There is an entire book dedicated to the Blessed Mother in the Qur'an. Our Lady is mentioned thirty-four times throughout Islam's holy book. In the Qur'an, Mary's holiness is celebrated - second only to Mohammad's daughter, Fatima. What role does Our Lady play in a conversation between Catholics and Muslims?

This is a special and particularly serious episode of The Catholic Podcast as we explore the sexual abuse scandal of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and the consequences for all of us throughout the Catholic Church.

One of the biggest doctrines drawing people to or away from Catholicism is the Eucharist. So why do Catholics believe in it so strongly, given that it's such a hard teaching? 

So, you've decided to use natural family planning. Has it blessed your marriage? Deepened your respect for your body? Has it made your sex life fantastic? Do you and your spouse hold hands at sunset, and do pink flowers grow around your marital bed? If so, this interview with Simcha Fisher about NFP is not for you.

Venerable Fulton Sheen writes that "life may be like a game of cards; we cannot help the hand that is dealt us, but we can help the way we play it." Why does God allow suffering in our lives, and how can our suffering be redemptive?

J.R.R. Tolkien wrote, "?“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” How do we encounter that which is fair, what is beautiful, with our hearts?

Saint Basil says that “Painters with their pictures achieve for the cause of religion that which preachers accomplish with their eloquence.”

1 Peter 3:15 calls us to "always be prepared to make a defense to anyone who calls you to account for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and reverence; and keep your conscience clear, so that, when you are abused, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame." That's a tall order. How do we go about doing this?

Just as the physical heart is the main organ of human life and the center of hidden “emotional-intellectual-moral activity”, the Sacred Heart of Jesus is the seat of all virtues, the source of all blessings, the place of refuge for all souls.

"My heart hath expected reproach and misery. And I looked for one that would grieve together with Me, but there was none: and for one that would comfort Me, and I found none." (Psalm 69:20)