Mind-Control Parasites
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Mind-control parasites have been a staple of science fiction for decades. But Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli reveal that not only do they exist in real life, they sometimes affect humans!
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StarQuest Headlines for the week ending September 13, 2019
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Headlines for the week ending September 13, 2019:
- The Suicide Squad casts Peter Capaldi in mystery role – Radio Times
- Netflix Bringing Lost in Space Season 2 and More to New York Comic Con
- CBS All Access wraps filming on Star Trek: Picard
- Android 10 officially released for Google Pixel phones
- India's Space Program Owes Its Start to One Small Parish | Flashback | OZY
Apple’s iPhone Goes to 11
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Apple’s annual iPhone show is done and Dom Bettinelli, Jack Baruzzini, and Pat Scott discuss all the announcements and come to the consensus that Apple decided this year to appeal to the mainstream consumers with more reasonable prices and desired features.
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Hobbs & Shaw – Coffee and Cinema
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Is there any redeeming value in an action “shoot ’em up”? Dom Bettinelli and Fr. Chip Hines give their spoiler-free and spoiled review of Hobbs & Shaw, a Fast & Furious spinoff, which is about what you expect, but continues the F&F theme of the importance of family.
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The Unicorn and the Wasp
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The Doctor and Donna encounter Agatha Christie and, of course, a murder-mystery ensues. Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha enjoy the fun detective tropes, but also make some comparisons with a later episode that features a real-life artist, “Vincent,” and see how differently they come out.
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There Are Four Lights!
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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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Let’s Talk to Tom & Noëlle Crowe
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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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Stagecoach Mary
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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 Enemy Within (The Original Series)
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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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Finding Hope in the Midst of Death
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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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StarQuest Headlines for the week ending September 7, 2019
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Headlines for the week ending September 7, 2019:
- 'Tantalizing clue' marks end of Amelia Earhart expedition
- Star Trek: Michael Dorn Thinks His Worf Show Would Fit In Well With New Era of Star Trek Television
- Astronomers find bizarre planet 'unlike any other discovered so far' – CNET
- Lego Is Finally Introducing Audio and Braille Building Instructions for the Visually Impaired
- Duolingo helps history nerds learn Latin
- Pope Francis Gets Stuck in Vatican Elevator, Thanks Firefighters for Rescuing Him
The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
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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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Ring and Police Working Together; Doxxing; and Apple’s iPhone Event
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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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Dragonfire
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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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Friends from the Internet
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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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Let’s Talk about Holy Relics
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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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Mount Saint Macrina
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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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Context Is For Kings (Discovery)
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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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Virus Souls, John Wayne Prayers, Cloning Unicorns, and More Weird Questions
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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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StarQuest Headlines for the week ending August 30, 2019
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Headlines for the week ending August 30, 2019:
- Sony Pictures: ‘We Are Disappointed’ by Disney’s Divorce on Marvel – Variety
- Is Bond 25's title No Time to Die really as clichéd as it seems? – Radio Times
- Five Companies Using Virtual Reality To Improve The Lives Of Senior Citizens
- The oldest continuously operating library in the world is in this Egyptian monastery.
- Archdiocese to break ground for Bl. Stanley Rother shrine in November
- Disney's D23 Expo: The Seven Biggest Takeaways | GQ