A Healthy Way to Understand the Papacy

Every Knee Shall Bow (Your Catholic Evangelization Podcast)

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4.9 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Mike Gormley and Dave VanVickle conclude their series on Pope Leo XIV, exploring themes of idolatry, key Biblical lessons, and how his papacy compares with those of earlier popes. They also give a sneak peek into their upcoming season on the parables!

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:03.0	To discover even more free Catholic podcasts, videos, and resources, to help you live your faith every day, visit ascensionpress.com.
0:11.0	Money, sex, career, family, liturgy, like all these things are good things, even transcendent things.
0:18.0	But when they become the main thing, they ruin everything.
0:23.8	And the only thing that's worthy of being the main thing is God.
0:42.2	Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to every knee Bow, your weekly Catholic podcast on evangelization and discipleship.
0:48.1	My name is Mike Gomer Gormanley, and I am joined today by Dave, the Britney Spears of our generation Van Vickle.
0:48.8	How you doing, Dave?
0:51.3	Good.
0:55.2	I don't know where that came from at all, but I do have some sweet dance moves.
0:59.9	And you have a lower back tattoo.
1:04.3	I do not have a lower back tattoo. Do not tell people that. That's not true.
1:07.6	It's not a tribal thing that says juicy.
1:11.9	Oh, man.
1:15.4	Do you remember when that was so popular when we were like teenagers?
1:16.3	Yeah.
1:21.3	And I remember like being, you know, you remember like the community pools where you went to like cruise for for the ladies, you know?
1:25.3	Yeah, that's what I did.
1:26.6	You know, then they'd turn around and you'd be like, oh, because you'd see it. Like, not my kind. I never went to a community pool to cruise for the ladies because I was terrified of women all the time. Oh, hi, ma'am, can I get you a towel? Oh, no, she looked at me. That's what young Gomer was like. I'm going to go listen to
1:47.1	Scott Hahn tapes now. Hey, have you ever heard of a Protestant minister who becomes Catholic?
1:57.2	Oh, man. If that works, then he would be like, it would be like la da da da da da da da da da da da. Yeah. You bet your soulmate. It would be like you flying a kite. I would be skipping through the tulips. Oh, man. It's been so perfectly windy almost every day this week. And I've been so busy. I haven't got my kite out once. Dude, you are getting from like, I want to say like the Dakotas down.
2:22.9	Yeah.
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