021: Apologetics 101 – How to Prove the Catholic Faith (w/ Dr. Doug Beaumont)

Last updated on: October 14, 2020 at 8:45 pm By K. Albert Little

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic Podcast, I’m joined by apologist, speaker, and author Dr. Douglas Beaumont to give us a crash course in apologetics. With his trademark insight, Dr. Beaumont discusses how we can share proofs and evidence for God with everyone from Atheists to Anabaptists and everyone in between. He provides insights and some of his favourite theological, philosophical, and scientific arguments and evidence for God’s existence and why, historically, the Catholic Church makes the most sense... Read more

020: Why Become Catholic? (w/ Marcus Grodi)

Last updated on: October 14, 2020 at 8:45 pm By K. Albert Little

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic Podcast, I’m joined by the incredible Marcus Grodi, host of The Journey Home on EWTN and the Founder/President of The Coming Home Network International, an apostolate which supports non-Catholics finding their way into the Catholic Church. Marcus shares his own conversion story and the founding of The Journey Home and The Coming Home Network. Then, Marcus shares some of the wisdom he’s gleaned from 20 years listening to the stories of Catholic... Read more

Are Papal Interviews on a Plane Infallible?

Last updated on: August 7, 2019 at 12:51 pm By K. Albert Little

The authority of the Catholic Church is notoriously hard to understand for non-Catholics—even many Catholics struggle to define exactly how and when the Church is exercising its authority. But one question that Catholics apologists hear often goes something like this, Well, Pope Francis said this during an interview on an airplane so isn’t that infallible Church teaching? To put it simply, no. It is not. But I can see why it can be confusing. I recently had a conversation with Catholic Answers Senior... Read more

019: Is Jesus Just a Myth? (w/ Trent Horn)

Last updated on: October 14, 2020 at 8:46 pm By K. Albert Little

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic Podcast, I’m joined by Catholic Answers apologist extraordinaire and author Trent Horn to discuss finding the real Jesus amongst the imposters. Was Jesus just a myth, a conglomeration of pagan myths and legends? Did he perform miracles? Are the gospel accounts reliable? Trent expertly tackles all of these questions and more. Plus, we dig into Trent’s trademark and highly apologetic approach on how we can discuss, clarify and correct these false understandings of... Read more

018: Feminism, Gender, and the Catholic Church (w/ Dr. Abigail Favale)

Last updated on: October 14, 2020 at 8:46 pm By K. Albert Little

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic Podcast, I’m joined by the incredible Dr. Abigail Favale to talk about feminism, gender identity, and the Catholic Church. Abigail has written a number of fantastic articles at the Church Life Journal on these very topics and unpacks them here, for us, brilliantly. We tackle the ideas of masculinity and femininity as expressed by Pope St. John Paul II, how a Catholic should understand feminism, and how becoming a mother (and a Catholic)... Read more

The Quote That Convinced Me to Convert to Catholicism

Last updated on: July 26, 2019 at 12:22 pm By K. Albert Little

I first met Jesus at the age of fifteen. As a teenager, I “accepted Christ” and began to live as best a Christian life as I could muster. And it was great. I was happy as an Evangelical Protestant. I didn’t so much as reject Catholicism as much as I simply didn’t know about it. Worse, what I did know about the Catholic Church came from poorly catechized Catholics. From Catholics who, themselves, didn’t know much about their faith. Bad... Read more

017: Understanding the Authority of the Catholic Church (w/ Jimmy Akin)

Last updated on: October 14, 2020 at 8:47 pm By K. Albert Little

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic Podcast, I’m joined by Catholic Answers Senior Apologist Jimmy Akin to talk about how to understand authority and the Catholic Church. We discuss the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Bible, papal infallibility, theology, doctrine, and dogma, and how best to understand what the Church teaches on any given topic. It’s a fantastic episode; Jimmy provides an absolute ton of information – you’re going to want to listen twice! For more from... Read more

016: Who is St. Thomas Aquinas? (w/ Dr. Robert Delfino)

Last updated on: October 14, 2020 at 8:49 pm By K. Albert Little

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic Podcast, I’m joined by Dr. Robert Delfino, author of Does God Exist: A Socratic Dialogue about the Five Ways of Thomas Aquinas. We dig deep into who St. Thomas Aquinas was, his importance to the Catholic Church, Christianity, and philosophy in general. We discuss the apparent rift between science and religion – what would Aquinas say? And we dive deeply into Aquinas’s Fifth Way of proving God’s existence. One of the resources mentioned... Read more

015: Typology and the Catholic Church in the Old Testament (w/ Dr. Lawrence Feingold)

Last updated on: October 14, 2020 at 8:50 pm By K. Albert Little

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic Podcast, I’m joined by the one and only Dr. Lawrence Feingold philosopher, theologian, and author to talk about typology and how the Catholic Church was prefigured in the Old Testament. This is absolutely an episode for the record books as Dr. Feingold takes us deep into biblical typology which begins, we learn, through looking at how Jesus Himself used the Old Testament. Through unpacking the biblical texts and with a deep knowledge of... Read more

014: Protestant Reformation or Revolution? (w/ Steve Weidenkopf)

Last updated on: October 14, 2020 at 8:50 pm By K. Albert Little

In this episode of The Cordial Catholic Podcast, I’m joined by Steve Weidenkopf, author and lecturer in History at the Christendom College Graduate School of Theology, to talk about the Protestant Reformation. Was it truly a reformation of the Christian Church or a revolution? Was the Catholic Church in need of reform? And what did the Reformers actually intend? For more from Steve, visit his website and check out his videos, books, and blog articles. Steve’s books are highly accessible... Read more