The Catholic Podcast

Topics we discussed:

• What acedia is
• How we battle against the noon-day devil
• Why acedia is rooted in an idolatry of ourselves
• Working with our hands
• Taking a cue from Christ and fighting the devil with Scripture 

• Daily Rosary Meditations with Holy Family School of Faith 
• The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times by Dom Jean-Charles Nault
• The Art of Manliness Podcast: The Quest for a Moral Life
• Father Mike Schmitz's video on Acedia
• St. Benedict Knew How to Beat the Blues by Elizabeth Scalia??
• Acedia and Me by Kathleen Norris
• iBreviary app
• Rebecca K. Renyold's poem about Psalm 23?

• Online

• L'Angélus by Jean-François Millet

• Why young adults are Catholic
• What draws young adults to Mass (both a particular Mass or a particular parish)
• What young Catholics wish the powers that be knew or did differently 
• What young Catholics think is being done well in the Church today
• What recommendations young Catholics have for how to reach millennials and younger 

• Joe's Facebook thread asking young Catholics questions about their faith
• Meg Hunter-Kilmer's mission as a Catholic hobo missionary 
• Saint Benedict Joseph Labre
• The USCCB's twitter thread asking millennials about their Catholic faith?
• The Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration

• Online??

Having lived through the scandal as a newly-ordained priest, Fr. Joseph Scholten, a priest of the Diocese of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, offers a Christological perspective on the sexual abuse scandal from which the Catholic Church is still reeling. Along the way, he offers some good advice on how to deal with our own brokenness, and how to speak into the pain of those who have suffered from, or been scandalized by, abuse.    

One of the tactics being used in an increasing way within the "culture wars" is "deplatforming," trying to cut people whose ideas you disagree with off from having a platform with which to speak. In today's episode, Joe talks with a Catholic artist named Brett Lempe whose art show was cancelled simply because he's personally pro-life (amazingly, the show itself had nothing to do with abortion).
Links:

• Brett's website
• A pro-deplatforming article from Mashable
• Zack Whittaker, "Black Hat scraps Rep. Will Hurd as keynote speaker amid voting record controversy," Tech Crunch    

How did Martin Luther's confidence in his understanding of Aristotle impact the Protestant Reformation? This week on The Catholic Podcast, we're talking about the Dunning-Kruger Effect and how it impacts science, philosophy, and theology in the history of the Catholic Church and in our own spiritual lives.

Find the shownotes for this week's episode on our website, CathPod.com.

What does conversion look like in a relationship (dating or marriage) when one of you is Catholic, and one isn't? To get a better look at that up close, I interviewed Peter and Jessica Poindexter. Peter grew up Baptist, Jessica grew up Catholic, and here's the story of how they navigated questions of faith and conversion in the context of friendship, dating, and marriage. 
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Resources we mentioned:

• An example of Topic Tabs
• Alan Schreck, Catholic & Christian

Topics we discussed:

• Catholic and Protestant views on Redemptive Suffering
• Imputed vs. Imparted Justification
• The need for Tradition

Resources we mentioned:

• Christian Smith, How to Go from Being a Good Evangelical to a Committed Catholic in Ninety-Five Difficult Steps

Topics we discussed:??

• Why the proclamation of Christ's Resurrection is essential to the proclamation of the Gospel 
• True crime and Christ's Resurrection 
• Why Jesus is in fact God, and how the Resurrection points to this truth
• Personal encounters and transformations in Christ

Resources we mentioned:

• Saint Paul's message to the Corinthians 
• John 20:1 - 9

In our final episode of our Lenten series, we meditate on the crucifixion of Christ, the definition of success, and the power of perseverance.