Show Notes:

Hosts:  Peter Holmes

Guest:  Monica Doumit, Chris Lee

 

A Time For Heroes

"In this special episode we talk about how ordinary Catholics, Christians and Australians feel about Cardinal Pell’s trial and proposed changes to Abortion Laws in NSW parliament, how we can hold genuine hope for the future, and how we can respond heroically, personally and lovingly in this difficult time. "

 

The Quote Monica remembered was from GK Chesterton:

"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/94304-the-true-soldier-fights-not-because-he-hates-what-is

 

Links & Resources:

Marilyn Rodrigues’ blog can be found at www.marilynrodrigues.com

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Show Notes:

Hosts:  Peter Holmes & Marilyn Rodrigues

Guest:  Monica Doumit

 

 

Religious Freedom.

• Introducing the hosts and guest

• Religious freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of association

 

Religious discrimination laws

• Changes being discussed in parliament

• Blaspheme laws

• Israel Follau

• Christian bakers

• Christian teachers

• Other religions

• Atheists freedom: Freedom to not believe

 

Christianity and politics

• The same sex marriage debate

• The seal of the confessional

• Freedom from discrimination vs freedom of religion

 

One minute wonder

• A child losing a tooth

• An encouraging letter

• A selfless priest

 

Links & Resources:

Marilyn Rodrigues’ blog can be found at www.marilynrodrigues.com

#religiousfreedom, #catholic, #israelfollau, #peterholmes

 

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Show Notes:

Hosts:  Peter Holmes & Renee Kohler

Guest:  Anna Hitchings

 

 

 Finding a good Catholic man to date is difficult.

• A shortage of good men

• Qualities of a good man

• The Definition of dating

• The Catholic dating scene

• Bad experiences with dating

• Traditions, expectations and freedom

• Liberated women

• The Porn culture and what it does to men and women

• Boundaries and expectations

• Being “worldly wise”

• The Disney factor

• What is courtship?

 

Links and Resources:

Anna Hitchings’ blog https://agonyandhope.com/

Anna’s original article https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/for-want-of-a-lot-of-good-men/

 

Several response articles mentioned in the podcast:

Phillippa Martyr - Be in love with God first https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/phillippa-martyr-be-in-love-with-god-first/

Camillus O'Kane - It’s not hard to find Mr Right, just change your perspective https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/its-not-hard-to-find-mr-right-just-change-your-perspective/

And “Learn from us! Mums offer dating advice” https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/learn-from-us-mums-offer-dating-advice/

The story was picked up by the Australian https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/a-good-man-is-hard-to-find-and-increasingly-becoming-even-more-scarce/news-story/b7e8ad62654d3b65ea3fb9fd3f76e635

and in a follow-up interview with Rod Dreher https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/agony-hope-christian-courtship-anna-hitchings/

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Transcript

 

Show Notes:

Hosts:  Peter Holmes & Renee Kohler

Guest:  Cormac McCaughn

 

 

What and who give Christians a bad name.

• Sexual abuse scandals

• Cover-ups

• Israel Follau

• Donald Trump

• Bad experiences with Christians

• Judgemental Christians

• Legalistic Christians

• “You are going to Hell!”

• Using the victims as political capital

• Christian “rock”

• Televangelists

 

Non-Christian world

• New Age “paganism”

• Post Christian culture

 

Solutions?

• Married priests?

• Clericalism?

• Proper responses to complaints

• Institutional solutions?

• Personal solutions?

• Changing the experience person to person

 

One minute wonder

• Children help us understand God’s love for us

• Rublev's icon of the Trinity

 

Links and Resources:

The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector is Luke 18:9-14.

 

Christian Music mentioned:

Matt Maher https://www.mattmahermusic.com/

Toby Mac http://tobymac.com/

 

Bernard Manning Quote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al4aCng-VgY

Rublev's icon of the Trinity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(Andrei_Rublev)

 

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Transcript

 

Show Notes:

Hosts:  Peter Holmes & Renee Kohler

Guest:  Rian "Box" Galliott

 

 

In this episode…

• Introducing the hosts and guest

• Why do this podcast?

• The experience of being New to something

• Being New in a country, city or place

• Aussie accents, and other Aussie accents.

• Being New to a job/workplace

• Being New to a team

• Being New to a parish

• Being New to the Catholic faith

• One minute wonder

• Tolkien vs Lewis on Mythology

• Transhumanism, fractal geometry and the human brain

• Yesterday (rediscovering the Beatles)

 

Links and Resources:

Correction: ethos and ethnos are different Greek words. Ethos means habits and philosophy of a place and ethnos refers to a nation, particularly nations other than one’s own.

St Phillip Neri  is the priest who insisted on not taking ourselves seriously, and being silly to shake people out of a too serious piety.

Albert the Great did indeed have the nickname “Boots” due to his insistence on walking everywhere.

https://dominicanpublications.com/blogs/news/albert-the-great-and-his-scientific-discoveries

 

From the shout-outs:

Matthew Tan’s blog is - https://www.awkwardasiantheologian.com/

 

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