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The story in recent Pixar animated movie Coco revolved around the Mexican celebration of the Days of the Dead/Dia de Muertos. Dom Bettinelli, Deborah Schaben, and Angela Sealana discuss the Mexican and Catholic cultural traditions that informed the movie from both insider and outsider perspectives, as well as the deeper layers and meanings in the music and even the names.
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Every week, Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore the weird, the strange, and the unusual from the perspectives of faith and reason. In this first episode, Jimmy and Dom talk about ghosts, what they could be, how they fit in a Catholic understanding of the world, and what a rational mind says about them.
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The Secrets of Star Trek is re-launching on September 4, 2018 featuring Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Cory Sticha. Until then please enjoy the first 12 episodes of SST recorded in 2010 and 2012 by Fr. Roderick Vonhogen as found in the podcast feed on iTunes/Google Play and on SQPN.com.
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Fr. Cory Sticha, Sarah Vabulas, and Shelly Kelly discuss an interview by technologist Jaron Lanier on how social media can become a problem in your life, then go into a broader discussion of the dangers of social media. Plus what the Pope said about the death penalty.
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Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss the 2nd season finale of New Who and the departure of Rose Tyler. Does it live up to the hype or it is just emotional manipulation of the audience?
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Dom Bettinelli, Steve Nelson, and Fr. Michael Gossett discuss the first three seasons of The Expanse (and the book series it’s based on), especially the moral choices faced by the characters, the complex societies that it showcases, and how religion shows up in surprising ways.
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Fr. Cory Sticha, Lisa Hendey, and Joanne Mercier talk about the 50th anniversary of the papal document Humanae Vitae, which is about more than birth control, as well as how to find the Good when all the news is Bad.
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Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha delve into the 3rd Doctor story, Doctor Who and the Silurians, the first appearance of the underground dwelling dinosaur descendants who present some unique moral quandaries.
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We’re back! Let’s Talk is the return of the SQPN community-focused show and we’ll have a rotating panel of co-hosts and guests to entertain, inform, and inspire. This week, Fr. Cory Sticha is joined by Mac Barron and Lyn Francisco and guest Devin Rose. Devin is Catholic and a programmer whose projects include the Catholic blockchain project and a smartphone app called “Pray: The Catholic Novena App.”
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