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Why did Catholics become so obsessed with the Heart of Jesus?
In this episode, we explore the forgotten mysticism of the Sacred Heart—from St. Augustine and the restless heart, to medieval devotion to Christ's wounds, to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque and the Sacred Heart revelations. Along the way, we'll look at how the Sacred Heart challenges a cold, purely intellectual faith and calls us into a deeper life of love, mercy, and transformation.
The Sacred Heart is more than a devotion. It is a vision of the Christian life itself.

In this Mass Prep for the Mystic Heart, we reflect on John 6:51-58, where Jesus tells us that His flesh is true food and His blood is true drink.
Catholics often talk about the Eucharist in terms of truth, doctrine, and the Real Presence — and we should. But in this Gospel, Jesus also reveals the Eucharist as union. He does not merely want to be admired from a distance. He wants to be received.
So this week, we look at three spiritual fruits from John 6:
Come hungry.
Let yourself be joined to Christ.
Become what you receive.
The Eucharist is not only something we defend. It is the mystery that slowly turns us into love.

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Welcome back to The Holy Fool Hotline, where Catholic Q&A gets weird, tender, chaotic, and somehow still spiritually useful.
In this episode: faceless saint art returns, and this time… one of them may have a knife. We also talk scrupulosity and John 15, joy and suffering, annoying coworkers, whether the saints had tempers, why be Catholic in the least apologetics-bro way possible, folk Catholicism, Catholic masculinity, the Sacred Heart, animals, Jack White, the B-52s, and why being angry all the time is not the same thing as spiritual zeal.
Also: Catholic grandmas remain the hidden infrastructure of grace.
Send in questions for the next Holy Fool Hotline via Patreon, and please, for the love of all that is holy, stop buying faceless saint art.

Trinity Sunday can feel intimidating, but the Gospel begins somewhere simple:
“God so loved the world.”

Catholic AI is here. But Catholic AI companies need to answer some serious questions.
In this episode, I respond to Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on artificial intelligence and ask what Catholic AI companies owe the faithful in terms of transparency, accountability, data privacy, theological review, environmental impact, and moral responsibility.
What model powers your Catholic AI? Is it using OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok, or another major LLM? Where do user prompts go? Who reviews the theology? What happens when someone asks about mortal sin, confession, scrupulosity, sexuality, grief, or despair? And if a company markets itself as a Catholic alternative to “secular AI,” shouldn’t Catholics know what is actually under the hood?
This episode is a call for greater transparency. And to stop treating the faith like a religious answer machine, and start living it as an incarnational encounter with the living Christ.

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