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There's only been one pope's death that has really shocked me – and I don't think it was because I was only 10 years old at the time. It was September 1978 and I remember the shock vividly. John Paul I died just 33 days after becoming the Pope. We were a Catholic family so it was all everyone seemed to be talking about. Not just because he had died, but because he died so soon after his inauguration. So last night when the news that Pope Francis had died came through, I wasn't shocked or surprised. And I think most people will be like that. Especially when he's been so unwell. Pretty much for most of this year. Nevertheless, his passing is significant. And, of course, first thing I did was get on the phone to mum. Because even though I haven't been what they call a practising Catholic for quite some time, it stays with you. It's a sense of belonging that never really leaves you. It won't be the same for everyone who grows up a Catholic, but that's me. So he was the first Pope from South America. He was 76 when he was elected. As all Popes do, he chose a name. And he chose Francis in honour of St Francis of Assisi, the 13th-century Italian friar who got rid of all his wealth to become a man of peace and poverty. Which brings me to what I've been surprised by the most. It's not the fact that the Pope has passed away, it's what's being said about his achievements during his time as Pope. I've seen headlines quoting all manner of people and they've been saying things about how he was a pope for the poor. That he'd had a lifelong commitment to the poor. He was anti-capitalism. He was big on the environment. He promoted tolerance. In fact, one of the last things he did was wash the feet of young people locked up in prison. This was just before Easter. But I didn't know that. Which is why, when I consider whether the pope (whoever it is), is a leader for all of us —Catholics, non-Catholics, everyone— I would have to say that the role of the pope doesn't have the same global leadership or impact that it once did. That's how I see it. Which, in a way is surprising. Because it is so much easier to get the message out to the world these days. And I think that the church is going to have to do more to promote the values and work of the next pope. Because if it doesn't, there will be no shortage of people making noise about what they're up to and the pope's global influence will diminish. Maybe my ignorance of the work and achievements of Pope Francis reflects the fact that I'm not engaged with the church. Maybe practising Catholics will be right up with the play. And maybe practising Catholics are quite happy not to see the pope popping up on Instagram and TikTok all the time. Two years after becoming pope, Pope Francis issued what's called an encyclical letter —this was in 2015— and he said then that poverty and ecological destruction were two things the world needed to confront. Linking the two together, of course, because coming from South America, he was acutely aware of the link between ecological destruction and poverty. And, according to a German Catholic relief organisation, one the Pope's major achievements was the attention he helped to focus on the environment. Which is news to me, and it raises the question: is the Pope's global influence what it used to be? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

40 to 40 Series, Week 2: You Can Take the Girl Out of the Midwest, but You Can't Take the Midwest Out of the Girl In today's episode, Rachel is continuing the 40 to 40 series with an intimate exploration of how her Midwest upbringing and large family dynamics have shaped her journey as a fashion entrepreneur. Growing up in Ohio with a strong German Catholic background and a very large family, reminiscent of Hulu's “The Bear,” Rachel certainly took on a few unique experiences and values. She touches on how living near her grandparents' farm instilled a deep respect for nature and animals. Additionally, Rachel reflects on the initial instinct to pursue a career in medicine due to her family's strong medical background, and how she ultimately found my passion for apparel design.   Rachel also discusses her personal journey of stepping outside traditional life expectations as a geriatric millennial. From attending art school to moving to New York City for internships, these experiences broadened her horizons and opened up new opportunities. She started to miss the sense of belonging and community in the fast-paced life of big cities, which led her to seek out the warmth and friendliness of the Midwest which ultimately landed her looking for a balanced lifestyle in Colorado.   In this episode, you'll hear: -How “The Bear” relates to many of Rachel's childhood experiences. -Why Rachel tended to feel like the family oddball. -The importance of feeling like you're ready to move on from where you grew up, but always having an appreciation for it. -Why Colorado feels really fulfilling right now! -THE Ohio State culture and how it influenced Rachel's college career.     Purchase the Business of Apparel Online Course: https://www.thebusinessofapparel.com/course To connect with Rachel, you can join her LinkedIn community here: LinkedIn. To visit her website, go to: www.unmarkedstreet.com.    Like, comment & subscribe to my channel here:  https://www.youtube.com/@unmarkedstreet   Learn more at https://www.thebusinessofapparel.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with us: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unmarked-street/ https://www.instagram.com/unmarkedstreet/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100076027998346 https://twitter.com/UnmarkedStreet https://www.pinterest.com/unmarkedstreet/

We welcome back Fr. Peter Stravinskas to discuss his article in Catholic World Report. Many are rejoicing in the results of a new survey on Catholic belief in the Eucharist, but is this a case of false hopes and wishful thinking? Father finishes with Timely Thoughts.   Show Notes Cause for hope in new data on Eucharistic faith? The “Eucharistic Revival” in practical mode?  Gutting the Mystery out of the Mystery  What Many Priests No Longer Believe | Homiletic & Pastoral Review Enthusiasm: A Chapter in the History of Religion - Ronald Knox Beware of “Hopium” and “Copium” Number of German Catholics formally leaving the Church since 2019 The Station of the Cross Merchandise - Use Coupon Code 14STATIONS for 10% off | Catholic to the Max 25 Year Anniversary Celebration | The Station of the Cross Catholic Media Network Read Fr. McTeigue's Written Works! Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

The US Supreme Court ruled that presidents are entitled to some immunity from prosecution for official acts committed while in office. This is a victory for Trump. And, the Vatican held more talks with leaders of the Synodal Way in Germany as 400,000 German Catholics left the Church last year.

In this English episode, Willi and Aaron pick up where they left off discussing the Catholic Church. They reside in a deeply Catholic environment, where adapting to the norms of Catholicism is an adjustment every day. Like in any scenario of personal evangelism, sharing one's faith happens through cultivating personal relationships. Yet, navigating the rich tapestry of Catholic tradition while explaining one's seemingly unconventional beliefs can pose challenges. It's essential to articulate one's faith in a manner that resonates within the Catholic framework. Willi and Aaron fondly recall their college years, contemplating how an understanding of early church history might serve as a bridge to the hearts of Roman Catholics. In the forthcoming episode next month, they will delve into a contentious topic arising from their experiences living within a German Catholic context.

This is our unabridged episode with John Dear. How do you live a good life in a world of 30 wars, 13,000 nuclear weapons, 4 billion people in poverty, racism, gun violence, child hunger, and catastrophic climate change? This is the question posed by activist and Catholic priest John Dear. For years, John has taken part in peace movements alongside folks like Coretta King, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Desmond Tutu. In this episode, he has some unbelievable stories that answer his question in a provocative way. To live a good life, he argues, you cannot support war, nuclear weapons, or violence. “To do the good,” in his words, “means to stop the killing.” Show Notes Similar episodes: The Architect of the American Civil Rights Movement: James Lawson The Business of War: Justin Barringer Martin Sheen: Actor and Activist Resources mentioned this episode: German Catholics and Hitler's Wars by Gordon Zahn Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl The Nonviolent Life by John Dear The Beatitudes Center John Dear's website Transcript for Abridged Episode Subscribe to episodes: Apple | Spotify | Amazon | Stitcher | Google | YouTube Follow Us: Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube Follow Lee: Instagram | Twitter Join our Email List: nosmallendeavor.com Become a Member: Virtual Only | Standard | Premium See Privacy Policy: Privacy Policy Shop No Small Endeavor Merch: Scandalous Witness Course | Scandalous Witness Book |  Joy & the Good Life Course Amazon Affiliate Disclosure: Tokens Media, LLC is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

How do you live a good life in a world of 30 wars, 13,000 nuclear weapons, 4 billion people in poverty, racism, gun violence, child hunger, and catastrophic climate change? This is the question posed by activist and Catholic priest John Dear. For years, John has taken part in peace movements alongside folks like Coretta King, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Desmond Tutu. In this episode, he has some unbelievable stories that answer his question in a provocative way. To live a good life, he argues, you cannot support war, nuclear weapons, or violence. “To do the good,” in his words, “means to stop the killing.” Show Notes Similar episodes: The Architect of the American Civil Rights Movement: James Lawson The Business of War: Justin Barringer Martin Sheen: Actor and Activist Resources mentioned this episode: German Catholics and Hitler's Wars by Gordon Zahn Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl The Nonviolent Life by John Dear The Beatitudes Center John Dear's website Transcription Link Subscribe to episodes: Apple | Spotify | Amazon | Stitcher | Google | YouTube Follow Us: Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube Follow Lee: Instagram | Twitter Join our Email List: nosmallendeavor.com Become a Member: Virtual Only | Standard | Premium See Privacy Policy: Privacy Policy Shop No Small Endeavor Merch: Scandalous Witness Course | Scandalous Witness Book |  Joy & the Good Life Course Amazon Affiliate Disclosure: Tokens Media, LLC is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

Malleus Maleficarum, usually translated as The Hammer of Witches, is the best known treatise on witchcraft. It was written by the German Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer, and first published in the German city of Speyer in 1486. It has been described as the compendium of literature in demonology of the 15th century.  The top theologians of the...

St. Joseph's Church, commissioned by Bishop Jean-Marie Odin in 1859, stands as Galveston's oldest wooden church, a Gothic revival gem built by German carpenter Joseph Bleicke. Originally serving the German Catholic community, it now symbolizes the enduring legacy of German immigrants in shaping Galveston and Texas.Galveston Unscripted What is Galveston Unscripted?Follow Galveston Unscripted on Spotify or Apple Podcasts! More history content on Visit Galveston!

Catholic health system takes down crucifixes, Pope Francis is worried about how nice German Catholics are being, Pope Francis invites group of trans women to lunch, lawsuit over trans athlete, Baptist pastor apologizes for creationism seminar, Christian books in schools, and sorry for the sexist title... we're not sexist, but maybe the Mormon patriarchy is?

On Friday evening young and old will celebrate St Martin's day traditions at the German Intenational School Sydney. For the first time, the event is being organised jointly by the German Catholic and Protestant churches - In Sydney wird Kirchengeschichte gemacht - zumindest in kleinem Rahmen. Vertreter der katholischen und evangelischen Kirchen veranstalten heute Abend - erstmalig - gemeinsam den traditionellen Sankt Martins Umzug. Ort des Geschehens ist die German International School Sydney im Stadtteil Terrey Hills. Pastor Christian Hohl von der Deutsch Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche Sydney erklärt, wie es zu dieser schönen Geste der Einigkeit gekommen ist.

Could the continuing cover-ups of sex scandals and annual church taxes be behind the alarming number of Catholic Germans leaving the church?

Could the continuing cover-ups of sex scandals and annual church taxes be behind the alarming number of Catholic Germans leaving the church?

June 29th, 2023 - We welcome back Brent Haynes to break down the latest on the Hunter Biden whistleblowers. Then we're joined by Fr. Gerald Murray to tackle the German "Synodal Church"! TheStationOfTheCross.com/ACT  

3/23/23 - "In the News" - 30 minutes - Co-Hosts Judy Dezagottis & Father Bill Weary -     Discussions regarding: Cdls. Burke & Mueller calling for a canonical trial to charge German Catholic church leaders on heresy; Cdl. Burke's short book on Communion to the eligible vs. ineligible; Pope Francis' comments on possibility that requirement for priestly celibacy will be lifted; NASA instructor Allissa Battocletti Noffke witnesses to her Catholic faith citing Christ as most important part of her life; Eucharistic Adoration takes place every First Friday in the basement of the Minnesota State Capitol Building; Pope Francis' comments that Hell is not 'a place' but 'a posture towards life'; Journalists' Conference in communicating truth in a post-truth world; how best to celebrate the Annunciation & upcoming Holy Week.

How We Need To Proceed If We're Going To Win Against Abortion This week on A Podcast About Catholic Things, Eric (The Ambassador of Common Sense) take a deep dive into the path we're facing as we fight against abortion. In the shadow of Operation Rescue, it seems like we're losing speed. We interview Operation Rescue founder and organizer, Randal Terry, the Ambassador of Resistance, who was personally arrested 49 times and is a long-time activist in the prolife movement. This is part 2 of a 3 part show. In current events, American banks going broke. Louisville police under investigation. Belgian government bans gambling. Mine and tunnel collapses. Georgia backs down from foreign agents. China brokering peace in Mideast. Facebook layoffs. Cops watch Antifa violence. Oklahoma rejects weed. Teenage girls depressed. Jim Jordan still hounding the bad guys. Utah holds big tech liable for minor violation. Canada still investigating Chinese interference. Bishop stops Latin Mass in Ohio. Delaware to require priests break confessional seal. New Jersey forces nonbinary language in marriage licenses. Tennessee allowed to refuse same sex marriage. German Catholic bishops in schism. Kevin McCarthy makes more promises. Pregnancy Center bus parks in front of Planned Parenthood. Pachamama doll in Amazonian Mass. Texas fights abortion drugs. James O'Keefe re-launches. Vatican makes deal with China. In the land of nonsense, snow crashes building. Cocaine Shark coming soon. Baseball players enjoy coffee. Berlin topless pools.VIEW ON APPLE PODCASTS VIEW ON GOOGLE PODCASTS VIEW ON AMAZON VIEW ON AUDIBLE VIEW ON CASTBOX VIEW ON PODCASTADDICT VIEW ON STITCHER VIEW ON BITCHUTE VIEW ON RUMBLE VIEW ON TUNE-IN VISIT US ON FACEBOOK

Here in the UK we have had the Church of England announce they will bless same-sex unions while over in the US the so called 'Asbury Revival' has been making headlines. To understand these two diametric concepts of revival and woke-ism we asked Fr Calvin Robinson to join us. Calvin speaks out strongly on how the Church is England is losing its message of Christ as it embraces 'new' values and concepts of the world. He has also been keeping a keen eye on the unusual events at the church in Asbury University in Kentucky, where a service of worship just went on and on. Can the Church of England return to truth and is what is happening in Asbury the beginning of a renewal in Christendom? The Reverend Calvin Robinson is a popular British political advisor, presenter and commentator. Fr Robinson is Minister-in-Charge of Christ Church in London and has been published widely in the media, including GB News, Talk radio, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, the Spectator, and the Daily Express among others. He is a former assistant principal and has consulted for the Department for Education, supporting school leaders across the South East. Born and bred in the East Midlands, England, Calvin is on a crusade to reclaim our country from the woke using truth and common sense while standing up for family, conservative, Christian and British values. Catch Calvin every Sunday at 3pm for the 'Common Sense Crusade' on GB News. Follow and support Calvin.... GETTR: https://gettr.com/user/calvinrobinson Twitter: https://twitter.com/calvinrobinson?s=20&t=46rqU2zEtSYZDNs2huAI7A Telegram: https://t.me/calvinrobinson Substack: https://calvinrobinson.substack.com/ Website: https://www.calvinrobinson.com/ Interview recorded 13.3.23 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art https://theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com/ and follow him on GETTR https://gettr.com/user/BoschFawstin To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more... https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Please subscribe, like and share! [0:22] Hello, Hearts of Oak. Thank you for joining us on another interview coming up with Calvin Robinson. We've had on numerous times before, and we're looking at the state of the church, where the church fit into a 21st century society. We go through a number of the issues which Calvin has spoken about regularly on GB News and on his social media platforms. The whole issue of marriage and the Church of England recognizing LGBT unions, whatever alphabet mix you want, it is now recognized and blessed, although they don't actually carry out a ceremony, so it seems to be a fudge on the issue. So we discuss that and some of the other issues. I know Calvin has talked a lot about the buffer zones and the prayer being illegal outside abortion centres. And then we look at, actually looking ahead, why a revived church, a church which is on fire, a church which is speaking truth, why that is important for, if you're not a Christian, actually for all society, not just Christians, because that has a positive effect on society, speaking truth and bringing, [1:31] looking at issues of right and wrong, I guess, in a time where there's a lot of confusion about what actually is right, what actually is wrong. And the church, I think, can be a moral guidance, a framework once again for our society. And I think many of us would see that there is a place to be had, even if we are not regular churchgoers or don't call ourselves Christians. There is a positive impact and element to our society from that. So I know you'll enjoy Calvin, as much as I enjoyed chatting with them. [2:05] Calvin Robinson, Father Calvin Robinson. It is wonderful to have you back with us. Thank you so much for your time once again.   Anytime Peter, how are you? Absolutely wonderful. All the better for seeing you and hopefully you'll shed some light on a lot of the chaos has been happening, but we'll get into that. @CalvinRobinson, obviously, is your handle across all platforms. People can also sign up to your sub-stack and get your regular e-mails giving your thoughts. Of course, Calvin can be found every Sunday on GB News at 3pm. Or you can see him in the flesh at his church in the morning. So you can get him twice in the day. Your church isn't live streamed as yet, Calvin, no? No, it's rooted in place. People have got to be there.   I do like that. Personal contact is good. Don't go down that, because then people just stay at home. So stick with the one-on-one contact. Calvin, initially when we had talked a couple weeks ago, we wanted to look at what was happening, I guess, termed as the Asbury Revival over in the States and talk about, I guess, renewal in general. [3:15] But maybe before that we could go back and start with maybe where the Church is at in the UK. And one thing which certainly has struck out with me was what happened back in February. The Guardian's headline. We'll use the Guardian because that's, I think, what the Church of England like to support and promote, and are more worried about column inches in the Guardian. But anyway, it's the Church of England votes in favour of blessing for same-sex unions. Passing of motion at General Synod represents profound shift in Church's stance on homosexuality. Do you want to give us your thoughts on, kind of, that event and that quite a large departure from traditional Church of England Anglican teaching.   Yeah, well, the Church is saying it's not a departure in teaching. They've said they're not changing doctrine, which is fluffy to say the least because we in the [4:13] Church of England tend to believe lex horrende, lex credendi, like you are what you believe, you practice what you believe and you believe what you practice. And so if the Church of England is essentially saying that you can bless same-sex unions, some of which will be sexual in nature, the Church of England is now saying you can bless sin, which is an oxymoron, you can't ask God to bless something he has said is sinful. But at Synod it was voted in favour with a majority, that the Church of England can now, priests within the Church of England can now bless couples that come to them that may be in a civil partnership or may be in a secular gay marriage and those individuals within that relationship can now be blessed. So basically people will go to the registry office, they'll get their same-sex marriage under law and then they'll go to church and have that marriage blessed. That is wrong. It is not in line with Christian teaching. It's [5:10] causing the Church of England to enter apostasy essentially because these bishops are heretics, and it's a problem for even the very good sound priests in the Church of England who do want to remain orthodox because we are, as Anglicans, we're an apostolic faith so we believe that each congregation serves a bishop and each, well the bishop serves each congregation, so you can't separate one from the other. You can't say well I'll be a good priest in my little parish because that's congregationalism. That means you're not respecting obedience to your bishop and not seeing him as your servant leader. So if the bishop is a heretic, it makes you a heretic. That's the problem people are facing. So many parishes are going to have to consider now do they want to leave the Church of England because the Church of England has already left them.   And we'll get into that schism in a little bit but I mean marriage has... always been, traditionally, been a lifelong union between one man and one woman. And it does seem, I know, I know, Calvin I'm only following you, so that's bad. [6:19] I've seen your show, Calvin, much worse. But how can they say that's not a change? Because if the church is saying basically we're not actually carrying out a ceremony between two men or two women but we will still bless it. There isn't much, it seems to be just semantics really. It is semantics. That is exactly the right word for it. They think they're being clever because they're trying to please everybody. You know you can't please everybody because what you end up doing is upsetting everybody. But worse than that you can't compromise on the truth. And the truth sometimes is black and white. Most things in life are quite nuanced but the truth, isn't always, because we believe as Christians that the truth is universal and Jesus Christ is the truth himself, right? It's not this case of what we see in modernity where everyone has their own perspective and everyone owns their individual truth. That doesn't play out in Christianity. So what the Church is doing is saying, well societal norms have changed, they've adjusted over time and the world around us has become liberal progressive and the faith is rooted in time and place and is very static and traditionalist and [7:33] old-fashioned, how do we marry the two? Well, we can't institute gay marriages because that's an oxymoron, but what about if we bless same-sex marriages that have been done elsewhere? That's good compromise, right? And of course it's all misguided. It might be well-intentioned, might not be, but it's just impossible. It's an impossibility.   Because up to this point, Church's teaching would would have been that there are areas of sin. You can read your Bible and you can make whole lists of them. [8:05] I've just been sitting in a series with Jay John going through the 10 commandments and those are a list of rules which are for our own good really for society. But the church seems to have kind of completely abandoned that. And I know internally the church has had this the hierarchy, I guess, this struggle of where they go on this issue, and I guess that maybe Justin Welby and others would have liked to kick this even further into the long grass. So I'm wondering what kind of pushed them to actually make a decision, because often the church of England are very good at not actually making decisions.   Yeah, they're really good at fluff, you know, Anglican fudge they call it, but this had to happen because the living in love and faith process is what they called it over the last six or seven years they've been discussing how to be more inclusive to the LGBTQ plus IAA plus plus plus community and just that just that sentence alone is problematic because the church of course is inclusive it's you know the church is welcoming to everyone because we are all sinners and they keep forgetting this that well how can we be more welcoming to this particular community and it doesn't make sense like that it's a false premise. They need to focus on talking about sin more and you're right the commandments are rules by which we should be living our lives. The [9:32] Commandments are set down by God as any father would to his children to say this is how, these are the boundaries, you may play within these boundaries, if you leave these boundaries you will get hurt. That is what sin is, it's separation of us from God, and that's hurtful for us as well as for God right? So we, should be trying not to do that, we should be trying not to sin. But we don't talk about sin because it's seen as derogatory. Every time I bring it up on my own, well I won't talk about specifics, but whenever we talk about sin people say silly things like, you can't call that sin. It's legal. It's like, what? That sentence again doesn't make any sense. By saying it's a sin isn't me saying it should be illegal or it shouldn't be legal. It's me saying that it's something that is harmful for us and we should avoid it if possible. But we are all sinners because we are fallen individuals and we should acknowledge that we all do sin. And that is that's not okay but we can repent and we can change our ways. But people these days don't want to repent and they don't want to change their ways, they want to live in sin. It is interesting that people pick and choose how sin or legality work because you look back at things which are, were illegal, you look back at slavery and we see that as abhorrent and yet it was accepted legally. So it's interesting how often people pick and choose what is accepted or not accepted. [10:56] That's a very good point. I'm going to use that one in the future, actually. That's a very good point. Because it's so annoying when people say, you can't say that homosexual marriage is a sin, or that homosexual sex is a sin. First of all, I'm not saying anything about homosexuals in particular. Usually I'm talking about fornication. I'm labelling the sin. I'm using the name of the sin. It's sex outside of marriage, which is sinful. [11:15] And that is the same for heterosexuals as it is for homosexuals. But they really get hung up on that word sin. So we need to talk about it more so that people understand it and realise that it's not us judging other people, it's not us pointing a finger that way, it's us doing this and saying yes we are sinners too, we're all sinners, let's help each other sin less. I guess a conversation the church doesn't really have is the whole issue of the stability that a lifelong marriage between a man and woman brings to not only to small areas of culture but to society in general. To me it would be, if they're looking for popularity I guess, it is an open goal to talk about the benefits that a male and female bring to that lifelong and then in regards to raising children and that structure and the benefit to society if not, to me that would be a open goal if the church wants to kind of be more political I guess with the public and engage with them and that would be a good policy. Well it's right there, so it doesn't matter which church we're talking about. If we're talking about the Church of England it's in the Book of Common Prayer, if we're talking about the Catholic faith it's in the Catechism of the Catholic faith, in that marriage is between one man and one woman, it's heterosexual and monogamous for the reasons of procreation, for the begetting of children, so that God can bless you with offspring. [12:44] That is a good thing. For the purposes of fornication without sin, so that you can have sex without it being sinful, so that you receive that grace. [12:55] And for the betterment of the community, for society as a whole, like we all benefit when people raise families because that's how our society is built upon. First community we all belong to is the family and then we have the wider community and then we have our nationhood and these things are all good things, good things in the eyes of God, like objectively good. And so you know marriage is for a reason. God hasn't said it must be one man and one woman because I'm bigoted and I want human beings to be bigoted. He said this is good, this is ordered, this is a way for you to live your lives for the benefit of yourselves, the people around you and me. You mentioned inclusivity a bit earlier and that term, it seems to be that we are misunderstanding terms. I hear inclusivity a lot. You hear love being put out as well. Love is love and God is love and we can all love each other as seemingly a green light to whatever you want. Is there a way that we can kind of reclaim some of these terms, so to understand once again what they truly mean? Yeah, of course, because this is what the left does, isn't it? They twist language. They never actually outright lie. They use half-truths to make a lie seem real. And so [14:12] when they talk about love, quite often, they're talking about lust. And it's the Hollywood version of love, right? That you're getting into a relationship with someone, and then have sex and that's it, that's the epitome of love and that's the pinnacle right there that we're all striving towards. Actually no, love doesn't mean that in a Christian context. Agape is the term used quite often but there are [14:32] actually multiple terms for love in the Bible and it means it's something that's sacrificial, it's self-giving, it's willing the good of the other. It's not about you and people forget that quite often in this individualistic societies. But I love him or I love her therefore I should be able to, I have a right to. No you're putting yourself first and foremost that's not love that's something else that's your own desire and desires often lead us to sin and love is completely the opposite of sin and when we say love is love it's a free for all isn't it because well if love is love it doesn't matter what the terms are there are no boundaries but of course there are boundaries on everything in life including love. And for me love should be in terms of marriage at least between a man and a woman. But that's not to say there aren't different types of love. I love you as a brother, I love you know my friends in a different way to how I would expect to love my wife right. And likewise you love your children in a different way to how you love your spouse. So there are lots of different levels of love but even then there are boundaries on those different relationships and what I really struggle with at the moment in the LGBTQ plus III community is that they want to say that a sexual love, a desire, a lustful [15:53] relationship is appropriate for anyone without boundaries and we all know where that heads if it's fine for two men or three men or four men or two men and eight women, whatever. [16:04] Why is it not fine for a man and a child? And that's where it's all heading. That's where liberalism ends up. That's where the devil is pushing from. It's paedophilia is what they're aiming for. And people say, that's homophobic. You're saying you're conflating homosexuality with paedophilia. I'm not at all. I'm not in any way, shape, or form conflating the two. I'm saying this liberal progressive movement, this work movement of love is love, of boundaryless, borderless love, results in paedophilia. And that's very different. Well, picking up on that term and what we've seen with the drag shows, and you were highlighting one of them recently, but that whole, I mean I'm surprised, although I maybe shouldn't be, but I still try and be surprised at the lack of response from churches, that was Turning Point UK, so it is a secular organization. You've got you and Lozza and others [17:01] actually standing up and opposing this, getting a report on GB News. It's kind of, you're looking around thinking, well, I'm just waiting for the local church to come in and actually get involved, but that's not happening. What has that been like as you've kind of campaigned on some of these issues without, probably with silence from the church. Tell us about that. Even worse than silence, the church is getting involved, but on the other end. St James's Piccadilly hosted a drag queen in their sanctuary, like a sacred space, and they're putting a scantily dressed bloke, dressed as a woman, which is an affront to women in the first place, but they're putting them there where Christ should be, by the altar essentially. And it's just, I don't want to use hyperbole, but it's demonic is what's happening here. And the church is on the wrong side of this argument. And even this week, over the last couple of days, my Easter special got cancelled, right? And I do Easter specials and Christmas specials every year. I think it's a time when I'm able to use the platform that I've been gifted to proclaim the gospel, to promote the message of salvation and redemption and to talk about Jesus Christ explicitly without having to talk about other political issues that I have to do on my normal show. It's just a show entirely about Christ. [18:19] And it got cancelled by a church because a gay member of the secular choir in the church said to the priest, we can no longer sing here if Calvin Robinson is coming here, he's a homophobe. Now, rather than the priest using that as a teaching opportunity to say, no, Calvin's not a homophobe, the things he says there, you're misunderstanding. He's a Christian. He adheres to the Christian values on sex and sexuality. And let me talk to you about them." Instead of doing that, he said, "'Oh, let me talk to my bishop or his ordinary.'" He spoke to his ordinary. Between them, they decided it would be too much hassle to have our Easter special film there. So essentially they said, "'Look, you cannot proclaim the gospel this Easter because a gay member of a secular choir got upset.'" And that's how the woke mob works, isn't it? [19:02] I think, was it one of the Christmases you were in there? Was it the Oratory and, where is it, South Kent, isn't it? But tell me about those experiences, because you're bringing something quite different and quite fresh to the TV screens, to a news organization that wouldn't traditionally, or may have, songs of praise, which kind of ticks that religious box. But what you're doing with those kind of specials seems to be more intentional. And tell us about you personally, why you want to do that and [19:39] maybe some of the positive and negative responses you've had. Yeah, I mean, this is what I'm called to do, right? So the whole reason I'm on television is because I see it as a platform for public ministry. And the reason I'm not on TV full time is because it's not a career for me, it's not an ambition. However, I do feel like I've been gifted the platform of television and social media and all these things where I have a following is so that I can proclaim the truth. I can talk about our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ for his benefit and for theirs, right? And so for me these specials are well they're special, they are the reason I do the rest of the stuff that I do on TV because it gives me the opportunity to do these things and the response is, mostly positive. It really is. People are happy to see Jesus in the mainstream again and to see the Christian faith normalized and for someone to be unashamedly Christian and not embarrassed about their faith, that helps people in their faith and it also brings people to the faith. So we're evangelizing as well as encouraging. That is, you know, that's why I'm here, that's why I'm doing what I'm doing. Of course there are a minority of negative responses and they tend to be the ones that stick in my head because as human beings, as flawed human beings, that's what happens isn't it? You can have a hundred positive responses that one negative is what you remember but, You know, the [21:01] Catholics, for my last special, the one you mentioned at the oratory, the most beautiful, I think it's one of the most beautiful churches in the country, the Catholics were saying, why have you let this Protestant in your sanctuary? Firstly, I'm an Anglican, not a Protestant [21:13] And then the Protestants were saying, how dare he pray to a saint that he's invoking the saints? This is not scriptural. And so the Protestants on one side, the Catholics on the other side, and I'm like, look, I'm here using a national platform to try and proclaim the gospel and and spread the message of Jesus Christ. And you guys, the Christians, call it demon-pleased. How do you think we're going to get this message out to the rest of the world? It's like we fight and bicker amongst ourselves endlessly. It's tiresome. We should be united in Christ. [21:45] There's another issue that you've touched on on GB News as well, which is the sanctity of life and the buffer zones around, which probably is more a free speech issue than a pro-life issue. And I know you've interviewed the lady who was arrested and arrested once again. And that's just gone through parliament last week where they rejected any thought that prayer should be legal. No, no way, we'll defeat that amendment, kick it out. I mean, how, again, you're bringing that and it's interesting where maybe if you look at the States, the debate is a lively public debate where in the UK it seems to be a very lacklustre, extremely private debate. And I'm wondering why it's been so, I guess, marginalizing conversation. [22:39] I think because people are conflating those two issues, free speech and abortion, right? So I can address this from a free speech perspective and say that no thought should ever be a crime. And that Isabel Vaughan Spruce, who is a fantastic lady, who I've had on my show a couple of times, She's been arrested twice for praying silently within the vicinity of one of these abortion centres when it was closed, when there were no other people around. So people can't say well she's harassing people or she's intimidating people because that's a lie. She's literally stood there silently minding her own business, praying in her head because she thoroughly believes in the power of prayer and she believes what's going on in the centres is evil and should be stopped and therefore she's praying to God for support for these women who think it's their only option. Of course it isn't. Now she could be actively protesting, she could be stood outside the abortion centre with a placard saying don't go in. She could be preventing people, she could be intimidating people. She's not doing any of that. She could even be there handing out literature offering these women alternative options. We know that's been successful in the past. [23:42] And that women have been so grateful for the opportunity to discover another option that hasn't been presented to them up until that point, and they've gone on to raise children that they're very happy to have in their lives. She's not doing any of that, she's just silently praying in her I had. So I can address it saying look this is an issue of freedom of thought, freedom of religion, freedom of expression, even freedom of association. But then the naysayers on the other side will say no, this is about intimidation, harassment, this is about her impeding on someone else's right to abortion. And it always comes down to what they're actually protecting is the killing of unborn children. They don't care about the other freedoms and they want to balance that one. And it's not a balance, there's no balance there because, no one's preventing these women from abortion. As abhorrent as it is, it's [24:29] about their feelings as they go to initiate this abortion. That's what this is all about. It's about someone's freedom of religion versus someone's taking offense to someone's religion. And religion is losing.   I mean I had this conversation with a church leader and I should have just walked away quickly, but I wanted to delve a bit deeper and at the end of the conversation, a very pleasant conversation, but he said you're probably would be like one of those right-wing American Christians who would be shouting and abusing the women going in. And that made me think kind of how far do you go in doing what's right? If you see something wrong happening then do you actually intervene and with the case talked about it was just silent prayer, which is again free speech, thought's been legal. But actually I thought well as a Christian how kind of how far do you go in making a stand against what's wrong? I don't know what I'm not calling for aggression or violence, absolutely not, I'm just trying to work that out as we change in society and move further and further away from what is true. How do you see the response of those of us who are Christians? Well the fact that that [25:58] minister said that to you, that you'd probably be one of those right-wing Americans. It just shows, how far the faith has shifted, doesn't it? Like he should be, as a minister of the faith, he should be doing anything he can to save human life because all human life is sacred. And that's the message of the gospel. I despair at these people. I lost my train of thought on the question because I'm so annoyed at these so-called ministers. But I mean, it's not even happening in this country. In the UK we've never had harassment outside abortion centres. I have seen it in America, granted, but we're not American and harassment in this country is already illegal. Therefore, what is this legislation for? You rightly pointed out that the amendment to remove prayer, to remove silent prayer from this bill, was rejected. So they explicitly want outlaw prayer. Is it because these dark forces are playing and they understand the power of prayer and they don't, don't want Christians praying. Because it is about Christians as well. We see that, Muslims in this country are supported in a way that Christians are not. You can just scuff the corner of a page on a Quran and your child is receiving death threats, the mother is apologizing in front of the imams, backed up by the police, and the child is suspended from school. Yet a Christian cannot silently pray. This is a direct attack on God, is what this is. And our parliamentarians are a part of the problem. [27:20] It's curious that you have a platform on a news channel, just like BBC or Sky, and then you've got GB News, and it's not a Christian channel in any shape or form, and yet GB News seems to have a greater understanding of right and wrong than many of our churches. I mean, how have you found, because you're given license to speak, I'm sure GB News is not perfect, nothing is, but you're given leeway and freedom to address these issues where probably the church maybe down the road would ban even any conversation about it. What does that feel like, that platform that you have? That's an interesting way to put it, because I'm a pessimist, so I tend to think I'm held back, I'm restricted all the time. I'm constantly fighting to talk about things that people don't want me to talk about, and to get guests on that people don't want me to have on. It's a battle every single day. So I think it's nice of you to put it that way in that it is important for me to recognize that I do get a lot of conversations out there that wouldn't be had elsewhere and wouldn't be had otherwise. [28:37] I try to at least be on the side of God, right? I wouldn't say it the other way around, I would say God's on my side. I think that's arrogant. I try to be on the side of God. And if we're on God's side, it's the old adage, isn't it? If God is with us, who can be against us? So as long as we are doing what we're doing for the greater glory of God, then we can't go wrong. [28:56] Exactly, but no, I think you maybe see things differently when you're in the mix and you realize the difficulties possibly in putting something out, the public get to see what goes out and they see that positive message where you're maybe thinking actually that could have been more in that or we could have an extra but I mean God takes what goes out and uses for his purpose, doesn't affect people and if that's the only place they're seeing it then that's extremely positive. Yeah, I think you're right there. Thank you for that. I needed to hear that. Going on to just we, I started on mentioning Asbury and I was blown away actually by watching Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, programs that are not Christian actually having whole pieces on it. And I think War Room had like a four minute beginning intro of just Asbury Church service, I thought this is really curious watching the secular media promoting what is happening in churches. And I mean what were your thoughts as a Christian and as a journalist looking at, [30:07] I guess that phenomenon, and many of our viewers will not be Christian and they may have different thoughts on it, but it was something new, refreshing, seeing the church packed, seeing the, miles long of traffic of people wanting to get there, because something special was happening there. Yeah, what were your thoughts looking at it?   It did look special, that's a good word for it. It looked important, it looked significant somehow. They were all very young and it wasn't liturgical in any way, shape or form and it wasn't organized, it was just organic. It felt to me like the Holy Spirit was present, I'm sure it was. And I think, I hope that's the start of something bigger, a bigger movement in the States because we need a revival, especially Generation Z which is a generation, and I'm generalizing here, that is wrapped up in itself, an entitled generation of individualists. They need a reminder of something transcendental that is bigger than themselves, they need to be reconnected with God and whatever shape that takes I don't think it really matters. [31:16] There's also a growing traditionalist movement, especially amongst Catholics, so that's entirely on the opposite end of the spectrum to Asbury, but if what's going on in Asbury, that charismatic movement, if that does something and connects people to Christ, then great! Because I guess renewals throughout history never, are always different from previous and I guess if we were sitting planning one, it could be so different. But it's interesting to see that, how they can often be so different when you read through church history and see how God has moved at different times in special ways. They always seem to meet a hunger for something above, something greater than us and to give hope. [32:06] But yeah, I've just been interested and I've gone back and been reading some of the great revivalist evangelists I guess and been excited by what God has done in past generations and how it changes society.   Absolutely and society needs changing right now. I talked quite a bit about how the Christian faith thrives under persecution. I think in the West now we're seeing intolerance verging on persecution but once it reaches there something will happen. At the same time we're seeing the churches in the West crumbling. The big C church will never fall because Christ won't let it but the institutions can. That's the Church of England, that's the Episcopal Church in America, these churches are fallen because they're made up of fallen individuals who seem to be at the moment trying to appease the liberal progressive secular norms around them. And so as these western churches die and as we become secularized and then persecuted. [33:11] We will start to see more of these revival movements because there is a god-shaped hole in people's hearts that needs to be filled and people are latching on wherever they can to things that just don't fill, can't fill that hole. The only thing that can fill it is God. So eventually it all comes back round to him. What are your thoughts there? Probably people have seen what's happened over there and thought, well, I'm not a Christian, I don't go to church, it's absolutely nothing to do with me, I don't care what happens. How does a revival or renewal, a church being vibrant on fire, speaking truth, how does that affect or fit into society? Well, I mean, this is it, this is it, right? right? People talk about the cultural wars but this is a spiritual war. I don't think people can truly understand what's going on unless they have the faith and there's no way to describe, there's no way to talk about it. It's like the matrix, right? You take the blue pill or the red pill and people who take the blue pill just they're ignorant and they cannot get it and I'm not saying that as an insult, it's just there's a wall there whereas people who take the red pill, people who have faith in Christ can see what's going on and it is it's wicked, it's evil, it's demonic and we need to fight against it. And it's not just about diversity, inclusion, equality, it's about [34:27] replacing what's good, what's beautiful, what's true, replacing God with falsehoods, with a false narrative, with the devil, essentially. And so, to the non-Christians who are watching, I suppose I'm praying for you, is the message I would say. And I don't mean that in a patronizing way, I mean that in a way that I hope your eyes are opened and your ears are opened to Christ, just as people who watch your show, who consider themselves awake to what's going on around them and have problems, struggle talking to normies or NPCs, about COVID or Brexit or lockdowns or vaccines, whatever. [35:08] Or the Ukraine. It's difficult to have conversations with people whose eyes and ears are closed. And that's how I feel at the moment about people who are not Christian, because this is the biggest spiritual war of a long, long time, and we're all in the middle of it. [35:25] And I guess when you were saying you're a pessimist, I get that, but then from my point of view as a Christian, that's when it gets quite exciting because there isn't a step-by-step plan because it's so bad. And you're thinking, where do we go from here as a society? And I think that's why something, what happened in Asbury was exciting because you kind of look at our politicians and I remember growing up and seeing so many Christian politicians, strong leaders, and we don't have that anymore. So you look at wet Welby, you're thinking, well, that's not gonna provide much direction and guidance. So you're thinking, well, actually, the only way this can happen is God. And I think that's why being in a difficult, dark situation is exciting. Yeah, and there's two sides to this. So on the one side, people want to defend Western culture, and rightly so, because it's a great thing, because it was built on Christianity. However, it isn't Christianity. It is separate, and Western society can, and probably will fall, but that's okay, because another society will rise in its wake. [36:37] But the thing we have to fight for isn't Western society, it's the Christian faith. We have to fight for our Christian values, Because when society does fall, they are what will sustain us. Christ in the mass will sustain us, and our faith in him will sustain us. So we have to get past the idea of clinging onto the worldly goods that we see around us. [36:59] What, it's, it's, it's sorry, I've lost my train of thought... When you look at-   Sorry, just to add to that before we move on. Because the great thing about that is, because even if we do lose this battle, We might not, we could still turn it around and woke could become a thing of the past and Western society could become strong again and the British empire could be revived. You know, we can dream, but even if it doesn't, even if all this stuff crumbles like Rome fell. [37:26] We're only losing the battle. The war has already been won. Christ defeated the devil. Christ conquered evil for us and he died for our sins and was resurrected for our salvation. So that is the good news, that it doesn't really matter.   Yeah, my God said I will build my church and the gates that will not prevail. So that's what happens in the end, irrelevant to the efforts of the enemy. I've talked to many people in, I guess, the conservative movement, and many of them would talk about, well, they're a Christian, they're a cultural Christian, and they believe certain truths. Obviously, as a commentator, that's probably something you've come across a lot. Do you want to compare that, a cultural Christian, whether that's a Christian at all, and actually a personal faith and what that means. Yeah, I don't really think there is such a thing as a cultural Christian, it's just a Brit, right, because British values are built on Christian values and they are aligned but they're not identical, just as Western society was built on Christianity. [38:36] You're either a Christian or you're not, right, so you either believe that Jesus Christ was truly man and truly God and died on the cross for us. Or you don't. You either believe in the resurrection and we'll have eternal life in him or you don't. There is no cultural element to it. [38:52] I mean you can turn up to church and enjoy the hymns as much as you like but if you don't believe what the songs are about it doesn't really matter.   Can I ask you about the split you touched on at the beginning, maybe it's something to end on, the split we have seen within the church where parts of the worldwide Anglican community have basically said, oh this is not biblical, enough is enough, and have drawn the line. There is a tension there between, I guess, the liberal, progressive, woke, Western church and the more traditional church of Africa, of Latin America, Asia. Tell us about that tension because I think often we can see what's happening in the Synod or the Church of England and think, well, it's all going to pot, but there are those bright sparks of tension desiring truth. Oh yeah, absolutely. The majority of people in the Church are faithful and the majority of churches are orthodox. It's just this minority in the West, England, Wales, Scotland, America, Canada, and Australia that are falling more rapidly because they've left behind their orthodoxy. [40:09] So in Anglicanism for example, the Church of England has entered apostasy now, it is promoting heresy as acceptable. So the Church of England has left the wider Anglican communion and we see this manifesting itself in several ways, but GAFCON, which represents 80% of Anglicans around the world, has said, well you guys have left us, therefore we now renounce you. So we don't see the Archbishop of Canterbury as the first among equals, he's no longer our leader. So now we're entering a period where conversations are being had with primates, bishops and church leaders around the world, saying do we need to elect a new leader? Do we need a leader at all? How is this all going to work? And there's a meeting next month, the next GAFCON, which is the fourth global meeting in Rwanda. I'm going to head out there and see what's what and see what they decide. But it's going to be very interesting and very exciting. Though it's not just the Anglican Church, you know, the German Catholic bishops are trying to copy with their same-sex blessings and heretical views and the the Pope needs to have a strong firm hand and say, no, this is, This is you're excommunicated, be gone with you. [41:16] Because there is an outcome of punishment that does come on. I mean even when it talks about the Lord's Supper, communion, remembering Jesus' death, and it talks about judgment upon the church, judgment upon yourself, if you enter into that without reverence and without recognizing your sin. So I guess at some point there is that punishment. [41:48] And not that I want you to end on full fire and brimstone, but I'm curious kind of how that plans out because as British living here, this is our country. We've grown up with churches and seen them slide into, I guess, depravity often. But I guess there is a line where God says, enough is enough.   Yeah absolutely and false teachers and false prophets will be punished more than everyone else because they're leading people astray and that's the issue there. Our shepherds were supposed to lead our sheep right and if you lead people the wrong way that's gonna upset God because he wants everyone to love him and he wants to love everyone. So I mean I'm trying not to put a negative spin on it but I'm trying to see what's the positive of that in that we are called to be good Christians and good shepherds and good sheep and we all have a responsibility. So if we see that our deacons, priests and bishops are leading people astray, we can hold them to account because they are servant leaders and we can remind them to be rooted in the scriptures and rooted in the tradition and the doctrines of the church and not to be chasing societal norms. And you know, none of us can do this on our own. Calvin, thank you for your time. It's always good to talk to you. [43:13] Im sure you get, was it GB views or GB news? That you get responses from viewers and I'd encourage the viewers to certainly tune in and give their responses because I'm sure part of you being on GB news, part of the enjoyment of it is having that interaction with the viewers. I do love the engagement with the viewers. It's fantastic. One thing I miss about radio actually, being able to have them live on the show, that kind of thing is brilliant. But yes, thank you. It's always a pleasure talking to you. Not all. Thank you, Calvin.

I raised myself. From a very early age, I knew in my heart I was on my own. Nobody was helping me. -Dawn Kohler What you are about to hear is Part 1 in a series about Dawn Kohler, author of the memoir The Messages. This story needs to be told, but it is also very difficult to hear. If you have children nearby, my strong suggestion is that this episode is not for their ears. Born and raised in San Diego, California, Dawn was the oldest of three children. Her mother was a coal miner's daughter, originally from West Virginia and her father was from a strict German Catholic family in Ohio. In part 1 of this interview, we learn what life was like in Dawn's house. She was very independent, didn't like to be touched, and started working at only 14. Dawn married her high school sweetheart and together they had 3 beautiful children. During the personal computer boom in the 1980s, she and Jeff discovered their niche and founded a computer service company before their 30th birthdays, employing over 50 people. Dawn was the CEO of the business, with plaques on the wall naming her Entrepreneur of the Year when suddenly, she started receiving what she calls internal, inaudible “messages” that told her “this is no longer your way.” She tried to block out these messages by running and swimming, but they just got more intense. One day, she literally could not get out of her car and walk into her office. What happens next will break your heart and then it will lift you up, reminding you of the power of the human spirit. www.dawnkohler.com #sexualabuse #incest

A Catholic Take - January 30, 2023 In today's launch episode of A Catholic Take, we'll cover the latest in breaking news and current events, including the following and much more: - The ongoing Mark Houck trial - Will the U.S. be at war with China in 2025? - Pope Benedict XVI's reason for resignation Also, a brief introduction to our Saint of the Day, St. David Galvan-Bermudez. In the second segment, we'll be joined by Tito Edwards of BigPulpit.com to discuss the Pope's statements on the German synodal path.  In segments three and four, Joshua Mercer of CatholicVote.org joins us to break down the urging of Rep. Jim Jordan to probe the DOJ on church attacks.

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Bio for Nicholas Wahl Nicholas D. Wahl, Ed.D. is Director of Client Relations for ECRA Group, Founder/Chief Strategist of 1440 Consultants Inc., and a K-12 education leader. Episode highlightNicholas Wahl is a leader in education with a depth of experience in his arsenal. Listen in on how he believes education should be designed to ensure that there are no invisible children. LinksEmail: nick@1440consultants.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-wahl/Quotes“Like all of us, kids really want to have a connected, meaningful relationship with at least one person, preferably two, in the school building.”TakeawaysChildhood IncidentsNicholas was the youngest of six children growing up in Ferdinand, Indiana. His role model was his father, a high school principal. Nicholas was ostracized by his peer group in middle school and that understanding carried forward into his work in education. Nicholas' high school counsellor told him that he was not as intelligent as his siblings and that he should stick to his summer construction job instead of going to college. That motivated him to finish graduate school and get his doctorate. Influential Groups Nicholas grew up in Ferdinand, Indiana, a town of 2500 people that was predominantly German Catholic. He learned a strong work ethic and is proud of his roots. He wanted to model and follow his siblings in their footsteps, playing sports, and going to the same high school. In his career as a superintendent, he worked with his peers to create evidence-based practice and metrics, focusing on the growth and wellness of students.Temperament and Personality InfluencesNicholas laments that his temperament was so competitive that it was unhealthy. He is learning to be a better listener in his position of influence at work. Cultural EpiphaniesEvery Wednesday, Nicholas and his classmates would go to the nun's house for an hour, and he only learned there are people who are not Catholics when he asked some students who chose not to go. Advice to an Employer Nicholas works with groups on team building and coaching to emerge out of the pandemic getting to know their peers better, interacting well, and making sure everyone is heard. More Great Insights! ECRA has analytical tools which can provide clarity on how students are performing by ethnicity and gender, and Nicholas can help provide a strategic plan for the next steps. Support the show

Catholic Drive Time - 877-757-9424 Date – Wednesday, January 4, 2023 – Memorial of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton INTRO – Did Traditionis Custodes break Pope Benedict XVI's heart? Was he disappointed? Archbishop Gänswein shares his insight! And – What nearly killed Damar Hamlin? A heart attack... yes but, Was it the vax? Was it the tackle? Mark Houck weighs in. Also – Rep. McCarthy has lost 3x … will he win? first multi-ballot speaker election in 100 years... Brent Haynes gives us some perspective. Quick News - - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalized a rule change on Tuesday that expands the availability of abortion pills at both physical and online pharmacies. - the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a legal opinion on Tuesday The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) can continue to deliver abortion pills across the United States even after the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022 - 38-year-old Uche Nwaneri, who played for the Jacksonville Jaguars in the National Football League (NFL) dies suddenly at 38. - A youth mental health charity called stem4 released A study about the impacts of social media found that three out of four children as young as 12 “dislike their bodies and are embarrassed by the way they look,” Join Email list! GRNonline.com/CDT GRN to 42828 What's Concerning Us? – B16's broken Heart! Guido Horst, Chief Editor of the German Catholic weekly Die Tagespost Guido Horst: Pope Benedict's lifting of restrictions on the celebration of the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite according to the 1962 missal did not last as long as he intended: as Pope Emeritus, he witnessed the promulgation of Pope Francis' Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes. Was he disappointed? Archbishop Gänswein:it hit him very hard. I think it broke Pope Benedict's heart to read the new Motu Proprio, because his intention was to help those who had simply found a home in the old Mass find inner peace, liturgical peace, away from Lefebvre. And if we think for how many centuries the ancient Mass has been a source of spiritual life and nourishment for many people, including many saints, it is impossible to imagine that it no longer has anything to offer. And let us not forget that many young people who were born after Vatican II and who do not fully understand all the drama of the Council - that these young people, while knowing the new Mass, have nonetheless found a spiritual home, a spiritual treasure even in the old Mass. Taking this treasure away from people... well, Guest Seg. - Mark Houck – What nearly killed the Bills player? Vax? The Tackle? - The Buffalo Bills said in a statement during the early morning hours on Tuesday that safety Damar Hamlin's frightening collapse on the field was triggered by cardiac arrest. - “The Central Catholic High School community is praying for the well-being and swift recovery of Damar Hamlin, ‘16 (Buffalo Bills). May the Lord be with him and his family during this most difficult time,” - In the statement that was also amplified by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), McCullough described the tragic event as “a classical cardiac arrest,” which was later confirmed to be accurate by the Buffalo Bills, and expressed solidarity in prayer with the entire nation for Hamlin's “complete recovery.” Robert W Malone MD, MS - Watching this all play out in the media and on-line, I do have some thoughts. First, I think it is irresponsible for the state-sponsored press Joe Social Media IG: @TheCatholicHack Twitter: @Catholic_Hack Facebook: Joe McClane YouTube: Joe McClane Rudy Social Media IG: @ydursolrac Youtube: Glad Trad Podcast Adrian Social Media IG: @ffonze Twitter: @AdrianFonze Facebook: Adrian Fonseca YouTube: Adrian Fonseca YouTube: Catholic Conversations Visit our website to learn more about us, find a local GRN radio station, a schedule of our programming and so much more. http://grnonline.com/

Join us today as Rainie covers the horrific case of Anneliese Michel. A young German Catholic girl who suddenly started suffering from epilepsy and hallucinations. Her and her family became convinced that Anneliese was possessed and needed an exorcism. For years they asked for the church's permission for an exorcism when finally Ernst Alt and Arnold Renz were granted permission to do the exorcism. However this only made things worse for Anneliese and ultimately lead to her unfortunate early demise.If you liked listening to the show and want to hear more from us in the future then please rate review and subscribe to us in Apple podcasts or follow us on your favorite podcatcher. If we are not on a platform that you prefer then let us know and we will work to get our voices on there for you. You can reach us for comments questions or requests for cases or paranormal phenomenon @ sisteriouspod@gmail.comYou can tweet us @sisteriouspodCheck out our instagram @sisterious_podcast Or like us on facebook at Facebook.com/sisterious-podcastIf you'd like to support us you can donate to our patreon page! https://www.patreon.com/sisterious?fan_landing=trueRemember, you can be strange but don't be a stranger!Sources:https://allthatsinteresting.com/anneliese-michel-exorcismhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anneliese_Michelhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/04/21/cries-of-a-woman-possessed/94bf2fd3-8e64-482d-869d-1f929851ca8f/https://the-line-up.com/demonic-possession-caseshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0JBMS1Wb08https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4xiT67GrbYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H4gvQDGiak&t=15shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDigL9ZuFuQ

Today's Topics: 1) Gospel - Jn 6:37-40 = For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I shall raise him on the last day. The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls Day) Bishop Sheen quote of the day 2, 3) Father Peter Stravinskas: What's really needed for a Eucharistic revival  https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2022/10/25/whats-really-needed-for-a-eucharistic-revival/ 3, 4) "Incurring the wrath of God": German Catholics demand bishop resign for launching pro-LGBT "ministry" https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/incurring-the-wrath-of-god-german-catholics-demand-bishop-resign-for-launching-pro-lgbt-ministry/

October 5: Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, Priest (U.S.A.)1819–1867Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: WhiteInvoked against cancerA good man becomes a great priest serving immigrants in the young United StatesShip after ship, riding low in the water with the weight of thousands of European immigrants, docked in the harbors of the great coastal cities of the United States in the nineteenth century. Transatlantic ship passage was by then routine and relatively safe. These immigrants traveled to America's open prairies and virgin forests to carve out farms, charter towns, and establish schools where none had ever existed before. These daring men and women came to build new lives, lives often of deep faith. So priests and nuns came with them, planting the seeds of an ancient religion into fresh soil.Today's Blessed was one of those immigrants. Francis Seelos was born into a large family in Bavaria, a land thick with medieval castles, crusader tombs, and timeless traditions. Francis left that rich culture for a new life on the American frontier. He exhausted himself riding horseback, walking, and traveling by ferries and trains up and down and across the wide flowing rivers and narrow dirt roads of the young United States, serving new citizens but age-old Catholics.Blessed Francis felt the call to the Priesthood from a young age. He had the support of his family and local clergy and duly studiedphilosophy and theology from some distinguished professors in his native land. One of his Benedictine teachers was the pioneer who later brought the Benedictine Order to America. By accidents of history, the Redemptorist Order, though founded in Italy by an Italian, had become more prominent in Germany. Francis met Redemptorist priests during his education and became intrigued with their work among the immigrants who had emptied out swathes of Germany to go to America. So Francis joined the Redemptorists with the specific intention of serving the many priest-less German Catholics across the ocean.It was not easy for Francis to leave his close-knit family. Only his father knew his secret plan. Only his father knew that Francis' departure for the seminary would be the last time he would ever leave home. Francis embraced his mother and siblings and said goodbye. He then came to his father, who, wordless, tearfully gestured with his finger toward the sky. Son and father knew. They would meet again in heaven. Francis never saw his family again.Francis arrived in New York in 1843 and was ordained a priest in 1844 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was first assigned to a parish in Pittsburg, and then was assigned to serve alongside Saint John Neumann, a fellow Redemptorist. They carried out ordinary parish duties and gave parish missions. Father Francis quickly gained a reputation as holy, always available, amiable, and wise. Like Neumann, he became well known as a sage confessor who exercised this ministry of mercy in multiple languages.Father Francis' apostolic zeal, prudence, kindness, and doctrinal integrity thrust him into positions of leadership in his order. He was so skilled a priest, and so admired for his virtue, that he was proposed to be the Bishop of Pittsburgh. Francis only narrowly avoided this exalted burden by personally writing to Pope Pius IX arguing for his own inadequacy. After years of priestly service in America's eastern portion, Francis became an itinerant German and English preacher in the nation's middle, crisscrossing Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Missouri.In 1866 Father Francis was assigned to New Orleans, where he continued his tireless, uncomplaining priestly service, and where his prayers were considered unusually efficacious. But in New Orleanshis service came to an end. He contracted yellow fever while visiting some of its victims. He died at 48 years old, but not before at least one miracle of healing was attributed to his intercession while he lay dying. His cause was opened in 1900, and Francis Seelos was beatified in 2000 by Pope Saint John Paul II. This priest par excellence stands shoulder to shoulder with Saints Marianne Cope, Damian de Veuster, John Neumann, Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, and thousands of non-saint clergy and nuns, all nineteenth-century European immigrant missionaries to America. They each left things comfortable and known for their opposites. They each made immense personal sacrifices to pass on the faith, to give a new church new heroes.Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, your zeal, intelligence, and innate goodness was plain for all to see. You were an ideal priest loved by all you encountered. Through your intercession, help all missionaries to persevere in their difficult vocations in unfamiliar lands.

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Experts have warned that Catholic school leaders need to be aware that their schools could be cut off from the federal government's free and subsidized lunch program if their policies don't comply with the Biden administration's revised rules against LGBTQ discrimination. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252011/catholic-schools-free-lunch-funding-threatened-by-biden-lgbt-rule-change The Mexican Bishops' Conference expressed its solidarity with the Church in Nicaragua, whose freedom of speech and religion is under attack by the dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega. “At this time of profound suffering, the bishops of Mexico wish to convey to you our fervent prayer, closeness, and support, imploring the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ, the much-longed-for peace, justice, and harmonious coexistence of your people,” the conference said in an August 8 statement. The recent wave of repression against the Nicaraguan Church began August 1, when the Ortega dictatorship ordered the closure of eight Catholic radio stations in the Diocese of Matagalpa. Later, the bishop of Matagalpa, Rolando José Álvarez, was placed under house arrest and threatened with prison for allegedly trying to “organize violent groups” to destabilize the government. The Mexican bishops also lamented “that in communities, families, consecrated life, priests, laity, children, and young people suffer from conditions that create fear, take away tranquility, and steal peace.” At the end of their message, the bishops of Mexico implored “the Blessed Virgin Mary of Guadalupe, Empress of America, her maternal intercession to find paths of dialogue that lead to respect and peace.” https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252012/bishops-of-mexico-stand-in-solidarity-with-nicaragua-at-a-time-of-profound-suffering According to a new representative poll, 58% of German Catholics do not like "the fact that the Pope and the Church speak out against abortions." In July, a leading laywoman and co-president of the German "Synodal Way" demanded a "nationwide provision of abortion" across the European Union's most populous country. Germany currently permits abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, with mandatory counseling at a state-approved center, as well as later abortions in certain circumstances. The Catholic Church teaches that abortion is a grave evil and is never acceptable at any stage of pregnancy, and Pope Francis has repeatedly and strongly condemned abortion. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252014/majority-of-german-catholics-dont-like-church-being-against-abortion-poll-finds Today, the Church celebrates Saint Clare of Assisi. As a child she was already very strongly drawn to the things of God, praying fervently, devoutly visiting the Blessed Sacrament, and manifesting a tender love towards the poor. Saint Francis made her superior of the Poor Clares order, a post she should serve for the next 42 years of her life until her death. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-clare-of-assisi-564

The Non-Prophets, Episode 21.31 airing Sunday, July 24,2022 featuring Secular Rarity, Phoebe Rose, and Richard Gilliver.I got to tell ya. It's a God Eat God World Out There. This week we got Secular Rarity leading a mostly British panel in Phoebe Rose and Richard Gilliver. Will They force poor Secular Rarity into appreciating tea and using nothing but metric, or is SR going to throw his own Boston Tea Party? Nah, likely they are going to have an amazing discussion over this weeks topics. Let's get in it.First up, POPE WATCH! If it is one thing the Vatican doesn't like it's gays. No wait, If it is one thing the Vatican doesn't like it's people having the right to choose. Sorry, let me try this again. If it is one thing the Vatican doesn't it's competition! Seems like the German Catholic movement is getting a little too progressive for Pope Francis' liking. So they are trying to pump the brakes on them.While we are on the topic of a movement not wanting to follow lock step, down there in Florida…. Hold on, please tell me this ISN'T a Florida Man story. Well kinda. Unlike our friends over there in Germany seems like Florida churches want to break away because Methodists are too progressive for them. In the land of sun, alligators, and god it seems like messages of love and inclusion want to fall on deaf and likely sun burnt ears.Up next, can we get some victim blaming up in here? Texas floated a proposal to change the teachings of slavery. They thought it would reduce their guilt of they changed the term to “involuntary relocation”. Yes, changing the language of horrible history allows you to ignore the past. Then while you are doing that, maybe you can repeat it! No? They don't think that is what is going to happen? Really, well what would be stopping them then? This one does have a happy ending, but we should all be on alert because I won't be surprised if we hear this story again.Finally, Verizon takes a Step in the Right Direction by removing One America “News” Network from their services. Verizon was the last network to do so, and we look into the actual motives of this move. Will they find a new home in the vast wasteland that is the Internet? Anything is possible I guess. For right now let's take solace in hate losing a platform and keep fighting for love to find away!That wraps it up for this week.Segment 1: Pope Watch: Vatican puts brakes on progressive German Catholic movement https://bit.ly/3POUcHhEuronews, By Reuters, 22 July, 2022Vatican warning: Germany's ‘Synodal Way' poses ‘threat to the unity of the Church'https://bit.ly/3vsktDcVatican slams German reformers, warns of potential for schismhttps://bit.ly/3JlHZYqSegment 2: More than 100 Florida churches file lawsuit to leave United Methodist Church https://bit.ly/3zTKFJLNew denomination urges United Methodists to walk out of the wilderness https://bit.ly/3zky4gXSegment 3: Texas education officials proposed changing "slavery" to "involuntary relocation" when teaching second gradershttps://cbsn.ws/3oInH1EState education board members push back on proposal to use “involuntary relocation” to describe slaveryhttps://bit.ly/3OR8m9AOpinion: Texas Could Change Enslavement To ‘Involuntary Relocation' But The Truth Remains The Same, It's Still Enslavement https://bit.ly/3cMZ9BPSegment 4: SITRD: Far-Right Channel One America News Officially Dropped by Last Major TV Carrierhttps://bit.ly/3OOd5JbTruth Social's refusal to use Amazon servers added to tech troubles and huge waiting list at launch, report says https://bit.ly/3JhP4sJDon't like ads? Consider becoming a patron for commercial-free episodes: http://tiny.cc/patreonnp We welcome your comments on the thread for this show. ► http://tiny.cc/fbnp► Contact us with questions or news stories at: nonprophets@atheist-community.org

On "EWTN News Nightly" tonight: Weekend vandalism struck 3 houses of worship in Bethesda, Maryland near Washington DC. St. Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic Church suffered the worst damage from a fire believed to be arson in its sanctuary. Pastor at St. Jane Frances de Chantal, Fr. Samuel Giese, joins to tell us what happened over the weekend and his reaction when he found out. Meanwhile, the USCCB's Committee on Pro-Life Activities called it “deeply disturbing and tragic” that President Joe Biden is choosing “to promote and facilitate abortion in our country.” And lawmakers are back on Capitol Hill after the holiday break. However, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Richard Blumenthal have COVID, and Senator Leahy is out recovering from hip surgery. President Biden is looking into whether he has the authority to declare a public health emergency concerning abortion. Policy Director for the American Principles Project, Jon Schweppe, joins to tell us his thoughts on this so-called public health emergency. Finally this evening, Cardinal Christoph Schonborn joins Church leaders from Europe and around the world in accusing some German Catholics of using the Synodal Path to push a political agenda. EWTN Vatican Bureau Chief, Andreas Thonhauser, joins us from Austria to share what the cardinal said and why his criticisms could be important for the Church in Germany. Don't miss out on the latest news and analysis from a Catholic perspective. Get EWTN News Nightly delivered to your email: https://ewtn.com/enn

Today on "Catholic Drive Time" Looking at the Priesthood from their Mother's perspective. Leticia Ramirez, mother of two Priests and sister of a bishop, joins us. Also, Rhonda Gruenwald gives us the state of vocations. A report released Monday found that at least 196 clerics in the German Catholic diocese of Muenster sexually abused minors between 1945 and 2020 As of 2019 it was estimated that at least 1.2million Americans lived in Mexico... Thousands of Californians are fleeing to Mexico amid the soaring cost of living in the golden state. Stocks fell on Tuesday - 5th day - as the markets struggled to rebound from Monday's steep sell-off and rates surged as investors braced for further rate hikes from the Federal Reserve. Republican Mayra Flores Wins U.S. House Seat In South Texas, First GOP Win There In 150+ Years Also, first congresswoman born in Texas. Follow Catholic Drive Time on social media Official Social Media Account IG: @CatholicDriveTime Twitter: @CatholicDrive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CatholicDriveTime YouTube: Catholic Drive Time Joe Social Media IG: @TheCatholicHack Twitter: @Catholic_Hack Facebook: Joe McClane YouTube: Joe McClane Adrian Social Media IG: @ffonze Twitter: @AdrianFonze Facebook: Adrian Fonseca YouTube: Adrian Fonseca YouTube: Catholic Conversations Rudy Social Media IG: @ydursolrac Youtube: Glad Trad Podcast https://www.grnonline.com/ Listen in your car on your local GRN station - http://grnonline.com/stations/ Listen online at GRNonline.com Listen on your mobile with our GRN app (both IOS and Android) Listen on Facebook @GRNonline Listen on Twitter @GRNonline Listen on YouTube @GRNonline History of the GRN: Starting with absolutely nothing we placed our trust in the Lord and our Blessed Mother. By August of 1996, we were breaking ground for the construction of the Guadalupe Resource Center where our ministry has flourished. We now operate radio 37 stations that reach a potential listening audience of twenty million souls. The Guadalupe Radio Network is the largest EWTN affiliate in the USA. Visit our website to learn more about us, find a local GRN radio station, a schedule of our programming and so much more. http://grnonline.com/

Greetings everyone! In the fourth installment in our series on Catholic Liberalism, we look at the sources of Catholic liberalism beyond France. Specifically, we look at the making of Catholic liberalism in Italy, where dissatisfaction with the government of the Papal States fueled Catholic engagement with liberalism. Also discussed are Church-State relations in German speaking lands, and the emergence of theological liberalism in German Catholic circles. Finally, we note the connection between Catholic liberalism and the beginnings of the Catholic Revival in England, including its connection with John Henry Newman. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/churchcontroversies/support

Heath Schneider is the bootlegger's grandson working tirelessly to reclaim his grandmother's legacy and save a small Iowa town's history from corporate bullshiters. Representing a piece of American history caulked full of fiercely independent German Catholics Heath Schneider is a Las Vegas Mortgage Professional with a ton of years and sales behind him. So why is he involved in making Rye now? Simple. It's Grandma's reputation that's at stake and he's looking to set the story straight; at all costs. Heath Schneider is the bootlegger's grandson working tirelessly to reclaim his grandmother's legacy and save a small Iowa town's history from corporate charlatans. Heath represents a piece of American history chocked full of fiercely independent German Catholics that were quite defiant back in the 1930s. Most look at Bootlegging as a sort of odyssey froth with all kinds of exhilarating short stories that shows the struggle in a man vs man setting. On the one side the law which was after any bootlegger so they could throw them in jail and keep them from making that sinful beverage. (this was during prohibition) and the poor town folk of that little town in Iowa that just wanted to be able to pay their bills and enjoy a great "juice". Heath sits with Michael to give the reality of what his battle is with the brand and how he's striving to reclaim his Grandma's legacy. Literally stolen from the family through corporate dishonesty, another brand continue to maintain to this day that their story is true and correct. In fact, after researching it, it's no where near true. Heath shares his story of how he got involved and how he plans an going after the big corporate bullies. (Heath's not easily bullied; he's like 6'7" so good luck with bullying him) If you want to know more about the history of bootlegging in Iowa or to know more about grandma, follow them on Facebook or on their website: www.facebook.com/iowalegendaryrye www.iowalegendaryrye.com Don't forget to subscribe today! Share this link with your friends as well! You can also order Iowa Legendary Rye online via their website. We HIGHLY recommend that you start with the black label since that's the original recipe that you would have gotten back in the 1930s. Grab a dram, sit back and enjoy! #iowalegedaryrye #businessusccess #ryespirits #marketingstrategies #garyvee #templtoniowa #carrollcounty #iowapride #bottleggers #bootlegging #moonshiners Credits: "Who wants Cawfee?" By Vic Dibitetto "Tik'd Off Vic" www.vicdibitetto.net | Grab a pound of Cawfee today and get started right! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coffeewithmike/support

The German Catholic church is one of the most influential and richest in the world. It is at the epicentre of Catholic theology, debates over the future of the church, and the sexual abuse scandals that have rocked the Catholic faith all over the world. Revelations over priests accused of child sexual abuse being protected from consequences by church institutions continue to emerge, with a recent bombshell report even linking Pope Benedict with the scandal from his time in Germany. Many are losing confidence in the church's ability to adapt, and are leaving Catholicism for good. Wolfgang Rothe is one of a new generation of Catholic thinkers; he does things from his Parish in Bavaria that for many are still unthinkable. He presides over blessings for same sex couples, gives women the opportunity to preach in his church, and advocates for an end to celibacy for priests. He has also become something of a celebrity on social media, bringing his campaign to a wider audience. He hopes that by keeping up with modern values, the Catholic Church can win back an increasingly disillusioned generation of German worshippers. BBC correspondent Damien McGuinness heads to Munich to meet Wolfgang, exploring what his movement is trying to do, and the immense ructions its causing in the Catholic world, where the church's traditional values are still sacrosanct. As Wolfgang's mission gains momentum, it could tear the whole church in two. Presenter: Damien McGuinness Producer: Robert Nicholson A Whistledown production for the BBC World Service

Three leading figures in the German Catholic church have spoken out against compulsory celibacy for priests.

Three leading figures in the German Catholic church have spoken out against compulsory celibacy for priests.

African atheists sue Christians, religion fails to help prisoners, Christian adoption agencies are anti-semitic not just homophobic/transphobic etc, German Catholics come out, Mississippi mayor withholds funds from a library, and Frank and Dan discuss the new interview with J.Fal.Ju. (hint: he's still a sh*tbag)              

James Martin, S.J., Endorses Gay "Married" PriestsTim cites America Magazine's January 24 article, “125 German Catholic priests, religious and lay employees publicly come out as L.G.B.T.” and points out James Martin's endorsement of the article.  He discusses the way that the diabolical operates in the normalization of grave sin.You can read more about this story here: https://t.co/IC8jfb1h3U____________________________________________________________________

In this episode:Good news for prosecutors in historic Vatican trialMunich abuse report prompts cover-up accusationsCologne archdiocese faces financial auditPope slams “selfish” pet parentsShake-up in Italian bishops conference Support the show (https://cruxnow.com/support-crux/)

Our midweek Advent series is based on the 15th century German carol, Es Ist Ein Ros (Lo, How A Rose Er Blooming), originally sung by German Catholics in honor of Mary. The original 2nd stanza described Mary as the "Rose" who bears the Branch (i.e. Christ). The hymn has been altered to place the emphasis on Christ rather than Mary. Each week we'll connect a verse of the carol to the Old Testament prophecy it describes which points us to the promised Christ.

Cullman is the largest city and county seat of Cullman County, Alabama..located just 50 miles north of Birmingham. Five German families moved to the area in March 1873; and by 1874, the town was incorporated and named after Colonel Cullmann. Over the next 20 years, Cullmann encouraged around 100,000 Germans to immigrate to the United States, with many settling in the Cullman area. In the 1840s monks from Metten Abbey in Germany, a monastery founded in 700 A.D., came to America, to minister to the growing German-speaking immigrant population. St. Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, became the first foundation of the German monks, and in the 1870s monks from St. Vincent were sent to Alabama to serve the needs of German Catholics. In 1891 those monks gathered to establish St. Bernard Abbey in Cullman, Alabama. One of those monks, was Bavarian born Joseph Zoettl, the creator of Ave Maria Grotto.[FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA & MORE]TWITTER: www.twitter.com/SouthernOddPodINSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/SouthernOddPodJARED'S TWITTER: www.twitter.com/jared_ordisJARED'S INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/jared.ordis[ADDITONAL INFORMATION]Questions or Business Inquiry, Email Us @ ordisstudios@gmail.comResearched was used for this episode of Southern Oddities, and we couldn't have made it possible without the journalism and dedication from these awesome sources of information: Roadside America [Story 2015] Ave Maria Grotto [Main Website] Wikipedia [Ave Maria Grotto] Wikipedia [Cullman, Alabama] Encyclopedia of Alabama [Ave Maria Grotto] Atlas Obscura [Ave Maria Grotto] The Bama Buzz [The Hidden History of Cullams Ave Maria Grotto] St Bernard Abbey [Main Website]"Southern Oddities" is created & produced by Jared Ordis, an Ordis Studios production. This show is part of the Ordis Studios Network Copyright © 2021 by Ordis Studioswww.ordisstudios.com

Our midweek Advent series is based on the 15th century German carol, Es Ist Ein Ros (Lo, How A Rose Er Blooming), originally sung by German Catholics in honor of Mary. The original 2nd stanza described Mary as the "Rose" who bears the Branch (i.e. Christ). The hymn has been altered to place the emphasis on Christ rather than Mary. Each week we'll connect a verse of the carol to the Old Testament prophecy it describes which points us to the promised Christ.

Our midweek Advent series is based on the 15th century German carol, Es Ist Ein Ros (Lo, How A Rose Er Blooming), originally sung by German Catholics in honor of Mary. The original 2nd stanza described Mary as the "Rose" who bears the Branch (i.e. Christ). The hymn has been altered to place the emphasis on Christ rather than Mary. Each week we'll connect a verse of the carol to the Old Testament prophecy it describes which points us to the promised Christ.

The singer Leonard Cohen, who died five years ago, tells the story that a friend once told him: "You never met a religion you didn't like". Listen in to our investigation of his spiritual life and we're fairly confident you'll never hear a Cohen song in quite the same way again. Though he fell out with the Montreal Jewish community he grew up in, his music fuses Judaism and Christianity as well as ideas from Zen Buddism. We hear Cohen's own views on faith from the BBC archive, talk to Harry Freedman author of Leonard Cohen: The mystical roots of genius and of course, hear those songs alongside their inspirations from the Talmud, the Kabbalah and the Bible. Is faith central to the debate about caring for the environment? This week the UK's Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said religious leaders were left to "scramble around" for the chance to make their voices heard at COP 26, the UN summit aimed at bringing climate change under control. As the conference enters a second week Edward Stourton talks to faith leaders about their experiences, what exactly they have to add to the debate and how they're going to make themselves heard in week two. Also in the programme: the young German Catholics attempting to get the church to spell God with a gender star. They say that the image of a male, white God is putting many young people off religion. And where's Cuthbert? This week York Minster replaced a window dedicated to the influential St Cuthbert. Its one of the largest surviving narrative windows in Europe and the only one telling the story of the saint who was a Medieval superstar. Edward finds out what the window tells us of the hermit and how to pick out Cuthbert himself from a window that is celebrated as a "Lancastrian who's who's".

Who doesn't love a good fall festival? And sausages? And pretzels and mustard? In this latest “How to Lutheran,” Bri (a first-generation Lutheran without a discernible drop of German blood in her) celebrates the German Lutheran cultural juggernaut that is Oktoberfest. Starting with Oktoberfest's German (Catholic) origins in Bavaria, Bri frolics through the past and present of this beloved cultural festival, which is observed annually in many American Lutheran churches. She, Sarah, Erin, and Rachel also relive favorite Oktoberfest memories and discuss what Oktoberfest might look like in less homogenous, more culturally diverse congregational contexts. Connect with the Lutheran Ladies on social media in The Lutheran Ladies' Lounge Facebook discussion group (facebook.com/groups/LutheranLadiesLounge). Follow us on Instagram @lutheranladieslounge, and also follow Sarah (@hymnnerd), Rachel (@rachbomberger), Erin (@erinaltered), and Bri (@grrrzevske).

Today's guest, Carla Lechner, was born and raised in the small German Catholic community of Jasper, Indiana. She attended college at the University of Evansville and worked for ten years as a radiologic technologist. She moved to Tulsa in 1976. She married Junie Lechner in 1979 and later became a stay-at-home mom for their three children. Carla changed careers in 1992 and began to work at the School of Saint Mary as the Preschool Director where she stayed until her retirement in 2020. Carla is enjoying spending some of her free time with grandchildren. Recently, she began a new ministry at the Church of Saint Mary: St. Joan of Arc Healing and Deliverance Ministry. SHOW NOTES: - The Jesus Prayer: https://www.learnreligions.com/the-jesus-prayer-542660 - Father DeLindo's Novena of Surrender: https://catholicexchange.com/the-surrender-novena-let-jesus-take-care-of-everything - Chaplet of Devotion to the Precious Blood: https://aleteia.org/2018/03/22/how-to-pray-the-chaplet-of-the-precious-blood/

(Part 2) The 2005 movie, "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" was based on the true and terrifying story of Anneliese Michel. Anneliese was a devout German Catholic woman who was diagnosed with epilepsy and psychosis. Her treatment for her conditions was overall not effective and she continued to suffer from her symptoms. Feeling medicine was failing her, Anneliese and her family turned to their religion. As a result, she underwent a total of 67 exorcisms to try and expel the 6 demons said to have possessed her. This is the story of the Exorcism if Anneliese Michel.Website: Wickedandgrim.com Exorcist Audio Tapes: youtube.com/watch?v=zJvVn66I6Rk&list=PLTZkK6ESs1iREw1OC7MdPZHQZjUSoGcFs&index=2Links:lastgasps.com/page56.html arcaneknowledge.org/movies/annam.htm#s2 rtd.rt.com/stories/anneliese-michel-girl-possessed-67-exorcisms/ grunge.com/173099/the-truth-behind-the-exorcism-of-anneliese-michel/ thesun.co.uk/living/4303767/anneliese-michel-possessed-photo-emily-rose/ chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/emilyrose.php See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

(Part 1) The 2005 movie, "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" was based on the true and terrifying story of Anneliese Michel. Anneliese was a devout German Catholic woman who was diagnosed with epilepsy and psychosis. Her treatment for her conditions was overall not effective and she continued to suffer from her symptoms. Feeling medicine was failing her, Anneliese and her family turned to their religion. As a result, she underwent a total of 67 exorcisms to try and expel the 6 demons said to have possessed her. This is the story of the Exorcism if Anneliese Michel.Website: Wickedandgrim.comExorcist Audio Tapes:youtube.com/watch?v=zJvVn66I6Rk&list=PLTZkK6ESs1iREw1OC7MdPZHQZjUSoGcFs&index=2Links:lastgasps.com/page56.htmlarcaneknowledge.org/movies/annam.htm#s2rtd.rt.com/stories/anneliese-michel-girl-possessed-67-exorcisms/grunge.com/173099/the-truth-behind-the-exorcism-of-anneliese-michel/thesun.co.uk/living/4303767/anneliese-michel-possessed-photo-emily-rose/chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/emilyrose.php See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 288: Matt Mueller's Reimagined Life: Out of Amway and into Glo Lighting Minnesota, Part I Matt Mueller was approached in college to a compelling financial model called network marketing, or multi-level marketing. An opportunity to direct sell household and personal products to consumers that would pay for college. In network marketing, you not only sell products. You also recruit and train new people to be direct salespeople building their own networks. You then have two ways of making money. Getting commissions from selling and also earning a commission from what your downline of sellers sell. The network marketing company that chose Matt, as he would say, was Amway and their affiliated personal development company, Worldwide Dream Builders. Amway is a family-owned consumer goods manufacturer and direct selling company founded by Richard DeVos and Jay Van Andel in 1959. According to Forbes magazine, direct sellers generated $8.4B in sales revenue for Amway in 2019. My experience with network marketing came through Mary Kay Cosmetics in college and one of my three sisters getting involved in the network marketing business. Mary Kay Ash founded her empire in 1963 and has provided millions of women the opportunity to support themselves and their families. Matt thought he found the ultimate jackpot. Marrying into a family already successful in a business he had grown to love, Amway. What he didn't anticipate was how the legacy he was building would come to an abrupt end.   Pleasantville is how Matt describes his upbringing in Cold Spring, Minnesota. His reference is not connected to the 1998 film Pleasantville, with Toby Maguire and Reese Witherspoon as teenagers finding themselves in a 1950s sitcom. Matt refers to his rural hometown as a pleasant place to grow up with two siblings and 55 cousins. A stable and safe place with a solid work ethic. Matt's German Catholic parents recently retired from a hairstyling business and his dad from construction to spend the winter months in Arizona. Matt says, “the Sedona vortexes pulled me in,” where he found respite after his six-year marriage collapsed and the network marketing enterprise they were building with his inlaws imploded. Sedona provided the geographical space for Matt to recover and reimagine his life. Eighty-nine percent of direct sellers work part-time, so Matt was grateful he had two other ventures to support him at the time: inflatable carnival business and tanning company. Matt describes this part of his life as a phenomenal chapter of great lessons learned and memories to cherish. A life without regrets, just learning. Hear the strength and grounded confidence he brings into our conversation. DOWNLOAD  Next week we discuss how Matt rebuilds his life with a new entrepreneurial venture, Glo Lighting Minnesota.  After listening, complete below, the Conscious Attentive Leadership Mentoring (C.A.L.M.) Activities. Podcast Sponsor Would you like to take charge of the path you are on to create an enduring legacy? You can redefine how you lead and mentor while you redesign your business. We'll show you how. Interviews are taking place NOW! Get one-on-one Strategic Mentoring Join a WeMentor LAB Assert Self-Leadership...  Start HERE! Episode Resources Network Marketing Amway (forbes.com) World Wide Dream Builders WWDB Review (2021) (ecosecretariat.org) What is Direct Selling (dsa.org) WeMentor LABs WeMentor LABs Conscious Attentive Leadership Mentoring After listening, do the following three C.A.L.M. Activities: Take this risk or do this adventurous task: Are you making progress in your life? This could be a loaded question when you are challenged to start over. What if setbacks and broken hearts are instrumental steps on a path toward higher consciousness? Matt was challenged to disentangle his business relationships at the same time he dissolved his marriage. A four-year process to reimagine the new life ...

Episode 286: My Entrepreneurial Upbringing I've been asked to answer some of the questions I ask Guest Mentors. The timing correlates with writing my transformational nonfiction manuscript and interviewing for a new September WeMentor LAB. I am integrating my life experiences through a resilient lens. Did I grow up in a resilient home that promoted an unshakable core of calm, strength, and joy? No. I grew up in a home like most, where we were all in survival mode. Chaos and rigidity were silent partners that provided diversions from knowing ourselves and being deeply seen, loved, and cherished. I was 13 years old when we moved to a dairy farm. My mom was pregnant with her sixth child, and the field of psychology focused on identifying what is wrong with a person. Positive psychology hadn't yet taken root. No one talked about raising resilient children. My parents had their hands full. Our family focus was on figuring out how to make a living in the newly formed family business. A single-focus was the strategy to survive, and we did. I learned how to jump into any situation and swim like hell to a false sense of safety. Eventually, I learned to create a safe haven within and attract beneficial experiences that expand my ability to live a resilient life. You will understand more about the silver linings as I share what I enjoyed growing up in a big German Catholic entrepreneurial family, describe a life-changing event at age 14, and the roles and responsibilities that equipped me to launch WeMentor in 1992. I start with a popular mindfulness box-breathing exercise that calmed me before taping. Do this exercise with me to engage with your breath more deeply. A way to take charge of how you breathe, especially when you feel it is the only thing you can control at the moment. Notice if you are grasping or have a shortness of breath or if you find it easy to become relaxed as you listen and breathe. A Pioneering Legacy In 1991, shared copies of a collective Meyer-Nathe family ancestry were distributed to Meyer and Nathe families. My cousin, Mary Lee (Meyer) Garbe, dedicated the booklet to her parents, Frank and Loretta (Nathe) Meyer. She began collecting family stories during a 1984 trip to Oldenburg, Germany. Like Mary Lee, I had grown to appreciate my German Catholic entrepreneurial heritage dating back to 1853 when my great, great, great grandfather and grandmother acted upon their dream to come to America. As most dreams, when implemented, shift with circumstances. John went first, and little did Elisabeth know, she would never see him again. Instead of letting the dream die along with her husband, Elisabeth decides to revive the dream by sending her two living sons, Herman and Henry, to America. They sent her money to make the journey, and thus, my paternal ancestors pioneered a path for us to carry on. In many immigrant families, names and spellings of names change once they arrive. The spelling of Meire was eventually changed to Meyer over the years, so it took me a while to realize that a small town in Minnesota, Meire Grove, was named after my great grandparents, Herman and Bernadina Meier. As captured in Mary Lee's booklet, the story is that Herman and Bernadina donated 5-acres of their land to build a Catholic church, school, and cemetery, which is still there. The tiny community decided to call the town of 201 residents (2021 census) Meire Grove. Another part of the legacy my ancestors left behind is The Meire Grove Band. The Meire Grove Band was established in 1883 and is the most extended continuous community band in Minnesota. It explains why I love brass instruments and played the trumpet and baritone in high school and college. Playing piano has also been a lifetime hobby where I have played on and off in church choirs. I appreciate all kinds of music. My maternal grandparents on the Vornbrock and Welle side also immigrated from Germany to the same area around the 1860s.

On "EWTN News Nightly" tonight: Senate Republicans are urging the Biden administration to keep a Trump-era policy in place, known as Title 42. The measure allows border agents to swiftly expel those who cross into the US from Mexico, due to coronavirus concerns. And Americans with children at home are starting to see extra money in their bank accounts. President Joe Biden promoted the new Child Tax Credits. However, as the dollars start flowing, there are doubts the extra cash will actually help families and instead could even do damage. 2020 marked the third consecutive year that at least 200,000 German Catholics left the Church. Chief Correspondent for CNA Deutsch, Rudolf Gehrig, provides an analysis of these numbers and how reliable they are. The largest county in Arizona is set to purchase new voting machines. The announcement comes following an audit of the 2020 election. Chairman of the Election Transparency Initiative and former Attorney General from State of Virginia, Ken Cuccinelli, shares why the voting machines are being replaced and whether the results of the audit will be made public. Finally this evening, nearly three dozen migrants from an island in Greece arrived in Rome earlier this week. Coordinator of Humanitarian Corridors from Greece for the Community of Sant'egidio, Monica Attias, joins to tell us more about the migrants from Greece and also about Humanitarian Corridors. Don't miss out on the latest news and analysis from a Catholic perspective. Get EWTN News Nightly delivered to your email: https://ewtn.com/enn

Freedom of Religion is the first freedom in the First Amendment of the very first and most brilliant freedom document ever written by mankind.Nobody and nothing can legally interfere with the practice of religion legitimately practiced, so says the First Amendment, including and especially Congress, House and Senate which is absolutely and unconditionally forbidden to establish a religion or abridge the practice or free speech of religion. No matter this clear, direct and unequivocal prohibition by our beloved Constitution and its First Amendment, there has never been a day and age where RELIGION, including and especially Christianity is abridged, threatened or curtailed like the things which are happening today. Scary times indeed, especially for those who are Christian, who sincerely, genuinely, and unapologetically love the Christ of Glory and unabashedly proclaim that faith and love to all the world. They – we are targets like never before.But the courts, federal and state, continue to apply current thinking, modern day interpretations of the Constitution, treating it as organic and not fundamental, not originalist, not plain and fundamental in language and essentially do what they want especially when liberals, radicals and progressives control the judiciary. We live as our former President Barack Hussein Obama so famously said in the world of post truth, that is the only truth that matters is whatever advances your cause that day, the truth du jour, and in so many ways, the judiciary ignores the fact – truth of the Constitution and the protections of the freedom of religion in the First Amendment and they do what they want, fashioning their own version of the truth. We live in a day and age of legal uncertainty where WE THE PEOPLE never know what will come next, what the rules are, what the rule of law is and in so many ways what we can count on and how we should live our lives. There seems to be little authority, there is hardly any respect for tradition much less history, and American history and there is much chaos, anarchy and revolution happening everywhere even in our very own country. Witness the Antifa – Black Lives Matter driven riots and destruction in Portland, and in Seattle, and at one time in Philadelphia and other cities as well. One homicide can trigger the destruction of hundreds of millions of dollars of property and result in the loss of any number of innocent lives. That same indifference and disrespect carries over in some cases to religionists and the practice of religion itself. So many biblical scholars studying prophecy believe strongly that this is the beginning of the END TIMES. Now more than ever, the once ironclad and predictable authority of the Roman Catholic Church is challenged, and challenged in many different places. That is especially so in the nation of Germany. Catholic clergy in Germany now begin to bless gay couples across Germany, and marry them in defiance of a recent Vatican ban on the practice. This rogue clergy defies the authority of the Church and Catholic Priests and Lay Ministers are planning coordinated ceremonies to bless gay relationships in about 100 Catholic Churches and other venues in Germany now and forevermore. They are performed as a protest against the Vatican declaration in March, approved by Pope Francis prohibiting the blessing of same sex relationships on the grounds that:         GOD CAN NOT BLESS SIN!Real and fundamental Catholic authority regards same sex relationships and especially marriage as:         SIN!Ever since the election of Pope Francis in 2013, his Church has contended with deepening divisions between Church conservatives, many of whom are in the United States and Africa and progressive clergy such as those in Germany and elsewhere in Europe who do not wish Church prohibitions against divorce and homosexuality. These divisions, these rifts which may in time lead to a serious schism in the Catholic Church seem to continue to grow for there are apparently tens of thousands of Catholic laity and clergy who want fundamental change in the Church which is now not happening.There is now underway a national synod of German Catholics which is debating a number of changes in the Catholic Church, including the ordination of women, greater roles for lay people in Church governance and the revision of Church teaching on homosexuality among others. No matter biblical admonition, the teachings of the Catholic Church and its storied spiritual history, these rogue Catholic individuals do not respect the apostolic tradition nor do they care about the majority of faithful believers in the UNIVERSAL CHURCH. They seem to be saying that there is no such thing as moral absolutes nor can the Church as presently constituted be the final authority with regard to these new and changing western morals. The Church, they say, adjusts to and compromises with the secular in order to be current and relevant. Though not Catholic, I find this incomprehensible. These men and women, progressive, rogue and even radical do not have the courage to break away from the Catholic Church, practice their view of religion in some other way but are determined to fundamentally change a church 2,000 years of age in ways which the Pope, the Vatican officials and the vast majority of laymen do not approve. No matter the official proclamation of the Catholic Church and the Pope, taking strong positions regarding homosexuality and the ordination of women among others, Catholic Churches in defiance of Rome hung rainbow pride flags from their facades or belltowers in support of the LGBTQ agenda and homosexual marriage. More than 700 Priests and Deacons signed a petition stating they wouldn't refuse a Catholic blessing if requested by gay couples. In response to this disobedience to church authority, one conservative Catholic said:“It is an enormous scandal (blessing gay marriage), a terrifying sign of heresy, schism and the collapse of the Church.” Those were the words of retired German Cardinal Walter Brandmuller who lives in the Vatican. Most conservative Catholics if not all feel that way and are deeply concerned with the integrity and hegemony of their church.  Others have said that not only is the authority of the Catholic Church questioned, but so is the underlying biblical admonitions with respect to LGBTQ and homosexuality in both Old and New Testaments. But these radical laity and clergy simply want the Roman Catholic Church to change, adjust to their points of view, to current morality (or the lack thereof), recognize the signs of the times and change traditional Catholic thinking, theology and principle to the way they wish. They have no scriptural basis for what they demand, none whatsoever. There is compromise everywhere in the practice of religion. It is an age of the individual run rampant, the breakdown of religious authority, the interpretation away of direct moral commands and a supreme indifference to tradition, Church history and most especially the Bible, once the unquestioned authority of some four billion people in this world. This new apostasy and false teaching, this new sense of compromise are critical signs of the beginning of the END TIMES, so says the scripture. There are, we are told, more than two billion Roman Catholic believers and worshippers in the world. So that, roughly one in four human beings consider themselves Catholic, including our very own President Joe Biden, a supreme compromiser and the importance of the Catholic Church has never been greater. Pope Francis has never been really firm in his teachings in some of these critical matters and if the Catholic Church is to survive and maintain its position in the world, the Pope and all Catholic clergy must stand up and protect, preserve and defend what has always been true and real CATHOLICISM. There remain critical differences between Roman Catholics and Protestants, true Catholics and Evangelicals. But at a certain point, all who name the name of Christ must stand up, and stand together, and fight the fight of faith, and champion FREEDOM OF RELIGION the world over or eventually there will be no freedom of religion. American radicals and progressives are determined to rid the public square and eventually all of our country of religion, including and especially Christianity. They despise religion of any kind and they are determined to eliminate it. Germany seems well on the way, at least Roman Catholic Germany. So that, the only answer is revival, the renewal of faith and belief in the Lord of Glory, the Jesus Christ of the Bible. It seems as though unless a person is deeply committed to and in love with Jesus Christ:         ANYTHING GOES. Like what is happening in the Roman Catholic Church in Germany. 

Today's Topics: 1, 2) A priest affirms that blessing same-sex couples is a diabolical and sacrilegious act https://www.ncregister.com/news/blessing-same-sex-couples-a-diabolical-and-sacrilegious-act-priest-affirms?fbclid=IwAR3fZF_fWwazZomThXi-brC5Z9k6Ob_AXEWAetwKJvn2jFpEFUuTNC9PUv0 3) Bishop Schneider on how German Catholics can remain faithful in face of schism. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bishop-schneider-how-catholics-in-germany-can-remain-faithful-in-face-of-schism 4) What are we to make of the German Bishops taking $7.1 billion from taxpayers? https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/german-bishops-raked-in-7.1-billion-last-year-from-taxpayers

D-K: Attorneys General from 44 states call for FB to cancel plans for an IG for kids. News: Markets and economy dominating this week, including the April labor report and inflationary concerns; Elon Musk disrupts cryptocurrency markets; violence in Israel and the Gaza Strip; German Catholics spit in the face of the Pope by blessing gay unions; and the federal government decides to insert itself into the George Floyd death case. Entertainment: the top show on Netflix - Shadow and Bone. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/scottandmike/support

Greek authorities accused of illegal pushback of migrants — German Catholic churches bless same-sex couples, defying The Vatican — Gay conversion therapy: a report from Northern Ireland — Lifting restrictions: Germans bask in the sun after a long pandemic winter —Russia develops the first coronavirus vaccine for animals — and more!

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING PART 1 (0:0 - 17:1): ────────────────── Theological Revolt in Germany Over Blessing of Same-Sex Unions — Is the Roman Catholic Church Headed for Civil War? WASHINGTON POST (LUISA BECK AND CHICO HARLAN) German priests defy Pope Francis with blessings of same-sex unions WALL STREET JOURNAL (FRANCIS X. ROCCA) German Catholic Priests Defy Pope Francis With Public Blessings of Gay Couples PART 2 (17:2 - 18:36): ────────────────── Three Rivers Tell a Theological Story: How the Tiber, the Rhine, and the Zambezi Explain the Catholic Predicament THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE (ROD DREHER) Zombie Catholics Of Germany NEW YORK TIMES (ROSS DOUTHAT) Pope Francis Faces Another German Reformation PART 3 (18:37 - 22:43): ────────────────── There’s No Middle Ground on Sexual Morality — And Christians, Like the Apostle Paul, Must Be Clear about the Biblical Teaching on Marriage and Sexuality WASHIGTON POST (DAVID VON DREHLE) German Catholic priests blessing same-sex marriages may be on to something divine

In this episode:German Catholic churches bless same-sex couplesVatican backs Biden on COVID vaccine waiversContinued debate in U.S. over pro-choice politicians and communionThe “Cardinal's Dame” Cecilia Marogna and Cardinal BecciuSr. Maria Laura Mainetti street poses bureaucratic hurdle for localsSupport the show (https://cruxnow.com/support-crux/)

Germany’s Catholic clergy are defying a recent Holy See pronouncement backed by Pope Francis regarding the blessing of unions contrary to Catholic moral teaching. The statement said “God cannot bless sin.” The clergy have said that they WILL bless such unions at services in about 100 different churches throughout Germany. Dr. Taylor Marshall gives analysis […] The post 682: Pope Francis and the German Catholic Problem (Plus Blessings this week) [Podcast] appeared first on Taylor Marshall.

William Feiner (1792–1829) was a German Catholic priest and Jesuit who became a missionary to the United States and eventually the president of Georgetown College. Born in Münster, he taught in Jesuit schools in the Russian Empire and Polish Galicia as a young member of the Society of Jesus. He then emigrated to the United States several years after the restoration of the Society, taking up pastoral work and teaching theology in Conewago, Pennsylvania, before becoming a full-time professor at Georgetown College. There, he also became the second dedicated librarian of the college's library. Eventually, Feiner became the president of Georgetown in 1826. While president, he taught theology at Georgetown and led the congregation at Holy Trinity Church. Despite being the leader of an American university, he never mastered the English language. Long plagued by poor health due to tuberculosis, his short-lived presidency ended after three years, just weeks before his death. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jack-bosma3/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jack-bosma3/support

GetReligion editor Terry Mattingly discusses “German Catholic clergy set to bless gay unions: Is this a story?”

Did you know there's a hotel in NYC named after Pope Leo XIII? The Leo House was founded in the 1880s as a boarding house for German Catholic immigrants, at the behest of the Holy Father, and is still operating today as a Catholic hotel providing charitable hospitality at a discount. In this episode you'll learn from the Leo House's chairman and president, Michael Coneys, about the hotel's fascinating history. The story involves Pope Leo's special care for the Catholic Church in Germany as it was struggling under Protestant Prussian rule; as well as the St. Raphael Society, which helped political dissidents to escape Nazi Germany. It also involves a very providential visit from Mother Teresa! But this is also a very contemporary story story of one of many Catholic nonprofits struggling to survive the past year's lockdowns. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8888Qu0oonc Links Learn more: https://leohousenyc.com/ Donate to the Leo House: https://leohousenyc.com/donate/ This podcast is a production of CatholicCulture.org. If you like the show, please consider supporting us! http://catholicculture.org/donate/audio

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On EWTN News Nightly tonight: The Vatican says the Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex unions. Senior Rome Correspondent for Catholic News Agency, Hannah Brockhaus, joins us to discuss what the document released today says about why the Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex unions. According to US border patrol statistics, more than 600 unaccompanied migrant children are showing up to the border each day. It's a crisis, so much so that the Biden Administration, over the weekend, directed FEMA to provide support at the border. Republicans say if FEMA is involved by definition, it's a disaster. President Joe Biden stated that regarding the American Rescue Plan, “We have to prove to the American people that their government can deliver for them and do it without waste or fraud.” And, the president is not yet adding his name to the list of Democrats calling for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign. Senior editor at the Federalist, Christopher Bedford, takes us though the criticism Governor Cuomo is facing and explains how much is based on sexual assault allegations and how much on the questions over his handling of nursing homes during the pandemic. Finally this evening, a new survey says one-third of all German Catholics are considering leaving the Church. Editor in Chief of Catholic News Agency Deutsch, A.C. Wimmer, joins to discuss the survey and how reliable it is. Don't miss out on the latest news and analysis from a Catholic perspective. Get EWTN News Nightly delivered to your email: https://ewtn.com/enn

This episode keeps Kevin and Scott close to home as they describe and provide the historical backstory for the “Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches,” a German Catholic enclave in rural western Ohio. (Version 2.0 updated 15 March 2021 with improved audio quality)

Bob let's everyone know what good art is, forgo's cars forever, how his mom has Covid, talks about getting greychin, talks about how good looking Will Smith is, attending a German Catholic school, the size of the Lord's penis and Bob introduces you to the songs, THE LABEL OF THE LORD, BE THE LIGHT, EVERYTHING IS SUPER EASY, BANG BANG BOOM, GAME OVER GIRL, EMILY DICKINSON, CHRISTMAS PONY and PABLO PICASSO. Watch the full episode YouTube: https://youtu.be/ezT9Q-k5x6s

Abused scouts sue Mormon church, uptick in faith amongst UK teens, juror listens to 'holy spirit' instead of evidence, a German Catholic bishop sees writing on the wall, Liberty University students surprise us, churches fined by state of New Mexico, and guest Teresa English tells us what she learned running for office in Massachusetts.

In the latter decades of the 19 th Century, new towns and villages sprung up across Tennessee. Some of the settlers were U.S. citizens relocating from the eastern seaboard, along with European immigrants, all in pursuit of opportunity. Land in rural Tennessee was easily accessible by riverboat, trains and wagons. German Catholics established the town of Loretto in 1870. Before long Loretto was served by stage and railway. The economy bustled with lumber mills and downtown retail establishments. The Loretto Milling Company opened in 1895 to serve the needs of farmers with feed and fuel and the business is still thriving 125 years later. But, following WWII the local economy and employment started an inexorable decline when the new U.S. Route 43 bypassed the town. Today, thanks to visionary, risk-taking young people like Mandy and Eric McClaren a new breed is leading Loretto’s economic renaissance. They opened a coffee house in a renovated derelict 1930s commercial building. Even though

  What are potential buyers looking for in a business? While there is no such thing as perfect acquisition criteria, different buyers do have their preferences in terms of what industry the company is in, what its corporate structure and company culture looks like, and what the reason for the owner’s exit is. Taking a break from the usual format, Bob Roark interviews someone who is looking to acquire a business. Parkland Field Management (https://parklandfield.com/), a search fund that intends to become the succession plan for a business inColorado or the surrounding states. Coming from a family business background, Nick has deep respect for business and is not looking for a quick flip as private equities tend to do. He plans to hold on to the business to see it grow and provide long-term value to its employees, customers, shareholders and community. What is his criteria for acquisition? What does a handoff transition period look like? What does he think business owners have to do to make their company attractive to search funds if they’re planning to sell? Nick shares all of these in this episode. --- Watch the episode here:[embed]https://youtu.be/DbL4zSzZDdQ[/embed] Business Acquisition Criteria: From The Buyer’s Perspective With Nick SegerWe have Nick Seger. He's the President of (https://parklandfield.com/). Nick is a recent arrival to Denver. He's in search of a company to acquire. This show is a little different and many times we talk to business owners that have an existing business. They may be looking to transition their business or they may be looking at some point to sell. In this case, what we have is a potential buyer of a business. We're going to explore some of Nick's thoughts and also the view from the buyer's eyes when you're looking at a business. Nick, thank you for taking the time to be on the show. Thanks for having me, Bob. Nick, tell me a little bit about your business and a little bit backstory on you. I moved out to Denver over the 4th of July 2020 weekend. My significant other and I were living in Chicago before this. We were trying to figure out where we wanted to start that next phase of our lives and I had gone out and raised a little bit of money from some investors, which I'm sure we'll touch on here in a little bit. She was graduating from a Master's program and we figured Denver was a great place. She's from San Diego, I'm from Indiana and we picked up and drove the U-Haul out here and brought our puppy out. I've been searching for a company out here in Colorado. I appreciate you giving me some space here to talk about it. For you, people go, “You raised some money from some investors but you didn't just start.” You come from a family business background. I do. I grew up back in Indiana. My family still runs a third-generation agriculture business, turkeys and chickens. My grandfather started the business decades ago. My father has seven brothers, grew up in a large German Catholic family and large agriculture community back in Indiana. My dad and his five living brothers still run that business. People ask me all the time, “Why did I do this?” I tell them all the time that I had never seen the path to success being anything other than being a business owner. Where I grew up, it was the largest town within 60, 70 miles. I tell people the nearest Starbucks was 60 miles away. There were no consultants, bankers, lawyers, accountants or tech companies. That didn't exist in my hometown. What I saw as success in business was being a small business owner. That's always what I grew up wanting to do. I had always thought I'd go back and help run my family's business one day but they have strict rules. You have to go out and prove yourself in the world before and so I did. I went out and worked in finance and sales marketing for ten years. I was at Wells Fargo for a number of years and towards the latter half of my career was in more of a business development sales type role. I...

The Catholic Diocese of Cleveland formed in 1847, just as both Irish Catholics fleeing the Famine and German Catholics fleeing a failed revolution converged on the banks of the Cuyahoga River. These immigrant groups both formed their own ethnic neighborhoods, and petitioned the Diocese to form distinct ethnic parishes, as well. Soon, English speaking churches for the Irish, and German speaking churches for the Germans dotted the lands around the Cuyahoga, all anchored by a grand new Cathedral in what would become downtown Cleveland. The first Catholic church in the area was St. Mary's on the Flats (the congregation was founded in 1826, but the church structure itself wasn't built and dedicated until 1840). It served all Catholics, regardless of their ethnicity. The first specifically Irish parishes were St. Patrick's on Bridge (founded in 1853), and Holy Name (founded in 1854). The first resident pastor of St. Patrick's on Bridge - Irishman Fr. James Conlan - became a beloved figure in the Irish community and the city of Cleveland at large. He was described as a steady and sympathetic shepherd for those who had endured the trauma of the Famine. He had such a big impact on his fledgling congregation of immigrants that his funeral procession stretched for more than three miles. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Martin Bürger is a German Catholic journalist who has the inside scoop on what's going on in the Church in Germany. He joins John-Henry to discuss the schism forming there, which is thanks in large part to Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the head of the German Bishops Conference. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Fr. James Martin recently wrote an article for America magazine entitled "The Teaching of the Catholic Church is Clear: We Are Against War." You might want to read his (very short) article, linked below, before you listen to this podcast. Fr. McCarthy joins us to discuss. 0:00 Intro3:10 Overview of Fr. James Martin's article10:08 Revisionist history13:13 "Against war"? Really?!16:39 Fr. McCarthy speaks from personal experience18:41 Total lack of clarity22:30 Mark Twain anecdote24:46 The reason for the Church's PR offensive28:39 1983 pastoral letter31:03 Implications34:44 The rules that regulate "teaching" by Catholic chaplains...This conversation will be continued in Episode 25. Stay tuned!Find Fr. McCarthy here: http://www.emmanuelcharlesmccarthy.orgFind CAM here: www.catholicsagainstmilitarism.comRSS feed: http://www.buzzsprout.com/296171Mentioned in this episode: Fr. James Martin's article in America magazine:https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/01/13/teaching-catholic-church-clear-we-are-against-warBishop Botean's pastoral letter of March 7, 2003:https://www.centerforchristiannonviolence.org/node/10List of wars of the papal state:http://catholicsagainstmilitarism.com/war-and-peace/wars-of-the-papal-state/Fr. McCarthy's book, "Just War Theory: The Logic of Deceit"https://www.amazon.com/Christian-Just-War-Theory-Deceit-ebook/dp/B07MDZHGJ6/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=emmanuel+mccarthy&qid=1580314956&s=books&sr=1-3Matthew 5:33-38http://www.usccb.org/bible/matthew/5USCCB pastoral letter, "The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response" (1983)http://www.usccb.org/upload/challenge-peace-gods-promise-our-response-1983.pdf"German Catholics and Hitler's Wars," by Gordon Zahn (1988)https://www.amazon.com/German-Catholics-Hitlers-Wars-Control-ebook/dp/B01MA3ZTYL/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=german+catholics+and+hitler%27s+war&qid=1580315172&sr=8-1

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In the middle of the Kansas prairie soars St. Fidelis church, known as "The Cathedral of the Plains." Tom and Noelle Crowe tell us of this testament to the faith of a hardworking community of German Catholic farmers who wanted a church they would never outgrow and would serve as a beacon of faith in the middle of America. The post The Cathedral of the Plains appeared first on SQPN.com.

Born in 1957 as 1 of 14 children to the late Mel & Norma Meiners, Terry attributes his success to a strong German Catholic work ethic-oriented childhood, which laid the foundation to his now legendary 1985 move to WHAS-Radio. Prior to WHAS, Meiners worked with Ron Clay as the co-host of “The Show With No Name,” a morning drive-time program on Louisville rock station WQMF-FM. These 2 provided edgy humor to Louisville’s airwaves,  in fact, WQMF hired Clay & Meiners away from rival station WLRS-FM, where the duo hosted the risque “Morning Sickness” show from 1981 to 1983. At WHAS-Radio, The Terry Meiners Show has aired weekday afternoons since 1985 to present. Meiners is known for broadcasting impersonations of prominent local citizens & satirical interviews of eclectic news figures, comedians, film/TV stars, & politicians. Plus, the lampooning of (U of L) Cardinals fans & of (UK) Wildcats fans is never far away! Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence (yes that one) refers to Meiners as “my 1st celebrity” friend & claims he “still makes me starstruck.” OH MY!  Meiners has received numerous awards such as: Mag.’s “Best Radio Personality” award 20 times! KY Monthly mag.’s & the Leo Weekly’s “Best Radio Personality” Along with television news anchor Rachel Platt, Meiners co-hosts the WHAS Crusade for Children, the long-running annual local telethon benefiting children’s charities, as well as, emcee duties &/or promotional work for Metro United Way, the Homeless Coalition, Dare to Care Food Bank, Louisville Metro Police Fdtn., & the Yum! Brands fundraisers for World Food Program. Today, Meiners is a co-host of weekday mornings’ “Great Day Live” (news, knowledge, & nonsense) with WHAS-TV news anchor Rachel Platt.Terry has described his job as interviewing people from all walks of life and let them tell their stories. Funny I can relate to that & we are about to do just that!  Terry has an abundantly happy life as a blended family with 2 sons named Max & Simon Meiners, both morally & ethically strong young men, he proclaims, & stepfather to his beautiful wife Mary George Meiners’ children Aidan & Grace, & if he has nothing else to do, Terry is an avid golfer, marathon runner & private pilot!

The Genealogy Guys Podcast and Vivid-Pix announced the first winners of the Unsung Heroes Awards at RootsTech 2019. Visit the blog for details about the winners. Blaine T. Bettinger, Ph.D., J.D., joins us for discussions with Drew about DNA topics on episodes of The Genealogy Guys Podcast starting this week. The News MyHeritage made a number of announcements at RootsTech 2019: Database has doubled since RootsTech 2018. 5 million MyHeritage DNA kits have been sold, the most sales in Europe. New AutoClusters tool has been introduced to MyHeritage DNA. Theory of Family Relativity DNA tool has been introduced to MyHeritage DNA to facilitate matching. MyHeritage has completed digitizing of all of Israel's cemeteries, searchable online with images, locations, and fully transcribed records. MyHeritage has extended their DNA Quest pro bono initiative to reunite adoptees through free genetic testing. Ancestry announced 94 new and updated communities for people of African American and Afro-Caribbean descent. Ancestry announced several new DNA tools, and Blaine and Drew will discuss them later. Stephen and Tabitha King have donated $1.25 million to the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Findmypast added over 23 million new U.S. marriage records to their collection. Findmypast also added Yorkshire Baptisms, Marriage Banns, Marriages, and Burials, and an update to the 1939 Register. Findmypast has acquired RootsFinder, Inc, a free family tree builder. Findmypast announced a project to digitize and publish the 1921 Census of England and Wales. The Archives of Manitoba, Canada, is digitizing over 1,000 reels of microfilm for the Hudson's Bay Company (1670-1870) and placing the records online. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has donated $2 million to the International African American Museum being built in Charleston, South Carolina. RootsTech London will take place on 24-26 October 2019. Drew recaps the highlights of the January 2019 record additions and a look at what's coming this year. A Discussion with Blaine T. Bettinger This week's discussion between Blaine and Drew focuses on Ancestry.com's newly announced DNA tools. They include a new tool called ThruLines, and a new tool for working with and marking matches (in beta mode), and a Tree Tagging tool (also in beta mode). Listener Email Listeners Barb and Vicki also responded to Laura's inquiry in Episode #357 about uses for spreadsheets in genealogy. Bill reported he had a loss of data between RootsMagic and Ancestry. George referred him ASAP to RootsMagic's Customer Support, and also described how he backs up his RootsMagic data on his computer, on Dropbox, and at an offline storage service. Tom advises Jewish researchers not to ignore German Catholic records as he has made discoveries of Jewish families' information in those collections. Tom advises us that he has acquired very old photo albums, and that he in one case reunited it with the descendants. But what about the other one? The Guys would like to express our sincere gratitude to our Patreon supporters. Your financial contributions are an investment in our ability to provide our services to the genealogical community for free since 5 September 2005.

Today’s episode is a delightful chat with Grant Kaplan, Associate Professor of Theology at Saint Louis University. Grant is an expert in nineteenth-century German Catholic theology, fundamental theology, Modern philosophy and theology, and a whole lot of other fascinating topics. He is also the author of René Girard, Unlikely Apologist: Mimetic Theory and Fundamental Theology (Notre Dame, 2016). After an initial foray into Grant’s ill-advised fashion choices (a crop top was involved), cooking failures (high temps and cheese don’t mix), and favorite bar (The Columns Hotel in New Orleans), we talk about the people, places, texts, and ideas that helped shape Grant into the theologian he is today. TITLES REFERENCED IN MAIN SEGMENT Alison, James. The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin Through Easter Eyes. New York: Crossroad, 1998. Alison, James. On Being Liked. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 2003. Bloom, Allan. Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students. Reissue edition. Simon & Schuster, 2012. Doran, Robert M. The Trinity in History: A Theology of the Divine Missions, Volume 1: Missions and Processions. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. Girard, René. I See Satan Fall Like Lightning. Translated by James G. Williams. Maryknoll, N.Y: Orbis, 2001. Girard, René. Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World. Translated by Stephen Bann and Michael Metteer. First edition. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987. Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time. Translated by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2008. Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason. Edited by Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Lawrence, Frederick. The Fragility of Consciousness: Faith, Reason, and the Human Good. Edited by Randall S. Rosenberg and Kevin Vander Schel. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. Lewis, C. S. Mere Christianity. Revised & Enlarged edition. San Francisco: HarperOne, 2015. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Method in Theology. Edited by Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 14. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. MacIntyre, Alasdair. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. Third Edition. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. Milbank, John. Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason. 2nd Edition. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006. Moore, Sebastian. The Crucified Jesus Is No Stranger. 2nd edition. New York: Paulist Press, 2018. TREASURES OLD AND NEW Purvis, Zachary. Theology and the University in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Drey, Johann Sebastian. Brief Introduction to the Study of Theology: With Reference to the Scientific Standpoint and the Catholic System. First American edition. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 1994. We have a Patreon! Check out the page at https://www.patreon.com/systematically Please consider making a much-appreciated donation. We’re still working through what special content we will provide for our subscribers (mini-episodes, submission opportunities, merch, etc.), but we promise the perks will be exciting. As always, your support is greatly appreciated! Our theme music is “14 Ghosts II” by Nine Inch Nails, available at https://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV “14 Ghosts II” is used under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. We would like to thank Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the use of this track. Follow and chat with us on Twitter @SystematicPod Email us at SystematicallyPodcast@gmail.com Subscribe and Review us on iTunes: Systematically Podcast Lastly, if you enjoy our conversations, please share them with your friends!

This week I speak with Peter Gavin-Griffin, a PhD Candidate in Theological Studies at Regis College, University of Toronto, about German Catholic theologian Romano Guardini. Here are the primary sources on Guardini that Peter mentions: Guardini, Romano. Freedom, Grace, and Destiny: Three Chapters in the Interpretation of Existence. Trans. John Murray. New York: Pantheon Books, 1961. Guardini, Romano. The Virtues: On Forms of Moral Life. Trans. Stella Lange. Regnery Publishing, 1967. Reprinted as: Learning the Virtues That Lead You to God. Revised edition. Manchester, NH: Sophia Institute Press, 1998. Secondary Sources: Balthasar, Hans Urs von Balthasar. Romano Guardini: Reform From the Source. Trans. Albert K. Wimmer and D.C. Schindler. San Francisco: A Communio Book/Ignatius Press, 2010. Krieg, Robert. Romano Guardini: A Precursor of Vatican II. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. Ratzinger, Joseph. “From Liturgy to Christology: Romano Guardini’s Basic Theological Approach and Its Significance.” In Fundamental Speeches from Five Decades, 231–258. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2012.  I incorrectly said that Harnack wrote a book called The Essence of Christianity. The actual title is, What is Christianity?  

Coach Sam and Coach Sabastian have a conversation about the cultures they were raised in, how they helped shape who they are today, and how they learned to take the best of their cultures and incorporate them into the raising of their own families. ________________________________________________________ Parable #1: Multi-Cultural Coach Sam hails from three different cultures: the Persian/Middle Eastern culture, the French Canadian culture, and the American culture. The orchestration of these three cultures has only recently been viewed as an asset to him. As a young man, Sam wanted to hide so he would blend in; whereas today, he sees his multi-cultural background as an asset that has weaponized his mind, weaponized the way he speaks and communicates, and has allowed him to see different perspectives. QUESTION What cultures have influenced you?   Parable #2: Individualistic vs Collective The difference between the Eastern and Western cultures is this: One is an individualistic mindset, and the other is a collective culture mindset. In the Western culture mindset, when one is considering marriage, it is based on what the individual wants. In the Eastern culture, the question becomes, “Will my parents like her?” All the questions asked are not individualistic, they are based on a collective culture and your family unit. QUESTION Do you practice the mindsets of your youth? Why or why not?   Parable #3: The Best of Both Worlds Coach Sam freed himself from the demands of the collective culture. On the one side, there is beauty because you’re involving loved ones. On the other side, it’s total slavery to what everyone wants vs what you want. It’s basically an abandonment and total rejection of doing what others want him to do, coupled with an integration of the mindset of doing what he wants that has led him to adopt a system that carries the best of the East while operating in the Western world. QUESTION What have you rejected from your childhood teachings?   Parable #4: Colliding Cultures Coach Sabastian: As our cultures collide, just as we collide in our conversations, it’s not what’s right or wrong, it’s what works in the context find ourselves in. He came to America with a step-father and grew up German Catholic. “I grew up as a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant aka a WASP. ” He later learned he was Vietnamese/Chinese, another sub-category of Vietnamese people. He had to study and learn about his cultures, then reconcile with them. QUESTION What are the roots of your heritage?   Parable #5: Universal Principles As Coach Sam raises his son, it is his role to inject into him the wisdom of the East and allow him to choose. The East doesn’t present choices, they force. Coach Sabastian: I gave my sons the Western American culture which is abundance, and rooted them in the universal principles of love, forgiveness, and trust in God. As an analogy, a kite represents the Western culture of abundant, endless opportunities, which is tied or tethered to fundamental principles.” QUESTION What are your fundamental principles? Parables from the Pit: “We are two men proud and honored to live in the West while carrying seeds of the East.” –Sam Falsafi “The deeper you root your family in this Ethos, the higher your children will be able to fly.” — Sabastian Huynh

One of the things I look forward to in Church are days when we have a Baptism take place. Since Risen Savior Lutheran Church has a Baptism this Sunday, Pastor thought it would be good to get started on a series of shows on the Topic of Baptism.  Also... State investigations mount for Roman Catholic Church, while German Catholic bishops have investigations handed to them. Great Accuser getting in great overtime according to Francis, and we’re opening a can of baptism today on Radical Grace Radio.  

Welcome to the Warrior Week podcast with your host Coach Sam Falsafi. This week Sam welcomes guest Sebastian Huynh - the man who never belonged anywhere. They discuss his colorful and diverse background, explore racism, reveal the deep pain and isolation Sebastian has experienced in his life, delve into the world of drugs, prison, gangs and the Mexican mafia, share his unique spiritual journey and his jolting wake up call in the depths of the Pit at Warrior Week. Parable #1: Identity and Purpose Sebastian came to America with his German Catholic step father and began attending Catholic school as the only non white, non German student. Through the years he tested every religion as he sought for deeper meaning and purpose in life. He experienced Atheism for a season where he was angry at God: Fuck God. If there is a God, why didn’t he give me a dad? Why did I have multiple step fathers? Why am I always a minority? While in prison, he found his home in Christianity. QUESTION: What is the pain from Sebastian that resonates with you? Parable #2: Cultural Separation Sebastian had always been a natural leader until he became a Christian. For many seasons he became the student: "I had too much shame, guilt and dirt. I hid out and didn’t go to church because that’s what white people did. Asians? We're supposed to go to a Buddhist temple." Coach Sam: There is a separation between cultures that we cannot deny. We might be raising our children in a multicultural environment, yet cultures tend to stay within their own circles and not allow ‘outsiders’ in. You might be welcomed on the surface as a friend, but it is a false welcome because you will never be fully accepted within that circle. QUESTION: Where in your life have you experienced this false welcome - as a recipient or as a contributor? Parable #3: Who Is Modeling Manhood For Your Sons? Sebastian: I was lonely. I was being groomed for manhood by the mafia whose story was: men are powerful and they don't cry.  They were modeling drinking, drugs, sex and violence, so that is what I practiced. Violence became my signature, especially violence with knives. I went to prison because I stabbed three men. Coach Sam: If you are listening to this and you have a teenage son, and you're sensing that some shit is going on with a gang or organized crime, or who you feel is on the path of associating manhood with drugs, alcohol and sex - I would have you consider that you have not led him to a place where he can feel that he is being led towards being a man. You must lead your sons from a place of truth. QUESTION: What are you hearing that is piercing your heart? Parable #4: Obstacles Removed By the Bigger Hand The night Sebastian found God in prison was a turning point for him. He was facing 66 years to life when a miraculous turn of events started happening. One by one, life altering obstacles were being removed by this "bigger hand." At the time he thought he had just gotten lucky, but looking back from where he is today, he knows and recognizes it as the bigger hand of God. As the only white person in his Bible study groups, Sebastian was thirsting to know as much as he could about God. He was working three jobs and attending several bible study groups when the pastor asked him about attending Bible College. Sebastian had never heard about Bible College, and through a series of miraculous events, he received a full scholarship and eventually became a pastor.  QUESTION: Where in your life have you witnessed the miracles of "the bigger hand?" Parable #5: Circle of Trust Coach Sam: You came into Warrior Week. It was a process but there is also a beautiful friendship that has grown between all of us. For the first time we have this circle of trust, a feeling of belonging. Sebastian: It’s the most authentic version I have been searching for my whole life: the true acceptance of another man. I didn’t have to sell drugs to you, I didn’t have to hurt anybody for you, I didn’t have to kiss your ass; it was because you said “you work on yourself, you lead yourself” while you were leading yourself. That was the first time I had brothers accepting me without me having to do shit for them. QUESTION: Do you have a circle of trust? Who is in it?   Parable from the Pit: "Out of all you experience in your life, the greatest pain comes from wearing a mask. Wearing a mask complete fucking isolates you where you feel alone. This is not a social aloneness. It's hell on fucking earth. It’s the biggest pain for men in society today where they are living and operating alone in the space of wearing a gdamn mask and saying ‘everything is fine.” -- Coach Sam Falsafi   "I’m not looking for another man to be my savior, I’m leading myself and taking 100% responsibility for the direction I am leading my family. I hunt every day for my purpose. Here’s the truth: Once I lead myself, I can lead others. --Sebastian Huynh

Historical debates about the actions of the Roman Catholic Church in relationship to the Third Reich have never been restricted to academic presses and journals like so many other topics. Rather several groups of partisans in both Germany and the United States actively followed them in popular books, magazines, and newspapers since the late 1940s. In his new book, The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Mark Edward Ruff explores seven divisive controversies that exploded over the church's relationship to National Socialism during the early decades of the Federal Republic in West Germany. Ruff questions why so many early controversies ensnared German Catholics after World War II when there was a much higher rate of collaboration between the Protestant majority and the regime. He argues that public acrimony over the Concordat between the Third Reich and the Vatican in 1933 and the legacy of Pius XII emerged mainly as a proxy war between secular elites, leftwing Catholics, and the church establishment over the political dominance of the Christian Democratic Union in the 1950s and 1960s and the place of religion in modern democracies. Despite so much argumentation, empirical research, and open hostility, it seems that nobody ever changed their mind once their opinions formed on these matters. Combining rigorous research with accessible writing, Ruff authored a book that many listeners will enjoy. Michael E. OSullivan is Associate Professor of History at Marist College where he teaches courses about Modern Europe. He will publish Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965 with University of Toronto Press in August 2018.

Historical debates about the actions of the Roman Catholic Church in relationship to the Third Reich have never been restricted to academic presses and journals like so many other topics. Rather several groups of partisans in both Germany and the United States actively followed them in popular books, magazines, and newspapers since the late 1940s. In his new book, The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Mark Edward Ruff explores seven divisive controversies that exploded over the church’s relationship to National Socialism during the early decades of the Federal Republic in West Germany. Ruff questions why so many early controversies ensnared German Catholics after World War II when there was a much higher rate of collaboration between the Protestant majority and the regime. He argues that public acrimony over the Concordat between the Third Reich and the Vatican in 1933 and the legacy of Pius XII emerged mainly as a proxy war between secular elites, leftwing Catholics, and the church establishment over the political dominance of the Christian Democratic Union in the 1950s and 1960s and the place of religion in modern democracies. Despite so much argumentation, empirical research, and open hostility, it seems that nobody ever changed their mind once their opinions formed on these matters. Combining rigorous research with accessible writing, Ruff authored a book that many listeners will enjoy. Michael E. OSullivan is Associate Professor of History at Marist College where he teaches courses about Modern Europe. He will publish Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965 with University of Toronto Press in August 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Historical debates about the actions of the Roman Catholic Church in relationship to the Third Reich have never been restricted to academic presses and journals like so many other topics. Rather several groups of partisans in both Germany and the United States actively followed them in popular books, magazines, and newspapers since the late 1940s. In his new book, The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Mark Edward Ruff explores seven divisive controversies that exploded over the church’s relationship to National Socialism during the early decades of the Federal Republic in West Germany. Ruff questions why so many early controversies ensnared German Catholics after World War II when there was a much higher rate of collaboration between the Protestant majority and the regime. He argues that public acrimony over the Concordat between the Third Reich and the Vatican in 1933 and the legacy of Pius XII emerged mainly as a proxy war between secular elites, leftwing Catholics, and the church establishment over the political dominance of the Christian Democratic Union in the 1950s and 1960s and the place of religion in modern democracies. Despite so much argumentation, empirical research, and open hostility, it seems that nobody ever changed their mind once their opinions formed on these matters. Combining rigorous research with accessible writing, Ruff authored a book that many listeners will enjoy. Michael E. OSullivan is Associate Professor of History at Marist College where he teaches courses about Modern Europe. He will publish Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965 with University of Toronto Press in August 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Historical debates about the actions of the Roman Catholic Church in relationship to the Third Reich have never been restricted to academic presses and journals like so many other topics. Rather several groups of partisans in both Germany and the United States actively followed them in popular books, magazines, and newspapers since the late 1940s. In his new book, The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Mark Edward Ruff explores seven divisive controversies that exploded over the church’s relationship to National Socialism during the early decades of the Federal Republic in West Germany. Ruff questions why so many early controversies ensnared German Catholics after World War II when there was a much higher rate of collaboration between the Protestant majority and the regime. He argues that public acrimony over the Concordat between the Third Reich and the Vatican in 1933 and the legacy of Pius XII emerged mainly as a proxy war between secular elites, leftwing Catholics, and the church establishment over the political dominance of the Christian Democratic Union in the 1950s and 1960s and the place of religion in modern democracies. Despite so much argumentation, empirical research, and open hostility, it seems that nobody ever changed their mind once their opinions formed on these matters. Combining rigorous research with accessible writing, Ruff authored a book that many listeners will enjoy. Michael E. OSullivan is Associate Professor of History at Marist College where he teaches courses about Modern Europe. He will publish Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965 with University of Toronto Press in August 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Historical debates about the actions of the Roman Catholic Church in relationship to the Third Reich have never been restricted to academic presses and journals like so many other topics. Rather several groups of partisans in both Germany and the United States actively followed them in popular books, magazines, and newspapers since the late 1940s. In his new book, The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Mark Edward Ruff explores seven divisive controversies that exploded over the church's relationship to National Socialism during the early decades of the Federal Republic in West Germany. Ruff questions why so many early controversies ensnared German Catholics after World War II when there was a much higher rate of collaboration between the Protestant majority and the regime. He argues that public acrimony over the Concordat between the Third Reich and the Vatican in 1933 and the legacy of Pius XII emerged mainly as a proxy war between secular elites, leftwing Catholics, and the church establishment over the political dominance of the Christian Democratic Union in the 1950s and 1960s and the place of religion in modern democracies. Despite so much argumentation, empirical research, and open hostility, it seems that nobody ever changed their mind once their opinions formed on these matters. Combining rigorous research with accessible writing, Ruff authored a book that many listeners will enjoy. Michael E. OSullivan is Associate Professor of History at Marist College where he teaches courses about Modern Europe. He will publish Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965 with University of Toronto Press in August 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Historical debates about the actions of the Roman Catholic Church in relationship to the Third Reich have never been restricted to academic presses and journals like so many other topics. Rather several groups of partisans in both Germany and the United States actively followed them in popular books, magazines, and newspapers since the late 1940s. In his new book, The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Mark Edward Ruff explores seven divisive controversies that exploded over the church’s relationship to National Socialism during the early decades of the Federal Republic in West Germany. Ruff questions why so many early controversies ensnared German Catholics after World War II when there was a much higher rate of collaboration between the Protestant majority and the regime. He argues that public acrimony over the Concordat between the Third Reich and the Vatican in 1933 and the legacy of Pius XII emerged mainly as a proxy war between secular elites, leftwing Catholics, and the church establishment over the political dominance of the Christian Democratic Union in the 1950s and 1960s and the place of religion in modern democracies. Despite so much argumentation, empirical research, and open hostility, it seems that nobody ever changed their mind once their opinions formed on these matters. Combining rigorous research with accessible writing, Ruff authored a book that many listeners will enjoy. Michael E. OSullivan is Associate Professor of History at Marist College where he teaches courses about Modern Europe. He will publish Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965 with University of Toronto Press in August 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Historical debates about the actions of the Roman Catholic Church in relationship to the Third Reich have never been restricted to academic presses and journals like so many other topics. Rather several groups of partisans in both Germany and the United States actively followed them in popular books, magazines, and newspapers since the late 1940s. In his new book, The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Mark Edward Ruff explores seven divisive controversies that exploded over the church’s relationship to National Socialism during the early decades of the Federal Republic in West Germany. Ruff questions why so many early controversies ensnared German Catholics after World War II when there was a much higher rate of collaboration between the Protestant majority and the regime. He argues that public acrimony over the Concordat between the Third Reich and the Vatican in 1933 and the legacy of Pius XII emerged mainly as a proxy war between secular elites, leftwing Catholics, and the church establishment over the political dominance of the Christian Democratic Union in the 1950s and 1960s and the place of religion in modern democracies. Despite so much argumentation, empirical research, and open hostility, it seems that nobody ever changed their mind once their opinions formed on these matters. Combining rigorous research with accessible writing, Ruff authored a book that many listeners will enjoy. Michael E. OSullivan is Associate Professor of History at Marist College where he teaches courses about Modern Europe. He will publish Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965 with University of Toronto Press in August 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Historical debates about the actions of the Roman Catholic Church in relationship to the Third Reich have never been restricted to academic presses and journals like so many other topics. Rather several groups of partisans in both Germany and the United States actively followed them in popular books, magazines, and newspapers since the late 1940s. In his new book, The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Mark Edward Ruff explores seven divisive controversies that exploded over the church’s relationship to National Socialism during the early decades of the Federal Republic in West Germany. Ruff questions why so many early controversies ensnared German Catholics after World War II when there was a much higher rate of collaboration between the Protestant majority and the regime. He argues that public acrimony over the Concordat between the Third Reich and the Vatican in 1933 and the legacy of Pius XII emerged mainly as a proxy war between secular elites, leftwing Catholics, and the church establishment over the political dominance of the Christian Democratic Union in the 1950s and 1960s and the place of religion in modern democracies. Despite so much argumentation, empirical research, and open hostility, it seems that nobody ever changed their mind once their opinions formed on these matters. Combining rigorous research with accessible writing, Ruff authored a book that many listeners will enjoy. Michael E. OSullivan is Associate Professor of History at Marist College where he teaches courses about Modern Europe. He will publish Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965 with University of Toronto Press in August 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today's host(s): Scot Landry and Susan Abbott Today's guest(s): Gregory Tracy, Managing Editor of the Pilot; Father Roger Landry, Executive Editor of The Anchor. Summary of Today's Show: Scot is joined by the Thursday roundtable and discusses a new Catholic-themed movie, a fundraiser for teens by teens in Weston, Respect Life Sunday, and more. 1st Segment: Scot and Susan lamented the Red Sox collapse last night - but moved on quickly in order to not be too depressing! Susan asked Scot what's been going on with him. Scot said it was a busy week in the Pastoral Center, with a visit from Msgr. Andrew Wadsworth from the International Commission on English in the Liturgy and presentations. Scot said he is also headed to Kansas City tomorrow for the Catholic New Media Conference organized by the Star Quest Production Network. He continued and said he was disappointed that he signed up for the conference before he knew this weekend was also the CatholicTV telethon - it is the first time in a long time that he hasn't been able to participate. Susan agreed that CatholicTV was an important part of evangelization in the Archdiocese. Scot said he participated in the launch of a new Catholic radio station - 1230AM, WNEB in Worcester this past Sunday - a station called Emmanuel Radio. 2nd Segment: Scot started out by discussing a new movie from Emilio Estevez and Martin Sheen called The Way - a story about an ancient Catholic pilgrimage called the Camino de Santiago (or "Camino" for short). Scot commented that he hadn't know until the premier screening that Martin Sheen took his last name after Bishop Fulton Sheen. Greg said everyone asks him what he thought of the film - overall, Greg said, he thought it was a good movie. Many movies have a religious theme, he continued, but start with the end and fill in the gaps. He said The Way, on it's own merits and with a secular point of view, was still a good character-driven music. Scot agreed it was a good movie for both Catholic and secular audiences. Scot took a minute to congratulate the occasional fill-in cohost on The Good Catholic Life, Father Chip Hines, on his recent appointment to St Martha parish in Plainville. He had been serving as the administrator at that parish. Scot brought up a story in the Pilot about students in Weston are using social media to help fundraise for the Cor Unum meal center in Lawrence. Greg said that the fundraiser, entitled "Feeding Frenzy," is special because it is particularly geared towards teens and students to help feed other teens and youth. Greg highlighted that the Cor Unum meal center is different from a standard soup kitchen because it not only serves 3 meals a day, but serves them sit-down style - not in a cafeteria line. Greg said the goal is to raise about $25,000 to help fund the meal center. Scot highlighted two great stories in the Pilot with pictures this week - one about the Celebration of the Priesthood dinner last Thursday, and one about the Blessed John XXIII Lawn Party. Both events were very successful, Scot continued, and raised money for senior priests and the seminary respectively. The last piece of local news Scot brought up was the combination of two Catholic high schools - Trinity Catholic Academy in Newtown and Mount Saint Joseph Academy in Brighton - to form a new high school named Saint Joseph's Preparatory High School. The new school will be located on the current campus of Mount Saint Joseph Academy and serve a co-ed student body of approximately 400 students. 3rd Segment: Scot reminded everyone that it is Respect Life Sunday this coming Sunday. Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, chair of the USCCB committee on Pro-Life activities spoke persuasively about threats to life, Scot said. “The unborn child, the aging parent who some call a ‘burden' on our medical system, the allegedly ‘excess' embryo in the fertility clinic, the person with a disability, the cognitively impaired accident victim who needs assistance in receiving food and water to live—each today is at risk of being dismissed as a ‘life unworthy of life',” Cardinal DiNardo said. Scot said he thought it was good that the Cardinal was so specific about the precarious life situations that need help from all people of good will, not just Catholics. Susan said that the focus on Respect Life Sunday is sometimes just on the abortion issue, but she agreed that Cardinal DiNardo reminded us we need to consider the "womb to tomb" fight for life. Scot said that Bishop Robert Hennessey will celebrate a Respect Life Mass at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross at 11:30am on Sunday, followed by the Mass Citizens for Life Respect Life Walk at 1:30pm. Fr Roger said that the walk is an important way to energize the community to think about pro-life issues, especially because of all the protestors who remind us that our views aren't always held by others. Scot highlighted another testimonial from a participant in Project Rachel, a ministry in the Archdiocese of Boston that helps women who have had abortions seek healing. Greg said that it is sad that more people haven't heard about Project Rachel and the wonderful work they do, and that the Pilot will be publishing a series of letters from participants every week throughout the month of October. Susan said that the retreats are a one day event, but the work that goes on is a blessing to the Church and to the women who participate. Scot brought up that Fr Roger's editorial in the Anchor this week is entitled "A Commonwealth of Kevorkians, or Good Samaritans?" Fr Roger said he was trying to give an echo for the readers in Fall River of Cardinal Sean's comments at the Red Mass in Boston last weekend about the attempted legalization of assisted suicide in Massachusetts. Fr Roger continued, saying that the editorial is a herald call for people to make them aware that the issue is again on it's way. He said we need to have a campaign to educate citizens to prepare them for the possibility that the initiative may make it to the ballot next November; a campaign that will inform citizens to talk to their coworkers and family about the value of life. Fr Roger said that we need to acknowledge that we can never help someone commit suicide - Scot added that if someone is on a bridge thinking about jumping, we would never consider pushing them off - we'd always try to talk them down. Scot reminded everyone that all suicide is a tragedy. 4th Segment: Scot and Father Roger opened the segment by discussing Pope Benedict's addresses to the German people this past week. Scot said he imagined it was an important trip for the Pope, who is trying to fight against secularization in his home country. Fr Roger said the first and most important thing Pope Benedict did was help German Catholics remember that the Church is not just a society of individual people, but a real communion of inter-related people giving witness to God's own love for us. Fr Roger said that the Pope seemed to be speaking out against institutionalism, something we need to hear in the United States as well. Fr Roger continued and said that Pope Benedict was also emphasizing an ecumenical spirit with a visit to Martin Luther's birthplace and talking about Luther's search for God - Fr Roger said that every one of us as Catholic Christians need to continually have the same hunger for God within our Church. Lastly, Fr Roger said the Pope wanted secular Germans to remember they always need to be grounded in truth. Susan said that a message she took from the Pope's visit was that "where there is God, there is a future." Susan also said she was surprised at a comment from CNS that the Pope was connecting on a high level - she said it isn't a surprise to her as the Pope is a renowned academic. Scot said his favorite quote from the Pope's addresses was emphasizing that a new strategy was not needed to re-evangelize people, but rather seeking total transparency. Scot concluded the show by discussing a blunt letter from Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York to President Obama about the administration's positions on gay marriage. Scot read a short passage from the letter: That is why it is particularly upsetting, Mr. President, when your Administration, through the various court documents, pronouncements and policies identified in the attached analysis, attributes to those who support DOMA a motivation rooted in prejudice and bias. It is especially wrong and unfair to equate opposition to redefining marriage with either intentional or willfully ignorant racial discrimination, as your Administration insists on doing. Scot emphasized that the Archbishop is trying to call the President out about failure to follow campaign promises about the meaning and value of marriage and the family. Father Roger concluded the show by saying that Archbishop Dolan has "taken the gloves off" - in the past, the bishops have been very courteous, but that the President's distancing from promises should make citizens reflect whether or not he represents their views on the issue.

Catholicism came to the Atlantic seaboard in the mid-17th century with English Catholics seeking refuge in Maryland. Given a small number of American Catholics and French Catholic support for the American Revolution, anti-Catholic discrimination in America remained relatively muted until poverty and famine in Ireland in the 1830s and 1840s sent a flood of Irish Catholics across the Atlantic. Large numbers of German Catholics began to arrive about the same time. Assimilation came slowly. Catholicism in Victorian American was characteristically urban, Irish, and poor. Like the denominational structures that divided Protestantism, Catholics were divided by ethnic and national groups. As American Catholicism grew, it spawned nativist critics. It also inspired many converts, partly because marriage required conversion. Also, Catholicism offered release from the demands of the religious marketplace and from the aesthetic barrenness of Protestantism, adding color, sound, and smells to the American religious experience. Moreover, the Catholic Jesus incarnated a special role for the western world illustrated both by Mary's protection of Mexico and the western hemisphere and by the large population of patron saints that accompanied Catholic immigrants.

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