This week on A Podcast About Catholic Things, Eric (The Ambassador of Common Sense) and Dan (The Ambassador of Nonsense) discuss one of the age-old subjects that most podcasters have talked about many times already.  But this time, they address a very specific sentiment that the priests and bishops have left with people--and still have yet to answer.  Many people who were not directly affected by the priest's abuse, were still felt feeling as if they had been duped into being faithful Catholics--and because of this, hesitate to rejoin God's Holy Church.

This week on A Podcast About Catholic Things, Eric (The Ambassador of Common Sense) and Dan (The Ambassador of Nonsense) discuss the morality of copyrights and patents, and both from a religious perspective and a legal one.  Do content producers have some sort of natural right to their creations?  Do we have a natural obligation to abide by current copyright infringement law?  Is downloading movies a sin?  And when should the Church own prayer?

This week on A Podcast About Catholic Things Eric (The Ambassador of Common Sense) and Dan (The Ambassador of Nonsense) discuss the mass craze that is officially a world-wide phenomenon… and mostly seems to be ignored by orthodox Catholics.  Why are those who are strong in the faith less likely to pay attention to the mask-wearing edicts?  And why do some people embrace it whole-heartedly, adding ceremony and reverence to the act of putting on the mask?  And who is denying science--again?

This week on A Podcast About Catholic Things, Eric and Dan discuss the theory that this is it… the world is about to end--a theory growing in popularity as the Pope betrays more and more faithful Catholics, and the American government seems to be disappearing right before our eyes. What will the end times look like? Will it get worse than this, or is it bound to get better? What should our response be? Should we be gathering supplies and preparing for disaster… or is there another kind of preparation?

Should Christians (especially Catholics) be more public? This week on A Podcast About Catholic Things, Eric and Dan talk about the obligation of Catholics to show their faces (even their rosaries) to their friends, family, neighbors, and even coworkers. The overall agreement between them is that Catholics must use their freedom of religion or lose it--and that things would not have gotten this bad if we had been more vocal in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Catholics need to 'take up space.'

This week on A Podcast About Catholic Things, Eric and Dan discuss the nation-wide shenanigans and wide-spread vote fraud. They bring up the seemingly ironic situation in the Church, including Pope Francis's antics and the US bishop's low-morality stance on the American election. Dan sees possible optimism, even if Biden wins--Eric disagrees. He brings up the national shutdown, which is still lingering in some of the blue states. They discuss the possibility of war breaking out in order to save the election, and the difference between strategic battles and anarchist rioting. The over-all message is to keep fighting.

This week on A Podcast About Catholic Things, Eric and Dan discuss the latest papal encyclical, Fratelli Tutti (Tooty Fruity). Francis himself points out how fundamentally against Christianity and the Christian spirit his own encyclical is. What is Neo-liberalismm and what is Francis's problem with it? Does he at all understand capitalism and its purpose? And what about trickle-down economics? The spirit of this encyclical, as with all of Pope Francis's encyclicals, is that it is fundamentally pro-marxist. What is the purpose of 'dialog' and how does this encyclical redefine it? Is the encyclical in any way binding? Does it define doctrine?

This week on A Podcast About Catholic Things, Eric (The Ambassador of Common Sense) and Dan (The Ambassador of Non-Sense) talk about the upcoming presidential election--probably the most important one in American history. They break down, subject by subject, the two candidates and point out the Catholic position (whether admitted to by American bishops or not) on: every American's duty to vote, abortion, racism, Covid19, riots in America, key Catholic controversies, government spending and the economy, China, healthcare, Russiagate, and Trump's unpresidential attitude.

This week on A Podcast About Catholic Things, Eric and Dan discuss the legendary Saint Joan of Arc. Her name is often used as an example of feminism, but her role in the French army was not as a woman fighting for equal rights--she was a chaste girl following the orders of God. Her heroic measures ensured the survival of France as a nation, separate from her European neighbors, with strong borders that would survive for centuries.

This week on A Podcast About Catholic Things, Eric is absent, so Dan gives us "Utter Nonsense"… a Catholic movie review of The Hunt.