If someone offered a longer life or a deeper life, which would you choose? 

Unfortunately, we often choose a less-deep life without even the benefit of getting a longer life out of it...

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We live in an upside-down kind of world, with technology in our pockets that would amaze and astound any other generation, and we use it to feed the vice of curiositas...

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Most of us, when we think of the natural law, we're not thinking of how we're made to participate in transcendental realities...and yet, that's exactly what the natural law is about! 

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Delighted to interview Catholic artist and former FOCUS missionary, Leanne Bowen!

Check out her work at leannebowen.com!

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Maybe just maybe, a lot of the Christian life makes more sense if we know that we're called to be saints...and if we know what saints are, too.

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Maybe you've heard the line before: Pray, pay, and obey. Maybe the person saying it actually meant: Sit down and shut up. 

But what if it meant exactly what it said? What if those were three excellent admonitions for our life as Catholic Christians?

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The proliferation of 'hate-speech' and the slinging of phobic-motivations seems to just continue to rise, and I think there are interesting reasons for that.

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Joseph Ratzinger, in a 2000 instruction from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, wrote on some of the reasons we suffer. Joseph goes over them, and adds a couple for good measure!

https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20001123_istruzione_en.html

As noted in the episode, knowing that there are reasons for suffering may not lessen the suffering, but it may help with understanding the meaning of the suffering.

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If we don't know the difference between meaning and purpose, we're liable to follow the world down a weird rabbit-hole of endless purposes with no meaning to ground them.

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What if we took divinization seriously? What if our work, our thoughts, our feelings, were all meant to be divinized through and through? Andy Hickman, of Hēl, believes exactly that. 

Check out his electrifying essay here!

Check out opportunities to sample some of the work of hēl during the week of September 29th, 2025, here:

https://hel.co/workshops/hel-week-experience-organization/

And check out the upcoming workshop series that Joseph will be hosting for Catholic husbands here!

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