All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
433 episodes of All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri since the first episode, which aired on September 4th, 2017.
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Impure Thoughts: How Far is Too Far?
November 25th, 2025 | 21 mins 45 secs
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Where’s the line between appreciating someone’s beauty and falling into lust? Dr. Sri breaks open St. John Paul II’s wisdom from Love and Responsibility to help us understand the inner movements of attraction, temptation, and purity. With clarity and compassion, he explains the three stages that lead from innocent attraction into lust—and how resisting temptation, even imperfectly, is already a victory of grace.
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Finding the Light in Spiritual Darkness
November 18th, 2025 | 23 mins 32 secs
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What part of your life is feeling dark right now? In this special on-location episode, Dr. Sri takes us up Mount Tabor—the very site of the Transfiguration—to explore how this powerful event speaks directly into the darkest places of our lives. Standing where Peter, James, and John once witnessed Christ’s glory, Dr. Sri reflects on why Jesus revealed His radiance at this pivotal moment and how that same light strengthens us through seasons of confusion, fear, weakness, and suffering.
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Giving God a Full ‘Yes’ Like Mary
November 11th, 2025 | 18 mins 54 secs
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What would it look like for you to give God your full “yes,” like Mary did? In this special on-location episode from the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth, Dr. Sri explains the rich details behind the profound event of the Annunciation. Discover how Mary’s wholehearted “yes” to God became a major turning in salvation history—and how you, too, can open your heart fully to God's will.
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Why Catholics Believe in Purgatory—and Why It's Good News
November 4th, 2025 | 20 mins 15 secs
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Purgatory isn’t about punishment—it’s about love that purifies. Dr.Sri unpacks one of the most misunderstood Catholic doctrines and reveals how the “fires” of purgatory are really the fire of God’s love—healing, cleansing, and transforming our hearts so we can love Him completely.
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Do the Saints Distract Us from God?
October 28th, 2025 | 20 mins 57 secs
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How do the saints help us get closer to God? Dr. Sri addresses common questions and misconceptions about the saints, explaining the difference between worship and honor, emphasizing that Catholics do not worship saints but honor them for their exemplary lives devoted to God. As we prepare to celebrate All Saints Day this week, learn how the lives of the saints help us give more praise to God.
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Virtue and the Emotions (Part 2)
October 21st, 2025 | 29 mins 44 secs
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Our emotions don't have to be an obstacle to our holiness. In part two of this series, Dr.Sri explains how we can integrate our reason, our will, and our emotions so we can experience true freedom.
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Virtue and the Emotions (Part 1)
October 14th, 2025 | 18 mins 57 secs
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Do you ever find that certain emotions suddenly surface and seem to take control? In part one of this series, Dr. Sri explores the Church’s Do you ever find that certain emotions suddenly surface and seem to take control? In part one of this series, Dr. Sri explains the Church’s teaching on the emotions and reveals God’s marvelous plan for them—highlighting their vital role in the moral life. Discover how the virtues don’t suppress our emotions but rather help to integrate them properly.
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When Your Mind Wanders in the Rosary
October 7th, 2025 | 20 mins 47 secs
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Do you ever find it difficult to pray the Rosary? In honor of the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, Dr. Sri reflects on the common challenges many of us experience in praying the Rosary and reminds us that even when our minds wander or we grow weary, the Rosary remains a profoundly sacred and powerful prayer.
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St.Thérèse & Trauma: The Real Story of Her Soul (Part 2)
September 30th, 2025 | 35 mins 52 secs
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Many of our ongoing struggles trace back to deeper wounds—and this was certainly true for St. Thérèse. In part two of this series, Dr. Sri continues to explore the childhood traumas that affected St.Thérèse and more importantly, how God gave her the grace to do His will in the midst of them.
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St.Thérèse & Trauma: The Real Story of Her Soul (Part 1)
September 23rd, 2025 | 24 mins 44 secs
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Do you know the real story of St. Thérèse of Lisieux? Dr. Sri delves into the depth of St. Thérèse's life, highlighting her profound sufferings, trauma, and family challenges. Dr. Sri explains how these adversities became the very context in which she encountered God’s grace and mercy—shaping the heart of her spirituality, the “Little Way.”
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Do You Truly Have a Catholic Worldview?
September 16th, 2025 | 28 mins 55 secs
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To truly understand the Gospel and share it effectively, we must first embrace a Catholic worldview—a way of seeing reality through the lens of the Faith. Dr. Sri emphasizes that this step is an essential starting point for engaging in meaningful and fruitful conversations about the Gospel.
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3 Ways We Misuse Anger
September 9th, 2025 | 21 mins 26 secs
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How do you respond when you're not being treated well? Drawing on the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas, Dr. Sri identifies three key ways to recognize when anger is leading us down astray and explains how to use this passion constructively.
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The Bible Commands us to "Be Angry"?
September 2nd, 2025 | 25 mins 51 secs
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Why did God give us the passion of anger? Dr. Sri examines both the virtue of righteous anger, which seeks to restore justice and harmony, and the pitfalls of sinful anger and unreasonable patience.
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3 Signs We Struggle with Pride
August 26th, 2025 | 21 mins 27 secs
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What are the classic signs that we struggle with the sin of pride? Drawing from St. Thomas Aquinas, Dr. Sri breaks down three ways we can subtly fall into pride and emphasizes the importance of acknowledging our dependence on God and His grace.
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Why Self-Control Leads to Greater Joy
August 19th, 2025 | 22 mins 33 secs
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Temperance might appear to limit our freedom, but it actually orders our desires, making room for the deeper joys God created us to experience. Dr. Sri explains the sin of gluttony and shares how fasting and self-control are pathways to freedom and joy in Christ.
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The Religion of Our Secular World
August 12th, 2025 | 24 mins 53 secs
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Did you know that even secular individuals hold religious-like beliefs? Dr. Sri examines the secular world’s values, promises of salvation, and utopian ideals, and contrasts these with the core tenets of the Gospel. He revisits the five key aspects of the Kerygma—relationship, rebellion, reconciliation, recreation, and response—and explains how the secular vision borrows from and distorts these principles.