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Almost Good Catholics December 9, 2023

Our Lady of Guadalupe and Aztec True Myth

How the Flower World Bloomed into History in 1531

Joseph Gonzalez and Monique González

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It turns out that our familiar narrative of the Virgin of Guadalupe, when Mary appeared to Juan Diego in 1531 and left her image on his tilma, resembles an …

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Almost Good Catholics November 23, 2023

Darwinian Accident or Divine Architect?

The Debate between Natural Selection and Intelligent Design

Jay Richards

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Jay Richards PhD, OP discusses the new book to which he contributed a chapter, God’s Grandeur: The Catholic Case for Intelligent Design (Sophia Institute Press, 2023), edited by Ann Gauger …
Almost Good Catholics November 9, 2023

Let Us Make Man in Our Image

Children of God in a Throw-Away Culture

Paul Louis Metzger

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In our talk about his book, More than Things: A Personalist Ethics for a Throwaway Culture (InterVarsity Press, 2023), and in addition to quoting Pope John Paul II and Pope …
Almost Good Catholics October 26, 2023

Live from Israel (with Fr. Piotr Zelazko)

Catholics in the Holy Land Today

Piotr Zelazko

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Father Piotr Zelazko is Vicar for the St. James Vicariate in Jerusalem and has been priest in Israel for fifteen years (he is a native of Poland and studied in …
Almost Good Catholics October 19, 2023

Kids These Days

On World Youth Day, Motherhood, and Teaching

Jane Sloan Peters

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Jane Sloan Peters remembers World Youth Day in Toronto back in 2002 when she was a teenager. She also talks about being a young mother and a teacher; she is …
Almost Good Catholics September 28, 2023

Hammertime and Hanukkah

The Books of the Maccabees

Matthew Thomas and Leeanne Thomas

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Between 167 and 160 BC, Judas Maccabeus and his brothers led a revolt against the Greek tyrant who desecrated the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. Miraculously victorious, the Jews rededicated the …
Almost Good Catholics September 14, 2023

Brides of Christ

Contemplative Life among the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles

Sister Mary Josefa

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Sister Mary Josefa of the Eucharist is a Benedictine nun in Missouri; she and the sisters of her community recently wrote a charming children’s book, Brides of Christ (Sophia Institute …
Almost Good Catholics August 31, 2023

Who’s Afraid of the Catholic Integralists? (with Kevin Vallier)

Thinking about Caesar and God Today

Kevin Vallier

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Kevin Vallier is a philosophy professor and author of All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism (Oxford UP, 2023), a new book about Catholic Integralism …
Almost Good Catholics August 24, 2023

The Seven Deadly Sins

Theology of Sin and Redemption

Father Chris Pietraszko

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Father Chris Pietraszko has been thinking about sin and redemption for the last year and a half as he has been writing a series of articles that will become a …
Almost Good Catholics August 10, 2023

Idolatry and Idle Hands

From Aaron’s Golden Calf to AI

Jacob Howland

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Philosophy professor Jacob Howland applies the lessons of Greek classics and Jewish scripture to this our curious moment at the inception of Artificial intelligence when computers are doing more and …
Almost Good Catholics August 3, 2023

The Fourth Wise Man

Follow Jesus—He’s Getting Away!

Jonathon Fessenden

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Jonathon Fessenden, theologian and editor of Missio Dei, invited me to talk about The Fourth Wise Man, the 1985 film based on the 1895 Henry van Dyke novella, The Other …
Almost Good Catholics July 27, 2023

When Did We See You a Stranger and Welcome You?

A Policy Discussion about Housing and Homelessness

Ben Metcalf

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The poor have always been with us, even in a rich country and a prosperous time. I ask Ben Metcalf, former Secretary of Housing and Community Development in California, about …
Almost Good Catholics July 20, 2023

What Jesus Intended

Finding the Kingdom of God in this Field

Todd D. Hunter

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Bishop Todd Hunter is an Anglican Bishop in Tennessee and author of What Jesus Intended: Finding Faith in the Rubble of Bad Religion (IVP, 2023). He argues that, despite the …
Almost Good Catholics July 13, 2023

Master Craftsman, Broken Tools (with Fr. Chris Alar, MIC)

Why God Works Through Us, Hears Intercessory Prayers, and Grants Divine Mercy

Fr. Chris Alar

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Father Chris talks about his devotion to Our Lady, and what he has learned from St. Maria Faustyna Kowalska, the poor Polish country girl, whose visions of and friendship with …
Almost Good Catholics July 6, 2023

Love Them Both (with Kimberly Bird)

How to Change Hearts and Minds about Abortion

Kimberly Bird

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Kimberly Bird is vice president of external relations of Live Action, an online media advocacy and education organization that works to shift public opinion on abortion and protect the lives …
Almost Good Catholics June 29, 2023

Long Live the Empire!

The Habsburg Tradition in the Twenty-First Century

Archduke Eduard Habsburg

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Eduard Habsburg is Archduke of Austria and Hungarian Ambassador to the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta. He’s also a husband, a dad, and a regular guy. He …
Almost Good Catholics June 22, 2023

The Book of Job (with Jonathon Fessenden)

Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?

Jonathon Fessenden

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Jonathon Fessenden, theologian and editor of Missio Dei, and I discussed this ancient and supremely interesting book on his podcast. The Book of Job is one of the oldest poems …
Almost Good Catholics June 15, 2023

Down Deep in My Soul

Black Preaching in the Roman Catholic Context

Father Maurice Nutt, C.Ss.R.

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In his new book, Down Deep in My Soul: An African American Catholic Theology of Preaching (Orbis Books, 2023), Father Maurice Nutt, a doctor of preaching from the Aquinas Institute of …
Almost Good Catholics June 9, 2023

Purgatory

Catholic Teachings about the Afterlife

Tim Staples

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Tim Staples is Director of Apologetics and Evangelization at Catholic Answers. His piece, “What Happens in Purgatory?” is the most read article on the entire website. I ask him to …
Almost Good Catholics June 1, 2023

You Set a Table Before Me

The Teenage Witch Who Became a Dominican Sister

Sr. Maria Catherine, OP

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Sr Maria Catherine was looking for Truth in the wrong places when she started practicing witchcraft as girl. But she found her way out of the darkness and into the …