Forte Catholic - Episodes Tagged with “Christmas”

412: The Cruise, Best Uber Driver & Hot Takes w/ Chris Bartlett

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 01:00:00 -0600

Taylor shares about his first ever cruise experience with his family over the Holidays. Chris took his family skiing & brings some hot takes to the table for debate.Taylor shares that one of the biggest faith encounters he's had in YEARS happened in an Uber! Wild connections to some of our biggest faith heroes.

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411: New Year's Episode w/ Aaron Weber

Taylor Schroll — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:00:00 -0600

Comedian Aaron Weber is back to join us once again in the Christmas season to celebrate another great year! Aaron welcomed his first child and shares about that experience. Taylor also gets to share about his high levels of anger at Christmas masses! Hooray! Happy New Year y'all!

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410: Christmas Episode w/ Jon Bearded Blevins

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 01:00:00 -0600

After a two year hiatus, Bearded Blevins is back on the Forte Catholic Podcast to celebrate the birth of the little baby Jesus!

Jon was one of the OG cohosts of this show and had to bow out when new live endeavors arose. He's back now to share about those endeavors. We also do a draft of characters from the Nativity story in the Bible & rank Christmas foods and movies!

From our whole team at Forte Catholic, we wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas!

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370: Piety & Military Priests w/ Grassroot Catholic & Fr. Uncle Sam

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 01:00:00 -0600

Happy New Year! Taylor is back with some great guests to celebrate the New Year. Keith from Grassroot Catholic returns to the show to co-host this week. He & Taylor discuss their Christmas celebrations, including quite possibly the worst Mass experience Taylor has ever had! Later, they discuss piety, knowing we love God but lacking the desire to do anything about it & devotion. Keith tries to guide Taylor through some issues as an emergency spiritual director stand-in. Follow Keith @grassrootcatholic on Instagram.

Also this week, Fr. Peter Pomposello joins Taylor to teach us about military priests. Fr. Peter (also known as Fr. Uncle Sam) discusses how he became a priest for the diocese of the US military, how the military works with priests & more. It's a fun discussion with insight into an entire part of the Catholic world that Taylor knew almost nothing about.
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Special Guests: Fr. Peter Pomposello and Grassroot Catholic.

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369: The Christmas Episode! w/ Aaron Weber

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 01:00:00 -0600

Merry Christmas from all of us to all of you! The gang is all hear with our yearly guest, comedian Aaron Weber.

All three cohosts join in the celebrations! Taylor is first joined by Allison Sullivan to share their favorite & least favorite parts about the Christmas season.

Then, Fr. Anthony & Aaron Weber join in for the second segment. Having Aaron as our Christmas guest is a yearly tradition since 2018! This year, we discuss holiday traditions, Aaron's Comedy Central special this year, & Father Anthony's pastoral heart. Check out more from Aaron at https://aaronwebercomedy.com/

Kathryn Whitaker joins Taylor for the final segment as they debate "Mary Did You Know?" Choosing a side on whether she knew or not has become a yearly Catholic online tradition & Taylor & Kathryn are on opposite sides of the debate. They hash it out and hope to sway you to their side.

Thank you so much for listening! We love you guys! Merry Christmas!

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320: Christmas Episode with Comedian Aaron Weber & Fr. Anthony Sciarappa

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 01:00:00 -0600

Aaron Weber, Father Anthony and Taylor unite for their annual Christmas episode! They debate a theory about comedy that Father Anthony has and Aaron shares the funniest moral dilemma he found himself in that we've ever heard! Check out Aaron's comedy at http://aaronwebercomedy.com/.

In the rest of the episode, Taylor & Fr. Anthony touch base on how their Advent went, share some Christmas insights and Taylor shares about a funny announcement made before Mass at his parish.

To close the show, they do their new segment "Plane Theology" where Taylor puts Fr. Anthony on the spot with theology questions he got no prep time for. This week's topics include if the Apostles were baptized, if demons can hear our thoughts and if Mary knew.

Merry Christmas y'all from the Forte Catholic family!

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319: Positivity, Evangelization & Cancel Culture w/Kathryn Whitaker

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 01:00:00 -0600

Kathryn joins Taylor in studio to share some exciting news! They talk about the gift of positivity & the Church's mandate to evangelize. Kathryn also helps Taylor write an upcoming talk he is giving on cancel culture.

From all of us at Forte Catholic, we wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas!

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271: Christmas, Santa & Church Engagement w/Aaron Weber, Jon Blevins & Fr Anthony

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 01:00:00 -0600

Jon Blevins cohosts two segments of our Christmas special. He and Taylor hung out in person this week for only the second time ever. They chat about that & Jon's strange request. Taylor also shares his thoughts on being entertaining vs. being engaging and what that means for the Church.

Next, Fr. Anthony and Aaron Weber join Taylor on the show for what has become an annual Christmas tradition! This is the 3rd year in a row that comedian Aaron Weber has been our guest for the Christmas episode. They discuss Aaron's big year of getting married, losing a ton of weight, his first standup special and more. They also tackle the age old Christmas season question of how tall Jesus and Mary were.

Jon rejoins Taylor for the final segment to go through a list of life lessons we can learn from Santa. They're mostly silly with some good advice hidden in there. Merry Christmas from all of us here at Forte Catholic!

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220: Friends, Freestyle Preaching & Sacrilege

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 02:00:00 -0600

The New Year's Special with Fr. Anthony and Taylor!

Taylor looks back on 2020 to try and find something good but instead goes back further cuz he couldn't find anything. The two reminisce about their friendship and how its grown and discuss the balance between poking fun at each other and being genuine.

Taylor found the PERFECT new tune for the ABC's and asks Fr. Anthony if it's sacriligious.

Fr. Anthony gets another crack at Freestyle Preaching and writing his Christmas homily on the show.

Merry Chhhristmas & Happy New Year!

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219: The Forte Catholic Christmas Special w/Allison Sullivan

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 09:00:00 -0600

Allison Sullivan cohosts our fourth Christmas special wearing a festive hat!
The show kicks off with Taylor sharing the most revolutionary insight he's ever had on the show! It will change the course of Christianity FOREVERRR!!! And also talks about a rare occasion in 2020 where he had too much of a good thing and a difficult decision he had to make. Allison lovingly guides him through this with her motherly love.

The second segment, Allison shares how she's super famous now because of TikTok and how her and her son are going to LA to become actors and why she loves it all so much!

And finally, Taylor shares how he tried really hard to go to Mass and still screwed it up and the difference between waiting and waiting(we promise it will make sense when you watch).

From all of us here at Forte Catholic, we wish you and yours a very Merry Chhhhhristmas!

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115: Merry Christmas! w/comedian Aaron Weber & pranks on Fr. Anthony

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 26 Dec 2018 16:00:00 -0600

Merry Christmas from the Forte Catholic crew!

We start the show off with a prank on Fr. Anthony! We continue by discussing how to keep Christmas going with a new understanding of peace and what the baby King means to us today.

This episode, we are joined by comedian Aaron Weber! Taylor got to see him perform live on his tour with John Crist, thought he was hilarious and invited him on the show. Now that it's not just Taylor & his friends making jokes, this is one you don't want to miss!

In the final segment, we are joined by local youth minister Daniel Loch as he shares a heartwarming story about how his church did something extremely special for a young family. The story is inspirational and challenges all of us on what it means to be church.

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112: Finding Rest in the Holidays & Seminarian life w/ Travis Crotty

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 08:00:00 -0600

Taylor is joined by Shaun McAfee to kick off the Advent season with ample reminders to slow down and find rest in God. Taylor shares from one of the weirdest weeks he's had in a while that led into Advent. From travel, to being pulled over, to tech difficulties, to being a guest on an atheist's podcast, it was an interesting one for sure. And there's an Advent connection to all of it!

In the second segment, seminarian Travis Crotty joins the show to share what "A Day in the life of a Seminarian" is like to give us a behind the scenes look into preparation for the priesthood. He shares particularly about the media fast he took and its implications for us this Advent season.

In the final segment, we chat about what we are doing for Advent & how it is one of our favorite seasons to draw us back into the life of Christ.

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