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The world is drowning in half-truths, compromise, and noise. The Belt of Truth cuts through it with bold, unapologetic Catholic voices, rooted in Scripture, Tradition, and the lived witness of men and women fighting for faith and family.

Hosted by Josh Bach, Belt of Truth was named the #1 Catholic podcast in Indiana and is heard in more than 60 countries. From long-form conversations with bishops, priests, and lay leaders… to powerful reflections from the new Refugium Veritatis studio… each episode equips Catholics to live courageously, lead their families, and proclaim Christ in a hostile culture.

Whether you are a husband, wife, father, mother—or simply hungry for truth in an age of confusion—you will find strength, clarity, and hope here.

New studio. New chapter. Same mission: to proclaim the truth… no matter the cost.

Belt of Truth is a podcast inspired by Armor of God, a Catholic men's movement based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, established to arm men to be the spiritual leaders God has called them to be. Belt of Truth features discussions with a variety of guests to explore different topics crucial for men to hear and reflect on their journey to becoming spiritual leaders. Learn more about Armor of God and Belt of Truth at armingmen.com.

Edited and Produced by Josh Bach of OurLocalParish.com

The Belt of Truth Podcast is made possible in part by the generous financial support from local Catholic businesses through the Catholic media company, Our Local Parish. To learn more on how you can support these businesses and watch some powerful interviews with our local priests and laity, go to www.OurLocalParish.com
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Episode 5: The End Game - Memento Mori and the Return of Glory

For centuries, Catholic art reminded the faithful of eternity. Skulls carved into stone. Angels painted above the altar. Saints depicted holding palms of martyrdom. These weren’t aesthetic choices, they were spiritual weapons in a world at war with forgetfulness.

In this final episode, we confront the uncomfortable truth: the modern world has tried to erase the sacred through ugliness, minimalism, and mockery. What happens when we strip beauty from our churches, our culture, and our souls? What happens when we forget we’re going to die?

Jay Parnell joins us to explore the ancient Catholic tradition of "memento mori“ remember your death and how this artistic and spiritual practice isn’t morbid, but liberating. We’ll rediscover the glory of sacred art that prepares the soul for eternity and ask: What could happen in the Church, and in the world, if we truly reclaimed beauty in full force?

To learn more about Jay Parnell and to see his great work, go to: https://www.instagram.com/jayaparnell_studio/

Belt of Truth is a podcast inspired by Armor of God, a Catholic men's movement based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, established to arm men to be the spiritual leaders God has called them to be. Belt of Truth features discussions with a variety of guests to explore different topics crucial for men to hear and reflect on their journey to becoming spiritual leaders. Learn more about Armor of God and Belt of Truth at armingmen.com.

Edited and Produced by Josh Bach of OurLocalParish.com

The Belt of Truth Podcast is made possible in part by the generous financial support from local Catholic businesses through the Catholic media company, Our Local Parish. To learn more on how you can support these businesses and watch some powerful interviews with our local priests and laity, go to www.OurLocalParish.com
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Episode 4: The Beauty of the Eucharist

The Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist is the source and summit of our faith, but do our churches and sacred art reflect this mystery anymore?

In this episode, Jay Parnell joins us to explore how Catholic art once glorified the Eucharist with awe-inspiring beauty, gilded altars, veiled tabernacles, monstrances like suns. And yet today, many Catholics walk into bare sanctuaries and leave with bare souls. How did we get here?

We’ll uncover how architecture and aesthetics shape belief, how modern trends stripped the Church of reverence, and why recovering beauty in the liturgy is not about taste, it’s about truth. Because when Christ is truly present, everything should bow before Him, including our art.

To learn more about Jay Parnell and to see his great work, go to: https://www.instagram.com/jayaparnell_studio/

Belt of Truth is a podcast inspired by Armor of God, a Catholic men's movement based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, established to arm men to be the spiritual leaders God has called them to be. Belt of Truth features discussions with a variety of guests to explore different topics crucial for men to hear and reflect on their journey to becoming spiritual leaders. Learn more about Armor of God and Belt of Truth at armingmen.com.

Edited and Produced by Josh Bach of OurLocalParish.com

The Belt of Truth Podcast is made possible in part by the generous financial support from local Catholic businesses through the Catholic media company, Our Local Parish. To learn more on how you can support these businesses and watch some powerful interviews with our local priests and laity, go to www.OurLocalParish.com
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Episode 3: Saints, Symbols, and Sacred Places

Sacred art is not decoration, it is doctrine in color, stone, glass, and gold. In this episode, we journey into the living theology of Catholic imagery: the radiant stories of saints, the crown of Marian devotion, and the architecture that shapes not only the mind, but the soul.

Jay Parnell joins us to explore how sacred spaces and symbols are crafted to reflect invisible truths. Why does the Church elevate saints in visual form? Why do Marian images remain lightning rods of both comfort and controversy? What happens to a church, or a civilization, when its sanctuary is stripped of beauty, story, and mystery?

From the crucifix to the stained-glass window, from the altar rail to Our Lady’s crown, we’ll unpack how “place” is not neutral and how beauty restores memory, reverence, and a sense of the sacred.

To learn more about Jay Parnell and to see his great work, go to: https://www.instagram.com/jayaparnell_studio/

Belt of Truth is a podcast inspired by Armor of God, a Catholic men's movement based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, established to arm men to be the spiritual leaders God has called them to be. Belt of Truth features discussions with a variety of guests to explore different topics crucial for men to hear and reflect on their journey to becoming spiritual leaders. Learn more about Armor of God and Belt of Truth at armingmen.com.

Edited and Produced by Josh Bach of OurLocalParish.com

The Belt of Truth Podcast is made possible in part by the generous financial support from local Catholic businesses through the Catholic media company, Our Local Parish. To learn more on how you can support these businesses and watch some powerful interviews with our local priests and laity, go to www.OurLocalParish.com
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Episode 2: Say What Words Cannot - Art and the Mystery of Faith

Some truths are too deep for words and that’s where beauty begins.

In this episode, we explore how sacred art serves as a bridge between heaven and earth. Jay Parnell joins us to discuss how Catholic imagery speaks to the soul in ways that doctrine alone cannot. When the mind reaches its limits, beauty continues the conversation. From the mystery of the Incarnation to the glory of the Eucharist, art becomes a kind of visual theology: teaching, convicting, and inviting us deeper.

Why does beauty move us when argument fails? How do symbols, icons, and architecture awaken wonder in a world dulled by distraction? And how can today’s Catholic artists reclaim their prophetic role to say with brush and chisel what must be said to save souls?

To learn more about Jay Parnell and to see his great work, go to: https://www.instagram.com/jayaparnell_studio/

Belt of Truth is a podcast inspired by Armor of God, a Catholic men's movement based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, established to arm men to be the spiritual leaders God has called them to be. Belt of Truth features discussions with a variety of guests to explore different topics crucial for men to hear and reflect on their journey to becoming spiritual leaders. Learn more about Armor of God and Belt of Truth at armingmen.com.

Edited and Produced by Josh Bach of OurLocalParish.com

The Belt of Truth Podcast is made possible in part by the generous financial support from local Catholic businesses through the Catholic media company, Our Local Parish. To learn more on how you can support these businesses and watch some powerful interviews with our local priests and laity, go to www.OurLocalParish.com
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We were made for beauty. Which is why the enemy wants to destroy it.

In this opening episode, we confront the often-ignored spiritual war on beauty. Jay Parnell joins us to expose how the rejection of sacred art and aesthetics in the modern Church wasn’t a stylistic shift, it was a strategic one. When beauty disappears, reverence follows. When our churches grow cold and plain, so do our hearts.

We’ll uncover why the Church historically saw beauty as essential to evangelization, why Satan despises it, and how our faith cannot survive, much less thrive without it. This is more than a conversation about art. It’s a call to recover what hell has tried to erase: the visible glory of God.

To learn more about Jay Parnell and to see his great work, go to: https://www.instagram.com/jayaparnell_studio/

Belt of Truth is a podcast inspired by Armor of God, a Catholic men's movement based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, established to arm men to be the spiritual leaders God has called them to be. Belt of Truth features discussions with a variety of guests to explore different topics crucial for men to hear and reflect on their journey to becoming spiritual leaders. Learn more about Armor of God and Belt of Truth at armingmen.com.

Edited and Produced by Josh Bach of OurLocalParish.com

The Belt of Truth Podcast is made possible in part by the generous financial support from local Catholic businesses through the Catholic media company, Our Local Parish. To learn more on how you can support these businesses and watch some powerful interviews with our local priests and laity, go to www.OurLocalParish.com
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In the 5th and final part of Solutions To The Crisis of Faith with Robert Gregory, Josh and Robb give great support to the important of the sacraments and wrap this series up with a big beautiful bow! This is what its all about right here!!!

Belt of Truth is a podcast inspired by Armor of God, a Catholic men's movement based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, established to arm men to be the spiritual leaders God has called them to be. Belt of Truth features discussions with a variety of guests to explore different topics crucial for men to hear and reflect on their journey to becoming spiritual leaders. Learn more about Armor of God and Belt of Truth at armingmen.com.

Edited and Produced by Josh Bach of OurLocalParish.com

The Belt of Truth Podcast is made possible in part by the generous financial support from local Catholic businesses through the Catholic media company, Our Local Parish. To learn more on how you can support these businesses and watch some powerful interviews with our local priests and laity, go to www.OurLocalParish.com
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Episode 4 of the 5 part series, Josh and Robb discuss Holy Fraternity and why it is the glue for the other core principles and an essential tool we utilize on our journey to Holiness and in the crisis of faith society is in today!

Belt of Truth is a podcast inspired by Armor of God, a Catholic men's movement based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, established to arm men to be the spiritual leaders God has called them to be. Belt of Truth features discussions with a variety of guests to explore different topics crucial for men to hear and reflect on their journey to becoming spiritual leaders. Learn more about Armor of God and Belt of Truth at armingmen.com.

Edited and Produced by Josh Bach of OurLocalParish.com

The Belt of Truth Podcast is made possible in part by the generous financial support from local Catholic businesses through the Catholic media company, Our Local Parish. To learn more on how you can support these businesses and watch some powerful interviews with our local priests and laity, go to www.OurLocalParish.com
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In episode 3 of the 5 part series, Josh and Robb talk about Spiritual Warfare, which is the 3rd principle of the Armor of God Men's Movement. Becoming aware that this warfare exists is half the battle and the other half involves becoming proactive in allowing God to fight this battle with us. Armor up Men, our lives and families lives are under attack.

Belt of Truth is a podcast inspired by Armor of God, a Catholic men's movement based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, established to arm men to be the spiritual leaders God has called them to be. Belt of Truth features discussions with a variety of guests to explore different topics crucial for men to hear and reflect on their journey to becoming spiritual leaders. Learn more about Armor of God and Belt of Truth at armingmen.com.

Edited and Produced by Josh Bach of OurLocalParish.com

The Belt of Truth Podcast is made possible in part by the generous financial support from local Catholic businesses through the Catholic media company, Our Local Parish. To learn more on how you can support these businesses and watch some powerful interviews with our local priests and laity, go to www.OurLocalParish.com
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In episode 2 of the 5 part series, Josh and Robb discuss the the 2nd principle called Shadow Life. Everyone has battled or is battling a shadow life and very few want to talk about it. If you want to truly be the spiritual leader of your home, you need to face this one head on men!

Belt of Truth is a podcast inspired by Armor of God, a Catholic men's movement based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, established to arm men to be the spiritual leaders God has called them to be. Belt of Truth features discussions with a variety of guests to explore different topics crucial for men to hear and reflect on their journey to becoming spiritual leaders. Learn more about Armor of God and Belt of Truth at armingmen.com.

Edited and Produced by Josh Bach of OurLocalParish.com

The Belt of Truth Podcast is made possible in part by the generous financial support from local Catholic businesses through the Catholic media company, Our Local Parish. To learn more on how you can support these businesses and watch some powerful interviews with our local priests and laity, go to www.OurLocalParish.com
Worship Local, Support Local
Thank you and God Bless!