RCIA Foundations

Apr 10 2025 21 ep. 79 mins 10
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RCIA Foundations provides audio podcasts for the foundational concepts of Roman Catholicism found in the book RCIA Foundations (available from Amazon) including the nature of truth, theism, faith & reason, human nature, happiness & suffering, the cardinal virtues, divine justice, hope, the theological virtues, the Holy Trinity, the divine nature, the Incarnation, angels & demons, the nature & history of the Church, the Bible, Mary, sacrament & human nature, gender & marriage, and the constitutionality of marriage.

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Till We Have Faces, Class Four

Apr 10 2025 82 mins  
Episode Four of Till We Have Faces

Till We Have Faces, Class Three

Apr 10 2025 71 mins  
Episode Three of Till We Have Faces

Till We Have Faces, Class Two

Mar 27 2025 66 mins  
Till We Have Faces, Class Two

Till We Have Faces, Class One

Mar 17 2025 72 mins  
C. S. Lewis is arguably the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century, offering a panoply of scholarly, fictional, children’s, allegorical, and polemic works that provide an extraordinary metaphysical-aesthetic vision of the human need for the divine.  His novel, Till We Have Faces, is without question his greatest work of all.  Set in an entirely pagan context, Lew

Lecture 17: Body Dynamics

May 02 2022 71 mins  
What is spiritual growth, and how do we all fit into the Body of Christ? Every single one of us is a unique presentation of the image of God, so it follows that every single one of us has an important role to play not just in the human race, not just in our families, not just in our bodies politic, not just in our professions, not just in our social clubs and friendships, but also

Lecture 16: Fasting & Feasting

Feb 28 2022 81 mins  
Why do Catholics fast? What is the point? Why must feasting always follow fasting? Why is fasting intrinsically linked to prayer? How does the Fast fit into the Catholic concept of "co-suffering" with Christ and our fellow Christians? What is Lent and how does our Lenten observance of fasting, prayer, and alms-giving prepare us for the great Easter Feast?

Lecture 15: The Word of God

Nov 23 2021 78 mins  
Is the Word of God a book or a Person? How do we understand the relationship between the Church and the Bible? Can individuals authoritatively interpret the Bible on their own? What is the difference between literal and symbolic interpretation of the Scriptures? How does the enriched, multifaceted interpretive model of the Church open up the unveiling of sacramental imagery?

Lecture 14: The Common Good

Mar 25 2021 76 mins  
How do the City of God and the City of Man relate in the quest for charity?

Lecture 13: The Four Last Things

Aug 17 2020 94 mins  
What is God up to? What is his overall plan for human beings and the world? How does it all end? With a bang, with a whimper, or something else? Join us this week as we explore the “last things.”

Lecture 12: The Constitutionality of Marriage

Aug 16 2020 70 mins  
Join us this week as we explore how the complementarity of the genders works through human constitutions to effect the wonder of marital love.