The Catholic Podcast

We’re incredibly excited to share with you a series of

Topics we discussed:??

• What it means to strive for virtue
• What Aquinas had to say about the journey from vice to virtue
• How habits make good servants but bad masters
• Building good habits with cues, triggers, and rewards 
• Self-knowledge and the four tendencies of habit formation  ?
• Keystone habits

Resources we mentioned: 

• "Better Now Than Before" by Gretchen Rubin
• "The Power of Habit" by Charles Duhigg
• ?Covenant Eyes 
• Exodus 90
• Dave Ramsey and the Debt Snowball
• Episode 39 of The Catholic Podcast on micro-progress 

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Topics we discussed:??

• What it means to strive for sainthood as a woman today
• Receptivity and what a woman's body reveals to everyone about the Lord's desire for us
• Why sensitivity and vulnerability are courageous strengths
• Rejecting the idea that taking care of ourselves is selfish
• The opportunities Christ gave women for human connection and communion on earth
• How all women are called to maternity (physical or spiritual)
• The humanity of Our Lady ?

Resources we mentioned: 

• Saint Pope John Paul II's Letter to Women 

• Life of the Beloved by Henri Nouwen
• Meg Hunter-Kilmer on Instagram
• Christopher West
• Brene Brown and the courage of vulnerability 
• Saint Edith Stein and her writings on women ?

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Topics we discussed:??

• Join Chad and Joe for 603 Man Mornings every Tuesday morning September 17th through December 10th. Church of the Nativity, Leawood, in the Parish Hall. 6:03 a.m. to 7:30 a.m.
• What Scripture has to say about masculinity 
• The courage to live virtuously 
• Living a magnanimous life and the example of Christian martyrs
• Adam as the original priest 
• Responsibility and the beauty of loving others 

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Topics we discussed:??

• The changing landscape of today's politics
• Our outrage addiction
• Hate-reading and hate-watching ?
• What C.S. Lewis would have to say about today's extremist politics
• Checking the fruits of our conversations and social media usage

• "How the News and Politics is Destroying Your Soul (And What You Can Do About It)" by Joe Heschmeyer
• "Do Democratic Presidencies Reduce the Abortion Rate?" by Joe Heschmeyer
• "Chick-fil-A’s Creepy Infiltration of New York City" in the New Yorker
• "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business" by Neil Postman
• "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business" by Charles Duhigg

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Topics we discussed:??

• How American Christians do theology wrong 
• Saint Jerome's test for seeing what Church is founded by Christ
• Why Catholicism isn't just another Christian denomination ?
• How Christ established the Catholic Church and why we should participate in it?
• Flannery O'Connor and Church history 

Resources we mentioned: 

• Reason #7 to Reject the Reformation: History
• "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis
• "Screwtape Proposes a Toast"
• "No Mere Christianity" by David Mills ?
• Flannery O’Connor on the Eucharist and Church History??

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Topics we discussed:??

• The theology of drinking
• Why answering whether it's "good" or "bad" to drink is the wrong question to ask
• What Aristotle's three levels of friendship teach us about our own friends and how we drink with them
• Thinking of alcohol as a work of art
• Snowbirds and the seasons
• Dramatic beauty and relating it to our experience of drinking
• Celebrating people instead of actions
• The qualities that set apart the true artist of celebration from everyone else who just parties 

Resources we mentioned: 

• "Barstool Theology: Crafting the Good Life" by Trevor Gundlach?
• Bishop Robert Barron on truth, goodness, and beauty?
• Pope Francis' 'Amoris laetitia'
• Find Trevor online?  ?

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Topics we discussed:??

• Why your interior life is important
• What the Catechism of the Catholic Church has to say about the three types of prayer
• How a daily examen can change your life
• Why you shouldn't put prayer on your to-do list
• Why there isn't one perfect way to pray 

Resources we mentioned: 

• Catechism paragraphs 2700-2724
• ?Daily Rosary Meditations podcast with Holy Family School of Faith 
• 3-2-1 Examen
• The Power of Habit 
• 10 Useful Prayers for the Busy Seasons of Life
• ?The Way of the Pilgrim 

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Topics we discussed:??

• Steve Wagner's 10-second pro-life argument
• Avoiding the abortion "double-bind"
• Learning argumentative martial arts
• Letting those who are pro-choice argue for the pro-life cause
• The moral act and double effect
• How to answer common pro-choice objections with charity?

Resources we mentioned: 

• "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie 
• "The Developing Human: Clinically Orientated Embryology" 7th Edition 
• How to Win the Person Instead of the Argument by Joe Heschmeyer
• "Maria Goretti Didn't Die for Her Virginity" by Simcha Fisher 
• Undeniable Pro-Life Quotes from Norma McCorvey – the Woman Behind Roe v. Wade
• The movie Joyeux Noël

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