Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)

Is it wrong to bet on sports? What about playing the lottery? Or all those 50/50 tickets every Catholic school in America is selling? This week, we’re parsing the Church’s very broad teaching on gambling, as we chat about games of chance and being good stewards of the money God has given us.
Show Notes:
CCC 2413
“The Rise of Sports Betting is a Growing Public Health Crisis”
AOC on gambling
On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs by James Schall
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Why do Christians celebrate Holy Week? What is the point of it all? How have we done it in the past? How are we doing it now? And how does it shape us as Christians? Talking about all that and more this week, on Visitation Sessions.
P.S. Special thanks to Select International Tours for sponsoring this week’s episode. Select does many things very, very well, and one of those things is pilgrim formation. Through their online pilgrim formation program, Stella Pelegrina, they offer all those traveling with them the chance to prepare spiritually and practically for all the graces and challenges that pilgrimages have to offer. Learn more by visiting their website today.
P.P.S. Please forgive the lack of show notes this weel! We’ll try to come back and get them up in the next few days, but this week, due to time, family, and travel constraints, it was a choice between posting without show notes or not posting at all. We chose no show notes!
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For the past two months, one of us (Chris) has been teaching a class on the history of Black Catholics in the United States. This week, we’re talking about some of that history and the consequences it has for the life of the Church in America today.
Show Notes
* The History of Black Catholics in the United States by Cyprian Davis
* A Black Patriot and a White Priest by Stephen J. Ochs
* Desegregating the Altar: The Josephites and the Struggle for Black Priests by Stephen J. Ochs
* The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church by Rachel Swarns
* From Sharecropper to Scientist: The Memoir of Thomas Wyatt Turner, Ph.D. edited by Marilyn Wenzke Nickels
* The Autobiography of Frederick Douglas by Frederick Douglas
* The Whitney Plantation Museum (Louisiana)
* Mansfield Plantation Story (South Carolina)
* Nottoway Plantation (Louisiana)
* Pope Nicholas V
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It’s Saint Joseph’s feast day, and we are celebrating this very special solemnity by taking a break from all our Lenten fasts and diving into the Scriptural and theological foundations of building a relationship with Saint Joseph (and all the other saints). Note: This relationship should not include burying a statue of Saint Joseph upside down in your yard, thinking that will somehow get your house sold.
Show Notes:
Joseph, Keeper of the King by Emily Stimpson Chapman and Scott Hahn
Redemptoris Custos (“Guardian of the Redeemer)” by Pope Saint John Paul II
The Visitation (painting by Mattia Preti)
Ottumwa International Film Festival
Beloit International Fim Festival



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We’ve had a slew of new listeners since the New Year, and that was reflected in the questions you all sent for this week’s Q&A. So, this week, we’re sharing all about Casey’s time as monk (technically “canon”), Emily’s year cleaning toilets for world leaders, Kate’s plumbing free, electricity free mountain cabin, and Chris’s fall from grace. Hope you don’t regret asking!
Show Notes:
Reclaiming Quiet by Sarah Clarkson
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling
The Meaning of Grace by Charles Journet
The History of Black Catholics by Cyprian Davis
The Habit of Being by Flannery O’Connor
Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoffer
The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volumes 1, 2, and 3
John Henry Newman: A Life Sacrificed by Ida Friederike Görres
Paper Girl by Beth Macy
Dope Sick by Beth Macy
Timebends: A Life by Arthur Miller
Alexander the Great by Phillip Freeman
The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump
The Church in the Seventeenth Century by Daniel Rops



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