In this episode, the dogs discuss The Simpsons (0:50), Edith Stein’s feast day (4:05), and phenomenology philosophy (7:30). Mike names a new female doctor of the church (14:00) and speaks definitively on anthropology (17:40). They close out by sharing how to practically live in relationship with Jesus, as Stein says, in the “kern” (20:00).

Quotes:

“Come, Rosa, we’re going for our people.” (quote from Edith Stein, 10:20)

“It just blew her away that Catholics could come and talk to a personal God when they were out shopping.” (Rob, 11:25)

“You are tarnishing your voting record right now. I question everything about your character.” (Rob about Connor, 15:27)

“She has the most precise and correct anthropology of anybody who has ever existed.” (Mike about Stein, 17:25)

“You can see the harmony that exists between the physical body and the actual eternal soul. The way she (Stein) unites the two together is just true.” (Mike, 19:25)

“What is the human person? Is loved by God.” (Mike summarizing Stein, 20:30)

“The cross is the revelation of God’s love.” (Mike, 20:50)

“The body is the physical expression of the eternal invisible soul.” (Mike, 21:34)

“Fear is almost always a useless emotion. The truth is that we are always safe, because we are always a beloved child of God.” (Connor, 23:10)

“It’s not selfish to be aware of my heart’s reactions to things and to be aware of my inner life more, because that’s the only way I can share it with God.” (Connor, 24:40)

“It’s tough to study Edith Stein without also growing in holiness.” (Mike, 26:11)

“In what part of reality are you living?” (Mike, 26:40)

“Experience it (darkness) not as a wall, but as a threshold.” (Rob, 28:40)

Media Mentions:

• The Simpsons (1989- present)
• “Last Exit to Springfield” The Simpsons S4 E17
• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005- present)
• Arrested Development (2003- 2019)
• “It’s a good idea and I stand by it.”
• “I got nothing against him, but I’m definitely gonna make orphans of his children.”
• “Large Marge” The Simpsons S14 E4 (“easy there college boy”)
• John Paul II’s Theology of the Body
• St Thomas Aquinas’ Quaestiones Disputatae de Veritate (Disputed Questions on Truth)
• Teresa of Avila’s The Way of Perfection
• Edith Stein’s The Science of the Cross
• iBreviary
• Napoleon Dynamite
• Hallow

References:

• Charles Dickens
• Infinite Monkey Theorem
• Mike Tyson
• Edith Stein- St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (canonized October 11, 1998)
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Martin Heidegger
• Edmund Husserl
• Karol Wojtyla
• Poland
• Germany
• Phenomenology
• The Carmelites
• Auschwitz- Birkenau
• Rosa Stein
• Switzerland
• St. Maximilian Kolbe
• Four women doctors of the church: Hildegard of Bingen, Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, Therese of Lisieux
• Joe Rogan
• Google
• Cartesian dualism
• Charles Whitfield
• ARRR: Acknowledge, Relate, Receive, Respond

Shout- Outs:

• Fr. Michael Bremer
• Bishop Robert Barron
• Fr. Marek Duran
• Fr. Mike Warden
• Fr. Dennis Kasule
• Fr. Robbie Cotta
• Jacob
• Bliese (Mike’s bodyguard)

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