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Kevin Nontradicath joins us to talk about growing up FSSP, young earth creationism, teleology, eucharistic miracles, and how researching the faith led him out of it. ⁠Kevin's Youtube⁠ Thank you so much for being here! Follow us @leavelaughlovepod on Instagram and TikTok and join ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠our Patreon community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to stay up to date!

A gay ex-Catholic and an ex-gay Christian walk into a bar... Join me as I chat with Garrett about faith, queerness, and all the messy stuff in between. We dive into our complicated feelings about the church, how psychology and spirituality mix, why talking about queerness and mental health is so hard, and maintaining mutual respect across deeply different beliefs

Charlotte was once the pro-life movement's poster child-- a young survivor of sexual assault who wanted to carry her baby to term. As a child, her story was exploited by the movement to further the push for extreme anti-abortion policy. As she grew and evolved, her opinions on policy became more complex, and eventually led her to quietly step back from the movement. When she found herself cons...

Saint Sydney-- patron of swear slaps, purity culture, and comedy. Join us for this deep dive on her Catholic story. Thank you so much for being here! Follow us @leavelaughlovepod on Instagram and TikTok and join ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠our Patreon community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (free or paid) to stay up to date! Syd's Instagram Fun in Moderation Saint Sydney in Chicago Buy a Saint Sydney Medal

Today we're diving into The Catholic Girl's Guide to Sex... and it had some unexpected plot twists Thank you so much for being here! Follow us @leavelaughlovepod on Instagram and TikTok and join ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠our Patreon community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (free or paid) to stay up to date!

Our Lady of All Nations has an offer you can't refuse-- all you have to do is declare a fifth Marian dogma naming her coredemptrix, mediatrix of all grace, and advocate. If you don't... she'll burn you to the ground. Sounds great right? Join us as we deep dive on this fun little apparition that was approved, then disapproved, then approved again... in Japan? Thank you so much for being...

Bishop Barron was recently appointed to Trump's Commission for Religious Liberty. Dive down the rabbit hole of tweets, blog posts, and interviews with us as we discuss the Christian nationalism of it all Thank you so much for being here! Follow us @leavelaughlovepod on Instagram and TikTok and join ⁠⁠⁠our Patreon community⁠⁠⁠ (free or paid) to stay up to date! Links: https://www.wordonfire.org...

A collection of everything we know about the pope so far

Veronica & Colin discuss Dayspring, an incredible novel that transforms the gospels into a story of queer romance https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/713616/dayspring-by-anthony-oliveira/

In honor of Easter, we're combing through some of the logical fallacies that this lovely piece of apologetic literature throws at non-believers Thank you so much for being here! Follow us @leavelaughlovepod on Instagram and TikTok and join ⁠⁠our Patreon community⁠⁠ (free or paid) to stay up to date!

Building community can feel difficult for anyone, but navigating that world after leaving the Church is a special kind of hard. Here are all of our tips and tricks from the years beyond youth group. Thank you so much for being here! Follow us @leavelaughlovepod on Instagram and TikTok and join ⁠our Patreon community⁠ (free or paid) to stay up to date!

Join Veronica and Evelyn as we read Lenten story submissions from r/excatholic. Thank you to everyone who submitted their stories on Reddit! Check out the original post here! Follow us @leavelaughlovepod on Instagram and TikTok and join our Patreon community (free or paid) to stay up to date! Many apologies for the bad quality of Veronica's audio, I did the best I could to mitigate in editing. Mea...

Join Veronica for a conversation with Nicole, a trans woman in the process of joining the Third Order Dominicans.  You can find Nicole @transfiguredcatholic on YouTube and Instagram.  Subscribe to our Patreon and give us a follow @leavelaughlovepod on Instagram and TikTok to stay up to date! Show Notes Dignitas Infinita , the declaration on human dignity by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Fa...

We're not obsessed with Baltimore's LGBT pastoral accompaniment policies... but who's surprised https://www.archbalt.org/lgbt-pastoral-accompaniment/ Thank you so much for supporting our podcast! New episodes are released (almost) every Sunday. Make sure to give us a follow @leavelaughlovepod on Instagram & TikTok and leave a review wherever you find our podcast.  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Check out ou...

An Ash Wednesday special where we yap about Lent, fasting, and why we actually kind of love Exodus 90. Thank you so much for supporting our podcast! New episodes are released (almost) every Sunday. Make sure to give us a follow @leavelaughlovepod on Instagram & TikTok and leave a review wherever you find our podcast.  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Check out our new Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠ !!

Join us as we yap into the void about Catholic skincare, inductive vs deductive reasoning, oligarchy, anti-intellectualism, Plato, and how RFK Jr. will have to pry the SSRIs out of our cold dead hands Thank you so much for supporting our podcast! New episodes are released (almost) every Sunday. Make sure to give us a follow @leavelaughlovepod on Instagram & TikTok and leave a review wherever y...

A deep dive on Vance, "ordo amoris," and Catholic social teaching + a bonus tangent about religious psychosis. Thank you so much for supporting our podcast! New episodes are released (almost) every Sunday. Make sure to give us a follow @leavelaughlovepod on Instagram & TikTok and leave a review wherever you find our podcast.  ⁠⁠Check out our new Patreon⁠⁠ !!

Elizabeth discusses her experience of being indoctrinated, leaving, and finding peace outside of the church. Thank you so much for supporting our podcast! New episodes are released every Sunday. Make sure to give us a follow @leavelaughlovepod on Instagram & TikTok Our new Patreon!! ⁠https://www.patreon.com/LeaveLaughLovePod?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator⁠

Join us as we read through the unhinged things we used to jot down in our phones when we were deeply religious Thank you so much for supporting our podcast! New episodes are released (almost) every Sunday. Make sure to give us a follow @leavelaughlovepod on Instagram & TikTok and leave a review wherever you find our podcast.  ⁠Check out our new Patreon⁠ !!

Jenn shares her story of how she found herself covering abuse cases in the Catholic Church as a journalist. You can find Jenn’s Substack, Believer, here . Check out  our new Patreon for exclusive content as we build our community!  Show Notes and Links Facebook group mentioned: You're probably from the Franciscan University of Steubenville if Alumnae question Franciscan University of Steubenvi...

Join Veronica and guest star Ben as they talk about “all things church and gay,” as she so eloquently puts it at the start of the episode.  Thank you so much for supporting our podcast! New episodes are released (almost) every Sunday. Make sure to give us a follow @leavelaughlovepod on Instagram & TikTok and leave a review wherever you find our podcast.  Check out our new Patreon !! I am working o...

Adele speaks to her experience of being neurodivergent in the church and finding more nuance in theology Thank you so much for supporting our podcast! New episodes are released every Sunday. Make sure to give us a follow @leavelaughlovepod on Instagram & TikTok

Hannah Beck shares her story of leaving the Apostolic Christian Church and rebuilding her life on the other side Thank you so much for supporting our podcast! New episodes are released every Sunday. Make sure to give us a follow @leavelaughlovepod on Instagram & TikTok https://www.instagram.com/hannahbeckcomedy/ https://www.tiktok.com/@hannahaha424?lang=en

Our thoughts on the new movie Conclave (with lots of spoilers, you've been warned) Chris Damian on Word on Fire: https://chrisdamian.substack.com/p/sexual-misconduct-and-employee-intimidation Bishop Barron on Conclave: https://www.ncregister.com/cna/bishop-robert-barron-pans-conclave-movie-run-away-from-it-as-fast-as-you-can Thank you so much for supporting our podcast! New episodes are released e...

Join us for a chat about the "culture wars," childless cat ladies, and Carrie Gress. The article we reference: https://eppc.org/publication/5-ways-to-right-the-womens-vote/ Thank you so much for supporting our podcast! New episodes are released every Sunday. Make sure to give us a follow @leavelaughlovepod on Instagram & TikTok