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This Catholic Life is a show about Ordinary Catholics having a relaxed, informal, and genuinely searching conversation about current issues, the challenges and hardships of life and what light “This Catholic Life” brings to these things.
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Friday Aug 23, 2019
Friday Aug 23, 2019
Show Notes:
Hosts: Peter Holmes
Guest: Monica Doumit, Chris Lee
A Time For Heroes
"In this special episode we talk about how ordinary Catholics, Christians and Australians feel about Cardinal Pell’s trial and proposed changes to Abortion Laws in NSW parliament, how we can hold genuine hope for the future, and how we can respond heroically, personally and lovingly in this difficult time. "
The Quote Monica remembered was from GK Chesterton:
"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/94304-the-true-soldier-fights-not-because-he-hates-what-is
Links & Resources:
Marilyn Rodrigues’ blog can be found at www.marilynrodrigues.com
#religiousfreedom, #catholic, #israelfollau, #peterholmes
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Thursday Aug 22, 2019
Thursday Aug 22, 2019
Show Notes:
Hosts: Peter Holmes & Marilyn Rodrigues
Guest: Monica Doumit
Religious Freedom.
• Introducing the hosts and guest
• Religious freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of association
Religious discrimination laws
• Changes being discussed in parliament
• Blaspheme laws
• Israel Follau
• Christian bakers
• Christian teachers
• Other religions
• Atheists freedom: Freedom to not believe
Christianity and politics
• The same sex marriage debate
• The seal of the confessional
• Freedom from discrimination vs freedom of religion
One minute wonder
• A child losing a tooth
• An encouraging letter
• A selfless priest
Links & Resources:
Marilyn Rodrigues’ blog can be found at www.marilynrodrigues.com
#religiousfreedom, #catholic, #israelfollau, #peterholmes
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Thursday Aug 15, 2019
Thursday Aug 15, 2019
Show Notes:
Hosts: Peter Holmes & Renee Kohler
Guest: Anna Hitchings
Finding a good Catholic man to date is difficult.
• A shortage of good men
• Qualities of a good man
• The Definition of dating
• The Catholic dating scene
• Bad experiences with dating
• Traditions, expectations and freedom
• Liberated women
• The Porn culture and what it does to men and women
• Boundaries and expectations
• Being “worldly wise”
• The Disney factor
• What is courtship?
Links and Resources:
Anna Hitchings’ blog https://agonyandhope.com/
Anna’s original article https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/for-want-of-a-lot-of-good-men/
Several response articles mentioned in the podcast:
Phillippa Martyr - Be in love with God first https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/phillippa-martyr-be-in-love-with-god-first/
Camillus O'Kane - It’s not hard to find Mr Right, just change your perspective https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/its-not-hard-to-find-mr-right-just-change-your-perspective/
And “Learn from us! Mums offer dating advice” https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/learn-from-us-mums-offer-dating-advice/
The story was picked up by the Australian https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/a-good-man-is-hard-to-find-and-increasingly-becoming-even-more-scarce/news-story/b7e8ad62654d3b65ea3fb9fd3f76e635
and in a follow-up interview with Rod Dreher https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/agony-hope-christian-courtship-anna-hitchings/
#catholicdating, #catholic, #peterholmes, #catholicsingles, #mrright
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Thursday Aug 08, 2019
Thursday Aug 08, 2019
Show Notes:
Hosts: Peter Holmes & Renee Kohler
Guest: Cormac McCaughn
What and who give Christians a bad name.
• Sexual abuse scandals
• Cover-ups
• Israel Follau
• Donald Trump
• Bad experiences with Christians
• Judgemental Christians
• Legalistic Christians
• “You are going to Hell!”
• Using the victims as political capital
• Christian “rock”
• Televangelists
Non-Christian world
• New Age “paganism”
• Post Christian culture
Solutions?
• Married priests?
• Clericalism?
• Proper responses to complaints
• Institutional solutions?
• Personal solutions?
• Changing the experience person to person
One minute wonder
• Children help us understand God’s love for us
• Rublev's icon of the Trinity
Links and Resources:
The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector is Luke 18:9-14.
Christian Music mentioned:
Matt Maher https://www.mattmahermusic.com/
Toby Mac http://tobymac.com/
Bernard Manning Quote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al4aCng-VgY
Rublev's icon of the Trinity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(Andrei_Rublev)
#yougiveloveabadname, #catholic, #peterholmes, #israelfollau, #sexualabuse, #catholicscandal, #christianrock
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Wednesday Jul 31, 2019
Wednesday Jul 31, 2019
Show Notes:
Hosts: Peter Holmes & Renee Kohler
Guest: Rian "Box" Galliott
In this episode…
• Introducing the hosts and guest
• Why do this podcast?
• The experience of being New to something
• Being New in a country, city or place
• Aussie accents, and other Aussie accents.
• Being New to a job/workplace
• Being New to a team
• Being New to a parish
• Being New to the Catholic faith
• One minute wonder
• Tolkien vs Lewis on Mythology
• Transhumanism, fractal geometry and the human brain
• Yesterday (rediscovering the Beatles)
Links and Resources:
Correction: ethos and ethnos are different Greek words. Ethos means habits and philosophy of a place and ethnos refers to a nation, particularly nations other than one’s own.
St Phillip Neri is the priest who insisted on not taking ourselves seriously, and being silly to shake people out of a too serious piety.
Albert the Great did indeed have the nickname “Boots” due to his insistence on walking everywhere.
https://dominicanpublications.com/blogs/news/albert-the-great-and-his-scientific-discoveries
From the shout-outs:
Matthew Tan’s blog is - https://www.awkwardasiantheologian.com/
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