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Catholic Frequency

Exploring the beauty of the Catholic faith through conversation.

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#199
Today · 5 min
The Word Stayed. The Meaning Left.
In September 1944, C.S. Lewis wrote The Death of Words for The Spectator. Nice used to mean foolish. Party trick. The live problem is when Christian starts meaning nice, and love and marriage have to be rescued with the word true. The letters stay. The meaning walks off.
#198
Yesterday · 5 min
The Three People Deciding the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei sit unusually close to the future of artificial intelligence. The world is going to change. A Christian word on praying for the men in those rooms.
#197
Friday · 5 min
The Most Favored Woman Still Got The Sword
Joel Osteen sold a gospel where blessing looks like an upgrade. The Church keeps Our Lady of Sorrows because the most favored woman in the Gospel still got a sword.
#196
Thursday · 6 min
The Psychological Trap of Richard Dawkins’ Worldview
Dawkins talks like faith is leftover childhood. Charles Taylor says that story is a lie. You did not grow out of God. Someone built a room where He looks optional and called it growing up.
#195
Wednesday · 7 min
The Catholic Church's Biggest Enemy
Bishop Barron is warning about communism. He is right. A lot of respectable people say he is not. Joseph McCarthy said the same thing when it was still in the government, and he was right too.
#194
Tuesday · 6 min
The Church Never Apologized for Having a Cult
A Catholic Frequency essay on the word cult: culture grows from cultus, the phone took the homily, and the Mass never apologized for being worship. Josef Pieper and T.S. Eliot.
#193
Monday · 4 min
The Last Thing Jesus Gave You Was a Mother
John 19:26-27 is Jesus founding a household from the Cross. The beloved disciple taking Mary home is the Church receiving a mother, not a private errand.
#192
September 6 · 5 min
Lindsay Clancy, Fulton Sheen, Looney Women
People were shocked when a Massachusetts jury hung rather than convict Lindsay Clancy. This video is not about the slip of paper. It is about the pink-shirt cult outside the courthouse, and the line Bishop Fulton Sheen spoke after Roe: the guilt of abortion would attack the mind and the soul.
#191
September 5 · 5 min
Mother Teresa
Christopher Hitchens needed Mother Teresa to be a fraud. The Church kept the nun who picked dying people off the street.
#190
September 4 · 5 min
Cat's in the Cradle Is a Confession - Bad Fathers Clone Themselves
Harry Chapin's Cat's in the Cradle is a confession: the respectable father who provides and postpones catechizes by delay. The son inherits the form, not the apology. Saint Joseph is the contrast.
#189
September 3 · 5 min
When Rome Fell, Gregory Stayed
Edward Gibbon wrote the English obituary of Rome as the triumph of barbarism and religion. In 590 a reluctant monk-pope named Gregory fed the city the empire had already abandoned.
#188
September 1 · 6 min
The Modern War on Beauty
The modern West is tearing beauty down on purpose — in buildings, music, journalism, and the body. That is not freedom. It is what happens when beauty is unhooked from truth.
#187
August 31 · 6 min
She Wrote the Exit
Herma Hill Kay helped write America's first no-fault divorce law — then taught a generation of lawyers that the exit was the grown-up answer.
#186
August 30 · 6 min
Who Do You Say I Am
A girl asks her boyfriend what his friends say about her. Then she asks the only question that counts: what do you say? Jesus asked the same two questions at Caesarea Philippi. A short Catholic Frequency essay on the difference between a poll and a confession.
#185
August 29 · 10 min
The Cult of Wellness: Why Self-Care Can't Save Your Soul
Self-care can support health, rest, and ordinary human flourishing. But modern wellness culture becomes a rival religion when self-actualization replaces sanctification. Beginning with the Human Potential Movement and the Esalen Institute, this Catholic Frequency essay contrasts the promise of self-salvation with the objective grace of Confession, the Eucharist, Anointing of the Sick, and Baptism.
#184
August 28 · 8 min
Moral Collapse Precedes Civilizational Collapse
A people loses its soul before it loses its city. After Rome fell, Augustine refused the pagan story that blamed the Church. Feast of Saint Augustine.
#183
August 27 · 6 min
Saint Monica Never Gave Up
The culture applauds the woman who leaves. Saint Monica stayed, prayed, and never gave up. Feast of Saint Monica.
#182
August 26 · 5 min
One Man’s Villain Is Another Man’s Hero
One man’s villain is another man’s hero. A Senate hearing on the COVID years showed how fast America turns public men into saints or demons. Catholic Frequency on justice, vengeance, government power, and why the same habit runs on Trump and Pope Francis.
#181
August 25 · 4 min
His Mother Would Rather See Him Dead Than Damned
Our culture is starved for good men. Machiavelli taught a ruler to look religious and stay unbound. Saint Louis heard from his mother that death is better than mortal sin — and wrote the same charge to the next king. Feast of St. Louis, August 25.
#180
August 24 · 5 min
Can Anything Good Come From There?
Nathanael heard “Nazareth” and closed the case. Philip did not win the argument. He said come and see. A short Catholic Frequency essay for the feast of St. Bartholomew on the oldest prejudice in the Gospel: truth from the wrong town.

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