The Catholic Podcast

This week, we're discussing Our Lady of Sorrows, what Mary can teach us about ministering to those who suffer, and the reality of human trafficking.

This week we're meditating on the three falls of Christ with a little bit of help from our friends Steve Pokorny (Freedom Coaching) and Brandon Vogt (Word on Fire). 

We’re in the second week

You may have grown up going to the Stations of the Cross (and a fish fry!) every Friday during Lent at your parish. Especially for cradle Catholics, there’s a temptation to just say the Stations of the Cross, instead of praying, meditating, on the Stations of the Cross. So this Lent, we want to provide a place for you to truly enter into a meditation of the Stations, and equip you to pray the Stations like you never have before. When it comes a good example of meditations on the Stations of the Cross, we looked to Pope Benedict XVI and particularly his meditations on the way of the cross at the Colosseum in Rome on Good Friday in 2005. 

Last week we looked at major differences in how Methodists and Catholics look at the Church, at the papacy, and Church history. But in today's episode, we take a closer look at Scripture, Tradition, which books belong in the Bible, Purgatory, the saints, and the sacraments (especially the Eucharist and marriage). 

How should we respond when the pastor of the nation's largest United Methodist Church and an ex-Catholic priest team up to do a four part series on Catholicism and Methodism?

A day late, but worth the wait: Joe Heschmeyer sits down with Fr. Andrew Mattingly ("the most productive phlegmatic I know") to talk about the spiritual life of phlegmatics, with all of its pros and cons.

Perhaps the most misunderstood of the four temperaments is the Melancholic. Are they just brooding pensives, or does their temperament reflect something of how God wants to call them to sanctity?