Episodes

Greg and Dominican friar Father Nick Monco discuss why young Catholic women are drawn to traditional expressions of faith, the cultural and theological significance of chapel veils, and the generational divide in the church regarding tradition vs. modernity. Considering Catholicism is ad-free because listeners like you make it possible. If this episode helped you, please support the show. Website: https://www.consideringcatholicism.com/ Email: consideringcatholicism@gmail.com Greg on X/Twitter...

What keeps some people away from Christ and the Church? In Part 4 of this series, Greg and Ed talk about how to talk to those around you about what the Catholic Church believes, and why those conversations matter. Considering Catholicism is ad-free because listeners like you make it possible. If this episode helped you, please support the show. Website: https://www.consideringcatholicism.com/ Email: consideringcatholicism@gmail.com

What keeps some people away from Christ and the Church? In Part 3 of this series, Greg and Ed talk about "vaccinating people against the Gospel" by offering a Christianity that isn't about the ultimate questions. Considering Catholicism is ad-free because listeners like you make it possible. If this episode helped you, please support the show. Website: https://www.consideringcatholicism.com/ Email: consideringcatholicism@gmail.com

What are “tabernacles” and where should they be placed in a Catholic Church? How are Episcopal or Anglican churches similar to or different from the Catholic Church? Greg and Cory answer listener questions. Considering Catholicism is ad-free because listeners like you make it possible. If this episode helped you, please support the show. Website: https://www.consideringcatholicism.com/ Email: consideringcatholicism@gmail.com

What does the Catholic Church teach about the meaning and interpretation of dreams? And how has the Catholic Church both changed and yet remained the same over two millennia? Greg and Cory answer listener questions. Considering Catholicism is ad-free because listeners like you make it possible. If this episode helped you, please support the show. Website: https://www.consideringcatholicism.com/ Email: consideringcatholicism@gmail.com

What keeps some people away from Christ and the Church? In Part 2 of this series, Greg and Ed discuss the most basic reason: "attachments," things that we love more than we love God. Considering Catholicism is ad-free because listeners like you make it possible. If this episode helped you, please support the show. Website: https://www.consideringcatholicism.com/ Email: consideringcatholicism@gmail.com

What keeps some people away from Christ and the Church? How do we understand their lack of interest or their motivations? And more importantly, how do we respond? In this first episode of an occasional series, Greg and Ed explore how there is no single reason explanation, and so there is no single solution for evangelization. Considering Catholicism is ad-free because listeners like you make it possible. If this episode helped you, please support the show. Website: https://www.consideringcatho...

Greg and Cory continue their discussion of Catholic eschatology and how it differs with much of American evangelicalism. Will there be a "rapture" of Christians, with everyone who didn't accept Christ "left behind?" Will there be a thousand-year reign of Christ in the city of Jerusalem? Considering Catholicism is ad-free because listeners like you make it possible. If this episode helped you, please support the show. Website: https://www.consideringcatholicism.com/ Email: consideringcatholicis...

When will Jesus return? How will the world end? These are the sort of questions addressed by the branch of theology known as "eschatology." But Catholic eschatology differs in focus and emphasis from that of many American evangelicals. Greg and Cory discuss how the Catholic Church approaches the "end times." Considering Catholicism is ad-free because listeners like you make it possible. If this episode helped you, please support the show. Website: https://www.consideringcatholicism.com/ Email:...

The Lord can comfort and bless us in times of pain and suffering. But can our suffering be redemptive for others? Greg shares the Catholic practice of "offering up" our pain as a participation in the Cross of Christ, asking him to use it for the salvation and sanctification of people we care about. Considering Catholicism is ad-free because listeners like you make it possible. If this episode helped you, please support the show. Website: https://www.consideringcatholicism.com/ Email: consideri...

Greg responds to listener questions and comments. Does this podcast set up Protestant "straw men" to knock down? What do Protestants believe? And what is "Oneness Pentecostalism?" Considering Catholicism is ad-free because listeners like you make it possible. If this episode helped you, please support the show. Website: https://www.consideringcatholicism.com/ Email: consideringcatholicism@gmail.com

Greg and Cory continue their discussion of the legendary musical stage play "Les Mis," an adaptation of the classic novel by Victor Hugo. In Part 2, they share the Catholicism that shines through their favorite scenes. Considering Catholicism is ad-free because listeners like you make it possible. If this episode helped you, please support the show. Website: https://www.consideringcatholicism.com/ Email: consideringcatholicism@gmail.com

Greg and Cory are bringing back the popular feature "Book Club." But this time with a twist, as they reflect on the Catholicism that shines through the legendary musical stage play "Les Mis," an adaptation of the classic novel by Victor Hugo. Part 1 shares the themes that make it an explicitly Catholic story. Considering Catholicism is ad-free because listeners like you make it possible. If this episode helped you, please support the show. Website: https://www.consideringcatholicism.com/ Email...

In the final episode of this Deep Dive series, Greg reflects honestly on how well many Catholics hear and know the scriptures. Considering Catholicism is ad-free because listeners like you make it possible. If this episode helped you, please support the show. Website: https://www.consideringcatholicism.com/ Email: consideringcatholicism@gmail.com

Greg takes Ed into the woods to have "the sex talk." Why does the Catholic Church care so much about sex and sexuality? In our secular postmodern culture, and increasingly in the Protestant evangelical world, who, what, when, where, you have sex with is irrelevant. Most people today can't understand why Catholicism makes a big deal out of it. Considering Catholicism is ad-free because listeners like you make it possible. If this episode helped you, please support the show. Website: https://www...

Ed the Protestant shares how exploring Catholicism has opened his eyes to the bigger, unseen world around us. Considering Catholicism is ad-free because listeners like you make it possible. If this episode helped you, please support the show. Website: https://www.consideringcatholicism.com/ Email: consideringcatholicism@gmail.com

In this "Deep Dives" episode, Greg responds to the Protestant charge that the Catholic Church kept the Bible in Latin so the ordinary people couldn't read it for themselves (and discover that Catholicism is unbiblical). Considering Catholicism is ad-free because listeners like you make it possible. If this episode helped you, please support the show. Website: https://www.consideringcatholicism.com/ Email: consideringcatholicism@gmail.com

Greg answers your questions. How is Mary the Mother of God? Is it pagan to pray to dead people? And why are sacramental records so important to the Catholic Church? Considering Catholicism is ad-free because listeners like you make it possible. If this episode helped you, please support the show. Website: https://www.consideringcatholicism.com/ Email: consideringcatholicism@gmail.com

If you're considering Catholicism, at some point someone is going to say to you, "But the Catholic Church is corrupt! How could you think of joining it?!" In the second of two conversations responding to this criticism, Greg and Cory discuss the more exotic charges of corruption in the Church: sedition, magic, and weird conspiracies. Considering Catholicism is ad-free because listeners like you make it possible. If this episode helped you, please support the show. Website: https://www.consider...

In this "Deep Dives" episode, Greg explains Catholic "hermeneutics," the rules and guidelines for properly interpreting the Bible. Considering Catholicism is ad-free because listeners like you make it possible. If this episode helped you, please support the show. Website: https://www.consideringcatholicism.com/ Email: consideringcatholicism@gmail.com

If you're considering Catholicism, at some point someone is going to say to you, "But the Catholic Church is corrupt! How could you think of joining it?!" In the first of two conversations responding to this criticism, Greg and Cory discuss "garden variety" corruption in the Church: money, sex, abuses of power. Considering Catholicism is ad-free because listeners like you make it possible. If this episode helped you, please support the show. Website: https://www.consideringcatholicism.com/ Ema...

Greg often hears from listeners whose friends and family cannot understand their interest in Catholicism, or who react negatively to their desire to become Catholic. He and Ed the Protestant talk about why and how to respond. Considering Catholicism is ad-free because listeners like you make it possible. If this episode helped you, please support the show. Website: https://www.consideringcatholicism.com/ Email: consideringcatholicism@gmail.com

Few things drive Protestants more crazy than the Catholic Church calling Mary the "Queen of Heaven" and our "advocate." Greg and Ed explore why and how she has earned those titles. Considering Catholicism is ad-free because listeners like you make it possible. If this episode helped you, please support the show. Website: https://www.consideringcatholicism.com/ Email: consideringcatholicism@gmail.com

Greg answers your questions. Did Mary have free will when she agreed to bear Jesus? Did the Church just make up its objections to artificial birth control? And why are the Southern Baptists debating whether to affirm the Nicene Creed? Considering Catholicism is ad-free because listeners like you make it possible. If this episode helped you, please support the show. Website: https://www.consideringcatholicism.com/ Email: consideringcatholicism@gmail.com