Catholic Forum

We return to Aquinas College to review with Dr. John Pinheiro some of the difficulties Catholics have faced in practicing their faith throughout the history of the colonization and development of the United States. To learn more about our work, visit our web site, catholicforuminc.org, or share our page on Facebook (facebook.com/catholicforuminc).

Representatives of the Catholic Lawyers Association of West Michigan discuss the mission of their organization and discuss the unique challenges of navigating current legal trends when holding a Catholic world view. To learn more about our work, visit our web site, catholicforuminc.org, or share our page on Facebook (facebook.com/catholicforuminc).

Our guest discusses how survival of a series of life-threatening incidents convinced him that his life had a purpose and how he has since pursued that purpose through service within and and outside of the Catholic Church. To learn more about our work, visit our web site, catholicforuminc.org, or share our page on Facebook (facebook.com/catholicforuminc).

Our guest recounts how he drifted away from the Catholicism of his youth and how his father's concern for him eventually called him back. To learn more about our work, visit our web site, catholicforuminc.org, or share our page on Facebook (facebook.com/catholicforuminc).

A young couple explains how they came to embrace the principles which the Church applies to birth control and procreation, becoming practitioners and then instructors of the methods of Natural Family Planning and facing reproductive challenges of their own. To learn more about our work, visit our web site, catholicforuminc.org, or share our page on Facebook (facebook.com/catholicforuminc).

As he was growing up, our guest came to think of God as an "absentee landlord". He describes how after 20 years of addiction, he became aware of God's presence and personal care and forgiveness. To learn more about our work, visit our web site, catholicforuminc.org, or share our page on Facebook (facebook.com/catholicforuminc).

We're joined by Dr. Daniel Page, who helps us consider the use of song in the Mass throughout the history of the Church. To learn more about our work, visit our web site, catholicforuminc.org, or share our page on Facebook (facebook.com/catholicforuminc).

While some Catholic universities continue to create scandal and controversy by extending honors and speaking invitations to pro-abortion politicians and such, we visited Aquinas College and spoke with President Dr. Juan Olivarez and professors Dr. John Pinheiro and Dr. Robert Marko about the quiet majority of Catholic colleges finding renewal in their Catholic identity through Pope John Paul II's exhortation, Ex Corde Ecclessiae. To learn more about our work, visit our web site, catholicforuminc.org, or share our page on Facebook (facebook.com/catholicforuminc).

The founders of Catechetical Foundations discuss their desire to minister to the Church and, through it, to the world, by strengthening the skills and understanding of catechists and the general laity. To learn more about our work, visit our web site, catholicforuminc.org, or share our page on Facebook (facebook.com/catholicforuminc).

With our guest, theology professor Dr. Dennis Marshall, we explore the characteristic of God known as omnipotence and consider the role of human free will within its context. To learn more about our work, visit our web site, catholicforuminc.org, or share our page on Facebook (facebook.com/catholicforuminc).

Dr. Dennis Marshall reprises his earlier presentation on the conscience (episode #426), this time focusing on the fundamental concepts and understanding of the conscience. To learn more about our work, visit our web site, catholicforuminc.org, or share our page on Facebook (facebook.com/catholicforuminc).

Our guests join us to discuss FORMED, a phenomenal web site assembled by a collective of Catholic media companies and being made available to parishes and individuals as a resource for Catholic education, evangelization, encouragement and entertainment. To learn more about our work, visit our web site, catholicforuminc.org, or share our page on Facebook (facebook.com/catholicforuminc).

We welcome back Fr. Peter Damian to discuss the importance of the much misunderstood and much underutilized sacrament of Reconciliation, or Confession - call it what you will. If it's been a while, we hope that our conversation will be an invitation for you to seek out the graces of this sacrament in this season of Lent. To learn more about our work, visit our web site, catholicforuminc.org, or share our page on Facebook (facebook.com/catholicforuminc).

Celebrating 20 years as the band director at West Catholic High School, Darren LaPrise reflects on some of the highlights of his teaching career. To learn more about our work, visit our web site, catholicforuminc.org, or share our page on Facebook (facebook.com/catholicforuminc).

Our guests share their experiences at the recent World Meeting of Families, which included workshops fellowship and Mass with the Holy Father. To learn more about our work, visit our web site, catholicforuminc.org, or share our page on Facebook (facebook.com/catholicforuminc).

Dr. Dennis Marshall joins us to to consider the lesson of so many created objects - that they reflect the purpose of their creator. We consider how this reality can lead us toward humility and service. To learn more about our work, visit our web site, catholicforuminc.org, or share our page on Facebook (facebook.com/catholicforuminc).

This week we talk with Dr. Dennis Marshall about the concept of morality as understood from religious and philosophical perspectives. To learn more about our work, visit our web site, catholicforuminc.org, or share our page on Facebook (facebook.com/catholicforuminc).

Social media and the Internet have introduced us to several talented artists who demonstrate that creating beauty is no mean feat. In the light of this, we invited the Cathedral Square curator for last year's Art Prize exhibit to discuss with us how the beauty of Creation may be speaking to us about its Creator. To learn more about our work, visit our web site, catholicforuminc.org, or share our page on Facebook (facebook.com/catholicforuminc).

Our guest shares about his struggles through scrupulosity to finding peace in the Father's mercy. To learn more about our work, visit our web site, catholicforuminc.org, or share our page on Facebook (facebook.com/catholicforuminc).

Our guest shares information about a relatively new apostolate similar to scouting, called the Troops of St. George, and its mission to nurture faith in young men and to raise fathers as spiritual mentors to their sons. To learn more about our work, visit our web site, catholicforuminc.org, or share our page on Facebook (facebook.com/catholicforuminc).