The Twelve Steps and the Sacraments, with Scott Weeman

01/16/23 • 37 min

Scott Weeman wants to help empower the body of Christ to heal the body of Christ. His organization, Catholic in Recovery, intentionally brings together the Twelve Steps recovery process with the sacramental life of the Catholic Church. This work is an exercise in grace building on nature, where the holistic healing of mind, body, spirit, relationships, and all the rest that is necessary for those who have suffered from addiction and other compulsive behaviors opens up to the fulfillment that only the Lord can provide.

In addition to founding Catholic in Recovery, Scott is also the author of two books: The Twelve Steps and the Sacraments, and more recently, The Catholic in Recovery Workbook, both published by Ave Maria Press.

He joins me today to talk about this mission to foster communities of healing, helping people to find new life out of addiction, and in Christ with one another.

Follow-up Resources:

Learn more about Catholic in Recovery
The Twelve Steps and the Sacraments by Scott Weeman
The Catholic in Recovery Workbook by Scott Weeman
Stories of Grace, Episode 14: “I am” by Leah Jacob in the Church Life Journal
Learn more about the McGrath Institute for Church Life's Fiat Program for Faith and Mental Health

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He joins me today to talk about this mission to foster communities of healing, helping people to find new life out of addiction, and in Christ with one another.

Follow-up Resources:

Learn more about Catholic in Recovery
The Twelve Steps and the Sacraments by Scott Weeman
The Catholic in Recovery Workbook by Scott Weeman
Stories of Grace, Episode 14: “I am” by Leah Jacob in the Church Life Journal
Learn more about the McGrath Institute for Church Life's Fiat Program for Faith and Mental Health

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Redeeming Vision from Pornography, with Steve Pokorny

In 2011, Steve Pokorny founded Freedom Coaching: a one-to-one mentoring system aimed at helping those with an attraction or compulsion to pornography. This isn’t merely about learning how to avoid pornography; it is even more about reclaiming true health in the mind, the heart, and the body. It is about reclaiming our humanity. Freedom Coaching operates from the conviction that the reason most people with an attachment to pornography don’t experience sustained, lasting freedom is they’ve never learned how to attain healthy forms of intimacy. And attaining healthy forms of intimacy is only possible through receiving a redeemed view of the human body.

In addition to founding and leading Freedom Coaching, Steve is also the author of Redeemed Vision: Setting the Blind Free from the Pornified Culture. He joins me today to not only talk about his work, but especially about the hope for redemption for those for whom new life has seemed otherwise unattainable.

Follow up Resources:

Learn more about Freedom Coaching website at https://freedom-coaching.net/
Redeemed Vision: Setting the Blind Free from the Pornified Culture
Church Life Today episode with Joe Campo on “Being a Father to the Fatherless”
Learn more about the McGrath Institute for Church Life's Fiat Program for Faith and Mental Health

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Reclaiming Catholic Unity, with Charlie Camosy

In his high priestly prayer, Jesus prayed to his Father that “they may all be one.” He meant us, his disciples. As he entered into his passion, Jesus began to offer himself for our unity in him, with him, through him––sharing in his union with the Father by the Holy Spirit. And yet, if we look around the Church today, disunity may be more apparent than unity.

In his new book, acclaimed author and moral theologian Charlie Camosy seeks to help Catholics––especially Catholics in the US––to rediscover our call to unity and to begin engaging with each other in a way that does not cancel out disagreements, but rather allows us to find unity in diversity. The book is One Church: How to Rekindle Trust, Negotiate Difference, and Reclaim Catholic Unity, from Ave Maria Press. Dr. Camosy joins me to talk about the sources of disunion, the pathways toward reunion, and the importance of reclaiming our unity in Christ.

Follow-up Resources:

● One Church: How to Rekindle Trust, Negotiate Difference, and Reclaim Catholic Unity, by Charles C. Camosy

● Discussion Guide for One Church, from Charles C. Camosy and Ave Maria Press

● “This Is What You Get When Politics Invades Our Ecclesial Lives,” by Robert G. Christian III in the Church Life Journal

● “Breaking from the Culture War Mentality,” with Fr. Aaron Wessman on Church Life Today
This episode is supported by NCEA
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