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What's the best way to influence our government to create policies that align with Catholic social teaching? Catholic Lobbyist Dcn. Tyler McClay shares his experience working in the political realm. What does it take to make a positive influence on our political representatives? In short: not much. In this episode: • What is a Catholic lobbyist? • After Roe v. Wade, what issues will Catholic voters focus on now? • The Catholic Church is more Democrat than Republican? • The Church's massive role in American healthcare • What to do about politics as Catholics --- Chapters: 0:00 Start 0:40 The Catholic Church's relationship with the government 2:01 What is a Catholic lobbyist? 3:38 How do we persuade the government to take Catholic-supported stances? 5:00 The Catholic Church as a government contractor 7:27 What issues is a Catholic lobbyist addressing? 7:58 Do we support ALL pro-poor policies? 10:00 What issues (if any) do lobbyists avoid? 12:31 Supporting the same bill as Planned Parenthood? Not exactly. 13:32 State government is so much more accessible than you think. 14:32 How does one lobby? 20:56 The repeal of Roe v. Wade and its consequences 24:46 What's the next big issue for Catholic voters to focus on? 26:10 Sex transition surgery and the Catholic stance 28:46 Nukes and the Catholic stance 30:36 Catholics need to be more than single-issue voters 31:12 The Catholic Church is closer with the Democratic Party? 34:31 We will never be fully aligned with one party 36:21 When should Bishops get involved? 37:35 The Church plays a huge role in American healthcare 39:05 Disabilities and the government's intervention post-Roe v. Wade 44:19 Realpolitik and "playing dirty" politically 49:57 We need the transcendent within our politics 52:52 What to do about politics as Catholics --- The Simpleton Podcast is also on Rumble and Odysee! You can watch the latest episodes of The Simpleton Podcast by going to: Rumble: rumble.com/user/asimplehouseU Odysee: odysee.com/@asimplehouseU You can also find the audio version of this episode almost anywhere you stream podcasts (specifically, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RadioPublic, Pocket Casts, Breaker, and Anchor). Just search "The Simpleton Podcast", or go to https://anchor.fm/simpletonpodcast. --- Like, subscribe, share the podcast, and most of all, send us your feedback! We want to hear from you about what you loved, what you didn't, where you want to see the podcast go, and any other thoughts you have. Send us an email at asimplehouse@gmail.com with the subject line "The Simpleton Podcast Feedback". A Simple House is a Catholic ministry that serves project and Section 8 neighborhoods in southeast Washington, DC and Kansas City, MO. Our Catholic missionary work involves meeting people in their neighborhoods and in their homes. Missionaries strive to meet the material and spiritual needs of the poor. While missionaries serve at A Simple House, they live a simple religious life. Each missionary attends daily Mass, says morning and evening prayer from the Catholic Church's Liturgy of the Hours, and makes time for personal prayer and scripture study. To learn more about A Simple House and The Simpleton Podcast, visit asimplehouse.org. You can also follow us on these platforms: YouTube - A Simple House: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6LYNoV7AFGhKP4LR0Qqgnw YouTube - A Simple House U (home of The Simpleton Podcast): https://youtube.com/asimplehouseu_2022 Facebook: @asimplehouse Instagram: @asimplehouse.catholic  Watch the latest episode of The Simpleton Podcast here!
Catholic school attendance for schools using a Classical Education curriculum (sometimes referred to as Liberal Arts Education or Liberal Education) are rising. What is it, and why is it taking the world of Catholic education by storm? Dr. Daniel Gibbons, Board President of St. Jerome Institute in Washington D.C. (and an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in English at The Catholic University of America) joins Clark and Laura to talk about Classical Education and its place in Catholic schools. In this episode: • What is Classical Education? • The Great Books movement and its relationship with a Catholic liberal education • How does a Classical Education change its students? • Is a Catholic liberal education for everyone? • What makes a great and effective teacher? --- The Society for the Renewal of the Catholic Mind is a program created by St. Jerome Institute dedicated to fostering intellectual community beyond the classroom, particularly for friends, parents, and supporters of SJI. More information can be found at https://stjeromeinstitute.org/society/ As mentioned in the podcast, the St. Jerome Academy Book Club is a collection of works endorsed by SJI as beneficial reading selections for children. You can find the list at https://sjabookfair.com/sja-book-club/ To learn more about St. Jerome Institute, St. Jerome Academy, and the Catholic Classical Education model, visit https://stjeromeinstitute.org/ --- The Simpleton Podcast is also on Rumble and Odysee! You can watch the latest episodes of The Simpleton Podcast by going to: Rumble: rumble.com/user/asimplehouseU Odysee: odysee.com/@asimplehouseU You can also find the audio version of this episode almost anywhere you stream podcasts (specifically, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RadioPublic, Pocket Casts, Breaker, and Anchor). Just search "The Simpleton Podcast", or go to https://anchor.fm/simpletonpodcast. --- Like, subscribe, share the podcast, and most of all, send us your feedback! We want to hear from you about what you loved, what you didn't, where you want to see the podcast go, and any other thoughts you have. Send us an email at asimplehouse@gmail.com with the subject line "The Simpleton Podcast Feedback". A Simple House is a Catholic ministry that serves project and Section 8 neighborhoods in southeast Washington, DC and Kansas City, MO. Our Catholic missionary work involves meeting people in their neighborhoods and in their homes. Missionaries strive to meet the material and spiritual needs of the poor. While missionaries serve at A Simple House, they live a simple religious life. Each missionary attends daily Mass, says morning and evening prayer from the Catholic Church's Liturgy of the Hours, and makes time for personal prayer and scripture study. To learn more about A Simple House and The Simpleton Podcast, visit asimplehouse.org. You can also follow us on these platforms: YouTube - A Simple House: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6LYNoV7AFGhKP4LR0Qqgnw YouTube - A Simple House U (home of The Simpleton Podcast): https://youtube.com/asimplehouseu_2022 Facebook: @asimplehouse Instagram: @asimplehouse.catholic Critical Race Theory & Black Lives Matter: The Historical Perspective | The Simpleton Podcast9/12/2022
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Critical Race Theory dominates social discourse. What is it? Is it valid? Is it healthy? And what does it have to do with the Black Lives Matter movement? In this episode: • Roe v. Wade's reversal and its overlooked consequences • The Marxist roots of Critical Race Theory • Why CRT is a "Mind-Virus" that flocks to two extremes • Islamic conversion and the Christian parallels • Black Lives Matter's agenda and a different, positive outlook --- Chapters: 0:00 Start 0:30 Intro/Signpost 1:43 Roe v. Wade & the lack of Catholic doctors 6:18 Potential for an increase in Americans with disabilities? 8:06 The "sexiness" of practical families 10:15 The devil hates sex 12:26 The appeal of Islam's moral code 15:28 Catholicism (and the TLM movement) provide moral codes, too 18:17 Our experience with the Black Community 22:35 The narrative around police (and brutality) 26:59 Inward vs. outward dialogue 31:13 Is there more anxiety about police brutality now? 32:25 Suburban cops vs. urban cops 36:18 If we aren't enforcing laws...what do we do with them? 39:13 Quick recap of our thoughts on police brutality 39:30 Colin Kapernick (and the oversight of social movement) 42:45 The BLM Movement's lack of positive action 46:11 So, what should be done? 47:33 Critical Race Theory: its simple complexity 48:16 The Marxist and Freudian roots of CRT 49:46 CRT is a "Mind-virus"... 53:37 ...and this "Mind-virus" has two extremes. Both are wrong. 59:52 We simply can't support CRT. 1:02:21 "Black Lives Matter" vs. the group behind the BLM movement The Simpleton Podcast is also on Rumble and Odysee! You can watch the latest episodes of The Simpleton Podcast by going to: Rumble: rumble.com/user/asimplehouseU Odysee: odysee.com/@asimplehouseU You can also find the audio version of this episode almost anywhere you stream podcasts (specifically, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RadioPublic, Pocket Casts, Breaker, and Anchor). Just search "The Simpleton Podcast", or go to https://anchor.fm/simpletonpodcast. --- Like, subscribe, share the podcast, and most of all, send us your feedback! We want to hear from you about what you loved, what you didn't, where you want to see the podcast go, and any other thoughts you have. Send us an email at asimplehouse@gmail.com with the subject line "The Simpleton Podcast Feedback". A Simple House is a Catholic ministry that serves project and Section 8 neighborhoods in southeast Washington, DC and Kansas City, MO. Our Catholic missionary work involves meeting people in their neighborhoods and in their homes. Missionaries engage in service, meeting the material and spiritual needs of the poor through friendship, evangelization, and genuine charity. While missionaries serve at A Simple House, they live a simple religious life. Each missionary attends daily Mass, says morning and evening prayer from the Catholic Church's Liturgy of the Hours, and makes time for personal prayer and scripture study. To learn more about A Simple House and The Simpleton Podcast, visit asimplehouse.org. You can also follow us on these platforms: YouTube - A Simple House: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6LYNoV7AFGhKP4LR0Qqgnw YouTube - A Simple House U (home of The Simpleton Podcast): https://youtube.com/asimplehouseu_2022 Facebook: @asimplehouse Instagram: @asimplehouse.catholic  The Catholic Church has always been a stable presence in the shifting waves of pop culture. But right now, Catholicism is getting more attention than ever before.
It's a great thing — but it comes with a word of caution. In this episode: • We were canceled?? The story of our semi-viral episode • You're wrong about Shia LaBeouf (and the new evangelization) • Tim Dillon and the traditionalist Catholic culture response • The New York Times article about Catholicism being "hot" in NY • AR-15s & Rosaries: The Atlantic's article about extremist Catholicism --- Chapters: 0:00 Start 0:26 We were canceled?? 1:43 Intro/Signpost 2:36 True faith vs. weak theology 4:55 You're misunderstanding the "New Evangelization". 11:35 Pac-Man IRL & hazing (not actually) 15:58 Flannery O'Connor & the "Anti-protagonist" 22:20 Virtue-signaling conservatives? 23:12 Tim Dillon & the Catholic revolution 27:34 NYT: "Catholicism is the Hottest Club in New York" 29:54 Shia LaBeouf: Hope & Skepticism 37:05 The Rosary is an extremist item? 39:05 Why is Catholicism starting to get popular? 43:15 Masculinity isn't what you think it is. 45:34 Pacifism isn't Christian! 48:05 Fighting progressivism with conservativism 49:48 Outro The Joe Rogan Experience, "1860 - Tim Dillon": https://open.spotify.com/episode/0U3oRODnrft3edzbNAAHcT?si=0873604384014cd2&nd=1 New York Times, "New York’s Hottest Club Is the Catholic Church": https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/09/opinion/nyc-catholicism-dimes-square-religion.html The Atlantic, "How Extremist Gun Culture Is Trying to Co-opt the Rosary": https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/radical-traditionalist-catholic-christian-rosary-weapon/671122/ --- The Simpleton Podcast is also on Rumble and Odysee! You can watch the latest episodes of The Simpleton Podcast by going to: Rumble: rumble.com/user/asimplehouseU Odysee: odysee.com/@asimplehouseU You can also find the audio version of this episode almost anywhere you stream podcasts (specifically, Spotify, Google Podcasts, RadioPublic, Pocket Casts, Breaker, and Anchor). Just search "The Simpleton Podcast", or go to https://anchor.fm/simpletonpodcast. --- Like, subscribe, share the podcast, and most of all, send us your feedback! We want to hear from you about what you loved, what you didn't, where you want to see the podcast go, and any other thoughts you have. Send us an email at asimplehouse@gmail.com with the subject line "The Simpleton Podcast Feedback". A Simple House is a Catholic ministry that serves project and Section 8 neighborhoods in southeast Washington, DC and Kansas City, MO. Our Catholic missionary work involves meeting people in their neighborhoods and in their homes. Missionaries engage in service, meeting the material and spiritual needs of the poor through friendship, evangelization, and genuine charity. While missionaries serve at A Simple House, they live a simple religious life. Each missionary attends daily Mass, says morning and evening prayer from the Catholic Church's Liturgy of the Hours, and makes time for personal prayer and scripture study. To learn more about A Simple House and The Simpleton Podcast, visit asimplehouse.org. You can also follow us on these platforms: YouTube - A Simple House: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6LYNoV7AFGhKP4LR0Qqgnw YouTube - A Simple House U (home of The Simpleton Podcast): https://youtube.com/asimplehouseu_2022 Facebook: @asimplehouse Instagram: @asimplehouse.catholic In this episode, Clark and Laura talk about sociological and spiritual pitfalls within the new traditionalist movement—the possibility of schism. They discuss the threat of schism on this issue, the importance of pastoring as a constitutive part of the Catholic Church, and the historical heresy of Jansenism and its relation to the unhealthy parts of the traditionalist movement.
In this episode, Laura and Clark discuss negative, unhealthy parts of the traditionalist movement within the Catholic Church. There’s no problem with having a liturgical preference, but there is a problem with going to Mass and being a liturgical preference. Every Mass, no matter how dull or uninspiring, contains so many graces and Jesus’s Eucharist presence—that’s the whole point of liturgy. They discuss what a healthy traditional movement would involve: it will have people who are psychologically well and healed or healing, it will be inviting, and it will be positive. The things that go wrong within traditionalism—rigidity and over-exclusivity—are harmful to the Church’s efforts at evangelization, so it’s important for all of us, who are called to be missionaries, to understand these things.
In this episode, Clark, the founder of A Simple House’s ministry, and Laura, one of the early missionaries, talk about the origins of the Traditionalist movement in the Church, why it was needed, and how it affects us today. They discuss Vatican II, and why the Church needed more traditionalism post-Vatican II. They talk about the intentions of the Second Vatican Council: to help the modern mind engage with the doctrine of the Church, not changing Church doctrine, by returning Scripture and tradition of the Early Church Fathers to the forefront.
In this episode, Clark and Laura talk how Simple House developed a model of Catholic evangelization based on accompaniment. They discuss a “schism” around charitable work that existed in the Church in the early 2000’s when Simple House was founded. There was a division between “social-justice” Catholics excited about charitable work, and orthodox Catholics. At A Simple House, Clark and Laura’s goal was to hear God’s call and the cry of the poor, to help people, to be in solidarity with them, and to speak the truth to them—to be missionaries in the full sense of the word. In some ways, they were too conservative for the liberals and too liberal for the conservatives. They also discuss how Simple House came to develop a theory of mission work—what can be taught, and what comes down to the intuition, grace, and discernment when it comes to evangelization and service.
In this episode, Clark gives a State-of-the-Ministry update, reviewing the ministry we did during our Thanksgiving and Christmas outreaches—our busiest times of the year for our mission. We visit neighborhoods that we serve, go door-to-door, meeting families and getting to know them and praying with them. Inviting someone else to lead the prayer, Clark notes, is an important act of evangelization: not only is it a display of respect and solidary with the poor, but you are getting that person to pray. He also describes what we call our “Party-in-a-box” ministry, something we do often during the holiday season: a time where we celebrate and eat with the poor families we serve. He also discusses our visiting seminarians, our upcoming silent retreat, and visiting Catholic college student groups. Clark ends the podcast with a recent story about one of the friends that we serve.
In this episode, Clark interviews Mike Tenney, long-time supporter and friend of A Simple House’s ministry. Mike reflects on the growth he’s seen since the founding of Simple House’s mission: from the early days of Laura, Clark and other missionaries deciding they want to serve God radically in voluntary poverty and seek out the poorest of the poor to serve them spiritually and physically, to scores of missionaries coming to serve the poor over the almost twenty years that the ministry has existed.
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