The Catholic Cafe
The Catholic Cafe radio show is a 30 minute program designed to convey the Truth of Catholic Doctrine and Teaching in an informal, conversational format. Deacon Jeff, Tom and their guests sit around a table at the cafe and chat about the Church! Archived episodes are avalable at the thecatholiccafe.com (click listen)
Episodes
October 26, 2025 • 28 mins
Triumph of the Heart, a moving and hopeful movie, set in a prison cell in Auschwitz, tells the story of the final days of Saint Maximillian Kolbe and his companions. Though the subject matter may seem dark and disturbing, it is actually a story of the triumph of hope over darkness.
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October 19, 2025 • 28 mins
If you have ever wondered why the hands of the priest are consecrated, and why they are subsequently empowered to do the work that God has planned for them, you need only to look to the Book of Exodus for a clue. But, it also has a direct connection to Jesus asking us to pray without growing weary.
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October 12, 2025 • 28 mins
Join us for another Top Ten list from the Luxurious Corner Booth. This time, we talk about our top ten suggestions to kick it up a notch and enhance your praying of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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October 5, 2025 • 28 mins
AI, or Artificial Intelligence, continues to be in the news as it continues to grow more potent and more prominent. Both secular and religious corners of society are rightly focusing attention on the ethical, moral, and practical concerns for AI. Answering whether it is good, or bad, or a little of both, is something everyone should be considering.
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September 28, 2025 • 28 mins
While all suffering is painful, some suffering seems worse than others. We particularly struggle with suffering that lasts a long time, and can even extend to years. This type of long suffering can sometimes cause discouragement, depression, and may even lead us into the sin of despair.
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September 21, 2025 • 28 mins
Our nation has followed a disturbing trend of late. It seems we have lost the ability to practice civil discourse and respect for free expression and exchange of ideas in the public square. This has, at the same time, resulted in an increasing trend of tragic violence to plague our nation. We need Jesus.
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September 14, 2025 • 28 mins
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross is a Catholic Feast day that brings due attention to the Holy Cross on which our Lord and Savior achieved our reconciliation with the Father. In this Feast, we gaze upon the Cross less as an instrument of suffering and torture (while this is still certainly true), but more on the healing and reconciliation it brings.
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September 7, 2025 • 28 mins
Pope Leo XIV addressed a group of French Catholic politicians recently on pilgrimage to the Vatican. He had many good words of advice for them, while he also offered some challenges for them relating to a tendency he sees in many Catholic politicians to separate their faith life from their public life.
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August 31, 2025 • 28 mins
A lot of folks, even some Catholics, have an erroneous idea about what the Church actually teaches about the Communion of the Saints. We do not go to the Saints INSTEAD of Jesus, but we call upon them in ADDITION to Jesus and THROUGH the Body of Christ.
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August 24, 2025 • 28 mins
When the Bible uses the word KNOW, it speaks of a level of intimacy reserved for our absolute closest relationships. To know Jesus is to living in a relationship of divine intimacy with him. It is not enough to know about Jesus, we must know him intimately. And he in return knows us intimately.
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August 17, 2025 • 28 mins
A lot of Catholics know at least a little about the process for those who who wish to be baptized Catholic or come into Full Communion with the Catholic Church. It is a process formerly known as RCIA, but is now OCIA. However, we can all do a little better job of evangelization by inviting people into the process, people we are in relationship with, our friends and family.
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August 10, 2025 • 28 mins
There is an interesting Catholic Tradition that speaks of degrees of glory in heaven. But, many folks might be confused by this concept, especially when we view it through an earthly lens.
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August 3, 2025 • 28 mins
Pope Leo, in a recent Angelus address to the faithful, spoke about the prayer that Jesus Himself taught us, what has become known as the Our Father. The Pope beautifully reflected on the importance of the prayer, how the Father loves us and gives us everything we need, but also the responsibility we have to serve and forgive others.
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July 27, 2025 • 28 mins
On the 100th anniversary of the famous Scopes Trial in Tennessee that gained national attention dealing with teaching the Theory of Evolution in schools, many folks may still wonder exactly what the Catholic Church teaches about Evolution and Creation.
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July 20, 2025 • 28 mins
The Holy Father, Pope Leo, recently addressed attendees of the 5th World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly. His brief address was filled with messages of Jubilee, wisdom, worth, and most of all, hope...hope for the elderly and wisdom for the young.
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July 13, 2025 • 28 mins
The devotion of the wearing of the Brown Scapular, while popular among Catholics, is shrouded in mystery for many. Under the patronage of Mary, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, it is actually an ancient devotion with Old Testament roots leading to its founding in the middle ages.
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July 6, 2025 • 28 mins
We are a missionary Church and it is not good enough to sit idly in our pew and relish in the grace we receive at Mass. We are, each of us, called to go and make disciples. And, our mission field may be as close as our work, our grocery store, our community, and even our own home.
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June 29, 2025 • 28 mins
When Pope Leo was elected, in his very first public address, he mentioned briefly his concerns regarding Artificial Intelligence, or AI. Soon after, he addressed participants at the Second Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence, where spelled out in more detail the great potential for good...and for evil...that AI has.
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June 22, 2025 • 28 mins
When we say Amen when presented the Body and Blood of Christ at Mass, we are saying much more than I believe that this host is Jesus or that this cup contains Jesus. We are saying that we desire to be in Holy Communion with Jesus, His Church, His Mystical Body, and that we believe and profess to be true ALL that the Church teaches.
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June 15, 2025 • 28 mins
To spend too much time trying to define the Most Holy Trinity is to risk falling into heresy. Humans, with their finite capacity for understanding, have oft times tried to fully unravel the Trinitarian Mystery. However, even though we cannot know EVERYTHING about the Trinity, we can still live faithfully in this divine Mystery, and know God and live in relationship with Him.
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