Catholic Chat with Fr. Cody: Recent Episodes
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Although socially we deal with a huge number of ethical situations, I chose some that are misunderstood: education, rights and minorities, affirmative action, environmentalism, and freedom of speech.
What is sex? What is the good of sex? This session explores the important and beautiful world of sex by exploring topics like: contraception, abortion, fornication, pornography, and homosexuality.
One way or another we all face medical challenges. The include medical care, health care, prescriptions, end-of-life care, or doctors. What is the best health care system? Is euthanasia immoral? What should we be striving for in health care?
Most people think of politics negatively given the situation of our current politics. This session aims to see the good in the politics and address moral issues related within it: Immigration, Voting, Governance, Just War, and International Obligations.
Most of those who chime into my series are interested in the theological implications of our actions. When is my action sin or mortal sin? What role do I play in moral decision making? What is my conscience? This episode tackles those questions.
Many of our actions cannot be described by "moral" and "immoral." Is it immoral to wear a tuxedo to the beach or a swimsuit to a board meeting? Am I allowed to sniffle in public or should I sneeze? These questions are addressed by the topics of morality, ethicality, and appropriateness.
Rarely in life are our actions simple and easy to understand. Often our choices are complicated by layers of confusion or degrees of separation. The principles of Double-Effect and Cooperation help give us language to describe our involvement with immoral actions.
Making moral decisions is more challenging than we think. Often we limit ourselves to "that was bad" or "that shouldn't have happened." Yet, we have to be honest about our actions and intentions. These two factor determine whether our actions were moral and how liable we are for the consequences.
This episode explores the challenge of finding a moral law as well as different perspectives. It concludes with an exploration of different ways of approaching a moral law.
After reading through 13 chapters of the end times, God finally acts and brings his destructive power to the Earth. What does it look like when God acts?
This episode covers the most intriguing chapters of the Book of Revelation, chapters 11-13. These chapters explain the fall of Satan, the rise of the great deceptive beasts, and unveil the mystery of God.
This episode of the Book of Revelation series covers chapters 6-10. These chapters begin the destruction and final judgement of the world events.
This episode covers chapters 4-5 of the Book of Revelation. What is life like in Heaven? What do the Holy Ones do? Why does John include this part in the end times account?
The first chapter set the tone and message of the Book of Revelation. Following these introductory notes, John prophesies to the seven churches of Asia a message of reform. These messages are deeply rooted in the history of the time with practical and spiritual meanings for our modern ears.
Before we can venture into the depths of Revelation, we need to set a foundation. Who is John? Why is he writing this? How do we interpret the vivid imagery and difficult themes of this book?
This episode ventures into the topic of praying with and interpreting Scripture. Over the centuries those who desired to know the Bible well developed techniques to help us encounter the Living Word and I will share those with you in this episode.
This episode covers the Book of Revelation by examining historical themes and literary contexts and ideas.
This episode continues the discussion regarding whether Paul wrote these letters. Then we continue to discuss the themes and nuances of each book including roles in the church, slavery, the end times, and the church.
"John the Theologian." This Gospel has a depth and beauty unlike the rest of the Gospels. In that way, John does his own thing. This episode covers the main themes and nuances of the Gospel of John.
This episode covers the nuances and details of Luke's Gospel and then his sequel which chronicles the beginning of the Christian church and Christianity.
Matthew has his own special focus when presenting the life of Jesus. Speaking to a largely Jewish audience means that you can emphasize the fulfillment of the law and prophets, the Jewish history and customs, and speak in a way that clarifies Jesus is the messiah.
This episode continues the history of the Israelites into the 1st century AD by following the occupation of Judah and the branches of Jews that formed out of this challenging time. Then it transitions into the New Testament and the foundation of these books and the core points within the Gospels starting with the Gospel of Mark.
This episode concludes the historical books, the books of the Old Testament, and the story of the Israelites as recorded by Scripture. What happened during the Assyrian reign? Who stood against the ruthless reign of the Gentiles? Is there something more than this life?
Whereas part 1 covered the wisdoms books that contain saying and things to ponder, this episode covers the books that read more like stories. Since stories have a way of reflection unlike other media, these stories help us to reflect on God's way and ponder the deeper truths about God's actions.
This episode explores the nature and themes of the wisdom books. How does God act? Why are just people treated poorly and evil people succeed?
The minor prophets gave us some idea of Israelite society and some of the issues they faced. Now we explore the heavy hitters; the ones who called out Israel for their sins, allegiance with other Gods, and journeyed with them through the Exile.
This episode concludes our discussion of the minor prophets returning to themes such as apocalyptic literature and the exile in different books.
This episode is one of two parts on the minor prophets. We will cover three prophet who preached before or during the exile and three considered apocalyptic literature.
This episode introduces the biblical literature of the prophetic texts. In addition to starting our exploration of those text, this episode introduces prophets and prophesy in ancient Israel.
Although I find the books of Chronicles some of the most boring books of the Bible, Ester stands in sharp contrast to it. These books tell the story of the Israelites as they go into Exile and come out of it: the rebuilding of the Temple and the city walls. Then we have the incredibly important story of Queen Ester who saved the Jewish people.
The Reign of Kings. This episode explores the series of kings that ruled over Israel, the early stages of prophesy and prophets, and the beginning of the nation of Israel.
The Israelites are finally leaving the desert and the Books of Law to settle the Promised Land. These books cover the beginning of their time in the Promised Land and the laws governing their new society.
We begin this session exploring the most important book of the law including sacrifices, holiness and purity codes, and the Jewish feast days. Then we venture into the desert with the Book of Numbers chronicling part of their journey to the promised land.
This episode beings the books of the Law. Genesis tells of the foundation of the world until Egypt. Exodus begins in Egypt and starts the sections on law.