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...
Several years ago I gave a talk about the Presentation of the Lord that included a reflection Cardinal Ratzinger. I just happened to stumble across it again yesterday and it struck me in a new way this Holy Week. Ratzinger...
We have a Throwback Episode for you this week. This was the first episode of our third season. Dominic and I interviewed the Eastern Orthodox theologian, Brad Jersak. It ended up being one of my favorite interviews ever for the...
After Eve Tushnet was on the podcast last year to talk about her book, Tenderness: A Gay Christian’s Guide to Unlearning Rejection and Experiencing God’s Extravagant Love, I knew that she was the person I wanted to bring on the show to unpack Fiducia...
I first met Dr. Joseph Stuart over a decade ago now. He was an adjunct professor with a newly minted Phd when Kristina and I were sophomores at Aquinas College. We took a course he taught called Catholic Political Thought....
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