Father and Joe

War is unfortunately a part of human nature. However, not all war is evil. In this episode we discuss Catholic teaching of Just Wars. 

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In the creed each Sunday Catholics recite the Nicene Creed. Part of the creed states that – “God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father…

Risk is an inherent part of life. Obviously anything can happen to us and those around us. In this episode we discuss trusting in God, particularly in marriage. We put a point on creating an exit str…

 By default we are all doing something every second of every day. A common way of dividing actives is to put them into one of four categories – urgent/important, urgent/unimportant, important/not urg…

The readings at the Ash Wednesday Mass call us to go into our inner rooms and pray. While architecture has changed since the time of Christ, most properties do not have fully unclosed rooms, we still…

We begin with a lot of basic questions about the Visions at Fatama. Father teaches the difference between public and private revelation.  He walks us through the Pope’s responses throughout the years…

Christ was a victim of crucifixion and death. In this episode we really dive into the difference between looking for problems to be applied to one’s self-compared to what Jesus went through. Father c…

The news presents the Russian Invasion as simply the will and desire of Putin, and he is the driving force of this evil. Being fed this simplistic narrative, I ask the question should I rout for Puti…

Dust continually regenerates itself and creates a battle with us. Each of us have different tolerances to the amount of dust that is acceptable in our lives. We us dust as an analogy for sin and how …

As more and more scientific studies come out and show what government’s approach to Covid was ineffective at best, we dive into the thoughts of people who pushed against the policies that where being…

Statistics show that Americans facing away from all religions. In this episode we discuss how politics are filling the void in people’s lives. 




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At the judgment of the Christ Pilate presents the crowd a choice: Jesus or Barabbas. In this episode we discuss how/why the common man in the crowd could have justified voting for Barabbas over Jesus…

We begin the episode with a conversation about a thought that I had; it seems that Jesus made choices that made his ministry harder. Father teaches about how relative hardness is in virtue and the im…

As listeners know, I am a new father. In this episode I present a Father Boniface a question of how to balance out letting my child attempt everything for himself versus me doing everything for him. 


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The Saint Vincent Seminary Institute for Ministry Formation is holding an online Catechetics Conference February 14-15 focusing on the new 2020 Vatican Directory on Catechesis.  Participants from aro…

In terms of eternal lives, the finite time we have on earth is relatively small. In this episode, we examine the importance letting God love us.  



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 When there is something wrong with use physically, we can use medical knowledge to identify what is wrong. However, when something is wrong with us spiritually we have as much harder way of identify…

Epistemology is the study of how individuals learn. We begin this episode with a discussion of how we all learn. Father uses this episode to dive into how we learn and how to look at ourselves so tha…

I am to a degree a product of our culture. In this episode we discuss two things that I do that the Church advises against. The first is the mindset of looking at issues with the question of what is …

It is human nature to have defense mechanisms. In this episode we did into how the Church looks at our defense mechanisms. We begin by looking at the Holy Family and the episode goes on we turn the c…