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Saints and Skeptics

Saints and Skeptics

By: Michael Ryan
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 What if doubt isn’t the enemy of faith, but the doorway to deeper understanding? Saints and Skeptics takes you beyond surface-level answers into thoughtful conversations at the crossroads of Catholicism, history, philosophy, and real-world skepticism. Whether you believe, question, or wrestle with both, this is the podcast that isn’t afraid to tackle what others avoid.Copyright Michael Ryan Spirituality
Episodes
  • [Prayer Series] A Prayer For Peace

    [Prayer Series] A Prayer For Peace
    Jun 19 2025
    Saints & Skeptics Prayer Series - A Prayer For Peace (Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi)

    Recited five times.

    To follow along:

    Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
    where there is hatred, let me sow love;
    where there is injury, pardon;
    where there is doubt, faith;
    where there is despair, hope;
    where there is darkness, light;
    where there is sadness, joy.
    O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
    to be consoled as to console,
    to be understood as to understand,
    to be loved as to love.
    For it is in giving that we receive,
    it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
    and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
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    3 mins
  • What was the Council of Trent?

    What was the Council of Trent?
    Jun 12 2025
    In this episode of Saints and Skeptics we ask "What was the Council of Trent? How did it impact Catholicism? Who attended this Council and what were they even talking about there? Who is Trent?"

    Lets find out!
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    37 mins
  • Who is Mary and do Catholics worship her?

    Who is Mary and do Catholics worship her?
    Jun 4 2025
    In this episode of Saints and Skeptics we ask "Why do I always see so many statues or icons of Mary at Catholic churches or in Catholic media? I thought the first commandment said “You shall not have other gods beside me”? Don't Catholics worship her and treat her like god?"

    Lets find out!



    Citations from this episode:

    • Council of Ephesus (A.D. 431) https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3810.htm
    • Sermon 186 - St. Augustine
    • Ineffabilis Deus - Apostolic Constitution of Pope Pius IX on the Immaculate Conception (December 8, 1854)
    • POPE PIUS XII - MUNIFICENTISSIMUS DEUS
    • CCC 2096
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    29 mins
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