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The Catholic Frequency

Catholic Frequency

Exploring the beauty of the Catholic faith through conversation.

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#208
September 23 · 5 min
America Is Overrun With The Broadminded
Fulton Sheen in 1931: America is not drowning in bigots. It is overrun with the broadminded. Tolerate persons. Never error.
#207
September 22 · 7 min
When the Pope's Executioner Crossed the Bridge
When a short man in a scarlet cloak stepped onto Ponte Sant’Angelo, Rome already knew someone was going to die. Mastro Titta was the pope’s executioner. The Church never taught that the innocent may be killed. She did teach that a lawful ruler may punish the guilty.
#206
September 21 · 4 min
C.S. Lewis vs the People Who Wanted Fearless Children
Lewis told librarians in 1952 that a far more serious attack on the fairy tale comes from those who do not wish children to be frightened. He had night terrors as a boy. Fairy tales did not invent them. Sanding the story does not protect the child.
#205
September 20 · 5 min
The 100-Year-Old Chesterton Warning About Bedtime Stories We Ignored
Chesterton said the baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. Fairy tales do not invent bogey. They send Saint George. We keep the dragon and take the knight.
#204
September 19 · 6 min
The Lord is My Shepherd
Psalm 23 is the psalm everybody thinks they know. David wrote it as a shepherd: green pastures in a dry country, still water you have to make, a rod against the wolf and a crook around a sheep's leg. Then Christ said He is that Shepherd, and He stayed in the valley.
#203
September 18 · 17 min
Modernity Made Men Weak
Andrew Tate looks strong in a world of weak men. That is why boys hear him. He is not the disease. He is a symptom of a culture that unmade fatherhood, discipline, and the Cross.
#202
September 17 · 6 min
Dante: Envy Sews Your Eyes Shut
Dante sews the envious shut on the second terrace of Purgatory. Envy is sadness at another person’s good. We call it fairness. Charity rejoices.
#201
September 16 · 5 min
Hitchens Wasn't An Atheist. He Was Angry At God.
Romeo and Juliet is a suicide story. In 1973 Christopher Hitchens flew to Athens to recover his mother. She had tried to call him. The public rage in God Is Not Great fits a son, not a shrug.
#200
September 14 · 5 min
There Is No Neutral
T. S. Eliot wrote The Idea of a Christian Society in 1939, after Munich. England thought it had a creed because it had refused the obvious monsters. Neutral is not a third country. It is a paganism that has not picked up speed yet.
#199
September 13 · 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
September 12 · 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
September 11 · 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
September 10 · 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
September 9 · 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
September 8 · 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
September 7 · 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.

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