Catching Foxes

I love the Stewart story! Conversion to Catholicism, dead-end unhappy life, a return to the land and farming, and pooping in a bucket, to discovering the grace of enough. Rest assured, her personal commitment to Christ will make you happy you suffered through Luke and me till the bitter end. She's amazing. Thanks to CatholicStock.com and The Catholic Card Game Generations Expansion!

The Catholic Young Adult scene is filled with hookups. We ignore this, we aren't doing ministry of any sort. Then we dive into Healing and then Hope. At the end, it's a SHOCKING story of hope and prayer. Thanks to our sponsors, CatholicStock and The Catholic Cardgame: Generations Expansion (Now on Kickstarter )

* We almost kept them all to Ten Minutes. * Luke: The Question of Scrupulosity Gomer Communication after 10 years of Marriage Joe: Dating Fast (how's your mom's car?) Betsy: Chernobyl show and any new (non-FIRE) Podcasts Mora: Catholics in the Public Square vs The Benedict Option When is Justice Appeased in Identity Politics Gomer: Fr. Morris leaves the priesthood Gomer: and is Puching McCarrick i...

First, Fergalicious . Then, Twittermaggedon . Finally, Luke asks Gomer how we can, outside of faith sharing groups ( buy my book! ), actually grow in our faith. Gomer lies in order to answer this question. In the end, you'll be enriched, engaged, and engorged on Glory. Also, OJ SIMPSON AND BILL COSBY ARE ON TWITTER!!! HAPPY FATHERS DAY!

Twitter Rage, Coping Mechanisms, and Evangelical Gomer and the FIRE movement

Backstory on Jesse Straight: My wife and I are Catholic converts from evangelicalism (though my wife was baptized Orthodox, then raised Presbyterian). Easter Sunday 2009 my wife and I entered the church. On Easter Monday 2009 we started our farm. I am a suburban kid who started a sustainable farm (i.e., no farming experience) through the influence of Wendell Berry and Joel Salatin. Since 2012 our...

30 minutes of chatting, followed by 45 minutes of discussion about Bishop Robert Barron's "Letter to a Suffering Church". Prayer for a Suffering Church Lord Jesus Christ, through your Incarnation you accepted a human nature and lived a real, human life. Setting aside the glory of your divinity, you met us face to face in the vulnerability of our humanity. Though without sin, you accepted sinners,...

Luke delays recording to attend a concert and relive the early 2000's, we blame the clergy for speaker-culture, we talk the crappy Atlantic article, we BRIEFLY discuss the terrible Game of Thrones ending; Oh look, Fr Dave is the new FUS President! Then, Gomer's rapid fire: financial independence, peeing, Luke has anger issues, and our Live Show in Appleton was fun! Here's this gem from Nat'l Catho...

We have the priests from Clerically Speaking on the show (without Gomer for 40 minutes). They talk Catholic Twitter, Friendship vs Fatherhood, Confession as a priest, Political Rage and Self-Sacrifice, Gomer's Anti-Catholic Discussion with a Reformed Baptist, The Role of the Homily, Luke mocks Dynamic Catholic again, The Role and Damage of Professional Laity, and our conclusing BS.

Gomer is about to debate an anti-Catholic Protestant and gets some HOT TIPS from Luke on how to engage in a religious argument. Then Luke trashes Exodus 90 and calls Gomer tubby. (1) 1: No he doesn't. UPDATE: A super-massive thunderstorm prevented Gomer from meeting and having a nice discussion on Personal Salvation and the Authority of the Church. Thanks, God.

**NAVIGATE WITH CHAPTERS! **The three big ones topics are: Professional Catholicism, Supersessionism, and Harry Truman and the A Bomb. Our smaller, but no less interesting, topics include: Gomer's new religion, Year of New Things updates, Game of Thrones Porn Triggers, Luke's housing situation, and why Aristotle is not enough to be a good person.

Luke sings a Disney classic, we talk for 11 minutes about Game of Thrones, then yell at Catholic Twitter for not liking the stuff we like. Luke asks, "When you're too busy, what's the first thing to go?" We struggle with pleasing ourselves or the fans, but the fans win when they give us money! Finally... Anal Sex. Yes, this is both true and sad. And we end talking about Marxism.

Luke encourages us not to do metaphorical hot takes while Notre Dame is burning. Futile. Gomer points out that the best part of the metaphor is that it's just the roof on fire. We're fine down below, hanging out with the cross and altar. Then we dive into MANHOOD. We end with Game of Thrones, Season 8, episode 1 review. SPOILERS!

Luke and Gomer talk about our experience of praise and worship, and charismatic spirituality, and why it may not work anymore for us. Also, Pope Emeritus Benedict's letter on the scandal is touched upon.

In this episode, we literally make one joke for 25 minutes about how we can make Luke's potentially new house more sacred. A sacred space, if you will. AND I WILL! Also we discuss the drama and bizarre tweets of the UnplannedMovie Tweeter account.

We talk Game of Thrones, Luke's last week in ministry, The Lord's Prophecy in 2014 for Luke's life, Discernment, Real prayer that rarely happens in Church, the Pope Francis Ring-Kiss thing (so weird), and more! Check out Strive21 and use our link so they know you came from us! https://www.cardinalstudios.org/strive?ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cardinalstudios.org%2Fa%2F13029%2FT4BdJv2Q

We talk breakdown of the West, the terribleness of politics, why the Extremists are running the centrists off, and Hold On to Your Kids! I want to give a special thanks to our sponsors, "The Five Ways of St. Thomas Aquinas" on Kickstarter and Strive21 ( https://www.cardinalstudios.org/a/13029/T4BdJv2Q ).

Our appearance on The Matt Fradd Show, first take on Captain Marvel and ranking Marvel movies, the Dark Knight controversy, is Twitter a Hellscape of awful nastiness, and the Catholic Church is a punchline because of the clergy. Soooooo....

Luke and Gomer are frank and honest about their own first six months of marriage. Luke yells on the way to Mass and brings a towel to the neighbors' guesthouse. Gomer is still abstaining from sexual intercourse because the sounds are weird. Support our Sponsors! BeTransfigured.com/cf and CatholicMatch.com/

Gomer got a table saw. He turned it on. He respected its raw power. Then, his eye-protection also got sucked into the 5,000 rpm blade, taking his face with it. Also, Luke is naked, eating pudding, and singing to Demi Lovato and his wife catches him. Also, we spend some time deconstructing deconstructionism.

We talk with JD Flynn, canon lawyer and editor-in-chief of Catholic News Agency, about Church Militant's accusations, the ideological news media, Mr. Ted McCarrick's laicization, the Rome Meeting, South Baptist Convention assault issues, and more! SHOW NOTES

We tackle topics. A lot of them: IVF, Captain America vs Iron Man, etc. I'm so tired. I gotta go to bed now. Very explicit today, folks.

In this show, Gomer reveals to Luke how much evangelical pastor Francis Chan is ruining his life. Also, we talk Avenger's Endgame trailer, Gomer reviews all of Netflix's Marvel shows, and we talk books and music! **Check out: **Amazing Parish, Catholic Match, and Adore Ministries!

We interview Patrick Lencioni of The Table Group and The Amazing Parish. You should read all of his New York Times best-selling books, especially "Death by Meeting," "The Advantage," and "Five Dysfunctions of a Team" as well as "The Better Pastor." Please visit our sponsors! Special Guest: Patrick Lencioni.

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