If you’re so depressed you can’t get off the floor, how can you get into the confessional? Ep 18

Jesuitical

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News, News Commentary, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Talking about mental health isn’t easy. And when you throw faith into the mix it often becomes even harder. Many Catholics mistakenly think that needing mental health treatment amounts to a kind of spiritual failure. This week, we talk with writer Simcha Fisher, author of The Sinner’s Guide to Natural Family Planning, about how she learned to balance her Catholic faith and therapy. And in Signs of the Times, for our listeners who have been anxiously awaiting an update, the stolen relic of St. John Bosco has been found—inside a teapot! In papal news, Pope Francis urges parents to “stop pretending to be adolescents”; and he meets with NFL legends. We also talk about Britanny Hamama, a University of Michigan ju [...] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi Jesuitical listeners, this is Oga here in the studio by herself.
0:04.0	Just want to let you guys know we experienced some technical difficulties.
0:08.0	So it fits your first time listening, you really have nothing to compare it to, just listen regardless but if you want to get a
0:15.3	better sense of how we sound listen to a previous episode last week we
0:18.8	interviewed father James Martin and this week we've got a great episode
0:22.1	with Simpka Fisher. So stay tuned.
0:24.0	Hello and welcome to Jez Wortical, a new podcast from the Perpetually Young,
0:32.0	Increasingly Hip and mostly lay editors of American
0:35.1	media.
0:36.1	That lay part means we aren't Jesuits, but we work with them.
0:39.4	Join us each week for a smart Catholic take on faith culture and the news often over drinks. I am
0:45.1	Ashley McKinless and I'm joined by Olga Segura. Hey guys and
0:49.3	Zach Pashooti. I'm back!
0:52.4	Welcome back.
0:57.0	Welcome back. You're filling in for Zach Davis who is still in China. Still in China.
0:58.0	We miss him.
0:59.0	Come back.
1:00.0	What are you doing?
1:01.0	No, thanks a lot.
1:02.0	I mean, we're excited you're here, but like, we miss that.
1:05.6	He's 13 hours ahead of us, so he came in like 12, yeah.
1:08.8	Can't even talk to him.
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