Outcast Catholic

In the Midwest, children's sports provide entertainment, discipline, and fraternity.  Yet they also monopolize huge amounts of time and financial resources.  How is a devout family to respond to this growing trend?  

Each fall, the lineup of feast days provides a rich time to venerate the holy souls who have gone before us.  In this episode we focus on the final days of September and the initial days of October in which the Church celebrates faithful saints who continue to intercede for us.  

Many question how the God of the Old Testament can be the same God of the New Testament, seemingly angry in early Israelite history and merciful in the Gospels.  In this episode we discuss this perception and God's apparent inconsistency.  

What do restaurants in Turkey and Lithuania have to do with our Catholic faith?  Tune into this episode and find out about the importance of our historical roots.  

So many wonder how God could be all-good and all-powerful when there is so much evil in the world.  Does He even notice, or is He capable of doing anything about it?  In this episode will tackle the important question of 'the problem of evil.' 

We often discuss the need to build community among parishioners.  Yet do we appreciate the need to build spiritual communion among fellow sinners, particularly among those whose souls are in jeopardy of losing eternal salvation?  

Catholics and Protestants are often viewed as rivals with a long history of division. Yet do Christians within these traditions have more in common than is often realized, particularly in the face of growing secularism?   Join us for this important discussion. 

Priests are often asked, "Why does the Church hate gays?"  In this episode we discuss cultural and ecclesial misconceptions regarding sexual identity and the important role that all people have to play within the Church.  

A question often asked among Midwest Catholics is whether to stay in one's current parish, even if it seems lifeless, or to move to another parish.  Join us for an important discussion about whether to find a new community or to fight for renewal in one's current place.  

In touring art museums, one often finds collections of sacred art that used to hang in churches.  In the face of growing secularism, how many museum visitors know how to interpret this art and the story of salvation that it depicts?