Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-hrumg-12db565 After considering Catholicism for a year, Greg's Protestant friend Ed shares where he's at, whether he's ready to enter the Catholic Church, and asks, "How Catholic can I be without actually becoming Catholic?"
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-qzq9w-1314761 When people stop believing in the Church's central doctrines, they don't believe in nothing: they pick and choose, like in a cafeteria line, and make themselves a plate of pleasing doctrines to suit their own personal tastes.
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-c6unm-1316f64 Along with the decorations, every year the same myths get brought out about how the Catholic Church was corrupted by the ancient pagans, and invented its Christmas celebrations by borrowing pagan festivals. So, it's time for Greg and Cory to swat down this nonsense and tell the truth…
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-mh95b-131a803 Greg has produced four short videos exploring the connections between the Eucharist and Christmas. You can find them on the ConsideringCatholicism.com website and social media. Ed the Protestant sat down with Greg to explore how the Nativity of Christ echoes down through the ages in Holy Communion.
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-8qs8q-1316caf On the last Sunday before the season of Advent begins, the Church celebrates the Feast of Christ the King. Greg and Cory talk about where this celebration came from, what it means, and how we can apply it in our lives.
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-55ns9-1288974 For Protestants and other non-Catholics, relics are one of, if not the, weirdest things about Catholicism. Why do Catholics have and treasure relics -- bits of bodies and clothing -- of the saints?
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-khyck-12d764f Ed asks Greg what Catholicism believes happens to us when we die. Greg explains the "Four Last Things: death, judgment, heaven, and hell." And that we must always memento mori, "remember our death."
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-t7mjc-12d07a2 In this Book Club episode, Greg and Cory discuss Robert Hugh Benson's 1907 novel Lord of the World, which has been strongly recommended by the last two popes (Benedict XVI and Francis).
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-kq27b-12e96a4 Greg asks Father John Kartje, the Rector/President of the University of Saint Mary of the Lake and Mundelein Seminary, about what a Catholic priest is, how priests are formed in the seminary, and about what qualifies or disqualifies men to advance to ordination.
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-pendz-12ba4d9 Ed the Protestant has never held or owned a rosary, much less prayed it. So Greg teaches him how.
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-3qcnz-127518b I had to overcome my Protestant fear of the Hail Mary, but once I did, I realized that it isn't really about Mary at all.
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-ea4se-12d0710 J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, in a letter to his son, said, "Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament." Greg and Cory explore what he meant…
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-qttwt-12b8b96 In our ongoing series on the Eucharist, Greg and Cory explore why the Eucharist is also called "Holy Communion," and why that communion is a miracle, not just a vague sense of community.
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-hdwss-12b8b2c In a series of ongoing conversations about the miracles of the mass and the Eucharist, Greg and Cory try to explain exactly what the Church teaches about the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-uef7s-12adc26 The whole Old Testament points towards the Gospel, and so it is full of hints, clues, and foreshadows of the Eucharist. Part of the series of episodes on the Eucharistic Revival.
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-ua45s-129a2f6 Ed asks Greg if Catholics can lose their salvation once they join the Church (Part 2 of 3 about Salvation).
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-widu9-128d391 In the first of a series of lessons on the Eucharist, Greg explains why it's such big deal to Catholics when it's only a medium-sized deal to Protestant Evangelicals.
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-dkwwp-1284ab0 Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory and Shusaku Endo's Silence both tell the story of a persecuted Catholic priest forced to choose between martyrdom and apostasy. In this installment of Book Club, Cory and I explore how the two novels are mirror images that explore the same…
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-hsbnn-12807fb Ed asked why Catholics have a pope, which seems crazy to them. I gave him an answer that most "cradle Catholics" wouldn't typically give.
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-ntyqk-1275427 We're launching a new recurring feature on the podcast: "Book Club." In this first installment, Cory and I talk about what, exactly, makes a story "Catholic."
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-rwak3-127398a It's been exactly 30 days since the last episode released. An update on what's been going on, what's happening, and what's ahead for Considering Catholicism.
Some of us are attracted to Catholicism's rational, moral, artistic, and charitable traditions. Others to the mystery of candles and incense, chants and bells. Which is it? The truth is that Catholicism is a rational system orbiting the universe's greatest mystery.
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-c8mpg-11c57aa Father Mike Cilibraise's journey is about more than just a career change from law enforcement to ministry, it is a story of how God brought him back to faith and into the life of the Church.
Everywhere you see Catholics, you see them make the Sign of the Cross on themselves? Why? Is it mindless ritual? Does it have any deeper significance? Actually, it is a "sacramental," and a reaffirmation of our first sacrament. ”If you‘re considering Catholicism, or just curious, then consider following the Considering…
