Associate Pastor Father Linn discusses the Ninth and Tenth Commandments, respectively, "You shall not covet your neighbor’s spouse," and "You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods."

Grace and justification are essentially the two major elements of the question of salvation. How does salvation work? If anyone goes to heaven, how does that work? Why do they go to heaven? And if anyone goes to hell, why do they go to hell? In this episode of Catholicism 101, Fr. Andrew Linn explores the question of salvation.

In this episode of Catholicism 101, get ready to do a deep dive into the fundamental principles of Christian morality. Fr. Andrew Linn taps St. Thomas Aquinas in this illuminating episode — you will want to listen to twice!

In this episode of Catholicism 101, Fr. Linn Speaker talks about participation in social life, specifically authority and obedience, the meaning of "the common good" and what is means to have a just society in the context of the catechism.

In this episode of Catholicism 101, Fr. Linn discusses the dignity of the human person and God's desire for us to live in communion with one another through the hierarchy of the home, parish, city, state — and

Did you know every sin we can think of is actually seeking some good? It's true. Just not not the highest good — not a rightly ordered good. Andrew Linn discusses how sin can separate us from God and obedience to God's will is the only path to the highest good — union with God.

The goal of the virtues is to make us like God but what are the virtues? In this episode of Catholicism 101, Fr. Andrew Linn explains the different types of virtues and how they help us develop a disposition of holiness.

We live in a time when there is a radical misunderstanding of conscience. Secular society takes the position that "if my conscience tells me to do it, then I don't have to listen to anybody else" or "If my conscience says it's okay, then it's okay and I'm not sinning" - end of conversations. But is that true? Fr. Linn explains what conscience really is, how we are for form our conscience, disordered conscience, and what principles the catechism teaches in regard to respecting the dignity of our own and others consciences.

Fr. Andrew Linn discusses the interconnectedness of the intellect and the will in human beings and how one affects the other.

In this episode of Catholicism 101, Fr. Andrew Linn discusses the passions. The principal passions are love and hatred, desire and fear, joy, sadness, and anger. (CC 1773) In the passions, as movements of the sensitive appetite, there is neither moral good nor evil. But insofar as they engage reason and will, there is moral good or evil in them.