#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 moral demands, but with deeper questions about reality, human nature, and meaning. Only once those foundations are in place do rules make sense. The episode invites listeners to slow down, rethink their assumptions, and approach Catholicism in the order it presents itself — reality first, then meaning, and only then behaviour.