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This week, Dom and Melanie talk about a family “lights out” policy; visiting the Museum of Fine Arts; excitement over Ben Hatke’s new Mighty Jack graphic novel; and the danger of turning faith into pious platitudes in our online persona.
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Fr. Cory Sticha and Mac Barron talk to Tom & Noëlle Crowe, hosts of the new SQPN podcast American Catholic History about how they got started as well as their ministry running a Montessori school in a poor community, and more.
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Mary Fields was a gun-toting, hard-drinking, street-brawling black woman on the old frontier. Tom and Noelle Crowe also reveal that she was a kind-hearted Catholic woman who cared for children and served a community of Ursuline Sisters for many years and a fascinating figure in American Catholic history.
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The first Trek transporter accident splits Kirk into good and bad versions of himself. Jimmy, Dom, and Fr. Cory discuss this Jekyll and Hyde story and its examination of whether our positive and negative traits are simple divisions of good and evil.
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Caroline and Lindsay talk about recent funerals they’ve attended, one in person and one online, reflecting on the uplifting aspects of each and how they became moments of evangelisation for family that attended. Plus Caroline gives an update on Pluto and Mars news.
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In the midst of WWII, the people of Mattoon, Illinois, were terrorized by a madman using gas to disable his victims. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine this 75-year-old unsolved mystery and the theories about it, and then offer up a dramatic twist to the story you may not expect.
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Dom Bettinelli and Joanne Mercier talk about civil libertarian warnings about police and Amazon’s Ring system working together; the dangers of social media-based cancelling and doxxing; and Apple’s upcoming iPhone event.
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The 7th Doctor drops a Companion and picks up a new one in his adventures on Iceworld that involve a freezing criminal, a pirate named Glitz, and a “dragon” that looks like it should be fighting Sigourney Weaver. Jimmy, Dom, and Fr. Cory talk about the departure of Mel and arrival of Ace in the midst of this adventure.
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On Labor Day weekend, Dom and Melanie welcome friends from the internet into their home; drink some shrubs; and Dom watches and reads some things that are old that are new again.
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Veneration of relics of saints is uniquely Catholic and often misunderstood. Fr. Cory Sticha is joined by Barb Gilman and Pat Scott to talk about relics, their purpose in our spiritual lives, how one may experience them, and the experiences that the panelists have had with them.
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Every year, thousands of Eastern-rite Catholics gather in a small Western Pennsylvania town on pilgrimage to Mount Saint Macrina. Tom and Noelle Crowe explain how the pilgrimage started and what Pope Pius XI and Archbishop Fulton Sheen had to do with it.
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Continuing their review of Season 1 of Star Trek Discovery, Jimmy, Dom, and Fr. Cory discuss the introduction of the Discovery, her crew, and her enigmatic mission and Burnham’s first steps to becoming part of them.
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In months with five Fridays, we bring you a “Weird Questions” edition of Catholic Answers Live where Jimmy Akin gives shorter answers to all kinds of questions, including this time whether a virus has a soul; praying to John Wayne; video game morality; cloning unicorns; and the Mandela effect.
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Google has decided that its free-wheeling internal message boards have become too political. Dom Bettinelli, Thomas Sanjurjo, and Fr. Michael Gossett discuss the limits of non-work talk at work and what may be some unintended consequences. Plus a new national robocall agreement.
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Has the Doctor met his match when he suddenly gets a fully grown daughter? Jimmy, Dom, and Fr. Cory talk about this Doctor-Donna-Martha adventure that brings in David Tennant’s future wife/Peter Davison’s daughter as a guest star to play his daughter.
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The Betts were beach bound for birds, but burned. Dom and Melanie cook and eat Tex-Mex fajitas, Sicilian caponata, and a pasta sauce of their own creation. Dom watches Wu Assassins and Melanie is still Fall-ing. Plus suggestions of podcasts for parents to listen with kids.
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When the head of the Jesuits recently seemed to downplay the reality of the Devil, a lot of Catholics were troubled. Fr. Cory Sticha, Joanne Mercier, and Pat Scott talk about the reality of the Devil, how he works in the world, and how Jesus helps us defend ourselves against him.
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When Trip has to help a new alien species with their engines, he gets an unexpected surprise. Jimmy, Dom, and Fr. Cory examine how the show deals with unexpected pregnancy and the choices the characters have to make and come away pretty happy with it.
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