Happy New Year!

We begin this week's episode with a sound seeing tour of some of the very interesting artwork that can be found in the Plaza, one of the most popular tourist sites in Kansas City as well as a brief look at the relationship between art and Catholicism.

You can find more photos from the plaza at my Flickr site.

You can find out more about Kansas City's Country Club Plaza at these sites:

Official Site of the Country Club Plaza
Palmer's Walking Guide to the Country Club Plaza


You can also find out more in the book The Plaza:First and Always by William S. Worley.

After the tour, we take a look at New Year's Day, why we celebrate it on January 1st and what it has to do with the Catholic Church.


Music heard on this week's podcast from the Podsafe Music Network:

New Year's Resolution by Chris Ayer
Auld Lang Syne by Friction Bailey

Podcast promos heard in this podcast:
Catholic Rockers
Voice of Mary

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Happy New Year!

Christmas Stretching Time

On this week's episode we have an interview with Damian Lenshek of Project Dominic. Project Dominic is a new organizations established to help Catholics understand their faith and to present that faith to the wider world. Join us as we hear about how Project Dominic is spreading the Gospel to a world in need. You can find a copy of The Bible Versus The Catechism at Lulu and Amazon.

On the day before Christmas, we take a look at the spirituality and religious imagery of the icon of the Nativity and how it can help us to make the Christmas season more meaningful.

Our song is Come On Ring Those Bells by Phantasmic (Featuring Tess Wiley and Her Orchestra).

Thanks to all the listeners and may God give you his bountiful blessings this Christmas season.

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Links to other things mentioned this week:

Catholic Mormon Podcast
Bible In A Year Podcast
catholicpodcasts.info
Disciples With Microphones
Mission Hope
From Advent to the Presentation Podcast

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Christmas Stretching Time

Evangelizing the 21st Century

This week we look at proclaiming the faith in the Modern World. We will hear from Joe Campo of Grassroots Films about their work promoting the Gospel and answering Pope John Paul II's call to use film in better way.

Grassroots has produced really good work and showed the vast possibilities of modern media in contemporary evangelization. I especially encourage you to take a look at "Fishers of Men" and "God In The Streets". You can find more at Grassroots Films and Grassroots Renewal.

Our song is O Holy Night sung by Strange Cloud at Podsafe Music.

We also hear the story of St. Francis and the Christmas Creche.

Podcasts mentioned in this episode:
iPadre
Daily Breakfast
From Advent to the Presentation

Other links mentioned to this week's episode
catholicpodcasts.info - Catholic Podcast Directory
Disciples With Microphones - Visit the Forums section to talk about this week's episode
Mission Hope

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Let The Fire Fall

This week's episode consists of an extensive interview with Fr. Michael Scanlon TOR, Chancellor of Franciscan University, about the history and spirituality of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal.

Here are some links to some of the things he mentions:

Fr. Michael's book on the history of the Charismatic Renewal - Let The Fire Fall and his other books are available.
You can get Patti Mansfield's book on the beginnings of the Charismatic Renewal that Fr. Michael recommended at Amazon.
Fr. George Montague's book, The Holy Spirit:Growth of a Biblical Tradition is widely used by the Charismatic Renewal.
George Kosicki has also written several books on the Holy Spirit.

The Charisma article about Pope John Paul II and the Charismatic Renewal.
The group FIRE [Faith, Intercession, Repentance, Evangelization]

Life in the Spirit and Born in the Spirit Weekends and Seminars are excellent ways to seek greater devotion to the Holy Spirit.

A Wikipedia article on the Catholic Charismatic Renewal is available and the website of the Catholic Charismatic Center also has information on the Renewal.

OTHER ITEMS IN THE PODCAST

Catholic Podcast information at Catholic Podcasts.

O Come All Ye Faithful was sung by Uncle Seth and is available at Podsafe Music.

Check out the podcasts I mentioned - iPadre and The Secrets of Narnia

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Catholic Podcasts Update

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I hope to add some more to the site, but all of the Catholic podcasts listed in the links section of this site have been moved to the new site with even more podcasts noted as well as descriptions and other information. The main purpose of catholicpodcasts.info will be to help others find podcasts of interest and keep people up to date with developments in Catholic podcasting.

Comments on the Tenth Episode

The tenth episode of Catholic:Under The Hood has been mentioned by First Things in response to my statements on the relationship of faith and the Internet. I have decided to put forward my own statement up on the Friary Notes site since I think that it lends itself more easily to comments than a mention in a future podcast. Feel free to read my words and comment if you wish.

Catholic Podcasts

I am in the process of moving my list of Catholic podcasts to another website and expanding upon it with better descriptions so as to make it easier for people to find podcasts of interest. The new site will be Catholic Podcasts. So, if you want to update links, go ahead. I'll warn everybody before I take down the list of Catholic podcasts off of this page and replace it with a permanent link to the new site.

Stories, St. Nicholas and Song

In this week's episode we have a great interview with Fr. Brian Cavanaugh, TOR about the importance of story in our lives and in the spread of the Gospel. Fr. Brian has published several books with the stories he has collected called The Sower Seeds and a book on the Miracle of the Poinsettia. He runs a website that also includes stories and words of inspiration called Apple Seeds. Check them out!

Fr. Brian also mentioned a book by Fr. William Bausch called "Storytelling: Imagination and Faith" which can be purchased at Amazon.com.

The other books that Fr. Brian mentions - Chicken Soup for the Soul, Book of Virtues, The Moral Compass.

Russell W. Conwell's "Acres of Diamonds" can be found at the Temple University site.

Fr. Brian mentioned the National Storytelling Network.

We will also hear about the interesting tradition of the Companions of Saint Nicholas, especially the Krampus who ensures that children behave themselves during the Advent season. For more information about the Krampus check out the Wikipedia article or this other site on Santa's companions.

Music for this week's episode comes from Podsafe Music. Our song is "In The Bleak Midwinter" sung by Allison Crowe.

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Stories, St. Nicholas and Song