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 They put in their cover letter, “Honestly, we're just gonna go up to Yellowstone around that time and we would love to swing by and show the movie.”Rudi Womack is the Director of the Wyoming International Film Festival and the creator of the YouTube channel The Film Festival Guide.In this conversation, Rudi talks about:* What watching thousands of film festival submissions has taught him about good storytelling* The biggest mistake filmmakers make when they submit to festivals* Why transparency matters and why he published all of the submission and acceptance stats for the Wyoming International Film Festival * The importance of a compelling poster and thumbnail* How to write a good description of your movie* The most important questions filmmakers must askHere is a link to Hiike, the new film festival submission platform that Rudi mentioned.If you enjoyed this episode please forward to a friend.Here is an AI-generated transcript of my interview with Rudi. Don't come for me.79. Film Festival Director Rudi WomackBEN: Hi everyone. This is Ben Guest and this is The Creativity Education and Leadership Podcast. My guest today is Rudy Womack, who is the director of the Wyoming International Film Festival, and also Rudy has a fantastic YouTube page called The Film Festival Guide. So for all my filmmakers out there who are interested in submitting to festivals in this interview and on Rudy's YouTube page, he breaks it down. Enjoy.Rudi, thank you so much for joining us.RUDI: Hey, it's my pleasure to be here. Thank you for having me.BEN: So I always start off with a fun question, and we're entering the holiday season, so very important holiday question. Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?RUDI: Absolutely. A hundred percent. Come on.BEN: I love it. So I, I told you this off Air, I found you through the Rate YouTube channel.You have the Film Festival Guide. Is that the right name? I wanna make sure I get the name right. Yeah. The filmRUDI: festival guide. Yep.BEN: On YouTube Film Festival Guide on YouTube. Please. Any filmmakers out there go and subscribe. The information is so helpful. What, why did you start the this YouTube page?RUDI: I, as a filmmaker have gone through the festival circuit several times and I made a lot of amateur mistakes. I didn't know what I was doing. Definitely fell on my face a couple of times, but I also had some successes. And as I did more film festivals, I started learning more about the circuit.I got invited by a film festival to become a programmer, and so I started reviewing a lot of films and seeing a lot of the submissions. And I think instantly that made me a better filmmaker just because I saw what was working, what wasn't working, and how other filmmakers really brought to, brought their stories to life on the screen.And it, it was truly inspirational. Very long story short, the Wyoming International Film Festival was started by a gentleman named Alan Oi, and he's a, he's a documentarian out of Wyoming, which is where I'm from. I'm from Wyoming. So Alan had the film festival and he had run it for some years and it was going great and everything.But then Alan retired and now he's retiring. He wants to move outta Wyoming and he doesn't wanna run a live event. ‘cause it is a lot of work in his words. And I quote, it's a young man's game. And at the same time, COVID hit and he didn't wanna do the whole online thing and it was just a big mess.So Alan was like, I'm done with the festival, it's done. I'm just gonna let it die. And I was begging him, no, Alan, you can't do it. It's so important for indie filmmakers. And at the time I'm just finding my feet in the festival circuit as well as both a filmmaker and now I'm a programmer.I'm begging him like don't let it die. It's important, maybe I can help out. And he was like, why don't you run it? And I was like, absolutely not, man. What are you talking about? That's crazy. No way. No way. And I was like, I'm going to be your director of programming. That's what I'm going to do.I'm gonna help you get films in so you don't have to do that work. Very long story short, I ended up running it. I ended up taking over the festival from Alan. I did so reluctantly. But when I started working with the festival, working with the community, working with my hometown filmmakers and my home state filmmakers, and just seeing how important a film festival can be for a local community to uplift indie filmmakers to help them along the way I fell in love with it and here I am now, I run the film festival.And your question was, how did I start the YouTube channel? Sorry, I'm getting there. But I got a lot of questions from filmmakers about festivals, like how to navigate ‘em. And there's just so much mystery behind film festivals ‘cause it's so opaque. There's not a lot of transparency from film festivals.Film festivals are sketchy about which films they do select and which they don't. And frankly, there's a lot of misinformation out there about festivals. So I started answering a lot of questions and I started repeatedly answering the same question again and again and again. And I had some friends who told me, you should write a book.But I was like, yeah, but books, there are books, like people have already written books, bluntly, frankly, people far more experienced and knowledgeable than myself have written books. And so if you're not reading those books, then you're probably not gonna read my book. So that's when I decided, you know what, the YouTube channel is a great way to just do very easy outreach.Take one single topic, break it down for 10 minutes, and hopefully help filmmakers along on their film festival journey.BEN: I love it. And you said something for all the filmmakers who are listening. I'm gonna come back to it. Don't worry. You said something about once you started programming and watching so many films, you got a good sense of what works and what doesn't.So I definitely wanna come back to that. I know the filmmakers listening want to hear that. But before that you mentioned 10 minute videos. You strike me as somebody who, does research and takes time to Yes. Before they do something. What did you discover about running a YouTube page?What things work, what things don't work?RUDI: I'm still very early on in my own YouTube development. I'm still trying to learn what does and doesn't work. So I'm probably the worst person on earth to give advice. Definitely that first 32nd hook is so important on YouTube, just like it is on a film that, that intro, how we come into the story, whatever, on YouTube, you can see a massive drop off and apparently it's that way on every channel.Again, I'm not a YouTube guru, so I don't give advice, but that first 32nd hook is a big deal, but also just my presence on camera. I come from the post world. I'm an editor, so I'm not just behind camera. I'm behind, behind the camera. So I'm very much not used to an on-camera presence, so I'm developing that and learning it as well.What kind of energy I can bring. How to make it engaging. But also I don't wanna be zany and too quirky or anything because I am trying to give good guidance to filmmakers, but I also don't want to lecture them and bore them to death. So it's finding that balance of information that's valuable, but also entertaining enough that people don't wanna click off.And it's actually quite a complex thing that I'm still unraveling one video at a time. But the best advice that I saw was some YouTube guru who is just focus on getting 1% better on every single video. So is that little bit better graphics or better delivery, or better audio, or better editing or whatever it is.And after a hundred videos, you're now a hundred percent better. So that's what I've been focusing on. Just very small baby steps.BEN: Yeah, that's such a great way to break it down, right? It just makes it bite-sized, get 1% better.RUDI: I think you can apply that to life in general. There's a lot of things in life just today be 1% better.That's it,BEN: so you mentioned once you start a programming scene, get enough feel for what works, what doesn't, especially with short films, both narrative and docs. What are you seeing that works and doesn't work?RUDI: In the shorts world I'm seeing a couple of things. One, a self-contained story, and this is something that I had a problem with because oftentimes I would go for more of a quote unquote scene instead of a full beginning, middle and in, in a story.So a self-contained story typically is gonna make your short film much more successful. This can be hard for some filmmakers because they're trying to make a proof of concept short film that they're gonna go and get financing for their future. So one of the things that they often do is they just take a scene outta their feature and then just shoot that, which has mixed results.And the problem is the films that have gotten financed and been made from shorts that have done that are the ones that you see. So it's actually a survivor bias, where it's like it, it works for those particular films and therefore everybody thinks it's gonna work for their film. But obviously the films that it doesn't work for, you're never going to see.So you don't understand, actually for the majority of films, it doesn't work. So if you have a proof of concept, I actually say, don't pull a scene outta your feature. I say write its own scene, or sorry, your own short film. That exists in the same world and universe with the same characters as what your feature film is.And I think that's gonna have much more success on the film festival circuit. And that will lean you or lead you to whatever your goal is, financing or distribution or whatever. So that's a big thing with short films that makes ‘em successful is make sure it is actually a self-contained story and it doesn't have any loose ends, so to speak.What doesn't work is something that I myself struggle with, ironically as an editor. And that's things being too long and you need to parse them down. Now a lot of people will say, shorter, the better, which is true, but I actually think that's a result of actually getting to the core of the problem.And that's make your film as concise as possible. Get the idea. The emotion, the story out as concise as you can. And what that does by happenstance is it makes your film shorter. So it's not that shorter is better. I know there's it almost sounds like I'm just splitting hairs here, but I've seen plenty of five minute films that didn't work.I've seen plenty of 10 minute films that board me to death. So shorter isn't necessarily better. It's more concise of your story is better. And sometimes that still manifests as a 20, 30, 40 minute film. But if it's a very interesting 20, 30, 40 minutes, that's not gonna matter.BEN: It's such a great point. And for me, when I get to a certain point in the edit, I like to just bring in a couple friends and have them watch it. And then I just sit there and watch them watch it and whatever feedback they're gonna provide afterwards. 95% of what I need, I can just tell from Body Language as they're watching the film.RUDI: Yep.BEN: You come fromRUDI: theBEN: Go ahead.RUDI: Oh I was just gonna piggyback off that and just say, audience feedback is worth its weight and goal.BEN: Yeah.RUDI: And every filmmaker when you hit that fine cut stage, like you said, get your friends and family together, buy everybody some burgers and fries or whatever.Get ‘em all together. Gather ‘em up in a room, watch them, watch your film. That's gonna tell you more than anything else. We'll be able to about the success of your film and where it's strong, where it's weak, where you can still fix things. And I always suggest do it in your fine cut stage because nothing's locked in and you can still move things around and adjust, or whatever it is you need.BEN: Love it. And I think earlier what you are really getting at is telling a good story. Yes. And I'm amazed at, not amazed, but maybe a little disappointed, especially in today's world, the technical side of filmmaking. Even for an amateur, even for an indie filmmaker that you can, things can be d done so well technically, but there's no story.RUDI: Yes. All the time. So when I get onto Reddit, ‘cause you mentioned Reddit earlier if I go onto our filmmakers, right? Yeah. I don't have to look far to see people just geeking out over the newest Camerons. It's, and it's always cameras. Everybody always talks about. This camera is so fancy and it has so many stops above and this lens can do this and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.It has this big bit rate, whatever. Everybody gets so excited about cameras and I always say to myself, man, if they got this excited about audio, I wouldn't have to reject half the films that we have to reject because the audio is just blah. So if we're gonna talk tech, if we're gonna talk about the quote unquote quality of the filmmaking, I think what filmmakers need to understand is there are so many films out there we're that is just the foundation.It is the base level, it is the bare minimum that the film looks good. It sounds good. It feels good. So for us, festival guys, we see so many of these films. You're super gorgeous cinematography, you're really fancy, VFX, whatever it is that you think really separates your film from the pack. I don't wanna discourage you, I don't wanna sound jaded or anything, but it's not as impressive to us as you might believe it is, simply because we see hundreds and sometimes thousands of films like that.So for us it constantly falls back to originality and the story. Is the story well done? Is it well told? Is it a new and interesting story that we've never seen before? Is it a story that we've seen before but told in a very unique way, from a specific point of view, that is what is going to move us as festival people.‘cause when I put it into the theater and my audience walks in and they pay a ticket. My audience is used to going down to the theater and seeing a hundred million dollar movies. So for them, quality is just a given. It's just assumed they're not going to be thinking about it for them. They go and watch a movie ‘cause they're interested in, and I think if more filmmakers really dialed in on their story, they're going to find more success.BEN: So many great points there and a hundred percent agree with what you were saying about people get excited about the camera. And so I did my MFA at USC and there were three different times where I was on a set that, that I felt was unsafe. Not that I felt it was unsafe, what they were doing. Geez. And I walked off and it was always to get the cool shot.Like no one's ever hanging off a balcony to get room tone. You know what I mean? It's just, it's always to get the cool shot that, again, if you're not telling a good story, it doesn't matter. And to your point, I've always felt good audio is more important than good video.RUDI: Good image.BEN: Yeah.RUDI: Look at the documentary. Look at the nonfiction world. We see verite stuff all the time. We see stuff people recorded on their phone or, security camera footage or whatever, like at the end of the day in the nonfiction world is a great example of the quality of the shot doesn't necessarily matter so much as the quality of the story and how it's being told and how it's being revealed to us.And the audio is always gonna be very clean, very top notch, even if it's quote unquote found footage or. Veritate footage or whatever, the audio is always peak. I saw that Netflix doc recently, it was super heartbreaking. The perfect neighbor. And most of it is police body cam footage, but the audio is clean so we're able to follow the story so no one sits back and thinks of themselves this isn't a good shot.Of course it's not, it's police potty cam footage. Like it doesn't look good and it's not meant to,BEN: but it sounds good. And so you can follow it.RUDI: Yes.BEN: What what are some tropes that you think you've gotten tired of seeing in, especially in short films?RUDI: So every year it's a little bit different.You would be surprised what things pop up and what don't. The one trope that kind of rubs me the wrong way, I, I don't know how to describe it any other way than filmmaker self therapy. Like they, they're definitely going through something at the moment and they're not focused on creating a good story.They're more focused on using their art form to emotionally process whatever it is they're going through, which fine, you are an artist that makes sense to do, but also I can't sell my audience on that. So while I don't wanna discourage someone from making a film that is very near and dear and personal to them, at the end of the day, it might not be a good fit for film festivals.And so I, I would really think twice about whether or not that is a story that an audience, frankly, needs to see. Filmmaker cell therapy is one that when I get it, I'm always eh I don't know what to do with it. I just, I don't know what to do. Some other tropes that we see very commonly are like.Obviously right now, tech and AI and stuff like that gives a lot of people anxiety. So there's a lot of like evil robot takes over or the big reveal at the end of the movie, they were a robot the whole time, or the whole thing was a simulation or whatever. That's being very well tread right now.For me, I'm I am not a political person and anytime some big thing is in the news, we see tons of films on it. So I understand politics do affect people's day to day and their lives, so I understand that manifest. But man, I probably have a hundred immigration films right now and that's a lot. And I'm not gonna screen that many, so I'm only gonna pick like one, maybe two, so that's a tough one to do.Anything that's like a hot button political issue. We always see a big wave of those come in. And then honestly, romance dramas get tough. It isn't evergreen. We do have an audience for it. We usually do have some kind of a selection of them. Romance dramas have existed since the beginning of time.It's always been a thing. But filmmaker broke up with his girlfriend, so now he has a character who breaks up with his girlfriend. It gets it, it doesn't get very original. I, it just it gets exhausted. So those are some of the kind of general tropes I would avoid. I have heard other festival directors talk about like cancer films and Alzheimer's films and stuff like that.This year I'm not seeing so much of those, but I have seen those in the past. So tho those are some other. Tread stories we'll see.BEN: One of the things that I appreciate about. Your series of videos is your transparency, and you have one video where you literally break down. Here are all the films the number of films, Wyoming International Film Festivals received. Here's how it breaks down, here's how many we, we accepted, et cetera, et cetera.You have another one where you literally show the viewer, this is what we see as a programmer on our film freeway portal. Here's the scoring sheet. I think it's a little bit different from the one you guys use internally, but basically here's what the scoring sheet on film freeway looks like. Why is transparency so important to you?RUDI: Because I'm a filmmaker, because I've been to so many festivals where I have no idea what the hell's going on. I've been to festivals where I think my film is gonna be a good fit. I think based on what I've been able to investigate on my own, digging through their website, digging through their archive.Seen what they've programmed before. I think I'm a good fit, but I don't actually know. And I've submitted to festivals where later on, I see what they programmed or I got rejected or even accepted and then gone to the festival itself and have been a little disappointed when was like I this festival didn't fit my goals the way that I thought it would, or, this festival wasn't going to do the things for me.Or this festival, like really promoted themselves very heavily as this big event. And then you get there and then it's not, and that's a little bothersome. So when I stepped into my role at the Wyoming International Film Festival, I made a whole bunch of changes. But one of the changes that I made was, we are going to be transparent.I don't ever want a filmmaker to submit to our festival, get in, get accepted to the festival, drive all the way out to Wyoming and be disappointed. I don't want them to do that. That's not good for them. It's not good for us. It's not good for the community. It's not good for indie film at large.What's better is if we just be what we are in Wyoming, we're straight shooters. We just say it as it is. So I'm going to tell you exactly how many films were submitted, which films we accepted, what the percentage rates are, how many shorts versus features, how many docs versus narratives, how many music videos, all of this stuff.And we've been releasing the data for the past couple of years. This year, like we went all out with the data it was much more thorough than what we've done in years past. And even me, the director of the festival, I sit back, I look at the data and I can see some weak spots in it. I can see where we need to improve as a festival, where we need to start, bringing in a certain type of film or where other films might be overrepresented or how we can give more of an experience to our filmmakers.Just by boiling it down to numbers and looking at it. I can start seeing some of our weak spots and I want to improve on that ‘cause I want to have a good festival. And I think if more festivals were to do that, I think the filmmaking community at large would be much more appreciative. And I think film festivals need to understand.That if you have fewer submissions, that's not a bad thing because the submissions that you are going to get are filmmakers that really want to be in your festival and that's good for the health of your festival, the community, the filmmakers, everything. So I, I think the only way we get there is by being transparent.And thankfully there are other festivals that are publishing their data, which is great. And that makes me very happy to see. And I hope that trend continues and I hope even more festivals start publishing more of their data and showing how they review films, what their scorecards look like, what they're looking for.‘cause ultimately I genuinely believe that just serves the filmmakers better and ultimately makes everybody have a better experience on the film festival circuit, including the festivals themselves.BEN: When you took over as directorWhat were the biggest challenges?RUDI: So our biggest challenge to this day is our venue.So there's only one movie theater in Cheyenne, Wyoming. It is owned by a company outta Casper, Wyoming. They own pretty much a monopoly of movie theaters across the state, like most of them. And they don't allow anybody into their theaters at all. They don't allow her private screenings or corporate events or, in individuals who wanna screen their film or film festivals.I'm not the only film festival in Wyoming. I talk with other festival directors. They can't get in either. It's funny, the film commissioner of the state can't even get in. You would think the movie theater would at least want to partner with the state film Commission, but no. So for us, the challenge has been a venue and luckily our partners over at Laramie County Community College.Have graciously allowed us to use their facilities for the last couple years. They have a beautiful auditorium that we do some of our screenings in, but we also have screening rooms in a black box theater that they have as well as a conference room. And when I say conference room, most filmmakers like their heart drops a little bit.They're like, oh man, I'm just, I'm going into a conference room. It's not a proper movie theater. And that's fine. We publish that data on our film freeway page on hike. We are transparent about that. So when you submit, you might be in the conference room. But ironically, I think it has some of the best audio and it has some of the best projection.So even though it's the quote unquote least movie theater, like I actually think it has some of the best projection, best color. But venue is probably one of our biggest challenges and we continue to develop that. We continue to. Trying to innovate. We're trying to build our own screening room there on the campus.Like we're trying to use one of their big classrooms for it. And what we wanna do is we wanna turn it into a lounge. We wanna bring in like couches and sofas and comfy chairs where it's like much more of a chill environment in there. And that's the type of film we wanna screen in. There's some you can literally sit back, settle in and relax.So there's things that we're doing to create a better environment for our filmmakers and of course our audience, our guests at the festival.BEN: I love it. What's been the biggest reward?RUDI: The, I get to meet you. That's what the biggest reward is. I get to meet so many filmmakers. I get to hear their stories.I get to be inspired. I get to learn stuff. I was talking with a festival director a couple of days ago. Who asked me about how we do our audience award scores and how we process that and what they do. And I just like I lit up, I'm like, oh my God. It's such a better way, it's more efficient, it's easier on the staff.It's more representative of how the audience actually feels about the film, the way the scores are aggregated and counted. It's so great. I get to meet so many people in this world of film and every single day it's like a new, whole new world is opened up to me and I get to hear so many fantastic points of view.I get to see so many awesome films, like just how many great movies are out there is a cinephile. It's like the most rewarding thing in the world. I'm an addict. I'm totally addicted to it. It's so great.BEN: I love it. I remember I used to coach basketball in my first year as a head coach. I was like, yeah, everybody's gonna be pretty competitive, other coaches and so forth.And they were, and I was. But at the same time, when coaches would get together, it was just so supportive. And people are sharing, this is what I'm doing in practice. I'm looking at this offense, this defense. And I imagine it's the same with other film festival directors and programmers. Oh, yeah. Just a supportive environment comparing notes.RUDI: It is. And the more that I meet, the more I truly do understand. 99% of festival directors out there are programmers, people who work in it. They have some tie to cinema. Most of them are filmmakers. Those who aren't, have a deep passion and love for cinema and for storytelling, and.Everybody's a volunteer. Everybody has a day job. Nobody makes money on this. They do it from the love of their heart. They truly do. And the way that they serve their communities, the way that they serve their filmmakers, some of the cool ideas they come up with there's some really neat festivals out there with like very interesting hooks or events or whatever.And I think it is such an incredible ecosystem and I think I'm truly privileged to be part of it.BEN: What are some lesser known or maybe mid-tier festivals or local festivals that you love to attend?RUDI: Okay, so one of my favorite festivals I guess you said lesser known. This one is not lesser known, but Film Quest over in Provo, Utah, damn man, pe like festival people talk about building community. They're on a different level. They've built a family. Like everybody who goes to that festival is just so tight knit there. There's no other festival like Provo or sorry, film Quest in Provo. It is just, it's on another level. And how well they treat their filmmakers is fantastic.Some years ago I was invited to be a jury member at the Fair Film Festival, which is in Ferazi Kosovo. So that is in southeastern Europe. It's a landlocked country, just a little bit above Greece, a little bit north of Greece and north of Macedonia. And Fari is a small town. And I went to that festival and first off, wow.What a great festival. I strongly suggest you submit your film to fair film. It's so good. But the cool part of being in this European festival, and frankly a small European country, most of the films are international, obviously. And so there's filmmakers coming in from like Jordan and Spain and Germany and Slovakia and Slovenia and like all over the place, Greece, Turkey, you name it.And how interesting it is to have this incredible cross section of languages and cultures and peoples, but we're all united by this one singular thing. And that's our love for storytelling and our love for movies. It had to be one of the most incredible experiences of my life. And the next movie I make, taking it back to cosBEN: Fantastic.Just had a question. What was it? Oh okay. So with the huge caveat of besides making. A good film, a film that tells a story. Besides that, are there any tips or tricks, things on the margins that filmmakers can do when they're applying to festivals to be aware of? Sometimes festivals. Ask for a cover letter orRUDI: Yes.BEN: Press kit, things like that. Okay.RUDI: So with, sorry, my phone is loud. I should turn that down. So obviously with a huge caveat of make a good film or whatever, what's the easiest way to get it? All of the stuff on film Freeway, and I do have a video on this, on my YouTube page if you wanna check it out, where I give you a tour of film, freeway from the festival side of things like what the festival can see and how we see it and how we navigate it.On the festival end of things. We can see your cover letter, your screenings and awards your. Cast and crew information, your director's bio, your director's statement, your photographs, your EPK, that's your electronic press kit your trailer, all of that. All of that. As much of that as you can possibly make, you should make it.It's very important. And you never know which piece is gonna be more important to a particular film festival. For instance, here's something crazy. I was meeting with some of my programmers last night. They had a whole bunch of films that they wanted to recommend to go to the next level programming.And we require films. Tell us where in the world or where in the United States the film was made. And every single one of ‘em was California. California. California. California. California. Which fine, whatever. California has a big film industry. That's, it's a very big state, population wise. Makes sense, right?But I am sitting back thinking, okay. I don't want it just to be a bunch of California movies. We have a big country here. I would like to see something else. And something caught my attention. One of the filmmakers, their address was in Birmingham, Alabama, but the film was shot in California, so I am suspicious.I haven't dug into it myself. I'm suspicious either that filmmaker's from Alabama and they have moved to California, or that filmmaker lives in Alabama and they shot their film in California. So they're answering where it was shot correctly. But for me, I'm like, there you go. When everybody's from California.I want that unique perspective. I wanna see someone's from Alabama and what their perspective is now. I haven't watched the film yet. I don't know if it's what we're looking for. Obviously it's a good film if my programming team has recommended it, there's no doubt in my mind it's good film. Now there's other considerations we're gonna have, but.That alone was something, even my, like I myself did not know that I would be looking for. So filling out all of that data on film, freeway, all of your information that you possibly can, your cover letters your screenings, your awards, whatever it is, the more information you give us as a festival, the more we have to make our selections.And it only benefits you. It only helps you out. So filmmakers don't get lazy. Fill out all of that information. We need it. We use it. It's important. Just do it.BEN: You mentioned a meeting with your programmers last night. Take us inside that conversation. What does that look like? What do you discuss, et cetera.RUDI: So there's. There's a big programming team and it's divided up into two different groups. There's our kind of first round screeners and then there's our senior programmers and the senior programmers pretty much review the films that have gone through that first round of screening that are getting recommended to go onto the next one.So typically when I'm talking with my screeners and everything, it's a very different conversation on the bottom end of it where they're just sorting through all of the submissions versus a different conversation I have with the senior programmers who are on the top end of it. We're now trying to decide how to block films together, how we're gonna organize it, what's the schedule maybe look like, what's the overall tone and vibe of the festival going to be, okay.If we wanna have a sci-fi block, do we even have enough sci-fi films? If we don't. Where else can we find homes for ‘em? Stuff like that. So those conversations are a little bit more high end, if you will. And it tends to be less about the story of the film itself and more about how that film is going to fit into the festival.Whereas when I'm talking with the screeners, it's much more on the story end. Like what about the story did you like or you didn't like? Or what was the unique point of view? Or whatever. So depending on which group I'm talking to it, it's gonna be different. And then of course that divides out further on features and shorts and documentaries and narratives and music videos.So like obviously my conversation with the music video people are gonna be much different than my like short documentary people.BEN: Shout out to short documentary people as a documentarian primarily makes shorts I'll ask a question for us folks. In one of the videos, as I mentioned, you literally show here's what the scoring sheet looks like.Yes. And that was for narrative with, I think one of the categories was acting and so forth. So for a documentary or documentary shorts, what does that scoring sheet look like? What do those discussions entail?RUDI: Film freeway does not allow us to have more than one scoring sheet.So unfortunately, there's just this one scoring sheet that's for everything. What I tell my screening team, and we definitely double check everything, like there's multiple people who look at something. So it's not just one person's opinion. You have at least two, oftentimes three, pretty often four.So for something like documentary they skip over that. That's what they do. So if there's no acting in the film, they skip over that. They don't rate acting if there is no acting. But you'd be surprised. There are documentaries that have acting in ‘em. There are like docudramas or documentaries with recreation In the recreation is like actual scenes and performances and stuff like that.So in those cases, even though it's a nonfiction and a documentary, yeah, we'll still judge it for the acting ‘cause that's what it has. I get the question. I'm gonna hijack your question for a second, but it is applicable. I get the question, do we accept AI in our film festival, we do not have any official policy for or against ai, which scares some filmmakers.But we do rate AI on the same standards as we would anybody else. So when it comes to creativity and originality, guess what, you're getting a nothing. ‘cause AI didn't create it. AI is not original. AI just mashes together a bunch of information from other people. So that's no creativity and originality.Same thing for something like, I don't know, art design. If you have a AI character walking through a scene or whatever you're getting zero on your art design. Nobody built those sets. Nobody costumed that actor. Nobody was the makeup artist or the hair or whatever other art deck or, PD or anything on the set.So we will accept ai. We have accepted one single AI film so far because despite all of its quote unquote handicaps, and it was a music video. It still was successful in other categories that had a good enough score. We as a team sat down, said Yes, that it still is a good film. The audience is still gonna enjoy it.The filmmaker definitely had a vision with it. They wrote out a whole thing on like why they chose to use ai. ‘cause they're also an experimental filmmaker, so it made sense for them and everything. So we were like, you know what? That's legit. Let's put it in. But other AI submissions, like I got an AI children's animation the other day and I'm like they didn't animate it themselves.They didn't voice act it themselves. It's not getting good scores on any of these. So we'll see. We'll see. We'll see if it gets through or not, but already you're shooting yourself in the foot. So don't do ai.BEN: Okay. Couple little. I don't know, around the edges or micro questions. One of the things that you talked about in one of your recent videos was having a good poster and you talked about designing your poster for your film prudence.RUDI: Yeah.BEN: Talk, talk to me about,RUDI: I specifically gave my posters an example, not a great poster,BEN: But talk to me about that.For the no budget or low budget filmmaker that can't afford to hire a a designer to make a poster. Talk to me about poster design and how that impacts the presentation of the film for festivals.RUDI: So I strongly believe that a big part of filmmaking and marketing and packaging your film together, all of that is psychology.And as much as we want to sit back and say, Hey, don't judge a book by its, cover it, that literally goes against human psychology. People are not hardwired to do that. It, it is. In our DNA, it's not just a bad habit, it is literally a survival mechanism. So if you want to stand out, you do need to have everything put together.Your cover letter, your synopsis, your photographs, all of that, and of course all of your key art. That's your poster. That's any banners that you have, that's how you're going to be promoting the film. And you have to understand it's not just about making your film look pretty to get filmmakers to go, or sorry your programmers go, Ooh, and ah, it's a pretty film.We are looking at that as a mechanism for us to advertise the festival. You gotta understand if I have 150 films in the festival, I have to get an audience for those films. And the easiest way for me to do that is through your marketing materials. We don't have the capacity. To design marketing materials for 150 different films.We are relying on the filmmakers to do that so we can go out and promote the festival. So people show up to your screening, which I would presume is what you want if you're going to a film festival. So anything you're trailer, any photographs that you can provide, which some filmmakers only provide BTS photographs, BTS is fine.It's great. Give me some good key art I can also use, please. That's what newspapers, that's what the local news that's what podcasters, whatever, that's what they want to see. So that's what I can provide. And of course, your poster. Now, there are a lot of online tools to help in poster design, frankly, I don't have an excuse for making a bad poster like I did, which is one of the reasons I use it as an example is I am shaming myself being like, this could be better and it should be. But there's a lot of online resources that can help with poster design. And also for filmmakers who are a little bit strapped for cash, you would be surprised what people will do for in kind, service for service.So if you have a friend or if there's someone that you can find that's Hey, they'll design your poster if you can design whatever their website or whatever it is that your skills might be there, there's a lot of exchange that you can do on that part. So yeah your marketing, your packaging, all of that together is actually quite important.BEN: Such a great point. And I've written and published a memoir and through that, I've worked with other authors on, on. Both writing and marketing their books, editing and marketing their books. And I tell people the exact same thing. People judge a book by its cover all the time. And in this day and age, they judge it for listeners, I'm holding my thumb and forefinger part as a thumbnail on a computer screen.Yeah, that's the size. So even for a programmer or a festival director watching it on film freeway through their platform, they're not gonna see the poster like we see it in the movie theater. They're gonna see it as a thumbnail image. Yeah. So it has to work as a thumbnail image. And if you can't read the title as a thumbnail or can't make out what's on the image, what's on the poster as a thumbnail, then you've failed that part of the process.RUDI: One, one of the things that like really clued me into how important a poster is, I went to a film festival, I believe it was Kansas City Film Festival. Some years ago, and they had a bunch of posters of films out, but there was one that was like bright pink. It was like super bright pink and had like very eye popping design and everything on it.And it was like in a whole field of like dark drama posters that are all like gritty and everything. And I'm like that stands out. That really drew my eye to it. And I think that was like my big light bulb moment of like how important this stuff actually is. And one of the things that I've been saying for some years, I've said it on the channel, I think, I don't know, some, sometimes I record things and edit out.So I don't know what I've said on the channel sometimes but one of the things that I say is making a film is half of film making. The other half is marketing, the other half is getting butts in the seats. The other half is getting eyeballs on your movie. The other half is selling your film to an audience or a film festival or a distributor or a programmer or whatever you're trying to do with it.It's getting it out there. So making a film is half a filmmaking. The other half marketing, that's what it is.BEN: I'm just nodding along with everything you're saying and I've always felt both with films and with books, with art in general, you're trying to make an emotional connection from what's in your head and your heart to the audience.And if you don't do your job, getting your film out there and helping an audience come and see your film. Then you're not helping that connection. You're missing sort of the point of making this, unless it's just for yourself. It's for, it's to connect with other people and for other people to connect with your work.And that is marketing.RUDI: It's valid. If you're just making a film for yourself, that's absolutely valid. It's in art form. You can make a film for yourself, but if you're sending it to me at a film festival, you're not you're literally trying to find an audience. So these are the things you need to consider.BEN: I love it. I got two more just in the weeds detail questions.RUDI: Alright, let's do it.BEN: Let's talk description. And what I've seen ‘cause I'm in the middle of applying to festivals. And by the way just for. Listeners, this might interest you. So I discovered Rudi's YouTube page and I was like, this is so helpful.And then I went to the Wyoming International Film Festival page and all the transparency and statistics that, that Rudi puts out, that the festival puts out. And I realized, okay, so the short documentary I have is not a good fit for this festival. Exactly what Rudi's saying. So just for anybody listening, thank you for doing research.RUDI: Thank you. That's good. That's not a bad thing, right? That means it saves you time, it saves you money, it saves you heartbreak. It's so good. Do research before you submit. I'm sorry, but I, it's in, in almost every single one of my videos, I tell filmmakers, do your research before you submit. Find the festivals that gel with your film.And if it, if they don't screen the type of movie that you have, don't submit to ‘em. You're wasting your time, you're wasting your money. And the festival, like the programmer behind the screen, might love your film. They truly might love your film, but they're programming for a very specific audience and they know what that audience's taste is.So that's why they're driving specific films to that audience. So even if they love it, they might not include it, which is why you should always do your homework and do your research before you submit. I'm sorry to interrupt, but it's so importantBEN: And yes. And the flip side of that coin is now I also know what the Wyoming International Film Festival looks for.So in the future, if I have a doc or a film, I'm like, oh, this would be a great fit for this festival.RUDI: Yes.BEN: It helps both ways.RUDI: It does. And it helps you dial in. Which festivals you should target, which festivals are gonna help you with your specific goals. Whatever your goals are with the film it's gonna help you with your budgeting and your travel plans and your own personal calendar.It's gonna help with your mental health. It just, it helps on so many different aspects. And on the film festival side of things, I appreciate it when I hear from filmmakers say, Hey man, I looked into your festival looks good, but you don't have the kind of film that I have. And I'm like, not a problem man.Maybe I can point you in the right direction. Maybe I know some film festival programmers, I can make a recommendation, on your behalf too, that's not a bad thing. We love movies and we want to see them successful, but not every single fest or film and story is going to be successful in every single market.So it's very important to find your audience. And believe me, we are going to be cheering you the whole way.BEN: I want get back to my kind of in the weeds questions, but you've mentioned something that is big picture, that's so important. I feel like I've buried the lead here. And you mentioned this you've mentioned this multiple times in your videos.Is that a Phil, it's key. Maybe the most important part of this process is of the film festival submission process is a filmmaker needs to understand what are their goals in applying to a festival. Yes. So can you just talk a little bit about that?RUDI: So film festivals are a tool. And they can be a tool for many different things, but they are a tool.And just every single tool is not right for every single job, every film festival is not gonna be right for every film and vice versa. So before you go out to film festivals, you just need to ask yourself why? Why am I going out to film festivals? Why am I spending the money, the time, the energy, the effort?What do I want out of film festivals? And that's where you need to identify your goal. And the more specific you can be with the goal, the better it's going to be you going on your film festival journey. So for many filmmakers, a common reason they go out to film festivals is networking. So I'm gonna use that as an example.So let's say your goal is I want to network, I want to meet other. Filmmakers, I wanna meet, directors of photography and producers and other people that I can hire for my projects, or they're gonna hire me for their projects, and I want to build that network and I want to meet more filmmakers.Fantastic. Great. That's your goal. So the first thing that you need to do is you need to be looking at festivals that have networking events. And in this particular instance, you need to ask yourself two things. One, does it have networking? Is there in-person networking parties or networking events?And two, do the types of people that I want to meet actually attend those networking events. So us at the Wyoming International Film Festival, we have a pretty broad spectrum. We have filmmakers that are just beginning their journey. They're totally new, wet behind the ears. They're green they're just starting their journey.That's great. All the way up to every year we have multi Emmy award-winning filmmakers. Like people who do this professionally they're in unions or professional organizations, or they're a member of the academy, motion picture Arts and sciences or the TV Academy or sometimes like the Grammys and stuff like that.I, myself, I'm a professional editor, so there's people like me who professionally work, but they're like below the line. They're cinematographers editors, gaffers, what have you. So if your goal is to meet some like high-end producer that's gonna throw, a million dollars at your movie our festival is not the festival that's gonna help you with your goal.So you should skip over us because we don't have that kind of person in attendance. But if your goal is to meet other filmmakers at your level that you can collaborate with or get hired by or whatever. We're a great festival. We have tons of networking, and we bring in a ton of those filmmakers.We're a great event for you. So when you identify what your goal is and you're very specific about it, it's easier to identify which festivals you should start targeting. I take that one step further, and then once you've narrowed down which festivals are gonna help you with your goal, then you look into their history and see which of them have screened movies like yours in the past.So if you have a, you know I use the example, if you have a seven minute comedy coming of the age film, now you know which festivals have good networking, which festivals have the kinds of people you want to network with. Now you look at which ones have screened short coming of age comedy films in the past, and have a history of doing that.So that's gonna help you filter it even further. And by doing that, you're gonna really start to develop your film festival strategy. Now I do have some exciting news. There is something coming now, it's called Hike, H-I-I-K-E. It's hike with two I. And what Hy is doing, it's a submission platform similar to film Freeway, but among many of the tools that they're giving filmmakers, they're giving filmmakers customized festival strategies and they're scraping all of that data from film festivals, what they've programmed in the past.And when you as a filmmaker, join Hike, you take a little quiz, you tell them what your goals are, what your film is, you know how long it is, what the genre is, tell them about yourself. And they literally have. Data scientist who's built this like machine learning algorithm that pairs the data from the film festival to what the filmmaker provides.That literally gives you a compatibility score. So it's, it comes out and tells you, if you want to network with, professional filmmakers but not mega producers and you have a short comedy coming of age film Wyoming International Film Festival has that crowd screens those types of films and you would have a 90% compatibility.So it actually helps you develop your festival strategy for you.BEN: It's so needed. And Rudi has a great video on how to spot scam film festivals. Yes. That's something that is just prevalent these days. So for filmmakers who are getting ready to submit, I encourage you to watch that video. I'll link to it in the show.I'll link to everything that we're discussing in the show notes. The. So Rudi talked about one goal a filmmaker can have is to network other goals at various points in my, film festival my limited film festival career I've applied to festivals ‘cause I wanted to go to that city, new Orleans Fest, new Orleans Film Festival.TravelingRUDI: is totally legitimate reason to go.BEN: People apply because they want distribute, they wanna meet distributors or financiers for the next film. Although, that's what everybody wants. SoRUDI: you, you would be surprised. So in, in 2018, I had a feature film and my, my goal like most feature films was to land a distribution deal.But I was like, that's not specific enough. There are many steps to land a distribution deal. So what I need is I need good press on my film. So that was a goal. So I wanted to target festivals that had press. I wanted laurels. I wanted to win some awards with it, but I also knew my film was. Small and kind of small scale.So it wasn't gonna win laurels at big festivals. So I was like, okay, I need festivals with press. I need festivals that are legitimate and above board, but also small enough where I'm gonna be competitive. And then I wanted to actually meet distributors. And I know they only go to big festivals, so I actually had to target three different kinds of festivals.‘cause I had three, let's call ‘em conflicting goals with my own film. So that's what I did. I did a split strategy. I targeted festivals where I was gonna be this tiny little fish in a very big pond. And no one's really gonna notice me, but I'm just happy to be there. I targeted festivals where I know that I was going to get very good press and very good reviews on the film.And I targeted festivals that were small, still legitimate, but I was gonna be competitive and maybe bring home some trophies. And so that was my strategy and it worked, and I landed a distribution deal.BEN: That's so great. I, I'd love to do a part two at some point we can talk distribution deals and all of the, yeah.Things like that. But I think for people listening, the big takeaway is even with this multi-pronged goal, three different goals connected to each other. Once you identify what your goals are, then you work backwards and you create your strategy to Yes, to achieve those. Okay. Back to the two in the weeds.Two more in the weeds questions. Yeah. So description, and as I'm looking at other film descriptions, and I saw this at USC all the time as well, and we talked about earlier, filmmakers wanting to sit in emotion or sit in something traumatic and have the audience experience that I notice a lot of times in descriptions of short films.Can so and so come to terms with this? Can, and just as someone who has a little bit of experience marketing stories, where's the action? What's the active what's this person actively trying to accomplish, rather than can they just come to terms with something? Can you talk a little bit about film description, just three or four lines.What pops?RUDI: So just like your poster, just like your marketing and everything, a film description is your way to reach through the screen, grab the audience, grab the programmer, and pull them into your movie. Keep in mind, your whole entire goal is to get people to watch your film, get them excited about your film.And so if you just have a very drab, like description that's just yeah, has to face consequences for a decision they made or come to terms with something when I, that's a good V one, that's a good place to start, but that's not going to get an audience excited about your film.I saw film, I don't know if it was at my festival. It wasn't at my festival. We didn't screen it, but I'm saying, I don't know if it was submitted to my festival or if I saw it at another festival, but I remember one of the descriptions it was great. It was whatever the two character names were, John and Jane, I forget what the characters are, but like John and Jane are on a date, there's a bomb in the other room.I I hope the date goes well, or something like that. Let's hope the date goes well. And I'm like, what is this movie? That gets you really excited for it. You're. It, it creates so much mystery. And also just the cavalier way that it was written immediately tells me this is gonna be a comedy, or it's not taking itself too seriously.It's not some like gritty, dive into the underworld or whatever. Like just how blunt it was about the dis of the film and just that like small little description. I know I'm paraphrasing what it was, but it stuck with me for years at this point. ‘cause I'm like, that is how you write a description for a film.That is how you get someone excited to see what is this movie about? Let's jump in. Piggybacking off a description. Titles are another great way to do that. In, in my own repertoire of films I've had film called Prudence. Okay, fine, whatever. Prudence doesn't really tell you much about that film.I had a film that I'm very proud of. It's artsy, it's a little bit magical realism and it's called in this gray place, and it has that artsy mystique around it in this gray place. And I love that title. I did it, I did a film back in film school. It's terrible, but the title's great.It's called Back to Fort Russell. It was a Western and I, to this day, it's one of my favorite titles that I've ever had. But it tells you something. It clues you into what this film is going to be, what the journey of this movie is going to be. And some films do that better than others. And some films, yeah, it's not necessary.But I, I get more excited when I hear something like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre than I do something that's just like love. Or mom or something.BEN: I think this is the last question. So again, with all these little details, cover letter, talk to me about cover letters.RUDI: It's so interesting you asked me that question ‘cause hearing about four or five days, I'm posting a video on the YouTube channel about cover letters. It's short, it's only four or five minutes long, but cover letters are so important.Should absolutely write a cover letter. And a couple of days ago I was talking with programmers at dances with films, and if you don't know dances with films, look ‘em up. They are an incredible film festival. They are in the big leagues for sure. And I was talking with a couple of programmers and I asked them about covert letters and they said, it's so important it.How the filmmaker is going to put an audience in the theater is very important for their festival. How they're going to get people to attend is very important for them and they're like, a good indication in a cover letter is when they, the filmmaker indicates how they're going to market their film and they use the example of football.Let's say it's a movie about football. They're like, if it's a movie about football and you tell me in the cover letter that you're part of several like football organizations, or you're gonna be reaching out to sports organizations or youth organizations for sports or something like that, to attend the film.That's a very good indication for them in the cover letter. For me, I think a cover letter is very important in that it shows. You're going the extra mile to show the festival you care. You're not just submit and quit. We're not just one festival on a list of 50 that you're submitting to. There is a reason you want to screen with us, and that's a specific reason.Either you feel that your film is good fit for our audience, or there's something that you want to connect with. In Wyoming, I had one cover letter and we did accept this film and it was really funny. They put in their cover letter like their film was a comedy, so their cover letter was also very comedic, but they're like, honestly, we're just gonna go up to Yellowstone around that time and we would love to swing by and show the movie.And I laughed. I laughed so hard at that and I'm like. But that shows me they care. Like they want to be there. And the film was good and it was funny and we screamed it and they were there. So it's a way to show a film festival enthusiasm and it's way to inform the festival about yourself, about your film, and how that's gonna gel with their particular event and their audience.BEN: I love it. And that reminds me, I got one more, I got a bonus question. Yeah. Can you talk about applying early?RUDI: Yes. Statistically, when I look at our own data, statistically, it does seem to be that the earlier you apply, the better chance that you have. And so I don't want to give the impression that if you applied late.You have no chance. I think in the video where I literally broke down the data and the statistics, I think at our festival we had a one in five chance of getting in on the late deadline, which is about a 20% acceptance rate. But it was much higher the earlier it came in. So just with the raw data taking out my opinions, my emotions on it, whatever, just the data itself shows earlier is better.Now, here's where my opinions and my feelings towards it come from. I think it's a couple of things. One, when you get in early, you set the pace for the rest of the festival, you're telling us, okay, it's a drama. We're gonna compare your film against others. Like you have now become the benchmark that we're gonna compare other films to when it comes to like dramas or whatever.What it also does. It's something I'm going to discuss in my video and cover letters, but it also engages something, what's called mere exposure effect in psychology, which is essentially the more that you are exposed to something, the more preference you have towards it. Which means if you get in early, you are exposing yourself, your film, and your story to the programmers more often and more readily than late submissions are.So it's more likely that the programmers form some attachment to your film, and that's just human nature, that's just psychology. There's some practical reasons for it as well. Obviously, earlier submissions, earlier deadlines are cheaper, so it's better to get in. It's just gonna cost you less money to do and then lastly, there are many festivals that are developing their program as they go. So as films are coming in, they're shaping. We got a ton of dramas. Maybe we need two drama blocks, or, we, we don't have enough sci-fi for a sci-fi blocks, we gotta spread it out or whatever. So if you come in late, you're now trying to elbow some other film out of the way in order to find your screening slot.Which don't get me wrong, there are plenty of programmers that are absolutely gonna go to bat for you. They're gonna fight hard to get you in. Doesn't matter if you come in early or late or whatever, but the chances are just better. And the data shows that if you get in early. All that said, a couple of years ago, the very last film that came in with only two hours left in our deadline, we ended up programming it.So it, it is possible.BEN: Rudi, I cannot thank you enough. I can't tell you how helpful this has been. There's so much great information for filmmakers. Filmmakers submitted to festivals, people just interested in going to festivals. So thank you so much for taking the time.RUDI: Hey it's always a pleasure.I always love talking film festivals and for any filmmakers out there, head on over to YouTube hit up the Film Festival Guide. That's my YouTube page. I'm coming out with videos every two or three weeks. That's about what I put ‘em out there for. So if you need any guidance or any, I don't know, insight for film festivals that's where I am.BEN: Film Festival Guide. I'm a subscriber. I can't recommend it enough. Any other social media where people can find you?RUDI: Oh no, I'm terrible on social media. YouTube's enough for me right now.BEN: So Film Fest.RUDI: I will probably expand in the future and I'll probably make some announcement on the YouTube channel.Got it. But for right now, I'm just trying to get good information out there to as many filmmakers as possible.BEN: Thank you so much for doing that. It's such a huge benefit for film.RUDI: Thank you very much for the support and thank you very much for having me on. I enjoyed this. This was a lot of fun.BEN: Me too. This was great. Thank you. And that was my interview with Rudy Womack, director of the Wyoming International Film Festival and creator of the great YouTube page, the Film Festival Guide. Hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, please forward it to one person. Thank you and have a great day. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit benbo.substack.com

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Send us a textTo learn more, please visit Father Harmon's site.Show notes:1:15 Harmon's background and work as priest since 20082:10 teaching fine arts and being a pastoral resource at Loyola University3:00 his work in the arts8:20 history of art in Jesuit community 12:00 Daniel Segers, Jesuit Priest and artist 12:30  Harmon's process as a painter in light of being a ‘work of service'16:00 Harmon's painting from pilgrimage through Spain17:30 students' responses19:15 his attendance at New York Academy of Art  23:30 Jerry Alonzo: how to communicate through your art26:45 Pope Benedict XVI's Encyclical Letter Caritas in Veritate 28:20 definition of ‘sacred art'30:30 seeking social justice through art32:00 his work in Brownsville, TX connected to his art33:00 his series of Catholic objects35:30 his balance of time37:25 Alan Robertshaw's comments about all art being sacred42:10 Tolkien and Flannery O'Connor on religious imagination44:00 incorporating Catholic objects into his work46:50 Emily Gould - spiritual impact of artwork/architecture/nature49:15 Jarnick Vitters - importance of the physical objects to Harmon's faith51:00 Alan Robertshaw - subjective importance of objects53:30 Yelena Khajekian - art as a sacred endeavor54:40 Nnebundo Obi - interest in hearing about priest's pursuit of other vocations Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.comMusic by Toulme.To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com. Thanks so much for listening!© Stephanie Drawdy [2025]

Editor's Note:  This is a re-broadcast.  It was originally published in January 2022.Welcome to The Endow Podcast! This podcast is a forum for women to foster conversations about the intellectual life and intentional community for the cultivation of the feminine genius.On this episode, Simone Rizkallah, Director of Program Growth, interviews Bill Marcotte on how reading John Paul II's document on the nature and dignity of women transformed his life and marriage.Nota bene: Math types typically don't go into theological studies. Mulieris Dignitatem was written 33, not 22 years ago. Meae culpae. (Plural for "Mea culpa" in Latin meaning)Bill is the Assistant Director of the Institute of Catholic Theology and brings many years of Catholic pastoral ministry experience at both parish and diocesan levels with a wide-ranging knowledge and expertise in developing program strategies in the work of evangelization, catechesis, discipleship, and spearheading missionary project teams and six World Youth Day pilgrimages.Since 1984 Bill has been pioneering a variety of new methods of evangelization and catechesis through the founding of Youth Arise North America (a Catholic School of Evangelization - now Caritas in Veritate) and Catholic Network Ministry, a partnership with Young Life. From 1994 to 2000, he served as Our Lady of Mt. Carmel's Director of Youth and Young Adults, and in 1999 received the “Vision Award” from the Diocese of Phoenix in Youth Evangelization.He married his lovely wife Beth in January of 1987. They have five children and six grandchildren, and his family reside in Tempe, AZ. and attend Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish. Link to the Vatican document: https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters/1988/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_19880815_mulieris-dignitatem.htmlSupport the Endow PodcastWhat's on your mind and heart? Let our host, Simone Rizkallah, know by connecting with her and The Endow Team on social media!Facebook at www.facebook.com/endowgroupsInstagram at www.instagram.com/endowgroupsWant to start your own Endow Group? Learn more by visiting our website at www.endowgroups.org or reach out to us at info@endowgroups.org. We look forward to serving you!

Il testo che ascolterai è tratto interamente dalla tesi di Camilla Franzina “Lupus in Veritate: quando la favola diventa realtà”. Laureatasi in “antropologia culturale, etnologia ed etnolinguistica" all'Università Cà Foscari di Venezia, con Camilla cercheremo di analizzare come l'essere umano ha occupato - e continua ad occupare - un ambiente in cui - ora - non è più solo. Il ritorno dei grandi predatori (in questo caso dei lupi) è un tema caldo e controverso. Da una parte c'è chi accusa i lupi, dall'altra chi ne subisce gli attacchi. Nel mezzo, molto spesso, una scarsa comunicazione tra chi vive le montagne e chi ha - invece - il potere di influenzarne la gestione. Cercheremo di smontare l'arroganza con cui giochiamo a sentirci “al di sopra di tutto”. Sarà un attacco al cuore di noi stessi, alle nostre convinzioni e a tutte quelle teorie che - fin troppo spesso - ci fanno rimanere immobili nella nostra zona di comfort. Un perimetro sicuro, comodo, irreale. Download per la tesi di Camilla: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fJE5YXDlxwTHii0wa0O7Udxw9honlTyQ?usp=sharingContatto mail: andataeritorno.podcast@gmail.comMusic by Epidemic SoundNewsletter: https://andataeritornopodcast.substack.com/

Mi vida. Ratzinger escribiría estas Anotaciones sobre su vida al cumplir los setenta años con la mirada puesta en un bien merecido descanso entregado a la meditación y al estudio sosegado. La Providencia tenía dispuesto otros caminos.   Ratzinger en su libro, no ofrece tanto una autobiografía completa, sino que traza las líneas que permiten descubrir la unidad de toda una existencia. Más que acumulación de datos se nos desvela la interioridad de su autor, poniendo, como de golpe, ante nuestra mirada, el centro de su existencia

Common Good and SocietySolidarity and subsidiarity are two principles of the moral teachings of the Church that are absolutely required for a well-ordered and functioning society. In fact, the common good cannot be served without them. It is from this starting point of the common good that we must begin. Pope St. John XXIII said in 1963 that “... civil authority must strive to promote the common good in the interest of all, without favoring any individual citizen or category of citizen (Pacem in Terris, 56).” Pope Leo XIII even said in 1891 that “civil society exists for the common good, and hence is concerned with the interests of all in general… (Rerum Novarum, 51).”Civil society, serving the common good, is ordered towards men establishing of right-relationship with one another and setting up a commonwealth. No man is an island unto himself and the good of each individual is inextricably linked to the good of the society as a whole. The depths of this reality are rooted in the charity of Almighty God. As Pope Benedict XVI wrote in Caritas in Veritate: “To love someone is to desire that person's good and to take effective steps to secure it (Caritas in Veritate, 7).” How else can this be accomplished than in a community, a society, and gathering of individuals united to common purpose, at least to some large degree. SolidarityThe common good is the aim of civil society, but how is it served? The first principle to examine is solidarity. Solidarity basically is the reality that there is an interdependence among individuals and nations. In his work Centesimus Annus, Pope St. John Paul II provides the historical context of the word solidarity. He reports that in the writings of Pope Leo XIII, the Greek philosophical term of “friendship” is employed with the same meaning as what is now called solidarity. Pope Piux XI refers to solidarity with the term “social charity.” And Pope St. Paul VI expanded “the concept to cover the many modern aspects of the social question, speaks of a ‘civilization of love' (Centesimus Annus, 10).” Pope Benedict XVI put it eloquently to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences in 2008 when he said: “Solidarity refers to the virtue enabling the human family to share fully the treasure of material and spiritual goods, and subsidiarity is the coordination of society's activities in a way that supports the internal life of the local communities (Pope Benedict XVI, 2008).”In our modern, interconnected world, with global media, we experience keenly the reality that we are connected. We watch the news and feel personally affected by injustice and human rights violations committed in countries in which we have never stepped foot. There is a moral connotation to this, as well, because we wonder: how can I help? What can I do? The human heart naturally reaches out to the suffering and pain of others and desires justice. Yet, what can we do? Well, in solidarity, we understand that we are interconnected.As St. John Paul II put it 1987:“It is above all a question of interdependence, sensed as a system determining relationships in the contemporary world, in its economic, cultural, political and religious elements, and accepted as a moral category. When interdependence becomes recognized in this way, the correlative response as a moral and social attitude, as a "virtue," is solidarity. This then is not a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of so many people, both near and far. On the contrary, it is a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good; that is to say to the good of all and of each individual, because we are all really responsible for all (Sollicitudo rei socialis, 38).”Committed to the common good, and aware of the interconnectedness of man, we set out in charity to sanctify the temporal order. This is the heart of solidarity. We see the world as God sees it. We recognize the members of society as persons. Seeing the image of God and recognizing opportunities to practice solidarity do not belong exclusively to one class either. As St. John Paul II puts it:“Those who are more influential, because they have a greater share of goods and common services, should feel responsible for the weaker and be ready to share with them all they possess. Those who are weaker, for their part, in the same spirit of solidarity, should not adopt a purely passive attitude or one that is destructive of the social fabric, but, while claiming their legitimate rights, should do what they can for the good of all. The intermediate groups, in their turn, should not selfishly insist on their particular interests, but respect the interests of others (Sollicitudo rei socialis, 39).”In other words, no one is excused from the practice of Christian charity. Likewise, because civil society exists to serve the common good, an essential condition for global solidarity is autonomy and free self-determination. Men organize themselves to constitute a commonwealth. Government should support this swelling of justice and charity, without undermining it by a tyrannical top-down approach.Government and SolidarityThose in government work can support the practice of solidarity by understanding that man's fulfillment comes by using his intelligence and freedom in freely giving of himself to others. Private initiative and ownership are, therefore, to be respected and kept in preeminent position. To quote St. John Paul II from Centesimus Annus:“Man works in order to provide for the needs of his family, his community, his nation, and ultimately all humanity. Moreover, he collaborates in the work of his fellow employees, as well as in the work of suppliers and in the customers' use of goods, in a progressively expanding chain of solidarity (Centesimus Annus, 43).”It is Catholic and just to ensure bonds of solidarity among working people and allow them to practice useful work, without exploitation and being used as a means of making profit only. Man works to provide for the needs of others and his work ought to firstly expand the work and wealth of society, which then can lead to profits but only secondarily. Even at the level of the family, a mutual support of husband and wife ought to be fostered and care given by one generation to the other. The family is rightly ordered as a community of work and solidarity. Solidarity requires seeing the human person. Often today, we might find two prevailing forces which seek to devalue us. On the one hand, the market sees only producers and consumers of goods. On the other hand, the government only sees statistics and objects of State administration. But society serves the life of human persons and the common good; the market and the State are not the final purpose of society. Associations of persons and state agencies should work to promote a deeper vision of human solidarity. By doing so, solidarity can be shown by civil society in a way surpassing that of any one individual. Pope Francis said in 2013 that “As Church we all have a strong responsibility to spread hope through works of solidarity, always seeking to collaborate in the best possible way with public institutions with respect for their respective responsibilities (Pope Francis, 2013).”As St. John Paul II put it in 1995, “Many Christians from all Communities, by reason of their faith, are jointly involved in bold projects aimed at changing the world by inculcating respect for the rights and needs of everyone, especially the poor, the lowly and the defenceless (Ut Unum Sint, 43).”It is this vision of seeing the human person rather than a vague abstraction and respecting the needs of these persons that we enter into solidarity. As Pope Benedict XVI put it:“Only my readiness to encounter my neighbour and to show him love makes me sensitive to God as well. Only if I serve my neighbour can my eyes be opened to what God does for me and how much he loves me (Deus Caritas Est, 18).”Really, solidarity is instantiated in our place of work when we serve the other. If you are in real estate, are you viewing the human purpose of the structure you are helping to buy and sell? In healthcare, are you treating symptoms and diseases or paying care to the whole human person? In government, are you giving due deference to human communities or simply building a more efficient bureaucracy?Pope Francis warned us in 2013 that “This word solidarity runs the risk of being deleted from the dictionary because it is a word that bothers us, it bothers us. Why? Because it requires you to look at another and give yourself to another with love (Pope Francis, 2013).” By practicing solidarity, from the heart of the Church, we are able to work in the public sector and transcend the cultural, political, social, and geographic differences that separate people in an effort to see persons as God sees them. As we encounter persons in the private or public sector in a clinical or service capacity, we grow in solidarity if we see them as persons to be loved. Likewise, from an administrative or policy standpoint, we are provided opportunities to practice the virtue of solidarity and create systems and structures which facilitate the growth in holiness, virtue, and a more holistic view of the dignity of each human person.SubsidiarityThe companion principle to solidarity is the principle of subsidiarity. Subsidiarity can be defined a couple of different ways. The best definition, in my estimation, is this: the best decision is made at the lowest possible level and the highest level necessary. Put another way: any activity that can be performed by a more decentralized entity should be.The principle of subsidiarity comes into play on every level of analysis. We can look at the interplay of the family in a community. Or we can investigate the proper balance between a regional government and a national government. On the level of the State, subsidiarity dictates that the State should not do things which belong properly to the capacity of individuals or private associations operating independently of the State. Again, subsidiarity means that the best decision is made at the lowest level possible and the highest level necessary.We should be careful not to simply see subsidiarity as a conservative/traditional principle that seeks to limit the power of the State. Instead, subsidiarity sets limits on the State but it also justifies the existence of the State. The highest level necessary sometimes means that a national or federal level of oversight is necessary. Think, for example, of the existence of border security, military administration, or policies regarding national patriotism. So, the State is necessary, but it needs to be rightly limited to only those actions necessary to be administered at that level.The heart of the principle of subsidiarity is human dignity. As Pope Benedict XVI beautifully teaches:“Subsidiarity respects personal dignity by recognizing in the person a subject who is always capable of giving something to others. By considering reciprocity as the heart of what it is to be a human being, subsidiarity is the most effective antidote against any form of all-encompassing welfare state (Caritas in veritate, 57).”If we do not allow decisions to be made at the proper level, then power will be exercised in a foolish way on the one hand or in a tyrannical fashion on the other hand. Though the effects of globalization have yielded some fruits on the international stage, there is still a threat of a “dangerous universal power of a tyrannical nature,” to borrow a phrase of Pope Benedict XVI. He acknowledges there should be sufficient global authority to pursue the global common good, but, most importantly, “[t]his authority, however, must be organized in a subsidiary and stratified way, if it is not to infringe upon freedom and if it is to yield effective results in practice (Caritas in veritate, 57).”Pope Pius XI, in 1931, wrote of this reciprocal nature when he said: “The supreme authority of the State ought, therefore, to let subordinate groups handle matters and concerns of lesser importance, which would otherwise dissipate its efforts greatly. Thereby the State will more freely, powerfully, and effectively to do all those things that belong to it alone because it alone can do them: directing, watching, urging, restraining, as occasion requires and necessity demands (Quadragesimo Anno, 80).” The State cannot, however, be all-encompassing and tyrannical, unjustly limiting individual autonomy. In the Second World Meeting of Popular Movements in 2015, Pope Francis said this: “No actual or established power has the right to deprive peoples of the full exercise of their sovereignty (Pope Francis, 2015).”If we do not heed the Church's sage understanding of subsidiarity, then the State will begin to provide everything, even those things best left to a lower level or strata of society. This would inevitably become a mere bureaucracy which can never guarantee the thing needed most by those who are suffering: loving personal concern. As Pope Benedict XVI writes in his encyclical on love:“We do not need a State which regulates and controls everything, but a State which, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, generously acknowledges and supports initiatives arising from the different social forces and combines spontaneity with closeness to those in need (Deus Caritas Est, 28).”Solidarity and SubsidiaritySolidarity and subsidiarity come together as a pair or neither are assured. If we have subsidiarity without solidarity, then we have what Pope Benedict XVI calls “social privatism.” In this situation, the individual is free to operate as they will but with no regard for his fellow man. This does not serve the common good. On the other hand, if we have solidarity but not subsidiarity, then we have what Pope Benedict calls “paternalist social assistance that is demeaning to those in need (Caritas in veritate, 58).”In 1961, Pope St. John XXIII wrote clearly that “Experience has shown that where personal initiative is lacking, political tyranny ensues and, in addition, economic stagnation in the production of a wide range of consumer goods and of services of the material and spiritual order (Mater et Magistra, 57).”This paternalist social assistance could also be called a Social Assistance State or Welfare State. Such a society deprives individuals of personal responsibility. The Social Assistance State, says Pope St. John Paul II, “... leads to a loss of human energies and an inordinate increase of public agencies, which are dominated more by bureaucratic ways of thinking than by concern for serving their clients, and which are accompanied by an enormous increase in spending. In fact, it would appear that needs are best understood and satisfied by people who are closest to them and who act as neighbours to those in need (Centesimus Annus, 48).”The lesson here is an incredibly practical one. For those involved in the public or private sectors alike, we must view people as persons with true value. We need to work towards the common good and ensure that we are keeping subsidiarity and solidarity operative. If we are to avoid tyranny then we must put subsidiarity into practice. If we are to avoid a privatism devoid of charity, then we must put solidarity into practice!For further reading, check the Compendium of Social Doctrine of the Church from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.or Peter Kwasniewski's book A Reader in Catholic Social Teaching.Will Wright Catholic Podcast is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. 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Escribió BXVI que la caridad en la verdad, de la que Jesucristo se ha hecho testigo con su vida terrenal y, sobre todo, con su muerte y resurrección, es la principal fuerza impulsora del auténtico desarrollo de cada persona y de toda la humanidad   En homenaje a esta gran persona cuyo pensamiento inspiró muchos textos y reflexiones de este proyecto de la Revista Toma y Lee.

Dr. Marc Rugani, Assistant Professor of Moral Theology at St. Anselm College, discusses Benedict's third papal encyclical. The three encyclicals: Deus Caritas Est: https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20051225_deus-caritas-est.html Spe Salvi: https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20071130_spe-salvi.html Caritas in Veritate: https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate.html Watch a short video about St. John Seminary's Online in M.A. in Pastoral Ministry Program: https://vimeo.com/790530996 If you are interested in learning more about the online M.A. in Pastoral Ministry Program for lay students at St. John's Seminary, email Dr. Stuart Squires at mapm@stjohnsem.edu

Dr. Michael Bolin, Professor of Philosophy at Wyoming Catholic College, discusses the depths of Pope Benedict XVI's second encyclical, Spe Salvi. The three encyclicals that will be discussed: Deus Caritas Est: https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20051225_deus-caritas-est.html Spe Salvi: https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20071130_spe-salvi.html Caritas in Veritate: https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate.html Watch a short video about St. John Seminary's Online in M.A. in Pastoral Ministry Program: https://vimeo.com/790530996 If you are interested in learning more about the online M.A. in Pastoral Ministry Program for lay students at St. John's Seminary, email Dr. Stuart Squires at mapm@stjohnsem.edu

Thanks for tuning in! Some of Pope Benedict's Major writings: Deus Caritas Est, Spe Salvi and Caritas in Veritate.

Dr. Andy Staron, Associate Professor of Theology at St. Mary's Seminary and Graduate School of Theology, dives deeply into the depths of Pope Benedict's first encyclical. The three encyclicals that will be discussed: Deus Caritas Est: https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20051225_deus-caritas-est.html Spe Salvi: https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20071130_spe-salvi.html Caritas in Veritate: https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate.html If you are interested in learning more about the online M.A. in Pastoral Ministry Program for lay students at St. John's Seminary, email Dr. Stuart Squires at mapm@stjohnsem.edu

Dr. Joshua Brumfield, IKON Director at the Newman Idea and author of the book The Benedict Proposal: Church of Creative Minority in the Thought of Benedict XVI, discusses the biography and legacy of Pope Benedict XVI. The three encyclicals that will be discussed in the next three episodes: Deus Caritas Est: https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20051225_deus-caritas-est.html Spe Salvi: https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20071130_spe-salvi.html Caritas in Veritate: https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate.html If you are interested in learning more about the online M.A. in Pastoral Ministry Program for lay students at St. John's Seminary, email Dr. Stuart Squires at mapm@stjohnsem.edu

"You shall not steal."What does a just economic system look like? Is work necessary? Do wealthy nations have an obligation to help poorer ones?This episode covers Part Three, Section Two, Chapter Two, Article Seven of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (pts 2419-2463).Contact the podcast: crashcoursecatholicism@gmail.com.Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crashcoursecatholicism/.....References and further reading/listening/viewing:Pope Leo XIII Rerum NovarumJohn Paul II, Laborem Exercens.John Paul II, Centesimus AnnusBenedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate.Pope Francis, Laudato Si'.St Josemaria Escriva, Christ is Passing By, "Point 47"Word on Fire, "“Evangelization Is Colonialism”: Are We Sure About That?""Who we are: Human uniqueness and the African spirit of Ubuntu. Desmond Tutu, Templeton Prize 2013", YouTube.Catholic Relief Services, "Catholic Social Teaching", YouTube.Trocaire, "Catholic Social Teaching in 3 Minutes", YouTube.Word on Fire, "Pope Francis, 'Fratelli Tutti,' and the Universal Destination of Goods"Bishop Robert Barron, "Bishop Barron on Pope Francis and Our Responsibility for the Common Good"Australian Catholic University, "The Principles of Catholic Social Thought and The Common Good."Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, "Doctrinal Note on some questions regarding the Participation of Catholics in Political Life"Vatican News, "'Fratelli tutti': short summary of Pope Francis's Social Encyclical"ABC News, "The architecture of peace: Pope Francis on social friendship and the hope for universal fraternity"Catholic News Agency, "Bishop Barron defends Junipero Serra: Evangelization is not ‘cultural aggression'"The Catholic Encyclopedia, "Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy"Elizabeth Gaskell, North and SouthE.M. Forster, Howards End

The entire Old Testament looks forward to and is a foreshadowing of the New. Everything is a prefiguration of the New Testament, the Jews were in expectation of the coming of the Messiah. The way for the Messiah was prepared by the numerous prophecies and penultimately by St. John the Baptist. St. John is the greatest of the Old Testament prophets, he is the personification of the entire Old Testament, of the law, of the Prophets, the priesthood, the kings, the sacrifices and everything God did in the Old covenant in order to prepare the Jews for the Messiahs. Advent commemorates that time of humanity, a full 4000 years, when there was no Savior, no Blessed Sacrament, no Penance, no Sacrifice of the Mass -there was only hope. Today the Church rejoices because the Lord is near, this joy has a spiritual and mystical sense. The Lord is near us, this gives us the joy of possessing God in our souls through sanctifying grace. The spiritual joys for which the world affords are so impoverished and fleeting that the soul knows only momentary happiness. The Soul finds itself in a constant state of seeking and not finding. The thing to do is to be more detached from the world and more attached to God. Join us on this episode of In Veritate. We would like to thank Nicholas Wilton for providing the use of his sacred choral music for this show. Mr. Wilton's material can be purchased at: tutti.co.uk. Show Sponsor: Most Holy Trinity Seminary https://mostholytrinityseminary.org/ Original Air Date: December 12, 2016 Show Run Time: 37 minutes Show Guest(s): Bishop Donald Sanborn Show Host(s): Matthew Arthur Season 5 Sponsor: Novus Ordo Watch novusordowatch.org/ Episode: https://www.truerestoration.org/season-5-in-veritate-episode-21-expectation-of-the-messiah-and-gaudete-sunday/ In Veritate: https://www.truerestoration.org/category/radio/in-veritate/ Subscribe: www.truerestoration.org/member-signup/ In Veritate℗ is a production of the Restoration Radio Network. Copyright 2016. All Rights are Reserved.

Our ability to do good is paralyzed if we do not deny ourselves. Praying is a great example of self-denial. Our sensual nature is opposed to prayer – it does not please the softness of the body. Unless we mortify our senses and evil inclinations, we become incapable of good. Saints achieved such great heights of virtue due to severe mortifications they practiced. By doing this, they removed all obstacles to the working of the grace of God within them. We must have a holy detestation of this world and prove our love of God by putting aside the world and turning our hearts to Him. Join us on this episode of In Veritate. We would like to thank Nicholas Wilton for providing the use of his sacred choral music for this show. Mr. Wilton's material can be purchased at: tutti.co.uk. Show Sponsor: Most Holy Trinity Seminary https://mostholytrinityseminary.org/ Original Air Date: November 9, 2016 Show Run Time: 39 minutes Show Guest(s): Bishop Donald Sanborn Show Host(s): Matthew Arthur Season 5 Sponsor: Novus Ordo Watch novusordowatch.org/ Episode: https://www.truerestoration.org/season-5-in-veritate-episode-20-self-denial-and-love-of-god/ In Veritate: https://www.truerestoration.org/category/radio/in-veritate/ Subscribe: www.truerestoration.org/member-signup/ In Veritate℗ is a production of the Restoration Radio Network. Copyright 2016. All Rights are Reserved.

Those who are prideful practice virtue only for worldly esteem. God rewards such virtues only with the good things of this world. These are good only in appearance in as much as they are merely created images of the eternal good. The highest degree of humility is not only to acknowledge our own abjection but to love it and to take delight in it. Not from meanness from soul or cowardice of heart, but from a desire to exalt as we ought the divine majesty and to prefer others far before ourselves. When we say there is a struggle between the spirit and the flesh, between grace and nature, we must understand that flesh and nature should not be understood as what God made: perfection. Instead we are speaking of flesh and nature as stained and wounded by original sin and thus tends towards the commission of evil. Even though we are wounded by original sin, we are still masters of ourselves, we have free will, and with the help of God we can persevere in virtue. Join us on this episode of In Veritate. We would like to thank Nicholas Wilton for providing the use of his sacred choral music for this show. Mr. Wilton's material can be purchased at: tutti.co.uk. Show Sponsor: Most Holy Trinity Seminary https://mostholytrinityseminary.org/ Original Air Date: September 30, 2016 Show Run Time: 43 minutes Show Guest(s): Bishop Donald Sanborn Show Host(s): Matthew Arthur Season 5 Sponsor: Novus Ordo Watch novusordowatch.org/ Episode: https://www.truerestoration.org/season-5-in-veritate-episode-19-humility-and-savagery/ In Veritate: https://www.truerestoration.org/category/radio/in-veritate/ Subscribe: www.truerestoration.org/member-signup/ In Veritate℗ is a production of the Restoration Radio Network. Copyright 2016. All Rights are Reserved.

This modern world has produced a highly immoral standard of living in regards to dress, modesty, and culture. What is the Catholic response – the response we should take? The true Catholic should obtain his/her standards not from the world's view, but apply the standards that are set by the Catholic Church. Secondly, the Church rests upon the foundation of Saint Peter which we know because of Jesus's pronouncement. From this fact we must conclude that any institution or society of Christians which professes to be the true Church of Christ is not the true Church of Christ for the unique reason: it is detached from the succession of Saint Peter. We must also conclude that the profession of the Catholic Faith (public adherence to all of its dogmas and public repudiation of all that the Church considers to be heretical) is an absolute condition of papal power. Join us on this episode of In Veritate. We would like to thank Nicholas Wilton for providing the use of his sacred choral music for this show. Mr. Wilton's material can be purchased at: tutti.co.uk. Show Sponsor: Most Holy Trinity Seminary https://mostholytrinityseminary.org/ Original Air Date: July 28, 2016 Show Run Time: 1 hour 2 minutes Show Guest(s): Bishop Donald Sanborn Show Host(s): Matthew Arthur Season 5 Sponsor: Novus Ordo Watch novusordowatch.org/ Episode: https://www.truerestoration.org/season-5-in-veritate-episode-18-christian-modesty-and-succession/ In Veritate: https://www.truerestoration.org/category/radio/in-veritate/ Subscribe: www.truerestoration.org/member-signup/ In Veritate℗ is a production of the Restoration Radio Network. Copyright 2016. All Rights are Reserved.

The family is the true Catholic school – where children learn how to be Catholics. The Catholic religion is the only religion which maintains that marriage is indissoluble. Bishop Sanborn discusses the characteristics of the Holy Family that we should apply to our families as well as things we should avoid in our families. Join us on this episode of In Veritate. We would like to thank Nicholas Wilton for providing the use of his sacred choral music for this show. Mr. Wilton's material can be purchased at: tutti.co.uk. Show Sponsor: Most Holy Trinity Seminary https://mostholytrinityseminary.org/ Original Air Date: May 30, 2016 Show Run Time: 44 minutes Show Guest(s): Bishop Donald Sanborn Show Host(s): Matthew Arthur Season 5 Sponsor: Novus Ordo Watch novusordowatch.org/ Episode: https://www.truerestoration.org/season-5-in-veritate-episode-17-the-family/ In Veritate: https://www.truerestoration.org/category/radio/in-veritate/ Subscribe: www.truerestoration.org/member-signup/ In Veritate℗ is a production of the Restoration Radio Network. Copyright 2016. All Rights are Reserved.

There is only one true God and He is the head of the Catholic Church. In order to be attached to Christ, one must be attached and submitted to the Catholic Church. The profession of the true faith is a prerequisite for the reception and the retention of authority within the Catholic Church. This is for two reasons: 1. The profession of faith is necessary for membership in the Catholic Church (at baptism, the sponsors answer for the baby that he/she believes in Catholic teachings). 2. The primary role of authority in the Church is to protect the Catholic faith. Secondly, there is no Church by which we can be saved except the Catholic Church. This is a teaching of Christ, Himself. Join us on this episode of In Veritate. We would like to thank Nicholas Wilton for providing the use of his sacred choral music for this show. Mr. Wilton's material can be purchased at: tutti.co.uk. Show Sponsor: Most Holy Trinity Seminary Original Air Date: January 21, 2016 Show Run Time: 41 minutes Show Guest(s): Bishop Donald Sanborn Show Host(s): Matthew Arthur Season 5 Sponsor: Novus Ordo Watch novusordowatch.org/ Episode: https://www.truerestoration.org/season-5-in-veritate-episode-16-one-god-one-faith/ In Veritate: https://www.truerestoration.org/category/radio/in-veritate/ Subscribe: www.truerestoration.org/member-signup/ In Veritate℗ is a production of the Restoration Radio Network. Copyright 2016. All Rights are Reserved.

By His Resurrection, Christ proved He is truly the Son of God and therefore has the same nature as God. This silences all arguments against Our Lord. It silences all rationalists, all atheists, all agnostics, and all pagans. To gain eternal life we must believe in God and obey His will. For to be against Him would be to embrace eternal death. Bishop Sanborn then takes us through the past events of Holy Week and Our Lord's Passion, for these events should be remembered and present in our minds, even after Lent and Easter. Join us on this episode of In Veritate. We would like to thank Nicholas Wilton for providing the use of his sacred choral music for this show. Mr. Wilton's material can be purchased at: www.catholicmusic.co.uk. Show Sponsor: Most Holy Trinity Seminary Original Air Date: March 18, 2016 Show Run Time: 39 minutes Show Guest(s): Bishop Donald Sanborn Show Host(s): Matthew Arthur Season 5 Sponsor: Novus Ordo Watch novusordowatch.org/ Episode: https://www.truerestoration.org/season-5-in-veritate-episode-15-easter-sunday/ In Veritate: https://www.truerestoration.org/category/radio/in-veritate/ Subscribe: www.truerestoration.org/member-signup/ In Veritate℗ is a production of the Restoration Radio Network. Copyright 2016. All Rights are Reserved.

All may be judged who have not believed the truth. God will permit humans to sink into terrible error, and then come and judge them because they did not believe the truth, but have consented to iniquity. This is a teaching of Saint Paul. Bishop Sanborn discusses the consequences of Vatican II and the current status of our times regarding the Anti-Christ and the prophesies. Following, Bishop Sanborn talks about fasting and the current season of the year, Lent. Join us on this episode of In Veritate. We would like to thank Nicholas Wilton for providing the use of his sacred choral music for this show. Mr. Wilton's material can be purchased at: www.catholicmusic.co.uk. Show Sponsor: Most Holy Trinity Seminary Original Air Date: February 21, 2016 Show Run Time: 47 minutes Show Guest(s): Bishop Donald Sanborn Show Host(s): Matthew Arthur Season 5 Sponsor: Novus Ordo Watch novusordowatch.org Episode: https://www.truerestoration.org/season-5-in-veritate-episode-14-fifty-years-of-vatican-ii-and-lenten-fast/ In Veritate: https://www.truerestoration.org/category/radio/in-veritate/ Subscribe: www.truerestoration.org/member-signup/ In Veritate℗ is a production of the Restoration Radio Network. Copyright 2016. All Rights are Reserved.

Patience is a bearing of evil in order that a greater good come about or in order that a greater evil be avoided. Patience and tolerance of sinners is prudent when it is in the hope of converting others. Anger, the opposite of patience, is usually sinful. Though, there is justified anger provided it is in accordance with reason. Patience with the faults is not always a virtue. It is, sometimes, necessary to use anger in order to correct faults or in order to assure the common good. Secondly, Bishop Sanborn discusses the feast of the Epiphany and how the three kings were in search for truth and spiritual gain. We all thirst for truth. The human mind constantly craves for information. There are a set of ultimate truths in our minds which direct everything. Let us be like the Magi and search for and love truth in this era of ignorance. Join us on this episode of In Veritate. We would like to thank Nicholas Wilton for providing the use of his sacred choral music for this show. Mr. Wilton's material can be purchased at: www.catholicmusic.co.uk. Show Sponsor: Most Holy Trinity Seminary Original Air Date: January 21, 2016 Show Run Time: 41 minutes Show Guest(s): Bishop Donald Sanborn Show Host(s): Matthew Arthur Season 5 Sponsor: Novus Ordo Watch novusordowatch.org/ Episode: www.truerestoration.org/season-5-in-veritate-episode-13-patience-and-anger-and-the-epiphany/ In Veritate: https://www.truerestoration.org/category/radio/in-veritate/ Subscribe: www.truerestoration.org/member-signup/ In Veritate℗ is a production of the Restoration Radio Network. Copyright 2016. All Rights are Reserved.

En este episodio nos tomamos una pausa para discutir este proyecto que ya hace más de un año empezamos, el valor de la contemplación, el rol que juega una sólida metafísica para poder tener posiciones políticas bien fundamentadas y mucho más. Blog: deveritate.substack.com Instagram: @de.veritate Twitter: @deveritate1 Music: Behind the Sword by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Welcome to The Endow Podcast! This podcast is a forum for women to foster conversations about the intellectual life and intentional community for the cultivation of the feminine genius. On this episode, Simone Rizkallah, Director of Program Growth, interviews Bill Marcotte on how reading John Paul II's document on the nature and dignity of women transformed his life and marriage. Nota bene: Math types typically don't go into theological studies. Mulieris Dignitatem was written 33, not 22 years ago. Meae culpae. (Plural for "Mea culpa" in Latin meaning)Bill is the Assistant Director of the Institute of Catholic Theology and brings many years of Catholic pastoral ministry experience at both parish and diocesan levels with a wide-ranging knowledge and expertise in developing program strategies in the work of evangelization, catechesis, discipleship, and spearheading missionary project teams and six World Youth Day pilgrimages.Since 1984 Bill has been pioneering a variety of new methods of evangelization and catechesis through the founding of Youth Arise North America (a Catholic School of Evangelization - now Caritas in Veritate) and Catholic Network Ministry, a partnership with Young Life. From 1994 to 2000, he served as Our Lady of Mt. Carmel's Director of Youth and Young Adults, and in 1999 received the “Vision Award” from the Diocese of Phoenix in Youth Evangelization. He married his lovely wife Beth in January of 1987. They have five children and six grandchildren, and his family reside in Tempe, AZ. and attend Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish.  Link to the Vatican document: https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters/1988/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_19880815_mulieris-dignitatem.html Support the Endow PodcastWhat's on your mind and heart? Let our host, Simone Rizkallah, know by connecting with her and The Endow Team on social media!Facebook at www.facebook.com/endowgroupsInstagram at www.instagram.com/endowgroupsWant to start your own Endow Group? Learn more by visiting our website at www.endowgroups.org or reach out to us at info@endowgroups.org. We look forward to serving you!

Écoutez la Parole de Dieu ! Voici l'Évangile du mercredi 8 décembre 2021. Texte de l'Association Épiscopale Liturgique pour les pays Francophones. Méditation du Pape Benoît XVI ("Caritas in Veritate", Ed. Blanche de Peuterey, 2009). Une production du studio Tobie. Si vous le pouvez, soutenez-nous : ➡ tobie.fr/soutien ➡ tipeee.com/tobie ➡ patreon.com/tobiepodcasts   Évangile (Lc 1, 26-38) En ce temps-là, l'ange Gabriel fut envoyé par Dieu dans une ville de Galilée, appelée Nazareth, à une jeune fille vierge, accordée en mariage à un homme de la maison de David, appelé Joseph ; et le nom de la jeune fille était Marie. L'ange entra chez elle et dit : « Je te salue, Comblée-de-grâce, le Seigneur est avec toi. » À cette parole, elle fut toute bouleversée, et elle se demandait ce que pouvait signifier cette salutation. L'ange lui dit alors : « Sois sans crainte, Marie, car tu as trouvé grâce auprès de Dieu. Voici que tu vas concevoir et enfanter un fils ; tu lui donneras le nom de Jésus. Il sera grand, il sera appelé Fils du Très-Haut ; le Seigneur Dieu lui donnera le trône de David son père ; il régnera pour toujours sur la maison de Jacob, et son règne n'aura pas de fin. » Marie dit à l'ange : « Comment cela va-t-il se faire, puisque je ne connais pas d'homme ? » L'ange lui répondit : « L'Esprit Saint viendra sur toi, et la puissance du Très-Haut te prendra sous son ombre ; c'est pourquoi celui qui va naître sera saint, il sera appelé Fils de Dieu. Or voici que, dans sa vieillesse, Élisabeth, ta parente, a conçu, elle aussi, un fils et en est à son sixième mois, alors qu'on l'appelait la femme stérile. Car rien n'est impossible à Dieu. » Marie dit alors : « Voici la servante du Seigneur ; que tout m'advienne selon ta parole. » Alors l'ange la quitta. – Acclamons la Parole de Dieu.  

En este episodio conversamos con Julio y Claudio creadores del Podcast De Veritate, en este episodio reflexionamos sobre el buen vivir, la felicidad y la amistad, como parte de una vida feliz. Para Aristóteles la amistad (philia) es una VIRTUD porque es lo más necesario para la vida “nadie querría vivir sin amigos, aun teniendo todas las demás cosas buenas”. ... Por eso el hombre feliz necesita amigos. Filosofía de vida es una expresión que se refiere a los principios, valores e ideas que rigen el estilo de vida de una persona o de un grupo y orientan su comportamiento en busca de la autorrealización. Escucha nuestro podcast https://anchor.fm/desdelaazoteapodcastcr Link al podcast de Veritate https://podcasts.apple.com/gt/podcast/de-veritate/id1535546695 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/desdelaazoteapodcastcr/message

     Alanna Burg & Josh Andrus from the Idaho Lay Dominicans join Morning Light to continue the conversation on Caritas in Veritate

This time, the shownotes are going to be much more like a works cited page and less a description. This is in part because we've got a newborn to tend to, and in part because Jacob and I referenced a lot of things. But as a general overview, Joseph read the book Rich Dad Poor Dad recently, and started talking to Jacob over the phone about some ideas related to both that book and Catholic social teaching, and then asked Jacob if he'd hold his thoughts for a few days so we could record them. And here we are!Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert KiyosakiThe Science of Getting Rich by Wallace WattlesRerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIII-- this is the one Jacob recommended everyone read and Joseph seconds that ideaCaritas in Veritate by Pope Benedict XVINov. 18 2018 General Audience with Pope FrancisLaborem Exercens by Pope John Paul IIGetting Naked by Patrick LencioniLinchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth GodinAnd then another good intro to the idea of subsidiarity: https://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catholic-social-teaching/solidarity

Host Chris Motz is joined this week by Dr. Chad Pecknold, professor of theology at Catholic University of America (and prolific tweeter -- @ccpecknold). Chris tosses a listener question to the good professor: What, according to the Church, is the purpose of government? What's it's aim, its end, its goal? Also, what are the limits of its action? Or, asking an obvious question that comes from from Matthew 22 and Mark 12 ("Render unto Caeasar..."), what belongs to "Caesar" and what belongs to God? (Spoiler for the latter: everything, including the former.) Chris and Professor Pecknold dig into some contemporary issues, e.g., gender ideology, as they unpack how "the state" can fulfill its essential nature and purpose. A few links to resources that come up in the conversation: https://www.amazon.com/Christianity-Politics-History-Cascade-Companions/dp/1556352425 (Christianity and Politic)s, authored by Prof. Pecknold https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate.html (Caritas in Veritate), a social encyclical touching heavily on economics and government, written by Pope Benedict XVI

In this episode, Malcolm Schluenderfritz and Jason Wilde draw on a wide range of Catholic sources to explain the basic principles of Catholic Social Teaching. We’ve included the sources we’ve quoted below. What is Catholic Social Teaching? Catholic Social Teaching (CST) is often misunderstood. When it is brought up, people can be quick to think of economics . . . or of socialism! It is also a complicated topic and isn’t discussed enough. Humans are social beings. CST is the Church’s teaching on our social interactions. We’re called to live with justice and charity toward our neighbors. The Beatitudes and the Works of Mercy can help us to understand CST, which can be seen as the Works of Mercy applied to society. Justice and Charity Without justice, charity is useless. We’d be highly offended if somebody stole our possessions, and then claimed to be charitable when they gave a few of them back! Too often, Christians focus on personal charity but ignore the aspect of justice. The teaching of the Church, going all the way back to St. John Chrysostom, is that feeding the poor is a matter of justice, not merely of charity. We can also see the works of mercy, the acts of charity, as personal responses to failures of social justice. We have to personally aid the poor, but the Church’s CST also provides us with the tools to analyze and combat wider social injustices. Framing aid to the needy as a matter of justice rather than charity can be uncomfortable. We all instinctively realize that while even a small amount of charity is laudable, falling even a little short of what justice requires is reprehensible. Instead of feeling uncomfortable, we should take this opportunity to realize our need for a Savior. Only Jesus can save us from the web of evil in the world. We are all somewhat unjust on this side of Heaven. The Principles of Catholic Social Teaching All the CST principles are tightly interwoven. They each depend on the others; if we drop one or two of them the others don’t make sense. The Rights of Workers The rights of workers are tightly connected to the dignity of every human person, but they are also connected to the dignity of work itself. Through work, we can participate in God’s ongoing act of creation. Work needs to be properly oriented, both to sustaining those who perform it, and ultimately toward leisure. All work is for the sake of not working. It can be difficult to remember this in a culture with a deeply flawed view of work. Human Rights and Responsibilities All humans have certain basic rights; most fundamentally, the right to life, and to the basic necessities for living a good human life, such as food, shelter, clothing, basic medical care, and adequate rest. Every right comes paired with a responsibility. In the case of basic human rights, society and individual human beings have a responsibility to make sure that the rights of others are met. In our individual lives, we can’t let a focus on our own rights blur a realization of our duties toward others, and we should be willing to waive our lesser rights so that the more fundamental rights of others can be honored. The Preferential Option for the Poor and Vulnerable We all have rights, but the Church calls us to have a special concern for the poor and vulnerable. In part, this is just pragmatic; the poor and vulnerable are more likely to “fall through the cracks” unless they are given special attention. But it is also part of the Gospel Message. Christ said he came to bring good news to the poor. Poverty does not equal virtue, but it does help to prepare one’s heart to encounter Christ. (We discussed this in our episode on Gospel Poverty.) Solidarity Solidarity calls us to see all human beings as brothers and sisters. This has a natural dimension, but above all it has a spiritual dimension. We are called to see every other human being as created in the image and likeness of God, and as at least potential members of the Mystical Body of Christ. This means that we should care deeply about what happens to every human person, much as we would care about the members of our families or the members of our own bodies. The Dignity of the Human Person All CST is ultimately grounded in the Dignity of the Human Person. Every human being has this dignity from conception to natural death, which is why the Catholic Church opposed abortion and all other attacks on life. If we don’t believe in the fundamental dignity that each person has, we won’t see any reason to respect human rights, stand in solidarity with others, value human work, or care for those who are poor. The Call to Family, Community, and Participation But we are not just individuals; we are communal, and therefore we are called to seek the Common Good. Common Goods are those things which are not diminished by being shared. The ultimate common good is the contemplation of God in Heaven; this good is not diminished by being shared. Neither is the good of belonging to a family or community. Care for Creation As a community, we need to care for our common home and the common goods provided by Creation. This will the theme of our next CST episode, which will be an in-depth discussion of Laudato Si. Practical Applications On our website we have a list titled “101 Ways to Change Your Life Right Now!” If you want to start putting CST into practice, this list might be a good place to start. We’re not yet at 101, but we have more than 60 action items listed. (Contact us if you have any suggestions to add to the list.) Resources This is a list of most if not all of the sources we quoted during the episode (and some that we didn’t get time to quote!) with links to the originals where relevant. Text in bold before each section of quoted text was added by us to indicate the connection to our discussion in the episode. These sources come from different eras and help to show the unity of CST over time. Evangelium Vitae by Pope St. John Paul II Section 3: The Dignity of Every Human Life. “Every individual, precisely by reason of the mystery of the Word of God who was made flesh (cf. Jn 1:14), is entrusted to the maternal care of the Church. Therefore every threat to human dignity and life must necessarily be felt in the Church’s very heart; it cannot but affect her at the core of her faith in the Redemptive Incarnation of the Son of God, and engage her in her mission of proclaiming the Gospel of life in all the world and to every creature (cf. Mk 16:15) . . . .The Second Vatican Council, in a passage which retains all its relevance today, forcefully condemned a number of crimes and attacks against human life. Thirty years later, taking up the words of the Council and with the same forcefulness I repeat that condemnation in the name of the whole Church, certain that I am interpreting the genuine sentiment of every upright conscience: “Whatever is opposed to life itself, such as any type of murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia, or wilful self-destruction, whatever violates the integrity of the human person, such as mutilation, torments inflicted on body or mind, attempts to coerce the will itself; whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution, the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where people are treated as mere instruments of gain rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others like them are infamies indeed. They poison human society, and they do more harm to those who practise them than to those who suffer from the injury. Moreover, they are a supreme dishonour to the Creator”” Let Us Dream, by Pope Francis pp. 52-53: Catholic Social Teaching is based on the Beatitudes. “Jesus gave us a set of keywords with which he summoned up the grammar of the Kingdom of God: the Beatitudes. They begin in the hope of the poor for the fullness of life, for peace and fraternity, for equity and justice. It is an order of existence in which values are not negotiated but sacrosanct. Reflecting on the kingdom of God in response to the way we live in the modern world, the Church has developed a series of principles for reflection, together with criteria for judgment that also offer directives for action. It is known as Catholic Social Teaching. While they are drawn from reflection on the Gospel, its principles are accessible to all, seeking to translate and set in motion the Good News in the here and now. “ pp. 116-117 The Dignity of Workers “There is a 12th-century midrash, or commentary, on the story of the Tower of Babel in chapter 11 of the Book of Genesis. The tower was a monument to the ego of the people of Babel. Building the tower required huge numbers of bricks, which were very expensive to make. According to the rabbi, if a brick fell it was a great tragedy: work was stopped and the negligent worker was beaten severely as an example. But if a worker fell to his death? the work went on. One of the surplus laborers—slaves waiting in line for work—stepped forward to take his place so that the tower could continue to rise . . .And nowadays? When shares of major corporations fall a few percent, the news makes headlines. Experts endlessly discuss what it might mean. But when a homeless person is found frozen in the streets behind empty hotels, or a whole population goes hungry, few notice; and if it makes the news at all, we just shake our heads sadly and carry on, believing there is no solution . . .Either a society is geared to a culture of sacrifice—the triumph of the fittest and the throwaway culture—or to mercy and care. People or bricks: it is time to choose.” Caritas in Veritate, by Pope Benedict XVI From paragraph 6: The Relation of Charity and Justice. “Charity goes beyond justice, because to love is to give, to offer what is “mine” to the other; but it never lacks justice, which prompts us to give the other what is “his”, what is due to him by reason of his being or his acting. I cannot “give” what is mine to the other, without first giving him what pertains to him in justice. If we love others with charity, then first of all we are just towards them. Not only is justice not extraneous to charity, not only is it not an alternative or parallel path to charity: justice is inseparable from charity, and intrinsic to it.” Apostolicam Actuositatem, from the Second Vatican Council From Chapter II, Section 8: The Relation of Justice and Charity, Solidarity in Christ, Reform of the Social Order. “In order that the exercise of charity on this scale may be unexceptionable in appearance as well as in fact, it is altogether necessary that one should consider in one’s neighbor the image of God in which he has been created, and also Christ the Lord to Whom is really offered whatever is given to a needy person. It is imperative also that the freedom and dignity of the person being helped be respected with the utmost consideration, that the purity of one’s charitable intentions be not stained by seeking one’s own advantage or by striving for domination, and especially that the demands of justice be satisfied lest the giving of what is due in justice be represented as the offering of a charitable gift. Not only the effects but also the causes of these ills must be removed and...

Sofia and Giuliana discuss subsidiarity, a principle of Catholic Social Teaching. What is subsidiarity and how is it commonly misunderstood? Can Catholic Social Teaching free us from ideology and partisan politics? What invitation does the principle of subsidiarity pose to each one of us? What gifts come from obeying it, both personally and socially? Our weekly challenge is to donate to a local organization. And our media recommendation is the book Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry. We'd love to hear from you! Write to us at pilgrimsoulpodcast@gmail.com or find us on Instagram at @pilgrimsoulpodcast. Other resources we mention: - Encyclicals: Caritas in Veritate by Pope Benedict XVI, Quadragesimo Anno by Pope Pius XI, Rerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIII - Robert Putnam's book Bowling Alone - Luigi Giussani's books Il Tempo e il Tempio and Generating Traces in the History of the World - Mother Teresa's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech - Summary of Catholic Social Teaching: www.caritas.org/who-we-are/catholic-social-teaching/ Our theme music is Nich Lampson's “Dolphin Kicks.”

Our heroes try to find their way in the wake of the bombing of Veritate and each gets a surprise visit, some less welcome than others. But they don't have much time to sort out their feeling as another threat falls into their laps. Cernunnos gets an offer he can refuse, Enif makes herself cozy at Baerin's cabin, Baerin runs into a familiar face under the lamplight, and Isaac has a vision of a Pizza Salon. Recorded on 12-23-20

More than ever (particularly now, with fears about COVID), we live in an age of disposable everything. What does that view of the environment, and the world around us, do to our view of other people? In today's episode, Joe and Jennie talk about the idea of “human ecology,” the link between the pro-life movement and a healthy view of environmentalism.Show notes:John Paul II, Centesimus AnnusBenedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate

En este primer episodio de De Veritate damos una idea de que ideas vamos a ir discutiendo en siguientes episodios, como metafísica, ética, filosofía de la religión y sus implicaciones en el mundo contemporáneo. Feedback, comentarios, preguntas o cualquier aporte lo pueden enviar como dm a nuestra página de Instagram @deveritatepodcast o a nuestro correo deveritatepodcast@gmail.com Crédito a la música: https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com/royalty-free-music/celtic-fantasy ; https://patrickdearteaga.com/  #Filosofía #Platón #Aristóteles #filo #Verdad #Sabiduría #mentira #relativismo #esceptico #duda #metafísica #sentimientos #objetivo #objetividad #juventud

Lecture du Magistère - Caritas in veritate - Introduction by Radio Maria France

Lecture du Magistère - Caritas in veritate - Chapitre 1 by Radio Maria France

Hi, my name is David Wetton and welcome to the Conscious Leadership Now Video Podcast The intent of this Podcast is to encourage you as a leader to embrace Conscious Leadership, by giving you access to some of the world’s leaders in the field of Conscious Leadership, both in practice and in thought. Today my guest is Loughlin Hickey, ex Global Head of Tax for KPMG and a member of their Global Executive Team. Loughlin trained as a chartered accountant and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales . He became a tax specialist at KPMG where he served a broad client base and had a number of managerial roles over a 30 year career there. For the six years prior to his retirement in 2011 Loughlin was Global Head of Tax and member of the Global Executive Team. Loughlin is one of the founding Trustees of Blueprint for Better Business and is also an Senior Adviser to Blueprint, which is a charity that exists to help businesses to be inspired and guided by a purpose that serves society. You can find out more about The Blueprint for Better Business, Five Principles of a Purpose Driven Business here: https://www.blueprintforbusiness.org/explore_principles/ He represents Blueprint for Better Business in presenting a more human centric view of business to business school students and as experts in the field of purposeful business in research into responsible business . https://www.blueprintforbusiness.org/ Loughlin was an advisory panel member on the Cabinet Office Mission Led Business Review and the Centre for Social Justice report on Making Business Work for All and is a contributor to The Purposeful Company project run by the Big Innovation Centre. http://www.biginnovationcentre-purposeful-company.com/about/ He is also a co-founding member of UK21 which is a forum to help create an economy that works better for people and planet . https://www.uk21.org/ Loughlin was also a Governor at Heythrop College , the specialist philosophy and theology college of the University of London. He was made a Fellow of Heythrop college in 2019. You can connect with Loughlin via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loughlin-hickey-888a6339/ The people and resources Loughlin mentions as being an inspiration for his conscious leadership journey are: - Yvon Chouinard, Founder of Patagonia Works - Alan Jope, CEO of Unilever - Archbishop Vincent Nichols - Sister Helen Alford https://todayscatholic.org/sister-helen-alford-to-explore-the-purpose-of-business-feb-28/ The resources Loughlin mentions are: Papal encyclicals: - Caritas in Veritate http://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate.html - Laudato si http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html Books - Viktor Frankl's book 'Man's search for meaning' - Kate Raworth's book 'Doughnut Economics' - Maurice Glasman's book 'Unnecessary Suffering' - Professor Alex Edmans' book 'Grow The Pie' - Jonathan Trevor's book 'Align' If you’ve enjoyed this Podcast and my approach to Conscious Leadership, then please know that I Help Aspiring Conscious Leaders develop Purpose-Led, High Performing Leadership Teams through 1:1 Coaching & Tailored Leadership Programmes. If you sense I can help you, then please look me up, David Wetton, on LinkedIn and let’s jump on a conversation together. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwetton/ I truly believe that Now is the Time for Conscious Leadership; and with all the inspiring, heartfelt work you, as viewers, are doing, I have no doubt that Conscious Leadership will become a thriving reality. …Making a difference for the greater good of All. So until next time, I’ll leave you with a blessing from John O’Donohue: ‘May the light of your soul bless the work you do with the secret love and warmth of your heart’ …And so it is

“On this earth there is room for everyone: here the entire human family must find the resources to live with dignity, through the help of nature itself—God’s gift to his children—and through hard work and creativity. At the same time we must recognize our grave duty to hand the earth on to future generations in such a condition that they too can worthily inhabit it and continue to cultivate it.” —Pope Benedict XVI, Charity in Truth (Caritas in Veritate), no. 50 Friends of the Show get all Premium Content! Thank you to my newest Friends of the Show: Mary McJ; Gina G; Amanda B; Richard T; and Allyson M, for loving and lifting me! LOVE the Word® is a Bible study method based on Mary's own practice: lectio without the Latin. Get the book based on Sonja's method in the right margin, How to Pray Like Mary. L - Listen (Receive the Word via audio or video.)      O - Observe (Connect the passage to your life and recent events.) Read about all the ways you can volunteer with The National Park Service in caring for our federally protected spaces. From the Examination of Conscience in Light of Social Teaching Do I live out my responsibility to care for God’s creation? Do I see my care for creation as connected to my concern for poor persons, who are most at risk from environmental problems? Do I litter? Live wastefully?  Use energy too freely? Are there ways I could reduce consumption in my life? Are there ways I could change my daily practices and those of my family, school, workplace, or community to better conserve the earth’s resources for future generations? V - Verbalize (Pray about your thoughts and emotions.) Remembering that He loves you and that you are in His presence, talk to God about the particulars of your O – Observe step. You may want to write your reflections in your LOVE the Word® journal. Or, get a free journal page and guide in the right-hand margin. E - Entrust (May it be done to me according to your word!) Father of all, Creator and ruler of the universe, You entrusted your world to us as a gift. Help us to care for it and all people, that we may live in right relationship--with You, with ourselves, with one another, and with creation. Christ our Lord, both divine and human, You lived among us and died for our sins. Help us to imitate your love for the human family by recognizing that we are all connected—to our brothers and sisters around the world, to those in poverty impacted by environmental devastation, and to future generations. Holy Spirit, giver of wisdom and love, You breathe life in us and guide us. Help us to live according to your vision, stirring to action the hearts of all—individuals and families, communities of faith, and civil and political leaders. LORD God, help us to hear the cry of those in poverty, and the cry of the earth, so that we may together care for our common home. Amen +  Show Notes Topics Discussed: Catholic social justice principle #8, Care for Creation Creation as home-building, covenant making, and Sabbath keeping Church documents on caring for creation Overview: Minutes 00:12:00 - Solidarity with creation and the poor    Minutes 12:01-24:00 - Creation as home-building, covenant making, and Sabbath keeping Minutes 24:01-36:00 - Transgressing the land's Sabbaths causes slavery Minutes 36:01-48:00 - Church documents on care for the earth: Laudato Si, On the Hundreth Year, Caritas in Veritate Additional Resources: More on Care of Creation from the Bible and Church documents  United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Seven Themes of Catholic Social Teaching Book, Amazon: Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and USCCB Bible Study Evangelista is on the Laudate app! Facebook Discussion Community We're talking about caring for creation over on the Bible Study Evangelista Facebook Discussion page. Come chat with us. Read the Transcript Download a complete,

¡AYYYYY, no saben lo orgullosa que estoy de este episodio! Me llevó muchas horas de investigación y un buen rato de meditación, además de las buenas horas de grabación y edición (jaja pero esas van de cajón). La verdad estoy súper feliz de compartir con ustedes de este tema tan tan tan importante, el descanso. La iglesia tiene una óptica muy hermosa con respecta a el ser humano y nuestra vida  aquí en la tierra. Hoy, compartimos un poco acerca de nuestro descanso y tocamos desde el dormir hasta el descanso propio del domingo. Espero este episodio pueda serte de mucha bendición y pueda traer luz a tu vida. Te dejo algunas citas hermosísimas de las que te platico en el episodio y sobre las que puedes meditar: "El amor de la verdad busca el santo ocio, la necesidad del amor cultiva el justo trabajo." San Agustín "Si el Señor no construye la casa en vano trabajan los albañiles; si el Señor no protege la ciudad, en vano vigila el centinela. En vano te levantas tan temprano  y te acuestas tan tarde, y con tanto sudor comes tu pan; el lo da a sus amigos mientras duermen." Salmo 127:1-2 "Mientras el mundo ve el fin de semana como un tiempo para prepararse para ir a trabajar el lunes, la Iglesia ve la semana de trabajo como una preparación para la Eucaristía de domingo." CIC "Sin la perspectiva de una vida eterna, el progreso humano en este mundo se queda sin aliento. Encerrado dentro de la historia, queda expuesto al riesgo de reducirse solo al incremento de tener; así. la humanidad pierde la valentía de estar disponible  para los bienes más altos." Papa Benedicto XVI en la Encíclica "Caritas in Veritate" Las quiero y espero estén resguardándose en estos tiempo. No olviden seguirnos en instagram como @lumenmultimedia y @befreymann. Un abrazo fuerte (desde el cautiverio) Beatriz

Encylicalpedia: Caritas in Veritate w/Kevin Beauchemin In today's episode, Kevin Beauchemin returns to talk about Benedict XVI's third and final encyclical, "Caritas in Veritate" (Love in Truth). We talk about Catholic social teaching, American politics, Bernie Sanders, and more! We'd love to hear what you think of this episode! Reach out to us: Email | Instagram | Twitter | PatreonOther shows on the Vernacular Podcast Network: Vernacular | Breaking Pod | The Popped Cast | The Lineup

TESTO DELL'ARTICOLO ➜http://www.bastabugie.it/it/articoli.php?id=6007SPAGNA, PUZZA DI REGIME: NON PUOI PENSARE DIVERSAMENTE DAL GOVERNO di Raffaella Frullone«Non possiamo pensare in alcun modo che i figli appartengano ai genitori». Non si può certo dire che non sia stata chiara Isabel Celaá, ministro dell'Istruzione dell'esecutivo spagnolo guidato dal socialista Pedro Sánchez. La Celaá ha rilasciato questa dichiarazione durante una conferenza stampa in cui criticava l'adozione del cosiddetto «Pin parentale» da parte del governo della regione di Murcia per iniziativa del partito Vox. Si tratta di una sorta di consenso informato che permette alle famiglie di esercitare il primato educativo e dunque fornire o meno l'autorizzazione rispetto alle attività scolastiche complementari.«Il Pin parentale viola il diritto fondamentale e costituzionale dei bambini e dei giovani a essere educati - ha dichiarato il ministro Celaá - e dunque non può essere accettato. Viola inoltre l'autonomia del centro educativo». Nel caso il messaggio non fosse abbastanza chiaro, le ha fatto eco Irene Montero, ministro spagnolo per l'Uguaglianza, che ha ribadito: «I figli di genitori omofobi hanno il diritto di essere educati al rispetto» e sulla «possibilità di "amare chi vogliono"». Secondo la Montero la decisione del governo della Múrcia «comporta la rottura del patto contro la violenza di genere».Ma se i figli non appartengono ai genitori bensì allo Stato, allora ci sono alcune cose che non tornano, come ha scritto in una lettera diventata virale María Teresa Corzo Santamaría, preside della Facoltà di Scienze economiche e commerciali della Pontificia Università di Comillas e madre di cinque figli.LETTERA APERTA AL MINISTRO DELL'ISTRUZIONE«Signora Celaá, sono la madre di cinque figli, lavoro ogni giorno all'università e spendo le mie energie quotidiane tra la cura dei miei figli e il lavoro e il pagamento di tutte le tasse allo Stato. Grazie al fatto che vivo nella Comunità di Madrid, ho qualche aiuto destinato alle famiglie numerose e per la disabilità di due dei miei figli. In altre comunità non va così bene. Ma mai nessuno di qualunque governo mi ha aiutato quando i miei figli si sono alzati di notte o quando sono stati malati, né alcuno mi ha aiutato quando sono stati ricoverati. Nessuno è corso a prendere uno dei nostri bambini a scuola mentre io o mio marito eravamo in ospedale con nostro figlio appena operato al cuore. Nessuno mi ha accompagnato nei controlli medici di mio figlio con la sindrome di Down. Solo le associazioni non governative senza scopo di lucro ci hanno offerto aiuto.Di questo "governo papà", nessun segno. Non vi ho visto signore e signori. Ma ora che il bambino è a scuola, guarda caso, ora volete essere voi "il padre", volete educarlo a modo vostro. E togliere la libertà di educazione ai genitori. Perché attenzione, cosa succede se la madre non pensa come il governo? Allora diciamo che non puoi pensare diversamente e basta. E se la signora Montero pensasse che la madre è pazza? O se la madre dice qualcosa che alle dee dell'Olimpo, custodi del bene, non piace? O peggio ancora, e se lo dicesse il padre? [...]Un'ultima domanda, dato che è filosofa e conosce i sillogismi. Se i bambini ora appartengono allo Stato totalitario del signor Sánchez e del signor Iglesias, allora appartengono anche allo Stato di Franco, quando Franco era al comando, giusto? E se il prossimo presidente del governo sarà il signor Abascal, i bambini di questo Paese apparterranno anche a lui, giusto? Dopo 17 anni dalla nascita di della mia figlia maggiore, molto lavoro, molti dottori, molte notti di sogni infranti e molte occhiaie, avevo solo bisogno di sentire questo insulto alle libertà e all'intelligenza. Ma ora le cose sono cambiate, i genitori non hanno più libertà. No, ora no, perché le dee hanno parlato».Nota di BastaBugie: Mauro Faverzani nell'articolo seguente dal titolo "Spagna verso il regime comunista, SOS della Chiesa" racconta la drammatica situazione spagnola.Ecco l'articolo completo pubblicato su Corrispondenza Romana il 29 gennaio 2020:«Abbiamo visto come il comunismo si è introdotto in Venezuela. Ed è quanto sta avvenendo ora in Spagna»: a lanciare l'allarme, dalle colonne del quotidiano Abc, sono state Eva Buitrago, 65enne di Santa Cruz, e Violeta Perdorno, 59enne di Caracas, entrambe esponenti dell'Associazione Pensionati venezuelana. Scorgono ora nel Paese iberico gli stessi germi, che hanno portato il marxismo al potere in Venezuela, a partire dall'era Maduro.E non sbagliano. A confermarlo autorevolmente in una lettera pastorale, è stato l'arcivescovo metropolita di Mérida-Badajoz, mons. Celso Morga Iruzibieta, che, dopo aver letto il programma del nuovo governo Psoe-Podemos, lo ha accusato senza mezzi termini di laicismo militante, pronto a rendersi «parte attiva nella rimozione totale di Dio dalla vita pubblica» e nell'«imporre l'ateismo pratico». Ciò cui il prelato oppone l'enciclica di Benedetto XVI Caritas in Veritate n. 29, laddove si legge in particolare: «Quando lo Stato promuove, insegna o addirittura impone forme di ateismo pratico, sottrae ai suoi cittadini la forza morale e spirituale indispensabile per impegnarsi nello sviluppo umano integrale».Non è un caso che il diritto dei genitori ad impartire ai figli un'educazione religiosa conforme alle proprie convinzioni sia stato definito dal neo-ministro per l'Educazione spagnolo, Isabel Celaá, del Partito Socialista Operaio, un «diritto accessorio». Ed, in base a tale assurdo pretesto, è pronta a trascinare la giunta regionale di Murcia in tribunale, accusandola d'aver violato il diritto all'istruzione, per aver dato «priorità ad un diritto accessorio» ovvero cercato di trattare tutte le materie allo stesso modo. È lo stesso ministro, che due mesi fa, dal palco del congresso delle Scuole cattoliche, negò che la Costituzione iberica garantisca ai genitori il diritto di scegliersi la scuola per i propri figli e tanto meno un'educazione religiosa.Il nuovo governo ha già mostrato, poco dopo il suo insediamento, un inquietante volto da regime. Contro cui si è già espresso pubblicamente anche il card. Antonio Cañizares Llovera, arcivescovo metropolita di Valencia: «Ciò che ha detto il ministro Celaá è una barbarie, è il più grande passo indietro che un governo possa fare - ha commentato -. Questo governo sta violando l'ordinamento giuridico spagnolo. I genitori hanno il dovere e la responsabilità di educare i propri figli e niente e nessuno glielo può togliere, tanto meno lo Stato», che deve rispondere all'esigenza di «garantire a tutti, soprattutto alla famiglia, di poter adempiere al proprio dovere educativo». Sua Eminenza ha bollato espressamente chi la pensi diversamente d'avere ancora la testa ai «gulag sovietici ed alla cultura comunista».Nei giorni scorsi Txomin Gómez, responsabile dell'Educazione nella Diocesi di Vitoria, ha denunciato a chiare lettere, in un'intervista rilasciata all'agenzia InfoCatólica, gli ostacoli amministrativi e le difficoltà opposte dagli istituti scolastici alle famiglie decise ad iscrivere i propri figli all'ora di religione. Non solo: il nuovo governo, spostato decisamente a Sinistra con l'accordo tra Partito Socialista Operaio e Unidas Podemos, già dai primi passi compiuti ha rivelato subito la propria vera natura, quella di lupo travestito da nonna di Cappuccetto Rosso: nella valutazione degli alunni l'ora di religione non farà più media; inoltre, chi non la frequenti, avrà semplicemente una materia in meno, non essendone più previste alternative educative; vietate le scuole che propongano un'istruzione differenziata in base al sesso, maldestramente ed ideologicamente definita una «segregazione educativa» (sic): chi non ha classi miste, può scordarsi di ricevere ancora soldi pubblici; verrà di contro potenziata nelle classi l'educazione «affettivo-sessuale», cavallo di Troia per inculcare una mentalità contraccettiva, abortista ed Lgbt-friendly alle nuove generazioni sin dalla più tenera età. Peggio di così...Sono tutti provvedimenti, che violano palesemente gli accordi vigenti tra Spagna e Santa Sede, accordi che prevedono per l'ora di religione condizioni assolutamente equiparabili a quelle delle altre materie. Invece no, d'ora in poi gli alunni si troveranno di fronte a professori di "serie A" (gli iperlaicisti) e professori di "serie B" o "C" o "D" (gli insegnanti di religione). Insomma, una cosa è certa: in Spagna il nuovo governo è appena nato, eppure già si sente puzza di regime.

Spoilers. The horn sounds, so you have been warned. We skip any sort of plot summary and assume you've seen the movie. Three themes of economic injustice, mental health, and isolation interweave into one amazing character study called JOKER. Economic Justice Wayne Employees (coming home from work) beat up the Joker (coming home from work) Chapter 3 of CARITAS IN VERITATE by Pope Benedict XVI FRATERNITY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY “In fact, if the market is governed solely by the principle of the equivalence in value of exchanged goods, it cannot produce the social cohesion that it requires in order to function well. Without internal forms of solidarity and mutual trust, the market cannot completely fulfil its proper economic function. And today it is this trust which has ceased to exist, and the loss of trust is a grave loss.” “In the global era, the economy is influenced by competitive models tied to cultures that differ greatly among themselves. The different forms of economic enterprise to which they give rise find their main point of encounter in commutative justice. Economic life undoubtedly requires contracts, in order to regulate relations of exchange between goods of equivalent value. But it also needs just laws and forms of redistribution governed by politics, and what is more, it needs works redolent of the spirit of gift. The economy in the global era seems to privilege the former logic, that of contractual exchange, but directly or indirectly it also demonstrates its need for the other two: political logic, and the logic of the unconditional gift. (Caritas in Veritate, 37) “My predecessor John Paul II drew attention to this question in Centesimus Annus, when he spoke of the need for a system with three subjects: the market, the State and civil society[92]. He saw civil society as the most natural setting for an economy of gratuitousness and fraternity, but did not mean to deny it a place in the other two settings. Today we can say that economic life must be understood as a multi-layered phenomenon: in every one of these layers, to varying degrees and in ways specifically suited to each, the aspect of fraternal reciprocity must be present.” - 38 Catholic Church on Mental Health “Christ took all human suffering on himself, even mental illness. Yes even this affliction, which perhaps seems the most absurd and incomprehensible, configures the sick person to Christ and gives him a share in his redeeming passion” Pope John Paul II, International Conference for Health Care Workers, on Illnesses of the Human Mind, November 30, 1996 “...stretch out a hand to the sick, to make them perceive the tenderness of God, to integrate them into a community of faith and life in which they can feel accepted, understood, supported, respected; in a word, in which they can love and be loved.” - John Paul II on Depression From the California Bishops : Catholic World Report Christ’s public life was a ministry of hope and healing. As Catholics, in imitation of our Lord, we are called to provide hope and healing to others,” they said. “We profess that every human life is sacred, that all people are created in the image and likeness of God and, therefore, a person’s dignity and worth cannot be diminished by any condition, including mental illness.” The bishops called the spike in mental illness, suicide, and drug overdoses a “heartbreaking” crisis, and urged Catholics to help end the social stigma for those seeking support and help in these areas of their lives. “Persons with mental illness often suffer in silence, hidden and unrecognized by others,” the bishops said. “We clearly proclaim that there is no shame in receiving a diagnosis of a psychiatric disorder. We affirm the need for education in our communities to remove the unjust prejudice and stigma often associated with mental illness,” they said. Instead, all Catholics should use their unique gifts and talents to help alleviate these problems and to accompany those who suffer, the bishops noted, whether by providing friendship, spiritual support, or professional support if appropriate.

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Este programa es una continuación del anterior sobre la Carta Encíclica "Caritas in Veritate", de Benedicto XVI. Analizamos el capítulo tercero sobre el análisis del desarrollo económico y de la sociedad civil.

Comentamos el primer capítulo de la encíclica de Benedicto XVI: "Caritas in Veritate". Este primer capítulo hace una relectura de la encíclica "Populorum Progressio" de Pablo VI. “La segunda verdad es que el auténtico desarrollo del hombre concierne de manera unitaria a la totalidad de la persona en todas sus dimensiones. Sin la perspectiva de una vida eterna, el progreso humano en este mundo se queda sin aliento. Encerrado dentro de la historia, queda expuesto al riesgo de reducirse sólo al incremento del tener; así, la humanidad pierde la valentía de estar disponible para los bienes más altos, para las iniciativas grandes y desinteresadas que la caridad universal exige. El hombre no se desarrolla únicamente con sus propias fuerzas, así como no se le puede dar sin más el desarrollo desde fuera”.

During the Fall of '17, we worked through the American Solidarity Party Platform. We also explored what's involved in bringing our platform into "on the ground" politics.This week's agenda has two parts. First, we need to look at just what solidarity is, in the mind of the Church. Second, we need to discuss what solidarity means for our politics.Let's begin with a few passages from Pope Francis, Pope Benedict XVI, and St. John Paul II.In the present condition of global society, where injustices abound and growing numbers of people are deprived of basic human rights and considered expendable, the principle of the common good immediately becomes, logically and inevitably, a summons to solidarity and a preferential option for the poorest of our brothers and sisters. This option entails recognizing the implications of the universal destination of the world's goods, but, as I mentioned in the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium, it demands before all else an appreciation of the immense dignity of the poor in the light of our deepest convictions as believers. We need only look around us to see that, today, this option is in fact an ethical imperative essential for effectively attaining the common good. (Pope Francis, On Care for Our Common Home [Laudato Si. . . '],no. 158)To love someone is to desire that person's good and to take effective steps to secure it. Besides the good of the individual, there is the good that is linked to living in society: the common good. It is the good of "all of us", made up of individuals, families and intermediate groups who together constitute society. … To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity. (Pope Benedict XVI, Charity in Truth [Caritas in Veritate. . . ], no. 7) At another level, the roots of the contradiction between the solemn affirmation of human rights and their tragic denial in practice lies in a notion of freedom which exalts the isolated individual in an absolute way, and gives no place to solidarity, to openness to others and service of them. . . It is precisely in this sense that Cain's answer to the Lord's question: "Where is Abel your brother?" can be interpreted: "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?" (Gen 4:9). Yes, every man is his "brother's keeper", because God entrusts us to one another. (St. John Paul II, The Gospel of Life [Evangelium Vitae], no. 19)Next let's turn to the political arena. We can do so with an update on three Solidarity candidates in California. No shows were recorded or aired on December 22 or December 29, 2017.

Let's first explore, from a Catholic perspective, the significance of work. We can take our lead from Francis, Benedict, and St. John Paul II. Not surprisingly, our thoughts will turn to what might be involved in a politics of work!Work should be the setting for this rich personal growth, where many aspects of life enter into play: creativity, planning for the future, developing our talents, living out our values, relating to others, giving glory to God. It follows that, in the reality of today's global society, it is essential that "we continue to prioritize the goal of access to steady employment for everyone," no matter the limited interests of business and dubious economic reasoning. We were created with a vocation to work. The goal should not be that technological progress increasingly replace human work, for this would be detrimental to humanity. Work is a necessity, part of the meaning of life on this earth, a path to growth, human development and personal fulfillment. Helping the poor financially must always be a provisional solution in the face of pressing needs. The broader objective should always be to allow them a dignified life through work. (Pope Francis, On Care for Our Common Home [Laudato Si. . . '], nos. 127-28) In many cases, poverty results from a violation of the dignity of human work, either because work opportunities are limited (through unemployment or underemployment), or "because a low value is put on work and the rights that flow from it, especially the right to a just wage and to the personal security of the worker and his or her family." (Pope Benedict XVI, Charity in Truth [Caritas in Veritate.], no. 63)The obligation to earn one's bread by the sweat of one's brow also presumes the right to do so. A society in which this right is systematically denied, in which economic policies do not allow workers to reach satisfactory levels of employment, cannot be justified from an ethical point of view, nor can that society attain social peace. (St. John Paul II, The Hundredth Year [Centesimus Annus], no. 43)Work is a good thing for man-a good thing for his humanity--because through work man not only transforms nature, adapting it to his own needs, but he also achieves fulfillment as a human being and indeed, in a sense, becomes "more a human being.” (St. John Paul II, On Human Work [Laborem Exercens.], no. 9)Let's, secondly, get our weekly update on the trials and triumphs of the American Solidarity Party!

Ref.: Prof. Dr. Clemens Breuer, Katholisches Bildungswerk Köln. WIEDERHOLUNG v. 16.09.2009

Chris Agliano, religious studies faculty, Brophy Prep teaches us about the Jewish roots of the Mass. Thomas Smith, author, speaker talks about studying the Bible and helps us understand the Prophets. Henry Capello, Caritas in Veritate International-CiVI, president and executive director shares the vision and mission of the the outreach. Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted reflects […]

El Papa Francisco, en un mensaje enviado al Foro Económico Mundial de Davos, invita a tener un enfoque inclusivo que tenga en cuenta la dignidad de toda persona humana y el bien común. “Confiando en que este encuentro brinde una oportunidad para una reflexión más profunda sobre las causas de la crisis económica que sacude al mundo en los últimos años”, escribe el Papa en su mensaje al presidente ejecutivo del Foro económico mundial, Profesor Klaus Schwab, donde aporta algunas consideraciones con la esperanza de que puedan enriquecer los debates del Foro de Davos y “dar una contribución útil a su importante labor”. En la edición 2014 de la reunión anual del Foro Económico Mundial, que comenzó este miércoles en Davos, Suiza, participan cerca de 40 jefes de Estado y de Gobierno. En total más 2.500 participantes procedentes de casi 100 países, entre los que se incluyen más de 1.500 líderes empresariales de las mil compañías que forman parte del Foro, además de representantes de organizaciones internacionales, la sociedad civil, los medios de comunicación, la educación y las artes. El Foro Económico Mundial fue fundado en 1971 por Klaus Schwab, profesor de economía de Suiza, quien ha asegurado que este año el encuentro se produce con el mundo en un "momento crítico", ya que la reducción de crisis económicas en el corto plazo da lugar a la necesidad "profunda" de nuevas reformas estructurales en los mercados emergentes. El texto completo del Santo Padre es el siguiente: Mensaje del Papa al Foro de Davos: Al Profesor Klaus Schwab Presidente ejecutivo del Foro económico mundial Le agradezco mucho su amable invitación para dirigirme a la reunión anual del Foro Económico Mundial, que, como de costumbre, se celebrará en Davos- Klosters, a final del mes. Confiando en que este encuentro brinde una oportunidad para una reflexión más profunda sobre las causas de la crisis económica que sacude al mundo en los últimos años, quisiera aportar algunas consideraciones con la esperanza de que puedan enriquecer los debates del Foro y dar una contribución útil a su importante labor. La nuestra, es una época de grandes cambios y avances significativos en diversas áreas, y esto tiene consecuencias importantes para la vida humana. Efectivamente "son de alabar los avances que contribuyen al bienestar de la gente, como, por ejemplo, en el ámbito de la salud, de la educación y de la comunicación” (Evangelii Gaudium, 52), así como en muchos otros sectores de la actividad humana, y hay que reconocer el papel fundamental desempeñado por la economía moderna en estos cambios, a la hora de fomentar y desarrollar los recursos inmensos de la inteligencia humana. Sin embargo, los objetivos logrados -aunque hayan reducido la pobreza de un gran número de personas - a menudo han llevado aparejada una amplia exclusión social. De hecho, la mayor parte de los hombres y mujeres de nuestro tiempo siguen experimentando la inseguridad cotidiana, y no raramente con consecuencias trágicas. Con respecto a vuestra reunión, me gustaría hacer hincapié en la importancia que tienen los distintos sectores políticos y económicos en la promoción de un enfoque inclusivo que tenga en cuenta la dignidad de toda persona humana y el bien común. Me refiero a la atención que debería plasmar cualquier decisión política y económica, pero que, de momento, parece ser poco más que un replanteamiento. Los que trabajan en estos sectores tienen una responsabilidad precisa para con los demás, especialmente con los más frágiles, débiles y vulnerables. Es intolerable que todavía miles de personas mueran cada día de hambre, a pesar de las grandes cantidades de alimentos disponibles y, a menudo, simplemente desperdiciados. Del mismo modo, no pueden dejar de impresionarnos los innumerables refugiados que buscando condiciones de vida con un mínimo de dignidad, no sólo no consiguen encontrar hospitalidad, sino que a menudo mueren trágicamente mientras se desplazan de un lugar a otro. Sé que estas son palabras fuertes, incluso dramáticas, pero al mismo tiempo quieren reafirmar y desafiar la capacidad de este Foro para marcar la diferencia. De hecho, los que han demostrado la capacidad para innovar y mejorar la vida de muchas personas a través de su creatividad y experiencia profesional, pueden ofrecer una contribución adicional poniendo sus capacidades al servicio de los que aún viven en medio de una terrible pobreza. Hace falta, por lo tanto, un renovado, profundo y amplio sentido de responsabilidad por parte de todos. “La vocación de un empresario es una noble tarea, siempre que se deje interpelar por un sentido más amplio de la vida” (Evangelii Gaudium , 203). De este modo, los hombres y las mujeres pueden servir más eficazmente al bien común y hacer que los bienes del mundo sean más accesibles para todos. Sin embargo, el crecimiento de la igualdad requiere algo más que el crecimiento económico, aunque si lo presupone. Se requiere, en primer lugar, "una visión trascendente de la persona" (Benedicto XVI , Caritas in Veritate, 11 ), porque "sin la perspectiva de una vida eterna, el progreso humano en este mundo se queda sin aliento”. (Ibid). Además, necesita decisiones, mecanismos y procesos encaminados a una mejor distribución de la riqueza, la creación de fuentes de empleo y la promoción integral del pobre, que va más allá de una simple mentalidad de asistencia. Estoy convencido que una apertura tal a lo trascendente puede dar forma a una nueva mentalidad política y económica, capaz de reconducir toda la actividad económica y financiera dentro de un enfoque ético que sea verdaderamente humano. La comunidad económica internacional puede contar con muchos hombres y mujeres de gran honestidad e integridad personal, cuya labor se inspira y guía por nobles ideales de justicia, generosidad y atención por el auténtico desarrollo de la familia humana. Os exhorto a aprovechar estos grandes recursos humanos y morales, y a haceros cargo de este desafío con determinación y visión de futuro. Sin ignorar, por supuesto, los requisitos específicos, científicos y profesionales, de cada sector, os pido que os esforcéis para que la humanidad se sirva de la riqueza y no sea gobernada por ella. Estimado Presidente, queridos amigos espero que podáis ver en estas breves palabras un signo de mi atención pastoral y una aportación constructiva para que vuestra actividad sea siempre más noble y fecunda. Renuevo mis mejores deseos para el éxito de la reunión e invoco la bendición divina sobre vosotros y los participantes del Foro, así como sobre vuestras familias y vuestro trabajo.

Prof. Ford’s presentation will focus on three aspects: 1) the latest encyclical of Pope Benedict XIV "Caritas in Veritate"and its place in a long line of church statements on economic issues going back to Rerum Novarum [Leo XIII, 1891]; 2) how certain statements mirror structural change in economic systems [Quadragesimo Anno, 1931; Economic Justice For All, 1986; Caritas in Veritate, 2009]; and 3) criticism of these documents.

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