Catholic Church
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Catholics and the Bible – Raised Catholic episode 6
The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 6 – Catholics and the Bible Well hello friends. If you were born and raised Catholic, your relationship to the Bible just may be limited to the readings you hear or have heard at Mass. Certainly,…
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Quiet and Loud – Raised Catholic episode 5
The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 5 – Quiet and Loud Well hello friends. In one of my non-podcasting vocations, I’m an early childhood music teacher. I’ve done this work for almost twenty years and I’m continually amazed at what the kids…
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Is It Okay to Question? – Raised Catholic Episode 4
The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 4: Is it Okay to Question? If you were born and raised Catholic, you may have received and internalized a message about the authority of the Church and its teachings and even of its clergy and…
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Notre Dame – Raised Catholic Episode 1
The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To hear the podcast click here. Today is episode one. Notre Dame In April of 2019 a devastating fire hit the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. It was a massive news story, maybe you remember it. And since that day, with a huge investment of…
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Pivot
We are almost to the one-year anniversary of the time when everything changed. And there’s not a date we can look to, specifically, but there is a feeling we can name when we increasingly understood that something big was happening at this time last year. Maybe it was when you or your dear ones had to…
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Raised Catholic Podcast
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Raised Catholic – episodes one and two
Hi friends, I’m starting a new adventure, a podcast offering which I hope will serve a population that’s not getting a lot of care these days. This is for the ones who were raised Catholic but who are now struggling with church while seeking connection with God in these hard times. I hope you’ll have…
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Revive
I was listening to a podcast which addressed the huge drop in church attendance in America this year. There was a pastor on who explained some of the statistics and the reasons why people aren’t returning to church: fear of getting sick during a pandemic, a break in spiritual habits and patterns, anger at the losses…
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Plant
Last Sunday, we gathered in the early morning with some friends who have not returned to our Catholic chapel community since March. We brought chairs and spread them out physically distanced across our sweet friends’ big backyard on a beautiful Sunday morning. We sat in masks, made the sign of the cross, sang, practiced Lectio Divina, prayed…
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Raised
Have you ever heard someone say they were “raised Catholic?” or were you raised Catholic yourself? Me too. There’s a lot of us, “raised” from birth as “cradle Catholics”. Strangely, you hear these descriptors far less among people of other faiths. I don’t often hear about people who were “raised“ Jewish, or of “cradle” Protestant Christians or Muslims. The idea…