Catholic Conversations

Adrian Fonseca

Join Adrian Fonseca on a journey to deepen your understanding of the Catholic Faith through thoughtful discussions and insightful conversations. As a devout Catholic, Adrian is passionate about sharing the richness of Catholic teachings and traditions with his audience. From exploring the history and significance of sacramentals like the Miraculous Medal and the Green Scapular, to tackling profound theological questions about suffering and salvation, each episode delves into a different aspect of Catholicism. Whether you're a lifelong Catholic or simply curious about the faith, you'll find engaging discussions on topics ranging from liturgy and theology to philosophy and devotions. Tune in to Catholic Conversations and let Adrian guide you on a spiritual exploration that will enrich your faith and deepen your relationship with God.

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51: Fraternal Correction: How to Take the Spec Out of Your Brother's Eye

Catholic Conversations

04/27/20 • 70 min

How should we give fraternal correction?
Matthew 18:15-20
First, we are to correct the sinner privately.
Second, if he refuses to listen, we bring one or two others.
Finally, if necessary, the sinner must be brought to the Church. If he refuses even the correction of the Church, and if the matter is serious, he is to be excommunicated – for this is what our Lord means when he tells us, And if he will not hear the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and publican

There ought to be a real fault committed, or a real danger incurred
It must proceed from real charity, that is, from a real love for the person, and a desire for the good of his soul and never out of pride. For pride cometh before the fall, a man who corrects in pride will turn your friend into an enemy. If it comes from anger or hatred you will be evil for your soul.
Correct with meekness recognizing that you yourself are a sinner and in need of salvation. St. Paul, “if a man be overtaken in any fault, you who are spiritual, instruct such an one in the spirit of meekness, considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.” (Gal. 6:1).
There is a time and place for everything. Correcting someone after their mother dies at the funeral as they weep in the arms of the person they are cohabitating with is not the right time or place. In fact you will cause their hearts to be hardened and could lose them all together. | Correcting someone on stage is also a bad idea as it will humiliate them and cause them to defend their sin and hide their sin. | In these situations there is little to no hope of success.
Look to God. Pray that God grants you the words to say and that God softens the heart of your friend that they be converted. Recognize that any good comes from God alone and you are an instrument. Never presume of our own abilities.
it will be often necessary for them both to correct in public, and punish, where there are small hopes of amendment; for the sake of discipline, and for preventing the fall of others, and lest their silence should be interpreted an approbation.

Sources:
ST II-II Q. 33
https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3033.htm
Christian Charity and notion of Fraternal and Brotherly correction http://www.catholicapologetics.info/morality/general/correction.htm#_ftn1
Bishop Schneider’s handbook for correcting errors in life of Church today
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/bishop-schneiders-handbook-for-correcting-errors-in-life-of-church-today
Can a Catholic Criticize the Pope?
https://onepeterfive.com/can-a-catholic-criticize-the-pope/
Am I obliged to correct my brother who sins?
http://newtheologicalmovement.blogspot.com/2011/09/am-i-obliged-to-correct-my-brother-who.html
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46: Communion on the Hand vs on the Tongue

Catholic Conversations

03/16/20 • 160 min

Here is the definitive case for Communion on Tongue.
Today is a longer episode but it is because I go through ever case for communion on the tongue.
Starting with scripture moving on to church Fathers, Councils of the Church, Popes, Saints, Apparitions, Visions, Exorcist, modern Bishops, Priests, and Cardinals.
I also include a brief history of the indult of Communion on the Hand by Pope St. Paul VI.
A few quotes that I did not get to include in the podcast are below.
“There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against it.” - Dietrich Von Hildebrand
“Behind communion-in-the-hand – I wish to repeat and make as plain as I can – is a weakening, a conscious, a deliberate weakening of faith in the Real Presence.” - Father John Hardon
“The fact that only the priest gives Holy Communion with his consecrated hands is an Apostolic Tradition.” - Council of Trent
“Like it or not, therefore, the gesture of communion in the hand now conveys just one idea: I repudiate the dogma of transubstantiation...Communion in the hand is a built-in sacrilege that destroys the faith - and it has worked its evil everywhere.” - Fr. Anthony Cekada
“Communion in the hand is a major spike through which the Lord today is being re-crucified in His Church.” - David Martin, Our Lady’s Workers of Southern California
“Also, I want to state very clearly that the experiment of giving communion in the hand has been a disaster.” - Fr. Benedict Groeschel
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44: Are My Sacrifices Good Enough?

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02/17/20 • 42 min

Here is the question I received. (edited to fit here)
I am trying to do a holy hour and better mortify myself this Lent, but I am already feeling weak and soft about it. Do you ever get like that? As Lent goes on do you find yourself being less strict on yourself? When you fail do you just pick up and start over? I also struggle with wondering if my acts of reparation are good enough and if I am doing everything wholeheartedly? Do you ever question if you were too lenient on yourself in some things?
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
24 Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize? So run that you may obtain. 25 And every one that striveth for the mastery, refraineth himself from all things: and they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible one. 26 I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as one beating the air: 27 But I chastise my body, and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.
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32: Tradition, Family, and Property: Student Action Interview Part 1/2

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11/18/19 • 56 min

TFP Student Action is a great Catholic Organization which fights against the culture and against the spiritual world by devotion to Our Lady and preaching the truth. https://tfpstudentaction.org/
You can see them defending traditional marriage, defending the lives of the unborn, and defending America against Communism here at their YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/tfpstudentaction
From their description on their YouTube channel "Tradition Family Property Student Action promotes and defends moral values and is active on college campuses nationwide. We are pro-life, pro-marriage and pro-God. Join the crusade. Sign up for our weekly alerts. God bless you!"
and from their about us page on their website
"TFP Student Action is a project of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property. Founded in 1973, the American TFP was formed to resist, in the realm of ideas, the liberal, socialist and communist trends of the times and proudly affirm the positive values of tradition, family and private property. The American TFP was inspired by the work of the Brazilian intellectual and man of action Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira.
Why Tradition
Tradition comes from the Latin tradere, which means to transmit. Tradition is the legacy one generation leaves to another, giving it the ability to face the future. In this sense, tradition is synonymous with progress.
Why Family
The family is the basic cell of society in accord with the natural order of things. It gives stability to society and is the ideal climate for the formation of children. Moreover, the family was elevated by Our Lord Jesus Christ who instituted the Sacrament of Matrimony.
Why Property
The Seventh and Tenth Commandments protect property. Private property links an object to a person. The property owner has the right to use, enjoy, and dispose of an object according to his discretion. Property also guarantees the stability of the family. Without it, the individual and family would be at the mercy of the state. Together, these three values, tradition, family and property form a protective wall against Marxist, socialist and communist ideology."
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23: I went to the home of John Paul II!

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09/02/19 • 65 min

I spent 2 weeks in Poland with my school. Me and my friends talk about our trip to Poland.
There is so much information about Poland to cover in such a short time. If you have anything specific you would like us to go in depth on please let me know by emailing me at [email protected]
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16: Introduction to Augustine's Philosophy

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07/15/19 • 70 min

Saint Augustine is one of the earliest Church Fathers and a brilliant philosopher and theologian.
See what influenced this great Saint.

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12: Right To Life

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06/17/19 • 62 min

Interview with Jordan Marget the VP for Horns for Life at University of Texas. We go over the different aspects of the pro-life movement. A look from different perspectives.

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09: How Should Catholics Approach Politics?

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05/27/19 • 61 min

The general rule for Catholic politics is to remember the end of man. Listen here for more information!

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08: The Catholic Faith is Radical

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05/20/19 • 60 min

The Catholic faith is a radical faith. You are called to be a Saint and to make that radical choice. It's all or nothing. I gave this talk at a local church for an evening of prayer before confirmation.

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A Plea for Intolerance! Fulton Sheen Destroys Tolerance

Catholic Conversations

11/21/22 • 29 min

A Plea for Intolerance
Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
"America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance. It is not. It is suffering from tolerance: tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so much overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded. The man who can make up his mind in an orderly way, as a man might make up his bed, is called a bigot; but a man who cannot make up his mind, any more than he can make up for lost time, is called tolerant and broadminded. A bigoted man is one who refuses to accept a reason for anything; a broadminded man is one who will accept anything for a reason—providing it is not a good reason. It is true that there is a demand for precision, exactness, and definiteness, but it is only for precision in scientific measurement, not in logic. The breakdown that has produced this unnatural broadmindedness is mental, not moral. The evidence for this statement is threefold: the tendency to settle issues not by arguments but by words, the unqualified willingness to accept the authority of anyone on the subject of religion, and, lastly, the love of novelty.
Voltaire boasted that if he could find but ten wicked words a day he could crush the “infamy” of Christianity. He found the ten words daily, and even a daily dozen, but he never found an argument, and so the words went the way of all words and the thing, Christianity, survived. Today, no one advances even a poor argument to prove that there is no God, but they are legion who think they have sealed up the heavens when they used the word “anthropomorphism.” This word is just a sample of the catalogue of names which serve as the excuse for those who are too lazy to think. One moment’s reflection would tell them that one can no more get rid of God by calling Him “anthropomorphic” than he can get rid of a sore throat by calling it “streptococci.” As regards the use of the term “anthropomorphism,” I cannot see that its use in theology is less justified than the use in physics of the term “organism,” which the new physicists are so fond of employing. Certain words like “reactionary” or “medieval” are tagged on the Catholic Church and used with that same disrespect with which a man may sneer at a woman’s age. Mothers do not cease to be mothers because their sons grow up, and the Mother Church of the Christian world, which began not in Boston but in Jerusalem, is not to be dispossessed of her glorious title simply because her sons leave home. Some day they may be glad to return and their return will be the truest “homecoming” the world has ever seen.
Not only does the substitution of words for argument betray the existence of this false tolerance, but also the readiness of many minds to accept as an authority in any field an individual who becomes a famous authority in one particular field. The assumption behind journalistic religion is that because a man is clever in inventing automobiles, he is thereby clever in treating the relationship between Buddhism and Christianity; that a professor who is an authority on the mathematical interpretation of atomic phenomena is thereby an authority on the interpretation of marriage; and that am an who knows something about illumination can throw light on the subject of immortality, or perhaps even put out the lights on immortality. There is a limit to the transfer of training, and no one who paints beautiful pictures with his right hand can, in a day and at the suggestion of a reporter, paint an equally good one with his left hand..."
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