The Catholic Everywoman

Carrie Gress went back on Matt Fradd's show to talk feminism, and we have thoughts. Is every fault of women really a feminist problem? We unpack the logical fallacies, the good things feminism actually won, Joe Heschmeyer on men's spaces, and how to tell if the Catholic content you watch is good for you.

SUBSCRIBE!!!Becoming Catholic is hard, but apparently all the cool kids are doing it.This week, we talk about the faith of Chris Pratt and David Henrie, and why you probably shouldn’t let your kid be in movies.Plus: Catholicism has the answers to life’s toughest questions and why conversion is worth the work.

Pope Leo heads into surgery, three Gen Z Catholic men spill their dating philosophy, and we hand out flirting lessons nobody asked for (you’re welcome).Happy feast day to our patron, St. Carlo Acutis!Subscribe for your weekly Catholic digest, and tell us in the comments: have you ever dropped the handkerchief?

Spooky season is here, and the Catholic Everywoman is talking about the death penalty, the dead, and a few things that really should stay dead like 19th century art.A Tennessee execution fails twice, so we dig into what the Church has actually taught about the death penalty, from St. Augustine and Aquinas to Pope Francis and Pope Leo, and why both of us have had a change of heart. Also: Vatican City once had a death penalty law. Does it have dungeons? We have questions.Then: do Catholics believe in ghosts? Plus the brand-new Sheen Awards (sadly, no jawbone trophy), Pope Leo on AI and art, and the papal blessing that may have just won the White Sox a game.Help us get to the Sheen Awards: subscribe for your weekly Catholic digest.

SUBSCRIBE!Pope Leo went to France, and France showed up: 80,000 young people at the Stade de France, 800,000 in Paris, and 150,000 in Lourdes. With young adults being baptized in record numbers, we ask: when did Catholicism get cool?Also this week, researchers send a tiny robot named Gopher into the "Noah's Ark" formation near Mount Ararat. (No, they haven't found it, exactly). Fulton Sheen's jawbone gets us talking about relics, Lane Scott has thoughts on class and clean nails, and William Lane Craig's comments on the Nicene Creed set the internet on fire.#CatholicPodcast #CatholicWomen #PopeLeo #FultonSheen #NoahsArk #CatholicRevival

Pope Leo has a mysterious green orb, Taylor Swift is better than Sydney Sweeney, and pumpkin spice is having an identity crisis. This week, Anna is joined by the one and only Joe Heschmeyer of Shameless Popery for a very autumnal, very off-topic hour of Catholic news, pop culture, and whatever else happens to come up. Welcome to Your Weekly Catholic Digest

Are modern women generally unpleasant, or are we just lonelier and more disconnected than ever? This week, Jane and Anna dig into the conversation around female loneliness, friendship, and disconnection, including Lila Rose’s recent episode with Adam Lane Smith.Plus, the post-COVID “Nod of Peace” at Mass, Fulton Sheen’s upcoming canonization, Catholicism on the rise, and a very happy 71st birthday to Pope Leo!Welcome to Your Weekly Catholic Digest.

Catholic Answers ran a piece asking whether Christians should take their families to the beach, and the internet did what the internet does. So this week we get into it — modesty, bikinis, purity culture, and the question underneath all of it: is a woman ever responsible for a man's sin?Anna says no, flatly, and knows people won't like it. Jane thinks intent matters and pushes on where the line actually sits. Also this week: Joe Heschmeyer on what he sees as a weakness in Protestant theology of suffering, Vice President JD Vance suggesting the Antichrist may be walking among us, and Pope Leo quietly becoming a "fashion icon."

Joe Schmid spent years as one of the internet's most careful non-believers. Now he's Catholic, and a lot of people think he should keep quiet about it for a while.This week Jane and Anna get into the backlash: how soon is too soon for a convert to teach the faith publicly? We talk about Trent Horn's geek-out interview, Fr. Gregory Pine's take, and where the line actually sits between enthusiasm and getting out over your skis. Then the harder question underneath all of it — young men are coming into the Church in droves, and women mostly aren't. We have theories about why, and none of them are comfortable.Also: Eucharistic miracles, Marian apparitions and the Protestant objection to both, and why Bible-quote culture is not the same thing as Bible study.

A bonus episode of your weekly Catholic digest: Wife, mother, and author Mary Hanna Roling writes her book trilogy longhand in notebooks and won't let AI near it. We talk 5am discipline, the AI detector that flagged Frankenstein as 100% machine-written, tropes as spoilers, and what being made in God's image has to do with creating.