Beyond Rome

This week Simone Rizkallah and James O’Reilly are joined by Zac Crippen for episode 8 of our Beyond Rome journey. Zac leads international expansion for Hallow, the #1 prayer app in the world. A graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and the University of Oxford (where he was a Rhodes Scholar), Zac served as an active duty Air Force officer for seven years before embarking on a career in technology.

Zac lives with his wife, Sally, and their five children on the outskirts of South Bend, Indiana. He is a grateful convert to Catholicism and is a member of the Byzantine (Ruthenian) Church. He blogs and podcasts at creedal.substack.com.

Be sure to tune into this episode to learn from Zac about Byzantine Catholicism and how Catholics can tap into their Hebraic and Near Eastern Christian roots.

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Timestamps:

2:00 – Zac Crippen’s Faith Journey | Church Unity   
4:21 – Catholics and the Bible 
6:05 – Byzantine Catholic: “Learning how to breathe with another lung” 
8:07 – “Why not Orthodoxy? Why Catholicism?” 
14:18 – Zac’s entry into the Byzantine Church   
19:20 – Discovering Church unity: “One mark of the Church is that it will be united” 
27:05 – Byzantine at Hallow? 
28:30 – The Creedal Podcast 
34:38 – Recommendations from Zac
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➡️ Creedal Catholic​ - Theology and Culture

➡️​ On Ye, The Right, and Antisemitism: What a Week w/Andrew Petiprin - Episode of the Creedal Catholic podcast

➡️ ​Introduction to Liturgical Services and their Symbolism in the Eastern Churches​ - Patriarch Gregorios III 

➡️ Deification of the Cross​ - by Father Khaled Anatolios

➡️ The 24 Catholic Churches - just how universal is the Church?

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This week Simone Rizkallah and James O’Reilly are joined by Dr. Russell Hittinger to speak about two declarations from the Second Vatican Council, Nostra Aetate (On the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions) and Dignitatis Humanae (On Religious Freedom).

Russell Hittinger, a leading scholar of Catholic political and social thought, serves as the Executive Director of the Institute for Human Ecology (IHE). He is a Research Professor Ordinarius in The Catholic University of America’s School of Philosophy and a member of the Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas, where he served on the consilium from 2006-2018. He co-directs the IHE’s Program on Catholic Political Thought and delivered the Program’s inaugural lecture, “How to Inherit a Kingdom: Reflections on the Situation of Catholic Political Thought,” in 2022.

From 1996-2019, Dr. Hittinger was the incumbent of the William K. Warren Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Tulsa, where he was also a Research Professor in the School of Law. He has taught at the University of Chicago, the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Fordham University, Princeton University, New York University, Providence College, and Charles University in Prague. In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Dr. Hittinger for a ten-year term as an ordinarius in the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. 

Dr. Hittinger’s books and articles have been published by the University of Notre Dame Press, Oxford University Press, Columbia University Press, and Fordham University Press, and have appeared in the Review of Metaphysics, the Journal of Law and Religion, the Review of Politics.

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1:18 – Constitution versus declaration: what's the difference?
4:30 – Four Constitutions, two Dogmatic and two Pastoral
6:45 – Why were they written?
8:04 – Nostra Aetate makes five points    
16:41 – Most Controversial Document of Vatican II 
22:23 – Why "Beyond Rome"?
24:25 – The State of Israel allows religious liberty
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➡️ Learn more about the Institute for Human Ecology: https://ihe.catholic.edu/  

➡️ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cuahumanecology 

➡️ Nostra Aetate: https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html  

➡️ Dignitatis Humanae: https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651207_dignitatis-humanae_en.html  

➡️ What are the 24 Catholic Churches? https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid

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This week Simone Rizkallah and James O’Reilly are joined by Mother Marla Marie and Sr. Therese Maria to speak about the “Wonderworker of the East,” St. Charbel, a Lebanese priest and monk whose feast day the Roman Catholic Church celebrates on July 24!  

Mother Marla Marie & Sr. Therese Maria are religious sisters in the Maronite Servants of Christ the Light. Their community was founded in the USA by Bishop Gregory Mansour in 2008 to serve the pastoral and spiritual needs of our Maronite Catholic parishes. The sisters are spiritual mothers in the Eparchy of Saint Maron serving in different retreats/missions and ministries for children, youth, young adults, families and the sick and home bound. 

Be sure to tune into this episode to learn more about the Maronite Servants of Christ the Light and how Catholics tap into their Hebraic and Near Eastern Christian roots.  

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Timestamps:

1:50 – Maronite sisters - “radiating Christ’s life”  
5:23 – St. Charbel – Why should Catholics be interested in this saint?- Charbel: “God’s good news”  
10:03 – Miracle of St. Charbel  
15:35 – The Virtues of Charbel – “Rooted and grounded in prayer”   
18:28 – Detachment  
20:40 - “The way he died was the way he lived”  
24:33 – Devotions to St. Charbel  
28:25 – The Eparchy 

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➡️ Learn more about the Maronite Sisters: maroniteservants.org  

➡️ Follow the Maronite Sisters on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube: @MaroniteServants 

➡️ Saint Sharbel Spiritual Life Center in Pittsburgh: https://saintsharbelcenter.org/  

➡️ What are the 24 Catholic Churches?  

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This week Simone Rizkallah and James O’Reilly are joined by Fr. Benedict Kiely, the founder of Nasarean.org, an organization which advocates for and supports persecuted Christian minorities in the Near East.

Fr. Ben is a Catholic priest, incardinated in the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. Born in London, and ordained in Canterbury, England in 1994, he has spent most of his priestly ministry in the United States. In the summer of 2014, Father Ben perceived a call to devote his entire priestly ministry to aid and advocacy for persecuted Christians, especially in the Near East.

Founding Nasarean.org, a charity based in Stowe, Vermont and with the permission and support of his Ordinary, Father Ben divides his time between the US, UK and the Near East, speaking, preaching and writing, trying to focus attention on the plight of persecuted Christians around the world. He has visited war-torn Iraq on multiple occasions since 2015, and has visited Syria, Lebanon, and Armenia where Nasarean is now supporting a number of family businesses. Fr. Ben is also the chaplain of Philos Catholic.

Be sure to tune into this episode to learn more from Fr. Ben's work and how Catholics tap into their Hebraic and Near Eastern Christian roots.

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Timestamps:

1:20– No Mass in Mosul – Ninevah – What can we do? 
3:51 – A call to aid and advocacy – Nasarean.org
8:14 – “A call within a call”
14:23 – Does the Western Church care? 
16:00 – The Near East as the root of our faith- The Cradle of Christianity
19:55 - The Christian vocation: “I am Jesus and you are persecuting Me”
26:16 – What is Nasarean? 

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➡️ Nasarean.org - Learn more about Fr. Benedict Kiely's work

➡️ Project Jonah - Support Near Eastern Christians

➡️ Icon Project - Pray for our persecuted brothers and sisters in the Near East

➡️ The 24 Catholic Churches - Learn about how universal the Catholic Church

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This week Simone Rizkallah and James O’Reilly talk to Fr. Hezekias Carnazzo, a married priest in the Melkite Church, about his journey from Roman Catholicism to the East, his founding of the Institute of Catholic Culture, and his thoughts on the urgency of Catholics to tap into their Hebraic and Near Eastern Christian roots. 

"The New Evangelization, in order to be modern and effective, must start from Jerusalem: it must begin from the first Christian community anchored to the person of Christ, having a cause for which it is willing to face any sacrifice and to give the gift of life itself.” ~ Patriarch Fouad Twal

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➡️ Link to the Institute of Catholic Culture's Patristics 102 course

➡️ Click here to view the 24 Catholic Churches.

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This week Simone Rizkallah and James O’Reilly talk to Canon Lawyer Nicole Delaney on Orientalium Ecclesiarum, a short decree from the Second Vatican Council on the Eastern Churches!

This decree was the inspiration behind the Eastern Code of Canon Law—we do realize that inviting a canon lawyer to join us as our first special guest was a very Roman thing to do!

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Timestamps:

3:35— Eastern Catholics are not Eastern Orthodox
5:11—Churches are not rites —language matters
14:34—It's complicated—legal and pastoral challenges
18:52—Valid but illegal confirmations
20:46—The message of OE is Be okay with who you are: An Eastern Catholic!

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➡️ Link to Orientalium Ecclesiarum

➡️ Link to Simone's ChurchPop article

➡️ Click here to view the 24 Catholic Churches

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Simone Rizkallah and James O’Reilly discuss not just the what (last week) but the WHY of the journey they’d like to take with you on this podcast. Why do our Hebraic and Near Eastern Christian roots matter? Why duc in altum? (Luke 5) 

Yes, Simone studied Latin. James probably did too?

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Timestamps:

1:40 - You are called for some definite purpose
2:56 - Theology of the Laity
4:56 - Personal Vocation, revisited
10:58 - The Prophetic Imagination
14:18 - The Church is Prophetic, again
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Resources:

➡️ The Basic Pathfinder Free Course 

➡️ A Personal Vocation article by Simone Rizkallah

➡️ Reclaiming Prophecy by Catholic Revival Ministries

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Join Simone Rizkallah and James O’Reilly for our pilot episode of Beyond Rome, a podcast production of the Catholic team at The Philos Project. In this episode, you’ll learn who and what The Philos Project is, the stories of how Simone and James came to work in the Near East space, and why we do the work we do.

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Timestamps:

1:40 - James explains the Philos Project
2:56 - Dominican friars meet Orthodox Jews
4:56 - Simone explains there are 24 Catholic Churches
10:58 - Armenia and Israel in 2023
14:18 - The Church is Prophetic

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