment, Real prayer that rarely happens in Church, the Pope Francis Ring-Kiss thing (so weird), and more!
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We talk breakdown of the West, the terribleness of politics, why the Extremists are running the centrists off, and Hold On to Your Kids! I want to give a special thanks to our sponsors, "The Five Ways of St. Thomas Aquinas" on Kickstarter and Strive21 (https://www.cardinalstudios.org/a/13029/T4BdJv2Q).
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Our appearance on The Matt Fradd Show, first take on Captain Marvel and ranking Marvel movies, the Dark Knight controversy, is Twitter a Hellscape of awful nastiness, and the Catholic Church is a punchline because of the clergy. Soooooo....
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Luke and Gomer are frank and honest about their own first six months of marriage. Luke yells on the way to Mass and brings a towel to the neighbors' guesthouse. Gomer is still abstaining from sexual intercourse because the sounds are weird.
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Gomer got a table saw. He turned it on. He respected its raw power. Then, his eye-protection also got sucked into the 5,000 rpm blade, taking his face with it. Also, Luke is naked, eating pudding, and singing to Demi Lovato and his wife catches him. Also, we spend some time deconstructing deconstructionism.
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We talk with JD Flynn, canon lawyer and editor-in-chief of Catholic News Agency, about Church Militant's accusations, the ideological news media, Mr. Ted McCarrick's laicization, the Rome Meeting, South Baptist Convention assault issues, and more!
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We tackle topics. A lot of them: IVF, Captain America vs Iron Man, etc. I'm so tired. I gotta go to bed now. Very explicit today, folks.
","summary":"We tackle topics. A lot of them: IVF, Captain America vs Iron Man, etc. I'm so tired. I gotta go to bed now. Very explicit today, folks. ","date_published":"2019-02-15T06:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/bd69e141-e6f1-4608-9771-ac4534379071.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":64373771,"duration_in_seconds":5352}]},{"id":"ffa0cb64-5368-4391-bea8-80532833c56e","title":"Francis Chan is Killing Gomer's Heart","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/179","content_text":"In this show, Gomer reveals to Luke how much evangelical pastor Francis Chan is ruining his life. Also, we talk Avenger's Endgame trailer, Gomer reviews all of Netflix's Marvel shows, and we talk books and music!\n\n**Check out: **Amazing Parish, Catholic Match, and Adore Ministries!Sponsored By:The Amazing Parish: Unlike other conferences, an Amazing Parish conference is a workshop-style format so pastors and parish leadership team members can work side-by-side to learn what a real leadership team looks like, how it operates, and how it can best serve its parishioners. By the end of the conference, you’ll also have gained a lot of knowledge and insight, you’ll have a clear, practical vision of what leadership can look like at your parish and how to implement it once you get home.Catholic Match: Put \"Catching Foxes Made Me Do It\" in your profile to find a human person who is worth your time.Links:Apostasy Report - Francis Chan The Deceiver — Francis Chan has become a big name in \"conference Christianity\" and though in the past he has seemingly proclaimed many truths, you will see that he is now fully embracing error and false teaching of every sort making him an apostate and one whom you should urgently warn of. Those that promote or endorse him, aid and abet the most insidious and destructive form of error.\r\nFrancis Chan - Will You Suffer To Obey? (RCRM 2018) — The worship stuff is powerful, about minute 8 to 24Prayer Makes A Leader - Francis Chan - YouTube — In the series of making a leader, Francis Chan is asked to speak on the topic of Prayer. Prayer is such a special part of a real leader. How can you be a Spiritual leader without praying? How can you lead your family or ministry without getting on your face before God? Prayer is supernatural. Prayer brings us to heart of God. Uploaded with permission.\r\nMarvel Studios' Avengers: Endgame - Big Game TV Spot - YouTube — Today, during the Big Game, fans got an exciting new look at Marvel Studios’ AVENGERS: ENDGAME. \r\nBéla Fleck & The Flecktones \"Big Country\"the year I became a mutherfuckin’ G - YouTube — the year I became a mutherfuckin’ G · Busdriver · Dntel · Lorde Fredd33\r\n\r\nelectricity is on our side\r\n\r\n℗ 2018 Temporary Whatever\r\n\r\nReleased on: 2018-06-08\r\n\r\nProducer: BUSDRIVER\r\nProducer: Dntel\r\nComposer: BUSDRIVER\r\nLyricist: BUSDRIVER\r\n\r\nAuto-generated by YouTube.\r\nParental warning\r\nExplicit lyricsCulture Making (Audiobook) by Andy Crouch | Audible.com — Crouch unpacks the complexities of how culture works and gives us tools for cultivating and creating culture. He navigates the dynamics of cultural change and probes the role and efficacy of our various cultural gestures and postures. Keen biblical exposition demonstrates that creating culture is central to the whole scriptural narrative, the ministry of Jesus and the call to the church. He guards against naive assumptions about \"changing the world,\" but points us to hopeful examples from church history and contemporary society of how culture is made and shaped. Ultimately, our culture making is done in partnership with God's own making and transforming of culture.\r\n\r\n","content_html":"In this show, Gomer reveals to Luke how much evangelical pastor Francis Chan is ruining his life. Also, we talk Avenger's Endgame trailer, Gomer reviews all of Netflix's Marvel shows, and we talk books and music!
\n\n**Check out: **Amazing Parish, Catholic Match, and Adore Ministries!
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We interview Patrick Lencioni of The Table Group and The Amazing Parish. You should read all of his New York Times best-selling books, especially "Death by Meeting," "The Advantage," and "Five Dysfunctions of a Team" as well as "The Better Pastor."
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Special Guest: Patrick Lencioni.
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Thanks to our sponsors, Catholic Match and The Amazing Parish! Hopefully our country or an apostoalte doesn't freak out again and you can sponsor a normal episode soon. Until then, insert sigh here.
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Luke drops bombs on Church Militant and their attacks on Franciscan University. Gomer uses the word "fetishizes" but probably incorrectly. Also, WELCOME THE AMAZING PARISH CONFERENCE and WELCOME BACK CATHOLIC MATCH as sponsors!
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We are joined by the fine priests of Catholic Stuff You Should Know. And Gomer and Fr. John have it out! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
\n\nAlso, pray for priests who are discarded by the workaholism and isolation of this modern twisted culture. And thank God for priests willing to fight for not just holiness, but their own health, virtue, and community.
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Special Guests: Father Mike Schmitz, Leah Darrow, and Matt Fradd.
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Christmas Stuff
\n -left all my stuff at home that I would normally use, but everyone cleared out of the room
\n -shoe-horning this episode FOR THE FANS!
\n -Christmas presents: Luke got scarves, Gomer got the Word on Fire classics
Aquaman (critical, but not really spoilers)
\n -GI Joe, but underwater, and not good
\n -recognized Ocean Master only when he put his silly Bible Man mask on
\n -senseless action sequences that went on for far too long
\n -Hero’s journey story that is weaker than weak
\n -No chemistry between the leads
\n -made aqua man cool, but cannot save the DC universe like Wonder Woman almost did
\n -Some visuals were really awesome, CGI is this movie, like the prequels
Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse
\n -great visuals, but we sat too close that at times it actually hurt to watch
\n -great characters that, even in the silliness, made sense within the movie
\n -Miles Morales is not a copycat spider-man, but has his own powers that stand him out
\n -Puberty is difficult
New Years’ Themes
\n Gomer: Year of New Things
\n Luke: Year of Maturity
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MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!! Gomer apologizes for your favorite host being sick, but the show must go on. Also, Judaism.
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Follow-up: Two great listeners challenge Gomer's previous assertion that Fr. James Martin is corrupting the faith by falsely accommodating the moral teachings of the Church to win LGBT+ souls for Christ. They assert that he isn't respecting 'gradualism' for the sake of the 'heroic ideal.' Gomer asserts that's Lutheran, not Catholic.
\n\nLuke vents about the National Dialogue on Young Adult ministries, and how much he hates this stuff. Surveys?! How dare you? Gomer asks Luke then how do you know what people are saying and thinking about this stuff unless you ask, survey, etc.? Luke: "It reaks of 'we have nothing else to do'."
\n\nIf you haven't read through "Rejoice and Be Glad" by Pope Francis, you are truly missing out. Amidst the loud noises of McCarrick-Vigano, etc., we still need to realize that Pope Francis has got some really, really good stuff. Gaudete et Exsultate is some good stuff.
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We talk to Abigail Rine Favale, who directs and teaches in the William Penn Honors Program, a great books program at George Fox University. She is the author of 'Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion.'
\n\nWe discuss her conversion, evangelical purity culture, the book I Kissed Dating Goodbye, Consent and 3 Paradigms, Transgenderism and Feminism, Waves of Feminism and her work at George Fox.
\n\nThank you CURO Catholic Healthcare for sponsoring this show!
Special Guest: Abigail Rine Favale.
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We talk: Rap, Dave Chappelle, Summer of Scandal and people who think we're just weathering the storm, Voris as Rejectionist, Accommodation argument revisited, Turkey Day traditions, What we are thankful for, a Powerful Letter we received, Catholic Podcasts, SEEK2019, The Problem with FUS, Luke feels dead inside (serious), Adotion or Fostercare, and our closing Shout Outs.
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We talk Vatican Interventions in the USCCB, Taylor Marshall being a douche, what makes a good podcast in our opinion, and WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST?!
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Gomer's essay on authentic accompaniment vs a false missionary zeal, or "accommodation." Gomer and Luke trade sympathetic barbs at one another.
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Gomer and Luke interview Fr. Harrison Ayre from Canada to talk evangelization, especially if it is 'too Protestant' in those Missionary Discipleship circles. We talk things like parish renewal, the emphasis on commitment vs. sacraments, how they do/don't complement one another, and Church of the Nativity gets put on blast yet again.
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Hey friends. We got F bombs in this one. Not safe for carline.
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We talk about A LOT of things. The main event is the recent article by Jenn Morson on how the University has handled Title 9 claims, and once again Gomer talks about "it's all about the culture" with these things. Also, we do FOLLOW UP from our Christopher West episode and take some Patreon supporters questions.
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Christopher West, the American apostle of St. JP2's Theology of the Body, hops on our show for some sexual healing. We talk the nuptial meaning of the body, tree sex, and Gomer making jokes like he's still in 8th grade.
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Luke introduces "Fat Shaming" and the Science of being overweight. Luke then talks about a Von Balthasar quote on meaning in his book, "Prayer". Gomer carries out the main topic of "anti-culture" what it is and what it's doing to us.
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On this episode we recount Luke's travels to the CATHOLIC CREATIVES SUMMIT in Dallas, Texas, do a brief interview with Michael and Tony from Project YM and Catholic Beard Balm Co, talk about the heart of 'thick community', and Gomer smashes the Scandal yet again.
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The second half of last week's episode! We dive into the two Chicago priests arrested in Miami as a sign of the actively gay subcultures and enclaves present in the Church.
\n\nThen I play a statement from my parish's town hall meeting that will break your heart.
\n\nFinally, no gay witch hunt, please! (It was after this that Gomer heard Fr. James Martin's demand to stop the gay witch hunt, which there isn't any actual gay witch hunt, just a lot of blogospher talking. Anna and Shannon are amazing and wrote a great piece about scapegoating all those with same-sex desires.
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Just Luke and Gomer today, folks. We take a break from THE SUMMER OF SCANDAL in order to answer a ton of questions. We recorded for about 3 hours straight, so this is only a portion of those questions answered. Oh yes, tangents were rampant.
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We walk through a bit of the scandals. Much of the links in our show notes touch on the topics covered. Just remember, there is no cake...
\nTHEN WE TALK FASHION!
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\n\nWe introduce to you Bradley Barnes, a handsome convert from Pentecostalism (8 years ago) who works as a Catholic Youth Minister in Cincinnati. We have no idea how or why we found just a random youth minister in Cincinnati. Neither of us have any connections to Cincinnati. Amiright?
\n\nWe start talking youth ministry, but then we talk about the scandal because we all work for the Church and that's all we know what to talk about. There was a lot more constructive conversation about bishops and priests and the role community amongst clergy, especially bishops, should have.
\n\nWe also talk about the idea of the "Imperial Episcopacy" (Article in the links below) and the damage it does from bishops to themselves and to their fellow priests. Here's a quote: "Grotesque unchastity is an obvious symptom, but perhaps even more dangerous to the priesthood is the habit of mendacity that hides unchastity and other sinful habits. Superficial flattery and fawning over the person of the bishop can deprive him—unless he has an uncommonly strong and healthy personality—of the evangelical simplicity and candor he needs to fulfill his duties. While deference to the bishop may begin with true reverence for his office, it too often leads to the growth of vanity, ambition, and clerical careerism. And so it is time to end the Imperial Episcopate. "
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HEY BISHOPS: Seek justice, not just forgiveness...
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Matt and Lisa Martinusen from "The Catholic Card Game" (with the Catching Foxes Expansion Pack) join us to relaunch their Kickstarter, talk about the in's and out's of creating a physical product, and make fun of Michael Vorris.
\n\nLuke and Gomer would like to apologize to the following groups:
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We tackle your toughest questions!
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We talk about The Catholic Card Game with Catching Foxes Expansion Pack, our feedback on Immigration, and why Luke should get off Twitter forever.
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This was recorded two weeks ago, immediately after our immigration episode. This is not the follow up to that episode, but a stand alone podcast on Chris Hardwick's ruination.
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We recorded the day Trump signed an executive order against breaking up families, so we really didn't have time to process the ramifications. Let me make it clear, we are 100% against the punitive separation of children from their families. We are also 100% for the comprehensive immigration reform and greater work visas for immigrant labor. (Gomer is for the legalization of literally all drugs, so that will strip the cartels of most of their power, but we don't talk about that!)
\n\nWhat we are not for is the hype wagon of the left wing media and anti-Trumpkins out there. Nor are we interested in the Sessions-style biblical apologetics of the Trumpkin defenders. We are pro-life, pro-family, and pro-child. Some of these parents are sketchy. Some of these kids are being trafficked (a lot more than you think) and need to be saved. Some are criminals, some are forced into criminal behavior.
\n\nGOMER'S IGNORANCE
\nGomer here: "I will claim more ignorance of the elevation of abuse under Trump's administration, really especially since the month of March. I do think it's due to the increase in illegal border crossings that usually drops off the closer we get to summer. I've spent all day today reading Vox and some others about the background to the anti-Trump recent outrage and have learned a lot. I also think the Colberts of the world are just so blind with Trump hatred (again, personally, I did not vote for him and never will) they will blame everything on him and not on a lack of space, of funds, or of personnel to help these kids.
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Our buddy David is now a priest! Fr. David Hust has a nice ring to it. It was awesome watching a friend of 17 years become a Roman Catholic Priest and celebrate his first Mass. It was a very traditional sung Mass and was just beautiful.
\n\nThen Luke gives us his 5 points on how Catholic Dating Does Have to Suck (but probably will).
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Luke tries to break up with Gomer on the show. Then we talk about Cher, the Young Adult Leadership Summit, Deadpool 2 and Solo.
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\nKevin Heider gives a wonderful exploration as a singer/songwriter of the balance between objective and subjective meanings of songs and movies. He talks how Everclear's "So Much for the Afterglow" deeply moved him as an 8th grader to hear about the terribleness of the songwriter's father. Luke talks about how his view of rap changed after VH1's "Behind the Music" with Ice T.
Luke also mentions making a vinyl album on a mythical Catching Foxes label, which I'M ALL FOR.
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This episode was recorded two weeks ago in April. We discuss Praise and Worship music, movements and music, and Luke constantly going overboard on Reddit.
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Luke contemplates his extreme extroversion and shares his struggles at work. Gomer talks about robot superintelligences instead.
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We invited Jonathan Alexander, President of Adore Ministries, to review Avengers, Infinity War with us!
\n\nAlso, SKRULLS ARE COMING!
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\n\nCaptain America: Civil War
\nDoctor Strange
\nGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
\nSpider-Man: Homecoming
\nThor: Ragnarok
\nBlack Panther
\nAvengers: Infinity War
\n(TBD: Ant-Man and the Wasp, Captain Marvel, Avengers 4,)
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The Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) are:
\n\nYup. Ant-Man is phase two.
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And Drugs.Sponsored By:The Liturgical Institute: A weekend immersed in the authentically Catholic teaching on the liturgy.Links:Project 86 — \"Sheep Among Wolves is the definitive Project 86. That in mind, Sheep Among Wolves is familiar, diverse, but offers the challenge needed to stimulate the mind of an longtime fan. A delightful late 2017 surprise, this is a must have for Project 86 fans of all kinds. For these reasons, CrypticRock gives Sheep Among Wolves 5 out of 5 stars.\" - Cryptic Rock\r\n\r\nBefore These Crowded Streets - Wikipedia — Before These Crowded Streets is the third studio album by Dave Matthews Band, released on April 28, 1998. It was the last official album by the group to be produced by longtime producer Steve Lillywhite until 2012's Away from the World and their first album recorded at The Plant Recording Studios in Sausalito, California.[8] The album title is taken from the lyrics of the song \"The Dreaming Tree.\"[9] It debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 charts after selling 421,000 units in its first week of release knocking the Titanic soundtrack from the top spot after a run of 16 consecutive weeks at #1.[10]\r\n\r\nAlbums - Brother, Sister (2006) | mewithoutYou — 13. In A Sweater Poorly Knit\r\n\r\nCatechism of the Catholic Church - IntraText — 1072 \"The sacred liturgy does not exhaust the entire activity of the Church\":10 it must be preceded by evangelization, faith, and conversion. It can then produce its fruits in the lives of the faithful: new life in the Spirit, involvement in the mission of the Church, and service to her unity.\r\n\r\n“Ad Orientem”: A Defense of Priests Facing the Altar at Mass — But in any event, I can say without fear of contradiction from anyone who knows the facts that there is simply no tradition whatsoever, in the history of the Church, of Mass facing the people. Now, is it a sin? No. Is it wrong? No. Is it permitted? Yes. It is required? Not at all. In fact in the Latin Roman Missal, which is the typical edition that all the translations of the Missal are based on (not always translated properly, but at least based on it) the rubrics actually presuppose the Mass facing East, the Mass facing the Lord. Now, for the first 25 years of my priesthood, I celebrated Mass like you see it when you go to a typical parish: in English, facing the people. It can be done reverently; I’ve seen it done reverently; I’ve tried to do it reverently myself. But the last three years, after study and reflection, I’ve changed. I actually think the Mass facing the people is a mistake. But, even if it’s not, at least this much we can say: there is no permission required to say Mass facing God, facing the tabernacle, facing East, facing with the people. And it should be given equal rights, it seems to me, with Mass facing the people. It’s been around for 1800 years at least, and it should be allowed to continue. I happen to think it’s symbolically richer. \r\n\r\nSparkNotes: Heart of Darkness: Plot Overview — Heart of Darkness centers around Marlow, an introspective sailor, and his journey up the Congo River to meet Kurtz, reputed to be an idealistic man of great abilities. Marlow takes a job as a riverboat captain with the Company, a Belgian concern organized to trade in the Congo. As he travels to Africa and then up the Congo, Marlow encounters widespread inefficiency and brutality in the Company’s stations. The native inhabitants of the region have been forced into the Company’s service, and they suffer terribly from overwork and ill treatment at the hands of the Company’s agents. The cruelty and squalor of imperial enterprise contrasts sharply with the impassive and majestic jungle that surrounds the white man’s settlements, making them appear to be tiny islands amidst a vast darkness.Natural law as subversive: the case of Aquinas (Chapter 3) - Ethics and Politics — 3 - Natural law as subversive: the case of Aquinas\r\nAlasdair MacIntyre, University of Notre Dame, Indiana\r\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\r\nhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511606670.004Subverting Moralizing Laws with the Natural Law — Lay Evangelist — Human laws cannot instill virtue, and when the monetary rewards are high enough, they can no longer instill fear in criminals. Remove the rewards, you destroy the drug culture. Legalization keeps drugs off the black market, cutting profits to the bone. Drug cartels would be replaced by local farmers or even Big Pharma. Prison populations would drop broadly, cutting costs of enforcement, processing and imprisonment down dramatically. Inner cities, while not being transformed over night, would cease to elevate and admire dealers with cash and power. Gangs would be broken when the source of their incomes evaporate. Treatment centers could actually be schools of virtue and not warehouses of criminals like our prisons.\r\n\r\n","content_html":"Luke saves Gomer's musical tastes. Ad Orientem altars. Luke's Permed hair and a purple suit. Moving away from your friends. Gomer in Prison. THE WORD. And Drugs.
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Here are all of the movies that make up Phase One of the Marvel Cinematic Universe:
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We interview Katie Prejean McGrady, author and speaker, about getting fired mere months after publishing a book about her school and teaching position (nuts!) and then we discuss the upcoming Synod on the Youth and the Haterade RadTrads throw on her. Gomer rants about it.
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\n\nLuke tells me grace builds upon nature, again, but then he says that's why parishes need to study how to run successful non-profits. Wait a second. Hold on a minute. Didn't Luke pour haterade on everything I said in the past that involved similar suggestions? We yell.
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\n-Dealing with Tithing when you have no money!
\n-Are priests/clergy in touch with the wider culture?
\n-Retaining charity while making a big purchase
\n-Best Movie, Oscars
\n-The Actual Pope John Paul Confession Story
\n-Face-to-Face or behind the screen
\n-The importance of being punched in the face
\n-More sad when an animal or a person dies in a movie?
\n-Young Adult Summit, Washington, D.C. in May
\n-STEPHANIE G.!
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\n\nI was going to cut out the Black Panther part for the Patreon crew, but thought, "This is hot!" Also, I actually yelled at Luke at one point during the review, so I kept it in there.
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ASMR Videos on YouTube. Luke mocking my pain. A Newly Game with surprise contestants. An interview with LoveGood's Jimmy Mitchell, and some questions from our lovely audience.
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\n\nEvie Sue, welcome back!
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\nPride is the disordered love of self. Listen in as Luke tells the tale of his ranting and raving at his wife at how all these Catholic podcasts are stupid crap. It's awesome.
Also, Gomer really hates it when people say, "A personal relationship with Jesus is too protestant." So he unloads on a guy who wrote a Catholic Answers post saying it's bad theology and bad youth ministry. Gomer contends, with an EPIC Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI quote, that this article is horse shit.
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\n\nThank you to our PATREON Supporters. Without you, think couldn't be possible. A new episode is coming next Monday, now that Gomer's throat has mostly healed.
\n$10+ Club: Sarah Schweitzer, Bradley Stiver, Kyndall Jackson, Catherine LeBlanc, Eric Ambos, Zach Jarrell, and Kevin Fenter!
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\nDeath is here. It comes for us all. Luke, a post-stroke human person who cannot ride roller coasters or lift weights due to his stroke, was in two car accidents, saw a drugged-out neighbor, and then had to rush to the emergency room because he thought was about to die from a stroke-related problem.
He didn't die.
\n\nAnd while I am a little upset that he didn't take one for the team, I'm still happy he's alive.
\n\nReally just so he could introduce me to the "Fat Betty" song.
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Meetup and Live Show: February 9th at 7:00 PM. Location is still TBD, but stay tuned to https://www.facebook.com/catchingfoxespodcast/ for more!
\n\nFebruary 10th is the Facebook Live "Coffee with Luke and Gomer" with Guadalupe Roasters' coffee.
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Claire Swinarski was raised near Madison by a feminist who taught her to love and value her femininity as well as the fight for women's rights. Then she converted to Roman Catholicism in college, but her feminism didn't die, it was transformed. Annoyed by what's being offered ("tea cups") to so many Catholic women, she launched her podcast to challenge this.
\n\n*Here are some great interviews:
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\nTherapy, Waiting, and Sharing Yourself Online
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Conversions and Comparison
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Living and Thriving on the Sexuality Spectrum
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Eschewing Gender Stereotypes and Embracing Complementarianism
\nft. Shannon Ochoa
Women's Healthcare and Natural Family Planning
\nft. Leah Jacobson
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New Year’s Themes
\n\nTo be a Servant of All, where there is no lower place left to fall.
\nDONE. I need to not just start shit, but end it. New things are too tempting.
Bilocation. Put all your effort into things.
\nRetreat. Carve out more time for your spiritual walk to rejuvenate
The Rhythm Method. Grace and Nature in a marriage to be in rhythm together.
\nLet’s Get Physical. Discipleship cannot be institutional. It must be personal.
Mr.-Carey’s-Call-You-Out-on-Your-BS-but-do-so-with-charity-and-love
\nTaylor Swift on a Dating Fast. She needs a detox.
Vulnerability and Humility over Popularity.
\nExpansion! CF gets big...ger.
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We discuss family drama, Christmas fun, the legitimacy of depicting the dark side as moral instruction, and then the main topic on Christian forgiveness.
\n\nDonate on Patreon.com/CF for 30 additional minutes of this show where we talk about Taylor Swift on Vinyl, her latest album, and some books we are reading.
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Greg Iwinski, a comedian, film reviewer (he gave Balboa 5 Stars), and podcaster, comes on the show to attack all those who think Rian Johnson's "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" should have serviced the fans' expectations more than made a great movie (minus the casino scene) and set up a world-class franchise for decades to come.
\n\nFilm, art, and culture are all explored. What does a corporation, or an artist, owe to the fans that support and love and even identify with someone's art? George Lucas gave us Star Wars, then tried to mess with it. As an artist, he's allowed to. But as a fan, I beg him not to mess with the originals (which he's said the original film footage is even lost). "Special Editions" should be just that, and not replacements for the originals that now connect to our cultural Zeitgeist.
\n\nThat said, our expectations of who Luke Skywalker is and is not is informed by decades of fan-fiction and the expanded universe of books and comics, setting the stage for the rage-monster nerd reaction against Rian Johnson's fantastic new film. So many people came to the movie expecting one thing and Rian Johnson wanted to give us something new. Insert conflict here.
\n\nEven a rant about maintenance-mode Catholicism comes in to play! The frog-nuns are caretakers of a dead religion and are fussy when young blood is messing with the buildings. Luke wants to burn down the sacred Tree, but find that he cannot, until Pope Yoda does the thing himself. Yet! The sacred texts survive and endure. So with the Jedi. Fascinating.
Special Guest: Greg Iwinski.
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\nJohn Boy and Billy BS is the official name of our opening segment. This is where people who loved our witty banter can indulge themselves, and those who don't can skip it.
Think about it. What if our uptick in friends' side hustles is more than the economic downturn, but is, in fact, the relationship between our buying and our experience of buying. We demand "Always Low Prices" and hate the resulting experience surrounding it: the lack of customer care, big-box stores lack of community care, throw-away products, and more. At least with multi-level marketing, it's friends selling to friends in a (hopefully) friendly way. Hmmmmmmm?
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We talk about Circadian Fasting, which is a thing Gomer is doing. NO, it's not a fad diet. He's just trying to impose some order in his life and join it to a fasting discipline. And no, it's not a life hack TIM FERRISS!
\n\nMatt shares the joys of marriage when becoming a Free Agent and living the dream (and various levels of nightmare).
\n\nA THING WE ARE DOING
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Whenever Taylor Swift breaks up with someone, we benefit from her awesome songs. Whenever Arleen breaks up with someone, we benefit from her awesome articles.
\n\nLeah Darrow, on the show for her second time around, talks about her new book and we agree it is great. Gomer did his homework and plowed through 3/4ths of it in 24 hours. And, though the book was written for women, I loved it. Although, I have to admit that I would love the audiobook more if her husband was the narrator.
Special Guests: Arleen Spenceley and Leah Darrow.
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from their website, EdenInvitation.com:
\n\n\n\n\nEden Invitation celebrates ordered integration for young Catholics culturally defined as LGBT+. We invite people to encounter an authentically Catholic anthropology and equip disciples for resurrected life in Christ.
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ANNA CARTER
\nChronologically speaking, Anna loved books, exploring the outdoors, boys, Hanson, the Eucharist, girls, and, finally, an integrated life. After earning Theology & Catechetics degrees from the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Anna spent seven years in active ministry with teens and young adults. She has led retreats across the United States with NET Ministries and speaks locally throughout the Midwest. Anna is an aspiring novelist, a lover of road trips, and a horrible cook.
SHANNON OCHOA
\nAs a young girl, Shannon spent Sunday mornings in the pew eating contraband pretzels out of her dress pockets. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with degrees in Social Welfare and Gender & Women's Studies. She has fallen for men and for women, but ultimately she fell for the beauty of Christ and His Church. Ever since Shannon has equipped college students for the new evangelization through her work with The Evangelical Catholic and Brew City Catholic. If you're looking for her, try the shore of the nearest body of water.
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We discuss the myth of overwork, thinking that working hard and working a lot are the same thing. Read the links for some amazing content on everything we discussed today, including to the lyrics of some sweet songs.
\n\nGomer shares the disgust he has with himself for overbooking his October/November schedule, every weekend for 7 weekends in a row.
\n\nLuke then talks about one of his heroes, Louis CK, and what it means for him in the wake of the accusations against him. What about the victims? What about the problem of empathy? What does these sexual assaults teach us about the cross of Christ?
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I'm happy we can bring you this episode with my friend David Garcia. He was married to Katie, a buddy from my ol' FUS days and a friend of my wife's for years. When she died, the light in the world got a bit dimmer, but her work wasn't done. From high school sweethearts to 10 years of marriage with 4 kids, a failed fight with cancer, and life without her, David shares all.
\n\nKatherine Lorine Garcia was born January 10, 1983, to Paul and Tina Hoffman. Kate was the second of three children along with her older brother, Joseph Hoffman and younger sister, Lisa Loftice. The family grew up going to the lake, and Kate loved the lake best of all places. It was for her a refuge, a retreat, and a second home. Weekends and summers at the lake were mandatory, for it was there that she could truly relax and simply enjoy time with her family.
\n\nOn August 11, 2007, she married David Thomas Garcia, her high school sweetheart. In 2010, they welcomed their first-born, John David, followed in 2011 by Lilia Marie, Thomas James in 2013, and Andrew Paul in 2014. In February 2016, Kate was diagnosed with appendiceal cancer, and after a brief remission in the fall was diagnosed with stage IV in December. On April 5, 2017, while holding David’s hand, she entered into her heavenly rest.
\n\nKate loved Jesus and his Church with a passion that could be felt by all who knew her. In public, she could be the life of the party or a quiet confidant, often switching from one to the other at will. Despite her gregarious nature and ability to befriend anyone she met, she was strongly introverted and maintained a healthy balance of time with friends and time alone at home with just her children and David. She loved watching TV and movies, and would often spend nights at home, snuggled on the couch with David, enjoying a show. She loved to write and kept a daily journal for most of her life.
\n\nKatie took her vocation to marriage and family life seriously, and worked tirelessly for her marriage and children. For Katie and David, marriage was like a garden: beautiful to see in bloom. And like a garden, it took work to keep it pruned, to pull out weeds, to water, and feed. Kate was always reading and researching ways to be the best mother she could be for their four children, and she was an incredible mother: kind but firm, gentle even when disciplining, and purposeful in decision making.
\n\nThroughout her illness, Katie wrote and shared her thoughts and reflections online, touching hundreds, even thousands of hearts and drawing them closer to Jesus. That was always her driving force - to bring others closer to God. While at Franciscan University, Kate joined a sisterhood of faithful women - Stella Mariae. Their household greeting, though short, seems fitting as she departs us for her final reward:
\n\n“It is the deepest desire of my heart to see you in heaven.”
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\nWe talk Pope Francis, poorly. Prophets make messes, but no one doubted that Jeremiah was a prophet and not a mess himself. We're not saying Pope Francis is teaching heresy or promoting immorality, but there sure is a lot of, PERHAPS, intended ambiguity. Why? No idea. Maybe to make it easier to lay the ground for further future nudges in one direction or another.
One thing we hate is the hyper-American-Politcalization of Pope Francis. We try our darnedest to get around it, or address it for what it is, but we can't help but remember JP2 more fondly.
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Your questions answered, poorly!
\n\nWhy does Catholic social media hate Fr. James Martin so much?
\nWould you rather fight a horse-sized duck or a thousand duck-sized horses?
\n-side note 1: STRANGER THINGS SEASON 2!!!!
\n-side note 2: READY PLAYER ONE! (and Spielberg)
\n-side note 3: WIL WHEATON
\n-side note 4: The Fall of White Male Hollywood because of Harvey Weinstein
\n-side note 5: Matt Fradd and the tide against pornography
\nWhat are your thoughts on Purity Culture? Slut-shaming? Why do we only talk about the virtue of chastity?
\nWhat about human formation? etiquette?
\nThoughts on Star Wars 8: "The Last Jedi"
\nGomer goes on vacation with his wife on December 14!
\nShot out to Matt Field Jr. and Clare Kane and the beer they got me (with Dane) while I was doing a Philly parish mission!
\nAnother shot out to Theresa Willaims and her aggressive posting on Facebook!
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Today we interview Pastor Joey Svendsen from the BAD CHRISTIAN podcast, which describes itself as Post-Christian, or Post-Evangelical, or maybe just Post-Bible-Belt-Evangelicalism.
\n\nWe start off talking about the annoyance of Small Talk, problems with having 80 inboxes and managing expectations for all those inboxes. Then we turn towards post-evangelicalism, emergent church, and other things that Joey is wrestling with openly on the show. What happens when our community's standards are more political and less biblical, and thought gets clamped down?
\n\nWe end talking about a pastor's authority vs the priesthood and Apostolic Authority vs Sola Scriptura, especially as it stands out in Post-Evangelicals wrestling with major moral issues, like homosexuality and gay marriage, or major biblical teachings, like eternal conscious torment in Hell.
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\nWe interview the team over at "The Threshold Podcast" about their threshold conversations, the validity of the Benedict Option and the Church, and Catholic education, especially in high school.
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\nGomer and 50 other artists, authors, and chefs write 5 words that summarize their art, then explain it in 300 words. Mine was on prophecy. Support this book. You'll see why. (it's awesome!)
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\nLuke explains what happens when you drink that you're a twentysomething, but wake up realizing you're a thirtysomething. We talk about whether we're getting more virtuous or just getting older. Encounter Houston was a blast. Friends, food, fun, a Presidential Suite, Gomer leaving early to teach RCIA classes, and all that jazz. Gomer will be a speaker at Encounter Milwaukee in November if you still want to attend a great young adult conference.
From the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel, literally hundreds of shots rang out, killing 58 people and causing hundreds to be injured. He was a white male, a successful businessman, and had no reported mental illnesses or extremist ties, yet he caused the worst shooting massacre in US history. This is now a near-monthly occurrence in America and it shows no sign of stopping. What is the answer? The man legally owned an arsenal of weapons. Something should be done and we discuss some options.
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Sister Miriam is a professed religious sister with the Order of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, which serves the Church and the World through collaboration between priests, religious, and laity. Her call to religious came through a holy priest who walked with her as college came to an end. She speaks to us about brokenness, healing, and recovery, as she entered AA dealing with her alcoholism. Sr. Miriam's honesty is a game changer, as she has moved past shame and fear and is more concerned with bringing people hope.
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We talk about the iPhone for like 10 seconds, then we get into video, audio, and dreams of human formation. This leads us into thinking about how Luke isn't challenged or mentored to grow and develop into the butterfly that he is. Gomer sees this all over the Church, as parish and diocesan workers are hardly competent, let alone striving to grow and get better.
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We were talking about evangelization when Luke and I stumbled onto something better: how our fears of being alone, of being unlovable, of never being accepted, motivated stupid, manipulative, and destructive relationships with women when we were single.
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We invite Jonathan Alexander of Adore Ministries and a personal friend to us both on to the show to talk about INSIDE JOKES and how Adore is serving and saving lives in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Amazing stories, personal growth, watching people come alive- all a part of a missionary's life who's now doing disaster relief.
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Gomer talks about going through Hurricane Harvey, what it's like being in a constant state of sheer anxiety for 4 days, and the experience of helplessness watching your friends' unable to evacuate because the roads are flooded in every direction.
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Luke sings to me. We talk Game of Thrones and how much it sucks this season. Then Marvel's Defenders. Around 38 minutes is when the content heats up. We talk about why people on the internet can be so absolutist over nothing. Gomer's walk of penance in his office. Then ...my dad... then I change the subject to how I was on Jen Fulwiler's Show and not Luke. So, net win.
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We bring back Ike Ndolo to create a safe space so he can blow us all away. We start with him WHINING about wedding planning, wildly inappropriate sex stuff and Ike bringing "The Drama", and then unleash Ike on Charlottesville.
Special Guest: Ike Ndolo.
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We've talked about the "anima technica vacua" a bunch of times in the past, but now we do a deep dive, especially how the empty soul of the modern West affects our patterns of thinking.
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Anthony D'Ambrosio of Catholic Creatives hops on the shows from a trailer park filled with Evangelicals to discuss life, art, creativity, the New Catholic Renaissance in beauty, and how to deal with insecurity, self-doubt, and envy.
\n\nApparently, Anthony is a punk-rocker turned seminarian turned artist turned event planner!
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After listening to our show on the Convocation of Catholic Leaders, Brandon Vogt reaches out to us to explain and to reach some common ground between what was presented on the "Nones" panel and Luke's take away. Gomer, for his part, doesn't do the nice small-talk thing, and just makes them argue, which is fun.
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\n\nCome on, moralizers, do you really think that God approves of you watching literally anything on TV? Would Mother Teresa watch any of your crap? Oh, so it's just stuff you already don't like that you got to get all preachy about. Got it. Thaaanks. #notbitter
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Have you ever watched a movie and fallen in love with it, while the guy on the couch next to you thinks it's just OK? What separates us out like that? Why does Luke love Tarantino, while Gomer thinks him a coked up 17 year-old? Why does Wes Anderson do nothing for Luke, but the Cohen Brothers get his gears grooving? This conversation revolves around Spider-Man: Homecoming and the Marvel Cinematic Universe but broadens into a much more important discussion on the appeal of filmmaking as such.
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Luke, representing 500,000 Catholics, attended the convocation and he represented Catching Foxes well. We explore the suckiness of treating the crisis in the Church as a sociology/statistics problem, the lack of God, when God showed up in the preaching of Sister Miriam, SOLT, and Gomer shares a prison ministry heartbreak. Also: IS SINGLENESS A VOCATION?
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We invited our friend, Danielle Noonan, to talk about her love of music, what it means to be adopted, to be a childhood victim of abuse, and how cheap consolation really, really pisses her off. Danielle has been producing music, first in ministry with my old parish in Sugar Land, Texas, and now as a recording artist who travels to Nashville regularly and has "people".
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It started with a description of the great book, "The World Beyond Your Head" and took us quickly around the anima technia vacua, from gambling to porn to social media, we look at how the psychology of being spent is destroying us. STOP BUYING THE CHEEP CHICKEN EGGS!!!!
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There are few things more annoying to than people who seem to peddle inspiration. You find them on Facebook encouraging you to follow your dreams, chase the rainbow, and change your life. The reason, I've found, why these people are so damned bent on inspiration is because they have discovered this wonderful thing called "energy" that I lacked because I'm a damned couch potato. Well, for the last two weeks, I've greased the groove to break myself of this addiction to crappy foods and sitting, replacing inaction with Prayer, Study, and Exercise. And, honestly, it's freaking sweet.
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We talk about work-as-email and Gomer's conflict with research reading. Youth Ministry, and the parish's constant tendency to segregate family, especially by age. We talk about the Art of Life and morality as taught by the Church. This leads us back to the community problem, but focusing on the demise of "The Lodge" and the American Legion type places. Then we talk about The Great Casualization (see show notes), Wonder Woman, The Marvel Cinematic Universe, and how Gomer is still scared to work out with Luke.
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Ben Walther is a legend in our Household, AMDG. Ben is a man's man who is insanely positive and deeply prayerful. We had a great conversation about what it means to be a man, initiation rites and our lack thereof, dadlessness and the Father, and then we take a hard right turn into music. Luke brings up his new fave that he found out is both Christian and Queer and what that means. We end with me yelling at Ben to build something great online.
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10 Minute Topics! We call it 10-minute topics, but we rarely stay within the 10-minute limit. I start off talking about my beautiful daughter who has a huge anxiety issue at the age of 5 and how I have no idea how to deal with it. Second, we thank the XLT Atlanta folks for an amazing time. Then we talk about Catholic Schools and their struggle with discipleship, finances, and Catholic identity. Next, I bring up the topic of sex, especially how much work it is to do it right. Seriously, people, it is exhausting sometimes. We also bring up the shenanigans at UST, gay vs. Same-sex attraction labels, and more!
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Sarah Nickel works with children, generally ages 3-15, who have autism. She also applies developmental psychology and behavioral analysis skills to manage her friendship with Luke. Yes, they are besties. No, it's not ALL inside jokes about their time together in Denver. But there is this one part about 35 minutes into it where we discover Luke cheated on a food competition.
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I politely asked Luke to leave his own apartment so that I could interview Mr. Carey from the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. Apparently, HR won't let them in the same room. Anywho, two church workers have an intelligent conversation about spiritual life as the center of the workplace. Yes, even meetings. ESPECIALLY MEETINGS!
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Luke grew up in the great place of Dayton, OH. It's a town that is a great place to be from, but not really be in. Luke talks about driving home for his worky work, but has no one in Dayton to go home to and no friends to visit. Plus, there's the crap about high school life. What was it with those people in high school who are just jerks for no reason? Well, after working with youth for years we realized everyone's got a reason.
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\n\nLuke and Arleen trade breakup stories, but this is NOT a pity party. This is more about lessons learned and experiences reflected upon. Luke throws in some comments about maturity and Arleen talks about a profound healing experience after her first devastating breakup as an adult.
Special Guest: Arleen Spenceley.
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Luke and Gomer interview a buddy they knew while at college, but who wasn't a student. Yes, he was a townie. A dirty, dirty townie. If you listen to this I think you'll get why the Incarnation and the Sacraments are oh so necessary to a real, and really human, faith. And you'll see why we humans can totally screw things up.
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We do a quick and exhausting follow up to Katie Garcia's Visitation and Funeral that Gomer was able to attend. Then we talk a lot about how much we need God in our lives.
\n\nWe finally end it all by talking about ourselves- fitting- because IT'S OUR TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!!! April 20 (yes, 4/20 potheads) in 2015 kicked off the Catching Foxes experiment and boy have we got a deal for you! In return for a Follow on Facebook, a Donation on Patreon, or a Review on iTunes, from you, our dear new listeners, we are giving away a brand new, fresh, and exciting 3 copies of friend-of-the-show Matt Fradd's new book, The Porn Myth by Ignatius Press. Matt is the friend that keeps on giving, and we're open to taking. Constantly. So thank you, Matt Fradd and Ignatius Press for celebrating our 2 year anniversary!
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This is an interesting episode. We start off being stupid, as is usual, then Luke takes us to a serious turn as we discuss the end-of-life of our young friend, Katie Garcia, whom we knew from college and who lives here in Houston about 30 minutes from me with her truly amazing husband and four kids.
\n\nLuke mentioned A Severe Mercy, which reminded me of several scenes from the movie Shadowlands, which is about CS Lewis, AKA Jack and the passionate poet, Joy, that he marries knowing full well that she will die very soon from a terminal illness. Woven through the center of this episode, the movie tracks his life, his falling in love with Joy, and his time dealing with her death, especially with her son Douglas that she is leaving behind with Lewis.
\n\nApparently, at the time while we were recording this episode, Katie Garcia breathed her last. When I woke up the next morning Facebook posts came pouring in announcing her death. May perpetual light shine upon her.
\n\nFrom our thoughts on her story, we move into discussing our culture’s experience of death and then getting older in general, and how that relates to our career decisions and restlessness.
\n\nFinally, we end where we should, complaining about ministry and whining about how sucky everyone is compared to us, or at least compared to our delusional self-image.
\n\nPlease donate to Katie funeral fund, found in the show notes, to help her amazing husband handle the experiences, which will be in the tens of thousands of dollars. Thank you for walking this road with us.
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We talk about Lent. Luke's is going pretty well, but then he visited me and I ruined it. Then Gomer shares his amazing experiences inside the Ferguson Unit prison during the Kolbe Prison Retreat Ministry. And Gomer got a prison nickname.
\n\nMy Facebook Post on the Kolbe Prison Retreat Ministry
\n\nThe experience of going to the prison was intense and amazing. The men in white (MIW) who were there for the three days of the retreat (Thursday-Saturday, 7am to 7pm) come from a variety of religious backgrounds- most were lapsed Catholics, some were anti-Catholic and some were agnostics or Muslims.
\n\nThe retreat followed the format of an ACTS retreat as closely as possible. We had four testimonies followed by table discussions, two by the outside team and two by the MIW. They were powerful, to say the least. Each table had 5-7 MIW, plus one member of the outside team and one member of the MIW as table stewards/facilitators. The discussions were open and honest.
\n\nI was tapped as the answer man, so if men had complex questions at any of the tables, I'd get a tap on the shoulder and go and try and answer them. In the end, we had 3 or 4 Q and A sessions with the MIW peppering Deacon Bradley and me with questions. "Why do you pray to dead saints?" "Why do you believe in Purgatory?" etc.
\n\nI gave a talk on the Sacraments and another on the Mass/Eucharist. Deacon Bradley tag-teamed with me on the Sacraments.
\n\nWe did things like Rosaries, Divine Mercy Chaplets, two daily Masses, and we even had an Adoration chapel set up in the prison chapel where each one of us took two holy hours, and the MIW team took holy half-hours from the beginning to the end of the retreat. We had Fr. Sebastine led a Healing Mass, which was very powerful for a lot of the men there.
\n\nThe people in the Ferguson Unit are gang-affiliated, life-ers, or long-timers. Almost all are there for drug-related violent crimes. These are men who know they are sinners but also know little else about themselves. They are labeled "prisoners", "Offenders," and "Inmates", but we call them the Men in White, reminding them of their dignity. Fr. Sebastine preached against the word "Prisoner", reminding them that Saint Paul did some of his best work in prison. If you are a child of God, no prison can define you.
\n\nAt the end of the retreat, they had an opportunity to express what the retreat meant to them. One man stood up and explained why he did not get his feet washed. "I was scared. My whole life I've only experience chaos, violence, and negativity. I never knew love. Here, I experienced the love that I never had before, and it scared me. I didn't know people could love like that, and I didn't know how to receive that love. I couldn't believe you would wash my feet and even kiss them. Who am I? I've never seen a man do that for another man before."
\n\nI found out while praying before my Life Teen talk last night that a Man In White slipped his name tag into my Scriptural Rosary book, with the words, "Please remember me." scrawled on the top. He's currently in the prison's RCIA program.
\n\nOne of the funniest moment came at the end, where a man in white was thanking us for our work, then turned to me and said, "You have one minute to win me over on one issue that is killing me about you Catholics. We at a bus stop. The bus is coming in one minute. Before we get on explain to me this: Mary." So I plowed through as fast as I could (took me about 1:20). He looked at me, smiled, and said, "That makes sense. You won me!" Everyone jumped up and started cheering, hooting, and hollering, and then I led it into a "USA! USA!" chant. Then we all collapsed into our chairs laughing.
\n\nOne man was 70 years old. He will never leave prison. At the age of 7 he married a Baptist who told him he's not allowed to be with her and be Catholic, so he left and never looked back. This Friday he went to Confession and is now fully reconciled to the Church.
\n\nOne of the most bizarre parts of the weekend was how normal it was: men talking about their wives and their kids, talking about friends and faith. It seems so normal. I'm looking around at all these men sitting at tables and thought, "This could be at any retreat site." I was so nervous going into the retreat because I have no experience of prison life. But that ended after 10 or 15 minutes. It became totally normal. It was weird how normal it was.
\n\nThat said, we were dealing with convicted felons and men with violence in their past. They were in there for a reason, and many of those reasons were heinous. First Rule: You never, ever ask them what they did. Let them tell you. In fact, after that initial curiosity burns off, you kind of don't want to know. They are trying to change their lives here and now. We all know they have a past, but we do not want that preventing future conversion and the sacrament of the present moment.
\n\nFinally, I received my prison nickname.
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We get to talk with America's favorite Catholic, Leah Darrow, as we explore her roots in farm country, Oklahoma, what conference life is like for an introvert, and how she balances this stuff with family and fashion, which is still a good part of her life, but in a human way. We talk about some super interesting stuff like Slow Food, Slow Fashion and the whole Slow Culture. Fascinating!
Special Guest: Leah Darrow.
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I tried my best to edit the crap out of this, thinking from your perspective, dear listener who wasn't in attendance. There's some gold in here!
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","summary":"Aaron Gillespie, drummer and vocalist for Underoath, talks to us about the industry, life, family, sex and faith.","date_published":"2017-03-10T08:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/a43f8e1d-381c-4616-8fd2-d924dba74d2a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":57928621,"duration_in_seconds":3576}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:58b9d217e58c6247a237511e","title":"Episode 79: On the Bus with Aaron Weiss","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/79","content_text":"I got to interview Aaron Weiss, lead singer of mewithoutYou, a band that literally defined this podcast's title. It's a 35-minute interview on their tour bus, which Aaron was super-gracious in allowing me on board. I met his lovely wife and little daughter they nicknamed Birdie (and you'll hear her in the show!). We talk all things lyrics: inspiration, spirituality, Thomas Merton, and more.\n\nAt the end I hop on a phone call with Luke and Deacon Colin Parrish, who helped arrange the whole thing with their amazingly accommodating manager. I recap how the interview went down and Colin expresses why he got involved.","content_html":"I got to interview Aaron Weiss, lead singer of mewithoutYou, a band that literally defined this podcast's title. It's a 35-minute interview on their tour bus, which Aaron was super-gracious in allowing me on board. I met his lovely wife and little daughter they nicknamed Birdie (and you'll hear her in the show!). We talk all things lyrics: inspiration, spirituality, Thomas Merton, and more.
\n\nAt the end I hop on a phone call with Luke and Deacon Colin Parrish, who helped arrange the whole thing with their amazingly accommodating manager. I recap how the interview went down and Colin expresses why he got involved.
","summary":"Gomer gets to interview his favorite lyricist/singer, Aaron Weiss","date_published":"2017-03-03T15:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/38161bdf-e6d9-40e4-bc8c-c40aec154872.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":61146843,"duration_in_seconds":3788}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:58b193a3ebbd1abb37fc8fbb","title":"Episode 78: Locally World Famous","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/78","content_text":"We discuss our amazing MEETUP and LIVE RECORDING at Deacon Baldy's on March 8 that all of you should buy a plane ticket and come out and hang out. \n\nA big THANK YOU to our fans who have downloaded this show from iTunes. We are ranked Number 178 out of the Top 200 in the Religion and Spirituality category. This means we were ranked higher than Bishop Barron's Sermons! Take that! (I love you, bishop Barron, please be on our show). \n\nIn this episode, Gomer goes pee and Luke literally talks to himself, but I drown him out with The Girl from Ipanema. Like a gentleman.\n\nWe talk about Trump and the Johnson Amendment. Just remember that the Johnson Amendment was pushed by LBJ in 1954 to protect his re-election because the local Christian groups in Texas were calling him a communist and he didn't want pastors preaching against him. Interesting, but it still has merits. I do not want my pastor telling me who to vote for, but at the same time, until 1954 all pastors and non-profits were able to do this. Blah.Luke asks about how to talk to teens about death, and since my parish just experienced the death of a 20-year-old, it was a very pertinent question. Hard, though. ","content_html":"We discuss our amazing MEETUP and LIVE RECORDING at Deacon Baldy's on March 8 that all of you should buy a plane ticket and come out and hang out.
\n\nA big THANK YOU to our fans who have downloaded this show from iTunes. We are ranked Number 178 out of the Top 200 in the Religion and Spirituality category. This means we were ranked higher than Bishop Barron's Sermons! Take that! (I love you, bishop Barron, please be on our show).
\n\nIn this episode, Gomer goes pee and Luke literally talks to himself, but I drown him out with The Girl from Ipanema. Like a gentleman.
\n\nWe talk about Trump and the Johnson Amendment. Just remember that the Johnson Amendment was pushed by LBJ in 1954 to protect his re-election because the local Christian groups in Texas were calling him a communist and he didn't want pastors preaching against him. Interesting, but it still has merits. I do not want my pastor telling me who to vote for, but at the same time, until 1954 all pastors and non-profits were able to do this. Blah.
Luke asks about how to talk to teens about death, and since my parish just experienced the death of a 20-year-old, it was a very pertinent question. Hard, though.
","summary":"10 minute topics. SNL cast members, the Johnson Amendment, teaching teens about death...","date_published":"2017-02-25T09:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/159f1cd1-5ef2-4545-8f91-bb168879e236.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":85975896,"duration_in_seconds":5340}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:58a728a5b8a79b7ffd38657f","title":"Episode 77: That Catholic Couple Rides Again","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/77","content_text":"They are YouTube's dopest Catholic couple proving that Fun is Universal one video at a time. Luke and I interview \"That Catholic Couple\" for today's show, which is a dream-come-true (for them). This fine couple works hard to create a fun and Catholic show that respects the YouTube culture. We discuss \"The Incident\" that almost ended their show and how Luke saved the day (yeah, we retell that old story). Then we talk about how handsome Gomer is and that's pretty much where the show picks up.You can find their YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/ThatCatholicCouple ","content_html":"They are YouTube's dopest Catholic couple proving that Fun is Universal one video at a time.
Luke and I interview \"That Catholic Couple\" for today's show, which is a dream-come-true (for them). This fine couple works hard to create a fun and Catholic show that respects the YouTube culture. We discuss \"The Incident\" that almost ended their show and how Luke saved the day (yeah, we retell that old story). Then we talk about how handsome Gomer is and that's pretty much where the show picks up.
You can find their YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/ThatCatholicCouple
","summary":"We interview That Catholic Couple of YouTube fame to discuss The Incident, and other things.","date_published":"2017-02-17T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/e0e39af6-fbd7-46a1-8559-fed474210ce0.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":74953835,"duration_in_seconds":4659}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:589ded63414fb5c38d4482c1","title":"Episode 76: Interview with a Crooked Soul Named Ike Ndolo","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/76","content_text":"For the first hour, we talk about the life and trials of a man who is a Catholic musician that travels the world bringing his own powerful presence to the stage. The second hour we talk about being a black son of African immigrants in America. This leads us into conversations about culture, being rootless, identity and the walls we Earthers tend to put up around us.Special Guest: Ike Ndolo.Links:Ike Ndolo Music on Facebook — Inside Ike's home rang hymns from his mother and songs of struggle and freedom from Bob Marley and the Wailers and everything in between. \r\n\r\nThis is where Ike's love of music started to grow. Ike Ndolo homepage — Book a show with Ike Ndolo!","content_html":"
For the first hour, we talk about the life and trials of a man who is a Catholic musician that travels the world bringing his own powerful presence to the stage. The second hour we talk about being a black son of African immigrants in America. This leads us into conversations about culture, being rootless, identity and the walls we Earthers tend to put up around us.
Special Guest: Ike Ndolo.
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We argue while agreeing the whole time. I think I said, \"I 100 percent agree\" like 18 times.
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Luke and I interview Brad and Kellie Farley, founders of www.ModernTestament.org and a couple in the midst of fighting to save their marriage from alcoholism and infidelity. They drew strength by hearing other people's nightmares, and how they made it out alive. Inspired by their stories of brokenness, hurt, and recovery, they began to fashion a website for people to do the same thing on a new kind of website. The Modern Testament is how you describe the Holy Spirit working in the midst of your brokenness. I'll let Brad tell it from his post on Medium:
\n “For me, 2016 was getting fired for the first time, coming to the realization that I was a piece of shit person whose arrogance and selfishness put those around me in bad spots, dealing with a failing marriage, coming clean about 7 years of secrets and lies, and my wife’s first-hidden then public alcohol abuse.
Religion was my turning point. Always a casual Christian, I dove deep and found the inspiration to make real, substantial change. That’s not everyone’s driver though, but a simple fact remains: when we are vulnerable and honest with each other, pretensions fall and real connections can be made.
I have shared my testimony with many people and it has fostered much deeper relationships than I ever had before. So that’s what we want to do; connect people together through humility and vulnerability. We’re creating our own platform for it at www.moderntestament.org, but Medium is also a great vehicle too.
So, we want to publish stories of people being REAL — not just social-media-perfection-real, but really real with their struggles, pains, hopes, and saving graces. Let’s unite for good on the Internet, finally. Let’s connect those who need help to those who can.”
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The single life as a Catholic adult can be difficult, even isolating. We interview Maggie, a friend from college, and have a conversation with her about that sweet, sweet freedom she still has (never let it go!).
We talk loneliness, hobbies, happiness and family (Luke hits on her mom, again!). We talk about how break-ups change from your 20's to your 30's, and how Luke is a terrible, terrible dater.
We don't talk about chastity. Ever.
","summary":"Maggie is single and in her thirties. She not dead, nor is she done with life, dating or relationships. She's got Christ and He's got her.","date_published":"2017-01-20T03:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/8f9f4679-3357-44ab-a8a6-323d4f48a11d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":87541873,"duration_in_seconds":5444}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:5878686c579fb3071bf1481c","title":"Episode 72: A Man Who Let the Fire Fall","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/72","content_text":"\"Father Mike was my brother...\"And with these words from Father Dave Pivonka, Franciscan TOR, we begin our Catching Foxes memorial of Fr. Mike Scanlan. To us, he was a spiritual giant, shaping our entire lives as well as the landscape of Catholicism in America. A Harvard Lawyer, a Roman Catholic priest, a Franciscan Friar, a Dean, a pivotal figure in the Charismatic Renewal, a pro-life legend, Fr Michael Scanlan, born 1931 in Long Island and died last Saturday, January 7, 2017, after a protracted illness, lived a singular life of grace.In this episode Luke and I speak of his impact on our lives, which curiously ebbed and flowed with the homily Fr. Dave Pivonka gave at the University’s Memorial Service on January 11. So I commingled Fr. Dave’s words with our own discussion, as well as including a few choice quotes Franciscan University had gathered together so that you can get a sense of the man.It is our sincere hope that you pray with Fr. Dave at the end of this episode and let Christ be the Lord of your life and let his Holy Spirit lead you into the path of peace. Fr Mike was a good man, a true priest, and a beautiful witness that God is still moving in our world today.So here, on the day he was laid to rest at his Motherhouse in Loretto, Pennsylvania, Thursday, January 12, 2017, we hope that you too can trust God enough to LET THE FIRE FALL.\"\nFranciscan University of Steubenville prepared a lovely homepage, \"A Life of Grace,\" for Father Michael Scanlan, TOR to remember him and honor his life. You can find that here. Well done, Alma Mater!This is the website to the Third Order Regular Franciscans to which Fr. Michael and Fr. Dave Pivonka both belonged: http://franciscanstor.org/ Lastly, buy this book: Let the Fire Fall, third edition Links:Fr. Michael Scanlan, TOR Memorial Mass - YouTube — Fr. Michael Scanlan, TOR Memorial Mass. Fr David Pivonka, TOR homilist.Franciscan University Bookstore - Let the Fire Fall — This third edition of the Father Michael Scanlan, TOR, autobiography includes a new Foreword by Father Sean O. Sheridan, TOR, a new Afterword by Jim Manney, and A Brief History of Franciscan University, but it remains the powerful story of how the Holy Spirit transformed Father Michael's life-and the life of Franciscan University. Read it and let the fire of the Holy Spirit fall afresh in your life! A Life of Grace - Fr. Michael Scanlan | Franciscan University of Steubenville — A Life of Grace: Father Michael Scanlan, TOR, 1931-2017\r\nFranciscan University of Steubenville today mourns the death of President Emeritus Father Michael Scanlan, TOR, 85. Father Scanlan died on Saturday, January 7, 2017, after an extended illness.\r\n\r\nFranciscan Friars — Franciscan Friars of the Third Order Regular\r\nProvince of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus","content_html":"\"Father Mike was my brother...\"
And with these words from Father Dave Pivonka, Franciscan TOR, we begin our Catching Foxes memorial of Fr. Mike Scanlan. To us, he was a spiritual giant, shaping our entire lives as well as the landscape of Catholicism in America. A Harvard Lawyer, a Roman Catholic priest, a Franciscan Friar, a Dean, a pivotal figure in the Charismatic Renewal, a pro-life legend, Fr Michael Scanlan, born 1931 in Long Island and died last Saturday, January 7, 2017, after a protracted illness, lived a singular life of grace.
In this episode Luke and I speak of his impact on our lives, which curiously ebbed and flowed with the homily Fr. Dave Pivonka gave at the University’s Memorial Service on January 11. So I commingled Fr. Dave’s words with our own discussion, as well as including a few choice quotes Franciscan University had gathered together so that you can get a sense of the man.
It is our sincere hope that you pray with Fr. Dave at the end of this episode and let Christ be the Lord of your life and let his Holy Spirit lead you into the path of peace. Fr Mike was a good man, a true priest, and a beautiful witness that God is still moving in our world today.
So here, on the day he was laid to rest at his Motherhouse in Loretto, Pennsylvania, Thursday, January 12, 2017, we hope that you too can trust God enough to LET THE FIRE FALL.\"
Franciscan University of Steubenville prepared a lovely homepage, \"A Life of Grace,\" for Father Michael Scanlan, TOR to remember him and honor his life. You can find that here. Well done, Alma Mater!
This is the website to the Third Order Regular Franciscans to which Fr. Michael and Fr. Dave Pivonka both belonged: http://franciscanstor.org/
Lastly, buy this book: Let the Fire Fall, third edition
Links:
Explicit at parts, this is the official highlight reel of our show so far. I thought the end of 2016 would be a good time for a retrospective. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll learn. Enjoy my sound effects from one clip to another. We cover about 30 shows in here, so obviously we couldn't get everything and everyone we interview, but here are some gems.
Remember: Catching Foxes (only Luke though) and That Catholic Couple will be doing a Meet Up at the SEEK 2017 Conference in Bar Rojo at The Grand Hyatt Hotel. Head to the Facebook event page in case they need to switch locations at the last minute!
\n\n <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1895267024038164/" target="_blank">\nThis is Gomer's embarrassing moment. First we talk about accompanying someone who is trying to overcome a drug addiction, which leads us to the topic of interventions, which Gomer twists into a topic on his weight management problems. Also, WTF is wrong with gym/wrestling coaches from Oklahoma in the 90s?!
Reminder: That Catholic Couple and Catching Foxes* will be at the SEEK 2017 conference for a Meet Up on January 7th. Location To Be Determined by Luke responding to Daniel's text messages.
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/58540ed8ebbd1abde9cadfc8/1481903834483/" data-image-dimensions="1600x1600" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="58540ed8ebbd1abde9cadfc8" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/58540ed8ebbd1abde9cadfc8/1481903834483/?format=1000w" />\nThe episode you've all been waiting for! (Mostly because we haven't released a new episode in two or three weeks. I blame the Russians!)
In this episode we deal with divorce. What happens when one person in a marriage simply and totally does not want to stay married? How can one person fix the problems the other has no intention of working on? And, for all of us, how do we treat the divorced and/or single parent families in our lives?
Yeah, it's a big episode, but it's a good episode.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Join Luke and That Catholic Couple for a MeetUp at the FOCUS: SEEK Conference in San Antonio on January 6th!
THANK YOU SPONSOR! We want to thank Cherubalm.com for their continued support of the show. Head to cherubalm.com/pages/our-mission and find out more about their mission and the organizations they support.
","summary":"Explicit! We deal with divorce, especially when it is one-sided despite all your efforts.","date_published":"2016-12-09T09:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/50c4fd51-10e6-4b4f-b72f-d1a61fb3a339.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":85016933,"duration_in_seconds":7058}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:582eb9e9b3db2b4e8463ec08","title":"Episode 68: 68 What Do We Do Now","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/68","content_text":"We talk about needing one another and what that looks like, and why so many things are against it. One of our refined episodes, because we get into a lot of interesting stuff. Also, I think there's one F-Bomb in this episode from your old pal Gomer. Thank you, Cherubalm.com for sponsoring our show. Head over to CHERUBALM.COM/FOXES before the end of November for a 20% off discount! Thank you, Cherubalm for supporting this show.\nWhat ever happened to communityThe Homeless ModernHome-Making for Home-ComingSatan was the First PhilanthropistMy Comments on Satan was the First PhilanthropistSimone Weil, The Need for Roots\n\n <a href=\"http://www.cherubalm.com/foxes\" target=\"_blank\">\n\n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/582f0b3b893fc022aa08afa8/1479478134322/\" data-image-dimensions=\"600x600\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"582f0b3b893fc022aa08afa8\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/582f0b3b893fc022aa08afa8/1479478134322/?format=1000w\" />\n\n\n </a>\n","content_html":"We talk about needing one another and what that looks like, and why so many things are against it. One of our refined episodes, because we get into a lot of interesting stuff. Also, I think there's one F-Bomb in this episode from your old pal Gomer. Thank you, Cherubalm.com for sponsoring our show. Head over to CHERUBALM.COM/FOXES before the end of November for a 20% off discount! Thank you, Cherubalm for supporting this show.
What ever happened to community
Satan was the First Philanthropist
My Comments on Satan was the First Philanthropist
Simone Weil, The Need for Roots
\n\n <a href="http://www.cherubalm.com/foxes" target="_blank">\n\n\n <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/582f0b3b893fc022aa08afa8/1479478134322/" data-image-dimensions="600x600" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="582f0b3b893fc022aa08afa8" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/582f0b3b893fc022aa08afa8/1479478134322/?format=1000w" />\n\n\n </a>\nThis is our first time back in three weeks, having recorded the last two episodes originally as one long episode. Then Luke’s internet completely died in their classy, old apartment building, so we recorded late on Saturday night. But you’ve patiently waited on us, so we will gift you with a special 2 hour episode!
We start off with a return of 10 minute topics as our Hero Luke launches a GoFundMe Campaign for That Catholic Couple which met its goal in just 32 hours.
Immediately following that we begin to argue with one another about Community Groups for 45 minutes, breaking the 10 minute limit.
After that, we regrouped, I drank more wine, and we discuss Dr. Strange and crappy Marvel villains, Pop Culture, Who Gomer voted for in the Early Elections, Jimmy Eat World, and the podcast State of the Union.
We want to thank our unsponsor who unadvertised with our unpodcast, Cherubalm, makers of baby lotion bars that are great on skin and safe for cloth diapers, for giving us money not to talk about their family product.
","summary":"10 Minute Topics with a 45 Minute Argument!","date_published":"2016-11-07T17:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/1f5d09e3-5a77-4e8d-8446-8248a72c05bc.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":93436687,"duration_in_seconds":7767}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:5812d063e58c62eb1e019826","title":"Episode 66: 66 - Interview continues with Part Two","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/66","content_text":"We dive into the Trumpster and the significance of his absurdist campaign, mocking the corrupt GOP (and DNC) who pretend to give us choice. Except Trump's money and celebrity allows to him bypass the entire Establishment and point a tiny finger at the absurdity at the heart of American politics. Also, I'm sick, so these are the show notes.Thanks to BenSound.com for the theme music!Thanks to the artist of this weird mashup of Trump and Hillary that I am using for the artwork. \n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/5812d30403596eed2599354f/1477628686027/\" data-image-dimensions=\"1600x1600\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5812d30403596eed2599354f\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/5812d30403596eed2599354f/1477628686027/?format=1000w\" />\n","content_html":"We dive into the Trumpster and the significance of his absurdist campaign, mocking the corrupt GOP (and DNC) who pretend to give us choice. Except Trump's money and celebrity allows to him bypass the entire Establishment and point a tiny finger at the absurdity at the heart of American politics. Also, I'm sick, so these are the show notes.
Thanks to BenSound.com for the theme music!
Thanks to the artist of this weird mashup of Trump and Hillary that I am using for the artwork.
<img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/5812d30403596eed2599354f/1477628686027/" data-image-dimensions="1600x1600" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="5812d30403596eed2599354f" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/5812d30403596eed2599354f/1477628686027/?format=1000w" />\nTom <LastNameRedacted> is a friend and lawyer. You'd think the second one would invalidate the first one, and it almost did when he wrote us an angry letter last week! He invokes the Lukan Privilege to not mention last names or employer. Tom does mostly labor issues and personal injury defense litigation, which Luke pounces on to talk about the hottest topic at his office, what are his thoughts are on the new overtime labor law for salaried employees, like youth ministers.
Then we dive into the complicated nature of Catholics who favor social justice issues and used that to justify their vote for Obama 8 years ago, only to watch the Obama Administration restrict religious liberty only to those organizations that do services and promulgate the faith directly, so bye-bye hundreds of soup kitchens, homeless shelters, halfway houses, orphanages, and the corporal works of mercy!
Finally, we end with a rousing conversation about community, life, and family, which ends the civil part of the show.
Thanks to BenSound.com for the theme music!
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/5809a98959cc68829b5acbae/1477028238318/" data-image-dimensions="1600x1600" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="5809a98959cc68829b5acbae" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/5809a98959cc68829b5acbae/1477028238318/?format=1000w" />\nOur first family member on the show, Luke's sister Emily shares the pain, embarrassment, and isolation from being a victim of sexual assault. She shares with us the struggle of being ignored or blamed instead of loved. She also shares how this crap is still going on in her life with a previous employer at a billion dollar company.
Also, every time Luke and Emily walk down memory lane, I play \"The Girl from Ipanema\" elevator song. So yeah, you're going to love that song by the end of the show.
Finally, Trumps comments from 11 years ago are disgusting, but what is even more disgusting is the way people are defending those comments. I have to delete my Facebook account. This is too much.
And yes, I'm a bear.
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/580073fc5016e1907a30e1ac/1476424702986/" data-image-dimensions="1600x1600" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="580073fc5016e1907a30e1ac" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/580073fc5016e1907a30e1ac/1476424702986/?format=1000w" />\nWe are the Syro-Phoenician Woman. You are the scraps that fall from the Master's table. Wait. This sounded better in my head a minute ago.
In this episode we talk COMMUNITY GROUPS! ...or Life Groups... or Cell Groups, or House Church Groups, or Small Faith Groups, or 242 Groups or Connect Groups or Discipleship Groups or ...whatever.
Then Gomer tells Luke he is done with his need for approval from people at the parish. He's ready to take it to the next level, job be damned! (but pleeeease don't let it be damned! I love working there.)
\n\n session one// The Gospel.pdf\nHere's the talkie talk I gave at the Encounter Houston young adult conference called Intimacy with God.
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This episode is light-hearted, except that Gomer drank a few beers and started dominating the conversation.
\n\n <a href="http://jackieandbobby.com" target="_blank">\n\n\n <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57ee7a2c893fc0c995dc3c2f/1475246660102/" data-image-dimensions="843x843" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="57ee7a2c893fc0c995dc3c2f" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57ee7a2c893fc0c995dc3c2f/1475246660102/?format=1000w" />\n\n\n </a>\nSexual addiction is more than just the acting out, yet we tend to focus almost exclusively on the external results of an internal wound (or wounds). Like many people who talk about their sexual addiction, such as Audrey Assad, a lot of this starts with family of origin issues.
The man we interview, whom we respectfully call Joey Joe Joe Shabadoo, started attending Sex Addicts Anonymous when he was 19 years old. He was living a double life and hated it: giving a theology of the body talk in the evening, and then meeting strangers for sexual hookups in dangerous places.
This is a powerful interview.
\n “Before coming to Sex Addicts Anonymous, many of us never knew that our problem had a name. All we knew was that we couldn’t control our sexual behavior. For us, sex was a consuming way of life. Although the details of our stories were different, our problem was the same. We were addicted to sexual behaviors that we returned to over and over, despite the consequences.”\n\n
Theology of the Body Institute
Is SAA right for you? Do you have a Sexual Addiction?
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57e4c771579fb35bcfcf59e2/1474611060340/" data-image-dimensions="1600x1600" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="57e4c771579fb35bcfcf59e2" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57e4c771579fb35bcfcf59e2/1474611060340/?format=1000w" />\nCatholic Twitter was delivered a crushing blow by one of its own members. Turns out, dozens of people, especially a college student and author named Chad, were catfished, which means essentially that you form a relationship with someone via social media and the whole time they are only pretending to be that person. (Here's an actual Catholic News Agency article on it.)
Luke finds it hilarious. I do too, but only because I wasn't involved and am not really a part of Catholic Twitter, being too busy watching the Apple Keynote a few dozen times. But Luke masterfully connects this incident of catfishing to a wider issue, the ANIMA TECHNICA VACUA.
Also, Luke is annoyed somewhat that people are taking this waaaay too seriously. For example: \"As I consider ThisCatholicGirl in light of Exaltation of the Holy Cross, I am going to be honest—this is a conversation I am hesitant to have, because behind the public personas of the handle and Chase’s blog,\" (Marina Olson, Patheos Eating Peaches blog, emphasis mine)
Also, there some South Park references and a whole slew of \"tiny penis\" jokes, but I can neither confirm nor deny their validity.
Finally, Matt Fradd is apparently catfishing all of us. The real person behind the mask? An actual catfish named Whiskers.
Also, buy his book, Pints with Aquinas.
Also, OUR APOLOGIES TO RAYMOND ARROYO FOR THE INCORRECT INSINUATION.
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57dcb9eae3df28c822ba9704/1474083318477/" data-image-dimensions="1600x1600" data-image-focal-point="0.48214285714285715,0.375" data-load="false" data-image-id="57dcb9eae3df28c822ba9704" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57dcb9eae3df28c822ba9704/1474083318477/?format=1000w" />\nEverett Fritz likes to lob grenades at our presuppositions regarding large group ministry. He took a long, hard look at his youth group and realized only 10% or less were actually following Jesus Christ. Those that were following Christ were not just youth group attendees, but also personally mentored by him or others. That's when he realized discipleship isn't a program or an event. It's getting involved in people's lives and letting them get involved in yours on a personal level. And that cannot be done for the crowds.
Discipleship matters. He even wrote a book about breaking free from pornography through his discipleship approach. His book Freedom: Battle Strategies for Conquering Temptation looks at victory over porn and masturbation addiction through the lens of following Christ. It's written for men because those are the people he mentors.
This episode has some controversial stuff born out of a frustrations and also out of love. Just give it a listen, take a breath, and snag whatever insight you can. Also be on the lookout for his next book on discipleship in Catholic youth ministry, which should be out by November.
Then there is this... The Big M by Lust Control
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So the regular host, Matt Fradd, couldn't be here today. So we had to drag Luke back out from the freezer, thaw him out, and unleash him on AMERICA'S FAVORITE PODCAST THEME: 10 MINUTE TOPICS!
And we don't really stay to 10 minutes on any of them.
Thanks to BenSound.com for the show music. Also, thanks to YouTube for letting me fair use the crap out of the Stranger Things Main Title song!
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57c90d80414fb58de2d51459/1472793988569/" data-image-dimensions="320x320" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="57c90d80414fb58de2d51459" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57c90d80414fb58de2d51459/1472793988569/?format=1000w" />\nGomer gets to interview Matt Fradd, America's Favorite Austrailian, for the show. I thought we would talk about his amazing new book, Pints With Aquinas: 50+ Deep Thoughts from the Angelic Doctor, the entire time, but it turns out he wanted to talk about how to argue philosophically without being a jerk. Only slightly choice language in this episode.
\n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n\n\nThanks to BenSound.com for the royalty free music!
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\n\n <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57b72fc5579fb39bc0e43e9c/1471623113090/" data-image-dimensions="800x800" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="57b72fc5579fb39bc0e43e9c" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57b72fc5579fb39bc0e43e9c/1471623113090/?format=1000w" />\nThe editor-at-large for America Magazine and author of numerous books on the faith, we interview Fr James Martin, SJ. From corporation living to Jesuit Order, he tells us why he left the world of finance for p;overty, chastity and obedience. We also dives into what the 12 years of Jesuit formation is like, which is crazy fascinating and sounds exhausting.
Then we break into the topic of Pope Francis. We talk about his Jesuitness, what it did for the Jesuits internally, and his relationship to the last two popes. This leads us into a great discussion of a common theme here on Catching Foxes: the division of Catholics into Conservative and Progressive, Right and Left, blah blah blah.
Finally, we talk about haters on Twitter who call him a heretic for his more controversial tweets, and how he deals with it. (\"I can't come to Compline, there's someone wrong on the Internet!\")
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57addacf15d5db54452f3519/1471011539872/" data-image-dimensions="1400x1400" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="57addacf15d5db54452f3519" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57addacf15d5db54452f3519/1471011539872/?format=1000w" />\n
We open talking about Apple products and their over-design that just doesn't make sense and is making Gomer kind of crazy in a First World Problem sort of way.
Remember that terrible Puddle of Mudd song where they sing, "I like your pants around your feet?" Well we got a story about that. But more importantly, Luke thought it said, "I like your pants around your face." WELL IT TURNS OUT IT'S NICKLEBACK!!! It's called "Figured You Out" apparently. Apparently...
Spider-Man 3’s demo scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtx18tPNda4
Then we talk about accidental racism, sexism, bigotry, and how we tend to defend our motivations instead of changing our actions. Also, "people first."
Luke gives us a Ghostbusters review from The Incomparable podcast, episode 310 “I hated Mrs Slimer”.
FINALLY, Gomer is a Hero and he tells his self-aggrandizing tale of intervening in a domestic dispute. Luke longs for a news report to be about a "local podcaster" being a hero and encouraging everyone to leave iTunes reviews.
But more importantly, we talk about her reactions to the abuse and assistance. She is constantly apologizing for being abused. Luke connects this to a common thing in movies where women are constantly trying to prop up men's emotional states and apologize for everything, even if it isn't their fault. This horrible tale ends with my innocent daughter Kateri making fun of me.
All about comedy, late night, and stand up. Nothing about Trump, so yeah.
Beth Stelling on her Sexual Assault: https://www.instagram.com/p/_2AwgCQzty/
Hannibal Buress and why he called Bill Cosby a Rapist: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-is-hannibal-buress-and-why-did-he-call-bill-cosby-a-rapist/
The Carmichael Show: http://www.nbc.com/the-carmichael-show/video/fallen-heroes/2995567
Interview on Steve Harvey about the Cosby Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jii-iEkWpMI
Louis CK on SNL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzh7RtIJKZk
Old Dennis Miller: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dennis+miller+hbo
Bo Turnham: Art is Dead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nee0Kg1LGCc
Chris Rock SNL monologue: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/chris-rock-monologue/n10906
Jim Gaffigan: http://www.tvland.com/shows/the-jim-gaffigan-show
Lift High the Banners of Love - John Michael Talbot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBCAFx3vXkc
","summary":"All about comedy, late night, and stand up. Nothing about Trump, so yeah.","date_published":"2016-07-29T09:23:09.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/1eac51f3-b041-4c8d-bd60-214a80784df9.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":54912624,"duration_in_seconds":3557}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:5796dc1720099e52202c2e2a","title":"Episode 52: 52 Greg Has Opinions! part one","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/52","content_text":"If you wrote a review on iTunes for our podcast: THANK YOU! The contest is officially over, but we still appreciate all that you did for us. \n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/5796e160b3db2b0f3f601e9f/1469505892080/\" data-image-dimensions=\"1400x1400\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5796e160b3db2b0f3f601e9f\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/5796e160b3db2b0f3f601e9f/1469505892080/?format=1000w\" />\n\n\n SHOWNOTESWe covered a little bit of everything from the viewpoint of everyone's favorite only black friend, Greg! First Greg starts us off slow by asserting that Traddies are frustrated whites who want a Euro-centric mass that was perfectly fine till those other people showed up and started worshipping! Then we talk the travails of Franciscan University (DRINK!). Then we walk through a list of First Ladies we think are attractive (answer: Barbara Bush), but this was only a side note.Greg then tells us his fool proof way to get people back into Church: care about the liturgy. I guess one slogan could be, \"Make Mass Badass Again\". Finally, we get into the Trump. This is over a month before last week's rolling disaster that was the RNC (Scott Baio?!), but Greg wants to give us a measured take on the man and those who vote for him. We even talk about the way black are allowed to be racist vs. Azealia Banks' racism.Andrew Sullivan's Article: America Has Never Been More Ripe for TyrannyFinally we talk about A Comedian's Truth, Cynicism, and the danger of the Bubbles we create.SPONSORSpecial thanks to CatholicBalm.co for their continued sponsorship! Head over now to their website to order their great products, especially the lip balm that Shannon endorsed. Use promo code TEAMMICHAEL or TEAMLUKE (all one word) at checkout to claim your 10% off.","content_html":"If you wrote a review on iTunes for our podcast: THANK YOU! The contest is officially over, but we still appreciate all that you did for us.
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/5796e160b3db2b0f3f601e9f/1469505892080/" data-image-dimensions="1400x1400" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="5796e160b3db2b0f3f601e9f" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/5796e160b3db2b0f3f601e9f/1469505892080/?format=1000w" />\n
We covered a little bit of everything from the viewpoint of everyone's favorite only black friend, Greg! First Greg starts us off slow by asserting that Traddies are frustrated whites who want a Euro-centric mass that was perfectly fine till those other people showed up and started worshipping! Then we talk the travails of Franciscan University (DRINK!). Then we walk through a list of First Ladies we think are attractive (answer: Barbara Bush), but this was only a side note.
Greg then tells us his fool proof way to get people back into Church: care about the liturgy. I guess one slogan could be, \"Make Mass Badass Again\".
Finally, we get into the Trump. This is over a month before last week's rolling disaster that was the RNC (Scott Baio?!), but Greg wants to give us a measured take on the man and those who vote for him. We even talk about the way black are allowed to be racist vs. Azealia Banks' racism.
Andrew Sullivan's Article: America Has Never Been More Ripe for Tyranny
Finally we talk about A Comedian's Truth, Cynicism, and the danger of the Bubbles we create.
Special thanks to CatholicBalm.co for their continued sponsorship! Head over now to their website to order their great products, especially the lip balm that Shannon endorsed. Use promo code TEAMMICHAEL or TEAMLUKE (all one word) at checkout to claim your 10% off.
","summary":"We interview Comedian and Writer Greg Iwinsky so that you can winsky too","date_published":"2016-07-26T00:05:27.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/e9849fa8-ee2e-4ddc-bb96-63eedfbeddf5.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":69506533,"duration_in_seconds":4600}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:57892c69f7e0ab6803a6f998","title":"Episode 51: 51 - Jamie Lannister is the Michael W Smith of GOT","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/51","content_text":"Originally recorded on July 05, 2016Overcome with amazement, we talk Game of Thrones. The Season Six final two episodes were a phenomenal ending to a season. Probably the best ending to any season of any TV show ever. (looking at you, Lost.)We discuss the revelation of fan theories being confirmed (R+L=J), Gomer postulates that the White Walkers will actually win because George R. R. Martin hates us that much, how season six is the rise of the Ladies (Sansa, Cercei, the Sand Snakes, the Unburnt and her dragons, the Queen of the Iron Isles), and how Jamie Lannister will go west, young man, like Michael W Smith.(Game of Throne Theme song is copyright of HBO. Thanks, fair use!)Special Thanks to CatholicBalm.co for sponsoring this episode! Please head over to their website and enter the special promo code \"TeamMichael\" or \"TeamLuke\" at the checkout for a savings of 10% on your order!iTunes Ratings Contest! The pot is sweeter as Sarah from Catholic Drinkie and Arleen Spenceley from Chastity is for Lovers are adding their books to the giveaway. Go to iTunes and rate this podcast (hopefully 5 stars!). If posted between July 8 to July 22, 2016, and you're in the continental United States (sorry Alaska and Hawaii, the freak states), you are entered to win a drawing for our Catholic nerd out prize. Thanks to all those who have already submitted their ratings and reviews! \n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" alt=\"Remember, TeamMichael or TeamLuke at checkout gets you 10% off!\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/578931815016e163b634b609/1468608908422/\" data-image-dimensions=\"1169x1084\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"578931815016e163b634b609\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/578931815016e163b634b609/1468608908422/?format=1000w\" />\n\n\n\n\n\n <p>Remember, TeamMichael or TeamLuke at checkout gets you 10% off!</p>\n","content_html":"Originally recorded on July 05, 2016
Overcome with amazement, we talk Game of Thrones. The Season Six final two episodes were a phenomenal ending to a season. Probably the best ending to any season of any TV show ever. (looking at you, Lost.)
We discuss the revelation of fan theories being confirmed (R+L=J), Gomer postulates that the White Walkers will actually win because George R. R. Martin hates us that much, how season six is the rise of the Ladies (Sansa, Cercei, the Sand Snakes, the Unburnt and her dragons, the Queen of the Iron Isles), and how Jamie Lannister will go west, young man, like Michael W Smith.
(Game of Throne Theme song is copyright of HBO. Thanks, fair use!)
Special Thanks to CatholicBalm.co for sponsoring this episode! Please head over to their website and enter the special promo code \"TeamMichael\" or \"TeamLuke\" at the checkout for a savings of 10% on your order!
iTunes Ratings Contest! The pot is sweeter as Sarah from Catholic Drinkie and Arleen Spenceley from Chastity is for Lovers are adding their books to the giveaway. Go to iTunes and rate this podcast (hopefully 5 stars!). If posted between July 8 to July 22, 2016, and you're in the continental United States (sorry Alaska and Hawaii, the freak states), you are entered to win a drawing for our Catholic nerd out prize. Thanks to all those who have already submitted their ratings and reviews!
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" alt="Remember, TeamMichael or TeamLuke at checkout gets you 10% off!" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/578931815016e163b634b609/1468608908422/" data-image-dimensions="1169x1084" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="578931815016e163b634b609" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/578931815016e163b634b609/1468608908422/?format=1000w" />\n\n\n\n\n\n <p>Remember, TeamMichael or TeamLuke at checkout gets you 10% off!</p>\nLuke tells us a hilarious tale about this one time at Franciscan (drink!) that he auditioned for Macbeth and was shunned by theater nerds. This opens us up to talk about Luke's love life and past relationships, a common theme here at Catching Foxes. Then we talk about Lethal Weapon and My Cousin Vinny for a few moments, as well as having the priest face East during Mass.
Then we enter the fray. How far is too far? This is the question that drives us back into Luke's love life, but only after Gomer tells a 4 minute story about being a pubescent boy with wild hormones trying to control himself in the presence of a girl. Yes, it's about erections. Yes, it's hilarious. And yes, most humans should probably just skip it. (Get Overcast as your podcast player and it'll show you chapters so you can skip to the next part! or re-listen!)
We discuss (not instruct!) about balance, dating, experimenting, failing, and what it means to obey the moral laws on sexuality and to live the virtues within those laws.
We end it with Luke's shocking declaration that he is addicted to his iPhone and will be giving it up for at least 90 days. He's getting a dumb phone, an old iPod, and I guess some road maps to figure out how to get around town. He's addicted.
We end with a contest: Write a review on iTunes and we will enter you in a contest (US Residents only!) to win After Virtue (or some other book). Only those who enter today (Friday, July 8, 2016) are eligible. I will gather all new reviews, put them in a hat, draw the winner and announce the winner in two weeks (after work trips are done). Direct message us on Twitter or Facebook if you're the name we chose to get your winnings!
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" alt="That's me in 8th grade. The guy who pants'd me is staring right at me. Probably scheming to do it again!" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/577fc939e3df28bc00496431/1467992418236/" data-image-dimensions="1400x1400" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="577fc939e3df28bc00496431" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/577fc939e3df28bc00496431/1467992418236/?format=1000w" />\n\n\n\n\n\n <p>That's me in 8th grade. The guy who pants'd me is staring right at me. Probably scheming to do it again!</p>\nIn April the fine folks of Catholic Drinkie interviewed Luke and Gomer for their own podcast. I told them that I would post it on our podcast as well. So... It's better late than never!
The Catholic Drinkie’s Guide to Homebrewed Evangelism
","summary":"In April we were interviewed by Catholic Drinkie, which is Sarah Vabulous and Fr. Kyle. Sarah edited down our episode for her show, so I used this as a kind of Director's Cut, making it longer and, thus, more fun!","date_published":"2016-06-24T11:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/dd1c899c-7f0b-4323-8f00-c2ebc928d935.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":63711343,"duration_in_seconds":4186}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:57639345579fb39c643a062c","title":"Episode 48: 48 You'd Better Be Alone","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/48","content_text":"First, Luke apologizes. Second, we start talking about expectations. Third, we stop talking about that other stuff and only talk about MeWithoutYou, the greatest band of all time. \n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57639c1df5e231826f0d8c11/1466145830127/\" data-image-dimensions=\"1400x1400\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"57639c1df5e231826f0d8c11\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57639c1df5e231826f0d8c11/1466145830127/?format=1000w\" />\n\n\nI just want you to like this band. They brought Luke and I together. Now look at us! Two pathetically handsome men whining about their problems to a national audience!Sponsor! Catholic Balm Co. \n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57639c895016e16156321c15/1466145943684/\" data-image-dimensions=\"1169x1084\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"57639c895016e16156321c15\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57639c895016e16156321c15/1466145943684/?format=1000w\" />\n\n\nHead over to CatholicBalm.co and buy some beard balm, a lotion stick (pretty awesome), and some Little Flower inspired lip balm. This stuff is all handmade in small batches, is all natural, and smells amazing. I'm not kidding you. I love smelling like Chrism.When checking out use the term \"TeamLuke\" or \"TeamMichael\" (who's Michael?) and we will see who has the better fans. Be an adult and take care of your beard, your lips, and your skin!","content_html":"First, Luke apologizes. Second, we start talking about expectations. Third, we stop talking about that other stuff and only talk about MeWithoutYou, the greatest band of all time.
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57639c1df5e231826f0d8c11/1466145830127/" data-image-dimensions="1400x1400" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="57639c1df5e231826f0d8c11" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57639c1df5e231826f0d8c11/1466145830127/?format=1000w" />\nI just want you to like this band. They brought Luke and I together. Now look at us! Two pathetically handsome men whining about their problems to a national audience!
Sponsor! Catholic Balm Co.
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57639c895016e16156321c15/1466145943684/" data-image-dimensions="1169x1084" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="57639c895016e16156321c15" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57639c895016e16156321c15/1466145943684/?format=1000w" />\nHead over to CatholicBalm.co and buy some beard balm, a lotion stick (pretty awesome), and some Little Flower inspired lip balm. This stuff is all handmade in small batches, is all natural, and smells amazing. I'm not kidding you. I love smelling like Chrism.
When checking out use the term \"TeamLuke\" or \"TeamMichael\" (who's Michael?) and we will see who has the better fans. Be an adult and take care of your beard, your lips, and your skin!
","summary":"Luke apologizes. Expectations. Then just MewithoutYou for 50 minutes","date_published":"2016-06-17T02:46:46.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/6f02e1bb-6fe3-4977-9c27-fe5f551ab893.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":76611937,"duration_in_seconds":4469}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:575afb44ab48de2a3ffd0ca3","title":"Episode 47: 47 Twenty Minutes of Privilege","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/47","content_text":"Luke and I get caught up after Luke's stroke, we talk about some fun stuff, then we do our first ad read for a product that we love and currently use, Barbatus Beard Balm from CatholicBalm.co. After the silliness and the product placement, we dive into the Stanford Sexual Assault case with Brock Turner, who is from Luke's home town of Oakwood, Ohio.I have added two news reports throughout the conversation. One is from NBC news recounting some of the sexual assault and the other is from CNN News anchor Ashleigh Banfield as she read the entire 13 page victim statement to Brock Turner. We excerpted it to the relevant parts of the show because it hits like a bomb. You should read her letter in full from Buzzfeed.Show Noteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G1bNbKRfB0https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/06/08/in-brock-turners-hometown-were-raising-kids-who-are-never-told-no/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/09/you-dont-need-the-muscle-of-two-swedish-men-to-stop-a-rape/https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/heres-the-powerful-letter-the-stanford-victim-read-to-her-ra?utm_term=.udZ54V4NW#.na7dxPx9ESponsor: Catholic Balm Co \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n\n\nHead over to CatholicBalm.co and buy some beard balm, a lotion stick (pretty awesome), and some Little Flower inspired lip balm. This stuff is all handmade in small batches, is all natural, and smells amazing. I'm not kidding you. I love smelling like Chrism.When checking out use the term \"TeamLuke\" or \"TeamMichael\" (who's Michael?) and we will see who has the better fans. Be an adult and take care of your beard, your lips, and your skin!","content_html":"Luke and I get caught up after Luke's stroke, we talk about some fun stuff, then we do our first ad read for a product that we love and currently use, Barbatus Beard Balm from CatholicBalm.co. After the silliness and the product placement, we dive into the Stanford Sexual Assault case with Brock Turner, who is from Luke's home town of Oakwood, Ohio.
I have added two news reports throughout the conversation. One is from NBC news recounting some of the sexual assault and the other is from CNN News anchor Ashleigh Banfield as she read the entire 13 page victim statement to Brock Turner. We excerpted it to the relevant parts of the show because it hits like a bomb. You should read her letter in full from Buzzfeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G1bNbKRfB0
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\n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n\n\nHead over to CatholicBalm.co and buy some beard balm, a lotion stick (pretty awesome), and some Little Flower inspired lip balm. This stuff is all handmade in small batches, is all natural, and smells amazing. I'm not kidding you. I love smelling like Chrism.
When checking out use the term \"TeamLuke\" or \"TeamMichael\" (who's Michael?) and we will see who has the better fans. Be an adult and take care of your beard, your lips, and your skin!
","summary":"First we catch up. Then we talk the Stanford Rape Case. Brutal.","date_published":"2016-06-10T13:52:53.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/134a20f1-7740-420d-8ac6-317063008c6c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":47319990,"duration_in_seconds":3517}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:57525d5cc6fc086cfe50332e","title":"Episode 46: 46 The Infamous Sergio Dialogues with Dogs","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/46","content_text":"Luke and Gomer get the great honor to interview The Infamous Sergio, a writer for Patheos and an all around good guy. In this episode he schools Gomer repeatedly on how to understand people who aren't you, and continuously blows Luke's mind. We talk race, politics, Catholicism, and rap.Follow him on Twitter \n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" alt=\"Passive Racism. Sergio explains rightly, We don't know they're adopted sisters, so what does this image tell a little black girl on the subway who sees this?\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57525fe7044262fce00d4e1f/1465016369252/\" data-image-dimensions=\"480x360\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.39285714285714285,0.30952380952380953\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"57525fe7044262fce00d4e1f\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57525fe7044262fce00d4e1f/1465016369252/?format=1000w\" />\n\n\n\n\n\n <p>Passive Racism. Sergio explains rightly, We don't know they're adopted sisters, so what does this image tell a little black girl on the subway who sees this?</p>\n\n\nArticles You Should Read:Wherein We Meet Our \"Hero\"Some Thoughts on La Virgen de Guadalupe and the Mexican People Prayer is Good Against Barbarism... And CivilizationJustin Bieber BeliebesStarting Off 2016 As Vague As Possible \n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" alt=\"Image from Poetic Justice.\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/575260583c44d894bc26a45c/1465016418308/\" data-image-dimensions=\"1280x960\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"575260583c44d894bc26a45c\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/575260583c44d894bc26a45c/1465016418308/?format=1000w\" />\n\n\n\n\n\n <p>Image from Poetic Justice.</p>\n\n\n40 Facts you didn't know about Tupac","content_html":"Luke and Gomer get the great honor to interview The Infamous Sergio, a writer for Patheos and an all around good guy. In this episode he schools Gomer repeatedly on how to understand people who aren't you, and continuously blows Luke's mind. We talk race, politics, Catholicism, and rap.
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" alt="Passive Racism. Sergio explains rightly, We don't know they're adopted sisters, so what does this image tell a little black girl on the subway who sees this?" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57525fe7044262fce00d4e1f/1465016369252/" data-image-dimensions="480x360" data-image-focal-point="0.39285714285714285,0.30952380952380953" data-load="false" data-image-id="57525fe7044262fce00d4e1f" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57525fe7044262fce00d4e1f/1465016369252/?format=1000w" />\n\n\n\n\n\n <p>Passive Racism. Sergio explains rightly, We don't know they're adopted sisters, so what does this image tell a little black girl on the subway who sees this?</p>\n <img class="thumb-image" alt="Image from Poetic Justice." data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/575260583c44d894bc26a45c/1465016418308/" data-image-dimensions="1280x960" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="575260583c44d894bc26a45c" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/575260583c44d894bc26a45c/1465016418308/?format=1000w" />\n\n\n\n\n\n <p>Image from Poetic Justice.</p>\n40 Facts you didn't know about Tupac
","summary":"Luke and Gomer interview The Infamous Sergio about race, faith, finite intellectuals acting all infinite, politics, and rap. ","date_published":"2016-06-04T01:11:37.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/277d49ec-3ec1-4567-b57b-2c9b618ba863.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":62011124,"duration_in_seconds":3556}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:5749f08827d4bdfe2296225c","title":"Episode 45: 45 Luke's Stroke of Genius","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/45","content_text":"Luke is alive. His stroke meant nothing to him. Luke conquers all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBYKwkrqL18 ","content_html":"Luke is alive. His stroke meant nothing to him. Luke conquers all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBYKwkrqL18
","summary":"Luke had a stroke and lived to tell about it","date_published":"2016-05-28T15:29:09.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/3a4ad16d-4d97-4f36-a1a2-999a7426ffdc.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":30916406,"duration_in_seconds":1613}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:57360a13b6aa607768d74d17","title":"Episode 44: 44 Interview with Eye of the Tiber","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/44","content_text":"Eye of the Tiber: \"We are proud to have recently been nominated for Best Catholic News Satire, narrowly losing out to the National Catholic Reporter, proving thus that, more trusted Catholic news sources aside, Eye of the Tiber is your most trusted Catholic news source.\"We interview the founder and main author of the great Catholic pressure valve known as Eye of the Tiber. He's hilarious, has the thickest skin, and doesn't even do this for his day job. Hilarious EOTT articles:Woman Wearing Mantilla During Novus Ordo Clearly Batshit CrazyFolk Mass Band Upset Over Masses Interrupting Their ConcertsCardinal Kasper Adds Three SacramentsAll Pope Michael Articles“Pope Michael” Documentary Trailer“Pope Michael” Documentary Short“Pope Michael” Documentary LongMan Fondly Remembers Time When A Man Could Read Bible In Public Without Fear Of Being Ridiculed, BeheadedMichael Voris Hair, Trump Hair Get Together For Drinks \n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" alt=\"Copyright, EOTT 2016\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57360bdd86db434ac61cd4d4/1463159789942/\" data-image-dimensions=\"600x300\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"57360bdd86db434ac61cd4d4\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57360bdd86db434ac61cd4d4/1463159789942/?format=1000w\" />\n\n\n\n\n\n <p>Copyright, EOTT 2016</p>\n\n\nFranciscan University Of Steubenville Quarterback Exclusively Throwing “Hail Marys”Rubio And Other Christian Birthers Demand To See Trump’s Baptismal CertificateMatt Fradd Named Eye Of The Tiber’s Sexiest Chastity Speaker Alive17-Year-Old Homeschool Boy Figures Out Trinity While Mother Combs His HairMiddle-Aged White Woman Gyrating Near Altar Just Like They Do In KenyaPope’s Peace Doves Attacked By Metaphors \n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57360c89f85082cb3f1a357c/1463159951921/\" data-image-dimensions=\"546x330\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"57360c89f85082cb3f1a357c\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57360c89f85082cb3f1a357c/1463159951921/?format=1000w\" />\n\n\nThere there is this: Umbert the Unborn \n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" alt=\"why God?\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57360ae7a3360ce254099793/1463159539284/\" data-image-dimensions=\"760x565\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"57360ae7a3360ce254099793\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57360ae7a3360ce254099793/1463159539284/?format=1000w\" />\n\n\n\n\n\n <p>why God?</p>\n\n\nSaved by the Bell, Zack Dates a Homeless Girl for a ShowSaved by the Bell, Tori Scott, Bayside’s bad-ass biker chickSaved by the Bell, Zach Delivers Mr Belding’s baby in elevator during earthquake (Fan-vid with Tool song “Aenima” playing on top of episode!)Catholic stuff you should know, a much better podcast: http://catholicstuffpodcast.com/Music by Bensound.com.","content_html":"
Eye of the Tiber: \"We are proud to have recently been nominated for Best Catholic News Satire, narrowly losing out to the National Catholic Reporter, proving thus that, more trusted Catholic news sources aside, Eye of the Tiber is your most trusted Catholic news source.\"
We interview the founder and main author of the great Catholic pressure valve known as Eye of the Tiber. He's hilarious, has the thickest skin, and doesn't even do this for his day job.
Woman Wearing Mantilla During Novus Ordo Clearly Batshit Crazy
Folk Mass Band Upset Over Masses Interrupting Their Concerts
Cardinal Kasper Adds Three Sacraments
Michael Voris Hair, Trump Hair Get Together For Drinks
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" alt="Copyright, EOTT 2016" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57360bdd86db434ac61cd4d4/1463159789942/" data-image-dimensions="600x300" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="57360bdd86db434ac61cd4d4" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57360bdd86db434ac61cd4d4/1463159789942/?format=1000w" />\n\n\n\n\n\n <p>Copyright, EOTT 2016</p>\nFranciscan University Of Steubenville Quarterback Exclusively Throwing “Hail Marys”
Rubio And Other Christian Birthers Demand To See Trump’s Baptismal Certificate
Matt Fradd Named Eye Of The Tiber’s Sexiest Chastity Speaker Alive
17-Year-Old Homeschool Boy Figures Out Trinity While Mother Combs His Hair
Middle-Aged White Woman Gyrating Near Altar Just Like They Do In Kenya
Pope’s Peace Doves Attacked By Metaphors
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57360c89f85082cb3f1a357c/1463159951921/" data-image-dimensions="546x330" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="57360c89f85082cb3f1a357c" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57360c89f85082cb3f1a357c/1463159951921/?format=1000w" />\nThere there is this: Umbert the Unborn
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" alt="why God?" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57360ae7a3360ce254099793/1463159539284/" data-image-dimensions="760x565" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="57360ae7a3360ce254099793" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/57360ae7a3360ce254099793/1463159539284/?format=1000w" />\n\n\n\n\n\n <p>why God?</p>\nCatholic stuff you should know, a much better podcast: http://catholicstuffpodcast.com/
Music by Bensound.com.
","summary":"We interview the founder and author of EyeoftheTiber.com, THE Catholic satirical website","date_published":"2016-05-13T13:24:25.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/a0469919-10dc-4e58-91cd-7a3e215fc18f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":60724112,"duration_in_seconds":3476}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:572c3aef60b5e93586b253ed","title":"Episode 43: 43 So I Told God that I Hate Him","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/43","content_text":"Have you ever found your faith ...stalled? You see other people having \"experiences\" of God, but you are running on E with the gas light on and there seems to be no station in sight to refuel your faith. After dancing around the whole super-sensitive college student thing, Luke tells Gomer how recently in a time of rather dramatic prayer, he told God that he hates Him and hates feeling this way. If you can relate, then you should give this episode a listen.In the end, we talk about the new Marvel movie, Captain America 3: Civil War, which I'm taking my wife and another couple out on a date to go see, and yes, I'm taking off of work to do it.Super Important AnnouncementI'm trying to build something big and beautiful at my parish called The Pentecost Vigil. It consists of gathering a bunch of Jesus followers in the church and begging God for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on our parish and in our city. It is a time of praise and intercession AND I WANT YOU TO BE A PART OF IT!Starting today, Friday, May 6, I would love it if you started praying for your own parish's renewal by taking up the Novena to the Holy Spirit and praying it till the Vigil. Also, if you can get some people in your parish together for the prayer vigil, head over to our old friend Fr. Dave Pivonka's website www.thewildgooseisloose.com for more resources and you can register your parish in this worldwide Vigil. So for 9 days will you join us in fasting, prayer and praise in order to allow God's anointing to fall on our Church? \n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/572c3dc360b5e93586b25d0e/1462517224335/\" data-image-dimensions=\"507x294\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"572c3dc360b5e93586b25d0e\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/572c3dc360b5e93586b25d0e/1462517224335/?format=1000w\" />\n","content_html":"Have you ever found your faith ...stalled? You see other people having \"experiences\" of God, but you are running on E with the gas light on and there seems to be no station in sight to refuel your faith. After dancing around the whole super-sensitive college student thing, Luke tells Gomer how recently in a time of rather dramatic prayer, he told God that he hates Him and hates feeling this way. If you can relate, then you should give this episode a listen.
In the end, we talk about the new Marvel movie, Captain America 3: Civil War, which I'm taking my wife and another couple out on a date to go see, and yes, I'm taking off of work to do it.
I'm trying to build something big and beautiful at my parish called The Pentecost Vigil. It consists of gathering a bunch of Jesus followers in the church and begging God for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on our parish and in our city. It is a time of praise and intercession AND I WANT YOU TO BE A PART OF IT!
Starting today, Friday, May 6, I would love it if you started praying for your own parish's renewal by taking up the Novena to the Holy Spirit and praying it till the Vigil. Also, if you can get some people in your parish together for the prayer vigil, head over to our old friend Fr. Dave Pivonka's website www.thewildgooseisloose.com for more resources and you can register your parish in this worldwide Vigil.
So for 9 days will you join us in fasting, prayer and praise in order to allow God's anointing to fall on our Church?
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/572c3dc360b5e93586b25d0e/1462517224335/" data-image-dimensions="507x294" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="572c3dc360b5e93586b25d0e" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/572c3dc360b5e93586b25d0e/1462517224335/?format=1000w" />\nKenn Cramer is the Senior Director of Parish Life for the St Paul Mission who, alongside his wife Laura, the Director of Religious Education and all around financial planner and bookkeeper, ministers to the needs of the Native American Nakoda and A'aninin people living on a reservation in Montana.
Kenn explains how his community of 4,000 is 80% Catholic, but only 4% ever step foot in a Church outside of his or her own baptism and funeral. The community is has a 75% unemployment rate and a barely subsistent life. There is a widespread sense of hopelessness and a lack of personal dignity, which leads to crushingly high levels of suicide, drug addition and alcohol abuse.
And in the midst of such poverty, Kenn has encountered the utter uniqueness of these people and the Church's dire need of them in her life. \"How can the body of Christ function missing an entire limb?\" Yet that is what is happening in the Third World poverty of these reservations in the middle of the world's richest nation.
Congress Raids Ancestral Native American Lands with Defense Bill
Natives Against John McCain: An investigation into living conditions in the Navajo nation of the southwestern United States
Diocese of Gallup serves the nation’s largest reservation: The Diocese of Gallup has a rich history, especially when it comes to the many Native American tribes contained within its borders. These tribes, including Navajo, Zuni, Hopi, Apache, and Pueblo peoples, form a unique and important part of the Diocese… The purpose of this office is to assess and meet the spiritual needs of the Native American members of the Diocese.
Pine Ridge Reservation, the Poorest in the country: From 1980 to 2000, the counties that make up Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota comprised the poorest of our nation's 3,143 counties. The 2000 census found them the third poorest, not because things got better on Pine Ridge, but because things got worse on two other South Dakota Indian Reservations.
Extreme Poverty: The poverty on Pine Ridge can be described in no other terms than third world. It is common to find homes overcrowded, as those with homes take in whoever needs a roof over their heads. Many homes are without running water, and without sewer.
","summary":"Director of Parish Life for the St Paul Mission to the Nakoda and A'aninin people","date_published":"2016-04-29T03:12:47.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/8f196726-9373-4658-b9d4-37d155ee717c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":55748959,"duration_in_seconds":3165}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:571a299e0442627b89893112","title":"Episode 41: 41 - Gomer Sings A Lot","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/41","content_text":"The State Legislature of North Carolina passed a law that interferes with a Charlotte discrimination bill that, in part, allowed for transgendered people to choose which bathroom and locker room to use. Donald Trump thinks North Carolina should have left well enough alone, and Ted Cruz is all for the law.(Also, This episode has chapters... although I forgot to URL them. If you have a podcast app that supports chapters, I think you should be able to skip around.)CHAPTERS00:00:01 Bill in North Carolina00:01:37 Isn’t America Exploding Already00:04:54 The Extremes aren’t extreme anymore00:06:08 Luke bashes the anti-trans meme00:09:35 Gomer goes epistemological on Transgenderism00:14:15 Luke is so done with people who think they own truth00:20:44 Gomer offers some stolen advice00:21:29 JD Flynn is so great00:24:11 Christianity, GOP and Left/Right Dualism00:29:16 Obama is not the Devil00:33:20 Joy of Love and Consciences00:41:55 The Boss and Bathrooms00:443:01 Brave New World00:45:54 I Hate The Benedict Option00:49:01 Star Wars Rogue One00:51:00 Music Recommendations00:54:55 That Catholic Couple YouTube Interview00:55:35 Dadness00:56:44 Closing Remarks!Luke launches into pure rage mode, but against the anti-trans memes that are going around, because it sounds like we're saying, \"Here. Let me tell you how dumb you are. Now join our side!\"Gomer dives a little bit into the Left/Right Dualism in America that is so divisive, and why the GOP chose to make Abortion a central platform issue since the 80's.Then we talk Rogue One, a Star Wars Story.Also, on Saturday, April 24th, at Noon Central Time, we will be interviewed by That Catholic Couple live on YouTube. \n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/571a280f3c44d8e556c7e04d/1461331999328/\" data-image-dimensions=\"2048x1253\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.32,0.27976190476190477\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"571a280f3c44d8e556c7e04d\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/571a280f3c44d8e556c7e04d/1461331999328/?format=1000w\" />\n","content_html":"The State Legislature of North Carolina passed a law that interferes with a Charlotte discrimination bill that, in part, allowed for transgendered people to choose which bathroom and locker room to use. Donald Trump thinks North Carolina should have left well enough alone, and Ted Cruz is all for the law.
(Also, This episode has chapters... although I forgot to URL them. If you have a podcast app that supports chapters, I think you should be able to skip around.)
Luke launches into pure rage mode, but against the anti-trans memes that are going around, because it sounds like we're saying, \"Here. Let me tell you how dumb you are. Now join our side!\"
Gomer dives a little bit into the Left/Right Dualism in America that is so divisive, and why the GOP chose to make Abortion a central platform issue since the 80's.
Then we talk Rogue One, a Star Wars Story.
Also, on Saturday, April 24th, at Noon Central Time, we will be interviewed by That Catholic Couple live on YouTube.
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/571a280f3c44d8e556c7e04d/1461331999328/" data-image-dimensions="2048x1253" data-image-focal-point="0.32,0.27976190476190477" data-load="false" data-image-id="571a280f3c44d8e556c7e04d" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/571a280f3c44d8e556c7e04d/1461331999328/?format=1000w" />\nWhy do some ministries die and some thrive? Lisa Brenninkmeyer, author and founder of Walking With Purpose shares with us how she built a grassroots women's ministry and not just another program. Leadership training and mentoring form the backbone of Walking With Purpose and are precisely what makes it so powerful. The show starts off with me, your old pal Gomer, thank you, our beautiful listeners, for being amazing. LayEvangelist.com is a continued experiment in bringing about the new evangelization and as we expand our number of shows to, you know, more than one, we hope that it can change your life, your faith and your city.
\n\nThen Lisa, out of no where, just starts affirming Luke, which made me very uncomfortable, because, it's Luke.
We dive into the Call, Revival, and even our recent interview with good, old Father Dave Pivonka of www.thewildgooseisloose.com.
Lisa brings up a very good point about the Church and women. Often teachers and preachers tend to focus on chastity when the girls are young, and maternity when the girls become women. They are basically locked in a sexual viewpoint. Lisa's presentations are powerful because she goes beyond sexual value or maternity and focuses on the foundation: my identity as a woman in Christ. Thus her ministry is wide open to women of all vocations and backgrounds.
Oh yeah, she's that good. This is one of my favorite interviews yet.
#Blessed
From the website...
Luke and I start out with the Qatar death scandal involving the World Cup, but don't worry, plenty of people die, Qatar and FIFA authorities assure us. Just not on the same project. At the same time. At all. Then I mock the worship of Sports (#1 of America's Top 7 Gods) and Luke pivots the conversation to a quote from Archbishop Chaput:
\n “This difference between production and consumption is what sociologist Zygmunt Bauman calls the gulf between solid and liquid modern life. Older, “solid” societies based on production find their security in ownership, delayed gratification and rational organization. They seek methodical progress, and they put a high value on durable goods. “Liquid,” consumer-based societies—creatures of the tech revolution and its rapid rate of change—feed on “incessant new beginnings” and experiences.”\n\n
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\n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n\n\nI express how I get nervous with quotes like these because, to be honest, a fear of technology is essentially a fear of our native strength. Robots, AI, and all these iPhones are extensions of our selves, they are our creations. Anywho, Zygmunt Bauman's thesis sounds interesting, so here's a link to his book Liquid Modernity that benefits our ministry. And we shouldn't fear them.
Now on to Mars, ELON MUSK, GET MY FAT ASS TO MARS!
Then we talk about our upcoming two guests: Sergio Bermundez and Lisa Brenninkmeyer from Walking With Purpose.
Then Gomer pulls out the GREATEST ANSWER OF ALL TIME WHY LUKE HAS BAD TASTE IN MUSIC/BEER. Thanks 'Stina!
Finally, we end with the New Evangelization and why we aren't really implementing it and how Gomer has no patience for this.
","summary":"We start with FIFA deaths and move to Sociology. Pretty sweet, actually.","date_published":"2016-04-08T02:26:29.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/60b9c58e-bd82-440e-8f33-936f6f0db6db.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":66425953,"duration_in_seconds":3832}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:56f5a146b73abe7ff06e64c2","title":"Episode 38: 38 - Dynamic Dream Pop with Emma Fradd","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/38","content_text":"Emma Fradd is one to two artists for the band Interior Castle, self-described as \"Dynamic Dream Pop\", which is just about the coolest genre I've ever heard. In this interview you'll hear what it is really like trying to make it in the UK music scene, as well as the influences, tastes, and processes that drive a modern musician like Emma. You can find them on Facebook and here on the Interwebs. Here's an interview that he ugly brother, Matt Fradd, did on his website.You get their 3 EPs on iTunes and Apple Music (Finished Dreaming, Listen and Talk, Buy Me Free) and they sound fantastic. She recommends some music, like:HAIMWarpaintDear OtherAnd near the end Luke and I get into a huge argument over which is better, Vinyl vs. CD (clearly CD), and I shame all with science. SCIENCE! (sciiiiiiiience)","content_html":"
Emma Fradd is one to two artists for the band Interior Castle, self-described as \"Dynamic Dream Pop\", which is just about the coolest genre I've ever heard.
In this interview you'll hear what it is really like trying to make it in the UK music scene, as well as the influences, tastes, and processes that drive a modern musician like Emma. You can find them on Facebook and here on the Interwebs. Here's an interview that he ugly brother, Matt Fradd, did on his website.
You get their 3 EPs on iTunes and Apple Music (Finished Dreaming, Listen and Talk, Buy Me Free) and they sound fantastic. She recommends some music, like:
And near the end Luke and I get into a huge argument over which is better, Vinyl vs. CD (clearly CD), and I shame all with science. SCIENCE! (sciiiiiiiience)
","summary":"Emma Fradd is one to two artists for the band Interior Castle, self-described as \"Dynamic Dream Pop\", which is just about the coolest genre I've ever heard. ","date_published":"2016-03-25T16:56:43.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/a74c02e4-db11-422d-9862-026f63d405c9.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":55916929,"duration_in_seconds":3175}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:56e3ccdb5559862e083c5158","title":"Episode 37: 37 A Necessary Discussion","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/37","content_text":"Luke leads us in a very personal and very necessary discussion on the Clergy Sexual Abuse scandal. What does it look like for Catholics to seriously love their Church and to seriously support the victims of abuse? Luke puts the emphasis on the role of the laity, especially to not try and sidestep this deep scandal by attributing it to the \"gay agenda\" or other stupid crap.Get Safe Environment training. Luke and I both have VIRTUS certification and training, and all of our volunteers who work with youth have it as well. Even if you don't work with kids, you should get the training at a local parish so this never happens again.Let's make sure we honor Luke's dad and not look away from this horrific crime in the Church's life today. From the USCCB...\n \n A Statement on the Protection of Children Bishop Edward J. Burns of Juneau Chairman of the USCCB Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People March 3, 2016This week brought painful, but important, reminders that we must remain vigilant in our efforts to protect children from the scourge of abuse. The movie “Spotlight” won the Academy Award for Best Picture. It chronicles the courage of the victims and the journalists who told their story. In statements from Cardinal O’Malley in Boston and the Vatican newspaper in Rome, the Catholic Church renewed our determined and firm resolve to protect children and felt deep sorrow for the tremendous pain.On Tuesday, we received news of a grand jury report out of Altoona, Pennsylvania. Although I can’t speak to the specifics in Altoona and would defer to the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference as to any statewide impact, like everyone, I read the news with great pain.It is heart wrenching and shocking to hear of this grand jury report or of any incidents of abuse, and it is even more disturbing when we learn that innocent children were abused by priests within the Church. Once again, the wounds inflicted through these heinous crimes have caused great pain and further mistrust in the Church. We must never lose sight of the fact that every victim/survivor has personally experienced profound injury, suffering, and betrayal.These moments are a reminder why the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, adopted by the U.S. bishops in 2002, exists and must be followed. This highlights all the more the importance that we never grow complacent. As stated in the Charter, we are to cooperate with law-enforcement agencies, permanently remove those who have offended, and effectively create a safe environment for our children. Only with vigilance can we ensure that children are kept safe and so allow the Church to help our people in a process of healing and address the mistrust that rises from these cases.\n \n — http://www.usccb.org/news/2016/16-026.cfm\n","content_html":"Luke leads us in a very personal and very necessary discussion on the Clergy Sexual Abuse scandal. What does it look like for Catholics to seriously love their Church and to seriously support the victims of abuse? Luke puts the emphasis on the role of the laity, especially to not try and sidestep this deep scandal by attributing it to the "gay agenda" or other stupid crap.
Get Safe Environment training. Luke and I both have VIRTUS certification and training, and all of our volunteers who work with youth have it as well. Even if you don't work with kids, you should get the training at a local parish so this never happens again.
Let's make sure we honor Luke's dad and not look away from this horrific crime in the Church's life today.
From the USCCB...
\n “ A Statement on the Protection of Children
Bishop Edward J. Burns of Juneau
Chairman of the USCCB Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People
March 3, 2016
This week brought painful, but important, reminders that we must remain vigilant in our efforts to protect children from the scourge of abuse. The movie “Spotlight” won the Academy Award for Best Picture. It chronicles the courage of the victims and the journalists who told their story. In statements from Cardinal O’Malley in Boston and the Vatican newspaper in Rome, the Catholic Church renewed our determined and firm resolve to protect children and felt deep sorrow for the tremendous pain.
On Tuesday, we received news of a grand jury report out of Altoona, Pennsylvania. Although I can’t speak to the specifics in Altoona and would defer to the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference as to any statewide impact, like everyone, I read the news with great pain.
It is heart wrenching and shocking to hear of this grand jury report or of any incidents of abuse, and it is even more disturbing when we learn that innocent children were abused by priests within the Church. Once again, the wounds inflicted through these heinous crimes have caused great pain and further mistrust in the Church. We must never lose sight of the fact that every victim/survivor has personally experienced profound injury, suffering, and betrayal.
These moments are a reminder why the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, adopted by the U.S. bishops in 2002, exists and must be followed. This highlights all the more the importance that we never grow complacent. As stated in the Charter, we are to cooperate with law-enforcement agencies, permanently remove those who have offended, and effectively create a safe environment for our children. Only with vigilance can we ensure that children are kept safe and so allow the Church to help our people in a process of healing and address the mistrust that rises from these cases.”
\n
The Ancient Celts had a nickname for the Holy Spirit, \"Dave Pivonka\". Oh wait, no, that's not it. It's \"The Wild Goose.\" And Father Dave Pivonka takes us on a tour of his vocation, ministry, the skills of religious discernment, and finally, his new project \"The Wild Goose is Loose\", unleashing the power of the Holy Spirit in everyone's life.
\n\n <a href="http://thewildgooseisloose.com/" target="_blank">\n\n\n <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56d9379360b5e9db654d3003/1457076128637/" data-image-dimensions="300x283" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="56d9379360b5e9db654d3003" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56d9379360b5e9db654d3003/1457076128637/?format=1000w" />\n\n\n </a>\n <img class="thumb-image" alt="Look at this picture of Father Dave and I. Yes, I'm taking a selfie, but you know who isn't there? Luke. LUKE! So take that!" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56d93a8f86db43b3796768d9/1457076900619/" data-image-dimensions="3600x2400" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="56d93a8f86db43b3796768d9" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56d93a8f86db43b3796768d9/1457076900619/?format=1000w" />\n\n\n\n\n\n <p>Look at this picture of Father Dave and I. Yes, I'm taking a selfie, but you know who isn't there? Luke. LUKE! So take that!</p>\nLuke leads the discussion inspired by two things: the notion of ongoing conversion and things like focus and work, and how they interrelate. Gomer applies it to his life and then cries because he is so disorganized.
And the YouTube videos that literally make 50,000+ dollars a month! Stampy Longhead
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Deep Work: http://calnewport.com/books/deep-work/
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\n \n \n\n \n \n From Merlin Mann's inboxzero.tumblr.com
\n \n\n <img class="thumb-image" alt="Merlin Mann's Tumblr inboxzero.tumblr.com " data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56d146f28a65e2c2b912c8dd/1456555769522/" data-image-dimensions="800x600" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="56d146f28a65e2c2b912c8dd" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56d146f28a65e2c2b912c8dd/1456555769522/?format=1000w" />\n\n\n\n\n\n <p>Merlin Mann's Tumblr inboxzero.tumblr.com </p>\nCatholic Stuff You Should Know: Anima Technica Vacua
We talk with Brian about his doctoral studies in St Thomas Aquinas' philosophy and theology, which opens up conversations about atheism and materialism, Ghostbusters, why Gomer hasn't seen Ghostbusters 1, but he has seen 2, and Thomas Aquinas on Islam. It's a pretty crazy episode, full of grace and truth!
The Regensburg Lecture, An analysis by Fr James Schall
Amazon’s James Schall Page: http://www.amazon.com/James-V.-Schall/e/B001H6PN80/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1
A Catholic version of Mindfulness: The Sacrament of the Present Moment.
Bernard J. Baars : The Double Life of B.F. Skinner: Inner Conflict, Dissociation and the Scientific Taboo against Consciousness
\n “Freedom was much in the air at the time. The Calvinism of Skinner’s early upbringing denied freedom, with the hotly-debated doctrine of predestination. Early American novels like Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter play out the conflict between Puritan predestination and the emerging American ethic of individual freedom. This was taught routinely as part of a literary education. Skinner must have been thoroughly aware of this tension as a literature student at Hamilton College.\n
The radical behaviourism of Watson and Skinner is indeed an ideology of rebellion. It defines itself in a militant struggle against the perceived stranglehold of religion, and against religion’s evil twin, the consciousness psychology of the older academic generation — all while proclaiming a determinism as rigorous as Calvin’s theology (Watson, 1925; Skinner, 1987).”\n
![\"Which](\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56c719144d088e02a2479e6c/1455888663206/?format=1000w\")
\n \n \n\n \n \n Which one? The responsible one or the cool guy with long hair?
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Saint Augustine’s Confessions, the best translation: http://amzn.to/1SDmqUY
The Universal Call to Holiness in Lumen Gentium, Chapter Five, paragraph 39ff
Then Gomer and Luke wander way too far into inappropriate territory that HAD to be edited.
Then Aquinas talks Islam...
","summary":"Why St Thomas Aquinas matters and what it means to learn from him today","date_published":"2016-02-19T08:34:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/e97a89b4-7a13-4544-adb7-aac4494dd319.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":76473252,"duration_in_seconds":4460}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:56bf9be0f85082335f637098","title":"Episode 33: 33 I Don't Even Care If I Get Fired","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/33","content_text":"Luke and I discuss Confirmation retreats, failure in Catholic schools and ministries, and the ongoing need for evangelization. Luke uses the \"Who do you say that I am?\" verse like 60 times in this episode, and he relates a sad story about the phrase \"personal relationship with Jesus\".Here's the great Dr. Carole Brown article: The Problem with 'Not' Having a Personal Relationship with Jesus. This was a rebuttal piece to Dr. Jay Boyd's article critiquing Forming Intentional Disciples. \n \n But in catechetical practice, this model order must allow for the fact that the initial evangelization has often not taken place. A certain number of children baptized in infancy come for catechesis in the parish without receiving any other initiation into the faith and still without any explicit personal attachment to Jesus Christ; they only have the capacity to believe placed within them by Baptism and the presence of the Holy Spirit.\n \n — Pope John Paul II, Catechesis in Our Times, 19\nFind Us Online!facebook.com/catchingfoxespodcasthttps://twitter.com/cfoxespodcasthttps://www.instagram.com/catching_foxes/@LayEvangelist@theLukethe (Twitter only on the weekends! See Deep Work for the reason why)Check out these great companies!Catholic Beard Balm Make your beard smell like Baptism!CatholicMatch.com Build community, find love, by visiting our sponsor!","content_html":"Luke and I discuss Confirmation retreats, failure in Catholic schools and ministries, and the ongoing need for evangelization. Luke uses the "Who do you say that I am?" verse like 60 times in this episode, and he relates a sad story about the phrase "personal relationship with Jesus".
Here's the great Dr. Carole Brown article: The Problem with 'Not' Having a Personal Relationship with Jesus. This was a rebuttal piece to Dr. Jay Boyd's article critiquing Forming Intentional Disciples.
\n “But in catechetical practice, this model order must allow for the fact that the initial evangelization has often not taken place. A certain number of children baptized in infancy come for catechesis in the parish without receiving any other initiation into the faith and still without any explicit personal attachment to Jesus Christ; they only have the capacity to believe placed within them by Baptism and the presence of the Holy Spirit.”
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Matt Fradd is a busy man. He got a great family and a huge mission. He's engage in the Lord's work of freeing men and women from pornography at his ThePornEffect.com website. Two books that should draw your attention are Delivered, which is a series of testimonies of people who found freedom from porn, including our recent interviewee, Audrey Assad; and Restored, which is a heart-breaking look at what porn does to the wife of an addict. I read the first two chapters and... whew... it is intense.
Follow him on Twitter @MattFradd
Check out the great work he is doing:
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\n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n\n\nand I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Interior Castle.
","summary":"We interview Matt Fradd of theporneffect.com","date_published":"2016-02-05T09:08:31.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/d1a43465-9386-4dd7-88d8-f65b6ab5a10a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":64443063,"duration_in_seconds":3708}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:56b4abc959827ee494aaa5b2","title":"Episode 31: 31 Donald Trump for President of Nothing!","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/31","content_text":"We answer listener questions about Trump, climate change and other non-controversial things! We really do a fun dive into the heart of Trump Populism and analyze some ridiculous statements he's made. \n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56b4acb52fe131a34f318ee3/1454681271540/\" data-image-dimensions=\"592x255\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"56b4acb52fe131a34f318ee3\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56b4acb52fe131a34f318ee3/1454681271540/?format=1000w\" />\n\n\nThen we hop on the Climate Change train and try to figure out why Republicans hate it, why Democrats milk it, and where we can do something constructive together. There's some other stuff, too, like 90's alternative music and some sad stuff at the end.Find Us Online!facebook.com/catchingfoxespodcasthttps://twitter.com/cfoxespodcast@LayEvangelist@theLuketheCheck out these great companies!Catholic Beard BalmCatholicMatch.com","content_html":"We answer listener questions about Trump, climate change and other non-controversial things! We really do a fun dive into the heart of Trump Populism and analyze some ridiculous statements he's made.
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56b4acb52fe131a34f318ee3/1454681271540/" data-image-dimensions="592x255" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="56b4acb52fe131a34f318ee3" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56b4acb52fe131a34f318ee3/1454681271540/?format=1000w" />\nThen we hop on the Climate Change train and try to figure out why Republicans hate it, why Democrats milk it, and where we can do something constructive together. There's some other stuff, too, like 90's alternative music and some sad stuff at the end.
Find Us Online!
Check out these great companies!
Luke interviews Shane Claiborne while Gomer is on a flight to L.A. that he wishes he wasn't on. Poor Gomer.
Shane is a founder and board member of The Simple Way, a faith community in inner city Philadelphia that has helped birth and connect radical faith communities around the world. He is married to Katie Jo, a North Carolina girl who also fell in love with the city (and with Shane). They were wed in St. Edwards church, the formerly abandoned cathedral into which homeless families relocated in 1995, launching the beginning of the Simple Way community and a new phase of faith-based justice making.
Shane writes and travels extensively speaking about peacemaking, social justice, and Jesus. Shane’s books include Jesus for President, Red Letter Revolution, Common Prayer, Follow Me to Freedom, Jesus, Bombs and Ice Cream, Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers – and his classic The Irresistible Revolution. He has been featured in a number of films including “Another World Is Possible” and “Ordinary Radicals.” His books are translated into more than a dozen languages. Shane speaks over 100 times a year, nationally and internationally.
His work has appeared in Esquire, SPIN, Christianity Today, and The Wall Street Journal, and he has been on everything from Fox News and Al Jazeera to CNN and NPR. He’s given academic lectures at Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Liberty, Duke, and Notre Dame. Shane speaks regularly at denominational gatherings, festivals, and conferences around the globe. Follow him online at:
Facebook: ShaneClaiborne
Twitter: @ShaneClaiborne
Luke and Gomer are back and very much hate 2016. Luke has irrational anger problems and Gomer just wants to play Minecraft. We also talk about the \"Voice, but no Vote\" issue of the Episcopalian Church within the Anglican Communion and the problem of Talking Head culture in the Church today.
","summary":"Whew. 2016 just isn't good anymore.","date_published":"2016-01-15T05:58:29.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/682f115d-9d8c-4b10-b24f-5c2c916e8e6b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":63780061,"duration_in_seconds":3667}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:568fed1269492ea8356d3830","title":"Episode 28: 28 Audrey Assad is the Busiest Person Alive","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/28","content_text":"We interview Audrey Assad, one of the brightest lights in the Church today. She's most famous for her devotional music and her role as a worship leader in events and conferences across this country. You will not regret listening to this. Well... you may regret listening to us. But not to her!First, her website: http://www.audreyassad.com/Where to pre-order her next album (and send money to St Vincent de Paul Society): http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/audreyassadVisit her online store: http://store.audreyassad.com/Luke’s Obsession: http://www.gasolineheart.com/Luke’s Other Passion: http://badchristian.com/badchristian/ \n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" alt=\"CopticMartyrs\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/568fedc0a128e65d0d4123ea/1452273090274/CopticMartyrs\" data-image-dimensions=\"500x277\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"568fedc0a128e65d0d4123ea\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/568fedc0a128e65d0d4123ea/1452273090274/CopticMartyrs?format=1000w\" />\n\n\nEVEN UNTO DEATH, how she wrote the song about the Martyrs: http://audreyassad.tumblr.com/post/130350198505/even-unto-death-the-storyDeath Be Not Proud (Music Video)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sikF_phQHZwFrancis Chan’s Apology to Audrey and Matt at IHOP Conference, #OneThinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujDzyUctrR4 Audrey’s Amazing Talk for Women at SEEK2015 on Porn Addictionhttp://www.layevangelist.com/journal/2015/3/3/audrey-assads-amazing-talk-for-women-on-porn-addiction.htmlThePornEffect’s Interview with Audrey Assadhttp://theporneffect.com/blog/post/audrey-assad-on-female-porn-addiction/Madd Fradd’s “Delivered” wherein Audrey shares her storyhttp://www.mattfradddelivered.com/SEEK2015http://seek2015.com/LEVV’s Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/LEVVmusic/Husband’s New Movie “To Catch a Falling Knife” Kickstarter Pagehttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2055994648/to-catch-a-falling-knife Follow Audrey Online Tumblr - http://audreyassad.tumblr.com/Twitter - https://twitter.com/audreyassadFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/audreyassadmusic?_rdr=pInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/audreyassad/","content_html":"
We interview Audrey Assad, one of the brightest lights in the Church today. She's most famous for her devotional music and her role as a worship leader in events and conferences across this country. You will not regret listening to this. Well... you may regret listening to us. But not to her!
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<img class="thumb-image" alt="CopticMartyrs" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/568fedc0a128e65d0d4123ea/1452273090274/CopticMartyrs" data-image-dimensions="500x277" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="568fedc0a128e65d0d4123ea" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/568fedc0a128e65d0d4123ea/1452273090274/CopticMartyrs?format=1000w" />\nEVEN UNTO DEATH, how she wrote the song about the Martyrs: http://audreyassad.tumblr.com/post/130350198505/even-unto-death-the-story
We did it! A few weeks later than anticipated! Here's our review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Not going to lie, I'm pretty proud of this episode. Luke and Scott sat down and had a pretty nuanced conversation about The Force Awakens. Enjoy!
","summary":"We did it! Catching Foxes reviews The Force Awakens! Luke and (super special guest co-host) Scott talk all things The Force Awakens. This isn't a scene-for-scene-review, but more of a nuanced look at The Force Awakens and its implications both inside and outside Star Wars. ","date_published":"2016-01-03T21:42:39.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/12389a6a-81a8-4e5e-80e8-91699d6bcd6a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":53984121,"duration_in_seconds":6109}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:5674505aa128e6539491af6c","title":"Episode 26: 26 Star Wars Pre-Game Show","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/26","content_text":"In this episode you will discover just how crazy much we are in love with the Star Wars franchise. Yes, at one point Gomer connects some themes to theology or morality, but we let Star Wars be Star Wars, for the most part. ( I don't quote this article, but wish I had! Fun read for Thomists.)This is where we go off with Ring Theory and Darth Jar Jar Binks. If you haven't heard about this, it might break your brain or roll your eyes. For Gomer, he rolls his eyes. For Luke, his brain hath broke.Gomer reveals how many books he's read to prepare his heart. Luke reveals how much he's cried in anticipation of the movie. Then we mock George Lucas for a bit and Luke makes such an inappropriate comment, even for our show, that I had to edit it out. But, most importantly, CLICK THE PICTURE BELOW AND RESCUE YOUR CHILDHOOD FROM GEORGE LUCAS! (or watch this documentary on Netflix)And finally, what if you hate the prequels? What if a film student decided to rewrite history and suggest to George Lucas' finished script certain alterations that would make the prequels actually good movies with actual characters you care about and an actual plot surprise, rather than boring characters, stupid CGI set pieces, and the prequels simply explaining everything in the original triology. Here's a pitch for a new plot to Episode I, II, and III. \n\n <a href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yLsvexWBVM8IYSGopKuSfsGk5YIgCwQWd23bqb5ryD4/preview\" target=\"_blank\">\n\n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" alt=\"When George Lucas ruined your childhood because of his own peccadillos, Harmy's restoration of the Original Triology in this Despecialized Edition will warm your heart. Click it to discover a whole new world.\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/567450e21c121018863c655f/1450463460815/\" data-image-dimensions=\"1437x808\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"567450e21c121018863c655f\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/567450e21c121018863c655f/1450463460815/?format=1000w\" />\n\n\n </a>\n\n\n\n\n <p>When George Lucas ruined your childhood because of his own peccadillos, Harmy's restoration of the Original Triology in this Despecialized Edition will warm your heart. Click it to discover a whole new world.</p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n <a href=\"http://amzn.to/1OcxiBz\" target=\"_blank\">\n\n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" alt=\"Lost Stars... Where Twilight meets Star Wars. Enough said. I read it just to find out why that Star Destroyer crashes on Jakku. This book chronologically starts with pre-Star Wars A New Hope and ends after The Return of the Jedi.\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/5674519940667a2b56886827/1450463642374/51PhgY9aWRL._SL300_.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"300x300\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5674519940667a2b56886827\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/5674519940667a2b56886827/1450463642374/51PhgY9aWRL._SL300_.jpg?format=1000w\" />\n\n\n </a>\n\n\n\n\n <p><em>Lost Stars...</em> Where Twilight meets Star Wars. Enough said. I read it just to find out why that Star Destroyer crashes on Jakku. This book chronologically starts with pre-<em>Star Wars A New Hope</em> and ends after <em>The Return of the Jedi</em>.</p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n <a href=\"http://amzn.to/1mcUlG3\" target=\"_blank\">\n\n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" alt=\"This one wasn't as awful as the reviews make it out. Listen to it on audiobook and it's fine. The ending is not as great as it should be, but it's probably because they are setting up for more. This book starts right at the end of Return of the Jedi.\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/5674525b2399a3bb143bc6e9/1450463835954/51EAv3L9PGL.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"329x500\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5674525b2399a3bb143bc6e9\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/5674525b2399a3bb143bc6e9/1450463835954/51EAv3L9PGL.jpg?format=1000w\" />\n\n\n </a>\n\n\n\n\n <p>This one wasn't as awful as the reviews make it out. Listen to it on audiobook and it's fine. The ending is not as great as it should be, but it's probably because they are setting up for more. This book starts right at the end of <em>Return of the Jedi</em>.</p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n <a href=\"http://amzn.to/1mcUKrQ\" target=\"_blank\">\n\n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" alt=\"This is a book about a video game about the movies. Yes! But it is good. It gives you a grunt's eye view of the Rebellion and is a great audiobook.\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/567452f005f8e2dd00662f86/1450463984882/\" data-image-dimensions=\"329x500\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"567452f005f8e2dd00662f86\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/567452f005f8e2dd00662f86/1450463984882/?format=1000w\" />\n\n\n </a>\n\n\n\n\n <p>This is a book about a video game about the movies. Yes! But it is good. It gives you a grunt's eye view of the Rebellion and is a great audiobook.</p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" alt=\"This sets up the Star Wars REBELS cartoon show and is a good back story. The guy with the lightsaber was the last Padawan, with his Jedi master being killed by the Clone Troopers. This will lead into the Rebellion, as the green woman here is helping gather resistance fighters. Good stuff. \" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56745347841abaf154fd7c80/1450464071662/616p2RlCTwL._AA300_.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"300x300\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"56745347841abaf154fd7c80\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56745347841abaf154fd7c80/1450464071662/616p2RlCTwL._AA300_.jpg?format=1000w\" />\n\n\n\n\n\n <p>This sets up the Star Wars REBELS cartoon show and is a good back story. The guy with the lightsaber was the last Padawan, with his Jedi master being killed by the Clone Troopers. This will lead into the Rebellion, as the green woman here is helping gather resistance fighters. Good stuff. </p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n <a href=\"http://amzn.to/1OcyMvJ\" target=\"_blank\">\n\n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" alt=\"A buddy comedy. The Emperor and Vader get stranded on a planet that yearns to be free of Imperial rule. This book's anti-Emperor protagonist is the daddy to Hera, the green girl above and in the Star Wars REBELS cartoon. It seems like everything is a prequel these days. Oh well. It's a fun story of Vader slaughtering things and the Emperor being all manipulative, but of Vader.\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/567454812399a3a13cb8ed08/1450464385878/\" data-image-dimensions=\"300x300\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"567454812399a3a13cb8ed08\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/567454812399a3a13cb8ed08/1450464385878/?format=1000w\" />\n\n\n </a>\n\n\n\n\n <p>A buddy comedy. The Emperor and Vader get stranded on a planet that yearns to be free of Imperial rule. This book's anti-Emperor protagonist is the daddy to Hera, the green girl above and in the <em>Star Wars REBELS </em>cartoon. It seems like everything is a prequel these days. Oh well. It's a fun story of Vader slaughtering things and the Emperor being all manipulative, but of Vader.</p>\n","content_html":"In this episode you will discover just how crazy much we are in love with the Star Wars franchise. Yes, at one point Gomer connects some themes to theology or morality, but we let Star Wars be Star Wars, for the most part. ( I don't quote this article, but wish I had! Fun read for Thomists.)
This is where we go off with Ring Theory and Darth Jar Jar Binks. If you haven't heard about this, it might break your brain or roll your eyes. For Gomer, he rolls his eyes. For Luke, his brain hath broke.
Gomer reveals how many books he's read to prepare his heart. Luke reveals how much he's cried in anticipation of the movie. Then we mock George Lucas for a bit and Luke makes such an inappropriate comment, even for our show, that I had to edit it out. But, most importantly, CLICK THE PICTURE BELOW AND RESCUE YOUR CHILDHOOD FROM GEORGE LUCAS! (or watch this documentary on Netflix)
And finally, what if you hate the prequels? What if a film student decided to rewrite history and suggest to George Lucas' finished script certain alterations that would make the prequels actually good movies with actual characters you care about and an actual plot surprise, rather than boring characters, stupid CGI set pieces, and the prequels simply explaining everything in the original triology. Here's a pitch for a new plot to Episode I, II, and III.
\n\n <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yLsvexWBVM8IYSGopKuSfsGk5YIgCwQWd23bqb5ryD4/preview" target="_blank">\n\n\n <img class="thumb-image" alt="When George Lucas ruined your childhood because of his own peccadillos, Harmy's restoration of the Original Triology in this Despecialized Edition will warm your heart. Click it to discover a whole new world." data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/567450e21c121018863c655f/1450463460815/" data-image-dimensions="1437x808" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="567450e21c121018863c655f" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/567450e21c121018863c655f/1450463460815/?format=1000w" />\n\n\n </a>\n\n\n\n\n <p>When George Lucas ruined your childhood because of his own peccadillos, Harmy's restoration of the Original Triology in this Despecialized Edition will warm your heart. Click it to discover a whole new world.</p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n <a href="http://amzn.to/1OcxiBz" target="_blank">\n\n\n <img class="thumb-image" alt="Lost Stars... Where Twilight meets Star Wars. Enough said. I read it just to find out why that Star Destroyer crashes on Jakku. This book chronologically starts with pre-Star Wars A New Hope and ends after The Return of the Jedi." data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/5674519940667a2b56886827/1450463642374/51PhgY9aWRL._SL300_.jpg" data-image-dimensions="300x300" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="5674519940667a2b56886827" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/5674519940667a2b56886827/1450463642374/51PhgY9aWRL._SL300_.jpg?format=1000w" />\n\n\n </a>\n\n\n\n\n <p><em>Lost Stars...</em> Where Twilight meets Star Wars. Enough said. I read it just to find out why that Star Destroyer crashes on Jakku. This book chronologically starts with pre-<em>Star Wars A New Hope</em> and ends after <em>The Return of the Jedi</em>.</p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n <a href="http://amzn.to/1mcUlG3" target="_blank">\n\n\n <img class="thumb-image" alt="This one wasn't as awful as the reviews make it out. Listen to it on audiobook and it's fine. The ending is not as great as it should be, but it's probably because they are setting up for more. This book starts right at the end of Return of the Jedi." data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/5674525b2399a3bb143bc6e9/1450463835954/51EAv3L9PGL.jpg" data-image-dimensions="329x500" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="5674525b2399a3bb143bc6e9" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/5674525b2399a3bb143bc6e9/1450463835954/51EAv3L9PGL.jpg?format=1000w" />\n\n\n </a>\n\n\n\n\n <p>This one wasn't as awful as the reviews make it out. Listen to it on audiobook and it's fine. The ending is not as great as it should be, but it's probably because they are setting up for more. This book starts right at the end of <em>Return of the Jedi</em>.</p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n <a href="http://amzn.to/1mcUKrQ" target="_blank">\n\n\n <img class="thumb-image" alt="This is a book about a video game about the movies. Yes! But it is good. It gives you a grunt's eye view of the Rebellion and is a great audiobook." data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/567452f005f8e2dd00662f86/1450463984882/" data-image-dimensions="329x500" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="567452f005f8e2dd00662f86" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/567452f005f8e2dd00662f86/1450463984882/?format=1000w" />\n\n\n </a>\n\n\n\n\n <p>This is a book about a video game about the movies. Yes! But it is good. It gives you a grunt's eye view of the Rebellion and is a great audiobook.</p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n <img class="thumb-image" alt="This sets up the Star Wars REBELS cartoon show and is a good back story. The guy with the lightsaber was the last Padawan, with his Jedi master being killed by the Clone Troopers. This will lead into the Rebellion, as the green woman here is helping gather resistance fighters. Good stuff. " data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56745347841abaf154fd7c80/1450464071662/616p2RlCTwL._AA300_.jpg" data-image-dimensions="300x300" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="56745347841abaf154fd7c80" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56745347841abaf154fd7c80/1450464071662/616p2RlCTwL._AA300_.jpg?format=1000w" />\n\n\n\n\n\n <p>This sets up the Star Wars REBELS cartoon show and is a good back story. The guy with the lightsaber was the last Padawan, with his Jedi master being killed by the Clone Troopers. This will lead into the Rebellion, as the green woman here is helping gather resistance fighters. Good stuff. </p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n <a href="http://amzn.to/1OcyMvJ" target="_blank">\n\n\n <img class="thumb-image" alt="A buddy comedy. The Emperor and Vader get stranded on a planet that yearns to be free of Imperial rule. This book's anti-Emperor protagonist is the daddy to Hera, the green girl above and in the Star Wars REBELS cartoon. It seems like everything is a prequel these days. Oh well. It's a fun story of Vader slaughtering things and the Emperor being all manipulative, but of Vader." data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/567454812399a3a13cb8ed08/1450464385878/" data-image-dimensions="300x300" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="567454812399a3a13cb8ed08" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/567454812399a3a13cb8ed08/1450464385878/?format=1000w" />\n\n\n </a>\n\n\n\n\n <p>A buddy comedy. The Emperor and Vader get stranded on a planet that yearns to be free of Imperial rule. This book's anti-Emperor protagonist is the daddy to Hera, the green girl above and in the <em>Star Wars REBELS </em>cartoon. It seems like everything is a prequel these days. Oh well. It's a fun story of Vader slaughtering things and the Emperor being all manipulative, but of Vader.</p>\nAh yes. Our old pal from college, Andy Lesnefsky. Luke and I remember the living embodiment of a prank phone call. Andy is all grown up now and helped evangelize tens of thousands of people through his #ShareJesus campaign at RedeemedOnline.com last Lent, and is going even bigger for this Advent.
But even more important that #ShareJesus is the way Andy is dedicated to his original work as a high school youth minister. He ditched ladder-climbing years ago and has remained at the same parish for the last 10 years, building relationships and changing lives.
We talk about his founding RedeemedOnline.com because of the total lack of a Social Media strategy by Catholic ministries to engage the billions of people online. His videos last year got 1.5 million views and he's learned a lot from this campaign, which he freely shares on this episode. This one is a keeper. And a sharer. #ShareAndy
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","summary":"Andy talks RedeemedOnline.com and #ShareJesus, as well as his ministry philosophy.","date_published":"2015-12-04T07:30:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/bbf7741e-22a9-4c91-969f-92d238bf65e4.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":64182338,"duration_in_seconds":3692}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:56457ae2e4b0ee4528760650","title":"Episode 24: 24 Dying because I do not die","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/24","content_text":"This was a tough one. That's all I got. Love you, Matt! \n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56457ca7e4b03c048d1fbe5b/1447394472781/\" data-image-dimensions=\"604x453\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.7244444444444444,0.591715976331361\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"56457ca7e4b03c048d1fbe5b\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56457ca7e4b03c048d1fbe5b/1447394472781/?format=1000w\" />\n\n\nI Live yet do not Live in MeI live yet do not live in me,am waiting as my life goes by,and die because I do not die.No longer do I live in me,and without God I cannot live;to him or me I cannot givemy self, so what can living be?A thousand deaths my agonywaiting as my life goes by,dying because I do not die.This life I live alone I viewas robbery of life, and soit is a constant death — with noway out until I live with you.God, hear me, what I say is true:I do not want this life of mine,and die because I do not die.Being so removed from you I saywhat kind of life can I have herebut death so ugly and severeand worse than any form of pain?I pity me — and yet my fateis that I must keep up this lie,and die because I do not die.The fish taken out of the seais not without a consolation:his dying is of brief durationand ultimately brings relief.Yet what convulsive death can beas bad as my pathetic life?The more I live the more I die.When I begin to feel reliefon seeing you in the sacrament,I sink in deeper discontent,deprived of your sweet company.Now everything compels my grief:I want — yet can’t — see you nearby,and die because I do not die.Although I find my pleasure, Sir,in hope of someday seeing you,I see that I can lose you too,which makes my pain doubly severe,and so I live in darkest fear,and hope, wait as life goes by,dying because I do not die.Deliver me from death, my God,and give me life; now you have wounda rope about me; harshly boundI ask you to release the cord.See how I die to see you, Lord,and I am shattered where I lie,dying because I do not die.My death will trigger tears in me,and I shall mourn my life: a dayannihilated by the wayI fail and sin relentlessly.O Father God, when will it bethat I can say without a lie:I live because I do not die?Translated by Willis BarnstoneSt John of the Cross","content_html":"This was a tough one. That's all I got. Love you, Matt!
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56457ca7e4b03c048d1fbe5b/1447394472781/" data-image-dimensions="604x453" data-image-focal-point="0.7244444444444444,0.591715976331361" data-load="false" data-image-id="56457ca7e4b03c048d1fbe5b" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56457ca7e4b03c048d1fbe5b/1447394472781/?format=1000w" />\nI live yet do not live in me,
am waiting as my life goes by,
and die because I do not die.
No longer do I live in me,
and without God I cannot live;
to him or me I cannot give
my self, so what can living be?
A thousand deaths my agony
waiting as my life goes by,
dying because I do not die.
This life I live alone I view
as robbery of life, and so
it is a constant death — with no
way out until I live with you.
God, hear me, what I say is true:
I do not want this life of mine,
and die because I do not die.
Being so removed from you I say
what kind of life can I have here
but death so ugly and severe
and worse than any form of pain?
I pity me — and yet my fate
is that I must keep up this lie,
and die because I do not die.
The fish taken out of the sea
is not without a consolation:
his dying is of brief duration
and ultimately brings relief.
Yet what convulsive death can be
as bad as my pathetic life?
The more I live the more I die.
When I begin to feel relief
on seeing you in the sacrament,
I sink in deeper discontent,
deprived of your sweet company.
Now everything compels my grief:
I want — yet can’t — see you nearby,
and die because I do not die.
Although I find my pleasure, Sir,
in hope of someday seeing you,
I see that I can lose you too,
which makes my pain doubly severe,
and so I live in darkest fear,
and hope, wait as life goes by,
dying because I do not die.
Deliver me from death, my God,
and give me life; now you have wound
a rope about me; harshly bound
I ask you to release the cord.
See how I die to see you, Lord,
and I am shattered where I lie,
dying because I do not die.
My death will trigger tears in me,
and I shall mourn my life: a day
annihilated by the way
I fail and sin relentlessly.
O Father God, when will it be
that I can say without a lie:
I live because I do not die?
Translated by Willis Barnstone
St John of the Cross
","summary":"To honor a friend that died, Matt Covey.","date_published":"2015-11-13T01:27:38.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/3858b67f-7a5e-4920-8a3c-4ff8044a3837.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":54566944,"duration_in_seconds":3533}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:563c5667e4b0d902524d0797","title":"Episode 23: Beauty from Ashes with Maria Walther","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/23","content_text":"We all go through difficult times, but a miscarriage or the death of a young child is a uniquely horrific pain. Maria Walther shares with us about the pain and the joy, the loss and the hope that sustains us when a mommy miscarries. While many people shrink away when someone is suffering, Maria reaches out with love and care.\n\nShe discusses how Facebook has become for her Grand Central Station for prayer and intercession, receiving requests and calling on her friends to pray. I cannot think of another person who exercises the \"spirituality of accompaniment\" more than Maria.\n\nLuke shares a little bit about how the loss of his father drew him to God and Gomer talks about where his boy Noah got his name, and how that name made something beautiful happen.You will enjoy this episode. You will not cry. At all. I promise.Music provided by www.BenSound.com. ","content_html":"We all go through difficult times, but a miscarriage or the death of a young child is a uniquely horrific pain. Maria Walther shares with us about the pain and the joy, the loss and the hope that sustains us when a mommy miscarries. While many people shrink away when someone is suffering, Maria reaches out with love and care.
\n\nShe discusses how Facebook has become for her Grand Central Station for prayer and intercession, receiving requests and calling on her friends to pray. I cannot think of another person who exercises the \"spirituality of accompaniment\" more than Maria.
\n\nLuke shares a little bit about how the loss of his father drew him to God and Gomer talks about where his boy Noah got his name, and how that name made something beautiful happen.
You will enjoy this episode. You will not cry. At all. I promise.
Music provided by www.BenSound.com.
","summary":"We interview Maria Walther about her ministry to help mommies who miscarry or lose a child.","date_published":"2015-11-06T07:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/7c94bbd3-ed82-4726-a1e9-4891a33fa517.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":69637278,"duration_in_seconds":4894}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:563335e4e4b064eec4fdd581","title":"Episode 22: 22 The Church Needs More Andrews","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/22","content_text":"Luke and Gomer discuss how hard it is to evangelize your own families and how easy it is to become an overzealous, preachy, arrogant jerk to your family instead. Luke recounts some personal experiences on how, back in college, his home visits were filled with arguments with his family. That is, until his mom told him he was being arrogant.What leads us to place of arrogance? How can we avoid it? How do we stop using the truths of the faith as baseball bats against others?Luke let's us in on the secret around minute 30 and Gomer gives you the best tip possible on how to evangelize one's parents, especially if you are young.Here's something things to help you out (Amazon.com affiliate links help us out!)How to Share Your Faith with Anyone by Terry BarberSomething Other Than God: How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It by Jennifer FulwilerNot God's Type: An Atheist Academic Lays Down Her Arms by Holly OrdwayLife Teen Blog: That Awkward Silence by Mark HartFind us here!https://www.facebook.com/catchingfoxespodcasthttps://twitter.com/thelukethehttps://twitter.com/layevangelisthttps://twitter.com/cfoxespodcastSupport our Sponsor, CatholicMatch.com! \n\n <a href=\"http://www.catholicmatch.com/?referrer_code=CJ&campaign_code=7919592\" target=\"_blank\">\n\n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/563339b8e4b0b94d8f67f87f/1446197688182/\" data-image-dimensions=\"500x98\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"563339b8e4b0b94d8f67f87f\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/563339b8e4b0b94d8f67f87f/1446197688182/?format=1000w\" />\n\n\n </a>\n","content_html":"Luke and Gomer discuss how hard it is to evangelize your own families and how easy it is to become an overzealous, preachy, arrogant jerk to your family instead. Luke recounts some personal experiences on how, back in college, his home visits were filled with arguments with his family. That is, until his mom told him he was being arrogant.
What leads us to place of arrogance? How can we avoid it? How do we stop using the truths of the faith as baseball bats against others?
Luke let's us in on the secret around minute 30 and Gomer gives you the best tip possible on how to evangelize one's parents, especially if you are young.
Here's something things to help you out (Amazon.com affiliate links help us out!)
<a href="http://www.catholicmatch.com/?referrer_code=CJ&campaign_code=7919592" target="_blank">\n\n\n <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/563339b8e4b0b94d8f67f87f/1446197688182/" data-image-dimensions="500x98" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="563339b8e4b0b94d8f67f87f" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/563339b8e4b0b94d8f67f87f/1446197688182/?format=1000w" />\n\n\n </a>\nWe interview Fr. Mike Schmitz, of the Diocese of Duluth and the University of Minnesota Duluth Newman Center. He's a phenomenal homilist and you should subscribe to his homilies. He also grows an amazing beard every winter, has a vast comic book knowledge, and deeply loves his vocation to the priesthood.
Special Guest: Father Mike Schmitz.
","summary":"We interview Fr Mike Schmitz, Bulldog Catholic, about life and beards","date_published":"2015-10-23T03:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/b02096d3-5c7d-4bb1-af57-34dfc851779c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":90806085,"duration_in_seconds":6401}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:561d62fde4b08862a34486e8","title":"Episode 20: 20 Because It's Lent and I'm Fat","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/20","content_text":"In our most theological podcast to date, Luke asks a question from Alicia to Gomer, then Gomer talks FOR. EV. ER.From the Catching Foxes Podcast Facebook PageHere's a topic that I am wondering if you guys could touch on. Sacrifice. Not in the Lenten way but in the old world way. Why was sacrifice important? What was it? Why the sacrifice of the Mass and why we have the liturgy of the Eucharist that we have? Why did Christ offered himself as a sacrifice and how can we tap into that notion today as 21st-century people?This is huge. First, we actually talk about Lenten sacrifices for about 10 minutes and Luke does a killer impression of a Catholic consumer of Starbucks during Lent. Then we open up the slaughterhouse and talk about killing animals to escape sin. Oh yeah. We go there. You'll hear words like \"substitution,\" \"orgies,\" \"appeasement,\" and \"theLukethe.\" Also we talk about the most annoying and amazing story in Scripture: the almost-sacrifice of Isaac by his father Abraham, and when you hear it this way, you'll appreciate it a whole lot more.And, consequently, you'll appreciate the Mass a whole lot more as well. \n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" alt=\"abraham-sacrificing-isaac.jpg\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/561d652be4b08862a3449df9/1444767037790/abraham-sacrificing-isaac.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"1042x800\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.7123287671232876,0.8452380952380952\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"561d652be4b08862a3449df9\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/561d652be4b08862a3449df9/1444767037790/abraham-sacrificing-isaac.jpg?format=1000w\" />\n\n\nThanks to BenSounds.com for the theme music.","content_html":"In our most theological podcast to date, Luke asks a question from Alicia to Gomer, then Gomer talks FOR. EV. ER.
From the Catching Foxes Podcast Facebook Page
Here's a topic that I am wondering if you guys could touch on. Sacrifice. Not in the Lenten way but in the old world way. Why was sacrifice important? What was it? Why the sacrifice of the Mass and why we have the liturgy of the Eucharist that we have? Why did Christ offered himself as a sacrifice and how can we tap into that notion today as 21st-century people?
This is huge. First, we actually talk about Lenten sacrifices for about 10 minutes and Luke does a killer impression of a Catholic consumer of Starbucks during Lent. Then we open up the slaughterhouse and talk about killing animals to escape sin. Oh yeah. We go there. You'll hear words like \"substitution,\" \"orgies,\" \"appeasement,\" and \"theLukethe.\" Also we talk about the most annoying and amazing story in Scripture: the almost-sacrifice of Isaac by his father Abraham, and when you hear it this way, you'll appreciate it a whole lot more.
And, consequently, you'll appreciate the Mass a whole lot more as well.
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" alt="abraham-sacrificing-isaac.jpg" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/561d652be4b08862a3449df9/1444767037790/abraham-sacrificing-isaac.jpg" data-image-dimensions="1042x800" data-image-focal-point="0.7123287671232876,0.8452380952380952" data-load="false" data-image-id="561d652be4b08862a3449df9" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/561d652be4b08862a3449df9/1444767037790/abraham-sacrificing-isaac.jpg?format=1000w" />\nThanks to BenSounds.com for the theme music.
","summary":"Old and bloody sacrifice","date_published":"2015-10-13T16:13:13.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/3b146de8-d6fb-4520-ad54-7dba3f7dce17.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":63208021,"duration_in_seconds":4150}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:561344b3e4b0fbb5e685bf0b","title":"Episode 19: 19 I Was Twenty Euros Short","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/19","content_text":"Brother Peter Francis is the nicest bear-man you will meet this side of the Misty Mountains and so we just let him talk for an hour and a half. \n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" alt=\"This is the very essence of Brother Peter Francis- no thought of himself, just the hilarious joy every teenager at camp would get out of his full-habit belly flop!\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56134e18e4b0b653d9103382/1444105752954/\" data-image-dimensions=\"539x353\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"56134e18e4b0b653d9103382\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56134e18e4b0b653d9103382/1444105752954/?format=1000w\" />\n\n\n\n\n\n <p>This is the very essence of Brother Peter Francis- no thought of himself, just the hilarious joy every teenager at camp would get out of his full-habit belly flop!</p>\n\n\nWe dive into his background as the \"Guy on the Couch\" in my first apartment after college. Then Luke reminds me that also was the \"Guy on the Couch\" in my apartment for a while. This forces me to take stock of my life, especially the quality of my friends and their poor life choices. \n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" alt=\"The Servants of Christ Jesus! I should totally get some sort of "founding" credit. Half the Order is related to me or my parish in one way or another!\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56134e38e4b02bdcb2d7627f/1444105785755/Servants.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"1728x1179\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.7894736842105263,0.2261904761904762\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"56134e38e4b02bdcb2d7627f\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56134e38e4b02bdcb2d7627f/1444105785755/Servants.jpg?format=1000w\" />\n\n\n\n\n\n <p>The Servants of Christ Jesus! I should totally get some sort of \"founding\" credit. Half the Order is related to me or my parish in one way or another!</p>\n\n\nWe reminisce about his Middle School youth ministry days and the ancient art of Lectio Divina. We also talk about how he was my Jedi Master in the Holy Spirit, teaching me to pray \"in the Spirit\" at 2:00 AM in my dirty kitchen. My favorite part was how he discovered his call to leave everything behind and enter the Servants of Christ Jesus religious order. Luke's would probably be Br Peter's experience of homelessness in Barcelona as his poverty pilgrimage seemingly tanked. \n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" alt=\"Day Five, praying the rosary with thousands of pilgrims, he finds his close friends standing right in front of him. What a story!\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56134dfbe4b009e45cc3b8dd/1444105724106/\" data-image-dimensions=\"960x540\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"56134dfbe4b009e45cc3b8dd\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56134dfbe4b009e45cc3b8dd/1444105724106/?format=1000w\" />\n\n\n\n\n\n <p>Day Five, praying the rosary with thousands of pilgrims, he finds his close friends standing right in front of him. What a story!</p>\n\n\nYou better be wearing cheap socks, because their about to be blown off your feet!Thanks to BenSounds.com for the music theme.","content_html":"Brother Peter Francis is the nicest bear-man you will meet this side of the Misty Mountains and so we just let him talk for an hour and a half.
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" alt="This is the very essence of Brother Peter Francis- no thought of himself, just the hilarious joy every teenager at camp would get out of his full-habit belly flop!" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56134e18e4b0b653d9103382/1444105752954/" data-image-dimensions="539x353" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="56134e18e4b0b653d9103382" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56134e18e4b0b653d9103382/1444105752954/?format=1000w" />\n\n\n\n\n\n <p>This is the very essence of Brother Peter Francis- no thought of himself, just the hilarious joy every teenager at camp would get out of his full-habit belly flop!</p>\nWe dive into his background as the \"Guy on the Couch\" in my first apartment after college. Then Luke reminds me that also was the \"Guy on the Couch\" in my apartment for a while. This forces me to take stock of my life, especially the quality of my friends and their poor life choices.
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" alt="The Servants of Christ Jesus! I should totally get some sort of "founding" credit. Half the Order is related to me or my parish in one way or another!" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56134e38e4b02bdcb2d7627f/1444105785755/Servants.jpg" data-image-dimensions="1728x1179" data-image-focal-point="0.7894736842105263,0.2261904761904762" data-load="false" data-image-id="56134e38e4b02bdcb2d7627f" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56134e38e4b02bdcb2d7627f/1444105785755/Servants.jpg?format=1000w" />\n\n\n\n\n\n <p>The Servants of Christ Jesus! I should totally get some sort of "founding" credit. Half the Order is related to me or my parish in one way or another!</p>\nWe reminisce about his Middle School youth ministry days and the ancient art of Lectio Divina. We also talk about how he was my Jedi Master in the Holy Spirit, teaching me to pray \"in the Spirit\" at 2:00 AM in my dirty kitchen.
My favorite part was how he discovered his call to leave everything behind and enter the Servants of Christ Jesus religious order. Luke's would probably be Br Peter's experience of homelessness in Barcelona as his poverty pilgrimage seemingly tanked.
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" alt="Day Five, praying the rosary with thousands of pilgrims, he finds his close friends standing right in front of him. What a story!" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56134dfbe4b009e45cc3b8dd/1444105724106/" data-image-dimensions="960x540" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="56134dfbe4b009e45cc3b8dd" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/56134dfbe4b009e45cc3b8dd/1444105724106/?format=1000w" />\n\n\n\n\n\n <p>Day Five, praying the rosary with thousands of pilgrims, he finds his close friends standing right in front of him. What a story!</p>\nYou better be wearing cheap socks, because their about to be blown off your feet!
Thanks to BenSounds.com for the music theme.
","summary":"Br Peter talks on teaching middle school kids to be quiet, the Holy Spirit, poverty pilgrimages, and his tendency to date women that want to be nuns.","date_published":"2015-10-05T23:49:01.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/02b738ce-0128-49bf-9bb8-e716fc0c063f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":83808925,"duration_in_seconds":5621}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:560b0040e4b034395b0403e4","title":"Episode 18: 18 Papal Bonus Episode: Gomer and David","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/18","content_text":"David knows what it means to pray, preach and proclaim, and he watched the Francis Effect hit the streets of Philly. Listen in as he describes the impact of Pope Francis on our country. \n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/560b07c5e4b0b03fb6fab5e8/1443563533927/\" data-image-dimensions=\"1780x832\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"560b07c5e4b0b03fb6fab5e8\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/560b07c5e4b0b03fb6fab5e8/1443563533927/?format=1000w\" />\n\n\nMusic by BenSounds.com","content_html":"David knows what it means to pray, preach and proclaim, and he watched the Francis Effect hit the streets of Philly. Listen in as he describes the impact of Pope Francis on our country.
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/560b07c5e4b0b03fb6fab5e8/1443563533927/" data-image-dimensions="1780x832" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="560b07c5e4b0b03fb6fab5e8" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/560b07c5e4b0b03fb6fab5e8/1443563533927/?format=1000w" />\nMusic by BenSounds.com
","summary":"The Pope through the eyes of an evangelist.","date_published":"2015-09-29T17:50:41.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/dfa8977c-0b7b-48de-9f6f-3d42ecefcb63.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":20689765,"duration_in_seconds":1113}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:560afed8e4b03ffa07683d68","title":"Episode 17: 17 Papal Bonus Episode: Luke and Scott","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/17","content_text":"Two incredibly handsome men discuss the Pope's historic visit to Congress for the World Meeting of Families. Scott is a youth minister and Catholic school teacher. Luke is... nevermind. Either way, they both work for \"THE CHURCH\" and discuss what the Pope is doing and saying in America. Conservative and Liberal views will be discussed and whether or not is it cool to roll one's eyes for \"yet another speech on Global Warming.\"Music by BenSounds.com","content_html":"Two incredibly handsome men discuss the Pope's historic visit to Congress for the World Meeting of Families. Scott is a youth minister and Catholic school teacher. Luke is... nevermind. Either way, they both work for \"THE CHURCH\" and discuss what the Pope is doing and saying in America. Conservative and Liberal views will be discussed and whether or not is it cool to roll one's eyes for \"yet another speech on Global Warming.\"
Music by BenSounds.com
","summary":"Luke and Scott discuss the Pope's visit to Congress","date_published":"2015-09-29T17:18:41.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/dfe74542-7cb3-40c5-98d9-570e14a5b4b0.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":30707781,"duration_in_seconds":1828}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:560a8cf1e4b0225c292438f4","title":"Episode 16: 16 My Lack of Self-Confidence Makes Me Better Than You","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/16","content_text":"THE MOST EXPLICIT LISTENER MAIL!We dive into our Facebook account messages and posts for your questions that you wanted us to answer. Seeing as how we are super smart and such, we cover them all in our 10 minutes or less format of choice. You asked. We answered. Your welcome!But first we yell at our listeners for saying that we talk too long. YEAH, DUNCAN, I'M TALKING TO YOU. THIS EPISODE IS OVER AN HOUR LONG. DEAL! \n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/560aa5c2e4b0ea79b4d0335a/1443538371208/\" data-image-dimensions=\"600x684\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"560aa5c2e4b0ea79b4d0335a\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/560aa5c2e4b0ea79b4d0335a/1443538371208/?format=1000w\" />\n\n\nMatt Walsh: Friend? Asshole? Friendly Asshole? Is he me?What is the \"the world\"? Am I supposed to love it? Hate it? Tickle its armpits?How bad is cussing? (Especially considering the Matt Walsh comment above)Should Nancy Pelosi be Excommunicated for her public stance advocating for abortion?Should Democrats be more heard out by Catholics today?Then Luke plunges into his experience at the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, which is cool, but has nothing to do the topic...Kim Davis, a very nice lady from Kentucky who I'm sure she means well...Then Luke throws out his authentic, original, artisanal question: \"Why do we think that screaming at the top of our lungs about how right we are is more convincing than Christian joy amongst intense pain and suffering...?\" (Gomer responds with an AMAZING quote on Christian boldness)Oh crap, then humility vs pride is asked, and we loose our minds arguing over whether it is OK to have self-confidence and the role of ordered/disordered self-loveAlso, \"Avant Garde Post-Modern Jazz\" DRINK! \n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/560aa539e4b0225c2924ef95/1443538234369/\" data-image-dimensions=\"555x960\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"560aa539e4b0225c2924ef95\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/560aa539e4b0225c2924ef95/1443538234369/?format=1000w\" />\n\n\nGomer is listening to Days of the New and Luke is listening to Colin Stetson's To See More Light.Thanks to BenSounds.com for the theme song!","content_html":"THE MOST EXPLICIT LISTENER MAIL!
We dive into our Facebook account messages and posts for your questions that you wanted us to answer. Seeing as how we are super smart and such, we cover them all in our 10 minutes or less format of choice. You asked. We answered. Your welcome!
But first we yell at our listeners for saying that we talk too long. YEAH, DUNCAN, I'M TALKING TO YOU. THIS EPISODE IS OVER AN HOUR LONG. DEAL!
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/560aa5c2e4b0ea79b4d0335a/1443538371208/" data-image-dimensions="600x684" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="560aa5c2e4b0ea79b4d0335a" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/560aa5c2e4b0ea79b4d0335a/1443538371208/?format=1000w" />\n <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/560aa539e4b0225c2924ef95/1443538234369/" data-image-dimensions="555x960" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="560aa539e4b0225c2924ef95" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/560aa539e4b0225c2924ef95/1443538234369/?format=1000w" />\nGomer is listening to Days of the New and Luke is listening to Colin Stetson's To See More Light.
Thanks to BenSounds.com for the theme song!
","summary":"The Most Explicit Listener Mail Episode: you asked, we answered, you're welcome, and we're sorry.","date_published":"2015-09-29T11:00:44.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/a325959f-822a-4a80-88f5-289738454326.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":68291509,"duration_in_seconds":4513}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:560250c8e4b0641e3a0f17bb","title":"Episode 15: 15 Perched Like a Bird","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/15","content_text":"This episode is hilarious, challenging, inspirational and terrifying, and that's just the first five minutes! Listen to special guest, David VanVickle, as he tells us about three hugely important things in his life: his job as the Director of Evangelization at a Catholic parish in Pittsburgh, his life in the Charismatic Renewal, and his role in Deliverance ministry and Exorcisms. When you finish this episode you will want to get some holy water, call your favorite Tamborine-playing charismatic over for some prayer, and check to make sure those really are squirrels in your attic. Also, listen to the Ghostbusters' theme song, too.I'm serious when I say that this episode challenged me. It will challenge you, too. \n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/560252dee4b0bd46474f5783/1442992863136/\" data-image-dimensions=\"400x300\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"560252dee4b0bd46474f5783\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/560252dee4b0bd46474f5783/1442992863136/?format=1000w\" />\n","content_html":"This episode is hilarious, challenging, inspirational and terrifying, and that's just the first five minutes! Listen to special guest, David VanVickle, as he tells us about three hugely important things in his life: his job as the Director of Evangelization at a Catholic parish in Pittsburgh, his life in the Charismatic Renewal, and his role in Deliverance ministry and Exorcisms.
When you finish this episode you will want to get some holy water, call your favorite Tamborine-playing charismatic over for some prayer, and check to make sure those really are squirrels in your attic. Also, listen to the Ghostbusters' theme song, too.
I'm serious when I say that this episode challenged me. It will challenge you, too.
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/560252dee4b0bd46474f5783/1442992863136/" data-image-dimensions="400x300" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="560252dee4b0bd46474f5783" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/560252dee4b0bd46474f5783/1442992863136/?format=1000w" />\nThis is the most anticipated podcast episode of the century: LUKE IS GETTING MARRIED AND ALL THE BROS SHOWED UP AND LEFT THEIR WIVES AT HOME.
Hilarity and inside jokes ensue.
This will probably alienate you as a listener if you didn't know us back at Franciscan University of Steubenville, but we hope the addition of Lord of the Rings' style narration helps you follow along the epic tale. It's the fellowship of the wedding ring. Or something.
","summary":"This is the most anticipated podcast episode of the century with Jon, Luke, Adam and Gomer!","date_published":"2015-09-15T17:58:39.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/6c793605-e91a-4fde-9424-4d8b4a7288f7.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":91129358,"duration_in_seconds":5376}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:55ee793ee4b0d8cb3419641c","title":"Episode 13: 13 Please Be Real","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/13","content_text":"How do believers think about uncertainty? How do you struggle with doubt? Gomer and Luke explore their own atheistic tendencies, using the epic book, Introduction to Christianity by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (a.k.a., Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI), to help guide us.Believers and Unbelievers alike are unable to shake their uncertainty because we are all finite, limited creatures. So how is a Christian to live with this uncertainty? No freakin' clue, but we're trying.Rescue Dawn trailer, starring Christian BaleIn the music world, Gomer is still listening to Propaganda and Luke says \"Avant Garde Jazz\" like 7 or 8 times.Thanks to BenSounds.com for the theme music!","content_html":"How do believers think about uncertainty? How do you struggle with doubt? Gomer and Luke explore their own atheistic tendencies, using the epic book, Introduction to Christianity by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (a.k.a., Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI), to help guide us.
Believers and Unbelievers alike are unable to shake their uncertainty because we are all finite, limited creatures. So how is a Christian to live with this uncertainty? No freakin' clue, but we're trying.
Rescue Dawn trailer, starring Christian Bale
In the music world, Gomer is still listening to Propaganda and Luke says \"Avant Garde Jazz\" like 7 or 8 times.
Thanks to BenSounds.com for the theme music!
","summary":"How do believers think about uncertainty? How do you struggle with doubt? ","date_published":"2015-09-08T01:59:20.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/d721834c-b7fd-460e-a0a2-0b61e5b8a8df.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":55284335,"duration_in_seconds":4181}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:55e50c23e4b0c72a7b255212","title":"Episode 12: 12 Everything is wrong! Everything is Awful!","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/12","content_text":"Gomer and Luke Skype again to talk about meaningful things, like the longevity of comedians and the diversity of writers for The Golden Girls. Then Josh Dugger, Ashley Madison and the guilty plea of Jared from Subway for child porn possession. Sigh.Then we talk about grief and loss, especially as Luke tells us of his dad's death in 2008. This is a touching tale that weaves the love and support of family, Christological suffering, the breakup of a genuine relationship and the spiritual advice to \"get up off the mat and walk.\" \n\n <img class=\"thumb-image\" alt=\"Kanye's first sight of Caitlyn Jenner...\" data-image=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/55e50d2ce4b0d31ae6eb2ece/1441074478879/kanye_west_meets_caitlyn_jenner-598497.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"700x876\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"55e50d2ce4b0d31ae6eb2ece\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/55e50d2ce4b0d31ae6eb2ece/1441074478879/kanye_west_meets_caitlyn_jenner-598497.jpg?format=1000w\" />\n\n\n\n\n\n <p>Kanye's first sight of Caitlyn Jenner...</p>\n\n\nSpecial thanks to www.BenSounds.com for the theme music","content_html":"Gomer and Luke Skype again to talk about meaningful things, like the longevity of comedians and the diversity of writers for The Golden Girls. Then Josh Dugger, Ashley Madison and the guilty plea of Jared from Subway for child porn possession. Sigh.
Then we talk about grief and loss, especially as Luke tells us of his dad's death in 2008. This is a touching tale that weaves the love and support of family, Christological suffering, the breakup of a genuine relationship and the spiritual advice to \"get up off the mat and walk.\"
\n\n <img class="thumb-image" alt="Kanye's first sight of Caitlyn Jenner..." data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/55e50d2ce4b0d31ae6eb2ece/1441074478879/kanye_west_meets_caitlyn_jenner-598497.jpg" data-image-dimensions="700x876" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="55e50d2ce4b0d31ae6eb2ece" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551def6fe4b09619c3abc306/t/55e50d2ce4b0d31ae6eb2ece/1441074478879/kanye_west_meets_caitlyn_jenner-598497.jpg?format=1000w" />\n\n\n\n\n\n <p>Kanye's first sight of Caitlyn Jenner...</p>\nSpecial thanks to www.BenSounds.com for the theme music
","summary":"Luke talks about Golden Girls, life, loss, and dealing with grief","date_published":"2015-08-31T22:31:05.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/6f737e93-5b5f-42e6-b07a-126822ccb07e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":54539237,"duration_in_seconds":4119}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:55dbe505e4b0d4526524b990","title":"Episode 11: 11 An Open Letter","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/11","content_text":"Our relationship is complicated. When our guest was in college with Luke and I, we never really talked or hung out. In fact, we all thought his sister was a lot cooler than him. But that was only because we never met him. However, after this podcast, we still like his sister more.He's a Canon Lawyer and really, really knows his Simpsons' references. He won the spouse lottery and also has two adorable kids that they have adopted.\n\nIn this episode we cover annulments and marriage issues, culture and its relationship to Christianity, gay parenting and marriage, the Simpsons, and much, much more.\n\nThanks to BenSounds.com for the theme music.","content_html":"Our relationship is complicated. When our guest was in college with Luke and I, we never really talked or hung out. In fact, we all thought his sister was a lot cooler than him. But that was only because we never met him. However, after this podcast, we still like his sister more.
He's a Canon Lawyer and really, really knows his Simpsons' references. He won the spouse lottery and also has two adorable kids that they have adopted.
\n\nIn this episode we cover annulments and marriage issues, culture and its relationship to Christianity, gay parenting and marriage, the Simpsons, and much, much more.
\n\nThanks to BenSounds.com for the theme music.
","summary":"In this episode we cover annulments and marriage issues, culture and its relationship to Christianity, gay parenting and marriage, the Simpsons, and much, much more.","date_published":"2015-08-24T23:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/455cfe1c-b332-4e7c-b001-bfe7cdb08260.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":67201314,"duration_in_seconds":5174}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:55d2a7f7e4b06f17b403f594","title":"Episode 10: The Prodigal Affleck Returns","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/10","content_text":"We return to that topic that we most hate about ourselves: pornography. After seeing the massive response our dear listeners gave us for episode 8, we thought that some follow up was necessary. I wanted to add a little bit of grace and conversion to the conversation that I felt like was lacking in the previous episode.\n\nWe also talk about the power parable of the Prodigal Son found in Luke 15. We reference \"The Prodigal Son\" by Henri Nouwen, and then do some more Bane impressions.\n\nThanks to www.BenSounds.com for the theme music. Thanks to MeWithoutYou for the 8 second clip of Torches Together. You should really listen to them.","content_html":"We return to that topic that we most hate about ourselves: pornography. After seeing the massive response our dear listeners gave us for episode 8, we thought that some follow up was necessary. I wanted to add a little bit of grace and conversion to the conversation that I felt like was lacking in the previous episode.
\n\nWe also talk about the power parable of the Prodigal Son found in Luke 15. We reference "The Prodigal Son" by Henri Nouwen, and then do some more Bane impressions.
\n\nThanks to www.BenSounds.com for the theme music. Thanks to MeWithoutYou for the 8 second clip of Torches Together. You should really listen to them.
","summary":"Gomer and Luke do some much needed follow up to their porn discussion, bringing in some grace.","date_published":"2015-08-17T23:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/0c80e67a-c9a1-46f7-a3ee-cf3e2ce784e3.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":60605173,"duration_in_seconds":3468}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:55c50b6ae4b0f380d652f3e0","title":"Episode 9: Ten Minute Topic Showdown","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/9","content_text":"SHOW NOTES\n\nOh Man! This episode is intense! We had a whole group of topics that we wanted to talk about but haven't gotten around to them and so we came up with a new game plan. We spend 10 minutes on a topic and switch between pop culture and churchy stuff, taking turns on who picks what topic to discuss. \n\nWe cover things like:why EWTN only makes shows for old people that eat Werther's Originals, institutional racism and the shooting of Sam DuBose, YDisciple founder Jim Beckman, superhero of Catholic youth ministryweddings, wedding fights, and marriage,Luke's slight stutter and my \"slight\" weight gain,a spoiler review of the movie Ant-Man and its almost anti-Paul-Ruddism,Which immediately became about the Marvel Comic Universe, specially Avengers 2and the upcoming DC movies- Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad, Parish life and reaching the people on the margins of faithThen back to talk about The Joker and Suicide Squad.Music by BenSounds.com","content_html":"Oh Man! This episode is intense! We had a whole group of topics that we wanted to talk about but haven't gotten around to them and so we came up with a new game plan. We spend 10 minutes on a topic and switch between pop culture and churchy stuff, taking turns on who picks what topic to discuss.
\n\nWe cover things like:
Music by BenSounds.com
","summary":"We plough through 10 topics in 10 minutes. Each.","date_published":"2015-08-11T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/9f721ff3-00d5-40c2-b067-5d6c66161f4a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":89590957,"duration_in_seconds":5280}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:55c2e773e4b0d9038d7d0454","title":"Episode 8: Authentically Honest about Pornography","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/8","content_text":"SHOW NOTES\n\nThis episode is a heartbreaker. We share as honestly as possible what went wrong in our lives when it came to human sexuality: A.K.A. Pornography. \n\nPorn is in our face and easily reachable by our broadband, HD technicolor Internet connections. We talk about this subject in a very humble and even humiliating way, trying not to dodge the issue. Also, this conversation gives Luke yet another reason to use the word \"Authentic\". Pretty soon he's going to go full hipster and just call it \"Artisanal.\" We end it on a light-hearted note as I yell at Luke for not making me his Best Man and he yells at me for not making him a godfather to one of my four kids.\n\nThanks again to BenSounds.com for the theme music!","content_html":"This episode is a heartbreaker. We share as honestly as possible what went wrong in our lives when it came to human sexuality: A.K.A. Pornography.
\n\nPorn is in our face and easily reachable by our broadband, HD technicolor Internet connections. We talk about this subject in a very humble and even humiliating way, trying not to dodge the issue. Also, this conversation gives Luke yet another reason to use the word "Authentic". Pretty soon he's going to go full hipster and just call it "Artisanal." We end it on a light-hearted note as I yell at Luke for not making me his Best Man and he yells at me for not making him a godfather to one of my four kids.
\n\nThanks again to BenSounds.com for the theme music!
","summary":"We talk about Porn and how it has ruined our lives/relationships","date_published":"2015-08-06T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/bfedf1e3-43f4-4d63-b7e9-9779f36cf111.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":69177486,"duration_in_seconds":4004}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:55adb9a7e4b0d3eba631d568","title":"Episode 7: Interview with Arleen the Virgin","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/7","content_text":"Our first interview show ever! With a real guest and not Luke pretending to be a Marvel character!Ahem.Tonight we interview Arleen Spenceley, journalist and author of the recently published book, \"Chastity is for Lovers\" from Ave Maria Press. She has to deal with a lot in this episode from us, so you should buy her book as our way of saying \"Sorry.\"Special Guest: Arleen Spenceley.","content_html":"Our first interview show ever! With a real guest and not Luke pretending to be a Marvel character!
Ahem.
Tonight we interview Arleen Spenceley, journalist and author of the recently published book, \"Chastity is for Lovers\" from Ave Maria Press. She has to deal with a lot in this episode from us, so you should buy her book as our way of saying \"Sorry.\"
Special Guest: Arleen Spenceley.
","summary":"An interview with journalist and author Arleen Spenceley.","date_published":"2015-07-20T23:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/6bb7e8c0-0617-4924-afde-00217167cba5.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":98803755,"duration_in_seconds":5856}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:55922faee4b078fd8d33e008","title":"Episode 6: Perpetual What Now?","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/6","content_text":"SHOW NOTES\n\nGomer and Luke discuss fun things like the crushing reality of perpetual adolescence for both Gen-Xers and Millennials, and then, without a single hint of irony, complain that Beyonce should not be an Avenger. We are the exceptions that prove the rule, folks. Just keep in mind when you listen to this podcast, it was recorded at 5:22 AM my time, 6:22 for Luke last-name-redacted. We thought we could do this. We thought we could handle waking up early. We thought we were bulletproof. We were wrong.\n\nDead. Wrong.","content_html":"Gomer and Luke discuss fun things like the crushing reality of perpetual adolescence for both Gen-Xers and Millennials, and then, without a single hint of irony, complain that Beyonce should not be an Avenger. We are the exceptions that prove the rule, folks. Just keep in mind when you listen to this podcast, it was recorded at 5:22 AM my time, 6:22 for Luke last-name-redacted. We thought we could do this. We thought we could handle waking up early. We thought we were bulletproof. We were wrong.
\n\nDead. Wrong.
","summary":"We discuss, and model, Perpetual Adolescence.","date_published":"2015-06-30T01:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/ac575501-14c0-4398-8344-ebf3aa6b4e03.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":65421629,"duration_in_seconds":3769}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:55725452e4b0c2e2e35e2ab0","title":"Episode 5: Big Events for the Kidz","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/5","content_text":"Gomer and He-Who-Shall-No-Be-Last-Named talk about BIG EVENTS and its relationship to youth ministry. We get serious for a bit and dig deep on high school ministry, evangelism and catechesis. Also, we repeatedly try out our Bane impressions from The Dark Knight Rises, which degrades quickly into a bad Sean Connery.\n\nOh yeah. And at one point Luke actually called Rocky Road ice cream \"pop ice cream\". Gosh, I hate that guy.\n\nMusic by BENSOUND.com","content_html":"Gomer and He-Who-Shall-No-Be-Last-Named talk about BIG EVENTS and its relationship to youth ministry. We get serious for a bit and dig deep on high school ministry, evangelism and catechesis. Also, we repeatedly try out our Bane impressions from The Dark Knight Rises, which degrades quickly into a bad Sean Connery.
\n\nOh yeah. And at one point Luke actually called Rocky Road ice cream "pop ice cream". Gosh, I hate that guy.
\n\nMusic by BENSOUND.com
","summary":"Gomer and Luke talk event-based youth ministry while doing their best BANE impression.","date_published":"2015-06-05T22:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/6b9d3841-bc56-47e0-9d4f-e74d49ff8b74.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":78755035,"duration_in_seconds":4603}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:556bd964e4b016f4bc26bef4","title":"Episode 4: Luke Authentically, Genuinely Loves Star Wars Trailers","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/4","content_text":"Hey kids!\nHave you ever heard a grown man emote over a movie trailer that it makes you kind of uncomfortable? Well, you're gonna! Here's Luke attempting to explain the rawness of his emotions the day the second Star Wars, The Force Awakens trailer was released. It's crazy.","content_html":"Hey kids!
\nHave you ever heard a grown man emote over a movie trailer that it makes you kind of uncomfortable? Well, you're gonna! Here's Luke attempting to explain the rawness of his emotions the day the second Star Wars, The Force Awakens trailer was released. It's crazy.
In this episode we talk movies and TV shows that edge on the \"too\" side of the Catholic moral equation: too much violence and too much sex. We discuss why some bad movies are actually good and some good movies are bad. Case in point, those terrible family-friendly Christian movies. Sure, they are good in moral content, but they are bad in artistic value, which may mean it's just plain bad and should be avoided.
\n\nHow do you navigate the world of contemporary media, with shows like Mad Men, The Walking Dead, and Breaking Bad are so well done, but have huge immoral elements in it? Hear Gomer rationalize his illegal downloading past and listen to Luke sing the Blockbuster Video jingle from yesteryear.
\n\nSpecial thanks to BENSOUNDS.com for the music.
","summary":"We discuss media discernment and when it goes too far.","date_published":"2015-04-23T01:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/G3CB1E/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/64147875-2f70-4617-95e5-ae012e1b7aea/d49e1122-dffd-46b8-8155-dee0dd3b420e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":36176644,"duration_in_seconds":3884}]},{"id":"551def6fe4b09619c3abc306:5535a67ce4b02eb715d17ddc:5535b1a7e4b04f1506845223","title":"Episode 2: My Poofy Hair","url":"https://www.catchingfoxes.fm/2","content_text":"SHOW NOTES\n\nLuke talks about why he didn't have girlfriends in middle school. Gomer challenges him on that, but ultimately agrees. Then we dive into something rather important. In San Francisco the Archbishop tries to get teachers listed as \"ministers\" and to get them to sign a statement of belief that clearly defines hot button issues (cough gay marriage cough) and requires one's full assent as a teacher to these views. \n\nWe discuss the merits of such a signed statement, especially in the context of a lack of evangelism and solid catechesis.The Official Page of the BackStreet Boys\n\nArchdiocese releases statement on church teachings, practice in high schoolsArchbishop’s letter to Catholic high school teachersOpening Music brought to you by BENSOUND.COM.","content_html":"Luke talks about why he didn't have girlfriends in middle school. Gomer challenges him on that, but ultimately agrees. Then we dive into something rather important. In San Francisco the Archbishop tries to get teachers listed as "ministers" and to get them to sign a statement of belief that clearly defines hot button issues (cough gay marriage cough) and requires one's full assent as a teacher to these views.
\n\nWe discuss the merits of such a signed statement, especially in the context of a lack of evangelism and solid catechesis.
The Official Page of the BackStreet Boys
\n\nArchdiocese releases statement on church teachings, practice in high schools
Archbishop’s letter to Catholic high school teachers
Opening Music brought to you by BENSOUND.COM.
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