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Conor Janda is a New York based stand up comedian and writer. He has been featured on Comedy Central and in Vulture and, along with recent pod guest Nico Carney, is the co-host of the podcast Boys Club. Conor, Steph and Anne have so much to talk about: single sex Catholic high schools! The Sisters of Mercy! Kairos! Listen in.
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Anne and Steph are joined by Nico Carney! Nico is a standup comedian, writer and actor. He was selected for Netflix is a Joke's inaugural "Introducing" showcase in 2022, was named a Just For Laughs New Face in 2023 and made his late night television debut on Late Night with Seth Meyers in January 2024. Nico also has a podcast called Boys Club which he co hosts with fellow comedian Conor Janda. Listen in as Nico, Anne, and Steph talk CCD life, tropical Christmas Mass and cry boxes. This is also an Andrew Scott appreciation episode.
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The Vatican has issued a document on “human dignity.” The hosts have Thoughts. And Words. (Some of which may be considered undignified.) Also Sydney Sweeney is a horror nun. Discuss.
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Trans identity and the brain
Sydney Sweeny and her grandmas and scary dress
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Listen in as the hosts chat about the very light and airy and not at all emotionally triggering subject of Catholic funerals. Mass cards! Wakes! Gorging yourself with fellow grieving family members! Laugh and cry with the hosts as they parse through how the Catholics handle death.
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New Flash: despite what some may want you to believe, queer Catholics exist! Meet the woman who has made it her mission to to tell their stories.
Emma Cieslik (she/her) is a queer, disabled, and neurodivergent museum professional, religious scholar, and writer based in Washington, DC. She explores the histories of gender, sexuality, religion, and material culture. She currently directs the Queer and Catholic Oral History Project, and has worked at a variety of museums in the DC area, from the National Museums of American History, the American Indian, and Natural History to the The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum.
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https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/appalachian-folk-magic
https://outreach.faith/2022/12/the-need-to-chronicle-and-preserve-queer-catholic-history/
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It’s March and the hosts are ready to learn about an Irish guy named Patrick…but not the one you’re thinking of!
After just 5 years in comedy, comedian Paddy Raff has a record-breaking 6 solo sell-out nights at Belfast's SSE Arena under his belt, amassed millions of likes and views on his social media sketches, provided tour support for comedy legend Micky Flanagan in the UK & Ireland and also written and created 2 award-winning seasons of BBC NI's comedy sketch series 'The Paddy Raff Show' - making him one of Northern Ireland's fastest rising comedians.
Listen in as Paddy and Anne talk Catholic grandmothers, sending your kids to Catholic school as a lapsed Catholic, and how St. Patrick’s day is celebrated in Ireland vs. the US. Check Paddy out at https://www.paddyraffcomedy.com/.
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Anne surprises Steph with a deep dive into Saint Blaise whom, as it turns out, Steph has literally never heard of. Listen in as the hosts talk throat blessing, wool combing, pig stealing and more. (#SaintBlaisePrayForUs)
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Eliana La Casa is a real life apostate! She’s also a bilingual Argentinean stand up comedian who has been featured on Comedy Central Latinoamerica, as well as BBC Radio 4. She was voted Best Stand Up Comedian of 2021 by the Chicago Reader. She moved to the US in 2021 and has since fallen in love with Storytelling. She affirms she moved to pursue comedy, but her real goal is to try every single vegan restaurant in Chicago. Listen in as she regales Anne and Steph with tales of living as an atheist in a very Catholic country. Check her out at https://www.elianalacasa.com/.
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Today’s episode is throw back to the BEST OF LAPSED. Relisten to our Season 1 episode where the hosts welcome their first Catholic priest onto the show…and she’s a woman! Fr. Anne Tropeano is a Roman Catholic Womanpriest who is committed to seeing women welcomed into the priesthood within her lifetime. She has a deep love of the Society of Jesus, earned a Master of Divinity from Jesuit School of Theology, and has worked in multiple parishes in the Jesuits West Province. While many have understandably walked away from the Roman Catholic Church, Father Anne chooses to obey the Holy Spirit's call to collaborate with God in bringing about gender equality in one of the most powerful institutions in the world. Learn more about her ministry at Fatheranne.com.
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Anne and Steph hash out their thoughts on the headline-making news of Pope Francis allowing Catholics priests to bless same sex couples. Radical change for the better, or too little too late? The hosts have Feelings. Listen in.
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It’s irritatingly cold and dark outside, so Anne and Steph are fully embracing all things Advent. Steph walks us all through the surprisingly sordid history of Advent calendars. The hosts quiz themselves on their Catholic Advent knowledge. Steph’s cat has some thoughts. Grab of mug of hot chocolate and tune in!
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This episode has EVERYTHING: scorned conservative Cardinals, inclusive Papal dinners, slightly racy circus performers at the Vatican. Listen in!
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Video of the Benedict circus performance
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Four baptized-Catholic women walk onto a podcast…and two of them are Lutheran pastors! Listen in as Anne and Steph get alllll the Christian deets from Cafeteria Christian co-hosts Natalia Terfa and Emmy Kegler. Topics include biblical translation nerdery (the hosts are so here for this), differences and similarities between Catholicism and Lutheranism, and that time Natalia drank holy water (gasp). There’s also a #HarryPotter interlude for those who partake. Listen in…and then go check out Natalia and Emmy’s podcast!
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Did you know that early Christian basilicas were repurposed Roman court buildings with the door in a new location? Or that there’s a chapel in Rome built from human bones? Tune in as the Anne and Steph talk all things early Christinity and art history with lapsed Catholic art historian Heather Bowling! (Also hear the moment when Anne realizes she may be one of the tiktok husbands.)
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Steph and Anne dive headfirst into season 3 with some major catching up on #CatholicismInTheNews! Listen in as they talk bogus bankruptcy claims, priest-related relationship drama, and mutinous nuns!
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Baltimore Archdiocese Files for BankruptcyHelp! My Priest Told Me He’s Leaving His Priesthood For Me.Having Nun of ItPope Hears Young People’s Confessions at World Youth DaySpecial collection: UNHCR
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School’s out for the summer (and so are we)! The hosts say “go in peace” and “see you in the fall” and things like that, but not before hearing a listener story about making a pit stop at Mass on the way to the ER (because #priorities). Have a great summer, lapsed friends!
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The hosts try something new this episode as they each share a ***top secret*** (or maybe not-so-secret) interview with the other. Stephanie gets all the deets from real live Gen Z Catholic school girl Maeve. Anne interviews a fellow alum of her own Catholic high school, Katie Owens Mulcahy, whose recent article about the potential for women deacons in the Catholic church was featured in America Magazine. The episode includes some bad ass nun stories as well as possibly the greatest ever description of the ritual that is First Holy Communion.
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The first rule of Kairos is that you don’t talk about Kairos….and today the hosts are rule breakers! Listen in as Anne recounts her experience with this widespread Catholic senior retreat program. References include Cindy Lauper and the Indigo Girls.
NOTE: See below link for a (more or less) positive update on the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence/Dodgers situation since we recorded!
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Vatican withdraws World Youth Day 2023 stamp after criticism in Portugal
UPDATED info on Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and the Dodgers (they were asked back after we recorded!)
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Show up for some awesome queer Latine BookTok gossip, stick around for the excellent #catholicgrandma content. Curl up with your beverage of choice and listen in as literary enthusiast and TikTok-er Lupita Aquino spills the tea about skipping out on catechism classes for the thrills of the mall, the trials and tribulations of celebrating your birthday on the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe (and sharing her name!), and what it means to sometimes feels like a Secret Catholic.
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How Not To Drown In A Glass of Water
A Living Remedy
The People Who Report More Stress
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Listen in as Steph and Anne catch up Catholicism in the News. Topics include limbo, the devil holding Jesus ransom, a song that cuts down on Purgatory time, the AI-generated papal puffer coat that launched a thousand tweets, diocese on the Moon, and Jesus’s DNA. Weirdly, this episode includes two references to the decidedly non-Catholic British Royal Family.
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The Catholic Church can never admit that something it taught for centuries was dumb
Ransom Theory of Salvation
Singing This Song on Holy Thursday Can Purify Your Soul (And Save You Time in Purgatory)
We Spoke To The Guy Who Created The Viral AI Image Of The Pope That Fooled The World
The Catholic Church Officially Has A Moon Bishop
Pope Francies has given King Charles III a poignant Coronation gift
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Good Omens
Cameron Esposito was a Eucharistic minister
Megan Markle planned her wedding in Catholic school
Dylan Mulvaney and Rosie O’Donnell talk Catholic Mass
The Big Door Prize
Jagged LIttle Pill
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