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The New Cathars
by Guillaume “Rob” Bélibaste
Eight hundred years ago, a Christian movement was driven to extinction. But its questions never disappeared. The New Cathars explores the history, faith, persecution, and surviving teachings of the medieval Good Christians, often called the Cathars, while asking a larger question: what can their story teach us about following Christ today? Three times each week, we return to the surviving texts, the Gospel, eyewitness testimony, inquisitorial records, and modern scholarship to separate what we know, what was alleged, what remains disputed, and what may have been lost. We investigate difficult questions rather than avoiding them. Were the Cathars truly dualists? What did they believe about Jesus, Mary, Scripture, the Old Testament, prayer, materialism, and salvation? What did Rome get right about them? What might their opponents have misunderstood or exaggerated? And where the evidence cannot answer, we are willing to say:
Episodes
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The Novel | Chapter 1: The Call of the Spirit
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Chapter One: The Call of the Spirit. In the market square of Foix, Esclaire overhears a whispered word about a secret meeting at the old mill, and that night she slips out of her father's…
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EP 008 | The Lord's Prayer
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! EP 008 | The Lord's Prayer For the Good Christians, the Our Father wasn't only known. It was handed over in a ceremony, with washed hands, a table, a cloth and a Book. Rob looks at why the…
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The Novel | Prologue: The Seeds of Light
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Prologue: The Seeds of Light. The old stories tell of a small boat crossing a dark sea to the shores of Gaul, and of a quiet faith that took root, centuries later, in the hills of Languedoc.…
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Bonus | The Lord's Prayer: The Prayer Jesus Gave Us
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! BONUS | The Lord's Prayer The disciples asked, "Lord, teach us to pray," and Jesus answered. In this bonus episode, Rob walks through the Our Father one petition at a time: why it begins with...
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EP 007 | The Gospel in Their Hands
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! EP 007 | The Gospel in Their Hands An inquisitor complained that the Good Christians read the Gospels and Epistles "in the vulgar tongue." Today most Christians would hear that as a…
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EP 006 | Can We Trust the Cathar Texts?
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The largest surviving work of Cathar literature never tells us its author's name. In this episode, Rob puts four questions to the Good Christians' own writings: who wrote them, how they...
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EP 005 | Can We Trust the Inquisitors?
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! In the spring of 1321, a young man from Montaillou gave three different accounts of the same deathbed. Starting from Bernard Benet's file, and correcting what we said about it in Episode 2…
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EP 004 | What Sources Survived?
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Early in the 1300s, the inquisitor Bernard Gui pointed readers to two piles of evidence: the Good Christians' own books and the confessions of converted followers. Seven centuries later, one...
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Bonus | The Lord's Prayer: The Prayer Jesus Gave Us
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! BONUS | The Lord's Prayer The disciples asked, "Lord, teach us to pray," and Jesus answered. In this bonus episode, Rob walks through the Our Father one petition at a time: why it begins with...
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EP 003 | Languedoc Before the Crusade
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Before 1209, what kind of world did the Good Christians live in? Rob looks at the Occitan language and its vernacular New Testament, a patchwork of counts, viscounts and self-governing towns…
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Bonus Series | Lyon Ritual: Consolamentum for the Sick
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The final part of a six-part New Cathars bonus series on the Lyon Ritual. Rob reads Section VI, the rite for a sick believer: the private questions about debts and honesty, the promise, the...
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Bonus Series | Lyon Ritual: Rules for Prayer and Conduct
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Part five of a six-part New Cathars bonus series on the Lyon Ritual. Rob reads Section V, a short set of practical rules: praying the Lord's Prayer on the road, at a dangerous bridge or…
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Bonus Series | Lyon Ritual: The Consolamentum
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Part four of a six-part New Cathars bonus series on the Lyon Ritual. Rob reads Section IV, the consolamentum, which the text calls a spiritual baptism by which the Holy Spirit is given through...
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Bonus Series | Lyon Ritual: Transmission of the Prayer
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Part three of a six-part New Cathars bonus series on the Lyon Ritual. Rob reads Section III, the rite in which the Lord's Prayer is formally handed on to a believer. The section is read in…
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Bonus Series | Lyon Ritual: Servissi (Confession Service)
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Part two of a six-part New Cathars bonus series on the Lyon Ritual. Rob reads Section II, the Servissi, a confession spoken together in the first person plural, with its repeated plea "Bless…
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Bonus Series | Lyon Ritual: Liturgical Phrases and John 1
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Part one of a six-part New Cathars bonus series on the Lyon Ritual, a medieval liturgical text preserved in Lyon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS PA 36 (evidence class A: a surviving...
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EP 002 | Good Men and Good Women
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! "How can they be good people, if they are called heretics?" A young woman in Montaillou asked that in the 1290s, and in this episode Rob follows the question through the surviving Occitan...
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Bonus | I Wish I Had a Great Origin Story
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! There's no dramatic conversion story here, no rock bottom and no lightning bolt. In this personal bonus episode, Rob reflects on a lifetime of quiet moments that felt like a second presence in...
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EP 001 | Who Were the Cathars?
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The name most people use for the medieval Good Christians of Languedoc first appears in a hostile sermon written in the Rhineland around 1163. In this opening episode, Rob traces where the…
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Episode 0: Trailer — Welcome to The New Cathars
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Welcome to New Cathars, a historical, educational, and forward-looking Christian podcast that is Christ first and Gospel focused. Host Rob sets out to recover the medieval Good Christians of...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Eight hundred years ago, a Christian movement was driven to extinction. But its questions never disappeared.
The New Cathars explores the history, faith, persecution, and surviving teachings of the medieval Good Christians, often called the Cathars, while asking a larger question: what can their story teach us about following Christ today?
Three times each week, we return to the surviving texts, the Gospel, eyewitness testimony, inquisitorial records, and modern scholarship to separate what we know, what was alleged, what remains disputed, and what may have been lost.
We investigate difficult questions rather than avoiding them. Were the Cathars truly dualists? What did they believe about Jesus, Mary, Scripture, the Old Testament, prayer, materialism, and salvation? What did Rome get right about them? What might their opponents have misunderstood or exaggerated? And where the evidence cannot answer, we are willing to say:
HOSTED BY
Guillaume “Rob” Bélibaste
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