Fr. Roger Niedzielski and Mike Landry lead this week's conversation on Star Trek's new show "Picard", discussing Star Trek's long run and it's evolution from a secular humanist view to one where spirituality is given greater influence. Sara Dmitri attempts to navigate all the nerdy language.

On this Left Footers we welcome Fr. Roger Niedzielski back as a host, and Dr. Brett Salkeld as our guest to promote his new book on the Eucharist. We explore the weird aspects of the Church's teaching on Holy Communion and how it can influence our dialogues with protestants. Also Baby Yoda shows up.

Your can buy Brett Salkeld's book below and check out the references from the show below:

http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/transubstantiation/392041

Thinking Faith! Podcast

https://thinkingfaith.libsyn.com/

Francis Chan on Communion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUUbXzb2atM

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If our first episode of 2020 Fr. Marc Cramer, Sara Dmitri, and Mike Landry review the new Star Wars film, The Two Popes, and discuss how misinformation can spread regarding Pope Francis and the Church.

On this Left Footers Christmas special we chat with Ryan Topping, Academic VP of Newman Theological College, about his new book "Christmas Around the Fire". We discuss the importance of story telling for rebuilding a Catholic culture, as well as the pit falls of a postmodern use of media.

A native of Saskatoon, Canada, Dr. Topping has published several books on Catholic culture and education, including Rebuilding Catholic Culture: How the Catechism Can Shape our Common Life (Sophia Institute, 2012), The Elements of Rhetoric (Angelico Press, 2016) and Renewing the Mind: A Reader in the Philosophy of Catholic Education (Catholic University of America Press, 2015). His new book is Christmas Around the Fire: Poems, Stories, and Lessons for the Season of Christ’s Birth (Tan, 2019). http://www.ryan-topping.com/

Grandin Media is a Catholic online news portal based in Edmonton. Through the use of creative journalism, quality photography and engaging video, we tell the stories of Catholic life and culture in Alberta and beyond. We also bring the lens of faith to public conversations about current events, and provide insights into Catholic teaching in an accessible way.

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In this weeks episode of Left Footers Sara Dmitri asks Fr. Marc Cramer about his conversion story, to Mormonism, and then back again to Catholicism, and eventually to answering the call to the priesthood.

In this episode our hosts Mike Landry and Fr. Marc Cramer talk with Steven Defer, a Catholic veteran and former military chaplain, about the accuracy of war movies, the Catholic position on war, and what his experience of Afghanistan was like.

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Sara tells Fr. Marc how she became a Catholic youth minister and the questions she had on evolution, homosexuality, and the mass while growing up in the Church. Click below to like us on Facebook. Also see the links to references mentioned in the show.

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Resources:

-Archdiocese of Edmonton Vocations Office https://caedm.ca/PastoralParishServices/Vocations

-Catholic Answers https://www.catholic.com/

-NET Ministries Canada https://www.netcanada.ca/

-Gay and Catholic, by Eve Tushnet https://www.amazon.ca/Gay-Catholic-Accepting-Sexuality-Community/dp/1594715424

Grandin Media is a Catholic online news portal based in Edmonton. Through the use of creative journalism, quality photography and engaging video, we tell the stories of Catholic life and culture in Alberta and beyond. We also bring the lens of faith to public conversations about current events, and provide insights into Catholic teaching in an accessible way.

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Mike, Fr. Marc, and Sara talk about "Purity Culture" and the impact it had on christian dating. How does a Catholic date? Is there rules or are there boundaries? Click below to watch the show on Youtube and like us on Facebook. Also see the links to references mentioned in the show.

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Resources:

-"I Kissed Dating Goodbye" article https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/07/29/joshua-harris-i-kissed-dating-goodbye-i-am-not-christian/1857934001/

-Love and Responsibility by St. John Paul II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_and_Responsibility

-Theology of the Body http://www.theologyofthebody.net/

-Jason Everet Chastity Project https://chastity.com/

-The Dating Project Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5VIdOVSL7Y

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What is behind the phrase "You Do You"? What if you want to be a Twizzler? Start off your year with the new season of Left Footers and find out what happened to Fr. Roger!