High energy, non-boring Catholicism. Oxygen in a toxic culture, and truth in an age of confusion. Catholic Truth is an organization that preaches with passion the one truth of Jesus Christ and the Catholic faith. Apologetics, other religions, spirituality, inspiration, combating atheism, our culture, and more. Our goal is to inspire you, inform you, equip you, and help you to know, love, and live your Catholic faith with purpose and passion, and to be set on fire for the truth! (CathoilicTru ...
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An ancient history podcast run by two Millennial women. Misbehaving emperors, poison assassins, mythological mayhem; it’s like if Hardcore History met up with My Favorite Murder in the ancient world, with a heavy helping of booze and laughter.
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Conversations about places where faith and politics overlap, with particular interest in extremism and violence. Run by the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence www.csbvbristol.org.uk. Meet our hosting team. Helen Paynter is a Baptist minister and biblical specialist, and director of the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence. Matthew Feldman is an expert on the radical right and director of the Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right, although he speaks here in a private capa ...
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RE-RELEASE: Saturnalia: So Much More than Roman Christmas
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Wish you had a holiday all about feasting, drinking, the upending of the social order, blood sacrifices, the harvest, pranks, novelty gifts, honouring a god who devoured his kids, and the returning sun? Don’t we all??? Welcome to Saturnalia. Sponsors and Advertising This podcast is a me…
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RE-RELEASE: Krampus: The Goat Knows What You Did
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! This year, we decided that the holiday season wouldn’t be complete without a mythological foray into one of the most famous characters of the season: The Krampus. And some of you might be saying: wait a minute, Krampus isn’t ancient; he’s modern. Also, everyone knows about Krampus, the f…
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Bryan Mercier's Testimony! (President of Catholic Truth)
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This is the testimony of Bryan Mercier, our President. It is amazing, inspiring, and shows the power of God to help anyone. FOLLOW US: Our Main YouTube Our Family YouTube Blog Articles Facebook Page here Instagram TikTok X Pinterest 4 DIFFERENT WAYS TO SUPPORT THIS MOST IMPORTANT WORK! 1. Stripe 2. Patreon (only monthly) 3. PayPal 4. GoFundMe (Bill…
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! What do you know about Yule? Maybe a lot. The holiday is widely celebrated in Scandinavian countries, and it's an important part of Wiccan and Pagan tradition. But for many of us, the version that's come down through history is strongly associated with Christmas--and heavily sanitized. W…
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RE-RELEASE: St. Nicholas and the Christmas Cannibals
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Ah, Christmas—it's a time of cheer, of gift-giving and generosity; and a time to eat yer babies. This year, we’re focusing on two different cannibalistic monsters from Christmas folklore: Père Fouettard and Hans Trapp. Because it turns out that child cannibalism really is the reason for …
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The Ancient History of the Horse (with David Chaffetz)
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! For thousands of years, horses have been essential to humancivilization from warfare to trade and empire-building. All over the world, people have captured horses, tamed horses, mythologized horses, and trained them to be ideal companions in the project of human advancement. How has the…
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Like a Wolf but Not a Wolf: The Beast of the Gevaudan (Part 2)
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! In our last episode, we detailed the rise of the Beast of the Gevaudan, some of its most gruesome attacks, and the doomed efforts of professional hunters to take it down. In this one, we’ll discuss how the Beast finally died—and the theories that arose after its death about what exactly …
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Like a Wolf but Not a Wolf: The Beast of the Gevaudan (Part 1)
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! From 1764 to 1767, an area of southeastern France called the Gevaudan was stalked and terrorized by a mysterious beast. Some said it was a wolf. Others that it was “like a wolf, but not a wolf”—far stronger, faster, more brutal and more intelligent than other wolves. Still others provided…
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Liberal Lutheran on Abortion and Immigration
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How to talk about the Faith with ANYONE, with Cy Kellet. FOLLOW US: Our Main YouTube Our Family YouTube Blog Articles Facebook Page here Instagram TikTok X Pinterest 4 DIFFERENT WAYS TO SUPPORT THIS MOST IMPORTANT WORK! 1. Stripe 2. Patreon (only monthly) 3. PayPal 4. GoFundMe (Billboards) QUESTIONS? https://www.subscribepage.com/e3e8c7 WEBSITE (Re…
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Did Pope Leo Change Mary as Co-Redemptrix?
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! We’ve covered werewolves in the ancient world before—and their connection to the Berserker myth. But wait til you hear what happened to werewolf mythology when the Catholics got their hands on it. This episode is a wild ride, taking you from the ancient Greek and Roman werewolves to a Me…
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RE-RELEASE: Werewolves of Wolf Mountain: Terrors of Ancient Greece
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! The werewolf myth as we know it today generally involves getting bitten by a werewolf, transforming during the full moon, and being very susceptible to silver bullets. But werewolves in ancient Greece and Rome were a little different. Join us for a spooky-season deep dive into ancient we…
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Today on the podcast, we’re thrilled to welcome bestsellingauthor Ayana Gray. Ayana is the author of the blockbuster YA novel Beasts of Prey, and is now joining us to discuss her adult fiction debut: I Medusa, an exploration of one of mythology’s most misunderstood “monsters.” Join us as …
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RE-RELEASE: Buzzballs and Buboes: The Plague of Justinian (a Drunk Deep Dive)
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! This is an episode about a plague that killed up to 100 million people by the time it was done—as many as 60% of its victims. It’s the first documented occurrence of a pandemic that we have, and it’s the first documented outbreak of the deadlyYersinia pestis. No, we're not talking about…
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RE-RELEASE: The Haunting of Crater Lake
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Crater Lake is a caldera lake in the Cascade Mountains in Oregon—the remnants of an ancient volcanic eruption. It’s the deepest lake in the country and one of the deepest in the world. And this place is steeped in lore: unexplained events, murders and suicides, disappearances and haunting…
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RE-RELEASE: Sea of Trees: The Japanese Suicide Forest
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! In this episode, we’ll delve into the mystery of Aokigahara, known in Japanese as the Sea of Trees—and to the rest of the world as the Suicide Forest. After the Golden Gate Bridge, it is the second most popular suicide destination in the world. The forest is over a thousand years old. It …
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Pope Leo and His Controversial Statements on Abortion and Immigration
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Baptism SAVES you! (When Protestants Ignore Scripture!)
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Baptism SAVES you! (When Protestants Ignore Scripture!) Check out our YouTube Channel! https://www.youtube.com/@CatholicTruthOfficialBy Bryan Mercier
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RE-RELEASE: Teotihuacan: Eat the Rich
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Teotihuacan is an ancient pre-Colombian city in central America, founded two thousand years ago. It’s the home of some of the most iconic Mesoamerican monuments in existence, including the Pyramids of the Moon and Sun. The city was abandoned after about 750 years of habitation. When the …
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From the Church of Christ to Lutheran to Catholic (With Steven Bell)
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RE-RELEASE: This Episode is Full of Lies: Lucian's A True History (With Liv Albert from Let's Talk About Myths, Baby!)
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Lucian’s A True History has been called the world’s first work of science fiction—but above all, Lucian of Samosata was a satirist. And he had a bone to pick with the famous historians of his time—guys like Herodotus and Ctesias of Knidos. They were Lying Liars who Lied, you see, and Luc…
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Horses of Fire, Daughters of Bronze (with AD Rhine)
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! AD Rhine is the pen name of the authors Ashlee Cowles and Danielle Stinsen, who have been friends and creative partners for over 25 years. Their novels Horses of Fire and Daughters of Bronze follow the Trojan War saga. They are our kind of nerds—so naturally we had to interview them. The…
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Baptist to Catholic Conversion Story (With Hadleigh Belle)
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! It is the End of Season 13--and what a wild ride it's been. We've had so much fun triangulating the Goths for you--and we hope you now are as obsessed with them as we are. Join us as we debrief the previous season, talk about how our year has gone (it's been a big year for BOOKS, for both…
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Debunking Former Catholic and Anti-Catholic
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How an Empire Ends: Goths vs Goths vs Goths (Part 2)
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! In our last episode we talked about the opulence of Goth–Gothic architecture, fashion, and art of all kinds–and the connection between this and the opulence of the Visigoths and their vast state treasure plundered from Roman cities and towns. But there’s more to Goth than plunder. There’…
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We live Fr. Rippenger, but Fr. Chad Rippenger is wrong on Yoga poses and has led many Catholics astray on this point. FOLLOW US: Our Main YouTube Our Family YouTube Blog Articles Facebook Page here Instagram TikTok X Pinterest 4 DIFFERENT WAYS TO SUPPORT THIS MOST IMPORTANT WORK! 1. Stripe 2. Patreon (only monthly) 3. PayPal 4. GoFundMe (Billboards…
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Hateful Protestant calls Catholic Truth. Fiery discussion. FOLLOW US: Our Main YouTube Our Family YouTube Blog Articles Facebook Page here Instagram TikTok X Pinterest 4 DIFFERENT WAYS TO SUPPORT THIS MOST IMPORTANT WORK! 1. Stripe 2. Patreon (only monthly) 3. PayPal 4. GoFundMe (Billboards) QUESTIONS? https://www.subscribepage.com/e3e8c7 WEBSITE (…
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Solo Scriptura Proven Wrong! FOLLOW US: Our Main YouTube Our Family YouTube Blog Articles Facebook Page here Instagram TikTok X Pinterest 4 DIFFERENT WAYS TO SUPPORT THIS MOST IMPORTANT WORK! 1. Stripe 2. Patreon (only monthly) 3. PayPal 4. GoFundMe (Billboards) QUESTIONS? https://www.subscribepage.com/e3e8c7 WEBSITE (Retreats, Keynotes, Parish Mis…
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How an Empire Ends: Goths vs .Goths vs. Goths (Part 1)
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! We have come to the end (or almost the end) of our long, sweeping epic history of the Goths. But we have one corner of Gothic history as yet uncovered: what is the connection between Gothic literature, music, art and fashion, and Goths (the Germanic / Hunnic / etc. people who sacked R…
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Religious Education and Confused Catholics!
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5 Things Protestants do Better than Catholics
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5 Things Protestants do Better than Catholics that we can learn from. FOLLOW US: Our Main YouTube Our Family YouTube Blog Articles Facebook Page here Instagram TikTok Twitter Pinterest 4 DIFFERENT WAYS TO SUPPORT THIS MOST IMPORTANT WORK! 1. Stripe 2. Patreon (only monthly) 3. PayPal 4. GoFundMe (Billboards) QUESTIONS? https://www.subscribepage.com…
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How an Empire Ends: Germanic Heroic Legend
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Long after the smoke from the battlefields died down, long after the ravens had eaten their fill, the Migration Era lived on in Germanic heroic legend, well into the Middle Ages. For centuries after the battles and events of that era, people throughout Europe were crafting legends and …
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Check out our YouTube Channel! https://www.youtube.com/@CatholicTruthOfficialBy Bryan Mercier
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Debunking a Protestat Pastor on the Immaculate Conception!
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How an Empire Ends: Rise and Fall of the Visigothic Kingdom
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! We've told you the story of the Ostrogoths, the Amal ruling family, who built an imperial dynasty only to see that rulership dissolve within two generations. But what happened to their cousins, the Visigoths? The Tervingii tribe and the Balthi royal family? Alaric’s Goths? Turns out the…
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The Official Lore Olympus Cookbook (with Genn McMenemy)
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! For a while now, Genn has been hinting at a "Secret Project" in the works--and now it's out in the wild: the Official Lore Olympus Cookbook. Genn was heavily involved in this project, weaving together the history and mythology of Greek cuisine with the world of Rachel Smythe's Lore Ol…
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How an Empire Ends: Gothic Christianity
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! When Alaric of the Visigoths sacked Rome, it shocked the world—not least because Rome hadn’t been sacked in a thousand years. But also, while Rome was a Christian city by now—it had been for decades—the Visigoths were Christian too. And they weren’t recent converts, either. They had al…
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A Catholic Revert (With Cameron Rieker) Follow Cameron Rieker: https://www.youtube.com/@CameronRiecker FOLLOW CATHOLIC TRUTH: Our YouTube Advocating for Special Needs Our Main YouTube (Apologetics and Faith Formation) Our Family YouTube (Love, Relationships, Marriage, Life) Blog Articles Facebook Page here Instagram TikTok Twitter Pinterest 4 DIFFE…
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Confessing the Same Sins Over and Over? Two ways to overcome those sins. FOLLOW US: Our Main YouTube Our Family YouTube Blog Articles Facebook Page here Instagram TikTok Twitter Pinterest 4 DIFFERENT WAYS TO SUPPORT THIS MOST IMPORTANT WORK! 1. Stripe 2. Patreon (only monthly) 3. PayPal 4. GoFundMe (Billboards) QUESTIONS? https://www.subscribepage.…
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How an Empire Ends: Gothic Paganism
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! In our last episode about Amalasuintha and the end of the Ostrogothic Kingdom, we said we were next going to turn to the Visigothic Kingdom. But the story of the Visigothic Kingdom can’t be told without knowing a little more about the history of Gothic religion. Both Visigoths and Ostrog…
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RE-RELEASE: Buzzballs and Buboes: The Plague of Justinian (a Drunk Deep Dive)
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! This is an episode about a plague that killed up to 100 million people by the time it was done—as many as 60% of its victims. It’s the first documented occurrence of a pandemic that we have, and it’s the first documented outbreak of the deadlyYersinia pestis. No, we're not talking about …
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Catholic Truth Podcast (From Pentecostal to Catholic!)
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Catholic Truth Podcast (From Pentecostal to Catholic!) Check out our YouTube Channel! https://www.youtube.com/@CatholicTruthOfficialBy Bryan Mercier
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Everything to know about the miraculous Stigmata Check out our YouTube Channel! https://www.youtube.com/@CatholicTruthOfficialBy Bryan Mercier
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How an Empire Ends: Life of Amalasuintha
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! In our last episode, we told you all about the rise of Theodoric the Great and the founding of the Ostrogothic Kingdom in Italy. Now, we’re going to tell you all about the women in his family—and the effect they had on his kingdom. Theodoric had a wife, a sister, and three daughters—all o…
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The 10 Commandments. FOLLOW US: Our Main YouTube Our Family YouTube Blog Articles Facebook Page here Instagram TikTok Twitter Pinterest 4 DIFFERENT WAYS TO SUPPORT THIS MOST IMPORTANT WORK! 1. Stripe 2. Patreon (only monthly) 3. PayPal 4. GoFundMe (Billboards) QUESTIONS? https://www.subscribepage.com/e3e8c7 WEBSITE (Retreats, Keynotes, Parish Missi…
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The Catholic Church CAN'T go Astray! (Mormons and Protestants get it Wrong!)
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RE-RELEASE: 536 AD: A Volcanic Murder Mystery
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! What was the worst year to be alive? Some researchers have a very specific answer to this question: 536 AD. This is a year when the global temperature dropped, and it was winter all year round—for multiple years. The sun disappeared for 18 months as the world was covered in a veil of sul…
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How an Empire Ends: Theodoric the Great and the Ostrogothic Kingdom
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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! After 75 years under Hunnic dominion, the Ostrogoths seized their freedom and set about taking over control of the Western Roman Empire. The man who led them was named Theodoric the Great. He was a member of an ancient Gothic family called the Amali, which went all the way back to the Cris…
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