In this episode, I talked with Dr. Shaun Blanchard about the trend I’ve seen among not only Traditionalist, but also mainstream “JPII Catholics,” to reject the development of doctrine and embrace a type of Catholic fundamentalism. Listen to the episode...
In his famous Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, St. John Henry Newman sought to address a serious concern among the Protestant Christians of his day. Namely, if you look back through the Church’s history, there are places where...
In this episode of Third Space, Angela Sealana and I have a conversation about what it means to live abundantly as a Catholic today. More specifically, we talk about what hope looks like when it’s not misused to bypass lament,...
In this first episode of Third Space, I talked with my friend and Pope Francis Generation podcast co-host, Dominic de Souza. Throughout the PFG podcast, Dominic would drop bits and pieces of his own experiences growing up in a radically...
The second reading at Mass today is from Ephesians 5, a section of St. Paul’s letter that includes this passage: “21 Be subordinate to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to...
Welcome to the Third Space! The podcast for those who see the beauty of Catholicism, as well as the ugliness, who have experienced real harm AND real grace in the Church. I’m your host, Paul Fahey, a mental health counselor...
Through the Church—the sacrament of God’s infinite love—her Scriptures, her Tradition, her prayers, and her liturgies, people can encounter the living Christ and experience his love, healing, and transformative grace. But what happens when the men and women tasked with...
On April 8th, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) released a new document about the infinite dignity of the human person, Dignitas Infinita. More specifically, Dignitas Infinita is a Declaration (the same kind of document as Fiducia Supplicans) that was approved and...
On April 8th, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, the DDF, released a new document about the infinite dignity of the human person, Dignitas Infinita. Dominic and I wanted to cover what this document says and our reactions to...
Through the Church—the sacrament of God’s infinite love—her Scriptures, her Tradition, her prayers, and her liturgies, people can encounter the living Christ and experience his love, healing, and transformative grace. But what happens when the men and women tasked with...
I first came across Cathy Melesky Dante’s work a few months ago when Awake shared her article, “Power Literacy in Abuse Prevention Education: Lessons from the Field in the Catholic Safeguarding Response.” The article was excellent. It hit on things that I had...
Over the course of the podcast we’ve had several conversations about conscience and the moral law as well as episodes about abuse in the Church. However, in my reading of Pope Francis’s teaching, as well as in my research about...
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