Deep Dives with Fr Sean: the Super Catholic Catechesis Podcast

Fr Sean OBrien
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I want to have easy access to good stuff for good people, and so I bring you some simple yet deep insights here for people on the fly. I'm always open to requests for topics, so give me a holler!

  1. FEB 18

    Pre-Evangelization #2 Proposing Goodness: Scandal, Evil, Bad Experiences

    Send a text Here are some exterior encounters with the topic off goodness We need to be holy, and let Christ radiate from within usWe can highlight the good fruits of the Christian traditionWe need to confront scandals, possiblyWe need to confront the topic of evil in the world, possiblyWe need to confront people's bad experience of the church, possibly

    38 min

  2. FEB 11

    Pre-Evangelization #1 Intro: God has the Initiative, and He Uses Us!

    Send a text Before someone is inquiry, they might be indifferent or be filled with anger or maybe they just don't know much of anything. This series is about bringing people from there into an inquiry into the faith. It is about overcoming intellectual or emotional obstacles that they might not even know they have. God has the initiative in this. And He calls us to have authentic relationship and real kindness to be a bridge.

    39 min

  3. FEB 4

    St John Henry Newman: How do we come to faith? An Essay on the Grammar of Assent

    Send a text How does someone assent to a proposition? By a jump of intuition based on many converging pieces of evidence.

    34 min

  4. JAN 21

    St John Henry Newman: Idea of a University

    Send a text This is done in four parts: 1) What does he mean by a university?  2) How is theology to be incorporated? 3) How should the Church be incorporated? 4) Miscellaneous points on pedagogy and the professor

    45 min

  5. 12/31/2025

    St John Henry Newman: Development of Christian Doctrine

    Send a text This stuff blew my mind, especially as he argued for the most reasonable expectation that there would be an infallible authority in the revealed religion of Jesus Christ. I have three parts: 1) The basic concept of the development of an idea, specifically Christian doctrine 2) The reasonable expectation for an infallible authority 3) The criteria for authentic development.

    50 min

  6. 12/17/2025

    St John Henry Newan: Apologia Pro Vita Sua Part 2

    Send a text Here are the theological and relational steps for his entrance into the Catholic Church.

    38 min

  7. 12/10/2025

    St John Henry Newan: Apologia Pro Vita Sua Part 1

    Send a text Check it out. Here's him starting up the Oxford Movement, aka tractarianism. It's my favorite time of his life!

    38 min

  8. 11/12/2025

    New Series on the NEWEST DOCTOR of the Church: St John Henry Newman

    Send a text Check out his biography: https://youtu.be/aRqE0clLw_w?si=JTdD84GC1lL21LcI

    33 min
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