Keep Your Family Catholic with Devin Schadt and Judah Kennedy

Catholics – that is, true Catholics, are constantly bombarded and persecuted by the culture’s version of love. The popularized slogan “love is love” really means, “if you are a loving person, you must accept what any person deems as love–even if that runs contrary to your beliefs and morals.” Contraception, spouse trading, pedophilia, same-sex acts, no-fault divorce, sex-changes, pornography, polygamy, abortion, and adultery are ju...

Religion has been defined as the means by which human beings attempt to “reach” God and make God knowable. In an attempt to accomplish this man has offered many solutions to the problem of religion. Being that each religion maintains and proclaims different and varied tenants of belief–often opposing each other–there are only three scenarios: first, all religions are correct (which cannot be true); all are religions are incorrect (...

God won’t deny me heaven… I am not evil…I’m actually a pretty good person. It doesn’t matter what religion you identify with, or if you identify with any religion at all–what matters is that you are a good person. Ideas like these are nearly universally accepted, even among devout Christians. But what if the idea of “being good” as the standard of one’s salvation is actually bad? But could this idea be thwarting the initiative to s...

Zero sum thinking, also called zero sum fallacy assumes that there is a fixed amount of “X’ and when two parties desire “X,” one person’s gain will become another person’s loss. In Don’t Fall for Zero, Devin Schadt and Judah Kennedy discuss questions like: How do Christians apply the zero-sum fallacy to God, Mary, and the saints? Is praying to the saints stealing honor from God? Is the veneration of saints an act of idolatry that r...

We all have a multitude of very real, ongoing challenges that we confront daily. No one is exempt. Though our challenges differ, we all have one universal challenge in common. Most people miss this. Understanding your biggest battle, deciding and attempting to win this battle and determining how to fight in this battle will determine your happiness and your salvation.

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What stops us from allowing God’s power to be manifest in and through us? Sin -right? Not exactly. Sin is a problem–nut not THE problem.

You and I will sin, will fall, and will fail–and perhaps fall big. When we fail and fail how we respond after that awful moment determines everything.

In TCF Episode 9 “After You Sin Big” I discuss the two ultimate responses to a big fall and why it is vital to get that response right… and if you ...

The Catholic Father Answers is a podcast where Devin Schadt answers questions regarding fatherhood, authentic masculinity and the Catholic Faith. In TCF Answers Episode 7, "I've Failed as a Father" Devin responds to the question, "I’ve got several children. One is doing okay, but the other two are really struggling with addiction, failing to keep a job – life in general. After encountering your message I cannot help but to think I ...

We all want more. More money, more time, more success, more prestige, more pleasure, more fun, more friends, fans, and followers… we all want more. But often the more we want the less we have. Why do we often lose what we worked so hard for? How do we get more?

We are commanded to be generous, to give, and help others. But often we become fearful that if we give, we will have less. We are tempted to believe that having more is achi...

Devin Schadt answers questions regarding fatherhood, authentic masculinity and the Catholic Faith. In TCF Answers Episode 3, "What Makes Man a Real Man?" Devin responds to the question, "I've watched and listened to a lot of podcasts about being a real man. They talk about everything from the way you dress, how you posture yourself, passage rites, martial arts/fighting and competition, self-mastery, weightlifting etc. I've tried al...