Deep Dives with Fr Sean: the Super Catholic Catechesis Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the podcast! Last time I talked specifically about the ethics of the vaccines, commenting on the general ethics of it and then regarding the Coronavirus vaccine. Now I will address the challenge of receiving truthful, reliable, and honest information about anything, but specifically regarding making a rational decision to get or not to get the coronavirus vaccine. I&apo...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the podcast! Here I  simply  offer the teaching of the church, describing the general ethics of vaccines. And then I InInspecifically about the vaccines against covid-19.  In a nutshell, you may receive the vaccines that are currently available, but please know of the moral complication involved. In the second part that will come out next week, I talk about how to make...

Send us Fan Mail Have a merry Christmas everyone! As a little gift to you all, here is a reflection of what Mary's Advent would have looked like and how we can learn from it. Blessings!

Send us Fan Mail It turns out we have more parallels to the ancient Mexicans than anyone would be inclined to think!  If she healed them of their societal ills and brought forth massive conversions, why do we doubt she can do that today?!  Let's have a great devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe!

Send us Fan Mail Spiritual Mentorship is important, but it has limits.  We must attend to the core of personal contact, which is none other than the core (corazon!) of the person.  St John Henry Newman chose as his motto, cor ad cor loquitor, heart s peaks to hear.  He draws on St Paul and St Philip Neri (see biography of Bacci), as well as his own experience as an oratorian, the spiritual descend...

Send us Fan Mail Last time, I spoke about the importance of spiritual mentorship, and now I talk about some of the basics.  I have four points: care for the person, having an organic relationship, sparking their imagination, and drawing them forward.

Send us Fan Mail Howdy y'all!  Anyone want a spiri'tual guide, a spiritual mentor?  Anybody want to be one?  This was Jesus' plan! I talk about the desire, the biblical roots, my own experience, and what you need to do. Enjoy

Send us Fan Mail My brothers and sisters! I proclaim to you that I am adding here and now THE Gospel Message! The proclamation!  It's uber important, and any kid after 3rd grade should be able to tell it to you.  Yet, can we put it into words?  I break it down into 4 parts: 1) goodness of creation, 2) reality of sin, 3) Jesus and His Cross, and 4) repentance and living in his Church.

Send us Fan Mail hello everyone! Here I talk about the importance of cultivating a firm and true relationship with Jesus Christ for our own personal vocations. We need Jesus to be at the heart of our hearts in order to share this great love with others. May your and my ministries be fruitful (even if you're not an employed minister!)

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the bonus episode for our series on the faith and the election. I read "Immigration and the Next America" by Archbishop Jose Gomez, and wanted to share some of his Christian-based, experienced-based, and reason-based thoughts on immigration. I really respect his thoughts on this. I have a little clarification from the previous episode and just a little thought...

Send us Fan Mail Thanks for joining us! In this episode I get very practical about forming our consciences. With a little review and some introductory comments, I then dive into some practical and real commentary on issues to help us all be formed by true values in accordance with the hierarchy of those values.

Send us Fan Mail America is a capitalist country! But what about the up and coming new socialists? What should we think? This is part 2 of 3! In this episode I define what capitalism and communism is and then recognize that in our modern world in the United States we are not really dealing with the pure form of either. I talk about the church's role in making distinctions and encouraging and...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the relaunch of Fr Sean's Podcast! Here, I walk through the reasons why we have both Church and State from the perspective of the created order, and then look at what is the distinct role they each play.  I then highlight what their relation might look like, as they are obviously separate, but not necessarily enemies of each other.  We talk about some examples thro...

Send us Fan Mail The guys with the Catholic Man Show invited me to their show and I talked about tattoos, I'm a bit of an expert, oddly enough, at least with the ethical side.  I think this is super helpful to have a balanced attitude for the modern use of tattoos, for people in the middle or in either extreme.  Plus, this was just super fun.

Send us Fan Mail I talk about what is fascinating about life itself.  If we don't know what's important about life, it is difficult to cherish, protect, and love life!  This was a talk given at Theology on Tap in the Diocese of Tulsa in 2017. Thanks to the guys with the Catholic Man Show who recorded this and shared it with me.

Send us Fan Mail As I said goodbye to the parish, I left with great hope that we all be saints!

Send us Fan Mail I've studied a lot of Spanish this summer, and praise God, it's been going great! But I've learned other things too, and I thought it might be interesting to share.

Send us Fan Mail I'm begin with a thorough review of what we have covered in this series, and then conclude with a discussion on how we can accurately speak of God through analogical speech.  Yet how could I omit the great conclusion of the great teacher of church teaching, St Thomas Aquinas! His story is the best conclusion I could think of!

Send us Fan Mail We begin by recapping last week's episode on the journey through the early Church councils, leading to the great dogmatic definition at the council of Chalcedon.  now we look at more contemporary questions about the identity of Jesus, namely Jansenism and Modernism.

Send us Fan Mail The Church is summoned to stand up and defend her Spouse and Saviour! However, not having great clarity on the truth of who Jesus is, many got false ideas of the Lord. And so, God raised up saints to bring forth the splendor of Truth.  In the early Church councils, we will slowly learn the importance of distinctions of who Jesus Christ is. He is the eternal Divine Logos in which h...

Send us Fan Mail In this sixth part of the series, I look at who Jesus is as the Logos of God from all eternity. He is God and with God, and all things came to be through Him. We even bear the mark of this rational and ordered divine nature in our own human nature.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we look at the relationship of the eternal Father and of the eternal Son, particularly as it is seen and given witness to in Scripture, with an emphasis on the words of Jesus Christ about Himself and the Father.

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast I look back into the Old Testament to see traces and hints of the most Holy Trinity, and then I draw on the more explicit teachings found in the New Testament. It wasn't until the year 200 that we have the word Trinity, but still we have the foundations of Trinitarian faith from the beginning!

Send us Fan Mail God created the world and left his stamp in this world! That's a good thing, because it helps everyone come to God in some capacity. God is transcendent and above creation. He is rational, good, intimate, and community.

Send us Fan Mail Who is God?  God is the transcendent lover, condescending love, condescending transcendence.  That is to say, the two big points of who God says he is is (1) the Almighty Other, and (2) the one who draws close to us.