A Quiet Catechism

Doug Tooke
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A Quiet Catechism is a reflective Catholic podcast for those who hunger for depth without noise. In a world of hot takes and hurried opinions, this show slows the pace and listens carefully. Each episode explores the quiet strength of the Catholic intellectual and spiritual tradition, from foundational philosophical questions to world-shaping historical moments, from ancient prayers to modern cultural challenges. This is not a debate show or a news cycle commentary. It is a place for contemplation, clarity, and reverence. Together, we revisit the simple truths that have formed saints, civilizations, and consciences across centuries. Truth spoken softly still carries weight. A Quiet Catechism invites listeners into the beauty of ordered thought, faithful imagination, and the enduring wisdom of the Church, not shouted, but whispered with confidence.

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  1. 009 Wonder

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    009 Wonder

    Episode 9: Wonder (Human Foundations Series) Wonder is not glitter or a confetti cannon. It is the soul's startled recognition that reality exceeds our grasp and still invites our love. In this episode of A Quiet Catechism, Doug Tooke explores wonder as a holy interruption that humbles us, reopens gratitude, and makes us teachable again. But wonder has distortions too: novelty seeking, aesthetic escape, and spiritual consumption that leaves us moved but unchanged. Drawing on the Catholic tradition's sacramental realism and guides like Lavelle, von Balthasar, Edith Stein, Gabriel Marcel, and Max Picard, we learn how wonder matures into prayer, study, virtue, and charity. Because wonder is not the destination. It is the beginning of wisdom. Now go do the dishes like someone who has seen the world as an altar.

    13 мин.
  2. You Might Also Like: On Purpose with Jay Shetty

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    You Might Also Like: On Purpose with Jay Shetty

    Introducing Michael Pollan: The Hidden Cost Of Constant Distraction (Use THIS Practice To Reclaim Your Attention, Clarity, And Inner Freedom) from On Purpose with Jay Shetty. Follow the show: On Purpose with Jay Shetty The real hardship of our time isn’t only the challenges we face, it’s that we rarely slow down enough to fully experience and process them. Jay is joined by bestselling author and journalist Michael Pollan for a deeply thoughtful exploration of consciousness, attention, and what it truly means to be present. Known for reshaping how we think about food, nature, and the human mind, Michael shares why his work always begins with curiosity rather than certainty. Together, they unpack how perception shapes reality and why the most important questions in life aren’t meant to be solved quickly, but held with patience. Jay and Michael dive into how modern life pulls us away from awareness, leaving many of us distracted, overstimulated, and disconnected from ourselves. Drawing from research on meditation, neuroscience, and psychedelic therapy, Michael explains how rigid thought patterns, rumination, and ego-driven narratives can keep us stuck. They discuss how practices that quiet the mind don’t erase our identity, but soften it, creating space for clarity, creativity, and deeper connection with the world around us. In this invterview, you'll learn: How to Stop Living on Autopilot How to Train Your Attention in a Distracted World How to Use Curiosity Instead of Certainty How to Break Free from Mental Rumination How to Quiet the Ego Without Losing Yourself How to Interrupt Stuck Thought Patterns Awareness isn’t something you have to earn or master, it’s something you already possess. Small moments of attention, pausing before reacting, listening more deeply, and learning to sit with your thoughts, can quietly reshape how you experience life. Michael Pollan’s A World Appears is a sweeping exploration of consciousness, what it is, who has it, and what it reveals about the essence of being human. Get your copy here: https://michaelpollan.com/books/a-world-appears/ With Love and Gratitude, Jay Shetty JAY’S DAILY WISDOM DELIVERED STRAIGHT TO YOUR INBOX Join 900,000+ readers discovering how small daily shifts create big life change with my free newsletter. Subscribe here.  Check out our Apple subscription to unlock bonus content of On Purpose! https://lnk.to/JayShettyPodcast  What We Discuss: 00:32 Why Great Thinkers Start With Questions 02:32 Is There Such a Thing as a Bad Question? 05:53 What is Consciousness? 07:55 Why Consciousness Matters in Daily Life 12:54 What Happens When You Put Your Phone Down 14:05 Building a Daily Meditation Practice 16:05 When Consciousness Transcends the Self 19:47 Is Everything Conscious? 25:46 What’s the Difference between the Mind and Consciousness? 31:16 Meditation and Psychedelics: The Overlap 33:36 Using Psychedelics With Intention 35:30 Is the Brain Creating Reality? 41:09 Breaking OCD Thought Loops 44:24 The Real Risks of Psychedelics 49:04 Why Psychedelics Can Help Break Addiction 51:23 How Altered States Change Our Fear of Death 53:54 Do Near-Death Experiences Change Science? 57:21 Redefining Consciousness in the AI Age 01:02:41 What Our Need for Constant Validation Says About Society  01:05:06 What Makes Humans Different From Machines 01:10:38 Why Asking Better Questions Matters 01:12:17 Michael on Final Five Episode Resources: Website | https://www.jeffersonfisher.com/   Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/jefferson_fisher/  YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXjnpu6lK0HoUyOMh2ZBwhQ  TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@justaskjefferson   Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/justaskjefferson/   X | https://x.com/jefferson_fishr  LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffersonfisher/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. DISCLAIMER: Please note, this is an independent podcast episode not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced in conjunction with the host podcast feed or any of its media entities. The views and opinions expressed in this episode are solely those of the creators and guests. For any concerns, please reach out to team@podroll.fm.

  3. 008 Imagination

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    008 Imagination

    In Episode 8 of A Quiet Catechism, Doug Tooke slows down with the word imagination and explores why it's not just creativity, but a central human power that shapes how we remember, desire, fear, and even how we picture God. With help from St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Ignatius of Loyola, Jean-Pierre de Caussade, Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lorenzo Scupoli, and Jean Mouroux, we name imagination's gifts (wonder, empathy, hope) and its distortions (escape, anxiety, resentment, spiritual illusion). You'll finish with a handful of simple practices to form a truthful, peaceful, Christ centered inner world.

    20 мин.
  4. 007 Silence

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    007 Silence

    Episode 007 ("Silence") reframes silence as something charged and revealing, not empty: when noise stops, what's true in us and around us becomes audible. The episode moves through silence's good forms—recollection, deep listening, truthfulness before God, freedom from the last word, prayer, and wonder—showing how silence can gather the scattered self and make room for real encounter. It also names silence's shadow side: complicity, avoidance, isolation, control (the silent treatment), and suppression within communities that prize "peace" over truth. From there, the script grounds silence in the Catholic tradition as a discipline ordered to truth and charity, drawing on voices like St. Benedict (silence as a guardrail for trustworthy speech), St. Romuald and the Carthusians/St. Bruno (silence as stability and friendship with God), Guigo II (silence as the "mortar" of lectio divina), William of St.-Thierry (silence as exposure for healing), St. Aelred (silence that protects love and friendship), Dom Chautard (silence as the engine room of apostolic fruitfulness), and St. Peter Damian (silence offered back to the Church as intercessory service). The episode closes with a practical "rule of life": a daily minute of arrival, a Benedictine pause to avoid sinful speech, watchfulness over thoughts, weekly lectio, a vow against gossip, and the courage to break silence when truth and charity require it—so that words, when spoken, are born from prayerful steadiness rather than panic or ego.

    20 мин.
  5. 006 Attention

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    006 Attention

    *]:pointer-events-auto scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]" dir="auto" tabindex="-1" data-turn-id= "request-WEB:ed0b2891-4b25-4444-b1b4-6e2750b06bbc-1" data-testid= "conversation-turn-4" data-scroll-anchor="true" data-turn= "assistant"> This episode of A Quiet Catechism (Human Foundations #6) reframes attention as more than focus: it's the daily act of giving your inner life away to what you repeatedly behold—until it shapes who you become. Doug diagnoses modern life as an economy built to monetize and fracture attention through novelty, outrage, comparison, and performance, leaving prayer and love thin because the soul is untrained in stillness. The Catholic response is formation, not panic: practices like recollection, detachment, silence, leisure-as-contemplation, and the liturgy steadily reorder attention toward God. The invitation is simple: give your attention back to what's worthy—reality, persons, the poor, prayer, the Eucharist—because trained attention becomes freedom: the ability to stay, to see, and to love.

    18 мин.
  6. 005 Memory

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    005 Memory

    In this episode of A Quiet Catechism, we sit with the word Memory and discover why it is both a gift and a battleground of the soul. Memory is more than recall. It shapes identity, love, responsibility, and even temptation, especially when wounded by trauma, shame, resentment, or habitual sin. Through the wisdom of the Catholic tradition and the steady rhythm of the liturgical year, we learn that Christianity does not ask us to forget, but to remember rightly with truth and mercy braided together. From the Examen to Confession, and finally to the Eucharist, we explore the Church's radical promise: the past can be redeemed. Because grace can enter the archive. And the story is not over.

    19 мин.
  7. 004 Conscience

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    004 Conscience

    In this episode of A Quiet Catechism, we step gently into one of the most intimate rooms of the human soul: conscience. Not as a vague "follow your heart" slogan, but as the mysterious interior witness that says, this matters… choose the good. We explore how conscience reveals the dignity of the human person, how it can become warped by fear, tribalism, media noise, scrupulosity, or moral numbness, and why modern culture often tries to outsource it to crowds, platforms, and ideologies. Along the way, we draw wisdom from lesser-cited Catholic giants like John Henry Newman, Catherine of Siena, Ignatius of Loyola, Edith Stein, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Romano Guardini, and Joseph Ratzinger, who insist that conscience is not a permission slip but a gift that must be formed. The episode closes with hope: conscience is not meant to crush you, but to heal you, calling you back to truth, courage, repentance, and freedom—again and again—like a bell in the fog, inviting you home.

    22 мин.

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    003 Reason

    Episode 003 — "Reason" (A Quiet Catechism | Human Foundations Series) In Episode 003 of A Quiet Catechism, Doug Tooke explores the Catholic understanding of reason not as cold calculation, but as a light meant to help us read reality with humility, wonder, and love. Beginning with the idea that the world is knowable and meaningful, the episode reflects on Christ as the Logos and the human mind as a true participation in truth. Along the way, Doug warns how reason can shrink into weaponized argument, control, or mere rationalization in an age of information overload. Drawing on thinkers like Justin Martyr, Guardini, Pieper, Anselm, Bonaventure, Newman, Edith Stein, and Maritain, the episode invites listeners to let reason be formed by virtue, prayer, and silence—so it becomes not a tool for winning, but a pathway toward communion, wisdom, and the God who fills the house with light.

    19 мин.

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    002 Desire

    Episode 002 — "Desire" (A Quiet Catechism | Human Foundations Series) In Episode 002 of A Quiet Catechism, Doug Tooke reflects on desire as the deep current beneath every human life—our longing for love, meaning, beauty, peace, and home. Rather than treating desire as something to repress or indulge, the episode presents the Catholic view that desire is a signpost: a hopeful reminder that we are not self-contained, but made for more. Doug explores how modern culture manipulates desire into endless appetite, and why the Church insists desire must be educated and formed, not shamed or worshiped. Drawing on wisdom from Bonaventure, Josef Pieper, Gregory of Nyssa, and Romano Guardini (with Augustine lingering in the background), the episode invites listeners to see restlessness as a compass—an ache that can become a path toward God, maturity, virtue, and the true good that will not collapse under the weight of our wanting.

    12 мин.

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    001 Freedom

    Episode 001 — "Freedom" (A Quiet Catechism) In Episode 001 of A Quiet Catechism, Doug Tooke explores freedom as one of the most celebrated—and most misunderstood—words in modern life. Rather than treating freedom as limitless choice or emotional self-expression, the episode asks what happens when cultures and souls live without shared definitions of the good. Doug contrasts the exhausting modern ideal of constant self-invention with a Catholic vision of freedom as formation: the slow, disciplined shaping of desire until choosing the good becomes natural—even joyful. Drawing on Robert Barron, Josef Pieper, Servais Pinckaers, and John Paul II, the episode argues that limits are not insults but invitations, and that true freedom is not doing whatever we want, but learning to want what is worth doing—until virtue feels like breathing.

    12 мин.
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A Quiet Catechism is a reflective Catholic podcast for those who hunger for depth without noise. In a world of hot takes and hurried opinions, this show slows the pace and listens carefully. Each episode explores the quiet strength of the Catholic intellectual and spiritual tradition, from foundational philosophical questions to world-shaping historical moments, from ancient prayers to modern cultural challenges. This is not a debate show or a news cycle commentary. It is a place for contemplation, clarity, and reverence. Together, we revisit the simple truths that have formed saints, civilizations, and consciences across centuries. Truth spoken softly still carries weight. A Quiet Catechism invites listeners into the beauty of ordered thought, faithful imagination, and the enduring wisdom of the Church, not shouted, but whispered with confidence.

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    Doug Tooke
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