Catholic Waypoint
A reflective podcast charting one man’s journey towards faith and Catholicism, exploring belief, doubt, history, and belonging through honest, thoughtful conversation. Drawing on personal experience, historical research, and Catholic teaching, the podcast follows a faith explored slowly and sincerely.
Episodes
10 episodes
Slavery: Global Enforcement
This episode examines what happened after Britain abolished the slave trade — and why that decision was only the beginning. It follows Britain’s choice to enforce abolition in a world that largely rejected it, tracing the creation of naval patr...
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41:05
Slavery: Political Sacrifice
This episode explores what happened after Britain’s moral awakening about slavery, when Christian conviction collided with Parliament, profit, and imperial power. It follows the long, exhausting struggle to translate conscience into law, focusi...
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35:07
Slavery: Moral Awakening
This episode traces how Britain came to see slavery not as an unfortunate fact of life, but as a moral wrong that demanded repentance. It explores a world in which slavery was normal, profitable, and largely unquestioned, and shows how a distin...
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30:01
#7 - Two Churches, Two Logics
This episode explores the often-assumed similarity between Catholicism and Anglicanism, and why that assumption breaks down under closer examination. By looking beyond aesthetics and culture, it examines how each tradition understands authority...
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46:23
#6 - Before the Rules
This episode explores why Catholicism is so often misunderstood as a system of rules, and why that starting point misses what the Church is actually claiming. Drawing on personal experience, it argues that Catholicism begins not with mora...
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25:30
#5 - Responsibility Before Rights
This episode explores the growing gap between rights and responsibility in modern moral life, and asks why responsibility has become so difficult to articulate. It examines where moral authority comes from, why societies have historically...
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22:00
#4 - What Is the Church, and Why Trust It?
This episode examines what the Church claims to be, and why it has historically asked for trust. Rather than approaching the Church as an idea or moral influence, it explores it as a living institution shaped by continuity, authority, and respo...
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21:45
#3 - Fragmentation, Authority, and the Cost of Division
This episode explores how Christian fragmentation shaped my distance from faith — not through disbelief, but through confusion and paralysis. I examine the loss of shared authority, Britain’s Catholic past, the rupture of the English Refo...
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28:00