We round up the Christmas and post-Christmas season with humor and song as we look at an interesting French medieval tradition known as the Festum Asinorum and learn not only what it had to do with the Christmas message but also why your not likely to see it celebrated today! Plus, there appears to be a solution to last episode’s tea dilemma.
A return to the history of the papacy with a talk about the first antipopes Natalius and Hippolytus as well as some of the antipopes of today. Evelyn Nicholson provides more information about Boy Bishops and other British traditions of the Christmas season. All this plus cold Austrian churches and striving for tastier tea.
Twelfth Night is on its way and CUTH has suggestions for making sure that your celebration truly reflects the spirit of a world gone upside down. Plus, an Irish tradition that the women might want to learn about!
I’m back from Italy with lots of stories about Thanksgiving in Austria, going to the Papal Audience, and traveling through Rome and Assisi – plus I take a stab at singing Zeppelin.
Listen to this episode and find out the trials, tribulations and blessings of a friar on pilgrimage from hearing confessions in foreign languages to encounters with calamari. See the video of Venice at catholicunderthehood.com or sqpn.com
Don’t forget the prayer challenge and the SQPN fundraiser!
A return to the history of the Popes with a look at the papacy of Saint Victor I and a look at what happens when two saints don’t get along. We will also get some insight into the development of the role of the papacy in the Church today, the importance of unity and diversity in the faith and more!
Be sure to catch the solemn profession videos over at the website!
In this episode we take a closer look at the Franciscans, how there got to be so many and some of the differences between them. I also tell more Austrian adventure stories.
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