God and Modern Physics Podcast

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God and Modern Physics Podcast by Fr. Robert Spitzer S.J. Ph.d.  Afraid that's all I can tell you about it, except that the link was provided by long-time friend of the show, Filipino Catholic.  Much thanks.

American Chesterton Society Podcast

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Unbeknownst to me, the folks over at Chesterton.org have a podcast! (Sidenote: IMHO, Chesterton would be horrified at the isolationism that the Earbud Culture breeds, but, redeemingly, would likely enjoy Podcasts as smalltalk writ large.)

The Podcast is called Uncommon Sense (libsyn here) and starts with a few of the usual suspects: Dale Ahlquist, Mark Shea, etc. They have over 40 episodes now -- check 'em out.

Here are a few just to whet your appetite:

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Dale Ahlquist and Local Chesterton Socities

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Interview with Victoria Darkey

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Interview with Mark Shea

A Homily Submission

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Carson Weber, the guy who did The Bible Study I Can't Recommend Strongly Enough, wrote in with the following e-mail:

You may be interested in posting my pastor's homilies on Sonitus Sanctus. He's a dynamic, young priest who pulls no punches in his preaching and is on fire!

Here's the link.

God bless,
Carson

If it's got Carson's recommendation, I'd buy stock in it. Thanks, Carson!

Best New Podcast of 2010

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There are a few weeks left in the year, true, but I'm still calling it. The Best New Podcast of 2010 for Catholic types is....

*drum roll*

...Catholic Stuff You Should Know.

Run by a couple of Colorado seminarians, this podcast is funny, humble, pius and informative. Plus, the last one had a surprise e-mail by Archbishop Chaput!

So go, listen and enjoy learning Catholic stuff you should know.

P.S. - I recommend starting with the one about Stylites. Crazy, man. Crazy.

My Vote for Best New Podcast

...has to go to the guys at Catholic Stuff You Should Know. The podcasts are about 10-15 minutes long, fast paced and (above all) interesting! Find them at the link or on iTunes, and if you enjoy them be sure to leave a review on iTunes.



Also on the list is Mike and Eve Are Catholic, a podcast by a nice convert couple. If you like them, be sure to let them know on their Facebook page.

Whiskey Delta Tango Papa Romeo Sierra

I'm guessing most of the folks who come here have heard of Father Z. In case you haven't, or in case you've heard of him but have just never given his PodcaZt a listen, now is a fine time to tune in.

Now I know we're a few days in already, but you've gotta' hear some of these:


056 08-05-12 Octaves – Fr. Z rants & Augustine on Pentecost – PENTECOST MONDAY
057 08-05-13 John Paul II on the unforgivable sin; Our Lady of Fatima and the vision of Hell – TUESDAY
058 08-05-14 Ember Days; Chrysostom on St. Matthias; Prayer to the Holy Spirit – WEDNESDAY
059 08-05-15 Leo the Great on Pentecost fasting; Benedict XVI’s sermon for Pentecost SundayTHURSDAY
060 08-05-16 Pentecost customs; St. Ambrose on the dew of the Holy Spirit – FRIDAY
061 08-05-17 Pope Leo I on a post-Pentecost weekday; Fr. Z rambles not quite aimlessly for a while – SATURDAY –


Here's a link to the rest of Fr. Z's stuff. Now go find out how much about Catholicism you still don't know...

New blog/podcast - Reformation meets Rome

So Catholic blogger, e-pologist and friend of the show, Tim Troutman, wrote me an e-mail:

I wanted to offer a new podcast as a suggestion for links. The website is www.calledtocommunion.com and it features 10 Catholic Contributors who were formerly Reformed Protestants (PCA or OPC). The website also has a podcast that will be on various topics.

The first one was a conversion story interview of Dr. Jonathan Deane:

http://www.calledtocommunion.com/?p=67

The second one is on the topic of Christian Unity featuring Bryan Cross (philosophy prof at St. Louis University) and Tom Riello, a former PCA pastor.

http://www.calledtocommunion.com/?p=445

Also, our Podcast feed is: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CalledToCommunionMedia

In Christ,

-Tim Troutman

Thanks, Tim!

I tell ya', folks, if the quality of the podcast is even half that of the website, we're in for a real treat.

Templars Ridiculousness...

Apparently NBC is airing some lame-brained miniseries which attempts to retell some part of Church history. So strange -- it's not even Easter yet. I tell ya' -- no matter how dumb, there are people who will believe anything. I blame the public schools. ;0)

In any case, come give a listen to Carl Olsen and Sandra Miesel bust it up:

The Templars: The Mini-Series, The Myths, and the Truth | Sandra Miesel and Carl E. Olson | Ignatius Insight Podcast | January 25, 2009

Carl E. Olson, editor of Ignatius Insight, talks to Sandra Miesel, a medieval historian and co-author of The Da Vinc Hoax and Pied Piper of Atheism, about the NBC mini-series, "The Last Templar".

The mini-series, which airs Sunday, January 25th, and Monday, January 26th, is based on the 2005 novel, The Last Templar, written by Raymond Khoury. The novel was on The New York Times bestseller list for 22 months and sold over four million copies.

The novel is similar in many ways to The Da Vinci Code, including its use of the Templars, its reliance on the "Gnostic gospels," and its claim that ancient documents provide definitive proof that Jesus Christ was not divine. USA Today, for example, writes of the mini-series, "The last time you saw this template, it was called The Da Vinci Code."

The novel, according to its website, is "a thought-provoking exploration of religion in today's world, and of historic fact versus faith, particularly regarding the origins of the Catholic Church. Through the investigation into the Templars' history and their mysterious discovery, and though the interplay between Tess - the agnostic, scientific skeptic - and Reilly, who turned to the Church after his father shot himself when Reilly was just a boy, the book presents a spirited look at the early days of the Church and invites the reader to question matters which most of us take at face value."

Carl and Sandra examine some of historical claims of the novel and discuss the ongoing popularity of the Templar mythology.

Listen to mp3 audio file (25 minutes):



• RIGHT CLICK to download the mp3 audio file (11.5 megs)

The One True Faith

Here it is -- season five of the One True Faith with (fellow domer) Michael Voris. If you've never listened to Michael Voris before, buckle your seat belt. If you have heard him before, you know you're in for a challenge.

Here's the description from the site:

The One True Faith is Saint Michael's Media's weekly television program which showcases the truths of the Catholic faith in a lively and exciting manner, presented by multiple Emmy-award winner Michael Voris. Michael tackles a single topic each week, explaining the Catholic faith in an exciting and engaging manner.

Season Five

Episode One : Oprah False Profit
Episode Two : Cafeteria Catholics
Episode Three : Judgmentalism
Episode Four : New Age & Spiritualism
Episode Five : Jesus Christ
Episode Six : False Morality
Episode Seven : Secularism
Episode Eight : Christianity
Episode Nine : Catholic Traitors
Episode Ten : Eternal Damnation
Episode Eleven : Belief and the Creed
Episode Twelve : The Holy Trinity
Episode Thirteen : Genesis, John and Revelation

Get the past seasons here.

Pat Madrid - Why Be Catholic?

UPDATE: I'm bumping this up to the top. Pat Madrid's talk opens with a discussion about how Scott Hahn entered the visible world of Catholic apologetics. It's worth a listen for you fans of Dr. Hahn's work. I'm definitely subscribing to the Fullness podcast (linked at the bottom).

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So...several years ago I started straggling back to the faith I always held (but never knew). A pivotal part of that path was attending a Fullness of Truth conference in Corpus Christi, TX. At the conference I was blessed to hear Fr. Corapi, Fr. Pacwa, Doug Barry and several others speak passionately and forthrightly about the faith.

Wonderfully, the conferences are still being held. If you get a chance -- GO!

All that's to say this: Pat Madrid spoke at one and gave the following lecture entitled "Why Be Catholic when You can be Anything Else?" Now the Fullness of Truth folks have put the talk on their new podcast.

Welcome to the first episode of the Fullness of Truth podcast. In this episode we share a little bit of the mission of Fullness of Truth in a talk given by Patrick Madrid called Why Be Catholic When you can be anything else.

PART 1: Listen Here!

Download this show here (right click and choose save as)

Welcome back to the Fullness of Truth podcast and the second part of a talk given by Patrick Madrid called Why Be Catholic When you can be anything else.

PART 2: Listen Here!

Download this show here (right click and choose save as)

For more information on Patrick Madrid go to: www.patrickmadrid.com

Subscribe to the podcast by RSS here!

Or subscribe to the Podcast by iTunes here!

Lots O' Audio

UPDATE: Some folks in the combox are speculating about these speakers' fidelity to the post-V2 Church. Feel free to chime in.

UPDATED UPDATE: Audio Sancto chimed in and put the matter to rest -- it's all good. Also, Audio Sancto pointed to the linking terms of use, which include the following provision (FYI):

• If you can, please say three Hail Mary's for the priests who preach these sermons, and ask others to do the same

Roger WilCo!

A few people have written in recently and pointed me to the Audio Sancto Sermon Series. Since there's really some great stuff there, I've been meaning to do a series of several posts where I break down the talks by topic. Unfortunately, I just can't seem to find the time. Rather than keep holding on to these gems, I figured I'd just share the link. To give you an idea of what's there, here are the links from the front page:

Date	Title	Time	Size
2009-01-04	The Power of the Holy Name of Jesus	26:15	6 MB
2009-01-01	Octave of Christmas	23:28	5.4 MB
2008-12-28	Our Need to Love the Poor	24:50	5.7 MB
2008-12-25	This Day Is Born To You A Savior	20:47	4.8 MB
2008-12-21	The Incarnation and The Mystical Body of Christ	21:03	4.8 MB
2008-12-14	Unless We Believe in Scripture We Can Neither Be Christians Nor Be Saved	27:58	6.4 MB
2008-12-08	The Immaculate Conception	10:44	2.5 MB
2008-12-07	Imitate the Virtues of Saint John the Baptist	20:11	4.6 MB
2008-11-30	The Seven Churches of the Apocalypse: Upcoming Events and the Final Judgement	27:12	6.2 MB
2008-11-23	The Seven Churches of the Apocalypse: Present Conditions Before the Trials	26:53	6.2 MB
2008-11-17	Feast of Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne	19:36	4.5 MB
2008-11-02	All Things Work Together Unto Good	18:38	4.3 MB
2008-10-26	Our Need to Make Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Christ the King	16:42	3.8 MB
2008-10-19	Destroying Marriage and the Family: An Essential Principle in the Culture of Death	27:05	6.2 MB
2008-10-12	Our Lady Shows Her Motherhood Towards Us	11:49	2.7 MB
2008-10-07	An Evening with an Exorcist	54:47	12.5 MB
2008-10-05	The Most Holy Rosary: A Necessary Devotion	17:28	4 MB
2008-09-28	Seder Meals Violate the 1st Commandment	18:51	4.3 MB
2008-09-21	Blessed Maria de Agreda: The REAL Flying Nun	12:24	2.8 MB
2008-09-14	Carrying Our Cross Daily	12:48	2.9 MB
2008-09-07	Supernatural Charity: Loving Our Neighbor As Ourself	28:19	6.5 MB
2008-08-31	Our Threefold Inheritance from Christ	30:22	7 MB
2008-08-24	Confession: The Key to Overcoming Concupiscence	12:14	2.8 MB
2008-08-17	Be Perfect As Your Father in Heaven Is Perfect	28:32	6.5 MB
2008-08-15	Feast of the Assumption	08:25	1.9 MB
2008-08-10	Using Memory, Intellect, and Will to Know, Love, and Serve God	24:24	5.6 MB
2008-08-03	The Four Temperaments and How They Relate to Your Predominant Fault	13:13	3 MB
2008-07-27	The Faith: Keep It, Study It, Pray It, Practice It	11:57	2.7 MB
2008-07-26	Marriage: Fall from Eden to the Rise in Grace	19:39	4.5 MB
2008-07-20	Unethical Vaccines and The Enemy Is Watching	17:27	4 MB

Morning Prayer & Invitatory

For those wishing to pray the Divine Office, but hate doing it alone, do I have a site for you!

www.divineoffice.org. Get the daily podcast, professionally done.

Fr. Chris - Young Priest Alert...

With so many things to complain about in our society, one thing about which I'm grateful (and hopeful!) is the fidelity and missionary zeal of young priests. Here's an example. A poster sent this in:

Father Chris acts as a simple catechist and gives a basic easy to understand background on the bible in the line of catholic tradition. Father Chris does not include heavy theology but he gives the reader a grasp on the bible by talking about the truth of the bible, the bible as necessary for salvation and the origins of the bible, he also gives sensible tips on someone beginning to read the bible.

Longer bio:

Father Walsh is the 5^th of 6 children born to John and Joan (Ramsey) Walsh. He worshipped and attended elementary school at St. Joseph Church, Downingtown. He graduated from Bishop Shanahan High School in West Chester in 1987. He studied at Temple University and received a B.A. in Sociology in 1991.< style=""> There he supervised a program for conduct disordered adolescent males and served on their Behavior Management Team. During this time he was actively involved with Youth Ministry at St. Joseph Church in Downingtown.

He entered St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in September of 1993 to begin studies for the Roman Catholic Priesthood. Throughout his years in the seminary he had a wide variety of pastoral internship experiences that included inner city and suburban parishes, an urban high school, a hospital chaplaincy, a residence for the physically disabled and extensive work with the Missionaries of Charity in the South Bronx of New York City. Father Chris was ordained by Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua on May 15, 1999.

Our Lady of Ransom Parish in Northeast Philadelphia was Father’s first parochial assignment. During his 5 years he worked extensively to develop the liturgical and devotional life of the parish. In addition, he devoted a great deal of time to Adult Faith Formation, seeking to implement the vision of the U.S. Bishops in their document Were not our Hearts Burning within Us. In June of 2004 Justin Cardinal Rigali assigned Father Walsh to serve as School Minister of Archbishop Wood Catholic High School and in June of 2008 named him the 8^th Pastor of St. Raymond of Penafort Parish in the Northwest section of Philadelphia.

Father Chris’ experience with retreats began early in his priesthood. In addition to a variety of days of recollection and weekend retreats at the parish level and regional level, Father has preached retreats to the IHM Sisters and the Missionaries of Charity throughout the Northeast of the United States. He received training in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola at the Jesuit Center at Wernerville

Get the first podcast on the brand-new blog here.

BTW, if any of you do website design, their parish website is in a bad way and I'm pretty sure they'd appreciate the support.

Wesley J. Smith -- Bioethics Podcast

First, a disclaimer. Wesley J. Smith isn't Catholic. I don't claim he represents Church teaching, so know that going in. Don't expect Catechism because that isn't what he does.

That said...I haven't disagreed with him about a bioethics issue yet. Perhaps there's something out there he's blindingly wrong about, but I haven't seen it. After a few years of pseudo-regularly reading him, everything he advocates appears to be in alignment with Church teaching.

SO...here's the skinny:

I am back in the podcast business, renamed from Brave New Bioethics to What It Means to be Human. After consulting with my colleagues at the Discovery Institute--which is producing the broadcast--we decided that since I am dealing with issues well beyond bioethics now, the new title was warranted.

In the first edition, I define some of the threats to human exceptionalism and argue that accepting the intrinsic value of human life simply because it is human is the necessary intellectual condition precedent (as we lawyers say) to universal human rights.

Check it out.

Here is the RSS Feed.

Say Morning Prayer with The Anchoress

The Anchoress is rapidly turning into one of my favorite bloggers - if for no other reason than she updates frequently and has a good take on all the Palin info.

In any case, she recently did an Office of the Dead podcast for the 9/11 folks and has done some Morning Prayer, Compline and Vespers podcasts as well and I thought you folks might be interested. Here is the full page of podcasts. (Copied below:)

9-12 Morning Prayer, No Chant Direct download: 9-12_Morning_Prayer_No_Chant.mp3

9-11 Office of the Dead; Morning Prayer Direct download: 9-11_Office_of_the_Dead_Morning_Prayer.mp3

Aug 28 Morning Prayer Morning prayer on feast of St. Augustine/Office of Pastors Direct download: Aug_28_Morning_Prayer.mp3

Compline Aug 26 Prayer before sleep. (Slightly buzzy, sorry). Direct download: Compline_Aug_26.mp3

Aug 16 Compline Direct download: Compline_Aug_16.mp3

Aug 16 Vespers Direct download: Vespers_Aug_16.mp3

Aug 15 Vespers Chant Direct download: vespers.mp3

Escuchan, Hermanos...

Si queren reflexiones y lecturas en espanol, van aqui:

El 7 de septiembre de 2008

Escuche a mi Reflexión en español aquí.

Descargue mp3’s “de Ciclo un del tiempo ordinario” página.

Lectura: Romanos 13:8-10.

Abrazo de Jesucristo Que Es Amor

“Hermanos y hermanas,

Con nadie tengáis otra deuda que la del mutuo amor. Pues el que ama al prójimo, ha cumplido la ley.

En efecto, lo de: No adulterarás, no matarás, no robarás, no codiciarás y todos los demás preceptos, se resumen en esta fórmula: Amarás a tu prójimo como a ti mismo.

La caridad no hace mal al prójimo. La caridad es, por tanto, la ley en su plenitud.”

Preguntas para Reflexionar

1. ¿Qué significa que el amor es la Ley perfecta?

2. ¿Especifica, qué actos del amor pueden tener los cristianos con sus amigos, familia, vecinos, y extranos?

3. ¿Cual seria una relación que quisieras mejorar sinceramente amando a esa persona como a ti mismo?

The Curt Jester

Jeff Miller, aka the Curt Jester, sat down with Adam from the Mother of God podcast. Here's part one:


Episode_28_Interview_with_the_Curt_Jester_Part_1.mp3

UPDATE:
Here's part two:
Episode_29_Interview_with_the_Curt_Jester_Part_2.mp3

Steve Ray and Scott & Kimberly Hahn

How could you not love a post where I give you MP3s from these giants?!?

From the Deep in Scripture podcast:

April 30th , 2008. Guest: Steve Ray, “Verses I Never Saw” (PDF)

Listen in MP3 format ( app. 50 meg)

Resource Special “Crossing the Tiber,” by Steve Ray

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April 23th , 2008 Ephesians 5:21 & 33 Pt.2 (PDF)

Listen in MP3 format ( app. 50 meg)

Resource Special "First Comes Love" by Scott Hahn

January 23rd, 2008 Ephesians 4:22- 24 (PDF)

Listen in MP3 format ( app. 50 meg)

Resource Special
“Life-Giving Love,” by Kimberly Hahn

Scott Hahn Interviewed About His New Book

Ok...not really. Again. I have a post with the same title a few posts down which claims the same thing, but Jeff Miller was kind enough to point out to me that it wasn't Dr. Hahn's "new" book, but rather one of his more recent. I got confused.

Fortunately, Chris Cash (the host of the Catholic Spotlight) came to the rescue. He writes:

"[Benjamin Wiker's interview] is an interview with his co-author about his latest book. Scott did not want to do the interview himself, he said that Ben was much more knowledgeable on the topic than he was and he has 3 deadlines he was trying to meet. I will let you know when I get him on again. I did have an interview with Kimberly that will post on monday at CatholicSpotlight.com, if you are at all interested in her new book, Graced and Gifted."

Oh, in case you don't know, Dr. Hahn's (and Dr. Wiker's (Bio)) new book is called "Answering the New Atheism: Dismantling Dawkins' Case Against God". You can read excerpts from it here at Amazon.

But if you're only planning on listening, here's a direct link to the Catholic Spotlight interview of co-author Dr. Benjamin Wiker. If you like what you hear, please vote for them at Podcast Alley - and feel free to vote every month to help them get their show in front of more people.

UPDATE: here's a link to Dr. Wiker's website - just FYI. Thanks to his site, I'm glad to give you the Emmaus Road Publishing's three part interview of Dr. Hahn (for reals this time!) and Dr. Wiker via YouTube. If you would like to convert the YouTube to .mp3 to listen on your way to work or whatever it is you do, here's a program for download which will do it quickly and easily (which is what I use) or a website which will do the same.

Part 1:

Answering Atheism: Author Interv...

Part 2:

Answering Atheism: Author Interview Part 2

Part 3:

Answering Atheism: Author Interview Part 3

New and Allegedly Excellent Homilist

A reader writes:

I thought I'd give a heads-up to some more nuggets of gold that you may want to share with the rest of your fan/web-base. Fr. Mike Schmitz is a young, rock-solid, zealous, and hilariously relevant priest from the Diocese of Duluth in Minnesota. He is currently the chaplain at the University of Minnesota Duluth where his homilies have been recorded and put online. Being a young priest himself, and with a college-age audience, he preaches with a flavor and spunk that probably reaches the young adult crowd best, while still being worthwhile hearing for 25+ers. I have used his podcasted homilies in my classroom and my students have LOVED him. He preaches the truths of the faith (completely orthodox) and brings almost every homily around to Jesus in the Eucharist.

You can find Fr. Mike's audio files here:

http://umdnewman.blogspot.com/

One statement of Fr. Mike's from an earlier entry got me hooked. Here it is:

"Peter starts walking on water. Even when he fails, even when he falls, and brothers and sisters we know this, we get called out of the boat. You’re going to do some amazing things in the power of Christ, but are you going to fail? Are we going to sin? ABSOLUTELY! What happens? Peter starts to sink, so what does Jesus do? He descends, He grabs him, catches him, and raises
him back up, because that's what Christ does. He descends in order to raise us up."

*HT to Greg - thanks for the help!