Show Notes:

Hosts:  Peter Holmes & Renee Kohler

Guest:  Anna Hitchings

Finding a good Catholic man to date is difficult.

• A shortage of good men

• Qualities of a good man

• The Definition of dating

• The Catholic dating scene

• Bad experiences with dating

• Traditions, expectations and freedom

• Liberated women

• The Porn culture and what it does to men and women

• Boundaries and expectations

• Being “worldly wise”

• The Disney factor

• What is courtship?

Links and Resources:

Anna Hitchings’ blog https://agonyandhope.com/

Anna’s original article https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/for-want-of-a-lot-of-good-men/

Several response articles mentioned in the podcast:

Phillippa Martyr - Be in love with God first https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/phillippa-martyr-be-in-love-with-god-first/

Camillus O'Kane - It’s not hard to find Mr Right, just change your perspective https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/its-not-hard-to-find-mr-right-just-change-your-perspective/

And “Learn from us! Mums offer dating advice” https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/learn-from-us-mums-offer-dating-advice/

The story was picked up by the Australian https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/a-good-man-is-hard-to-find-and-increasingly-becoming-even-more-scarce/news-story/b7e8ad62654d3b65ea3fb9fd3f76e635

and in a follow-up interview with Rod Dreher https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/agony-hope-christian-courtship-anna-hitchings/

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 Hosts:  Peter Holmes & Renee Kohler

Guest:  Cormac McCaughn

What and who give Christians a bad name.

• Sexual abuse scandals

• Cover-ups

• Israel Follau

• Donald Trump

• Bad experiences with Christians

• Judgemental Christians

• Legalistic Christians

• “You are going to Hell!”

• Using the victims as political capital

• Christian “rock”

• Televangelists

Non-Christian world

• New Age “paganism”

• Post Christian culture

Solutions?

• Married priests?

• Clericalism?

• Proper responses to complaints

• Institutional solutions?

• Personal solutions?

• Changing the experience person to person

One minute wonder

• Children help us understand God’s love for us

• Rublev's icon of the Trinity

Links and Resources:

The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector is Luke 18:9-14.

Christian Music mentioned:

Matt Maher https://www.mattmahermusic.com/

Toby Mac http://tobymac.com/

Bernard Manning Quote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al4aCng-VgY

Rublev's icon of the Trinity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(Andrei_Rublev)

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 Hosts:  Peter Holmes & Renee Kohler 

Guest:  Rian "Box" Galliott

In this episode…

Links and Resources:

Correction: ethos and ethnos  are different Greek words. Ethos means habits and philosophy of a place  and ethnos refers to a nation, particularly nations other than one’s  own.

St Phillip Neri  is the priest who insisted on not taking ourselves seriously, and being silly to shake people out of a too serious piety.

Albert the Great did indeed have the nickname “Boots” due to his insistence on walking everywhere.

https://dominicanpublications.com/blogs/news/albert-the-great-and-his-scientific-discoveries

From the shout-outs:

Matthew Tan’s blog is - https://www.awkwardasiantheologian.com/

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