The Popish Plotcast

With last week being the Octave of Easter, we kind of took it easy and as a result we didn't have any good Youtube episodes for making a podcast episode out of, so this week we will be pulling an episode out of our vault to share with you. We hope you enjoy. Mike, Nate and Jessica are back with more ineffective evangelization.  This time billboards found on the interstate system that try and...

Mike, Nate, and Jessica end Women's History Month with Bl. Maria Corsini Beltrame Quattrocchi, who besides having all the names was a teacher, wife, mother, scout leader, member of many  groups and organizations, helper in the Red Cross, and aid to refugees, the poor, sick and others.    Also all her children either entered religious life or have already been declared a servant...

Mike, Nate, and Jessica continue their series on women saints and women on the path to sainthood, this time with St. Gianna Beretta Molla.  They talk about: her life, her hobbies, 3rd orders, Church hierarchy, other saints in her family, Italian history/culture/names, the year that the last school in the US started admitting females to doctor programs,  vocations, the principle of double...

Mike, Nate, and Jessica continue their series on female saints and people on the path to sainthood with St. Hildegard Von Bingen, one of our newest saints and a Doctor of the Church who has been on the Church calendar since the 16th century.  We talk about her life, how she was a known saint but was only canonized by Pope Benedict XVI (so he could name her a Doctor of the Church,) how she was...

Mike, Nate, and Jessica open a "box" from Catholic Balm Co.  They talk about the items, the company, and about how you can get 10% with our affiliate code.   Catholic Balm Co Affiliate Code: Plot2021 Link: https://catholicbalm.co/?aff=18 "Unboxing: Catholic Balm Co." on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nRvZmfaEzBE Connect with us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePopishPlot...

Mike, Nate, and Jessica continue their series on female saints and people on the path to sainthood with St. Edith Stein/St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.  They talk about her life, word meaning and German grammar,  St. Theresa of Avila and all the other St. Theresas, Carmelites, philosophy and religion, feminism, why the Catholic Church didn't officially do more against the Nazis, Chris...

We apologize if the sound is slightly off, there were tech. issues. Mike, Nate, and Jessica spent all last month talking about saints and people on the path of sainthood who were of African descent. . . and male for Black History Month, so this month we will be talking about females for Women's History Month.  We start out with Servant of God (S.D.), Sister Thea Bowman, a African American rel...

Mike, Nate, and Jessica talk about St. Martin de Porres.  He is the patron of mixed-race people, barbers, inn keepers and public heath workers.  Making him the 2nd hairdresser in this series and the second saint named Martin that is the patron of inn keepers we have talked about this month.  We also talk about: being a barber surgeon, racist laws, how he became a Dominican, lowly jo...

Mike, Nate, and Jessica talk about Venerable Fr. Augustus Tolton this week.  He was born into slavery in the US (putting him in the running for the 1st native born American male saint), worked making cigars as a child, had to go to Rome to study to be a priest, and got sent back to the USA to run a parish, (which wasn't segregated.)  He was the 1st African American priest in the US, that...

Mike, Nate, and Jessica talk about the Venerable Pierre Toussaint.  He was born a slave in what is now Haiti, but was moved to New York City and became a hairdresser to the rich and famous of his day.  From the money he made doing this he bought freedom for family members, as well as caring for many people including the sick, the orphaned, and the needy.  He also helped pay for the...

For Black History Month, Mike, Nate & Jessica want to talk about saints who were of African descent (or in this case actually born in Africa.) So we are starting this series with St. Moses the Black, aka St. Moses the Ethiopian, aka St. Moses the Strong aka St. Moses the Robber (also known as Abba Moses the Black, etc, etc.)  We even made a new saint action figure for him.  We talk a...

Mike, Nate, and Jessica talk about how to build virtue with your habits.  Well, Nate and Mike do, Jessica would like to talk about what animal virtues would be.     "Building Virtue" on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0ao02D89Omg Connect with us on social media:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePopishPlot/   Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThePopishPlot   Email: The...

Mike, Nate, and Jessica talk about the unbiblical, man-made tradition of the Rapture.  This one is a little in depth, so we added timestamps for the major points.  As this belief is one that no Catholic, Orthodox or the majority of Protestants throughout history have believed (including every founder of the major Protestant groups), was only invented in the 1800's and seems to largely be...

Mike shares this month's Pope's prayer intention, talks about other religions in a positive way, talks about arguing, and talks to a cat that is out of frame.   The Pope's prayer intention:  "Let us pray that the Lord may give us the grace to live in full fellowship with our brothers and sisters of other religions and not fight each other, and praying for one another, open ourselves to a...

For the Feast of the Epiphany (by date) we talk about the Wise Guys, aka, the wise men, magi, three kings etc. We talk about gifts, numbers, clouds, stars, travel, symbolism, angels, and stealing ideas from others.     "Wise Guys" on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0FxGzUA8fhg Connect with us on social media:  .Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePopishPlot/ .Twitter: https://twitt...

Nate, Mike and Jessica talk about Vendettas?!?  Jessica was also confused, but Nate and Mike insist that it has something to do with growing in holiness.   Also as it is the time that some people still consider Christmas, how all this relates to the Dickens' classic "A Christmas Story."  As well as the lack of more Christmas ghost stories.  Also we would like to note that we kn...

As an end to the Plotcast's first year and a holiday bonus for all of you, our faithful listeners, Nate decided to take some of the pieces of recordings that never made it to airing and put together a pair of episodes featuring the casual conversations that take place pre- and post- filming of "The Popish Plot".  We hope you enjoy and we wish you a very merry Christmas. Connect with us on soc...

As an end to the Plotcast's first year and a holiday bonus for all of you, our faithful listeners, Nate decided to take some of the pieces of recordings that never made it to airing and put together a pair of episodes featuring the casual conversations that take place pre- and post- filming of "The Popish Plot".  We hope you enjoy and we wish you a very merry Christmas. Connect with us on soc...

Mike, Nate, & Jessica talk about a book by yet another Catholic writer who has not been declared a saint, this time because they are still alive.  Mike picked this book because it is Catholic and sci-fi.  Jessica read the book for doing this report. Nate did not read the book, like all the rest of the books.  They talk about: space nazies, types of monkeys, Pluto, pirates, peopl...

Mike, Nate, and Jessica talk about Advent.  They talk about how it is a time of preparing and how it is not Christmas.  They also discuss the good towels, using fire for time tracking,  how weird babies were in Medieval art, and the dangers of holiday decorations around babies and cats.      "Preparing in Advent" on YouTube: https://youtu.be/OPW7yLROqCk Connect w...

This liturgical year our bishop proclaimed BYOB, by which he means a Bishop's Year of the Bible.  So join with us in reading a chapter of the Bible each day. To join text BYOB to 84576 or see the links below for more information.    Links:  Diocese of Lansing website: https://www.dioceseoflansing.org/ The Bishop's promo video: https://youtu.be/jk4VusC4RMY A longer video of the...

Mike, Nate, and Jessica talk about this month's pope's pray intentions, as well as why the robots will not attack, the Twilight Zone, and more.  The Pope's prayer intention: Artificial Intelligence We pray that the progress of robotics and artificial intelligence may always serve humankind.   "Pope's Prayer Intentions for November 2020" on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/3Vq4uYyonXw Conn...

Mike and Nate talk about the life and miracle of one of the Church's newest Blesseds, Father Michael McGivney the founder of the Knights of Columbus  "The Founder of  the Knights of Columbus: Bl. Michael McGivney" on YouTube: https://youtu.be/EcZb_GBnJ70 Links:  The Father McGivney Guild: https://www.fathermcgivney.org/en/index.html .   Connect with us on social media:  Fa...

As today is Guy Fawkes Day, Mike, Nate and Jessica talk about the Gunpowder Plot and how mass murder is not what God wants you to do, as well as how not to help the Catholics in England that were being persecuted under King James I.  And also the lessons that we can learn from it today.   "The Gunpowder Plot or How Not to Help Catholics in England" on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DvNdo2w3q8...

It is Halloween, which means Mike, Nate and Jessica (or a old timey football player, the Doctor, & a flying squirrel) talk about how Halloween is Christian.  They discuss what a vigil is in the Church, how most Christians use the concept of a vigil at times (Christmas Eve services etc.,) what days have had vigils, what days currently have vigils, what we are celebrating on All Saints Day...