Life is a Miracle

Catholic Stuff You Should Know

J. 10 Initiative

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode Frs. John and Sean take up Wendell Berry's Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition. Laying out his critique of Edward O. Wilson's Consilience, the podcast discusses how the Enlightenment worldview seeks to enshrine empiricism and adorn science as the capstone of reality. In Berry we find a compelling argument for the true unknowability of creation, which as gift, is nothing short of a miracle.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Catholic Stuff You Should Know, a J-10 initiative.
0:11.0	Hey, welcome to the podcast, Father John.
0:12.9	This is Father Sean.
0:14.4	Dark days here in Colorado.
0:16.6	We are coming off the absolute destruction of the Colorado Avalanche against the Vegas Golden Knights.
0:24.2	That was a huge upset and upsetting.
0:27.8	I mean, I've been physically ill saying game four.
0:31.3	Like actually, I think my body manifested the stress of it.
0:34.8	That's funny.
0:36.2	It was so bad.
0:39.3	It was bad. It wasn't even, it wasn't close. It wasn't competition. It wasn't competitive. And you watch the game and it's just like,
0:43.6	did they even want to be here right now? I know. So for those hockey fans listening,
0:47.8	you understand it's a it's an 82 game season. And when you watch a team just crush,
0:52.9	they're the best team in the league playoffs are always
0:56.6	unexpected it's always wild um speaking of wild we had a great series against the caro wild or the
1:02.9	minnesota wild we crushed them around and then um completely fell apart and i think this is the
1:08.3	best team i've ever seen uh so but the weather beautiful, and it's a sunny day in Colorado, but there's streaks of melancholy running through the heart here. Well, my prediction is that David Carle will become the next head coach. Oh, our friend. I hope he doesn't. I hope he stays at Dio, but we'll have to see.
1:28.3	I did tell his wife about the podcast recently, so we'll see if Melissa listens.
1:31.7	But their person is Our Lady Lords.
1:33.9	We had all the graduations this week, preschool, kindergarten.
1:38.2	I guess everybody celebrates a graduation now.
1:40.6	Well, it's technically kindergarten continuation.
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