Catholic Stuff You Should Know

Episode 715 • Dec 25

Merry Christmas!

A Round of Graces

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Sean Conroy & Fr. Jacob Machado

Episode 714 • Dec 18

O Antiphons

Tomorrow, I Will Come

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Sean Conroy

Episode 713 • Dec 11

Show Don't Tell

Seeing and Presenting Catholic Life in a New Light

Fr. Sean Conroy & Fr. Jacob Machado

Episode 712 • Dec 04

Illuminate, Part II

The Coming of the Light

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Jacob Machado

Episode 711 • Nov 27

In Hope of Health and Well-Being

Nature, Ideology and Christianity

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Sean Conroy

Episode 710 • Nov 20

Bitcoin and Catholicism

The Morality of Money

Fr. Sean Conroy & Fr. Jacob Machado

Episode 709 • Nov 13

So Is Mary Still The Co-Redemptrix?

Mary, the Church, and Mediation

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Jacob Machado

Episode 708 • Nov 06

Illuminate, Part I

Advent Preparations

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Sean Conroy

Episode 707 • Oct 30

Fathering Sons

A Modern Initiation Rite of Bestowing Sonship

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Sean Conroy & Dominic Polito

Episode 706 • Oct 23

Self-Determination and Self-Gift

...or the Art of Living.

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Jacob Machado

Episode 705 • Oct 16

Untangling the Five Solas

The Catholic Response to the Reformation

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Sean Conroy

Episode 704 • Oct 09

Can We Still Build Wonders?

Or do we only go to the museum?

Fr. Sean Conroy & Fr. Jacob Machado

Episode 703 • Oct 02

A.I. and the Crisis of Western Education

Fr. John leads Fr. Jacob through part two of his reflections on the rolling effects of the rise of artificial intelli...

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Jacob Machado

Episode 702 • Sep 25

Not Graduation

Understanding Confirmation & Sponsors

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Sean Conroy

Episode 701 • Sep 18

The Parish - Sojourning Together

Rebuilding Dead Parishes

Fr. Sean Conroy & Fr. Jacob Machado

Episode 700 • Sep 11

Life as a Creative Act

Co-creating with God the Creator

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Jacob Machado

Episode 699 • Sep 04

Creatio

Encountering God Through the Beauty of Creation

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Sean Conroy & Bo Brustkern

Episode 698 • Aug 28

That's So Typical

The interpretive framework

Fr. Jacob Machado & Fr. Sean Conroy

Episode 697 • Aug 21

A.I. and the Uncontrollability of the World

Pt. 1 - Modernity in light of A.I.

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Jacob Machado

Episode 696 • Aug 14

Retirement and Capitalism

A Challenge to the Way We Treat our Elders

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Sean Conroy

Episode 695 • Aug 07

The Parish and Discipleship

If you want community be community

Fr. Jacob Machado & Fr. Sean Conroy

Episode 694 • Jul 31

First Things Last

Our creaturely foundation

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Jacob Machado

Episode 693 • Jul 24

The Wedding Industrial Complex

Notes from the Spesia Underground

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Sean Conroy

Episode 692 • Jul 17

Intentional Sacrifice

What is a Mass Intention?

Fr. Sean Conroy & Fr. Jacob Machado

Episode 691 • Jul 10

Timespace

The Systolic Center of Time

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Jacob Machado

Episode 690 • Jul 04

A Grateful Heart

Kardiaplerosistia

Fr. Mike Rapp & Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Jacob Machado & Fr. Sean Conroy

Episode 689 • Jun 26

Plants and Transplants

Tilling and Tending the Spiritual Life

Fr. Sean Conroy & Fr. Jacob Machado

Episode 688 • Jun 19

The Antlitz of Beatrice

Why we look for the face

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Mike Rapp

Episode 687 • Jun 12

Pentecost as the Feast of Weeks

Why is there leavened bread?

Fr. Sean Conroy & Fr. Jacob Machado

Episode 686 • Jun 05

Nuchs for the Kingdom

Celibacy in the Old Testament: A Divine Revelation

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Mike Rapp

Episode 685 • May 29

Entitlement and Giftedness

Give of yourself

Fr. Sean Conroy & Fr. Jacob Machado

Episode 684 • May 23

Angels in Lucan Airwaves

Angel babies

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Mike Rapp

Episode 683 • May 17

How to Make a Priest

Priestly formation

Fr. Sean Conroy & Fr. Jacob Machado

Episode 682 • May 08

What Is a Parish?

The past, present and future of parish life

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Mike Rapp

Episode 681 • May 01

Chrism

The Sacred Oils

Fr. Sean Conroy & Fr. Jacob Machado

Episode 680 • Apr 25

John Paul's Środowisko

Leaving a legacy

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Sean Conroy

Episode 679 • Apr 17

Our Lady of Zeitoun, Pray for Us

Intercession, Prayer and Action

Fr. Mike Rapp & Fr. Jacob Machado

Episode 678 • Apr 11

Justification By Faith

God is always faithful

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Sean Conroy

Episode 677 • Apr 03

The Stories We Tell

Perceptions shape us and others

Fr. Mike Rapp & Fr. Jacob Machado

Episode 676 • Mar 27

A Meditation on Givenness and Home

Work exists to raise us from the dead

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Sean Conroy

Episode 675 • Mar 22

The Sin of Nostalgia

Augustine, Ignatius and memory

Fr. Mike Rapp & Fr. Jacob Machado

Episode 674 • Mar 13

Jesus as the Jubilee of Hope

Lots to hope in

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Sean Conroy

Episode 673 • Mar 06

When You Find Out You're Super Annoying

There might yet be hope!

Fr. Mike Rapp & Fr. Jacob Machado

Episode 672 • Feb 27

To Heights and Unto Depths, Part 4

The beginning of manhood & fiat

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Sean Conroy

Episode 671 • Feb 21

Yes Mother

Assent and the pursuit of knowledge

Fr. Mike Rapp & Fr. Jacob Machado

Episode 670 • Feb 13

To Heights and Unto Depths, Part 3

The metaphysics of Creation

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Sean Conroy

Episode 669 • Feb 06

What's God's Favorite Animal?

Fr. Mike and Fr. Jacob talk about donkeys in the Bible. Awesome!

Fr. Mike Rapp & Fr. Jacob Machado

Episode 668 • Jan 30

To Heights and Unto Depths, Part 2

Letters from the Colorado Trail Revisited - Fr. Sean Edition

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Sean Conroy

Episode 667 • Jan 23

More Catholic Stuff You Want to Know

Cheers to 15 Years

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Mike Rapp & Fr. Jacob Machado & Fr. Sean Conroy

Episode 666 • Jan 16

The Number of the Beast

Bad baddies being bad

Fr. Mike Rapp & Fr. Jacob Machado

Episode 665 • Jan 09

To Heights and Unto Depths, Part 1

Letters From the Colorado Trail

Fr. John Nepil & Fr. Sean Conroy

Episode 664 • Jan 04

YOLO: Thus Spake the Preacher

A Qoheletian 2025 dawns -- what delights and satisfactions with this year bring?!

Fr. Mike Rapp & Fr. Jacob Machado

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