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We’ll continue exploring the effects of modern technology on our lives, particularly our mental and spiritual health. As discussed in the last episode, technological tools such as smartphones and state-of-the-art search engines like Google grant us unprecedented access to nearly unlimited information. In addition, algorithms and tracking software lead us through a sea of content calibrated to our interests, which keeps us fixed to our devices. In this episode, we discuss why this is dangerous and what we can do to place ourselves on guard against an overwhelming amount of content, much of which is misleading and potentially harmful. Ultimately we ask, How do we separate the digital wheat from the chaff?
These and other salient points will be addressed by Father Jonathan Kopec on this third episode of Digital Dangers.
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Today, in the second part of our ongoing series Digital Dangers, we examine the effects of modern technology on our mental fitness, spiritual well being, and even our physical health. While technology such as smartphones, state-of-the-art search engines, and artificial intelligence give us access to vast reservoirs of information, are we harming ourselves intellectually through the superficial acquisition of knowledge? What adverse effects does this technology have on brain development and can it lead to addiction? Moreover, is technology damaging our capacity to have interpersonal relationships and, most importantly, a relationship with God?
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Welcome back to the SSPX Podcast, where we’re diving into our new series, Digital Dangers! In this ten-part series, we’ll answer questions about modern technology’s complicated nature and its lurking hazards. In a world where technology reigns supreme, we’ll explore its effects on us, our children, and our eternal destiny. How do we shield ourselves and our loved ones from the perils of the online, artificial world? Are smartphones a blessing or a curse? How can we safely navigate the digital landscape without damaging the sanctuary of our family homes? Join us as we tackle these questions and more throughout the series.
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Welcome back to the SSPX Podcast, where we’re diving into our new series, Digital Dangers! In this ten-part series, we’ll answer questions about modern technology’s complicated nature and its lurking hazards. In a world where technology reigns supreme, we’ll explore its effects on us, our children, and our eternal destiny. How do we shield ourselves and our loved ones from the perils of the online, artificial world? Are smartphones a blessing or a curse? How can we safely navigate the digital landscape without damaging the sanctuary of our family homes? Join us as we tackle these questions and more throughout the series.
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On the final episode of the Apologetics Series, we answer one last remaining question, “How do we know with certainty that we should join the Catholic Church?” Over the past 41 episodes we have shown that God exists, that His Word is true, that we can find Him, that Jesus is Him, and that the Church was given to us for our salvation. Yet we may still wonder if we should join an institution that has had corrupt leaders throughout history and today appears to be self-contradictory at points. Fr. David Sherry will join us for the final word.
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On today’s episode of the SSPX Podcast, we continue with the “Why Not” questions about what is reasonable to believe. In this episode, we turn our attention to Judaism. The Jewish people were the chosen people of God with whom He made a divine Covenant. Given this, is it true that this Covenant is still valid? Following the coming of Jesus Christ and the founding of the Church, is it right to practice Judaism today?
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From the 2023 Angelus Press Conference for Catholic Tradition.
The Angelus Press Conference for Catholic Tradition is a unique opportunity to have a life-changing Catholic experience while deepening your faith. This annual Conference, which will be held between October 11-13, 2024, provides a chance to socialize with fellow Catholics, meet priests and religious, and attend lectures on the traditional Catholic Faith. Daily Mass and confessions are also available.
The 2024 Conference is being hosted at the Hilton Kansas City Airport – 8801 NW 112th St, Kansas City, MO 64153.
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On today’s episode of the SSPX Podcast, we continue with the “Why Not” questions about what is reasonable to believe. In this episode, we examine Mormonism or, as it is officially known, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. On the surface, there are many similarities between Mormon families and traditional Catholic families. Their values seem to match up. But even though the surface is similar, there are substantial differences between Mormon beliefs and Christianity.
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On today’s episode of the SSPX Podcast, we continue with the “Why Not” questions about what is or is not reasonable to believe by examining Islam. Islam is the second largest religion in the world behind Christianity and therefore warrants special attention. To help unpack this religion, we review the so-called “Five Pillars of Islam” while exploring whether it has some of the same basic roots as Judaism and Christianity.
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On today’s episode of the SSPX Podcast, we’ll start our last batch of episodes – those dealing with the “why not” questions about what is reasonable to believe. Today we’ll be looking at the basic premise of Paganism – why Polytheism, animism, spiritualism, even if they have been at times very popular in history, and seem to be trendy now, simply don’t make sense to the reasonable person. We’ll see how, based on logic, the ideas inherent in Hinduism, Buddhism, and native or aboriginal spiritualities simply won’t match up to reality.
You can find notes to all these episodes at sspxpodcast.com/apologetics, as well as all our previous episodes. There as well, you can find a link to help support this project. This is free to listen to, as well as all the resources we’re posting, but if you can help with a one time or a small monthly recurring donation, you’ll be making sure that we can continue this work of producing good Catholic content on a regular basis.
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On today’s episode of the SSPX Podcast, we’ll continue our Apologetics Series by looking squarely and unapologetically at some of the worst men who have ever sat on the throne of St. Peter. And there have been more than a few. What are we as Catholics to think about this? How can the Catholic Church be true, be inspired by God if these men were at the helm? And what can historically bad popes throughout the last thousand years and more teach Catholics in the 21st century?
One quick note – my apologies – my audio in this episode is pretty awful. Dr. Rao’s is fine – and that’s the important part. We had a hard time recovering any decent audio from my end, but we think it’s still listenable as it is, even if it’s annoying – I promise, it is to me too! Thanks for your understanding.
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On today’s episode of the SSPX Podcast, we’ll continue our Apologetics Series by looking at the broad topic of Colonization. For hundreds of years, the critics argue, the Catholic Church spearheaded a cultural genocide across the globe, replacing vibrant indigenous cultures with white European culture. So… is it true? What impact did the Church have on exploratory missions? Did conversion lead to colonization?
One quick note – my apologies – my audio in this episode is pretty awful. Dr. Rao’s is fine – and that’s the important part. We had a hard time recovering any decent audio from my end, but we think it’s still listenable as it is, even if it’s annoying – I promise, it is to me to! Thanks for your understanding.
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On today’s episode of the SSPX Podcast, we’ll continue our Apologetics Series by by diving into the messy world of the Inquisitions. And it all starts with the basic concept of how should the Church deal with heresies? What does a trial for a crime against truth look like – and what should it look like? Throughout history, were there abuses of this process by the Church or by the civil authorities? Or is it all completely exaggerated? There’s lots of info that Dr. Rao will help us uncover.
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On today’s episode of the SSPX Podcast, we’ll continue our Apologetics Series by starting to look at some of the more controversial aspects of Church History. Over the next 6 episodes, we’ll have Dr. John Rao join us to look at the “hot button issues” that are commonly used to attack the faith. Today we’ll start by looking at the Crusades. Were they good, or were they bad? Or, is it a lot more complicated than that? How did the Crusades impact the growth of Roman Catholicism, and how did they impact the relationship between East and West?
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Fr. Ian Palko will join us again to look specifically at the Miracles that the New Testament says Our Lord performed. Did he actually perform these, or are these just made up stories, passed from word of mouth, and finally collected in the New Testament as fodder for a new religion? How can we possibly prove these fantastic stories from nearly 2,000 years ago as being accurate?
Now we’ll start to see what religion needs to look like, so that it’s not just something we believe in, like a myth or a legend. What is the most fundamental principle of a religion, if it is going to be true? We’ll ask Fr. Leo Anthony Haynos, who teaches this exact topic at St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary.
We’ve already seen in Episode 5 that we have to practice a religion, but now we’ll start to see what that religion needs to look like, so that it’s not just something we believe in, like a myth or a legend. What is the most fundamental principle of a religion, if it is going to be true?
There are tons of theories about who holds authority within the Catholic Church. Is the pope one of multiple patriarchs, who need to share power? Or is he the supreme, absolute monarch of the entire Catholic Church? How can we use Scripture and Tradition to answer this?
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In this episode, Fr. MacGillivray will look at the concept of the papacy itself. We’ve already seen that Jesus set up the Catholic Church, but he left us with 12 Apostles, who would be the first bishops. Did he actually set up St. Peter as the most important of the Apostles? And what was the reason for putting one fallible, hot-headed, uneducated man at the head of His Divine Church?
We’ve seen that Jesus is God, that He rose from the dead, and performed miracles, but what about after He went back to Heaven? Did He just leave us with His teachings, or did He expect us to do something else? Some would claim he wants us to belong to a visible, real, hierarchical Church, but didn’t He say that His kingdom was not of this world? So why belong to a church here on earth?
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We know that the New Testament is credible, but what about its most important event? Is it logical that a man died and then rose from the dead by his own power? Is there another way to interpret or explain what we read in the Scripture? Maybe the Apostles misunderstood it – or they exaggerated the story, or just made it up… But by the end, we’ll see that the simplest explanation is that it actually happened.
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Fr. Franks will join us to examine whether we can believe what is written in the New Testament, or, like critics allege, whether it is just a collection of pious stories. Are the Gospels anonymous, or can we prove they were written by the Evangelists? And can we really show that over 2,000 years, they have not changed or been embellished at all? We’ll dive into that and more.
On today’s episode of the SSPX Podcast, we’ll continue our Apologetics Series by try to prove that Our Lord was God Himself. Many have claimed throughout history that perhaps he was just very smart – he was a holy man, but not God. Others claim that he was a complete fraud – he really existed, but he...
What are miracles anyway? And isn’t it easier to just say that miracles are things that we don’t fully understand, and not the hand of God entering our life? That seems… not logical. And if miracles are real, then what is the point of them? How do we know that miracles are actually, miraculous? How do we know that things which are unexplained are actually miracles, and not just things we can’t explain? We’ll answer all these questions.
Let’s look at the many prophecies about Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Old Testament. First, Fr. MacPherson will help us understand what a prophecy is, and how it’s different than a prediction. Then we’ll see how throughout the Old Testament, these prophecies get clearer and clearer about who Our Lord would be – yet even still, there was a lot of confusion. Why didn’t people at the time understand who Our Lord was?
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Today we’ll look at two specific points: How are we supposed to interpret some of the more controversial points? Was the God of the Old Testament a God of wrath and jealousy? Also, why did God choose a specific group of people – single them out – as His chosen people? Is that fair?
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In our last episode, we saw that revelation from God is necessary. Now we’ll begin to look at one of the main ways we know about revelation – through Scripture. But can we trust scripture? How do we know that the Bible is true, much less divinely inspired? Can we really trust that this collection of books from hundreds, thousands of years ago is accurate? And how are we supposed to interpret it?
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On today’s episode of the SSPX Podcast, we’ll continue our Apologetics Series by looking at the necessity of Revelation. Last episode, we saw how it was possible that God could speak to man – now Fr. McFarland will join us to see if it was necessary. Did God have to give man revelation? Is revelation necessary for us to know who God is? Or can we know all about God just from our own reason and intellect?
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On today’s episode of the SSPX Podcast, we’ll continue our Apologetics Series by looking at the concept of revelation. Last time, we saw that it was not just possible, but necessary to practice a religion. Today, we’ll investigate the obvious next question – how do we know what to do for this religion? Can we figure it out all on our own? Do we need God to tell us? And is it even possible for God to speak to humans? It initially seems beyond credibility…
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Fr. Robinson will join us to take a careful look at the drug that is marijuana, as it is dispensed today, along with the effects that this drug has on its users, as revealed by current studies. We’ll look broadly at the morality of drug use, then, we will look specifically at marijuana to consider its effects, compare its effects to those of alcohol and tobacco, and finally make a judgment on the morality of its use.
This episode is meant as a companion to the booklet that has just been released by Angelus Press on this topic, and it’s available at AngelusPress.org for anyone who would like a more in-depth look. https://angeluspress.org/products/marijuana
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On today’s episode of the SSPX Podcast, we’ll continue our Apologetics Series by looking at religion. So Far this Podcast has attempted to show why Catholics consider it reasonable to hold that there is a God, and to hold that human beings are distinct from the other animals, having a rational soul. Now the question presents itself: Do human beings have any duties towards God? In other words – is some practice of Religion demanded of one who would live a Reasonable life?
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On today’s episode of the SSPX Podcast, we’ll continue our Apologetics Series by turning towards ourselves. Fr. Albert will join us to look at man himself. We’ve spent the last three episodes looking at the existence God, now we need to know about us. We know that we exist – that part is easy. But what are we made for? What is our purpose? Or in more apologetical terms – what is the nature of man? This is going to influence all the rest of the episodes, so Fr. Albert will help us get a good foundation today.
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On today’s episode of the SSPX Podcast, we’ll continue our Apologetics Series by looking at Creation itself. Fr. Paul Robinson, the Publisher of Angelus Press, and Prior of St. Isidore’s in Denver Colorado, will look at the theory of evolution. Can a Catholic hold that evolution and creation are both consistent with each other? Can non-life turn into life? Can life turn into intelligent life? Is there room in the theory of evolution for God? We’ve already seen that God exists – so how did he bring about life on earth – are we able to know for sure?
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View on YouTube: Visualizations of the working of the cell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hk9jct2ozY
Journey inside the cell, explaining the copying of DNA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fiJupfbSpg
Explanation of irreducible complexity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLlJXn0XOFg
How to build a worm (really cool explanation of gene expression): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDQ0NJQ_z3U
Effects of mutation (scientific evidence that most if not all genetic mutations are harmful): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9AxqLsKmMA
Evidence of the fossil record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FYZl8fc_PQ
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On today’s episode of the SSPX Podcast, we’ll continue our Apologetics Series by looking at Creation itself. Fr. Paul Robinson, the Publisher of Angelus Press, and Prior of St. Isidore’s in Denver Colorado, will look at the theory of evolution. Can a Catholic hold that evolution and creation are both consistent with each other? Can non-life turn into life? Can life turn into intelligent life? Is there room in the theory of evolution for God? We’ve already seen that God exists – so how did he bring about life on earth – are we able to know for sure?
You can find notes to all these episodes at sspxpodcast.com/apologetics, as well as all our previous episodes. There as well, you can find a link to help support this project. This is free to listen to, as well as all the resources we’re posting, but if you can help with a one time or a small monthly recurring donation, you’ll be making sure that we can continue this work of producing good Catholic content on a regular basis.
View on YouTube: Visualizations of the working of the cell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hk9jct2ozY
Journey inside the cell, explaining the copying of DNA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fiJupfbSpg
Explanation of irreducible complexity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLlJXn0XOFg
How to build a worm (really cool explanation of gene expression): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDQ0NJQ_z3U
Effects of mutation (scientific evidence that most if not all genetic mutations are harmful): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9AxqLsKmMA
Evidence of the fossil record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FYZl8fc_PQ
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On today’s episode of the SSPX Podcast, we’ll continue our Apologetics Series with an episode we’re calling, “How to be an Atheist”. Fr. Paul Robinson, the Publisher of Angelus Press, and Prior of St. Isidore’s in Denver Colorado, will take on the two most common objections to the existence of God. First, we’ll look at the problem of evil – how can a good God allow or permit evil to exist? Second, we’ll look at the argument that basically, nature, and the world, is simply self-explanatory. There just doesn’t need to be a God, or even any purpose to existence, the argument goes. How should we answer this?
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View on YouTube: Link to the Brian Davies book mentioned: https://www.amazon.com/Reality-God-Problem-Evil/dp/082649241X
Link to the article on the Big Bang Theory: https://therealistguide.com/big-bang-theory-reactions
Link to the Quora answer on the problem of evil: https://www.quora.com/If-God-is-in-control-and-causes-all-things-to-work-for-the-good-in-believers-how-do-things-like-the-Holocaust-happen/answer/Paul-Robinson-410
Link to Edward Feser’s article on the problem of evil: https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2017/05/davies-on-evil-suffered.html
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Today we’ll start with the very basic question about whether or not God exists. Fr. Paul Robinson, the Publisher of Angelus Press, and Prior of St. Isidore’s in Denver Colorado, will join us to discus this most basic of questions about our understanding of Faith, the world, and our purpose. He’ll also introduce us to the concept of Apologetics, and explain why it’s vital for every Catholic to undertake a serious study of this field during their lifetime.
You can find notes to all these episodes at sspxpodcast.com/apologetics, as well as all our previous episodes. There as well, you can find a link to help support this project. This is free to listen to, as well as all the resources we’re posting, but if you can help with a one time or a small monthly recurring donation, you’ll be making sure that we can continue this work of producing good Catholic content on a regular basis.
View on YouTube: William Lane Craig’s video about the kalam cosmological argument:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CulBuMCLg0
PBS video mentioned at 45 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgisehuGOyY
Homework assignment from Fr. Robinson: take a look at the famous debate between Fr. Frederick Copleston, S.J. and the notorious atheist Bertrand Russell. Fr. Copleston made the argument from contingency. See my Quora summary of the debate here.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-review-of-Bertrand-Russell/answer/Paul-Robinson-410
Father Robinson’s Book:
https://angeluspress.org/products/the-realist-guide-to-religion-and-science
Ed Feser’s book:
https://www.amazon.com/Five-Proofs-Existence-Edward-Feser/dp/1621641333/
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Today on the SSPX Podcast, we’re going to take a deep dive into the status of the Society of Saint Pius X. It seems every few years, a fresh wave of concern ripples through the Catholic Faithful concerning the SSPX. Are they schismatic? Do they have a legitimate jurisdiction within the Catholic Church? Can one attend their Masses, Confessions, get married, and receive Confirmation at their chapels without fear of sin? What about their controversial opinions, such as their stance on the New Mass?
In short, why does the SSPX do what it does – and how does it have the authority to do what it does? We’ll take a deep dive into all these questions over the next two and half hours with the District Superior of Canada, Fr. David Sherry. So if you have questions about the SSPX, here’s your place to start.
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This year, on the SSPX Podcast, and on the SSPX YouTube account, we’re doing a new introductory series on Catholic Apologetics.
When you hear apologetics, you might think that it’s only about convincing non-Catholics that the Catholic Faith is worthy of belief. But it’s much more than that. A good study of Apologetics will deepen your own Faith as a Catholic.
So this series will help you to be apostolic – to defend and promote the Faith. But along the way, we’ll show how faith and reason work hand in hand – and we’ll start at the very beginning with reason itself.
· What is truth? How do we know things? Can anything be known for sure? Once we establish that we know things, can we know there is a God? Can we know that that we have a soul, and can we know for sure that it is immortal? Once we know this, then we need to see if it’s rational that we practice a religion – any religion at all.
Which then begs the questions: how do we practice it? Is there a right way, or a wrong way? Next we’ll look at Sacred Scripture, the Old Testament, and we’ll investigate the person of Jesus Christ. Was he God? Can reason alone tell us He was? And if he is God, how do we worship Him?
Next we’ll need to look at what Christ left behind – His Mystical Body, the Catholic Church. How did he establish the Church? Is it still upholding what Christ told us to do? Is there a conflict between Scripture and the Catholic Church, as many claim?
Apologetics not only addresses what is true, it also helps see exactly where things can and have gone wrong:
· Protestantism, Rationalism, Liberalism, etc. What happened?
· The last 100 years of the Church – is their a unique crisis right now?
· Then we’ll look at a few other religions – specifically, why are they wrong?
· We’ll return to where we started – Faith and Reason, and why it’s a disaster for Catholics to pretend that reason is contrary to faith.
· Finally, we’ll end with – Who can we trust in the Catholic Church? Where can we find the Catholic Faith today?
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Fr. Paul Robinson is the new Publisher of Angelus Press. What are his plans for Angelus Press and all the other apostolates that are under its umbrella? And you may be surprised at all it does…!
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Today we’re happy to welcome for the first time, Father Marcel Ockerse, to answer questions about Purgatory. A listener asked us to look at the scriptural proof for the existence of Purgatory, and how do we know it actually exists? And then we’ll look at the practice of praying for our loved ones, and if it’s actually effective. And finally, we’ll answer a few more questions about Purgatory in general – does everyone go there? And what are the best ways to avoid Purgatory altogether?
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The SSPX Podcast “Vocations Series” continues its look at religious life with Sister Mary Gemma, SSPX sister of 33 years. Sister explains the history of the congregation, its spirit, and rule, and what the path to becoming an SSPX sister looks like – and more!
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As mentioned in previous podcast on marriage, there are serious – even dangerous – misunderstandings about the single life in the world. In this episode, Father McFarland, Vocations Director for the SSPX US District, reviews some of the most common mistakes people make when thinking about the single life.
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The idea about religious vocations or vocations to the Priesthood has suffered from misconceptions, strange ideas, and just plain bad advice. In this episode, Father McFarland, Vocations Director for the SSPX US District, reviews some of the most common mistakes people make when thinking about the consecrated life.
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Is it correct that the Married State is a vocation? Are some people called to it, and others aren’t? Is it better than consecrated life?
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How does the vocation to the Religious Life differ from the Priesthood? What kind of people are needed? Fr. McFarland explains.
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In our first episode, we'll look at the priesthood itself briefly, then look at what a vocation to the priesthood entails - who are we looking for?
Introduction to our new series on Vocations - we'll have 8 episodes exploring the topic, its misconceptions, how to foster vocations, and much more!
An interview with Fr. Wiseman about the new book from Angelus Press that he translated - "The Courage to be Afraid" - and why he thought it was so important to do
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"You will find here an uncommon life of a Redemptorist in the middle of the torment of Vatican II, the catastrophe of the 20th century...."
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We’re speaking with Fr. Alphonsus about the Redemptorist order. We’ll speak about the history, the particular charisms, or areas of focus for a Redemptorist, and finally, we’ll discuss the future of the order.
We’re going to see the history, what is necessary – that is, what is the form and matter of Holy Orders – and then we’ll go through the entire ceremony. The ceremony of Ordinations to the priesthood is full of rich symbolism, teaching, opportunities for grace, and a beauty that is unparalleled.
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