Extra Ecclesium Nulla Salus?

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ac2em-12754b5

That’s Latin for No Salvation Outside the Church. The phrase was a bit scary for me as a child as both my parents seemed outside, and the details of how this seemingly unfair result were not then vouchsafed to me. I went outside for a while myself and then when I came back, I began to explore the dogmas and the doctrines. A few years ago a famous Bishop said that Christ and the Church were the “privileged” way and reignited an old fire storm. And what is is to be Catholic today is ever on the front digital pages. It is worth looking at, I’m thinking. 

The Acid Test of Belief and Courage

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-r3vf4-126cf00

A small episode with a homeless man at my parish had me considering, “What would I do if the Eucharist were threatened?” Do I really believe that the bread and wine has been transformed into the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ such that I would risk my very life to preserve it?

 

The Deep Seep of Sin and All that Jazz

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pqwg4-1264734

Who’d have thunk that seeing a 40 plus year old movie would have me thinking about how bombarded we are by the idea of there being no real sin, and the obstacle to any of us to not falling onto the wayside as chaff? Well, so it was. I don’t know if you’re having the same sense of things. But if you are, you are not alone.

Revive Us O Lord

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zn9s8-125c0f4

On June 16, Catholics participated in the opening of a three year Eucharistic Revival. The Eucharist is the Source and Summit of Catholic Life, the real Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ, the Second Person of the Trinity. Somehow, that Centrality has become obscured to Catholics and so we haven’t truly been the branches of the Vine, Jesus Christ, in the Modern World. We need to revive our understanding indeed!

Lou Karlin Esq. sits down with Me to Talk about Saint Thomas More

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wf3xy-123dfff

One day Lou, who is a fellow parishioner, said that he was going to a conference on one of my faves, St. Thomas More. I asked if he’d consider sitting down with me and talking more about More. He happily said yes, and we finally got to do so. Today’s podcast is part 1 and I hope you agree it was an wonderful discussion between two ordinary Catholics about a truly extraordinary one. 

I Still Don’t Get It

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zgcu5-123043e

The shift from the Traditional Latin Mass to the Novus Ordo was something I experienced personally as a young Catholic. It might have been intended to be well crafted and something for which the laity was well prepared, but it was not, and after that the fallout was swift and it has continued to this day when our politicians now feel free to define what it means to be a Catholic. 

Some personal musings on the subject, including how I find myself being drawn more to Tradition as I watch the modernist trends grip both Church and a crumbling social structure.

I Just Gotta Talk about. . . Abortion.

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-t87nz-1226a13

Dicey subject indeed. Don’t want to upset anyone, but then sometimes the truth requires upset. I am a Catholic and as such, I cannot help but feel that I have an obligation to speak about the Faith, things that simply do not change. But fair warning. . . .many will not agree. Including friends and family.