Outside the Walls

Fr. Patrick Mary Briscoe, OP was recently named the editor of Our Sunday Visitor, the weekly national Catholic newspaper found at OSVNEWS.COM. Father Patrick comes to OSV from the English edition of Aleteia.org, the global Catholic news and spirituality website, where he served as editor-in-chief. This spring, Father Patrick was nominated to serve as a Eucharistic Preacher, a work he has undertaken to support the USCCB-led National Eucharistic Revival, and along with his Dominican brothers, he hosts the podcast Godsplaining, and he co-authored the book Saint Dominic’s Way of Life: A Path to Knowing and Loving God (OSV Books).

Paul Fahey, co-founder of Where Peter Is, has recently written a necessary and helpful article on recognizing and preventing spiritual abuse in the Catholic Church called "The Place Where you Stand is Holy Ground."  This type of abuse is not often talked about, but leaves lasting scars, and is a major contributor to the "rise of the nones." 

Have we been conditioned to act on our gut instinct, our first impression, or do we take the time to look beyond our primary instinct and to our second thought? So often Jesus saw beyond the immediately obvious and into underlying motivations. As scripture says, "man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks on the heart." Kristin Putnam and I discuss what it might look like to reconsider our polarized impulses and ponder situations and circumstances more deeply.

Rachel Bulman is a regular contributor to the Word on Fire blog, an author with two forthcoming books, and co-hosts the Youtube show “Meet the Bulmans” with her husband, Dcn Jason Bulman, who was recently ordained to the Diocese of Orlando. They join us on-air to talk about their practice of hospitality and their expression of vulnerability as a part of a lifestyle of evangelization.

Dr. Ann M. Garrido (https://www.anngarrido.com/) is associate professor of homiletics at Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, Missouri, (https://www.ai.edu/) where she previously directed the school’s Doctorate of Ministry in Preaching program. Garrido has served as the Marten Faculty Fellow in Homiletics at the University of Notre Dame.  She is the author of multiple books, including the award-winning Redeeming Administration, Redeeming Conflict, Let’s Talk About Truth, and the topic of today's conversation, Rules of Engagement: 8 Christian Habits for Being Good and Doing Good Online (https://www.avemariapress.com/products/rules-of-engagement).  

Sr. Alicia Torres, F.E. is on the Executive Team for the USCCB's National Eucharistic Revival. She joins us to talk about the initiative, and her own experience with Christ in the Eucharist.

Brett Salkeld is Archdiocesan Theologian for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Regina in Saskatchewan and is the co-host of the Thinking Faith podcast. His latest book, Transubstantiation: Theology, History, and Christian Unity, is available on Baker Academic Press. Today we talk about his Church Life Journal piece, Guilt, Responsibility, and Purgatory: How Traditional Catholic Teaching Can Help Us Think About Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations.

Matt Regner is the Director of Liturgy and Evangelization at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Madison, Wisconsin. He recently wrote a thoughtful essay Parishioners Don't Belong at the Parish published in the Church Life Journal. We talked over several points from the article about the end goals of evangelization.  Patreon supporters get an extra 19 minutes of conversation. Learn More.