Beneath The Surface

 The Holy Spirit has spoken through the prophets, and He speaks through them today.  Let's delve!

 Does God, who is all-merciful, actually judge us?  What is the role of Jesus in judging of the living and the dead?  Why is there a second judgment on the last day if the soul is already judged at the moment of death?  This and much more on The Creed: BTS, 15.

 What does it mean that heaven is "up"? Why does Jesus 'ascend' rather than just disappear? Is there an "up-ness" to God and heaven? How might we think about this?  Let's go beneath the surface!

 Our thirteenth episode in the series, The Creed: Beneath the Surface. We delve into the awe-inspiring meaning of Christ's gloriuous resurrection, and how it affects us.

 Go beneath the surface with Paul Murano and his special guest Fr. Tony Blount on the Incarnation and spousal relationship between the Holy Spirit and Mary.

 Why is heaven considered "up" and hell "down"?  Is there any real spatial significance to this?  What about heaven is up?  Let's delve Beneath the Surface, where faith and reason meet..

 Delve beneath the surface on the meaning of the events that lead up to Jesus' sacrificial death.

 A review of Holy Week with guest Bob Leblanc

 Divine Throughness. That is on what we delve beneath the surface.  All things are made by the Father through the Son, and return to the Father through the Son.

 Delve beneath the surface on what it means to be eternally begotten and consubstantial; and the difference between being and person.

 Episode 7 in the series The Creed: Beneath the SurfaceHere Paul Murano and his guest Robert Leblanc discuss how God is Light, and the unfathomable mystery of the Son being eternally begotten of the Father.

 Go beneath the surface with Paul and the astute Fr. Tony Blount on the meaning of line of the Creed "The only begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages"

 #5 in a series on The Creed: Beneath the Surface.  This show we focus on the second Person of God, and break down the words Lord, Jesus, and Christ.  

 Tonight we go BTS with my guest John Tuturice on perhaps the biggest question of there is: What is the meaning of life?

 Dr. Janet Smith, author of Humanae Vitae: A Generation Later, joins us beneath the surface as we delve into the truth about contraception - what it does to women, their health and well being, their prospective mate-selection; how it affects infertility, libido, the environment, and what it also does to males.  Crucially important information.This is a 'part one' of a two-part interview.

Go beneath the surface with Paul Murano and Kent as they discuss what it means to surrender to the will of God, in good times and in bad.

 Mercy without justice is a form of enabling, pure sentimentality, over-pastoralism, or a display of cowardice. It is a recipe for disaster.  It is a false mercy, ad hence it is not love.  What do we mean?  Find out as BTS celebrates its 15th year of existence!

 Lent is a time to meditate on how best to overcome temptation. Christ was tempted in the desert in his 40 day journey, and we are tempted every day in some form or another. Jesus taught His disciples to pray that the Father 'lead us not into temptation'. What does He mean? Let's go beneath the surface.

 I go beneath the surface with my guest Tom Murphy on the purpose of sacrifice and penance and the challenge of living Lent in an age of self indulgence.

 Must-see video - featuring Fr. Tony Blount. Fr. Tony is a gifted SOLT priest currently stationed in Detroit, MI. In this fourth episode of the series, "The Creed: Beneath the Surface", Paul and Fr. Blount delve beneath the surface on God's creation - both the visible and (especially) the invisible parts.Much of the discussion centers of angels and demons, heaven and hell.Get ready to ponder.

 Our third show on The Creed: Beneath the Surface.  This episode we focus on the Father as first Person of the Trinity and Creator of the universe.  Particularly speculative questions are pondered. 

 Join us as we discuss that place for which every heart longs.

 #2 in our series The Creed: Beneath the SurfaceEpisode 2: (i believe)  IN ONE GOD

 Join Paul Murano in this first episode of a new Bts series on The Creed, called, The Creed: Beneath the SurfaceHere we begin with Paul and his guest Bob Leblanc delving beneath the surface on the first two words of the Nicene Creed: I believeSome of the questions tackled:What the difference between belief and faith?Belief and knowledge?Can you believe and still not accept?When is belief salvific?

 We can use Christ cleansing the Temple in the Gospels as a metaphor for the continuous need of the Church to be cleansed as well as the temples of our own hearts.

 A BTS look at the why of abuses in language: blasphemy, profanity, and vulgarity

 We go beneath the surface with author Kathleen Laplante on her book and how she survived her father's suicide. From confusion, to anger, to despair, to hope in Christ.

 Does God, who is all-merciful, actually judge us?  What is the role of Jesus in judging of the living and the dead?  Why is there a second judgment on the last day if the soul is already judged at the moment of death?  This and much more on The Creed: BTS, 15.

 Martin Luther King's letter from Birmingham jail was a profound exposition on the natural moral law. It has ramifications on morality and law for us today.  Fascinating discussion!

 Are all men created created equal?  Is equality something to be grasped at?  Let's go beneath the surface.

 There can be no happiness outside of truth.  What is truth?  Let's delve beneath the surface.

 What is beauty?  Is it objective or simply subjective taste?  Where do we find the ultimate standard?

 Bernie Choiniere and Bob Leblanc share their personal reversion stories back into Catholicism, and how the Blessed Virgin Mary had an important role in that process.

 What does it mean that heaven is "up"? Why does Jesus 'ascend' rather than just disappear? Is there an "up-ness" to God and heaven? How might we think about this?  Let's go beneath the surface!

 The apparitions of Mary at Fatima have changed the complexion of the Church and the world.  What were they about, and why are they important?

 Scripture attests that God's infinite and eternal nature is not only Love, but also Reason or Truth. What does it mean that God is Reason, and what are the ramifications for other religions that believe God is Volition but not necessarily Reason? Is it possible to have Agape without Logos?

 What can Charlie Brown, Linus, and the Peanuts gang teach us about Christmas?  A lot.

 What happens when the historical St. Nicholas meets the mythical Santa Claus?  Listen and find out.

 Host Paul Murano speaks with Kent Niebuhr on the pursuit of happiness: The original documents of our nation speak of it, but how have we over the years been pursuing it?  What is happiness, and how do we attain it?  We take a light look at happiness in popular songs, and then go beneath the surface on what it means to be happy.

 Join my guest Kent Niebuhr, father of seven, as we go beneath the surface on whether on not it is okay to mislead children.

 What is the role of work in a person's life?  What does it mean that all work was meant to be pleasurable and now it is redemptive?

 Join us as we delve beneath the surface on what is traditionally taught as the four last things: death, judgment, heaven, and hell.

 Join Paul and guest Kent Niebuhr discuss the profound double meaning of the Advent season.

 The resurrection of the dead is the most important event in human history, and the center of the Christian faith.  But what is it?  Who does it apply to?  How is resurrection different than resuscitation?

 What is hell? Is it real? How would one end up there? Is it everlasting? These questions and more are tackled -- beneath the surface.

 Join Paul Murano and his guest Kent Niebuhr to delve beneath the surface on the practical and spiritual elements of the 2020 presidential election.

 What is chastity, is it possible, and how important is it for civilization?  Let's go beneath the surface with Paul Murano and his guest David Gorden!

 Is there a correlation between the objectification of persons and the humanizing of animals?  Go with us beneath the surface.

 What is Peace? Why are we so often not at peace, and why is it so elusive?  Let's go beneath the surface on what Christ wants to give us despite, or in the midst of, the unsettling storms in our lives.

 Go beneath the surface with Paul Murano to find out how we humans are a believing species, and to examine what is meant by the all-important word 'faith', without which there is neither sanity nor salvation.

 Delve beneath the surface with Paul and his guest Kent Niebuhr about the nature of relationships and whether or not human beings are monogamous.