Outside the Walls

Dr. Timothy Muldoon, pastoral theologian at Boston College and author of a number of books on Ignatian spirituality, the theology of the laity, and marriage and family, joins us to talk about his new book published through Orbis Books entitled  How to Remake the World Neighborhood by Neighborhood. The book tells how Community Renewal International built a movement to heal racial tensions, create b...

Allison Gingras joins us to talk about her new book on Ave Maria Press, Signs of Faith: My Unexpected Journey with Sacramentals, the Saints, and the Abundant Grace of God.

Dr. Leonard DeLorenzo, from the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame, joins us to talk about his new book Our Faithful Departed: Where They Are and Why It Matters available on Ave Maria Press . This book explores the Communion of Saints rooted in Catholic anthropology and incarnated through personal experiences. We talk about how to wrap our minds around this mystical...

Dr. Marcellino D’Ambrosio ( “Dr. Italy” ), Co-founder and Director of The Crossroads Initiative , is the author of five books and hundreds of articles. In 2019, Dr. D’Ambrosio published the groundbreaking Bible study on the life of Jesus Christ filmed in the Holy Land,  Jesus: The Way, the Truth, and the Life , presenting alongside Jeff Cavins and Dr. Edward Sri. In 2022, he became the co-author a...

Matthew Benfield has had an eventful year. He was confirmed in the Catholic Church, completing a 10-year journey of faith, completed a consecration to the Sacred Heart, to Jesus through Mary, and runs a popular TikTok account ( TheologiaViatorum ). We talk about his conversion, the importance of living compassionately, and communicating the Gospel effectively.  

In Living Beyond Sunday: Making Your Home a Holy Place, married couples Adam and Haylee Minihan and David and Pamela Niles share what has helped them make their homes a place of encounter with God–a place where saints are being made. This book goes beyond the aesthetic or surface-level attributes of a Catholic home. Beyond that, it shares how to foster holiness in all the little moments in Catholi...

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Dr. Mark Giszczak, Associate Professor of Sacred Scripture at the Augustine Institute , recently wrote the book “Bible Translation and the Making of the ESV Catholic Edition.” In this book, He covers the conversations that preceded the ESV project and the promulgation of the Vatican document on translation, Liturgiam authenticam   (2001). The meeting of the minds represented by the ESV translation...

JonMarc Grodi, Executive Director of the Coming Home Network and Host of The Journey Home on EWTN, joins us to talk about the continual call to conversion that leads us to a life of Virtue. Patrons can access extra segments - Learn more and listen at https://www.patreon.com/posts/72900101 . 

Fr. Patrick Mary Briscoe, OP was recently named the editor of  Our Sunday Visitor , the weekly national Catholic newspaper found at OSVNEWS.COM.  Father Patrick comes to OSV from the English edition of Aleteia.org, the global Catholic news and spirituality website, where he served as editor-in-chief. This spring, Father Patrick was nominated to serve as a Eucharistic Preacher, a work he has undert...

Paul Fahey, co-founder of  Where Peter Is ,  has recently written a necessary and helpful article on r ecognizing and preventing spiritual abuse in the Catholic Church called "The Place Where you Stand is Holy Ground."  This type of abuse is not often talked about, but leaves lasting scars, and is a major contributor to the "rise of the nones." 

Have we been conditioned to act on our gut instinct, our first impression, or do we take the time to look beyond our primary instinct and to our second thought? So often Jesus saw beyond the immediately obvious and into underlying motivations. As scripture says, "man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks on the heart." Kristin Putnam and I discuss what it might look like to reconsider our...

Rachel Bulman is a regular contributor to the Word on Fire blog, an author with two forthcoming books, and co-hosts the Youtube show “Meet the Bulmans” with her husband, Dcn Jason Bulman, who was recently ordained to the Diocese of Orlando. They join us on-air to talk about their practice of hospitality and their expression of vulnerability as a part of a lifestyle of evangelization.

Dr. Ann M. Garrido ( https://www.anngarrido.com/ ) is associate professor of homiletics at Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, Missouri, ( https://www.ai.edu/ ) where she previously directed the school’s Doctorate of Ministry in Preaching program. Garrido has served as the Marten Faculty Fellow in Homiletics at the University of Notre Dame.  She is the author of multiple books, including t...

Sr. Alicia Torres, F.E. is on the Executive Team for the USCCB's National Eucharistic Revival. She joins us to talk about the initiative, and her own experience with Christ in the Eucharist.

Brett Salkeld is Archdiocesan Theologian for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Regina in Saskatchewan and is the co-host of the Thinking Faith podcast. His latest book, Transubstantiation: Theology, History, and Christian Unity , is available on Baker Academic Press. Today we talk about his Church Life Journal piece,  Guilt, Responsibility, and Purgatory: How Traditional Catholic Teaching Can Help...

Matt Regner is the Director of Liturgy and Evangelization at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Madison, Wisconsin. He recently wrote a thoughtful essay Parishioners Don't Belong at the Parish published in the Church Life Journal . We talked over several points from the article about the end goals of evangelization.  Patreon supporters get an extra 19 minutes of conversation. Learn More .

Casey Phillips is the director of Evangelization at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Lexington, KY, and the co-host of the podcast The BaptiCatholic Show . He joins us to talk about Evangelization in a Catholic context.

What picture pops into your head when you envision "the Church?" Whose faces are situated next to yours in the family portrait above God's mantle? The answer to this question has implications on how we live out our faith, practice evangelization, and make disciples. It's the fundamental question of "Who Belongs?" Fr. Josh Johnson joins us to discuss his new book,  On Earth as It Is in Heaven: Rest...

Michael Grasinski, President of Ruah Woods Institute , and Rob Stamper, Curriculum and Education Specialist, join us to talk about the Institute and their TOB Curriculum for Catholic Schools. We also discuss the nature of the TOB as a Christian Anthropology and key element of a Worldview that emphasizes the dignity of the human person. Patreon supporters get an extra 9 minutes of conversation as M...

Deacon Charles Beard joins us to talk about the Sacred Heart of Jesus, how we experience his love, and how that love urges us to live compassionately.

Pentecost is the antidote to Babel. Through Pentecost, God breaks down division and creates the opportunity for reconciliation.  We, as ministers of reconciliation, are called to live our lives attentive to the voice of the Holy Spirit who was given to the Church at Pentecost, and given to us at baptism and confirmation.

Fr. Casey Cole, OFM and Fr. Tito Serrano, OFM are off on a pilgrimage like no other. In just 11 weeks, they plan to visit all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums, meeting people where they are, to invite them to return home. Home to Jesus and his Church. They join us to talk about the tour, and about Fr. Casey's new book The Way of Beatitude: Living Radical Hope in a World of Division and Despair.  ...

Dr. Charlie Camosy is a Professor in the Medical Humanities Department at Creighton University Health Sciences in Phoenix AZ and a Fellow in Moral Theology at St. Joseph Seminary in New York. He has a focus on bioethics and has written numerous books on our response and responsibility to the dignity of the human person. Dr. Camosy is the author of numerous books including: Beyond the Abortion Wars...

We revisit a conversation we had with Joe Heschmeyer back in June of 2019 . For the next few weeks, we're going to be talking about approaching difficult topics and conversations with an eye toward evangelization. This replay includes the content originally reserved for Patreon supporters.