As a student, yes. The last year is just me getting burnt out, recovering, then getting burnt out again and just thank God it’s my last year cause I can’t handle this for much longer
Young father over here trying to cast a vision for my young family. This podcast brought me to tears. Excited to hear about men that our passionate about loving God and their family. Thanks for being inspirational. God bless you two.
@@bbseal6174 Right, and it’s not like you can’t research things and find a good home schooling curriculum to use as a tool to help cover things you don’t know about or might forget to cover.
This was a beautiful episode. Initially, I found John to be a bit off-putting, but his desire for holiness and his friendship with you ultimately shone through. So glad I watched to the end.
Lots of food for thought here. My boys are in catholic school but my wife and I have always known that we have to catechise them primarily. I helped out with the sacramental program when one of our boys was doing his first communion and I could see that most of these kids were already unbelievers, it was truly shocking. Most of the kids at school are never at mass. Their parents are largely unbelievers who are lapsed catholics who still wanted their kids to go to catholic school for.... some reason? I don't know. But this is why our church is dying and is currently in ruins.
Same here - my 8th grader goes to a rich Catholic school and was showing me a picture of his class and pointing to each of them and telling me about them. He came to this one boy and said, “that’s John, he’s the really Catholic kid” and I said “oh so not many are very Catholic?” (Knowing they weren’t) and he said, “no mom - no one is very Catholic when they are 14, even priests”. Ugh I was so bummed by this bc I try so hard. Although my kids do tell me that they are usually the only ones who know the answers to things in religion class! Yay for that. But -yes- my 5th grader tells me about girls that say they’re lesbians and other girls who say their atheists. Sad- my fifth grader also told me that they’re not allowed to talk about homosexuality because one of the kids has a homosexual parent and they don’t want to offend him.
It’s still better to have them in Catholic school. It’s a good education because they can kick out kids that do really bad things. My son’s school had a kid who stabbed a kids hand and the kid was just suspended. This was in grammar school too. I couldn’t afford to put all my kids in Catholic school so I chose to keep the ones in Catholic high school and took out the ones in grammar school. Worst mistake ever.
We can teach them facts. We cannot teach them faith. True story: At 18, two girls started to leave the house one Sunday. “Where are you going?” “To the mall.” “What about Mass?” “We aren’t going to Mass.” Their parents never went to Mass again.
Church hypocrisy, dodgy pope, ostentatious church furnishing, archaic symbolic rituals and the overall luciferian influence are part of the problem too
The dominant culture is heavily impacting all of us. This is the problem. Instead of doubling down people are ‘going with the flow’. I’m sorry to hear your impressions but I completely believe you.
As a father of a St. John Bosco grad, I can testify that Mr. Spann and all the leaders at St. John Bosco Academy are all the “real deal.” God bless them all.
This is so awesome! I wish kids were hearing things like this more. My husband and I are going to be homeschooling our kiddos when they get to schooling age and we’re so excited! We want them to have the education we never had and surround them in upright Catholic teachings. I love that Matt has people of all different walks of life on his show that provide such great perspectives!! I low key want to be on his show just to talk to him because it’s applauded to go full Catholic geek 😂 God bless this show!!
Good for you, Emily! I was homeschooled through high school and got a great education, but most importantly, got a solid grounding in my faith and built strong relationships with my family. My siblings and parents are still my best friends and as adults, we get together as often as we can. I met my wonderful Catholic husband through my sisters. Good relationships with God and family are the biggest indicators of a happy life. I'm homeschooling my 5 kids and we're just enjoying learning about our individual strengths and interests and learning styles.
My grandchildren are homeschooled. We have a strong homeschool community. There’s wonderful curricula available. The kindergartner is reading on the first semester second grade level. He’s learning to add now. The 9 year old has learned about angles, word problems, polygons, and wonderful things from the online program called the beast academy. She’s taking a writing class and excelling in it. The children are calm and well behaved. My daughter and her husband are catholic but not raised in the faith. They are not regular church goers for whatever reason- they feel the church is not strong on the children’s side. That does not have to be your story. The grandchildren do go to various Bible studies in the community in programs designed for kids. All in all the homeschooling has been a wonderful experience. We are avoiding many of the pit falls of the raising children in Sodom , praise God.
I'm a Catholic school teacher, and a lot of this rang pretty true. I loved his lesson about the boys and girls listing non-physical traits they value in the opposite sex! I'm definitely going to incorporate that into my health classes ASAP!
My heart aches for truly Catholic education for our children. We have limited time left for the ones still at home and I fear Our Lord will not be answering this prayer I have always had. Homeschooling is not the best solution for so many of us.
I’m the academic dean and a humanities teacher at Chesterton Academy of the Saint Croix Valley in Stillwater, MN. It’s a dream job. What an awesome Catholic school!
This is such a fantastic conversation. I too am disgruntled by the state of most “Catholic” schools. I have worked in two over my first 3 years of teaching; they were wonderful workplaces and I loved everyone there, but in general, the faith was not alive nor openly proclaimed in the classrooms. Teachers were afraid to or even discouraged from holding conversations about the Church’s stance on “hot button” issues like abortion, and most of the teachers weren’t even practicing Catholics (or even Christian). I am fortunate now to be working in a smaller school that definitely seeks to work in concert with parents to form children in the faith above all else; what John talks about when he says his school focuses primarily on the child’s soul is so rare and beautiful. I also, as a history teacher, loved the discussion about the Civil War. The nuances in the causes and results of the war are rarely discussed like that! Anyway, I’m adding this episode to a playlist so I can come back and listen again. I truly enjoyed every part of it and benefited from many of the questions and responses.
ABSOLUTLY agree with that part of "feminine church" something that was around my head for a while, the only way to solve this is pretty easy, let´s make men get back to the truth
I’m listening to this in snatches as I have time and I’m halfway through. May I say, this is a phenomenal discussion! I started to tear up when Mr. Spann recited the blessing he gives his children at bedtime. And the thing about “father wounds” is so true. I had a “good “ father in many ways but he was often distant and remote. Even though I’m in my 60s, father wounds still pierce my soul if I think about it. I just wanted to be loved (like all of us). Thank you for all this critical information!
I absolutely have the father wounds he's speaking of. It was not so much what was said (now that I'm older I'm glad he protected me from those dangers) but more that there was NO CONTEXT and no moral framework that I could fit those comments into. I think my parents just assumed the conversations didn't need to happen because the framework would just enter my brain by osmosis. But it didn't. All I heard was "I don't trust you, you aren't smart enough to protect yourself, and you need to sit down, shut up, and be a good girl". As a parent I'm trying to have those conversations with my kids so that they know the moral framework that I'm making these decisions from.
That’s super important. It seems like parents are either too lax trying too much to be their kid’s friend and won’t lay down the law and enforce rules and discipline or will just do basically what you summarized of “sit down, shut up, and be good. And I don’t trust you. And I’m paranoid of the world.” The kid will probably be more likely to rebel as they just see lots of restrictions and a lot of reactionary paranoia. Obviously given the world today and the duty to protect the soul of one’s child, those restrictions are justified, but like you’re saying if a parent never actually forms his or her child into knowing good values and how to make good decisions and enables them to have opportunities to do that within some parameters, then the kid winds up just going hog wild, indulging every forbidden bad behavior as soon as he or she has the opportunity. You’re awesome for having that perspective!
Bless you! My parents loved me a whole lot as I grew up, and I knew it intellectually, but frequently, the lack of conversation fed feelings of frustration, inferiority, and defensiveness. I'm still working through some of the consequences as I try to get a handle on adulthood.
I love the discussion about hunting and agriculture. It’s part of my career. I grew up with only partially understanding the agricultural world, but got fully immersed once I began as a Hog Farmer turned Meat Scientist. Working at a meat lab in a university, we hosted several meat animal-focused classes like “Beef 101” or “Poultry 101”. It’s amazing to have seen how engaged everyone was in learning what has to be done to bring food back home.
John Henry is a great role model for young men. He is a wise and strong husband and father. Men who take their Catholic Faith seriously are a force for good.
Many women are looking for these masculine men even though they’’be bought into the toxic masculinity because of todays culture within Catholic schools, it’s groups, conferences etc. I’ve been incredibly blessed(being in such a small country, NZ) with a strong, masculine man who hold faith above anything else. That the souls of our families are number one. Our new born daughter has a role model of the kind of man she should have which I’m so thankful for. Please make a trip here even if you change just one life. It can have a tremendous impact on the future of others that we don’t foresee. You guys are amazing! God bless your work.
To respond to a question asked, community and bubble have always been synonymous. The earliest communities were bubbles of safety against the wilderness. Communities since then have been bubbles of safety and order against human chaos, against marauders, against competing communities. Being a bubble is part of the definition of community, part of its essential function. Any community today that can be called a community is that because it hedges out that which is not of it.
I was married for twenty years, divorced and am now sixty. This is what I wanted before marriage and for our marriage and family. I cannot imagine dating, but I still want this.
Pints with Aquinas is becoming like Joe Rogan. On rogan half the guests are experts in their field or general professionals trying to sell something. The other half are comedian or fighter dipshits who are only their cause their friends with rogan. Both are entertaining. On pints with Aquinas you have priests talking about high theology, and you have this guy talking about goats giving each other piggyback rides. Both are informative.
Thank you for this. God used this episode to reveal my brokenness to me. The conversation was great. I was definitely disappointed that there are no similar schools near me. Of the catholic schools I teach I would not send my daughter to either one. It's Sad better then when I worked in public schools but not by much
Wow! What a beautiful gift this man is to the world! One of your best, Matt! Think about what incredible individuals there would be living today, if they had been blessed every night by their fathers the way he does nightly💕
Like John, I got a history degree and joined the Army and ended up in construction. The degree doesn’t matter as long as you can think and are well-formed.
2:49:22 I think respect and love are deeply intertwined. I grew up knowing I was loved- I heard "I love you" and "I'm proud of you" a lot- but I still came out of it not certain I was taken seriously, that I was regarded as competent. That was not at all what my parents intended, but that uncertainty really complicated our relationship. I wish I'd known how to articulate those feelings a lot earlier, and been able to start a conversation before it had time to fester.
I went to college because I wanted to learn. In philosophy of God (not theology) I ignored one test question of giving the proofs of the existence of God (or prove them, this was over 50 years ago), because I suddenly wondered: how do we know that those five proofs point to the same god? maybe there are 5! so I spent my time proving each proof pointed to the same God. I was at Creighton University, a Jesuit school which at that time did not follow Georgetown's path, and our professors were pleased when we could think. Amazing to find kids who really didn't have the IQ to be in college, open up in philosophy where they were encouraged to think. And I got an A on the exam.
AAAHHHHH! John! it was so nice to see you on here! great and fun chat seeing you and Matt F. many blessings to your family sending hugs to Angie! much love to you both.
I have lost track of how many times I have recommended this channel and for the record I am not Catholic. Also picturing the sweat beads billowing on Matt’s forehead during certain portions was delightful 🤣
I'm 15 and live in the UK, but when I'm older, I'd love to go to Franciscan University, but if anyone knows universities in the UK with good Catholic chaplaincies I'm all ears
I like the vast majority of the PwA videos, but this one is hands-down my favorite. We homeschool our 9, 7, & 4yo (plus have a 1yo). I love homeschooling, but we have been looking at local Catholic schools for several reasons (there are a ton in our area). But it's hard to vet out which ones are going to teach strong values,, or even just support the ones being taught at home.
I would love it if you could interview a head of the Chesterton Academy Network. If you haven’t heard of them, Matt, LOOK INTO IT!!!! Our schools are so similar to the witness of this amazing school. It’s the only place I would send my high schoolers (God willing). Thanks so much for this episode. Education is the front lines of evangelization in many ways. Prayers!
Italian education is way way better than the anglo system (but of course has room for improvement too). You get little johnny (or little Giovanni) in a class with 20 other people, and he's going to spend 5 days a week, 6 hours a day with these people for years. Giovanni learns to make friends with them, and school becomes less of an individual challenge and more of some enviroment where seeing your fellow classmate perform poorly makes you want to help them. Most marks are assigned through oral tests, you need to learn enough about a subject to make a well structured speech you didn't prepare in advance (the questions are broad but you don't know them in advance), and that's a much better way to learn things than to memorize them *just* long enough to then tick the right checkbox out of 4. There's a reason when italian leave for half a year to an anglo country in high school they are consistently amazed by how easy stuff is.
Yeah, Italy is struggling because it’s drifted from its true Catholic self, but it’s still SO deeply Catholic down in its soul. Remember the Anglo (or at least American education system was the product of John Dewey with the aim of basically making good little worker bees for an industrial economy who were just smart enough to do the factory or office work but not smart enough to step outside the matrix.
Being an Italian myself, and being in Quinta Liceo, I can tell you that no, the Italian school system is not good. Why? because the concept is good, but it is so unorganized. If it were organized it would be amazing. Also the lack of actually good teachers does not help tho
I think this video should be required for anyone serving on a school board at a parochial school. Even if you disagree with him, at least as material that requires one to form an opinion and make a response.
I’d love to see an interview with Dr. Timothy O’Donnell, he’s the president of Christendom College in Virginia and I bet he’d have a lot of insight to share about Catholic education and higher education in general! Another prominent Catholic I’d love to see a discussion with is Robert Luddy, he’s an entrepreneur and also the founder of multiple schools, both Catholic and secular. Great show :)
I'm all for men being more masculine and leaning into their role as leader of the family, but that leadership has got to be Christ-like and that really must be stressed. The leadership needs to be self-sacrificing and loving. The worst thing is men who think that whatever they think or say goes, and that a wife needs to just shut up and submit, and sadly there are plenty of women out here in traditional marriages that are having to put up with that in order to keep their families together and have the dad in the home for the kids. It's a plague really, of half-truths in Christian men, where they embrace the role of provider and 'leader', but they forget about the part where they are actually supposed to love their wife, wash her in the word, and strive to be truly holy themselves.
My husband and I have talked about this a lot and he has come to the conclusion that the mantra that helps him overcome his natural selfishness is "Try to outdo each other in acts of service and give without expecting anything back." Even if your spouse takes advantage of it, you are still working out your salvation.
I wonder if I will ever have the honor to meet Mr. Spann. If only I could move to Georgia to attend the hybrid homeschool that Mr. Spann teaches at. If only..... 😌
In all seriousness, the hybrid homeschool environment and the school that I attend which Mr. Spann teaches at was easily the best thing that ever happened to me. It is an understatement to say that I've grown massively in my understanding of the faith and I've learned to think for myself independently as a human person and not conform to the apathetic sadness and unfulfilling dryness that most teenagers my age experience. As a current first hand product of the hybrid homeschool and classical education, there is nothing I would recommend more to a student in the entire world then that.
Lincoln was actually instrumental in the passage of the 13th amendment which actually did free the slaves both in the Union and the rebelling states permanently. Honestly I found most of the dialogue about the civil war misleading. Over all I thought this was a great conversation and very thought provoking!
1 Timothy 6:6-8 Now godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content.
Dungeons and Dragons....can you point us in the direction of a good video or resource on this? Loved this interview! The interviews that talk about community and how to navigate our schools and parishes are so relevant!
With all due respect I disagree with some things said here Years ago a group of Catholic homeschooling families opened a Catholic school. It was a classical curriculum and we not only taught the traditional Catholic faith, but we also insulated the students from the evil of the outside world Fast forward and almost every student from that school has now left the Catholic faith. There are no guarantees to anything We do the best we can and raise our kids in the Catholic faith
This first half of the interview felt like deja vu because I recently watched the Jason Everett interview and Timothy Gordon interview and they really share a lot in common!!
Yes! I'm from Guatemala. I've worked around 6 years in what's probably the best Catholic school in my country and yeah! You can tell that they're VERY concerned on making the best school possible concerning Academics and while they do a great job in providing easy sacraments to the students --- students feel trapped there. They all want to have a pause and enjoy themselves. They're not motivated anymore. And yes it's not ONLY because of some administration or philosophy of education of the school -- is because that's the way of the modern school. I taught Philosophy and I could tell that most of my students were surviving. They were asking me to make it "more fun". Few were really engaged in the topic. The skills are getting poorer and poorer every year bfff!
been teaching since 2009, John is bang on about Catholic education in QLD. Bums on seats compromising Catholic education and values, even liturgy had to be Christian inclusive not Catholic.
Im thinking about driving from germany to france for mass. Let them go there new synodal way, with rainbow flags, women priest and marching with gay pride. I need the Lord and i need holy(set apart from this world) church!
Oh what a great video! You should create a platform/ talks/ or build a bridge for all scatter Practicing Single Catholics! We are a whole bunch and growing! My girlfriends and I are always wandering where are the faithful catholic man? I mean, REAL men, as you are describing in the video.
I’m from northeast Ohio and Mr Matt Fradd you might here this also being your in stubenville but the people of western Pennsylvania says “yenz” and they say it with this authentic accent.
It’s not Kansas City, it’s the Wichita diocese @ 21:31 that has the tithe model for Catholic schools. I went to Wichita Catholic schools K-12 and they are excellent. It should be a model for all dioceses to consider when looking at access to education.
@@bbseal6174 what are you asking? my comment was pretty clear. I wouldn't want to raise girls in this society. There are a lot more pitfalls for them and they're more easily brainwashed
I have boys and a girl. I'd say there are pitfalls on both sides. For boys and men, the sexualized culture and pornography is a massive, massive, massive and deadly trap. And it's insidious in this age. It is everywhere.(girls can fall in this trap too but it's less common) For girls, they are targeted by feminism (and all that comes with it) but on the flip side, boys are targeted by a spirit of emasculation. Girls face the same level of chance of "ruin" as they always have from pre martial sex, but I'm sure we would agree it is equally as morally corrupting to young men. Girls are targeted a lot more by this LMNOP movement - which is a poison in the world. I'd just say that this is not a time for parents to sit on their laurels, no matter the sex of their children. The internet/media/culture is so vastly different than 100y ago. We have far more invading our homes than our forefathers did.
Not fear but great concern is needed in raising all children. For boys: Ponder the man in skirts from PA in the Biden administration and the former swimmer in his dresses and the dictates of government and the sensitivity sessions to brainwash people in the corporate arena. Or ponder the decline in male attendance in Universities and positions of leadership, and the assault no manliness that is rampant everywhere. Ponder the Our Mother prayer among the Protestants or the media power of rabid lesbians and those to hate men everywhere from CNN to the View. Boys will be under constant attack throughout their lives just as much as girls. Boys and men are the key target of the feminists and for a reason. God the Father IS a father and they seek to destroy that image, especially in the priesthood and among all men. The sewage is everywhere.
@@johnjon1823 but men like PA in the biden administration seem to be born with such issues. were as women are far more easily modelled. it's why so many women and girls are lgbtq today.
I will definitely be praying for those kids and all who are in Ukraine. Though I think we should be careful with the words we use. Putins actions are evil and I think we can all agree on that but stating that a person is evil I think leads one to think that they are unforgivable. Just something to think about. And we should be praying for those whose actions are evil that they will come to the lord.
No, I don't agree. Putin's intervention can be placed in the concept of the 'Just War' developed by Thomas Aquinas. People who think Putin is evil are, excuse me to say it, people with biased views. "Who hears but one bell hears but one sound". I was converted to Catholicism while I lived in Moscow. Among the french-catholic community, we had people who have been there in Donbass. We prayed for the orphans and people in Donbass. I knew a parishioner who raised funds to help them, and we received news from there. On multiple occasions, starting from 2014, the Ukrainians forces have bombed civilians with heavy artillery and tanks. Some neo-nazi bands are moving around in this region, some are just people who think it's cool to be neo-nazi, some are committing war crimes. These bands are trained for combat with the help of western advisors. Do I need to precise, that corruption is the norm of functioning in Ukraine. Moreover, the borders of this state are completely artificial. The people living in Crimea and in the east of Ukraine are Russians. Why do Ukrainian officials even think they would feel Ukrainians instead of Russians if you bomb them !? I understand the US and oligarchs like Soros who want to turn Ukraine into a NATO vassal, deploying missiles in range of Moscow, St Petersburg, Kazan etc..., all the western part of Russia where the majority of the Russians live - fine. But I really pity these pro-Ukrainians who do not even have a hint of what's really going on. When you're about to be swallowed by a giant beast, you hit first with strength, and it is rightfully that you do so. Then people are surprised, 'oh look Russia is attacking - how dare they, it's evil'. Putin decided the intervention after the Ukrainians, again, started to bomb civilians in Donbass with tanks in late February. His decision bears heavy responsibility, but it makes sense. Why make a local operation in Donbass, when you're going to suffer new sanctions anyway. If the cost is nearly the same, then let's make a big operation to solve the problem once for all, instead of repeating the cycle that began in 2014. Now many of the Ukrainians officials and the neo-nazi are scared, they seek western aid by all cost because they know if Russia wins, they will be put to trial and will have to answers the evidences. They would rather give weapons to any civilian and let the country be subject to chaos and pillaging in hope of a resolution profitable to them, rather than admitting they are defeated. And this what is happening right now. So yes, portraying the other side as evil is a bad idea. All are human beings, created in the image of God for His glory, but all are also subject to weakness and ignorance. God calls us to a relation, so it makes sense by the virtue of Charity that we learn from one another and share our legitimate fears. So the question now is this, do people prefer the simplicity and comfort of portraying Russia as evil and remain in a western mainstream vision of international relations, or are they ready to challenge their bias and take the narrow path of listening to the concerns and worries of other people in the world. Putin made a very great 1 hour speech to justify the reasons of his intervention. Despite being not exhaustive, listening to it is a good start moving in the way of understanding.
It was just at the very beginning when Matt was reading the priest text messages. I have heard a lot of priest and other religious people talk about how Putin is evil and going to hell. This priest did not say that putin was going to hell but I do think that when stated to people with little faith or none they see it as the same. Just my thoughts from talking to secular people is all.
What do you think about NATO encroachment on Russian borders. What do you think about the Russian speaking portion of Ukraine beleaguered by Nazis and the innocent Russian speakers being killed for the last 10 years? What do you think of our own DOD peppering Ukraine with bio we*pon labs? And Russia is evil???
Can we somehow compile a list of ‘good Catholic’ school options ? My kids were in a fairly secular Catholic school and the education was far superior to public. We started homeschooling thru the pandemic but I still dream of sending them to a Catholic classical school - but we have nothing like this in Providence RI
Love the show and great episode. Agree with 99% of it. One thing I don't think the trad community thinks about though when they push parents to move near the best Catholic schools or to be able to homeschool or move into Catholic communities, is that they also believe the ideal Catholic couple should get married young and have kids quick. It's also the "trad" view to not be career oriented and focus on getting good degrees to make good money, like you all discussed, which I completely agree with. But, if you're getting married young and put your vocation of marriage and parenthood first, unless you come from a well off family, you can't afford to just move to these great Catholic areas, have one parent not work to stay at home and be a great trad SAHM, or send them to the best schools. I got my married at 19 and my husband was 23. I didn't want to put off marriage to wait to be "financially stable" as is a very worldly agenda this is pushed now a days, but now as we have our first child on the way we are no where near to being in the position to be able to do any of these great things you all talked about. And I agree, in an ideal society a woman should be able to be that perfect nurturing mother and wife and stay home to raise their kids, but right now in America most people can't afford to live off one income, and the kids gotta eat. For many, it's give up the pre-marital traditional ideal of getting married young and putting your wife and kids first and not focusing on those degrees to get you a lot of $$ or give up the post-marital traditional idea and do get married young and have lots of babies, but have to have two working parents and maybe have to send them to not the best schools.
On the cellphone matter, you can use a traditional IPhone and limit everything if you have the passcode. My daughter has a new iPhone but all she has is a phone to call family.. everything is is blocked from the settings and can only be changed with a password my wife and I have .
I hate how the doctors of education have dumbed down the classics for kids. They do enjoy thinking. They enjoy learning big words, not the 762 words that are allowed at this grade level in all text books. That is one of the reasons home schooling is better than schools. School has to follow the rules. Home schoolers go the way the kids learn best.
A local jeweler had a billboard with caption "He said yes!" under picture of couple with woman lower than man (head shot but conveys idea the woman is on one knee) and man with hands to cheeks and open mouthed like McCauley Culkin in Home Alone. Made my skin crawl. Wonder how that ad paid off?
In my opinion I would say most people do not have a home schooling option, not really. Additionally, I think care should be taken so as to not be pridefully boastful about the method of education one uses. Besides that, I can say that the Holy Spirit is quite capable of working with and through all kinds of people and all kinds of less than ideal situations, both in the home and educationally. So, while I agree there is a lot of toxic things in many schools, public and private; I would say, realistically, what is most needed is clear catechesis and a good home. Indoctrination into the secular values promulgated in the media and schools and politics and social media do require great care in parenting. Nonetheless MANY will have their children in public schools. If you want to make a difference then THOSE are the children who need catechesis and helps. Realistically they will be in those institutions, we must deal with the reality for MOST.
I wish that were true... because my husband is now disabled, I send my kids to a Catholic school (grades 1, 3, 4) - and I am watching their faith be extinguished. The stories they tell me are heartbreaking. They even defend the faith to classmates - and teachers! It is unrealistic to expect them to not eventually give up and be "normal" when surrounded by "catholic" unbelievers.
@@michelegeis2301 Perhaps the unbelief you notice is a different approach to the faith. Perhaps not. If there are objectionable things, you may wish to take it up with the local people there. Where I went to school we had the sisters and that mattered most along with teaching and catechesis. It was a very far from ideal place. It was an inner city school with quite a few problematic children who may have had quite some worldly experiences at tender ages. As for educational choices, as I mentioned I think home schooling is not possible for many, nor for that matter any Catholic school at all, and yes, such schools may vary quite a bit in Catholic ethos. If your local Catholic choice is actually worse than a public school then choose the lesser evil . I was on the school board of the school where my children went and the Msgr. was quite orthodox. The families of children, far less so. I was shocked at the time to discover that even this grammar school had I think at least half the students from broken or non-formed homes and or living with grandparents, and this parish was truly devout. The Msgr. and the sister in charge made the difference, along with carefully vetted teachers. It is the home that matters most. Not strict but loving, even-handed carefully Catholic, not enforced in a rigid way, but with care. Hard to do. In your situation perhaps parish involvement for the children may be more helpful than the school, or some form of other Catholic social activities. Give them a blessing every night before bed, that they will remember. Besides the angel of good dreams is Raphael, same one for marriage and courtship, and purity and such. God bless your efforts!
My 2 cents as a public HS teacher: the current education model teaches kids to hate learning and destroys joy.
Agree. 8 years as a public school educator.
That's what public school did for me.
I am a Catholic HS teacher and I agree.
@@KappaTheta11 don't call yourself an educator. you're a teacher.
As a student, yes. The last year is just me getting burnt out, recovering, then getting burnt out again and just thank God it’s my last year cause I can’t handle this for much longer
I've been a mom for 27 years, blessed with 11 kids (4 bio and 7 adopted), and I loved every bit of this show. So encouraging. God bless you both!
Young father over here trying to cast a vision for my young family. This podcast brought me to tears. Excited to hear about men that our passionate about loving God and their family. Thanks for being inspirational. God bless you two.
I work in a Catholic high school. I have encountered all of what Mr. Spann's talking about.
@@bbseal6174 especially the idea of sacrificing mission for numbers.
@@bbseal6174 Super fun conversation. Your qualification is being their parent and responsible for their education.
@@bbseal6174 Right, and it’s not like you can’t research things and find a good home schooling curriculum to use as a tool to help cover things you don’t know about or might forget to cover.
This was a beautiful episode. Initially, I found John to be a bit off-putting, but his desire for holiness and his friendship with you ultimately shone through. So glad I watched to the end.
Lots of food for thought here. My boys are in catholic school but my wife and I have always known that we have to catechise them primarily. I helped out with the sacramental program when one of our boys was doing his first communion and I could see that most of these kids were already unbelievers, it was truly shocking. Most of the kids at school are never at mass. Their parents are largely unbelievers who are lapsed catholics who still wanted their kids to go to catholic school for.... some reason? I don't know. But this is why our church is dying and is currently in ruins.
Same here - my 8th grader goes to a rich Catholic school and was showing me a picture of his class and pointing to each of them and telling me about them. He came to this one boy and said, “that’s John, he’s the really Catholic kid” and I said “oh so not many are very Catholic?” (Knowing they weren’t) and he said, “no mom - no one is very Catholic when they are 14, even priests”. Ugh I was so bummed by this bc I try so hard. Although my kids do tell me that they are usually the only ones who know the answers to things in religion class! Yay for that. But -yes- my 5th grader tells me about girls that say they’re lesbians and other girls who say their atheists. Sad- my fifth grader also told me that they’re not allowed to talk about homosexuality because one of the kids has a homosexual parent and they don’t want to offend him.
It’s still better to have them in Catholic school. It’s a good education because they can kick out kids that do really bad things. My son’s school had a kid who stabbed a kids hand and the kid was just suspended. This was in grammar school too. I couldn’t afford to put all my kids in Catholic school so I chose to keep the ones in Catholic high school and took out the ones in grammar school. Worst mistake ever.
We can teach them facts. We cannot teach them faith.
True story: At 18, two girls started to leave the house one Sunday.
“Where are you going?”
“To the mall.”
“What about Mass?”
“We aren’t going to Mass.”
Their parents never went to Mass again.
Church hypocrisy, dodgy pope, ostentatious church furnishing, archaic symbolic rituals and the overall luciferian influence are part of the problem too
The dominant culture is heavily impacting all of us. This is the problem. Instead of doubling down people are ‘going with the flow’. I’m sorry to hear your impressions but I completely believe you.
Mr. Spann is a legend
Yup
so true
As a father of a St. John Bosco grad, I can testify that Mr. Spann and all the leaders at St. John Bosco Academy are all the “real deal.” God bless them all.
agreed jack
@@jamesharrell3303 The reply only took two years💀
God bless this man. We need more teachers like this.
This is so awesome! I wish kids were hearing things like this more. My husband and I are going to be homeschooling our kiddos when they get to schooling age and we’re so excited! We want them to have the education we never had and surround them in upright Catholic teachings. I love that Matt has people of all different walks of life on his show that provide such great perspectives!! I low key want to be on his show just to talk to him because it’s applauded to go full Catholic geek 😂 God bless this show!!
Good for you, Emily! I was homeschooled through high school and got a great education, but most importantly, got a solid grounding in my faith and built strong relationships with my family. My siblings and parents are still my best friends and as adults, we get together as often as we can. I met my wonderful Catholic husband through my sisters. Good relationships with God and family are the biggest indicators of a happy life. I'm homeschooling my 5 kids and we're just enjoying learning about our individual strengths and interests and learning styles.
My grandchildren are homeschooled. We have a strong homeschool community. There’s wonderful curricula available. The kindergartner is reading on the first semester second grade level. He’s learning to add now. The 9 year old has learned about angles, word problems, polygons, and wonderful things from the online program called the beast academy. She’s taking a writing class and excelling in it. The children are calm and well behaved. My daughter and her husband are catholic but not raised in the faith. They are not regular church goers for whatever reason- they feel the church is not strong on the children’s side. That does not have to be your story. The grandchildren do go to various Bible studies in the community in programs designed for kids. All in all the homeschooling has been a wonderful experience. We are avoiding many of the pit falls of the raising children in Sodom , praise God.
I'm a Catholic school teacher, and a lot of this rang pretty true. I loved his lesson about the boys and girls listing non-physical traits they value in the opposite sex! I'm definitely going to incorporate that into my health classes ASAP!
Way to go Mr Spann! theology of the Body was the best class!!
The Italian Stallion!
Wait a minute, I know this guy!
My heart aches for truly Catholic education for our children. We have limited time left for the ones still at home and I fear Our Lord will not be answering this prayer I have always had. Homeschooling is not the best solution for so many of us.
I’m sorry to hear that. Fir our family -so far- it has worked out well.
You should have Dale Ahlquist on, he founded Chesterton academy, great Catholic
Yes!!
I have a friend who goes to the very first founded Chesterton Academy!
@@jeremydavie4484 I go there currently! What’s his or her name?
@@jeremydavie4484 yeah I’m senior this year, I know Jon pretty well!
I’m the academic dean and a humanities teacher at Chesterton Academy of the Saint Croix Valley in Stillwater, MN. It’s a dream job. What an awesome Catholic school!
This is such a fantastic conversation. I too am disgruntled by the state of most “Catholic” schools. I have worked in two over my first 3 years of teaching; they were wonderful workplaces and I loved everyone there, but in general, the faith was not alive nor openly proclaimed in the classrooms. Teachers were afraid to or even discouraged from holding conversations about the Church’s stance on “hot button” issues like abortion, and most of the teachers weren’t even practicing Catholics (or even Christian). I am fortunate now to be working in a smaller school that definitely seeks to work in concert with parents to form children in the faith above all else; what John talks about when he says his school focuses primarily on the child’s soul is so rare and beautiful. I also, as a history teacher, loved the discussion about the Civil War. The nuances in the causes and results of the war are rarely discussed like that! Anyway, I’m adding this episode to a playlist so I can come back and listen again. I truly enjoyed every part of it and benefited from many of the questions and responses.
ABSOLUTLY agree with that part of "feminine church" something that was around my head for a while, the only way to solve this is pretty easy, let´s make men get back to the truth
“When men of God arise, good things happen.” -Timothy Flanders
I’m listening to this in snatches as I have time and I’m halfway through. May I say, this is a phenomenal discussion! I started to tear up when Mr. Spann recited the blessing he gives his children at bedtime. And the thing about “father wounds” is so true. I had a “good “ father in many ways but he was often distant and remote. Even though I’m in my 60s, father wounds still pierce my soul if I think about it. I just wanted to be loved (like all of us). Thank you for all this critical information!
This might be my favorite guest you've ever had on here!
I absolutely have the father wounds he's speaking of. It was not so much what was said (now that I'm older I'm glad he protected me from those dangers) but more that there was NO CONTEXT and no moral framework that I could fit those comments into. I think my parents just assumed the conversations didn't need to happen because the framework would just enter my brain by osmosis. But it didn't. All I heard was "I don't trust you, you aren't smart enough to protect yourself, and you need to sit down, shut up, and be a good girl". As a parent I'm trying to have those conversations with my kids so that they know the moral framework that I'm making these decisions from.
That’s super important. It seems like parents are either too lax trying too much to be their kid’s friend and won’t lay down the law and enforce rules and discipline or will just do basically what you summarized of “sit down, shut up, and be good. And I don’t trust you. And I’m paranoid of the world.”
The kid will probably be more likely to rebel as they just see lots of restrictions and a lot of reactionary paranoia. Obviously given the world today and the duty to protect the soul of one’s child, those restrictions are justified, but like you’re saying if a parent never actually forms his or her child into knowing good values and how to make good decisions and enables them to have opportunities to do that within some parameters, then the kid winds up just going hog wild, indulging every forbidden bad behavior as soon as he or she has the opportunity.
You’re awesome for having that perspective!
Bless you! My parents loved me a whole lot as I grew up, and I knew it intellectually, but frequently, the lack of conversation fed feelings of frustration, inferiority, and defensiveness. I'm still working through some of the consequences as I try to get a handle on adulthood.
I love the discussion about hunting and agriculture. It’s part of my career. I grew up with only partially understanding the agricultural world, but got fully immersed once I began as a Hog Farmer turned Meat Scientist. Working at a meat lab in a university, we hosted several meat animal-focused classes like “Beef 101” or “Poultry 101”. It’s amazing to have seen how engaged everyone was in learning what has to be done to bring food back home.
John Henry is a great role model for young men. He is a wise and strong husband and father. Men who take their Catholic Faith seriously are a force for good.
Many women are looking for these masculine men even though they’’be bought into the toxic masculinity because of todays culture within Catholic schools, it’s groups, conferences etc.
I’ve been incredibly blessed(being in such a small country, NZ) with a strong, masculine man who hold faith above anything else. That the souls of our families are number one. Our new born daughter has a role model of the kind of man she should have which I’m so thankful for.
Please make a trip here even if you change just one life. It can have a tremendous impact on the future of others that we don’t foresee.
You guys are amazing! God bless your work.
I'll pray an extra rosary for Fr. Jason.
To respond to a question asked, community and bubble have always been synonymous. The earliest communities were bubbles of safety against the wilderness. Communities since then have been bubbles of safety and order against human chaos, against marauders, against competing communities. Being a bubble is part of the definition of community, part of its essential function. Any community today that can be called a community is that because it hedges out that which is not of it.
Great episode! Great guest! Have Spann back! He has a quality
I was married for twenty years, divorced and am now sixty.
This is what I wanted before marriage and for our marriage and family.
I cannot imagine dating, but I still want this.
Pints with Aquinas a beautiful blessing and love this video!
Pints with Aquinas is becoming like Joe Rogan.
On rogan half the guests are experts in their field or general professionals trying to sell something. The other half are comedian or fighter dipshits who are only their cause their friends with rogan. Both are entertaining.
On pints with Aquinas you have priests talking about high theology, and you have this guy talking about goats giving each other piggyback rides. Both are informative.
Can’t tell if that’s a criticism or a compliment haha
And....still thinking what your point actually is 😂
Bahaha
The anti-vape message was THE BEST! So funny! 😂 Thank you guys for sharing such an enriching conversation with the world!
Thank you for this. God used this episode to reveal my brokenness to me. The conversation was great. I was definitely disappointed that there are no similar schools near me. Of the catholic schools I teach I would not send my daughter to either one. It's Sad better then when I worked in public schools but not by much
This guy is awesome. Would love to see more of him
I wanted this interview to never end. JHS my new favorite person.
Wow! What a beautiful gift this man is to the world! One of your best, Matt! Think about what incredible individuals there would be living today, if they had been blessed every night by their fathers the way he does nightly💕
What a charming guy! This was awesome! Loved every minute. God Bless you two
Aww I liked the original title. RAISING A CHILD IN SODOM.
I think Chesterton Academy would be great for those wanting an authentic Catholic high school experience!
Agreed! My siblings love it there
Like John, I got a history degree and joined the Army and ended up in construction. The degree doesn’t matter as long as you can think and are well-formed.
mr.spann is awesome
2:49:22
I think respect and love are deeply intertwined. I grew up knowing I was loved- I heard "I love you" and "I'm proud of you" a lot- but I still came out of it not certain I was taken seriously, that I was regarded as competent. That was not at all what my parents intended, but that uncertainty really complicated our relationship. I wish I'd known how to articulate those feelings a lot earlier, and been able to start a conversation before it had time to fester.
I went to college because I wanted to learn. In philosophy of God (not theology) I ignored one test question of giving the proofs of the existence of God (or prove them, this was over 50 years ago), because I suddenly wondered: how do we know that those five proofs point to the same god? maybe there are 5! so I spent my time proving each proof pointed to the same God. I was at Creighton University, a Jesuit school which at that time did not follow Georgetown's path, and our professors were pleased when we could think. Amazing to find kids who really didn't have the IQ to be in college, open up in philosophy where they were encouraged to think. And I got an A on the exam.
It's the Diocese of Wichita, KS that has the free tuition for those who tithe model.
Dang, I live there and I didn’t know that!
AAAHHHHH! John! it was so nice to see you on here! great and fun chat seeing you and Matt F. many blessings to your family sending hugs to Angie! much love to you both.
I am a Catholic educator and love what I do.
God bless!
I have lost track of how many times I have recommended this channel and for the record I am not Catholic. Also picturing the sweat beads billowing on Matt’s forehead during certain portions was delightful 🤣
I'm 15 and live in the UK, but when I'm older, I'd love to go to Franciscan University, but if anyone knows universities in the UK with good Catholic chaplaincies I'm all ears
#UniversityofBristol has quite a sizable Catholic chaplaincy but I've not been there since the early 90s, can't speak how it is nowadays ..
It is SO refreshing to watch men not trying not-to-be-men!
I like the vast majority of the PwA videos, but this one is hands-down my favorite. We homeschool our 9, 7, & 4yo (plus have a 1yo). I love homeschooling, but we have been looking at local Catholic schools for several reasons (there are a ton in our area). But it's hard to vet out which ones are going to teach strong values,, or even just support the ones being taught at home.
Man I want to hang out with this guy. And can he come be principal at my kids Catholic school.
Great episode!
Oh my, he is so funny. Ad is halerious...love listening to unique perspective
This is you best video!!!! I listened few times!!!
Causa Sui
Children need to know these truths
i wish I had listened to this conversation before we started our tribe. Bravo!
Oh well, 45 years too late.
Great frank speaker
Amazing
Fantastic episode! 👌🏻
Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula California and Northridge Massachusetts
BEST COLLEGE EVER !
so true
I live close to Santa Paula!! I had no idea. Grandchildren are home schooled. I will let my daughter know. Thank you!
I would love it if you could interview a head of the Chesterton Academy Network. If you haven’t heard of them, Matt, LOOK INTO IT!!!! Our schools are so similar to the witness of this amazing school. It’s the only place I would send my high schoolers (God willing).
Thanks so much for this episode. Education is the front lines of evangelization in many ways. Prayers!
Italian education is way way better than the anglo system (but of course has room for improvement too).
You get little johnny (or little Giovanni) in a class with 20 other people, and he's going to spend 5 days a week, 6 hours a day with these people for years. Giovanni learns to make friends with them, and school becomes less of an individual challenge and more of some enviroment where seeing your fellow classmate perform poorly makes you want to help them. Most marks are assigned through oral tests, you need to learn enough about a subject to make a well structured speech you didn't prepare in advance (the questions are broad but you don't know them in advance), and that's a much better way to learn things than to memorize them *just* long enough to then tick the right checkbox out of 4. There's a reason when italian leave for half a year to an anglo country in high school they are consistently amazed by how easy stuff is.
Yeah, Italy is struggling because it’s drifted from its true Catholic self, but it’s still SO deeply Catholic down in its soul.
Remember the Anglo (or at least American education system was the product of John Dewey with the aim of basically making good little worker bees for an industrial economy who were just smart enough to do the factory or office work but not smart enough to step outside the matrix.
Being an Italian myself, and being in Quinta Liceo, I can tell you that no, the Italian school system is not good. Why? because the concept is good, but it is so unorganized. If it were organized it would be amazing. Also the lack of actually good teachers does not help tho
I think this video should be required for anyone serving on a school board at a parochial school. Even if you disagree with him, at least as material that requires one to form an opinion and make a response.
I’d love to see an interview with Dr. Timothy O’Donnell, he’s the president of Christendom College in Virginia and I bet he’d have a lot of insight to share about Catholic education and higher education in general!
Another prominent Catholic I’d love to see a discussion with is Robert Luddy, he’s an entrepreneur and also the founder of multiple schools, both Catholic and secular. Great show :)
Yes!! Christendom College is amazing!
I'm all for men being more masculine and leaning into their role as leader of the family, but that leadership has got to be Christ-like and that really must be stressed. The leadership needs to be self-sacrificing and loving. The worst thing is men who think that whatever they think or say goes, and that a wife needs to just shut up and submit, and sadly there are plenty of women out here in traditional marriages that are having to put up with that in order to keep their families together and have the dad in the home for the kids. It's a plague really, of half-truths in Christian men, where they embrace the role of provider and 'leader', but they forget about the part where they are actually supposed to love their wife, wash her in the word, and strive to be truly holy themselves.
So very true. Nothing Christ-like in a man who thinks being a dictator makes him a good father, husband and christian.
My husband and I have talked about this a lot and he has come to the conclusion that the mantra that helps him overcome his natural selfishness is "Try to outdo each other in acts of service and give without expecting anything back." Even if your spouse takes advantage of it, you are still working out your salvation.
Even on a Christian show we can’t get away from this feminist garbage.
Men do not need women to tell them how to carry themselves.
I wonder if I will ever have the honor to meet Mr. Spann. If only I could move to Georgia to attend the hybrid homeschool that Mr. Spann teaches at. If only..... 😌
In all seriousness, the hybrid homeschool environment and the school that I attend which Mr. Spann teaches at was easily the best thing that ever happened to me. It is an understatement to say that I've grown massively in my understanding of the faith and I've learned to think for myself independently as a human person and not conform to the apathetic sadness and unfulfilling dryness that most teenagers my age experience. As a current first hand product of the hybrid homeschool and classical education, there is nothing I would recommend more to a student in the entire world then that.
@@soggyfries3096 so true
Lincoln was actually instrumental in the passage of the 13th amendment which actually did free the slaves both in the Union and the rebelling states permanently. Honestly I found most of the dialogue about the civil war misleading. Over all I thought this was a great conversation and very thought provoking!
1 Timothy 6:6-8 Now godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content.
Dungeons and Dragons....can you point us in the direction of a good video or resource on this?
Loved this interview! The interviews that talk about community and how to navigate our schools and parishes are so relevant!
With all due respect I disagree with some things said here
Years ago a group of Catholic homeschooling families opened a Catholic school. It was a classical curriculum and we not only taught the traditional Catholic faith, but we also insulated the students from the evil of the outside world
Fast forward and almost every student from that school has now left the Catholic faith.
There are no guarantees to anything
We do the best we can and raise our kids in the Catholic faith
This first half of the interview felt like deja vu because I recently watched the Jason Everett interview and Timothy Gordon interview and they really share a lot in common!!
Thanks!
Yes! I'm from Guatemala. I've worked around 6 years in what's probably the best Catholic school in my country and yeah! You can tell that they're VERY concerned on making the best school possible concerning Academics and while they do a great job in providing easy sacraments to the students --- students feel trapped there. They all want to have a pause and enjoy themselves. They're not motivated anymore. And yes it's not ONLY because of some administration or philosophy of education of the school -- is because that's the way of the modern school. I taught Philosophy and I could tell that most of my students were surviving. They were asking me to make it "more fun". Few were really engaged in the topic. The skills are getting poorer and poorer every year bfff!
Great episode fellas
been teaching since 2009, John is bang on about Catholic education in QLD. Bums on seats compromising Catholic education and values, even liturgy had to be Christian inclusive not Catholic.
Im thinking about driving from germany to france for mass. Let them go there new synodal way, with rainbow flags, women priest and marching with gay pride. I need the Lord and i need holy(set apart from this world) church!
Oh what a great video!
You should create a platform/ talks/ or build a bridge for all scatter Practicing Single Catholics! We are a whole bunch and growing!
My girlfriends and I are always wandering where are the faithful catholic man? I mean, REAL men, as you are describing in the video.
If you want REAL men, work on being REAL women first. You're not a finished product either.
Thumbs-up just for the anti-vaping ad
I’m from northeast Ohio and Mr Matt Fradd you might here this also being your in stubenville but the people of western Pennsylvania says “yenz” and they say it with this authentic accent.
It’s not Kansas City, it’s the Wichita diocese @ 21:31 that has the tithe model for Catholic schools. I went to Wichita Catholic schools K-12 and they are excellent. It should be a model for all dioceses to consider when looking at access to education.
I have very little fears of raising boys, it's raising girls that's the issue.
@@bbseal6174 what are you asking? my comment was pretty clear. I wouldn't want to raise girls in this society. There are a lot more pitfalls for them and they're more easily brainwashed
I have a 4 month old daughter and yes, it’s terrifying. We are going off grid!
I have boys and a girl. I'd say there are pitfalls on both sides. For boys and men, the sexualized culture and pornography is a massive, massive, massive and deadly trap. And it's insidious in this age. It is everywhere.(girls can fall in this trap too but it's less common)
For girls, they are targeted by feminism (and all that comes with it) but on the flip side, boys are targeted by a spirit of emasculation. Girls face the same level of chance of "ruin" as they always have from pre martial sex, but I'm sure we would agree it is equally as morally corrupting to young men. Girls are targeted a lot more by this LMNOP movement - which is a poison in the world.
I'd just say that this is not a time for parents to sit on their laurels, no matter the sex of their children. The internet/media/culture is so vastly different than 100y ago. We have far more invading our homes than our forefathers did.
Not fear but great concern is needed in raising all children. For boys:
Ponder the man in skirts from PA in the Biden administration and the former swimmer in his dresses and the dictates of government and the sensitivity sessions to brainwash people in the corporate arena. Or ponder the decline in male attendance in Universities and positions of leadership, and the assault no manliness that is rampant everywhere.
Ponder the Our Mother prayer among the Protestants or the media power of rabid lesbians and those to hate men everywhere from CNN to the View.
Boys will be under constant attack throughout their lives just as much as girls. Boys and men are the key target of the feminists and for a reason. God the Father IS a father and they seek to destroy that image, especially in the priesthood and among all men.
The sewage is everywhere.
@@johnjon1823 but men like PA in the biden administration seem to be born with such issues. were as women are far more easily modelled. it's why so many women and girls are lgbtq today.
I want to work at this school just like I want to work at St. Gregory the Great Academy.
My 6 yr old goes to an SSPX academy and have never looked back.
I bet it’s great!
Does he have a neck problem?
I will definitely be praying for those kids and all who are in Ukraine. Though I think we should be careful with the words we use. Putins actions are evil and I think we can all agree on that but stating that a person is evil I think leads one to think that they are unforgivable. Just something to think about. And we should be praying for those whose actions are evil that they will come to the lord.
No, I don't agree. Putin's intervention can be placed in the concept of the 'Just War' developed by Thomas Aquinas. People who think Putin is evil are, excuse me to say it, people with biased views. "Who hears but one bell hears but one sound". I was converted to Catholicism while I lived in Moscow. Among the french-catholic community, we had people who have been there in Donbass. We prayed for the orphans and people in Donbass. I knew a parishioner who raised funds to help them, and we received news from there. On multiple occasions, starting from 2014, the Ukrainians forces have bombed civilians with heavy artillery and tanks. Some neo-nazi bands are moving around in this region, some are just people who think it's cool to be neo-nazi, some are committing war crimes. These bands are trained for combat with the help of western advisors. Do I need to precise, that corruption is the norm of functioning in Ukraine. Moreover, the borders of this state are completely artificial. The people living in Crimea and in the east of Ukraine are Russians. Why do Ukrainian officials even think they would feel Ukrainians instead of Russians if you bomb them !? I understand the US and oligarchs like Soros who want to turn Ukraine into a NATO vassal, deploying missiles in range of Moscow, St Petersburg, Kazan etc..., all the western part of Russia where the majority of the Russians live - fine. But I really pity these pro-Ukrainians who do not even have a hint of what's really going on. When you're about to be swallowed by a giant beast, you hit first with strength, and it is rightfully that you do so. Then people are surprised, 'oh look Russia is attacking - how dare they, it's evil'. Putin decided the intervention after the Ukrainians, again, started to bomb civilians in Donbass with tanks in late February. His decision bears heavy responsibility, but it makes sense. Why make a local operation in Donbass, when you're going to suffer new sanctions anyway. If the cost is nearly the same, then let's make a big operation to solve the problem once for all, instead of repeating the cycle that began in 2014. Now many of the Ukrainians officials and the neo-nazi are scared, they seek western aid by all cost because they know if Russia wins, they will be put to trial and will have to answers the evidences. They would rather give weapons to any civilian and let the country be subject to chaos and pillaging in hope of a resolution profitable to them, rather than admitting they are defeated. And this what is happening right now.
So yes, portraying the other side as evil is a bad idea. All are human beings, created in the image of God for His glory, but all are also subject to weakness and ignorance. God calls us to a relation, so it makes sense by the virtue of Charity that we learn from one another and share our legitimate fears. So the question now is this, do people prefer the simplicity and comfort of portraying Russia as evil and remain in a western mainstream vision of international relations, or are they ready to challenge their bias and take the narrow path of listening to the concerns and worries of other people in the world. Putin made a very great 1 hour speech to justify the reasons of his intervention. Despite being not exhaustive, listening to it is a good start moving in the way of understanding.
It was just at the very beginning when Matt was reading the priest text messages. I have heard a lot of priest and other religious people talk about how Putin is evil and going to hell. This priest did not say that putin was going to hell but I do think that when stated to people with little faith or none they see it as the same. Just my thoughts from talking to secular people is all.
What do you think about NATO encroachment on Russian borders. What do you think about the Russian speaking portion of Ukraine beleaguered by Nazis and the innocent Russian speakers being killed for the last 10 years? What do you think of our own DOD peppering Ukraine with bio we*pon labs? And Russia is evil???
1:01:26 has me unexpectedly crying😅🥺
Help us with understanding this talk regarding Lincoln
Go Braves! SJB Bellflower, CA.
Jerry Marzinsky is a good resource for information on schizophrenia and its treatment.
Can we somehow compile a list of ‘good Catholic’ school options ? My kids were in a fairly secular Catholic school and the education was far superior to public. We started homeschooling thru the pandemic but I still dream of sending them to a Catholic classical school - but we have nothing like this in Providence RI
Funny. There’s also Americus KS. I had to double check that there was one somewhere other than Kansas when he said he was pulled over in Americus. 🤣
Love the show and great episode. Agree with 99% of it. One thing I don't think the trad community thinks about though when they push parents to move near the best Catholic schools or to be able to homeschool or move into Catholic communities, is that they also believe the ideal Catholic couple should get married young and have kids quick. It's also the "trad" view to not be career oriented and focus on getting good degrees to make good money, like you all discussed, which I completely agree with. But, if you're getting married young and put your vocation of marriage and parenthood first, unless you come from a well off family, you can't afford to just move to these great Catholic areas, have one parent not work to stay at home and be a great trad SAHM, or send them to the best schools. I got my married at 19 and my husband was 23. I didn't want to put off marriage to wait to be "financially stable" as is a very worldly agenda this is pushed now a days, but now as we have our first child on the way we are no where near to being in the position to be able to do any of these great things you all talked about. And I agree, in an ideal society a woman should be able to be that perfect nurturing mother and wife and stay home to raise their kids, but right now in America most people can't afford to live off one income, and the kids gotta eat. For many, it's give up the pre-marital traditional ideal of getting married young and putting your wife and kids first and not focusing on those degrees to get you a lot of $$ or give up the post-marital traditional idea and do get married young and have lots of babies, but have to have two working parents and maybe have to send them to not the best schools.
Just have to take a moment to appreciate that he said he would be fine to be paid with Food stamps and donuts!! 16:55
It really shows how good SJBA is and how much he wanted to work there! And I can confirm it’s as good as he makes it seem
It is in the Diocese of Wichita Kansas that everyone tithes to pay for a Catholic education.
On the cellphone matter, you can use a traditional IPhone and limit everything if you have the passcode.
My daughter has a new iPhone but all she has is a phone to call family.. everything is is blocked from the settings and can only be changed with a password my wife and I have .
I hate how the doctors of education have dumbed down the classics for kids. They do enjoy thinking. They enjoy learning big words, not the 762 words that are allowed at this grade level in all text books. That is one of the reasons home schooling is better than schools. School has to follow the rules. Home schoolers go the way the kids learn best.
This guy talks faster than Father Mike.
It’s stunning isn’t it?
How did I miss a 3 hr live
50:25 In that scene Chandler does propose. Monica is actually the one who proposes first but can't stop crying.
A local jeweler had a billboard with caption "He said yes!" under picture of couple with woman lower than man (head shot but conveys idea the woman is on one knee) and man with hands to cheeks and open mouthed like McCauley Culkin in Home Alone. Made my skin crawl. Wonder how that ad paid off?
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Have Fr Casey Cole on
That soccer story was hilarious!
Everyone should read Kazynsky's manifesto!
For those watching now, the stream starts at 7:16!
In my opinion I would say most people do not have a home schooling option, not really. Additionally, I think care should be taken so as to not be pridefully boastful about the method of education one uses. Besides that, I can say that the Holy Spirit is quite capable of working with and through all kinds of people and all kinds of less than ideal situations, both in the home and educationally. So, while I agree there is a lot of toxic things in many schools, public and private; I would say, realistically, what is most needed is clear catechesis and a good home.
Indoctrination into the secular values promulgated in the media and schools and politics and social media do require great care in parenting. Nonetheless MANY will have their children in public schools. If you want to make a difference then THOSE are the children who need catechesis and helps. Realistically they will be in those institutions, we must deal with the reality for MOST.
I wish that were true... because my husband is now disabled, I send my kids to a Catholic school (grades 1, 3, 4) - and I am watching their faith be extinguished. The stories they tell me are heartbreaking. They even defend the faith to classmates - and teachers! It is unrealistic to expect them to not eventually give up and be "normal" when surrounded by "catholic" unbelievers.
@@michelegeis2301 I’m of the opinion that bad Catholic schools are actually worse than public schools.
@@michelegeis2301 Perhaps the unbelief you notice is a different approach to the faith.
Perhaps not. If there are objectionable things, you may wish to take it up with the local people there.
Where I went to school we had the sisters and that mattered most along with teaching and catechesis. It was a very far from ideal place. It was an inner city school with quite a few problematic children who may have had quite some worldly experiences
at tender ages.
As for educational choices, as I mentioned I think home schooling is not possible for many, nor for that matter any Catholic school at all, and yes, such schools may vary quite a bit in Catholic ethos. If your local Catholic choice is actually worse than a public school then choose the lesser evil .
I was on the school board of the school where my children went and the Msgr. was quite orthodox. The families of children, far less so. I was shocked at the time to discover that even this grammar school had I think at least half the students from broken or non-formed homes and or living with grandparents, and this parish was truly devout. The Msgr. and the sister in charge made the difference, along with carefully vetted teachers.
It is the home that matters most. Not strict but loving, even-handed carefully Catholic, not enforced in a rigid way, but with care. Hard to do.
In your situation perhaps parish involvement for the children may be more helpful than the school, or some form of other Catholic social activities.
Give them a blessing every night before bed, that they will remember. Besides the angel of good dreams is Raphael, same one for marriage and courtship, and purity and such.
God bless your efforts!