
Deep Dives with Fr Sean: the Super Catholic Catechesis Podcast
I want to have easy access to good stuff for good people, and so I bring you some simple yet deep insights here for people on the fly. I'm always open to requests for topics, so give me a holler!
Episodes
190 episodes
Bioethics #14 Prepare to Die, Memento Mori (a practical episode)
We get into some good stuff:1) You will die2) Go to heaven3) Life your life to make your heaven self proud4) Don't plan on living forever5) The practical preparation: Spiritual, financial, legal
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Bioethics #13: Walking with Others in the Process of Dying
Here we talk about pastoral principles, that is, caring for the person in all the different ways.Also, we talked about the basics of morality:1) You must do what is reasonable to keep them alive.2) You don't have to do ever...
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Bioethics #12: Stewardship of the Body
We have to keep things balanced. Health and a long life are goods given to us by God, and though they're not the absolute goods of life (think of the martyrs), we must care for what God has given us.Prudence and Temperance are #1 (and #2...
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Bioethics #11: Be Smart About Smart Phones and Social Media (a BIG Deal!)
You have no permission to be ignorant. Here's a few awesome quotes from the Church:You Must Know: “A training that grounds a man in the basic principles governing the work of the media in human society, as explained above, is nowa...
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Bioethics #9: Hey Father, how about marijuana? Ethics of drugs: alcohol, marijuana, opioids
These are complicated issues that have various nuances and distinctions, tune in!
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Bioethics #8: Hot Topic Alert...Transgender Transitioning! What's a Christian to Say?
The simplified version is God created us male and female. It is unhealthy to view your healthy body as unhealthy and needing a change. Sex and gender are intrinsically united, though tension may be experienced in unhealthy psychologies. One can...
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Bioethics #7: Morality (Immorality?) of Vaccines
Friends, this was already a question, but it became a very large question in COVID-19. Here's the scoop.Here are resources to know which vaccines are ethically developed without cells lines derived from cells of an aborted child, and th...
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Bioethics #6: Sexuality Morality (What's Too Far? Contraception, Masturbation, Trans, etc
In this episode, we walk through the basics of sexual morality. So much depends on one's understanding on marriage, and if someone is wrong, their morality is gong to be wrong, too. We must make these truths clear, and we must promote chastity....
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Bioethics #5: The Tango of Patient and Doctor
In this episode we look at above all the call to mercy in healthcare. With this base, we dive into the rights and responsibilities of the doctor (healthcare provider in general) and patient, and also the fundamental ways that the relation...
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Bioethics #4: Questions Regarding Embryos (IVF, Surrogacy, Cloning)
First off, don't do it. Why?Utlimately these embryonic children have rights, and so often these rights are ignored.Secondly, children have a right to be conceived, born, and raised in the context of a natural, loving relationshi...
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Bioethics #3: The Question of Abortion (is it possible that it's a simple conversation?)
Heads up...listener discretion advised as I go into the different methods of an abortion, which are gruesome.Abortion. What's the definition? Whare are basic principles? How do I talk with people about this? Can a human embryo have righ...
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Intro to Bioethics: Life is Awesome! What is life? What should our attitudes be?
Life is awesome!Jesus calls us to life, and to even the Divine Life! Pretty wild!It's not just bodily life, but life in itselfWe should have the attitudes of1) awe2) respect3) care4) defense
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All Religions Arrive at God? When the Pope Says Something Not True (Stay Tuned to the End for a Story of Me and the Pope that's nuts...)
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Marriage #9: Discernment and Preparation for Marriage
To enter into marriage, like all vocations, you've got to discern marriage it! Do I want to enter into conyugal love with this person?There is also the preparation: remote (from kid-years to young adult-years), proximate, and immediate....
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Marriage #7: Marriage Is a Huge HELP! That grace within the sacrament of marriage
Sacraments are instruments, they do what they signify.Sanctifying grace increases.Sacramental graces are made available (constantly), though they might not be able to be fruitful because of mortal sin or lack of attentiveness to receivi...
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Marriage #6: How is Marriage a Sacrament? How does that work?
We get into some stuff here:A Sacrament is a sacred sign instituted by Christ to sanctify us and build up the Church.It is a primordial sacrament from the beginning because it is a communion of persons that represents THE Commun...
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Marriage #5: St Paul and the Beauty of Marriage in Ephesians 5
This is awesome. This is an excellent candidate for wedding readings any day of the week!
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Marriage #4: Jesus Goes Old School with Marriage "Back to the Beginning"
Here, Jesus lays out his teaching on marriage by taking us back to Genesis.He highlights the permanence of marriage.He clarifies what constitutes adultery, in an external way and in an internal way.He also talks about Hi...
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Marriage #3: The Old Testament Foundations of Marriage (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
The first two chapters of Genesis are excellent.But I also take a birds eye view of key figures, the legislative texts, Wisdom literature, and the prophets.
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Marriage #2: From a Natural Law Perspective
Natural Law: God has an eternal, beautiful wise plan with which He created the universe. He placed this plan in our very being. We have the intellect to recognize it and the freedom to participate in it.The ends of marriage are (1) the ...
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New Series on Marriage! The Challenges of Today and the Promise of Tomorrow. John Paul II's Theology of the Body
We start pretty fast!It's clear that marriage is hurting as an institution: fewer marriages later in life with less children and more divorces... Tough times...Why? In addition to the selfishness and weakness of the flesh of all...
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