{"id":297138,"date":"2025-08-10T21:37:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/10\/the-catholic-culture-podcast-ep-64-advancing-the-faith-in-the-podcast-medium\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T21:37:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:37:49","slug":"the-catholic-culture-podcast-ep-64-advancing-the-faith-in-the-podcast-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/10\/the-catholic-culture-podcast-ep-64-advancing-the-faith-in-the-podcast-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"The Catholic Culture Podcast: Ep. 64 &#8211; Advancing the Faith in the Podcast Medium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"date\">Jan 30, 2020<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Podcast Week here at CatholicCulture.org, as we want to<br \/>\nmake more people aware of our audio offerings, particularly the two<br \/>\nnew podcasts we launched last October: Catholic Culture Audiobooks<br \/>\nand Way of the Fathers with Mike Aquilina.<\/p>\n<p>Both of these shows have broken new ground in Catholic<br \/>\npodcasting, which has so far largely stayed in the realm of talk<br \/>\nshows rather than scripted programming. As more and more people in<br \/>\nthe United States and globally adopt podcasts as a source of<br \/>\nentertainment and education, it\u2019s important that Christ be there to<br \/>\nmeet them.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode Thomas invites our other podcasters, voice actor<br \/>\nJames T. Majewski (Catholic Culture Audiobooks) and author Mike<br \/>\nAquilina (Way of the Fathers), to talk about how they make their<br \/>\nshows and the effect reading and studying the Church Fathers has<br \/>\nhad on them personally.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a lector at Mass, you will find James\u2019s comments on<br \/>\nhow he approaches reading the writings of the Saints inspiring and<br \/>\nhelpful.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[2:15] James&#8217;s training in philosophy and acting as preparation<br \/>\nfor narrating the Fathers<\/p>\n<p>[7:00] How Mike meandered into a career writing about the<br \/>\nFathers<\/p>\n<p>[9:27] The original idea for audiobooks and podcasts at The<br \/>\nCatholic Culture<\/p>\n<p>[15:33] How Mike distills scholarship into an accessible and<br \/>\nedifying presentation of early Church history<\/p>\n<p>[21:20] The accessibility and affordability of creating a<br \/>\ngood-sounding podcast<\/p>\n<p>[24:16] James&#8217;s process for preparing nuanced readings of the<br \/>\nFathers at a rapid pace<\/p>\n<p>[33:03] Mike\u2019s and James\u2019s recourse to the intercession of the<br \/>\nholy authors they study<\/p>\n<p>[37:38] St. John Henry Newman and the early Fathers as masters<br \/>\nof media<\/p>\n<p>[42:40] The mastery of the Fathers&#8217; work and its relevance<br \/>\ntoday<\/p>\n<p>[45:55] The spiritual effects of narrating the writings of<br \/>\nsaints<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Support CatholicCulture.org\u2019s podcasting efforts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio\">https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catholic Culture Audiobooks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/category\/audiobooks\/\">https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/category\/audiobooks\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Way of the Fathers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/category\/way-fathers\/\">https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/category\/way-fathers\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>James T. Majewski <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamestmajewski.com\/\">https:\/\/www.jamestmajewski.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mike Aquilina <a href=\"https:\/\/fathersofthechurch.com\/\">https:\/\/fathersofthechurch.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Episode 12 interview with Mike <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/episode-12-career-in-poetry-prose-mike-aquilina\/\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/episode-12-career-in-poetry-prose-mike-aquilina\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This podcast is a production of CatholicCulture.org. If you like<br \/>\nthe show, please consider supporting us!<a href=\"http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio\">\u00a0http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n      var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n      if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n      js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n      js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.8&appId=834757889913083\";\n      fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicculturepodcast.libsyn.com\/ep-64-advancing-the-faith-in-the-podcast-medium-mike-aquilina-james-t-majewski\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 30, 2020 It\u2019s Podcast Week here at CatholicCulture.org, as we want to make more people aware of our audio offerings, particularly the two new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":297139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}