My Stogie Mystagogy Podcast

We give an overview on Catholic exegesis in conformity with the Church's Magisterium and then share an audio version of the Navarre Bible commentary on today's Gospel from Matthew 5:1-12. This passage begins the Sermon on the Mount discourse. This particular Gospel reading lays out the Beatitudes and the commentary analyzes and explains how they provide us with a guide on how to live our lives in...

We give an overview on Catholic exegesis in conformity with the Church's Magisterium and then share an audio version of the Navarre Bible commentary on today's Gospel from Mark 10:46-52, the account of Bartimaeus, the blind man in Jericho. In this commentary, we learn that Jesus is also teaching us how to answer His call to apostolate and holiness. We recommend you purchase and read the Navarre Bi...

We give an overview on Catholic exegesis in conformity with the Church's Magisterium and then share an audio version of the Navarre Bible commentary on today's Gospel from Mark 10:35-45, the account of the sons of Zebedee making a request of Christ. In this commentary, we learn that Jesus is also teaching us how to pray and how to respond to God's answers. We recommend you purchase and read the Na...

(NOTE: We had an error in editing and posted the general podcast ending before the actual episode. Please pardon our newbie mistake and continue to listen through the episode. We think we have corrected the mistake.) We discuss three examples of Catholic retreats: WELCOME (aka CRHP 2.0), ACTS and an Opus Dei sponsored silent retreat. In addition to sharing our experiences with each of these retrea...

We give an overview on Catholic exegesis in conformity with the Church's Magisterium and then share an audio version of the Navarre Bible commentary on today's Gospel from Mark 10:17-30, the story of rich young man.

We discuss the Christo-centric nature of the Rosary and offer a brief apologetic role-play on how to respond to friends and family who think the Rosary is not Biblical. We share some personal stories about the impact the Rosary has had on our lives and how we share the devotion with our families. Please review the complete show note at www. TheJoeCatholic.org There we have all the links for websit...

We begin a new Sunday series of sharing the Navarre Bible Commentary on the Sunday Gospel reading. If you are interested in buying the Navarre Bible Commentary series, you can find them at Scepter Publishers https://tinyurl.com/NavBible

October 2nd was the 90th anniversary of the founding of Opus Dei. We share a brief talk from a previous Joe Catholic workshop in which we discuss what is Opus Dei and learn about its members and cooperators. To learn more about Opus Dei, we recommend visiting www.opusdei.org

In the shadow of the Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination hearings, we discuss how far back we should be held responsible for the sins of our youth. We discuss a firing of a high school Spanish teacher who had posed for Playboy when she was 19 years old. We also discuss other real, past scenarios involving members of the panel. We review the HR implications and some of the relevant laws. We also tal...

We decided to take a break away from the heavy topics and go light hearted with a look at how we prioritize football and sports in our lives.

I am joined by my friend Mark Connolly as we discuss the latest Church scandals and how we, the laity, should respond.

In this episode we share a clip from a longer discussion we had at Joe Catholic on August 18th. We had intended to provide audio of the entire workshop, but some of the audio is poor and needs to be cleaned up before we can publish. We had intended to only discuss what the differences were in dogma, doctrine and discipline, but the discussion turned to the leadership style of Pope Francis. In ligh...

We explore the authentic meaning of friendship using the Aristotelian and Thomistic points of view as a framework.

On August 2nd, Pope Francis made a revision to paragraph 2267 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The paragraph deals with the death penalty. The following is talk we presented at Joe Catholic workshop the following Saturday. During the talk, we focused on the original text, the 1997 text and the newest revision. We also discusses how doctrine can develop. We had a robust group discussion aft...

In light of Pope Francis announcing a change to the Catechism (paragraph 2267), we have opted to share a Joe Catholic talk on the origin of the Catechism. Soon we will also release a discussion on the particular change.

Mark Connolly is a Director of Human Resources and a lay Dominican. He shares his views on the role of the laity and how he tries to live that out in his own life.

In this episode we review how the Church has defined the term laity and we offer our own definition of the term to provide a framework for understanding future conversations.

Mr. Mark Connolly, M.T.S., O.P. unpacks the key points of Bl. Pope Paul VI's prophetic encyclical Humanae Vitae. We follow up the talk with a discussion between the men in attendance. July 25th is the 50th anniversary of this important Church document.

About us. We explain the origins of Joe Catholic and our goals for the podcast.

In honor of the Fourth of July we publish one of our talks from Joe Catholic from a few years ago in which we discuss the five pillars of Catholic social doctrine.