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Fr. Dom's homs is back this week (well, the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time). He talks about the one thing that can destroy that love in us.

Sin.

The first line of today's reading from Sirach tells us that wrath and anger are hateful things, yet the sinner hugs them tight. Fr. Dom admits he gets that one personally. Before he gave his life to God at 27, anger and pride felt good in a twisted way...like control. Sound familiar? That grip broke the day he actually let God in, and he's been trying t

Alphonse Ratisbonne hated the Catholic Church. He put on a Miraculous Medal as a joke, just to win a bet with a Catholic friend. Days later he walked into a church in Rome, saw Our Lady standing exactly as she's pictured on that little medal, and walked out a changed man. He became a priest. That conversion, and the hidden nun behind the medal that caused it, is the whole episode today.

Shaun McAfee joins James for his fifth appearance on The Manly Catholic (he's officially in the Five-Timers C

With the school year kicking off, Fr. Dom ties together three straight Sundays of readings around one line from St. Catherine of Siena, which is also this year's parish (OLC) theme: "Be who God meant you to be, and you will set the world on fire."

And that only happens when the three virtues we're given at baptism, faith, hope, and charity, actually get put to work.

He starts by walking back through the last two weeks. Elijah, hiding in a cave from a queen who wants him dead, finally hears God

"Quo vadis, Domine?" Lord, where are You going?

That's the question Christ asked Peter on the road out of Rome, and it's the last thing Peter heard before he chose to die on a cross turned upside down. Fr. Robert Nixon is back on the show with a brand-new translation almost nobody has read: the Life and Martyrdom of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, written by a man who was practically an eyewitness. Simon Magus, a demonic flying "miracle," a Roman emperor demanding Peter read his mind, and two apost

In this powerful homily featured on The Manly Catholic, Father Dom breaks down the Sunday scripture readings to explore how God uses life’s greatest storms to unlock the virtue of faith. Walking through the experiences of Elijah at Mount Horeb, Saint Paul’s conversion, and Peter stepping out onto the water, Father Dom reminds us that faith is an infused gift from baptism that requires submission, courage, and trust. Tune in for an inspiring reflection on learning to hear God's "small whispering

A host that leaps out of the ciborium and hits the ceiling. A stolen host that boils over with blood the moment it hits a pan. A doubting priest who watches the Body of Christ turn to bleeding human tissue in his own hands. These aren't legends but documented, forensically studied Eucharistic miracles, and Shaun McAfee just spent a year and a half compiling the most thorough collection of them ever written.

Shaun is back on the show for round four, and this one will change how you walk up for C