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Anne surprises Steph with a deep dive into Saint Blaise whom, as it turns out, Steph has literally never heard of.  Listen in as the hosts talk throat blessing, wool combing, pig stealing and more. (#SaintBlaisePrayForUs) COLLECTION BASKET: This week we invite you to donate to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. CONNECT: WE HAVE PATREON!  http://www.patreon.com/LapsedPodcast Share your stories, thoughts, and questions with us at lapsedpodcast@gmail.com or at www.lapsedpodcast.com or call us and leave a message at 505-6-LAPSED.Follow us on Instagram (@lapsedpodcast) and Facebook.Subscribe. Rate. Review. Tell your friends!

Eliana La Casa is a real life apostate! She’s also a bilingual Argentinean stand up comedian who has been featured on Comedy Central Latinoamerica, as well as BBC Radio 4. She was voted Best Stand Up Comedian of 2021 by the Chicago Reader. She moved to the US in 2021 and has since fallen in love with Storytelling. She affirms she moved to pursue comedy, but her real goal is to try every single vegan restaurant in Chicago. Listen in as she regales Anne and Steph with tales of living as an atheist in a very Catholic country.  Check her out at https://www.elianalacasa.com/.  COLLECTION BASKET: This week we invite you to work to construct a compassionate food system at https://foodnotbombs.net CONNECT: WE HAVE PATREON!  http://www.patreon.com/LapsedPodcast Share your stories, thoughts, and questions with us at lapsedpodcast@gmail.com or at www.lapsedpodcast.com or call us and leave a message at 505-6-LAPSED.Follow us on Instagram (@lapsedpodcast) and Facebook.Subscribe. Rate. Review. Tell your friends!

Today’s episode is throw back to the BEST OF LAPSED. Relisten to our Season 1 episode where the hosts welcome their first Catholic priest onto the show…and she’s a woman! Fr. Anne Tropeano is a Roman Catholic Womanpriest who is committed to seeing women welcomed into the priesthood within her lifetime. She has a deep love of the Society of Jesus, earned a Master of Divinity from Jesuit School of Theology, and has worked in multiple parishes in the Jesuits West Province. While many have understandably walked away from the Roman Catholic Church, Father Anne chooses to obey the Holy Spirit's call to collaborate with God in bringing about gender equality in one of the most powerful institutions in the world. Learn more about her ministry at Fatheranne.com.  COLLECTION BASKET: This week we invite you to work to construct a compassionate food system at mercyforanimals.org CONNECT: WE HAVE PATREON!  http://www.patreon.com/LapsedPodcast Share your stories, thoughts, and questions with us at lapsedpodcast@gmail.com or at www.lapsedpodcast.com or call us and leave a message at 505-6-LAPSED.Follow us on Instagram (@lapsedpodcast) and Facebook.Subscribe. Rate. Review. Tell your friends!

Anne and Steph hash out their thoughts on the headline-making news of Pope Francis allowing Catholics priests to bless same sex couples. Radical change for the better, or too little too late?  The hosts have Feelings.  Listen in. Special collection: choose your own adventure!  Donate time or money to a local cause and then let us know about it!  Please!  CONNECT: WE HAVE PATREON!  http://www.patreon.com/LapsedPodcast Share your stories, thoughts, and questions with us at lapsedpodcast@gmail.com or at www.lapsedpodcast.com or call us and leave a message at 505-6-LAPSED.Follow us on Instagram (@lapsedpodcast) and Facebook.Subscribe. Rate. Review. Tell your friends!

It’s irritatingly cold and dark outside, so Anne and Steph are fully embracing all things Advent.  Steph walks us all through the surprisingly sordid history of Advent calendars. The hosts quiz themselves on their Catholic Advent knowledge.  Steph’s cat has some thoughts. Grab of mug of hot chocolate and tune in! Special collection: Community of Congregations Migrant Response CONNECT: WE HAVE PATREON!  http://www.patreon.com/LapsedPodcast Share your stories, thoughts, and questions with us at lapsedpodcast@gmail.com or at www.lapsedpodcast.com or call us and leave a message at 505-6-LAPSED.Follow us on Instagram (@lapsedpodcast) and Facebook.Subscribe. Rate. Review. Tell your friends!

::::::This is a shorter version of a longer exclusive video episode that can be viewed in full on our PATREON.:::::: This episode has EVERYTHING: scorned conservative Cardinals, inclusive Papal dinners, slightly racy circus performers at the Vatican. Listen in! LINKS: Video of the Benedict circus performance  Video of the Francis circus performance  REACH OUT: WE HAVE PATREON! http://www.patreon.com/LapsedPodcast Share your stories, thoughts, and questions with us at lapsedpodcast@gmail.com or at www.lapsedpodcast.com or call us and leave a message at 505-6-LAPSED.Follow us on Instagram (@lapsedpodcast) and Facebook.Subscribe. Rate. Review. Tell your friends!

Four baptized-Catholic women walk onto a podcast…and two of them are Lutheran pastors! Listen in as Anne and Steph get alllll the Christian deets from Cafeteria Christian co-hosts Natalia Terfa and Emmy Kegler. Topics include biblical translation nerdery (the hosts are so here for this), differences and similarities between Catholicism and Lutheranism, and that time Natalia drank holy water (gasp). There’s also a #HarryPotter interlude for those who partake. Listen in…and then go check out Natalia and Emmy’s podcast! LINKS https://www.blueletterbible.org/ Special collection: https://dissonance.org/ WE HAVE PATREON!  http://www.patreon.com/LapsedPodcast Share your stories, thoughts, and questions with us at lapsedpodcast@gmail.com or at www.lapsedpodcast.com or call us and leave a message at 505-6-LAPSED.Follow us on Twitter (@lapsedpodcast) Instagram (@lapsedpodcast) and Facebook.Subscribe. Rate. Review. Tell your friends!

Did you know that early Christian basilicas were repurposed Roman court buildings with the door in a new location? Or that there’s a chapel in Rome built from human bones?  Tune in as the Anne and Steph talk all things early Christinity and art history with lapsed Catholic art historian Heather Bowling! (Also hear the moment when Anne realizes she may be one of the tiktok husbands.) And don’t forget: we have a new PATREON!  Head to https://www.patreon.com/LapsedPodcast to contribute and get access to exclusive content, Q&As, and more! Special collection: World Central Kitchen WE HAVE PATREON!  Patreon.com/LapsedPodcastShare your stories, thoughts, and questions with us at lapsedpodcast@gmail.com or at www.lapsedpodcast.com or call us and leave a message at 505-6-LAPSED.Follow us on Twitter (@lapsedpodcast) Instagram (@lapsedpodcast) and Facebook.Subscribe. Rate. Review. Tell your friends!

Steph and Anne dive headfirst into season 3 with some major catching up on #CatholicismInTheNews! Listen in as they talk bogus bankruptcy claims, priest-related relationship drama, and mutinous nuns!   ANNNNDDDD…..the podcast has a new PATREON!  Head to https://www.patreon.com/LapsedPodcast to contribute and get access to exclusive content, Q&As, and more! LINKS Baltimore Archdiocese Files for BankruptcyHelp!  My Priest Told Me He’s Leaving His Priesthood For Me.Having Nun of ItPope Hears Young People’s Confessions at World Youth Day Special collection: UNHCR WE HAVE PATREON!  Patreon.com/LapsedPodcastShare your stories, thoughts, and questions with us at lapsedpodcast@gmail.com or at www.lapsedpodcast.com or call us and leave a message at 505-6-LAPSED.Follow us on Twitter (@lapsedpodcast) Instagram (@lapsedpodcast) and Facebook.Subscribe. Rate. Review. Tell your friends!

School’s out for the summer (and so are we)! The hosts say “go in peace” and “see you in the fall” and things like that, but not before hearing a listener story about making a pit stop at Mass on the way to the ER (because #priorities).  Have a great summer, lapsed friends! SPECIAL COLLECTION: Full Spectrum Community Outreach WE LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU! Share your stories, thoughts, and questions with us at lapsedpodcast@gmail.com or at www.lapsedpodcast.com or call us and leave a message at 505-6-LAPSED.Follow us on Twitter (@lapsedpodcast) Instagram (@lapsedpodcast) and Facebook.Subscribe. Rate. Review. Tell your friends!

The hosts try something new this episode as they each share a ***top secret*** (or maybe not-so-secret) interview with the other. Stephanie gets all the deets from real live Gen Z Catholic school girl Maeve. Anne interviews a fellow alum of her own Catholic high school, Katie Owens Mulcahy, whose recent article about the potential for women deacons in the Catholic church was featured in America Magazine. The episode includes some bad ass nun stories as well as possibly the greatest ever description of the ritual that is First Holy Communion. SPECIAL COLLECTION: Chicago Refugee Amazon Wish List WE LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU! Share your stories, thoughts, and questions with us at lapsedpodcast@gmail.com or at www.lapsedpodcast.com or call us and leave a message at 505-6-LAPSED.Follow us on Twitter (@lapsedpodcast) Instagram (@lapsedpodcast) and Facebook.Subscribe. Rate. Review. Tell your friends!

The first rule of Kairos is that you don’t talk about Kairos….and today the hosts are rule breakers!  Listen in as Anne recounts her experience with this widespread Catholic senior retreat program. References include Cindy Lauper and the Indigo Girls.   NOTE:  See below link for a (more or less) positive update on the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence/Dodgers situation since we recorded! LINKS: Vatican withdraws World Youth Day 2023 stamp after criticism in Portugal UPDATED info on Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and the Dodgers (they were asked back after we recorded!) SPECIAL COLLECTION:: https://www.institutochicago.org/ RECOMMENDATIONS:  Heavyweight Ep #51: The Elliots WE LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU! Share your stories, thoughts, and questions with us at lapsedpodcast@gmail.com or at www.lapsedpodcast.com or call us and leave a message at 505-6-LAPSED.Follow us on Twitter (@lapsedpodcast) Instagram (@lapsedpodcast) and Facebook.Subscribe. Rate. Review. Tell your friends!