Swears & Prayers

Episode 8: Jen

Jen talks about what she’s learned by talking to Catholics for a year, and what that means for her community and for her faith.

Episode 7: Full: Caroline

Caroline talks about how decisions made on the diocese level can drastically change a parish overnight, and how she distrusts lay leadership, even though she’s a lay leader. Listen to our full conversation.

Episode 7: Intro: Caroline

Caroline talks about how parishioners and lay leaders in the church have no say in changes that affect them. 

Episode 6: Full: Eric

Eric talks about benefiting from and rejecting patriarchy; how men become “rock stars” of social movements within the church while the women who do the same work remain unknown; and how his experience in Watts for Teach for America led him to Glenstal Abbey in Ireland, where he spent three months. Listen to our full conversation.

Episode 6: Intro: Eric

Eric holds a PhD in Theology. He talks about walking away from the church and coming back to it with love and skepticism.  

Episode 5: Full: Anonymous

Discussing the Franciscan charism and how working for the church both gives her cover to lead a countercultural life and exposes her to criticism, our guest talks about how the rape crisis has affected her relationship with the church and with God. Listen to our full episode.

Episode 5: Intro: Anonymous

This guest talks about being a Secular Franciscan and how their humility and simplicity attracted her to the order.

Episode 4: Full: Debbie

Debbie talks about how a friend’s living faith attracted her to Catholicism, and how the rape scandal, clericalism. and patriarchy makes it difficult for her to remain Catholic. Listen to our full conversation.

Episode 4: Intro: Debbie

Debbie talks about finding and converting to Catholicism while in medical school.

Episode 3: Full: Laura

Laura talks about Catholic Social Teaching, her work as a volunteer in the Archdiocese of Hartford, CT in the 1990s, and how the absence of Catholic clergy at the 2017 Unite the Right rally disillusioned her. Listen to our full conversation.