Outside the Walls

Joe Heschmeyer, staff apologist at Catholic Answers ( catholic.com ) and host of the Shameless Popery Podcast ( shamelessjoe.com / Youtube.com/@shamelesspopery ), joins us to talk about his new book The Eucharist is Really Jesus: How Christ's Body and Blood are the Key to Everything We Believe available at shop.catholic.com/the-eucharist-is-really-jesus/ .

Carolyn Pirtle is the Program Director at the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy in the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. She earned her master's degrees in theology and sacred music at Notre Dame, and also a master’s degree in music at Kansas State University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in music. She is the author of  Ten Ways to Pray: A Catholic Guide for...

Dr. Margaret Turek is Academic Dean and Professor of Dogmatics at St Patrick Seminary and University in Menlo Park, California. Her book,  Atonement: Soundings in Biblical, Trinitarian, and Spiritual Theology, p resents the chief insights concerning the mystery of atonement in the works of four theological guides: John Paul II, Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Norbert Hof...

Fr. Isaac Morales, O.P. is an Associate Professor in the School of Theology at Providence College, with an academic focus on the New Testament, Paul, Baptism, and the Theological Interpretation of Scripture. He is the author of The Bible and Baptism: The Fountain of Salvation which is part of the “Catholic Biblical Theology of the Sacraments” series from Baker Academic.  We talk about the book to...

Dr. John Bergsma is a professor of theology at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. He served as a Protestant pastor for four years before entering the Catholic Church in 2001 while pursuing a doctorate specializing in the Old Testament and the Dead Sea Scrolls from the University of Notre Dame. His most recent book,  Love Basics for Catholics: Illustrating God’s Love for Us throughout the B...

Fr. R. Aaron Wessman is vicar general and director of formation for the Glenmary Home Missioners ( glenmary.org ). He has a PhD from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium in systematic theology and is a guest lecturer at St. Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology.  His recent book  The Church's Mission in a Polarized World,  part of the New City Press Magenta series , is the subject of ou...

Kim is the author of  Rooting Your Teen in the Faith: A Field Guide for Catholic Parents (Our Sunday Visitor) and  Discipleship Parenting: Planting Seeds of Faith  (Our Sunday Visitor). She hosts the  Gentle Catholic Parenting Podcast and blogs at Intentional Catholic Parenting .

Dr. Shaun Blanchard is a Senior Research Fellow at National Institute for Newman Studies, and Lecturer in Theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia. He is the author of several books in the area of theological history, including a Global Anthology of the Catholic Enlightenment on CUA Press which he co-edited with Dr. Ulrich Lehner, and our topic today, a volume of Oxford’s “Very Short Int...

Dawn Eden Goldstein, SThD , is the award-winning author of the biography of Edward Dowling, S.J.,  Father Ed: The Story of Bill W.'s Spiritual Sponsor (Orbis Books), as well as Sunday Will Never Be the Same  and (under the pen name Dawn Eden)  The Thrill of the Chaste ,   My Peace I Give You: Healing Sexual Wounds with the Help of the Saints ,  and  Remembering God's Mercy . Together her books hav...

Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa is the Founder and President of New Wave Feminists . She’s written for America Magazine , The Berkley Forum at Georgetown University , and a raucous series of Improbable Hagiographies for the Catholic Herald . She joins is to talk about the work of New Wave Feminists, and particularly about their Stellar Shelter on the US/Mexico border.

Dr. Ann Garrido is associate professor of homiletics at Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, Missouri, where she previously directed the school’s Doctorate of Ministry in Preaching program. Dr. Garrido has served as the Marten Faculty Fellow in Homiletics at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of seven books, including the award-winning Redeeming Administration ,  Redeeming Conf...

Fr. Joe Laramie SJ is the national director of the Pope's Prayer Network (Apostleship of Prayer) -- a 175-year-old ministry uniting hearts to the Sacred Heart. He lives in Milwaukee and travels widely for his ministry. He was ordained in 2011. He is also a National Eucharistic Preacher for the Eucharistic Revival. He taught at two all-boys high schools and served as a college campus minister. He a...

Mike Aquilina, Executive Vice President of The St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology , is a widely recognized Catholic author and lecturer, and popular Church Historian. He hosts  The Way of the Fathers Podcast .  Our conversation today was prompted by his book Africa and the Early Church: The Almost-Forgotten Roots of Catholic Christianity, released by  Emmaus Road Publishing . We spoke about how...

Paul Fahey is a retreat leader and writer. He is a co-founder of Where Peter Is, wherepeteris.com , the founder and co-host of the Pope Francis Generation podcast, popefrancisgeneration.com , and a co-founder of Practical Kerygma, practicalkerygma.com . For the past eight years, he has worked as a professional catechist and is currently working toward a Masters Degree in Mental Health Counseling....

Fr. Sebastian Walshe is a Norbertine Canon of the Abbey of St. Michael in the Diocese of Orange, California, where he is a professor of philosophy for the seminary program.  We discuss his new book published by Catholic Answers Press,  Heart of the Gospel: How the Beatitudes Show Us God's Plan for Happiness,  and how understanding and practicing the beatitudes lead us to true happiness.

Santonio Hill was working in ministry in Philadelphia. As that was coming to an end he began applying and preparing for nursing school during quarantine. After the death of George Floyd, Santonio was inspired to be a boots-on-the-ground missionary making a difference, even if only in one teen’s life that has to live in the shadows of America. Santonio wanted to put an end to the idea of merely sur...

Donald Wallenfang, OCDS, PhD, Emmanuel Mary of the Cross, is a Secular Discalced Carmelite, Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, and founder of myinteriorcastle.com a website featuring online mini-courses about Catholic theology, philosophy, and spirituality that you can take from home at your own pace! Wallenfang specializes in Catholic theology and philosophy, Car...

Ryan O'Hara is the host of Better Preach , a podcast for anyone who gives talks (Youth Ministers, Catechists, Priests and Deacons, Volunteers for Religious Ed, Missionaries on College Campuses) to Catholic audiences and wants to communicate more effectively. He also servers as the Marketing Strategist for Saint Paul’s Outreach an organization dedicated to building Catholic missional community, tra...

Timothy P. O’Malley is the Director of Education at the  McGrath Institute for Church Life , where he also serves as Academic Director of the  Notre Dame Center for Liturgy . He teaches and researches at Notre Dame in the areas of liturgical-sacramental theology, catechesis, and aesthetics. He is a member of the executive planning team for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Eucharistic Revival...

Simone Rizkallah is currently the Director of Program Growth for Endow Groups . She is also an Institute of Catholic Theology Fellow, a Witherspoon/John Jay Institute Fellow and an Acton Institute Fellow. She has led local chapters of the ecclesial movement of Communion and Liberation in Virginia and Arizona and the Washington, D.C. based non-profit organization In Defense of Christians. She is al...

Jordan Daniel Wood is a Catholic theologian and stay-at-home dad of four young daughters. He holds a PhD in Historical Theology from Boston College. His first book was published in 2022, The Whole Mystery of Christ: Creation as Incarnation in Maximus Confessor (University of Notre Dame Press) . He is currently translating Maximus’s  Letters  for Catholic University of America Press, and is co-tran...

Fr. Sean Hagerty, SJ, is the vocation promoter for the UEA Province. That means that Fr. Hagerty is responsible for accompanying men who are discerning a life in the Society of Jesus. He joined the Jesuits in 2012, after having served in the U.S. army. He has ministered in prisons, campus ministries and hospitals, and conducted research into just war, moral injury and the reintegration of soldiers...

Michael Lofton, host of the youtube channel Reason and Theology , joins us to continue our focus on the incarnation, providing us with an Eastern Catholic perspective. Listen and share!

Derek Rotty (derekrotty.com), joins us to talk about a recent series of pieces using art to meditate on the Incarnation. You can find The Art of Advent series at https://catholicexchange.com/author/derekrotty/ . Listen and share.

Joe Heschmeyer, staff apologist at Catholic Answers, joins us to talk about the mystery of the Incarnation.