The Simple Truth

3/3/25 - Licensed professional counselor and marriage and family therapist Dr. Sue Baars returns to the show to share her insights on understanding and processing emotions. We'll offer tools to help you release emotional blocks, cultivate inner peace, and embark on a journey of emotional healing. Whether you’re navigating stress, grief, or anxiety, Dr. Baars' practical advice, rooted in Catholic teachings, will help us all to navigate life’s challenges with compassion, hope, and the peace that comes from trusting in God’s love and mercy.

To book a consultation with Dr. Sue Baars, please visit https://www.ihicounseling.com/

3/6/25 - Never before in the life of our nation have more drugs – legal and illegal – been consumed than now, and in such an acute time as this, it is difficult to evaluate which mood-altering drugs carry moral legitimacy. In these pages, author John-Mark Miravalle explores, through a Catholic lens, the phenomenon of chemical mood alteration and reflects on our feelings of pleasure and suffering and how they relate to the rest of our humanity.

John-Mark L. Miravalle is professor of Systematic and Moral theology at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Maryland. He received his doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Regina Apostolorum in Rome. He is the author of three books, including Why God? Why Jesus? Why the Catholic Church? He has debated noted atheists on topics such as God’s existence, same-sex marriage, and theistic morality. He and his wife Jessica have five children.

You can find Dr. Miravalle’s book here: https://sophiainstitute.com/product/how-to-feel-good-and-how-not-to/

4/4/25 - Has anyone else noticed contradictions in JD Vance's public stance on life and values? Our Vice President has publicly encouraged Americans to live by simple truths, yet his support for IVF and unwillingness to protect unborn babies implies a denial of the fundamental right to life from conception. We'll break down how and why Vance's rhetoric around "living by truth" doesn't quite seem to align with his stance on abortion and the beginning of life, raising the question of whether his advocacy for simplicity and consistency is truly grounded in principle.

1/13/25 - Dr. Sue Baars is a licensed professional counselor and marriage and family therapist in Irving, Texas. Sue has worked extensively in the field of counseling since 1986 in both hospital and outpatient settings, and focuses her work on the integration of the Christian anthropology of St. Thomas Aquinas with the treatment of a variety of emotional & spiritual problems, among them Emotional Deprivation Disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and scrupulosity.

Dr. Sue joins us today to discuss the work of her father, Dr. Conrad Baars, and The Baars Institute, the mission of which is to illustrate the beauty of affirmation as the antidote for the syndrome of Emotional Deprivation Disorder, and to provide training and certification to professional therapists, in order that unaffirmed persons everywhere might experience hope and healing.

Learn more about The Baars Institute at https://www.baarsinstitute.com/

To book a consultation with Dr. Sue Baars, please visit https://www.ihicounseling.com/

1/23/25 - Dr. Monica Miller is a nationally known pro-life leader, having been involved in the pro-life movement since 1976. She is the founder of Citizens for a Pro-life Society and author of several articles published on theological subjects and life-issues. Her work has appeared in This Rock, The National Catholic Register, Homiletic and Pastoral Review, The New Oxford Review, Fidelity Magazine, and Crisis Magazine.

Since 1976, Monica Miller has made it her life's work to defend the unborn: she has counseled pregnant women outside abortion clinics and organized pro-life groups and sit-ins at many of those same clinics. She has blocked abortionists' cars, been arrested, and gone to jail. And she has pulled the bodies of thousands of unborn babies out of dumpsters and given them a proper burial. Abandoned: The Untold Stories of the Abortion Wars is the story of those children abandoned by abortion, and it is the story of their courageous defenders. It tells the profound, breathtaking, and often daring journey of one woman, but it is much more than that. It is a history of the Pro-Life movement since Roe vs. Wade, a suspenseful, true-life tale of life and death, an insightful look into the unique and terrible horror of abortion, and a plea for the protection of the most helpless and innocent members of the human family.

Get the book at https://tanbooks.com/products/books/abandoned-the-untold-story-of-the-abortion-wars/?srsltid=AfmBOopEmXMVLMdLxYPsKRwV6E9CgKU-ltBZ85_HyVrWN_iN6zmwOeeb