Catholic Nerds

The C-Nerds share updates on their lives. There's parenting, spiritual direction, balancing work and family life, and all the good things. The joys and struggles of raising children and family life ... and family deaths. Even Obi-Wan and the Jedi Communion of Saints make an appearance ... "Strike me down, Darth, and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!" Chapters 02:03 The Imp...

The Catholic Nerds are BACK with a new season, new episode, and NEW POPE! We go over all the following: Where were you when you saw the white smoke? Good Signs: Regina Caeli sung in Latin, dodging the rainbow flag, papal blessing in Latin All the people who predicted the name Pope Leo XIV The Louisiana and Creole ancestral roots of Cardinal Prevost, through the Holy Father’s great-great-great-gran...

Do you like board games? We do too! Especially when we can play them with our families. Well do we have a game to share with you! Cody, Erik and I got a chance to speak with Charlie McKinney, President of Sophia Institute Press. We spent a little time getting to know Charlie, where he is from and what exactly he does as president, and then we talked about Sophia's cool board game: The Journeys...

Hey! Its Erik Dumont going solo for this episode. A while back, I met one of the coolest priests, so of course I had to get him on the show. I invited Fr. Tony Smela on for an interview to talk about his story of answering the call to the priesthood, as well as talking about our favorite subject: video games. He's got his own podcast too, so when you're done here, check out the Flint Catho...

Just another epic Catholic Nerds Lord of the Rings nerd-out. No big deal. Except we were joined by Mr. Big Deal, himself, Bill Donaghy. Bill is the Senior Lecturer and Content Specialist of the Theology of the Body Institute ( www. TOBinstitute.org ), Co-Author of RISE ( www. MenRiseUp.org ), and Editor for STRIVE ( www. STRIVE21.com ).  Join us for a discussion on the beautiful sacramental q...

Catholic Music Nerd-Out with Emma Fradd (now Kruse) and David Kruse!  Now presenting ... The best Catholic musicians you are about to discover and fall in love with!  Emma and her husband David Kruse are launching a new Catholic record label this December called Enemy Love Records . Check out all their amazing music and artists here www. EnemyLoveRecords.com . There's Emma, David Kruse,...

The Good, Bad, and the Idiocy -- another Good ol' fashioned Catholic Nerd-Out about the newest cinematic offering from the Tolkien Universe: Amazon's The Rings of Power . So many things to love. Alas, so many more things to grunt and grumble about. Here are our Top 5 Love & Top 5 Hate of the Rings of Power . Here are some of the many topics we dive into:  [SPOILER ALERT!!] When we figured...

Good ol' fashioned Halloween Catholic Nerd-Out with Emma Fradd (now Kruse) about Catholic Horror Novels ... and just in time for Halloween!! Though awesome in her own right, Emma Fradd is the sister of Matt Fradd, the Catholic speaker known for his podcast Pints with Aquinas.  First off! Emma and her husband David Kruse are launching a new Catholic record label this December called Enemy Love...

Attention Parents !! Nerd out about the insane and insidious language of gender ideology and how to fight back! with Walt Heyer. Meet Walt, a living, breathing witness to the horrible wrongness of transgenderism. Walt lived for 8 years as a woman – Laura Jensen – despite the fact that he was a man. For the last 30 years since transitioning away from his persona of Laura, he has worked courageously...

Nerd out about pro-life issues with the C-Nerds and Pastor Arnold Culbreath of Peoples Church in Cincinnati, OH, the Director of Ministry Engagement of the Douglass Leadership Institute , whose Jeremiah 1:5 Project is boldly converting and training black pastors to "reverse the curse" of Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger.  PLUS, Arnold is joined by his wife Barbara, who shares her amazin...

The Catholic Nerds nerd out with Dr. Erin Brewer and Maria Keffler about protecting our kids from the plague of gender confusion and gender reassignment surgery. Dr. Erin Brewer and Maria Keffler are the co-founders of Advocates Protecting Children and will be honored as the Activists of the Year at the 2022 Ruth Institute Summit .  Erin and Maria are the authors and co-authors of lots of gre...

It's a good ol' fashioned nerd-out about (and with) the Sacred Heart of Jesus! AND just in time for the Feast of the Sacred Heart ! AND with a priest from Sacred Heart parish who just made a Sacred Heart video series. Yo Nerd, I heard you like the Sacred Heart, so we got the Sacred Heart from Sacred Heart parish to talk about the Sacred Heart after making a video on the Sacred Heart to listen to o...

Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse joins the Catholic Nerds ahead of the Ruth Institute Summit - click here to check out the Summit and buy your virtual ticket ! Join us for this WIIIDE-ranging conversation on the ghoulishness of TRANSGENDERISM, the moral catastrophe of the Sexual Revolution, and its state-sponsored ideology!! Dr. Morse's book The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies Are Destroying Lives and...

The Catholic Nerds are big Star Wars nerds! We also promise not to mention Chris Rock and Will Smith. We review the much-reviewed Book of Boba Fett - was it a Boba Fail or Boba Fine? Let's also get philosophical and existential about Disney Plus and Disney, in general. Do Dave Filoni and Kevin Feige deserves Oscars or an Oscar Slap? Dang, we just promised, too.  The Catholic Nerds also review...

The Catholic Nerds have a special nerd-out session for the Feast of St. Joseph! We share newly discovered Biblical evidence on the age of St. Joseph - this comes from Dr. Brant Pitre's new series on St. Joseph, The Hidden King: The Jewish Roots of St. Joseph . PLUS, there's an extra bonus: Scott confirmed with Dr. Pitre a way to deepen this argument through Luke's background as a physician. ...

Master Debater and Catholic Apologist Trent Horn joins the Catholic Nerds for the debate of the ages: Marvel or DC? Which is more Catholic? Which is more Pro-Life? Wait for Trent's insight into who Bruce Wayne's real disguise is ... Here is are some of the categories:    Best Rogues’ Gallery and Best Bad Guy - Thanos or Darkseid? (We talk about how wimpy Thanos was in the comics) Weirdes...

Are you ready to LIVE DIFFERENT?? The Catholic Nerds nerd-out about EXODUS 90 with a developer and author of Exodus 90, currently touring the country in the Exodus 90 tour bus ... Nathaniel Binversie ! We go over the history and background of Exodus 90, how to reach men in their 20s and 30s using the "beer garden" approach and challenging men.  Who dreamt up this idea of cold showers? Nathani...

The Catholic Nerds review Marvel's What If ...? Did you catch the huge "long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" Easter egg??  MAJOR SPOILER ALERTS! And how about everybody's favorite Marvel character, Howard the Duck? We go through ALL the episodes: What If Black Panther became StarLord?  What If ... Thor Was an Only Child? We loved Nebula's cameo in Marvel Vegas: "mama needs a brand ne...

The Catholic Nerds do a deep dive into the Theology of Dune as they review the new Dune movie directed by Denis Villeneuve. SPOILERS AHEAD! We go through all the Christian symbolism of Dune , plus all our favorite parts from both the 2021 Dune and 1984 Dune -- all the 1980s goodness of the 80s Dune and all the good newness of the new Dune.   Scott wrote an article a while back on the The...

It's Black Widow time! Serious SPOILER alert as the Catholic Nerds review the latest Marvel installment, at least until Scarlet Johansson's lawyers remove the movie from this timeline and multiverse. So, yes - we check in with the Scarlet vs. Disney lawsuit and how they might handle the release of Black Widow on Disney+ Premium. Then, the C-Nerds deal with interesting items, like who is our favori...

The Catholic Nerds dig into the crazy world that is ... Britney Spears!  Just when you thought the world couldn't get any weirder, this happened:  American pop star Britney Spears announced in a now-deleted Instagram post on Aug. 5 that she is Catholic and attends Mass. In a post made Thursday evening, Spears, 39, shared two videos. In one, she is seen posing in a pair of jean shorts and...

The Catholic Nerds dive into the chaos of the "Motu Inap proprio", Pope Francis' new instruction on the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) and its possible effects. Pope Benedict XVI had given priests the option to celebrate the Latin Mass or Extraordinary Form (EF) of the Mass. Now, priests need their bishop’s permission, even if it’s an EF-hating bishop. Is Pope Francis attempting to foster unity by s...

Hello and welcome to the Catholic Nerds Podcast - your Maximoff source for quality, Catholic nerdery! The C-Nerds dig into all things WandaVision :  What will the WandaVision sequel be about? Plus, the Doctor Strange 2 sequel, 2022’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and how Agatha Harkness connects all these, plus the Fantastic Four All the WandaVision commercials! Like the Nexus...

Merry Christmas from the Catholic Nerds! This will shed a whole new, beautiful “light” on Christmas and the Star of Bethlehem! As the “Great Conjunction” fills our night skies , the Catholic Nerds discover amazing prophecies of the Star of Bethlehem in the Old Testament. The Star of Bethlehem is the prophesied return of the Shekinah , the Glory Cloud, that “overshadowed” the Ark of the Covenant. A...

The Catholic Nerds tackle the one subject nobody seems interested in ... 2020 Presidential Election CHAOS ! Yeah, we went there. Our conservative Catholic leanings might show a bit as we tackle all the ballot shenanigans. The C-Nerds cover the Pennsylvania ballots case headed to the Supreme Court thanks to Catholic Justice Alito, plus Electoral College madness, like Faithless Voters, the history o...