Catholic Family Matters

Catholic Family Matters

By Paul Kosinski and Betsy LashleyReligion & SpiritualityChristianity
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Catholic Family Matters episodes

  • CFM #22: Pride

    In today's episode of Catholic Family Matters:

    • Betsy goes in search of an officer AND a gentleman
    • Paul has to clean house, literally
    • Paul and Betsy discuss what pride is, how it affects us and our families, and how humility can help us overcome the sins of pride
    • G.K. Chesterton tells us what makes a family extraordinary
    • God Help Me by Plumb is Betsy's Christian Music Pick of the Week

    Links:

    Bishop Barron's talk on the seven deadly sins and seven lively virtues

    God Help Me by Plumb

     

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    46 min
  • Virtue and Vice

    In today's episode of Catholic Family Matters:

    • Fr. Altonji teaches Betsy a new move
    • Paul welcomes a new member to his neighborhood
    • Paul and Betsy discuss what the Catholic Church teaches about vice and virtue
    • St. Josemaria Escriva's list of 14 ways to show you are not being humble
    • Betsy's Music Pick of the Week

    Links:

    St. Josemaria Escriva's 14 Signs of Lack of Humility

    Look What You've Done by Tasha Layton

    Closing prayer is from The Better Part by John Bartunek, LC. A Christ Centered Resource for Personal Prayer Pg. 97

     

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    44 min
  • CFM #20: Live and Let...Discipline?

    In today's episode of Catholic Family Matters:

    • Betsy smells a rat (or a mouse)
    • Paul goes to visit family on vacay
    • Paul and Betsy discuss how their Holiday went and set personal goals for the year
    • Some wise words from the Twitter-verse to start the New Year
    • Hillsong UNITED for the Music Pick of the Week

    Links:

    Know You Will by Hillsong UNITED

    Any guys out there up for a Challenge (Exodus 90)

     

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    47 min
  • Fatherhood

    In today's episode of Catholic Family Matters:

    • Betsy and Paul welcome Fred from St. John's Youth Misitry
    • Paul has a busy 30 minutes
    • Betsy celebrates National Greg Comes Home day
    • Fred has been waiting to talk about fatherhood
    • Fred helps Paul and Betsy discuss why fatherhood is important
    • Tolerance is the Twitter topic of the week
    • Hand to Hold (by JJ Heller) makes Betsy tear up as her Christian music Pick of the Week

    Links:

    Link to St. John the Baptist YM

    Hand to Hold by JJ Heller

     

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    49 min
  • Pornography

    In today's episode of Catholic Family Matters:

    • Betsy goes hot-roddin' on a brand new (to her and the Catholic Campus Ministry) riding mower
    • Paul loses a smattering of blood
    • Betsy and Paul discuss how pornography damages the lives of men, women, and families
    • Faithful clergy in Mexico are arrested for sticking up for Catholic moral values
    • "Little Drummer Boy" is Betsy's pick this week

    Links:

    USCCB's Information on Pornography

    Medical News Today's article on pornography addiction

    Little Drummer Boy by For King and Country

     

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    32 min
  • These Are a Few of Our Favorite Christmas and Advent Things

    In today's episode of Catholic Family Matters:

    • One of Paul's babies celebrates a birthday, makes his school's archery team, and breaks his arm
    • Betsy attends a meeting of the (campus ministry) minds
    • Betsy and Paul share their Advent and Christmas traditions both past and present

    Links:

    Worthy of Agape on Etsy

    Mrs Torres Creates on Etsy

    Chews Life

    Willits Works

    O, Holy Night by Martina McBride

     

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    45 min
  • Equal but Different

    In today's episode of Catholic Family Matters:

    • Betsy goes to the movies
    • Paul makes a friend (or two, or three)
    • Betsy and Paul discuss the differences between male and female and why that matters
    • Transgenderism degrades women, especially in sports

    Links:

    Betsy's Music Pick of the Week - The Saint that is Just Me by Danielle Rose

    Family Honor - Spice

     

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    43 min
  • Gender Ideology

    In today's episode of Catholic Family Matters:

    • Someone celebrated their 27th Wedding Anniversary (Hint: It's not Paul)
    • Paul gets sick and splits up his family for Thanksgiving
    • Betsy goes to the Sunshine State for Thanksgiving
    • Betsy and Paul discuss how our gender is a gift from God backed up by objective truth

    Links:

    USCCB Resource on Gender Identity

    The Person and Identity Project Website

    Not in a Hurry by Will Reagan (Video)

     

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    41 min
  • Servant Leadership

    In today's episode of Catholic Family Matters:

    • Betsy gets back to (mostly) normal
    • Paul sees his son's senior send-off in high school cross country
    • Betsy and Paul provide a look into how servant leadership, with Christ as an example, has influenced their lives
    • USCCB has convened for their fall meeting

    Links:

    5 Things Jesus Teaches Us About Leadership by Fr. Ian Van Heusen

    Leading when You'd Rather be Leaving by Tim Elmore

     

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    46 min
  • Motherhood

    In today's episode of Catholic Family Matters:

    • Betsy gets treated like the VIP she is at a Lauren Daigle concert
    • Paul allows himself to get locked in with a group of high schoolers
    • Betsy and Paul welcome their second guest to the podcast

    Links:

    Sr. Helena Burns: You can’t have it all … and that’s OK

    The Fragrance Prayer by John Henry Cardinal Newman

     

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    49 min

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A podcast where we share a little about our lives of faith, in an effort to encourage families to live courageously Catholic lives, to love Jesus more and to learn to see the divine in the everyday…