The 7 Deadly Sins destroy lives. Why not learn the best ways to fight them?

1. Anger
- "But I say to you that if you are angry with a brother or sister, you will be liable to judgment; and if you insult a brother or sister, you will be liable to the council; and if you say, ‘You fool,’ you will be liable to the hell of fire." - Matthew 5:22
- "When you are angry, do not sin; ponder it on your beds, and be silent." - Psalm 4:4
- “Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not make room for the devil.” - Ephesians 4:26-27
- “But now you must get rid of all such things—anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive language from your mouth.” - Colossians 3:8
- “You must understand this, my beloved: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger” - James 1:19

2. Greed
- “. . . but the cares of the world, and the lure of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it yields nothing.” - Mark 4:19
- “And he said to them, “Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.” - Luke 12:15
- “No slave can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.” - Luke 16:13
- “But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.” - 1 Timothy 6:9-10
- “As for those who in the present age are rich, command them not to be haughty, or to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but rather on God who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.” - 1 Timothy 6:17

3. Lust
- “But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” - Matthew 5:28
- “Shun fornication! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body; but the fornicator sins against the body itself.” - 1 Corinthians 6:18
- “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from fornication; that each one of you know how to control your own body in holiness and honor, not with lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God” - 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5
- “Let marriage be held in honor by all, and let the marriage bed be kept undefiled; for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.” - Hebrews 13:4

4. Gluttony
- “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.” - 1 Corinthians 10:31
- “Their end is destruction; their god is the belly; and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.” - Philippians 3:19
- “Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.” - Romans 13:14
- “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?” - Matthew 6:25
- “One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.” - Matthew 4:4
- “Jesus said to them, ‘My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work.’” - John 4:34

5. Envy
- "For as long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving according to human inclinations?” - 1 Corinthians 3:3
- “Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant” - 1 Corinthians 13:4
- “Let us not become conceited, competing against one another, envying one another.” - Galatians 5:26

6. Sloth/Acedia
- “Do not lag in zeal, be ardent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer.” - Romans 12:11-12
- “Whatever your task, put yourselves into it, as done for the Lord and not for your masters” - Colossians 3:23

7. Pride
- The root of all vices. The opposite is humility.

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Trevor takes Christ's words seriously that we can only go after one Kingdom. More importantly, he explains the best tips to not be slaves to the things of this world.

1. Make the extraordinary ordinary. Dive into the Scriptures, frequent the sacraments more, pray daily.

2. Make the ordinary extraordinary. Look for God in all created things. Look for God in others.

Matthew 6:24-33

“No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth. “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

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Trevor takes a quick stroll through the history of the Catholic Church's teaching on the death penalty along with the reasoning behind it.

St. Thomas Aquinas - Summa Contra Gentiles

"For those who have been appropriately appointed, there is no sin in administering punishment. For those who refuse to obey God's laws, it is correct for society to rebuke them with civil and criminal sanctions. No one sins working for justice, within the law. Actions that are necessary to preserve the good of society are not inherently evil. The common good of the whole society is greater and better than the good of any particular person."

Catechism of the Council of Trent - 1545-1563

"[L]awful slaying" is okay as "an act of paramount obedience to this Commandment which prohibits murder" by giving "security to life by repressing outrage and violence."

Catholic Encyclopedia - 1911

". . . the infliction of capital punishment is not contrary to the teaching of the Catholic Church, and the power of the State to visit upon culprits the penalty of death derives much authority from revelation and from the writings of theologians"

". . . the advisability of exercising that power is, of course, an affair to be determined upon other and various considerations."

Pope St. John Paul II - Evangelium Vitae - 1995

Punishment "ought not go to the extreme of executing the offender except in cases of absolute necessity: in other words, when it would not be possible otherwise to defend society. Today however, as a result of steady improvements in the organization of the penal system, such cases are very rare, if not practically non-existent."

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Trevor and Jerry walk through the benefits that Catholic education has brought to America.

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Trevor and Jerry dive into the long, complicated history of Rome and the Catholic Church's miraculous survival.

• Early 40s AD - Church in Rome established
• 58 - Early 60s AD - St. Peter associated with Rome
• In the beginning, Rome experiences conflict between Jewish Christians and Gentile Christians about whether the Jewish law must be followed to follow Christ. St. Paul addresses this in his Letter to the Romans
• 49 AD - Jews expelled from Rome by Emperor Claudius
• Around 54 AD - Nero allows Jews back into Rome
• 64 AD - The Great Fire erupts in Rome. Emperor Nero blames the Christians, leading to mass persecutions
• Sts. Peter and Paul are martyred around the time of Nero's persecutions
• First popes: Peter, Linus, Cletus, Clement, Sixtus
• 258 AD - Persecutions of Valerian
• 303 AD - Persecutions of Diocletian
• 306 AD - Maxentius lightens the persecutions
• 312 AD - Emperor Constantine and the Battle of Milvian Bridge
• 313 AD - Edict of Milan - Christianity tolerated in the Roman Empire
• 493 - 537 AD - Ostrogothic Papacy
• 537 - 752 AD - Byzantine Papacy
• 756 - 857 AD - Frankish Influence
• 800 AD - Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope
• 904 - 1048 AD - Influence over the papacy by powerful roman families
• 1048 - 1257 AD - Conflicts with the Holy Roman Emperor and the Eastern Church
• 1257 - 1309 AD - Popes moved around in Italy outside of Rome to escape violence
• 1309 - 1377 AD - Avignon Papacy
• 1378 - 1417 AD - Western Schism
• 1417 - 1534 AD - Renaissance Papacy
• 1517 - 1580 AD - Reformation and Counter-Reformation
• 1585 - 1689 AD - Baroque Papacy
• 1775 - 1848 AD - The Age of Revolution in the World, suppression by Napoleon
• 1870 - 1929 AD - Papacy loses temporal power, left with Vatican City
• 1930 AD - Present - Fight against fascism, Nazis, and communism. Vatican II convened. Papacy primarily a spiritual power, not a temporal one. Papacy is globalized.

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Trevor and Jerry look at the relatively new devotion dedicated to Jesus, Mary, and Joseph as a family and how we can grow closer to God through it today.

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Trevor and an old friend discuss how we can grow our hope in our lives and how to bring it to others.

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Trevor and Jerry explore the nuanced yet simple Catholic view on immigration.

Rerum Novarum

Welcoming the Stranger Among Us: Unity in Diversity - Issued by NCCB/USCC, November 15, 2000

Exodus 23:9 - "You shall not oppress a resident alien; you know the heart of an alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt."

Leviticus 19:33-34 - "When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien. The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God."

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Trevor explores the depths of magnanimity and how we can properly do great things for the Lord, according to His will.

"Magnanimity makes a man deem himself worthy of great things in consideration of the gifts he holds from God." - St. Thomas Aquinas

"Their love is not yet ardent enough to overwhelm their reason. How I wish ours would make us dissatisfied with this habit of always serving God at a snail's pace! As long as we do that we shall never get to the end of the road. Do you think that if we could get from one country to another in a week, it would be advisable to take a year over it?" - St. Teresa of Avila

"O my God, grant that I may no longer be content with serving You in a small way, but let me do so to the greatest extent of my powers. Help me to make You a complete gift of my soul, emptying it of everything, so that You may take out and put in just what You like, as You would with something of Your own. You refuse to force our will, You take what we give You, but You do not give Yourself wholly until we give ourselves wholly to You. You like everything to be done in order, and You do not work within a soul unless it is wholly Yours, and keeps nothing back." - St. Teresa of Avila

"O most loving Word of God, teach me to be generous, to serve You as You deserve: to give and not to count the cost, to fight and not to heed the wounds, to toil and not to seek for rest, to labor and not to ask for any other reward save that of knowing that I do Your holy will" - St. Ignatius of Loyola

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Trevor and Jerry examine the lives of four incredible women who changed the history of the Church.

1. St. Thérèse of Lisieux

2. St. Teresa of Ávila

3. St. Catherine of Siena

4. St. Joan of Arc

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