Adrian Fonseca

Catholic Conversations

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Join Adrian Fonseca on a journey to deepen your understanding of the Catholic Faith through thoughtful discussions and insightful conversations. As a devout Catholic, Adrian is passionate about sharing the richness of Catholic teachings and traditions with his audience. From exploring the history and significance of sacramentals like the Miraculous Medal and the Green Scapular, to tackling profound theological questions about suffering and salvation, each episode delves into a different aspect of Catholicism. Whether you're a lifelong Catholic or simply curious about the faith, you'll find eng...

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Adrian Fonseca

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May 11, 2025

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Why Do Catholics Worship on Sunday not Saturday? | Seventh Day Adventism (Part 2) 09.02.2023

Welcome to Catholic Conversations. Here are the claims we will be addressing in today's video. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Claim: The Catholic Church changed worship to Sunday to worship the sun god. Response: A large bulk of the video will be dedicated to this question, I did make a video recently about what counts as working on...

Seventh Day Adventism Anti-Catholic Claims Addressed (Part 1) 01.02.2023

Welcome to Catholic Conversations. Here are the claims we will be addressing in today's video. Claim: The Catholic Church was created by Constantnie in 325 (according to Ellen White) __________________________________________________________________________________________ Claim: The pope calls himself the God on Earth. In reality the Pope is the devil on earth. The pope is the anti-Christ. T...

Marching into a Post-Roe America - Madonna and Our Lady of Sorrows - Lessons from St. Raymond OP 25.01.2023

Welcome to Catholic Conversations. We are going to try a couple live commentary shows. Today I want to look at the Gospel of Luke and see how it leads us to understand a Catholic understanding of poverty Then I'm sure you heard of the Blasphemy against Our Lady of Sorrows by 'Madonna'. Were going to talk about this and how to make acts of reparation.  Finally We are going to discuss...

Understanding the Last 70 Years of Liturgy Wars with Dr. Peter Kwasniewski 09.01.2023

Interview first aired on Catholic Drive Time a product of the Guadalupe Radio Network aired across the GRN and Station of the Cross Radio. The Once and Future Roman Rite: Returning to the Traditional Latin Liturgy after Seventy Years of Exile. Author: Peter Kwasniewski, PhD In his latest book, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski argues that, ever since the new liturgical books following the Second Vatican Counc...

Introduction to Classical Protestant Theology 04.01.2023

On Classical Reformed Theology with Christian Wagner (Scholastic Answers)  Outline of the show Two brief notes on the topic 1. Don't be jerks 2. Be careful 1. The Reformers      1. First Generation      2. Second Generation      3. Polemical Context          1. Formed an early iteration of scholasticism that was chiefly polemical (although, its full flowering doesn't come until the 1580&...

3 Days After Christmas, Knowing What God Loves and What We Can Do 28.12.2022

The Church in her wisdom has chosen the feasts of St. Stephen, John and the Holy Innocents in the 3 days following the Nativity. Why is that? What's the connection. Find out here.  St. Stephen – December 26 In the fourth step, that hatred increased and the people who opposed St. Stephen began to gnash their teeth in fury. What was the object of that hatred? It was goodness, in and of itself....

Quick Take: Fr. Frank Pavone, Join the SSPX? Sin of Blasphemy? Canonical Problems 19.12.2022

My quick take on the Fr. Frank Pavone Saga, go to Catholic Drive Time for the Full Show!  Adrian Social Media IG: @ffonze Twitter: @AdrianFonze Facebook: Adrian Fonseca YouTube: Adrian Fonseca  YouTube: Catholic Conversations Support the show Enjoy the content, wanna support? https://www.buymeacoffee.com/adrianfonseca  Adrian Social Media IG: @ffonze Twitter: @AdrianFonze Facebook: Adrian Fonseca...

English Catholic Patrimony! How to Have a Cultural Catholicism? 29.11.2022

I talk about English Catholic Tradition with my friend Timothy Craig.  A lot of our conversation is coming from Faith of Our Fathers: A History of True England by Joseph Pearce From the back of the book: The Catholic Church has been a part of English history since the arrival of Christian missionaries to Roman Britain in the first century AD. England was evangelized in these early centuries to suc...

Virtue of Thanksgiving! Is it a Sin to be Ungrateful? How to be Grateful? 24.11.2022

Dr. Theodore Rebard, professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in Houston is on to discuss gratefulness and Thanksgiving. Can we be grateful for America? Should Catholics celebrate Thanksgiving? What do we have to be grateful? Even suffering??? Contact Me: Email: FonsecaProduction@gmail.com Website: http://catholicconversations.buzzsprout.com Adrian Social Media: IG: @ffonze Facebook...

Is the Pius XII Turkey Indult Real? 22.11.2022

Short Answer? No. "Follow-Up on the Thanksgiving Indult, by Sharon Kabel GREGORY DIPIPPO Our thanks once again to Sharon Kabel for sharing her research with NLM, this time following up on her November article on the day-after-Thanksgiving indult for eating meat. In November of last year, I shared a provocative hypothesis: thanks to the discovery of new evidence, it was possible for the first...

A Plea for Intolerance! Fulton Sheen Destroys Tolerance 21.11.2022

 A Plea for Intolerance  Venerable Fulton J. Sheen  "America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance. It is not. It is suffering from tolerance: tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so much overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded. The man who can make up his mind in an orderly way, as a man might...

Filial Love and Devotion to the Papacy 11.11.2022

“I still recall the catechism lessons in which the Papacy was explained to me, its divine institution, its powers, its mission. My heart of a child (I was about nine years old) was filled with admiration, with rapture, with enthusiasm: I had found the ideal to which I would dedicate my whole life. From then to now, my love for this ideal has only grown. And I pray to Our Lady that she ever increas...

How Can Someone Be Saved? No Salvation Outside the Church 05.11.2022

Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus - There is No Salvation Outside the Church - This is a hard saying, who can accept this, are the words of the jews upon hearing the difficult teachings of Our Lord. This most esteemed mystery of the faith has been always and everywhere taught by the Church. I will first explain to you how we are saved, then I will explain this most important dogma of the faith and those...

All Saints Day and All Souls Day Meditations 04.11.2022

What is the object of the All Saints Day? It is the veneration of all souls that are in Heaven, even if they are not officially canonized or beatified. Anyone who is in Heaven is a holy person. He or she is in the presence of God, sees God face-to-face, and is entirely pleasing to God... https://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD/j099sdAllSaints_11-1.htm  All Souls Day has great significance for us. It...

The Unspoken TRUTH Behind Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson! 14.10.2022

#andrewtate #jordanpeterson #toxicmasculinity #manosphere #topg #catholic #masculinity  Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson do a lot of good at destroying feminist talking points and exposing the lies of the culture, however, they always miss the mark because of ONE FATAL FLAW! They lack the Catholic faith and thus fail at their conclusions every time and end up embracing things like gay marriage and...

No Working On Sunday! What Counts As Work? 11.10.2022

3rd Commandment Explained  The complete ascetical works of St. Alphonsus Page 419/425 https://ia600201.us.archive.org/10/items/alphonsusworks15liguuoft/alphonsusworks15liguuoft.pdf  Handbook Of Moral Theology  193/116 https://ia601608.us.archive.org/24/items/HandbookOfMoralTheology/Handbook%20Of%20Moral%20Theology.pdf  ARTICLE 5 THE THIRD COMMANDMENT “Remember to Keep Holy the Sabbath Day.” https:...

What is Truth? Moral Relativism and the Denial of Reality 04.10.2022

Moral Relativism vs Moral Objectivism John 18 33 Pilate therefore went into the hall again, and called Jesus, and said to him: Art thou the king of the Jews? 34 Jesus answered: Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or have others told it thee of me? 35 Pilate answered: Am I a Jew? Thy own nation, and the chief priests, have delivered thee up to me: what hast thou done? 36 Jesus answered: My kingdom i...

88: Traditionally: How to Pray + Religious Vocation an Unnecessary Mystery 20.09.2022

My friend Colton Marks is on to discuss his vocation to traditional Carmelite hermits.  We talk about how to pray. What are the modern errors on how to pray? What are the steps I need to take? What am I doing wrong? Plus! Toward the end of the episode we discuss How to Discern a Religious Vocation. Why are most people doing it wrong? It's not that difficult, we tell you what you need to do! P...

87: What Does a Catholic Government Look Like? Is It Possible? 23.08.2022

Interview with Fr. Thomas Crean OP on what a Catholic Government looks like.  Fr Thomas Crean OP was born in 1973, in Harpenden, England.  He studied at St. John’s College, Oxford.  He entered the Dominican Order in 1995, and was ordained priest in 2001.  He received the licence in theology from the Institut Thomas d'Aquin in Toulouse and the doctorate in theology from the International Theol...

86: Sermon on the Assumption of Mary by St. Vincent Ferrer 16.08.2022

St. Vincent Ferrer, O.P._On the Assumption of the BVM   Sermon I   C 324-332 Luke 10:38-42  As they continued their journey he entered a village where a woman whose name was Martha welcomed him. She had a sister named Mary (who) sat beside the Lord at his feet listening to him speak. Martha, burdened with much serving, came to him and said, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me by...

85: How to Crush Heresy and Save Souls! Feast of St. Dominic Apostle for Our Times! 04.08.2022

"A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil." - Saint Dominic St. Vincent Ferrer, O.P.     Sermon on the Feast of St. Dominic https://www.svfsermons.org/C301_On%20St.%20Dominic.html    "You are the salt of the earth, " (Mt 5:13 )  This is the text to be read as today's...

84: Was St. Elijah Assumed into Heaven? Will He Return Before the Coming of Christ? 30.07.2022

Tradition holds that St. Elias was assumed into Heaven and will come again as the forerunner of Christ to do battle with the Antichrist. This is all about that!  “And as they went on, walking and talking together, behold, a fiery chariot and fiery horses parted them both asunder: and Elias went up by a whirlwind into heaven.” (2 Kings 2:11) Elias was indeed covered with the whirlwind, and his spir...

83: History of Brewing, From the Bible to Modern Day America! 08.07.2022

A Catholic Conversation with Trevor Alcorn with Tridentine Brewing  History of Brewing, From the Bible to Modern Day America!  Did Catholics invent Beer?  Where is beer in the bible?  Are IPAs as awful as I think? What's the point of drinking? and much more https://www.tridentinebrewing.com Tridentine Brewing is a family homebrewing operation founded by Jeffery Alcorn, our head brewmaster, an...

82: Are the Luminous Mysteries Part of the Rosary? Should Catholics Pray Them? Origins! 01.07.2022

The Secret of the Rosary https://amzn.to/3nr3WLs   Champions of the Rosary: The History and Heroes of a Spiritual Weapon https://amzn.to/3nzNAzW    The Rosary in 50 Pages: The Layman's Quick Guide to Mary's Psalter https://amzn.to/3R2MTwE   On 16th October of 2002, His Holiness John Paul II began the 25th Anniversary of his Pontificate by publishing an Apostolic Letter, in which he inaug...

82: Responding to Pro-Choice Email, She Said She is NEVER listening Again 14.06.2022

I respond to an email I got saying that Pro-Choice Catholics are a real option. Here's the text of the email Adrian, today is the last day that I will listen to your podcast. You presume that all Catholics agree abiut abortion and choice . Perhaps your Podcast is kind of like Fox News - there to present one viewpoint. I am Democrat, a mother,  a Catholic and pro choice. I’m also pro life. I a...

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