The Simpleton Podcast | Catholic Culture, Mission, and Politics with Clark Massey and Laura Hehman

Clark sits down with (former A Simple House missionary!) Mother Natalia from Christ the Bridegroom Monastery in this episode of The Simpleton Podcast! Also in this episode: • Mother Natalia's experience at A Simple House • The Eastern and Western Catholic Church • Mother Natalia's advice to those interested in monasticism • How Mother discerned her vocation • Mother's podcast and documentary --- Chapters: 0:00 Intro to Mother Natalia 3:21 What is "Byzantine Catholic"? The Eastern Churches? 15:36 Is Mother Natalia famous? (Podcast, Documentary) 23:44 How Mother discerned her vocation 28:36 The freedom of Mother's religious community 30:45 Mother's experience at A Simple House 34:15 What are "poustinias"? 37:39 The Eastern and Western Church 46:49 Disobedience is damaging 50:35 Monasticism in the East and West 1:00:36 Mother Natalia's advice to those interested in monasticism 1:06:50 Final thoughts --- The Simpleton Podcast is also on Rumble and Odysee. Rumble: rumble.com/user/asimplehouseU Odysee: odysee.com/@asimplehouseU You can also find the audio version of the podcast almost anywhere you stream podcasts (specifically, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RadioPublic, Pocket Casts, Breaker, and Anchor). Just search "The Simpleton Podcast", or go to https://anchor.fm/simpletonpodcast. --- Send us feedback! Email: asimplehouse@gmail.com A Simple House is a Catholic ministry that serves project and Section 8 neighborhoods in southeast Washington, DC and Kansas City, MO. Missionaries strive to meet the material and spiritual needs of the poor while living a simple religious life. Each missionary attends daily Mass, says morning and evening prayer from the Catholic Church's Liturgy of the Hours, and makes time for personal prayer and scripture study. Visit https://www.asimplehouse.org/ to learn more about A Simple House and The Simpleton Podcast. YouTube - A Simple House: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@asimplehouse.catholic⁠ YouTube - A Simple House U (home of The Simpleton Podcast): ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@ASimpleHouseU_2023⁠ Facebook: @asimplehouse | ⁠https://www.facebook.com/@asimplehouse⁠ Instagram: @asimplehouse.catholic | ⁠https://www.instagram.com/asimplehouse.catholic --- Thank you to Ben Friedman from Totus Media for editing and producing The Simpleton Podcast. Totus Media is a video production company based out of Des Moines, Iowa. Totus Media is an Iowa digital media production company, social media management firm, wedding videography business, and digital marketing agency. Visit https://www.totusmedia.co/ to learn more. --- #catholic #podcast #religion

Clark and Laura debate whether therapy is overly recommended today, how Canada isn't as great as everyone thinks, and how flip phones are making a comeback at ASH in this episode of The Simpleton Podcast. Also in this episode: • We need YOUR feedback! • Laura caught a snakehead? • Spirituality & psychology • Victoria Spartz & standing up to inflation • New focus for The Simpleton Podcast? --- Chapters: 0:00 Streaming on all platforms! 0:30 In this episode... 1:35 Laura caught a snakehead? & Clark's fishing expeditions 11:17 Why so much therapy? Abigail Schrier's new book 16:57 Laura's own (positive) experience with therapy 18:10 Spirituality & psychology? 20:02 Changing to flip phones at A Simple House 22:55 Standing up to inflation & Victoria Spartz 30:25 Crazy Canada & free speech 36:42 WE NEED YOUR FEEDBACK! (The Simpleton Podcast future) 40:01 A main goal of A Simple House 47:04 Outro (with an interesting factoid) --- The Simpleton Podcast is also on Rumble and Odysee. Rumble: rumble.com/user/asimplehouseU Odysee: odysee.com/@asimplehouseU You can also find the audio version of the podcast almost anywhere you stream podcasts (specifically, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RadioPublic, Pocket Casts, Breaker, and Anchor). Just search "The Simpleton Podcast", or go to https://anchor.fm/simpletonpodcast. --- Send us feedback! Email: asimplehouse@gmail.com A Simple House is a Catholic ministry that serves project and Section 8 neighborhoods in southeast Washington, DC and Kansas City, MO. Missionaries strive to meet the material and spiritual needs of the poor while living a simple religious life. Each missionary attends daily Mass, says morning and evening prayer from the Catholic Church's Liturgy of the Hours, and makes time for personal prayer and scripture study. Visit https://www.asimplehouse.org/ to learn more about A Simple House and The Simpleton Podcast. YouTube - A Simple House: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@asimplehouse.catholic⁠ YouTube - A Simple House U (home of The Simpleton Podcast): ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@ASimpleHouseU_2023⁠ Facebook: @asimplehouse | ⁠https://www.facebook.com/@asimplehouse⁠ Instagram: @asimplehouse.catholic | ⁠https://www.instagram.com/asimplehouse.catholic --- Thank you to Ben Friedman from Totus Media for editing and producing The Simpleton Podcast. Totus Media is a video production company based out of Des Moines, Iowa. Totus Media is an Iowa digital media production company, social media management firm, wedding videography business, and digital marketing agency. Visit https://www.totusmedia.co/ to learn more. --- #catholic #podcast #religion

Clark and Laura respond to listener comments, discuss religious truth, and love the "Good Times" theme song in this episode of The Simpleton Podcast. Also in this episode: • Listener comments! • "Sinking your boat"? • JPII's Fides et Ratio • "Good Times" Show • Testosterone & "old man flexes" --- Chapters: 0:00 In this episode... 0:33 Listener comments #1: Bo Jackson? 6:59 Listener comments #2: Gun buyback problems 11:07 Listener comments #3: Pope Benedict quote 11:47 Testosterone & old man flexes 12:59 "Sinking your boat": ruining systems through critiques 21:23 The "truth" of religion & JPII's Fides Et Ratio 27:31 The "winning aesthetic" & its implications 33:28 A brief explanation of the Jonestown cult 38:24 Race blindness 40:35 Everybody Hates Chris, Good Times, & spiritual life 49:56 What is the good life? And "Friends" 53:29 Final thoughts --- The Simpleton Podcast is also on YouTube, Rumble and Odysee. YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzD433jevFI&list=PL6J5x7lptOXsnTAQRah4MhOOZwuttVNtb⁠ Rumble: ⁠https://rumble.com/user/asimplehouseU⁠ Odysee: ⁠https://odysee.com/@asimplehouseU⁠ You can also find the audio version of the podcast almost anywhere you stream podcasts (specifically, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RadioPublic, Pocket Casts, Breaker, and Anchor). Just search "The Simpleton Podcast", or go to ⁠https://anchor.fm/simpletonpodcast⁠. --- Send us feedback! Email: asimplehouse@gmail.com A Simple House is a Catholic ministry that serves project and Section 8 neighborhoods in southeast Washington, DC and Kansas City, MO. Missionaries strive to meet the material and spiritual needs of the poor while living a simple religious life. Each missionary attends daily Mass, says morning and evening prayer from the Catholic Church's Liturgy of the Hours, and makes time for personal prayer and scripture study. Visit https://www.asimplehouse.org/ to learn more about A Simple House and The Simpleton Podcast. YouTube - A Simple House: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@asimplehouse.catholic⁠ YouTube - A Simple House U (home of The Simpleton Podcast): ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@ASimpleHouseU_2023⁠ Facebook: @asimplehouse | ⁠https://www.facebook.com/@asimplehouse⁠ Instagram: @asimplehouse.catholic | ⁠https://www.instagram.com/asimplehouse.catholic --- Thank you to Ben Friedman from Totus Media for editing and producing The Simpleton Podcast. Totus Media is a video production company based out of Des Moines, Iowa. Totus Media is an Iowa digital media production company, social media management firm, wedding videography business, and digital marketing agency. Visit https://www.totusmedia.co/ to learn more. --- #catholic #podcast #religion

Clark sits down with Abbot Benedict Neenan, OSB, Abbot of the Benedictine monks of Conception Abbey in Conception, MO, in this episode the Simpleton Podcast. In this episode: • What is Conception Abbey? • Abbot Benedict's spiritual journey • The spiritual "tone" at Conception • Friendship is good or bad in monastic life? • Does the Abbey nurture other religious life? --- Chapters: 0:00 Intro to Abbot Benedict 0:27 What is Conception Abbey? What's the purpose? 4:58 The context of Conception Abbey's founding 7:58 Secularism as a threat 12:56 More context/history for Conception Abbey 15:21 The variety of monks at Conception Abbey 17:56 Monks are the "first" religious order? 25:07 Abbot Benedict's journey to becoming a monk 29:53 Why did so many priests leave the Church in the 70s? 39:37 Abbot's spiritual journey 55:54 How does Abbot curate a spiritual "tone" at the Abbey? 1:04:53 Friendship is good or bad in monastic life? 1:08:56 A turning point in vocations: abuse scandal? 1:22:38 Does the Abbey nurture other religious life? --- Links: To learn more about Conception Abbey and the Benedictine way of life, visit https://www.conceptionabbey.org/ --- The Simpleton Podcast is also on YouTube, Rumble and Odysee. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzD433jevFI&list=PL6J5x7lptOXsnTAQRah4MhOOZwuttVNtb Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/asimplehouseU Odysee: https://odysee.com/@asimplehouseU You can also find the audio version of the podcast almost anywhere you stream podcasts (specifically, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RadioPublic, Pocket Casts, Breaker, and Anchor). Just search "The Simpleton Podcast", or go to https://anchor.fm/simpletonpodcast. --- Send us feedback! Email: asimplehouse@gmail.com A Simple House is a Catholic ministry that serves project and Section 8 neighborhoods in southeast Washington, DC and Kansas City, MO. Missionaries strive to meet the material and spiritual needs of the poor while living a simple religious life. Each missionary attends daily Mass, says morning and evening prayer from the Catholic Church's Liturgy of the Hours, and makes time for personal prayer and scripture study. Visit https://www.asimplehouse.org/ to learn more about A Simple House and The Simpleton Podcast. YouTube - A Simple House: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@asimplehouse.catholic⁠ YouTube - A Simple House U (home of The Simpleton Podcast): ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@ASimpleHouseU_2023⁠ Facebook: @asimplehouse | ⁠https://www.facebook.com/@asimplehouse⁠ Instagram: @asimplehouse.catholic | ⁠https://www.instagram.com/asimplehouse.catholic --- Thank you to Ben Friedman from Totus Media for editing and producing The Simpleton Podcast. Totus Media is a video production company based out of Des Moines, Iowa. Totus Media is an Iowa digital media production company, social media management firm, wedding videography business, and digital marketing agency. Visit https://www.totusmedia.co/ to learn more. --- #catholic #podcast #interview

Laura sits down with Mary Smith and Ryan Haber to discuss Leninthink, Communism, partyness, and more in this episode the Simpleton Podcast. Also in this episode: • How Lenin's ideology influenced our American thinking • Do Americans believe authority is a sham? • Carlos Eire's "Waiting for Snow in Havana" • Party-ness, gaslighting, and Chernobyl • Cancel culture, Who/Whom, oppression, and ideologies --- Links: Article - "Leninthink" by Gary Saul Morson: https://newcriterion.com/issues/2019/10/leninthink Podcast - "Ep. 15: Thinking Like Lenin, with Gary Saul Morson" (from The Moral Imagination Podcast): https://youtu.be/EmQM3TzzZjM?si=-7ucU5hNYvCErYxK --- Chapters: 0:00 Intro to Ryan and Mary 2:09 The three main ideas of Leninthink 3:11 "The right side of history" 14:25 Lenin's view of morality and truth 20:09 How Lenin's ideology influenced our American thinking 31:35 Do Americans believe authority is a sham? 35:16 Carlos Eire's "Waiting for Snow in Havana" & communism 42:19 The loss of morality 45:51 Party-ness, gaslighting, and Chernobyl 59:32 Carlos Eire's experience with communist ideology in Cuba 1:06:07 The Leninism spectrum: misinformation, Covid, Cancel Culture, & Cuba 1:22:43 Who/Whom, Zero Sum Games, oppression, and ideologies 1:37:46 Using history to defend Catholicism? --- The Simpleton Podcast is also on YouTube, Rumble and Odysee. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TButEN2jbVQ&list=PL6J5x7lptOXsnTAQRah4MhOOZwuttVNtb Rumble: rumble.com/user/asimplehouseU Odysee: odysee.com/@asimplehouseU You can also find the audio version of the podcast almost anywhere you stream podcasts (specifically, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RadioPublic, Pocket Casts, Breaker, and Anchor). Just search "The Simpleton Podcast", or go to https://anchor.fm/simpletonpodcast. --- Send us feedback! Email: asimplehouse@gmail.com A Simple House is a Catholic ministry that serves project and Section 8 neighborhoods in southeast Washington, DC and Kansas City, MO. Missionaries strive to meet the material and spiritual needs of the poor while living a simple religious life. Each missionary attends daily Mass, says morning and evening prayer from the Catholic Church's Liturgy of the Hours, and makes time for personal prayer and scripture study. Visit https://www.asimplehouse.org/ to learn more about A Simple House and The Simpleton Podcast. YouTube - A Simple House: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@asimplehouse.catholic⁠ YouTube - A Simple House U (home of The Simpleton Podcast): ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@ASimpleHouseU_2023⁠ Facebook: @asimplehouse | ⁠https://www.facebook.com/@asimplehouse⁠ Instagram: @asimplehouse.catholic | ⁠https://www.instagram.com/asimplehouse.catholic --- Thank you to Ben Friedman from Totus Media for editing and producing The Simpleton Podcast. Totus Media is a video production company based out of Des Moines, Iowa. Totus Media is an Iowa digital media production company, social media management firm, wedding videography business, and digital marketing agency. Visit https://www.totusmedia.co/ to learn more. --- #catholic #podcast #politics

Clark and Laura share opinions they've changed their minds on, including political and social beliefs, in this episode of The Simpleton Podcast. Also in this episode: • Does Taylor Swift listen to TSP? • Bo Jackson's run for president • The Constitution's role in 2023 • Elites & Politics • The "right side of history" --- Chapters: 0:00 Taylor Swift listens to our podcast??? 0:43 Intro to the episode 2:09 Political ideas: money, healthcare, guns, foil, mental health, marijuana, capital gains, second class citizens, economics 24:32 The political landscape today 25:59 The "right side of history"? Ulterior motives 43:10 The Constitution: the most powerful (and abused) document? 46:26 Immigration: our thoughts have changed 55:28 Politics saved by Elites?; what is the "populist hero"? 1:09:07 Why faith carries us through --- The Simpleton Podcast is also on YouTube, Rumble and Odysee. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6J5x7lptOXsnTAQRah4MhOOZwuttVNtb Rumble: rumble.com/user/asimplehouseU Odysee: odysee.com/@asimplehouseU You can also find the audio version of the podcast almost anywhere you stream podcasts (specifically, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RadioPublic, Pocket Casts, Breaker, and Anchor). Just search "The Simpleton Podcast", or go to https://anchor.fm/simpletonpodcast. --- Send us feedback! Email: asimplehouse@gmail.com A Simple House is a Catholic ministry that serves project and Section 8 neighborhoods in southeast Washington, DC and Kansas City, MO. Missionaries strive to meet the material and spiritual needs of the poor while living a simple religious life. Each missionary attends daily Mass, says morning and evening prayer from the Catholic Church's Liturgy of the Hours, and makes time for personal prayer and scripture study. Visit https://www.asimplehouse.org/ to learn more about A Simple House and The Simpleton Podcast. YouTube - A Simple House: https://www.youtube.com/@asimplehouse.catholic YouTube - A Simple House U (home of The Simpleton Podcast): https://www.youtube.com/@ASimpleHouseU_2023 Facebook: @asimplehouse | https://www.facebook.com/@asimplehouse Instagram: @asimplehouse.catholic | https://www.instagram.com/asimplehouse.catholic --- Thank you to Ben Friedman from Totus Media for editing and producing The Simpleton Podcast. Totus Media is a video production company based out of Des Moines, Iowa. Totus Media is an Iowa digital media production company, social media management firm, wedding videography business, and digital marketing agency. Visit https://www.totusmedia.co/ to learn more. --- #catholic #podcast #politics

Clark pulls from his economics education as he and Laura discuss the insane inflation hitting the US economy in this episode of The Simpleton Podcast. Also in this episode: • Why don't more people know about this? • Why is inflation so high? • What if we don't solve this? • How you can prepare --- Chapters: 0:00 Intro and why this follow-up? 0:46 Recapping our previous inflation episode 10:53 The Debt Spiral: the reason for this episode 15:13 What happens if we don't solve this? 27:20 Why people don't know about this 28:50 Solutions to the debt spiral 30:33 What can YOU do to solve this for yourself 40:14 IF THERE'S ONE THING YOU TAKE AWAY FROM THIS: --- The Simpleton Podcast is also on YouTube, Rumble, and Odysee. YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN7pN64Zc-0&list=PL6J5x7lptOXsnTAQRah4MhOOZwuttVNtb⁠ Rumble: rumble.com/user/asimplehouseU Odysee: odysee.com/@asimplehouseU You can also find the audio version of the podcast almost anywhere you stream podcasts (specifically, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RadioPublic, Pocket Casts, Breaker, and Anchor). Just search "The Simpleton Podcast", or go to https://anchor.fm/simpletonpodcast. --- Send us feedback! Email: asimplehouse@gmail.com A Simple House is a Catholic ministry that serves project and Section 8 neighborhoods in southeast Washington, DC and Kansas City, MO. Missionaries strive to meet the material and spiritual needs of the poor while living a simple religious life. Each missionary attends daily Mass, says morning and evening prayer from the Catholic Church's Liturgy of the Hours, and makes time for personal prayer and scripture study. Visit ⁠https://www.asimplehouse.org/⁠ to learn more about A Simple House and The Simpleton Podcast. YouTube - A Simple House: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@asimplehouse.catholic⁠ YouTube - A Simple House U (home of The Simpleton Podcast): ⁠https://youtube.com/@asimplehouseu_2023⁠ Facebook: @asimplehouse Instagram: @asimplehouse.catholic --- Thank you to Ben Friedman from Totus Media for editing and producing The Simpleton Podcast. Totus Media is a video production company based out of Des Moines, Iowa. Totus Media is an Iowa digital media production company, social media management firm, wedding videography business, and digital marketing agency. Visit ⁠https://www.totusmedia.co/⁠ to learn more. --- #catholic #podcast #inflation

Clark sits down with Bishop James V. Johnston, Jr., Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, in this episode of The Simpleton Podcast! Also in this episode: • Do bishops receive training? • How do bishops handle complaints? • What are the limits of what a bishop can and can't do? • What's a bishop's role in politics? • What is Bishop Johnston most focused on? --- Chapters: 0:00 Introduction to the episode 2:02 Welcome, Bishop Johnston! 2:14 Bishop's background and becoming a bishop 4:50 When Bishop Johnston was a priest 6:06 Do bishops ever turn down the role? 8:00 Do bishops receive training? 12:02 How are new bishops selected? 17:24 How do you keep the Church together? How do you move it forward? 22:15 What does a bishop actually do? 25:48 What causes the bishop the most stress? 28:17 What's a bishop's role in politics? 32:45 Does the bishop oversee movements, or initiate them? 44:36 Do the laity need permission for movements, or should they take initiative? 49:58 What does it mean to be an "officially Catholic" organization? 52:01 How do bishops correct/discipline? 55:46 What is a bishop's relation to canon law? 59:18 What are the limits of what a bishop can and can't do? 1:03:38 What's the importance of canon law? 1:05:11 How does a bishop handle complaints, constant communication, etc.? 1:12:02 Do bishops focus on fostering community? --- The Simpleton Podcast is also on YouTube, Rumble, and Odysee. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4UGyl6F6xU&list=PL6J5x7lptOXsnTAQRah4MhOOZwuttVNtb Rumble: rumble.com/user/asimplehouseU Odysee: odysee.com/@asimplehouseU You can also find the audio version of the podcast almost anywhere you stream podcasts (specifically, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RadioPublic, Pocket Casts, Breaker, and Anchor). Just search "The Simpleton Podcast", or go to https://anchor.fm/simpletonpodcast. --- Send us feedback! Email: asimplehouse@gmail.com A Simple House is a Catholic ministry that serves project and Section 8 neighborhoods in southeast Washington, DC and Kansas City, MO. Missionaries strive to meet the material and spiritual needs of the poor while living a simple religious life. Each missionary attends daily Mass, says morning and evening prayer from the Catholic Church's Liturgy of the Hours, and makes time for personal prayer and scripture study. Visit https://www.asimplehouse.org/ to learn more about A Simple House and The Simpleton Podcast. YouTube - A Simple House: https://www.youtube.com/@asimplehouse.catholic YouTube - A Simple House U (home of The Simpleton Podcast): https://youtube.com/@asimplehouseu_2023 Facebook: @asimplehouse Instagram: @asimplehouse.catholic --- Thank you to Ben Friedman from Totus Media for editing and producing The Simpleton Podcast. Totus Media is a video production company based out of Des Moines, Iowa. Totus Media is an Iowa digital media production company, social media management firm, wedding videography business, and digital marketing agency. Visit https://www.totusmedia.co/ to learn more. --- #catholic #interview #bishop

Mary Smith, M.A., Late Medieval & Early Modern World, joins Laura for this episode of The Simpleton Podcast. Also in this episode: • The problems of revisionist history • Can you write history without bias? • Interpretive keys, master narratives • Is it Catholics vs. the world? • Living, relevant history --- Chapters: 0:00 Intro to Mary and context for this episode 3:33 Signpost of this epiosde 4:25 The Revisionist History of the 80s & 90s 16:18 Historical bias, Catholicism, & the Inquisition 23:23 Theology, history, philosophy, and patriotism 30:47 The paradox of interpretive keys 36:17 What is a more "real" way to look at history? 42:16 Living, relevant history (the Catholic viewpoint) 49:53 What do we owe the people of the past? 58:16 Is it Catholics vs. the world? (a preview of pt. 2) 1:03:12 Outro --- The Simpleton Podcast is also on Rumble and Odysee. Rumble: rumble.com/user/asimplehouseU Odysee: odysee.com/@asimplehouseU You can also find the audio version of the podcast almost anywhere you stream podcasts (specifically, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RadioPublic, Pocket Casts, Breaker, and Anchor). Just search "The Simpleton Podcast", or go to https://anchor.fm/simpletonpodcast. --- Send us feedback! Email: asimplehouse@gmail.com A Simple House is a Catholic ministry that serves project and Section 8 neighborhoods in southeast Washington, DC and Kansas City, MO. Missionaries strive to meet the material and spiritual needs of the poor while living a simple religious life. Each missionary attends daily Mass, says morning and evening prayer from the Catholic Church's Liturgy of the Hours, and makes time for personal prayer and scripture study. Visit https://www.asimplehouse.org/ to learn more about A Simple House and The Simpleton Podcast. YouTube - A Simple House: https://www.youtube.com/@asimplehouse.catholic YouTube - A Simple House U (home of The Simpleton Podcast): https://youtube.com/@asimplehouseu_2023 Facebook: @asimplehouse Instagram: @asimplehouse.catholic --- Thank you to Ben Friedman from Totus Media for editing and producing The Simpleton Podcast. Totus Media is a video production company based out of Des Moines, Iowa. Totus Media is an Iowa digital media production company, social media management firm, wedding videography business, and digital marketing agency. Visit https://www.totusmedia.co/ to learn more. --- #catholic #interview #history

Corey Huber, Founder of the Mater Ecclesiae Fund for Vocations, hops on his landline for a conversation with Clark in this episode of The Simpleton Podcast. Also in this episode: • The story of the Fund for Vocations • Corey's ministry, in his own words • Rural life, doomers, and hopers • Higher education is a mess • How religious vocations and funding works --- To learn more about the Mater Ecclesiae Fund for Vocations, also known simply as the Fund for Vocations, go to https://fundforvocations.org/ --- Chapters: 0:00 Intro to Corey Huber 0:31 Corey's Ministry "The Mater Ecclesiae Fund for Vocations" 8:36 The story of how the Fund for Vocations began 16:06 How many people does FFV support? 19:39 Do Bishops/religious orders financially support potential priests/religious? 26:42 Rural life, doomers, and hopers 29:05 The early Internet, rabbit holes, and Wikipedia 34:35 The mess of higher education and what can be done 45:26 Final thoughts --- The Simpleton Podcast is also on YouTube, Rumble, and Odysee. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_sEyHZgtiI&list=PL6J5x7lptOXsnTAQRah4MhOOZwuttVNtb Rumble: rumble.com/user/asimplehouseU Odysee: odysee.com/@asimplehouseU You can also find the audio version of the podcast almost anywhere you stream podcasts (specifically, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RadioPublic, Pocket Casts, Breaker, and Anchor). Just search "The Simpleton Podcast", or go to https://anchor.fm/simpletonpodcast. --- Send us feedback! Email: asimplehouse@gmail.com A Simple House is a Catholic ministry that serves project and Section 8 neighborhoods in southeast Washington, DC and Kansas City, MO. Missionaries strive to meet the material and spiritual needs of the poor while living a simple religious life. Each missionary attends daily Mass, says morning and evening prayer from the Catholic Church's Liturgy of the Hours, and makes time for personal prayer and scripture study. Visit https://www.asimplehouse.org/ to learn more about A Simple House and The Simpleton Podcast. YouTube - A Simple House: https://www.youtube.com/@asimplehouse.catholic YouTube - A Simple House U (home of The Simpleton Podcast): https://youtube.com/@asimplehouseu_2023 Facebook: @asimplehouse Instagram: @asimplehouse.catholic --- Thank you to Ben Friedman from Totus Media for editing and producing The Simpleton Podcast. Totus Media is a video production company based out of Des Moines, Iowa. Totus Media is an Iowa digital media production company, social media management firm, wedding videography business, and digital marketing agency. Visit https://www.totusmedia.co/ to learn more. --- #catholic #interview #vocation