Beyond Rome
The Philos Project
Beyond Rome is a podcast that seeks to reconnect Catholics with their Hebraic and Christian roots in the Near East. Hosted by Simone Rizkallah, joined by James O’Reilly and the Philos Catholic team at the Philos Project, they explore a variety of topics related to religion and culture in the West and why the Near East matters for a healthy Church and world. Beyond Rome looks beyond the West to understand what makes the Catholic Church truly universal.
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11. Traditional, Hebrew, and Catholic
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10/01/24 • 38 min
This week Simone Rizkallah is joined by Dan Burke for episode 11 of Beyond Rome. In this episode, Dan speaks about his organization, The Avila Institue, and his perspective as a Hebrew Catholic of the conflict in the Holy Land between Israel and Hamas
Dan Burke is the founder and President of the Avila Institute for Spiritual Formation, which offers graduate and personal enrichment studies in spiritual theology to priests, deacons, religious, and laity in 72 countries and prepares men for seminary in 14 dioceses. Dan is the author and editor of more than 15 books on authentic Catholic spirituality and hosts the Divine Intimacy Radio show with his wife, Stephanie, which is broadcast weekly on EWTN Radio. Past episodes can be found, along with thousands of articles on the interior life, at SpiritualDirection.com.
In his deep commitment to the advancement of faithful Catholic spirituality, he is also the founder of Apostoli Viae, a world-wide, private association of the faithful dedicated to living and advancing the authentic spiritual patrimony of the Church. Dan previously served as president and chief operating officer of EWTN News.
Be sure to tune into this episode to hear from Dan Burke about his work and mission, and how Catholics can better understand the conflict in the Holy Land.
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00:00-04:53 - Introduction
04:53-09:42 - Dan’s response to conflict in the Holy Land as a Jewish Catholic
09:42-10:37 - Standard of Israel & Proportionality
10:37-13:23 - Stronger-weaker construct | Oppressed group is always "right"
13:23-16:40 - Antisemitism is anti-Christian
16:40-20:52 - Labels | Traditional Catholics and "The Jews"
20:52-22:38 - Sadducees & Pharisees and historical context
22:38-25:06 - Catholic scholarship of Hebraic roots of the faith
25:06-26:35 - Catholics should read their Bibles
26:35-28:37 - Jewish perspective of the New Testament
28:37-30:40 - Everyone is created for an eternal relationship with God
30:40-32:39 - Breaking out of the American political lens between left and right
32:39-33:50 - Dominus Flavit | Aching with Christ for the salvation of souls
33:50-36:06 - The Spirit of Truth and the Five Paraclete Promises
36:06-37:34 - Closing Remarks from Dan
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Resources:
➡️ Learn more about Dan's work at The Avila Institute for Spiritual Formation: avila-institute.org
➡️ Pray and grow in your faith with Dan Burke at SpiritualDirection.com: SpiritualDirection.com
➡️ Philos Catholic joins Dan and Stephanie Burke on Divine Intimacy Radio: https://www.youtube.com/live/RQwGJNX4sfU?si=JlQ0zYs1KDDyCU52
2. The Prophetic Imagination
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05/19/24 • 30 min
Simone Rizkallah and James O’Reilly discuss not just the what (last week) but the WHY of the journey they’d like to take with you on this podcast. Why do our Hebraic and Near Eastern Christian roots matter? Why duc in altum? (Luke 5)
Yes, Simone studied Latin. James probably did too?
Show notes
1:40 - You are called for some definite purpose
2:56 - Theology of the Laity
4:56 - Personal Vocation, revisited
10:58 - The Prophetic Imagination
14:18 - The Church is Prophetic, again
The Basic Pathfinder Free Course
A Personal Vocation article by Simone Rizkallah
04/18/24 • 21 min
Join Simone Rizkallah and James O’Reilly for our pilot episode of Beyond Rome, a podcast production of the Catholic team at The Philos Project. In this episode, you’ll learn who and what The Philos Project is, the stories of how Simone and James came to work in the Near East space, and why we do the work we do.
Show notes
1:40 - James explains the Philos Project
2:56 - Dominican friars meet Orthodox Jews
4:56 - Simone explains there are 24 Catholic Churches
10:58 - Armenia and Israel in 2023
14:18 - The Church is Prophetic
Click here to view the 24 Catholic Churches.
3. Vatican II & Eastern Catholic Churches
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06/03/24 • 32 min
This week Simone Rizkallah and James O’Reilly talk to Canon Lawyer Nicole Delaney on Orientalium Ecclesiarum, a short decree from the Second Vatican Council on the Eastern Churches!
This decree was the inspiration behind the Eastern Code of Canon Law—we do realize that inviting a canon lawyer to join us as our first special guest was a very Roman thing to do!
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Show notes:
3:35— Eastern Catholics are not Eastern Orthodox
5:11—Churches are not rites —language matters
14:34—It's complicated—legal and pastoral challenges
18:52—Valid but illegal confirmations
20:46—The message of OE is Be okay with who you are: An Eastern Catholic!
Resources:
Link to Orientalium Ecclesiarum
Link to Simone's ChurchPop article
Click here to view the 24 Catholic Churches
06/18/24 • 32 min
This week Simone Rizkallah and James O’Reilly talk to Fr. Hezekias Carnazzo, a married priest in the Melkite Church, about his journey from Roman Catholicism to the East, his founding of the Institute of Catholic Culture, and his thoughts on the urgency of Catholics to tap into their Hebraic and Near Eastern Christian roots.
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The New Evangelization, in order to be modern and effective, must start from Jerusalem: it must begin from the first Christian community anchored to the person of Christ, having a cause for which it is willing to face any sacrifice and to give the gift of life itself. -Patriarch Fouad Twal
Resources:
Link to the Institute of Catholic Culture's Patristics 102 course
Click here to view the 24 Catholic Churches.
8. From Canterbury to Constantinople
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08/21/24 • 38 min
This week Simone Rizkallah and James O’Reilly are joined by Zac Crippen for episode 8 of our Beyond Rome journey. Zac leads international expansion for Hallow, the #1 prayer app in the world. A graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and the University of Oxford (where he was a Rhodes Scholar), Zac served as an active duty Air Force officer for seven years before embarking on a career in technology.
Zac lives with his wife, Sally, and their five children on the outskirts of South Bend, Indiana. He is a grateful convert to Catholicism and is a member of the Byzantine (Ruthenian) Church. He blogs and podcasts at creedal.substack.com.
Be sure to tune into this episode to learn from Zac about Byzantine Catholicism and how Catholics can tap into their Hebraic and Near Eastern Christian roots.
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2:00 – Zac Crippen’s Faith Journey | Church Unity
4:21 – Catholics and the Bible
6:05 – Byzantine Catholic: “Learning how to breathe with another lung”
8:07 – “Why not Orthodoxy? Why Catholicism?”
14:18 – Zac’s entry into the Byzantine Church
19:20 – Discovering Church unity: “One mark of the Church is that it will be united”
26:00 – “If Christianity is true, there would only be one Church”
27:05 – Byzantine at Hallow?
28:30 – The Creedal Podcast
34:38 – Recommendations from Zac
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Resources:
➡️ Creedal Catholic - Theology and Culture
➡️ On Ye, The Right, and Antisemitism: What a Week w/Andrew Petiprin - Episode of the Creedal Catholic podcast
➡️ Introduction to Liturgical Services and their Symbolism in the Eastern Churches - Patriarch Gregorios III
➡️ Deification of the Cross - by Father Khaled Anatolios
➡️ The 24 Catholic Churches - just how universal is the Church?
9. Sabbath: The Basis of Culture
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09/03/24 • 32 min
This week Simone Rizkallah and James O’Reilly are joined by Dr. John Cuddeback for episode 9 of our Beyond Rome journey. In this episode, Dr. Cuddeback addresses the meaning of Sunday, the purpose of leisure, and how we can become more fully human through rest on the Lord’s Day.
Dr. Cuddeback is professor of Philosophy at Christendom College, where he has taught for twenty-five years (four of which included teaching our co-host James!). He lectures widely on topics including virtue, fatherhood, friendship, and household, and his professional writings appear in various academic journals and books. His book True Friendship was recently republished by Ignatius Press. Additional writing from Dr. Cuddeback can be found at LifeCraft, his online platform known for applying ancient wisdom to life today.
Be sure to tune into this episode to learn from Dr. Cuddeback about cultivating leisure and how Catholics can tap into their Hebraic and Near Eastern Christian roots when keeping the Lord’s Day holy.
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Show notes:
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3:05 - Keeping the Sabbath
5:25 - What is leisure?
10:03 - "The disease of our age is we are prioritizing what is less important.”
14:30 - How can we as a family focus on Sunday?
16:55 - Stewarding the presence of God
18:56 - Sunday as the fundamental feast day
23:55 - Resolving the epidemic of loneliness
27:40 - "There is a depth we are made for.”
Resources:
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➡️ Dies Domini - Pope St. John Paul II on keeping the Lord’s Day holy
➡️ True Friendship: Where Virtue Becomes Happiness - by Dr. Cuddeback
➡️ LifeCraft - Dr. Cuddeback’s online blog on applying natural wisdom to daily life
➡️ Lord’s Day dinner - host a Lord’s Day dinner with friends and family!
➡️ The 24 Catholic Churches - just how universal is the Church?
09/17/24 • 48 min
This week Simone Rizkallah and James O’Reilly are joined by Dr. Richard Crane for episode 10 of Beyond Rome. In this episode, Dr. Crane shares with us the story of French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain and his journey from ultra-nationalism and antisemitism to becoming one of the lone Catholic voices to speak out publicly against the virulent antisemitism of the Nazis and others during WWII.
Dr. Crane is a professor and chair of the Department of History at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. He teaches courses in modern European history and has published on topics dealing with the Catholic Church in World War II France, the Holocaust, and Catholic-Jewish relations since 1945. In 2006-07, Dr. Crane was the Hoffberger Family Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. While there, he wrote his book Passion of Israel: Jacques Maritain, Catholic Conscience, and the Holocaust, first published in 2010, and republished by Wipf and Stock in 2014. More recently, he has published articles in Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations and The Catholic Historical Review.
Be sure to tune into this episode to hear from Dr. Crane about Jacques Maritain and his importance for combatting antisemitism and promoting friendship between Catholics and Jews today.
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00:00-06:06 - Dr Crane’s background & interest in Catholic-Jewish history
06:06-12:08 - Importance of the role of Jacques Maritain & Nostra Aetate
12:08-16:13 - Jacques & Raissa’s suicide pact and main influences
16:13-21:40 - Jews in revolutionary movements & metaphysics
21:40-25:00 - Charles Maurras & Maritan
25:00-28:15 - Jacques’ cost to obedience to Holy Father
28:15-30:05 - Marraus’s influence & Catholic clergy
30:05-35:51 - Holocaust and impossibility of being both antisemitic and Christian
35:51-39:05 - Summary of Maritan & antisemitism
39:05-43:23 - The Jewish question
43:23-46:16 - The covenantal relationship between Jews and God
46:16-48:02 - 10/7 mention & conclusion
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Resources:
➡️ Passion of Israel by Richard Crane: https://www.amazon.com/Passion-Israel-Maritain-Conscience-Holocaust/dp/1625648081
➡️ Richard Crane on America Magazine: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/08/22/jacques-maritain-nostra-aetate-holocaust-248539
➡️ Richard Crane on Homiletic and Pastoral Review: https://www.hprweb.com/2015/06/witnessing-to-truth/
➡️ "Heart-Rending Ambivalence” by Richard Crane: https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/scjr/article/view/1820/1698
➡️ Nostra Aetate (Declaration on the relation of the Church to non-Christian religions): https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html
5. Returning to Ninevah
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07/10/24 • 30 min
This week Simone Rizkallah and James O’Reilly are joined by Fr. Benedict Kiely, the founder of Nasarean.org, an organization which advocates for and supports persecuted Christian minorities in the Near East.
Fr. Ben is a Catholic priest, incardinated in the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. Born in London, and ordained in Canterbury, England in 1994, he has spent most of his priestly ministry in the United States. In the summer of 2014, Father Ben perceived a call to devote his entire priestly ministry to aid and advocacy for persecuted Christians, especially in the Near East. Founding Nasarean.org, a charity based in Stowe, Vermont and with the permission and support of his Ordinary, Father Ben divides his time between the US, UK and the Near East, speaking, preaching and writing, trying to focus attention on the plight of persecuted Christians around the world. He has visited war-torn Iraq on multiple occasions since 2015, and has visited Syria, Lebanon, and Armenia where Nasarean is now supporting a number of family businesses. Fr. Ben is also the chaplain of Philos Catholic.
Be sure to tune into this episode to learn more from Fr. Ben's work and how Catholics tap into their Hebraic and Near Eastern Christian roots.
Show notes:
1:20– No Mass in Mosul – Ninevah – What can we do?
3:51 – A call to aid and advocacy – Nasarean.org
8:14 – “A call within a call”
14:23 – Does the Western Church care?
16:00 – The Near East as the root of our faith- The Cradle of Christianity
19:55 - The Christian vocation: “I am Jesus and you are persecuting Me”
26:16 – What is Nasarean?
Resources:
Nasarean.org - Learn more about Fr. Benedict Kiely's work
Project Jonah - Support Near Eastern Christians
Icon Project - Pray for our persecuted brothers and sisters in the Near East
The 24 Catholic Churches - Learn about how universal the Catholic Church
6. St. Charbel: Wonderworker of the East
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07/24/24 • 33 min
This week Simone Rizkallah and James O’Reilly are joined by Mother Marla Marie and Sr. Therese Maria to speak about the “Wonderworker of the East,” St. Charbel, a Lebanese priest and monk whose feast day the Roman Catholic Church celebrates on July 24!
Mother Marla Marie & Sr. Therese Maria are religious sisters in the Maronite Servants of Christ the Light. Their community was founded in the USA by Bishop Gregory Mansour in 2008 to serve the pastoral and spiritual needs of our Maronite Catholic parishes. The sisters are spiritual mothers in the Eparchy of Saint Maron serving in different retreats/missions and ministries for children, youth, young adults, families and the sick and home bound.
Be sure to tune into this episode to learn more about the Maronite Servants of Christ the Light and how Catholics tap into their Hebraic and Near Eastern Christian roots.
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1:50 – Maronite sisters - “radiating Christ’s life”
5:23 – St. Charbel – Why should Catholics be interested in this saint?- Charbel: “God’s good news”
10:03 – Miracle of St. Charbel
15:35 – The Virtues of Charbel – “Rooted and grounded in prayer”
18:28 – Detachment
20:40 - “The way he died was the way he lived”
24:33 – Devotions to St. Charbel
28:25 – The Eparchy
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➡️ Learn more about the Maronite Sisters: maroniteservants.org
➡️ Follow the Maronite Sisters on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube: @MaroniteServants
➡️ Saint Sharbel Spiritual Life Center in Pittsburgh: https://saintsharbelcenter.org/
➡️ What are the 24 Catholic Churches?
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How many episodes does Beyond Rome have?
Beyond Rome currently has 11 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Christianity, Religion & Spirituality and Podcasts.
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The episode title '2. The Prophetic Imagination' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on Beyond Rome is 34 minutes.
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Episodes of Beyond Rome are typically released every 14 days, 9 hours.
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The first episode of Beyond Rome was released on Apr 18, 2024.
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