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(The) Church Episodes

May 8, 2024

Listener Questions: Traditional Latin Mass? Priests in Cassocks? (#219)

Greg answers questions listeners have sent in about the Traditional Latin Mass and why some younger priests are starting to wear cassocks again. Support this ministry so more people can consider Catholicism! Website: https:/…
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May 6, 2024

Listener Questions: Becoming Catholic, Baptizing Grandchildren, Parish Shopping (#218)

Greg answers questions listeners have sent in about joining the Catholic Church, what relatives can (and can't) do if the parents aren't baptizing their kids, and whether you have to attend your "geographic parish" or if you…
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May 1, 2024

Catholicism Meets Modernity (#216)

For 1600+ years, the Catholic Church took the gospel to the ends of the earth. But eventually, revolutionary changes in Europe and the Americas (the Protestant Reformation, the Enlightenment, revolutionary ideologies, etc.) …
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April 29, 2024

How Catholicism Overcame Paganism (#215)

Christianity was born in a pagan world. At first, it was an oppressed sect but it came to overcome the religions of Greece and Rome, the Celtic and Germanic tribes, and carried the gospel to the ends of the earth. How and wh…
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April 24, 2024

Why Is It So Hard to Join the Catholic Church? (#213)

A listener asked why entering the Catholic Church is so much more complex than joining a nondenominational church. Greg and Ed discuss what entering the Church means and the steps involved. Support this ministry so more peop…
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April 17, 2024

The "Vision Thing" (#210)

Greg knows a Catholic priest who was criticized for not having a "vision." Greg and Ed discuss how destructive the "vision thing" has been in the evangelical world, and how comforting it is that the sacramental and pastoral …
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Dec. 8, 2023

Good Popes, Bad Popes, Mostly Average Popes (#160)

A listener named John asks, "What about bad popes who lived immoral lives, etc? How can they lead the Church?" As Greg explains, there have been good popes, bad popes, and mostly average popes, but the office of the seat of …
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Oct. 22, 2023

Revisiting an Evangelical Protestant Church (#143)

Greg was traveling in the Rocky Mountains last week, and revisited a contemporary evangelical Protestant church that he attended sometimes before he converted to Catholicism. These are his reflections on the differences that…
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Oct. 16, 2023

Can We Participate in Halloween? (#140)

Greg and Ed talk about Halloween. Can Christians participate? Are its origins really in the Catholic Church incorporating pagan Celtic rituals? And has the Church adopted pagan rituals throughout history, including Easter ce…
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Sept. 18, 2023

How to Choose a Church (#132)

So you or your friends or family are looking for a new church. How do you pick one? Is it like standing in the cereal aisle at the grocery store, surveying the various colors, textures, shapes, and tastes, and finding one th…
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Sept. 11, 2023

Is Catholicism...Spooky? (#138)

Ed the Protestant had breakfast with three of his friends, and they couldn't understand his attraction to Catholicism. From their perspective, it seems full of mystical rituals instead of being straightforward, simple, and r…
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Sept. 4, 2023

What Do Catholics Have to Believe? (#137)

What must someone believe as infallible "dogma" in order to be "in the Catholic faith?" How does that differ from doctrines, teachings, and recommended beliefs? There are important but subtle differences that carry different…
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June 26, 2023

Why Go to Church? (#125)

After a few weeks of summer break in episodes, Greg and Ed the Protestant gather again in the secret compound on the Summer Solstice to talk about different answers to the question, "Why should I go to church on Sunday?" Sup…
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May 29, 2023

”Binding and Loosing?” (#124)

On a cold April day, Greg and Ed the Protestant sit in the piney woods and talk about the Catholic Church's authority, and what it means to "bind and loose." Support the podcast: https://givebutter.com/BaUAnz We are a very s…
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March 9, 2023

A Protestant Asks, ”Why is Catholic Art...Weird?” (#102)

Ed the Protestant looks at a lot of Catholic religious paintings and statues and ask, "Why are they kind of weird? The composition, the colors, the subject matter seems so out of step with modern aesthetic tastes." Greg resp…
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