Considering Catholicism

By Greg SmithSociety & Culture Religion & Spirituality Christianity History Philosophy

Considering Catholicism episodes

July 01, 2024 “But the Catholic Church is Corrupt!” Part 2 (#241)
If you're considering Catholicism, at some point someone is going to say to you, "But the Catholic Church is corrupt! How could you think of joining it?!" In the second of two conversations responding to this criticism, Greg and Cory discuss the more exotic charges of corruption in the Church: sedition, magic, and weird conspiracies.
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45 min
June 28, 2024 Catholicism and the Bible, Part 7: The "Rules" for Bible Interpretation (#240)
In this "Deep Dives" episode, Greg explains Catholic "hermeneutics," the rules and guidelines for properly interpreting the Bible.
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27 min
June 26, 2024 "But the Catholic Church is Corrupt!" Part 1 (#239)
If you're considering Catholicism, at some point someone is going to say to you, "But the Catholic Church is corrupt! How could you think of joining it?!" In the first of two conversations responding to this criticism, Greg and Cory discuss "garden variety" corruption in the Church: money, sex, abuses of power.
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39 min
June 24, 2024 When Friends and Family Don't Understand (#238)
Greg often hears from listeners whose friends and family cannot understand their interest in Catholicism, or who react negatively to their desire to become Catholic. He and Ed the Protestant talk about why and how to respond.
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31 min
June 19, 2024 How is Mary the "Queen of Heaven?" (#237)
Few things drive Protestants more crazy than the Catholic Church calling Mary the "Queen of Heaven" and our "advocate." Greg and Ed explore why and how she has earned those titles.
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31 min
June 17, 2024 Listener Questions: Mary's Free Will, More About Birth Control, and Baptists vs. the Nicene Creed (#236)
Greg answers your questions. Did Mary have free will when she agreed to bear Jesus? Did the Church just make up its objections to artificial birth control? And why are the Southern Baptists debating whether to affirm the Nicene Creed?
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35 min
June 14, 2024 Catholicism and the Bible, Part 6: How to Read the Bible (#235)
What "lens" should we the Bible through? History? Moral lessons? Spiritual insights? The Catholic Church teaches that scripture speaks to us in four "senses" or "modes."
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17 min
June 12, 2024 Contraception vs. Catholicism (#234)
The Roman Catholic Church is the only Christian denomination that has held the line, maintaining a total ban on artificial contraception, even within marriage. Why? Greg explains the philosophical and theological ethics that underlie the Catholic position.
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Humanae Vitae: online at the Vatican website
46 min
June 10, 2024 How Was Tradition Transmitted in the Early Church? (#233)
We talk a lot about the oral tradition of the apostles and how it formed (and still forms) the foundations of Catholic doctrine. But several listeners have written in asking how those oral traditions were transmitted and preserved in the generations immediately after the apostles. In this episode, Greg dodges a bear attack while doing his best to answer.
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44 min
June 07, 2024 Catholicism and the Bible, Part 5: The Old Testament in Catholic and Protestant Bibles (#232)
In this "Deep Dives" episode, Greg asks why Catholics and Protestants have different Old Testaments.
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25 min

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Catholic Church, faith, culture, and history are explained clearly and simply for anyone curious about historic Catholicism. Faithful to the Catechism of the Catholic Church.