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Uncharted Catholic Man — 204 episodes

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Episode 347: Sexual Bonding, Parentification, and the Challenges of NFP

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Episode 346: Frequency in Catholic Marriage. Does it Matter?

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Episode 345: Why do Catholics struggle with sex after marriage?

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Episode 344: Openness to Life? Most Catholics Can't Afford It.

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Episode 343: Does NFP help marriage | Does contraception hurt it?

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Episode 342: Father’s Day Romance: Gift or Duty?

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Episode 341: Missionary Impossible: Catholics, NFP, and Marital Satisfaction

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Episode 340: Vatican Pie: How do we talk about solo?

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Episode 339: Frequent Sexual Intimacy: God’s Design or Concupiscence?

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Episode 338: Does Catholicism Make Marriage Too Difficult?

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Episode 337: The Libido Debate: Built by God or Broken by the Fall?

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Episode 336: Catholic Mood Killer: Would marriage be better with matching libidos?

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Episode 335: Priest Hits Hornets Nest and Husband Gets Stung

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Episode 334: Missionary or Bust?

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Episode 333: When the Rules Don't Help. What are Catholics to do?

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Episode 332: Theology of the Body: Empowering Women, Ignoring Men?

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Episode 331: Grappling with Grace: When Your Doctor and Your Priest Disagree

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Episode 330: NFP: The Unplanned Pregnancy Program

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Episode 329: 50 Shades of Grave Matter. Can Catholics read sexy stories?

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Episode 328: The Extreme Wounds of Theology of the Body.

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Episode 327: Is Theology of the Body a House of Cards? Christopher West strikes again.

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Episode 326: "Reverse that Vasectomy!" Christopher West, ThD, MD, JCD.

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Episode 325: Guarding the Garden: Christopher West's Fix for Premature Ejaculation

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Episode 324: Stop blaming all your problems on the devil.

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Episode 323: More Terrible Advice From Theology of the Body Experts?

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Episode 322: Christopher West Says Reverse the Vasectomy. Is this bad advice?

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Episode 321: If Marriage Doesn't Need Sex, Does It Really Need Anything?

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Episode 320: Catholic Sexual Rules for Converts: what they didn't mention in RCIA.

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Episode 319: Theology of the Body's elephant in the room.

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Episode 318: The Marital Debt is Gone. What else can the Pope Change?

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Episode 317: Does Traditional Catholic Morality Breed Neuroticism?

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Episode 316: Kids that believe in Santa grow up hating NFP?

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Episode 315: She Said What About the Immaculate Conception?!!!

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Episode 314: Real Patriarchy in Catholic Marriage?

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Episode 313: Lila Rose angers all the Trad men. Is Christopher West just making stuff up?

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Episode 312: Do Catholic couples need a valid "excuse" to be intimate?

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Episode 311: 10 things every Catholic couple needs to know.

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Episode 310: NFP is like a circus, but without the fun.

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Episode 309: Does NFP and Abstinence Get Easier with Age?

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Episode 308: Interview with Mrs. Uncharted Catholic Man!!!

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Episode 307: Can a Catholic Man Detach Himself From Sex? And Should He?

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Episode 306: Believe As We Say Or Else: Why Many Catholics Struggle.

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Episode 305: What Would St. Augustine Say About It? And Should We Care?

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Episode 304: Christopher West's No Fail Cure for Masturbation?

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Episode 303: Why do Catholics freak out about pleasure?

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Episode 302: Procreation + Unity. Is Church Teaching Backwards on Marriage?

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Episode 301: Does Regular Intimacy Make Marriage Stronger?

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Episode 300: Happy Catholic Marriage: Is there a Secret Recipe?

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Livestream: From Marital Debt to Mutual Submission. Has the Church changed?

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Episode 299: Is Sex a need in Catholic marriage?

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Episode 298: Is Your Spouse Your Biggest Cross In Life?

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Episode 297: Why Don't Catholics Trust in God's Mercy?

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Episode 296: Sex, Lies, and Drones. How Far Will Catholic Men and Women go for Love?

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Episode 295: Where Art Thou Song of Songs? Singing the NFP Blues.

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Episode 294: Speak Now or Abstain Later: The Five Languages of Catholic Marriage.

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Episode 293: The Key to an Amazing Catholic Marriage

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Episode 292: Catholic Mutual Submission: Hot, Holy, and Practical--or Modern Heresy?

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Episode 290: Romancing Your Wife's Imagination: Literary Foreplay for Faithful Catholics?

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Episode 289: Should Catholics Pray For the Church to Change?

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Episode 288: Crisis of Faith and Threats of Hell. What are Struggling Catholics To Do?

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Episode 287: May You Suffer Happily Ever After: Reality Check for Catholic Marriages.

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Episode 286: For Pete's Sake. Can gay couples have happy relationships and raise happy kids?

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Episode 285: My Conscience Says Yes… But the Church Says NOPE. Now What?

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Episode 284: Honeymoon’s Here… and So Is Her Period. Now What, Catholics?

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Episode 283: TOB at High Speed: Christopher West beats masturbation.

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282: Catholics Hate NFP. What Should Do We Do About It?

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281: Newly Wed Wife Panics When Marriage Isn't What She Expected.

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Episode 280: Mark Wahlberg: Inspiration for Catholic Men or Unrelatable Mad Man?

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279: Are Catholics Required to Follow Humanae Vitae?

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278: Did We Really Invent "Other Acts"? (SORRY FOR THE CHOPPY AUDIO)

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277: "Catholic Marriage rules are a Hard Sell". Gee, You Think?

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276. Clogged Drains and Marital Gains: Flushing Abstinence Woes Down the Drain

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275. NFP Gets Wild and Soapy: Navigating Menopause as Catholics

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Episode 274. Abstinence Reloaded: Navigating the Matrix of NFP in Catholic Marriage

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Episode 273: P*rn in Catholic Marriage: Are We Going About It All Wrong?

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The Conflicted Catholic: Navigating Faith Struggles With Your Kids.

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Is Catholic Morality The Cure Or The Culprit For Sexual Wounds In Marriage? (episode 271)

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Should The Church Ordain Gay Priests? + NFP Mile High Adventures | Episode 269

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Episode 268: This One Time, at Catholic Camp: Talking to Kids about the Birds, the Bees, and NFP

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Episode 267: Natural Family Planning: So Easy a Caveman Could Do It.

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Episode 266: Confession Dilemmas, Christmas Miracles, and Abundant Abstinence.

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Episode 265: Are Women Treated Unfairly in Confession?

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Surviving The Desert Of Desire: Navigating NFP With A Relentless Toddler. (Episode 264)

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Episode 263: The Great Catholic Abstinence Experiment: Will He Make It to the End?

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Episode 262: NFP: Path of Sacrifice or Cult of Suffering?

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Episode 261: The Great Celibacy Challenge - Is It Even Worse Than NFP?

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Episode 259: The Truth About Contraception, NFP, And Conscience: A Candid Discussion With A Priest

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Episode 258: Fasting or Abstinence: Which is Easier in Marriage?

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Episode 257: Intimacy, Ice Cream, and Angry Neighbors: The Unfiltered Truth About Marriage

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Catholic Marriage Survival Guide: Duct Tape, Death Stares & Afternoon Delights (Ep. 256)

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Is the Church driving people away with all the sex rules?

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Confession Line: Why Women Take Their Time And Men Can't Wait To Escape - Episode 255

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Unraveling The Mystery Of Primacy Of Conscience: Livestream Playback

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Confessions of a Melancholic Catholic: Constant Quest for Joy and Belief. Episode 254.

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Birth Control Battle: Candid Catholic Chat About Contraception and NFP

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NFP: The Art of Dodging Kids and Conjugal Acts (Episode 253)

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Ice Cream, Intimacy, and the "Fertile Window": Do we actually agree with Timothy Gordon on NFP?

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Episode 252: Tied Up in Guilt: The Church's Endless War Against "Self-Abuse"

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Episode 251: From Covenant Church to Boston College: A Wicked Good Journey of Faith

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Episode 250: Holding Firm: A Stimulating Look at the History of Masturbation in Catholic Thought.

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Episode 249: Magic Wands and Marital Debt: Speculative Theology Or Heresy?

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Episode 248: "Give Me Intimacy Or Give Me Death". Tales from the Heart of the Uncharted Catholic Man

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No regular UCM episode this week

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Episode 247: Inquisition of Catholic Man Before His Wedding. Mortuus Ambulans

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Episode 246: Why Men Crave Intimacy And Does Church Teaching Make the Conjugal Act a Need?

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Episode 245: Talking Hell, Confession, Scrupulosity, Judgment, and Hope with Catholic Priest.

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Episode 244: Talking NFP, Intimacy, and Happy Catholic Marriage with Ordinary Catholic!

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Episode 243: Does Your Catholic Marriage Feel like a Minefield or a Farmfield?

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"Souls Must Be Able to Go To Hell Because of Free Will". The Fundamental Problem with this Argument.

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Rant Against The Fake NFP Apologists. Update on UCM's Sickness

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ONAN DOWN: No UCM Video this week

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Episode 242: The Problem of Natural Law in Catholic Sexual Ethics

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Episode 241: Which is Worse for Marriage: Other Acts Between Spouses or Soul Crushing Abstinence?

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Episode 240: NFP Gone Wild: Camping During The Infertile Window.

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Episode 239: Can a Man Thrive if his Wife is Unhappy? Catholic Marriage and Grappling Hooks.

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Episode 238: Is it Sinful for Catholics NOT to use NFP? NFP goes from Bad to Worse.

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Episode 237: Is Hell Empty? Jordan Daniel Wood Discusses Hope vs. Heresy and Universalism.

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Episode 236: Marital Wager: Would You Go Back In Time Machine and Start Over or Stay Put?

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Episode 235: Lord of the Scruples. A Catholic's Journey to Trad and Back Again.

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Episode 234: Catholic Teaching Based on Bad Biology or Good Theology?

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Episode 233: Adventures in Babysitting: How Should Catholics Make Time for Intimacy?

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Episode 232: NFP High Stakes. Was the Gamble Worth It?

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Episode 231: Secret to a long and happy Catholic marriage: cheat code or heresy?

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Episode 230: Are you not entertained? Does Catholic media have to be boring?

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Episode 229: Being chaste, overcoming loneliness, and forming your conscience as a gay Catholic.

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Episode 228: No Pope No Problem! Talking papacy, intimacy, and end times with a Sedevacantist.

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Episode 227: Onan's Last Stand. Trads call in the big guns. Then block me anyway.

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Episode 226: Mining for Catholic truth: Is there more to sex than Procreation and Unity?

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Episode 225: 🎵 Let's get Metaphysical! 🎵 What would Aquinas say about Only Fans?

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Episode 224: Planes, Trains, and Abstinence Periods. Why big Catholic families don't go on vacations

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Episode 223: Is abstinence harmful to your health? Is body building an occasion of sin?

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Episode 222: Can you really abuse NFP? We respond to Harrison Butker speech controversy.

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Menopause and what it means for us Catholics. Craig and Jeannie Part 2.

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Episode 221: "Don't scratch every itch" and other silly stuff good Catholics say about sex.

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Episode 220: The Agony of the Garden and other mysteries of women and marriage.

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Episode 219: Does Natural Family Planning make your marriage better? It's a thorny issue!

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Episode 218: More kids? If I were a rich man. Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum.

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Episode 217: John Michael Talbot interview. Talking community, chastity, and discernment.

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Episode 2 (C&J): An ugly husband makes a happy wife. What can turkeys teach these podcast turkeys?

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Episode 216: Captain John Farrell returns and tries to chart us back to the nature of marriage.

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Episode 1 (C&J): From Mountain Dew addict to Podcast model: a true tale of redemption.

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Episode 215: Bond. James Marriage Bond. The trials and tribulations of Natural Family Planning.

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Episode 214: Coitus Inoculus: Not even rabies can keep this podcaster down.

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Episode 213: NFP & Catholic marriage is really hard. That's what she said!

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Episode 212: Jonah agrees to wrestle Taylor Marshall, the Whale of Traditional Catholicism.

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Episode 211: Divine Mercy controversy: Lord have mercy on those naughty swing dancers.

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Episode 210: Taylor Marshall blocked us, Swing Dancing is evil, & Uncharted Catholic Matrix update!

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Episode 209: Celibacy vs. Catholic marriage. Which is actually tougher? And is NFP sinful to use?

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Episode 208: Former Trads debate NFP Catholic swingers, Other Acts, and other pressing topics.

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Episode 207: Uncharted Catholic Matrix: Have we been looking at Marital Intimacy all wrong?

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Episode 206: What came first, the chicken or scrupulosity? This is no laughing matter!

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Episode 205: Marital Debt Collectors Unite! Are you even Catholic if you don't love Marital Debt?

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Episode 204: There's no place like home: doggy style

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Episode 203: NFP is just like contraception and that’s why almost nobody uses it. 🤷‍♂️

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Episode 202: Chasing cats and fleeing concupiscence! Lie WITH your wife, not TO your wife!

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Intermission: recapping Episode 200 and looking ahead for the Uncharted Catholic Man

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Episode 201: Theology of the Body and female pleasure--where do we go from here?

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Episode 200: "Other Acts" in marriage: What do Catholics believe and why?

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Intro to Episode 200: "Other Acts" in marriage: What do Catholics believe and why? (link below)

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What does Christopher West say about "Other Acts" Part 2 (previously 166)

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Episode 199: Why are Catholics leaving the faith? Talking love and lust with former Catholic.

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Countdown to Episode 200: What does Christopher West say about "Other Acts" Part 1 (previously 164)

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Episode 198: When conscience collides with Catholic teaching. Interview with "Essence-tial Catholic"

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Episode 197: Most NFP Catholics would use birth control if the Church allowed it.

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Episode 196: Personal conscience vs. Catholic teaching. Interview with former NFL chaplain.

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Episode 195: Traditional Catholic morality and the 21st Century--friends or foes?

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Episode 194: Conceivable! The moral dilemma for faithful Catholics and responsible parenthood.

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Episode 193: 2352 Shades of Gray--quest for clarity on the biggest theological issue of our time

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Episode 192: The Catholic voter now that Roe v. Wade is gone. Thomas Polega returns to discuss.

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Episode 191: Rebels with a just cause: Saving marriage with ice baths and living marital debt free.

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Episode 190: St. Joseph vs. St. Peter: which is the better model of chastity for Catholic men?

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Episode 189: Shipwrecked again in the Uncharted waters of NFP and abstinence still sucks.

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Episode 188: Traditional Catholic orders his household. Master of his domain or red pilled menace?

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Episode 187: Uncharted Catholic News: Brittany Spears and Cardinal Burke walk in to a shoe store

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Episode 186: Amish having more whoopee and is exercise an occasion of sin? Thomas Polega joins us!

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Episode 185: Letter vs Spirit. Are Conservative Catholics defenders of truth or modern Pharisees?

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Episode 184: Adventures in abstinence, Confession scares, and Communion line alibis.

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Episode 183: Corn flakes and soccer a day keep the solo away. And when that fails, go to confession.

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Episode 182: Catholic Shades of Gray: Is Theology of the Body just Catholic purity culture?

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Episode 181: Nocturnal eviction: fact or fiction? Hopefully the NFP instructor doesn't see this.

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Episode 180: Confessions from Down Under. A listener from Australia shares his struggles and triumph

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Episode 179: To Chaste or not to Chaste, eh? Unravelling Catholic morality with Canadian podcaster

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Episode 178: Tough NFP conversations: the No Fly List continues for the Uncharted Catholic Man

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Episode 177: Abstinence, sleepless nights, and flying monkeys Just another day in the life of NFP.

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Episode 176: Interview (Part 2) with TikTok phenom, the Christian S_xpert

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12.1.23: Stop worrying about whether sex is a "need" for your husband. Ask this instead.

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11.30.23 Catholics Guys: If you want better marriage intimacy, you have to isolate the porn first.

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Episode 175: Interview (Part 1) with TikTok phenom and intimacy coach, the Christian S_xpert

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11.29.23: Is Theology of the Body the Catholic version of Purity Culture?

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11/28/23: Catholics will struggle with sin and bad habits and that's okay. We want your stories.

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11.27.23: Reflections and hope for an amazing marriage

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Episode 174: Stop playing hooky in your marriage and go learn from the Happy Wife School.

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Episode 173: Solo Scripturo: Do our tricks even work on non-Catholics?

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Help wanted: We're looking for 2-5 hours per week of behind the scenes help on the podcast.

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Any volunteers for Uncharted Catholic Mastermind?

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Uncharted Catholic Man Trailer

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Episode 172: Natural family planning rules are made to be broken, named, and baptized.

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Alert! Big improvements (changes) coming to podcast soon!

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Episode 171: 4 steps to better and more frequent intimacy in your Catholic Marriage

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Episode 170: Nocturnal Transmission: can Elon Musk save Catholic men?

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Episode 169: A listener threatens to call our bishop, but pulls out and calls in to the show instead

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Episode 167. From Occam to Galileo, weird dreams to white lies, why do all roads lead back to Onan?

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ALERT: changes coming to podcast channel and help wanted!

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Episode 166. Christopher West answers our tough questions. Or does he? (Part 2)