Episode 267: Not All Satisfaction Is Good: Understanding Codependency As Relationship Cancer
What if you're mistaking something emotionally dangerous for love? In this episode, Dr. Greg tackles a painful but common pattern: relationships that look close, committed, and appear to be flourishing, yet quietly trap both people in fear, dependence, and anxiety.
Key Topics:
Why both partn...
Episode 271: Forgive, Explode, Repeat: Humanizing Borderline Personality with St. John Paul II
Forgive. Explode. Repeat. That's the cycle — and no matter how much effort goes into the repair, it keeps starting over. In this episode, Dr. Greg explores why genuine healing can't happen inside the cycle itself, what "walking on eggshells" misses about the person suffering, and how St. John Pau...
S11 Episode 17 – Clean exit
In this episode, the dogs talk about what it means to lead by love and treat others as “an end in themselves” (14:10). Their conversation on leadership spans baseball (0:50), combat (20:18), parish life (25:40), fatherhood (28:30), cycling (36:30), and basketball (33:37).
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“How can...
Episode 282: You're (Probably) Not a Serial Killer—But You May Share Some of Their Antisocial Traits
You're probably not a serial killer. But the patterns that shape one run through all of us, at lower volume. In this episode, Dr. Greg traces antisocial patterns back to their source in everyday life — how we manage people, pray, and protect ourselves from being hurt again.
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Why th...
Today's Catholic Mass Readings Sunday, June 14, 2026
Full Text of Readings
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 91
The Saint of the day is Saint Albert Chmielowski
Saint Albert Chmielowski’s Story
Born in Igolomia near Kraków as the eldest of four children in a wealthy family, Albert Chmielowski was chr...
Philosophy: The Queen of the Sciences
Richard Spinello looks at the intersecting life stories of four important Catholic philosophers of the 20th century - Jacques Maritain, Edith Stein, Dietrich von Hildebrand, and Karol Wojtyla - and examines the salient themes of their respective philosophies.
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Four Catholic Philos...
Insecurity: The Hidden Fuel of Sexual Addiction
Calling yourself “humble” can sound spiritual while you quietly live in self-doubt, shame, and a constant need to prove you matter. In this episode of Becoming Whole, we share part of a hard truth: insecurity and humility are not the same, and mixing them up can keep you stuck in lust and unwante...
The Quarry Audiobook by Karol Wojtyla
Listen to full audiobook for free : https://litupbook.com/free Title: The QuarryCategories: Fiction, PoetryAuthor: Karol WojtylaNarrator: Barbara GroarkPublisher: Groark AudioRelease date: 10-16-2009Language: English
Catechesis – Six Hours Before the Tabernacle – Fr Adrian Crowley
Fr Adrian Crowley reflects on the Holy Spirit as helper, counsellor, comforter and advocate, and tells the story of a young Karol Wojtyla spending six hours prostrate before the tabernacle in an unfamiliar convent chapel the night before he was made a bishop. He closes with love poured out for Ma...
Sanctity is Always Timely
By Stephen P. White
The death of Pope Paul VI on August 6, 1978 – the Feast of the Transfiguration – was not a great surprise. The pope had been in poor and declining health for some time. He had retreated to the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo a month before and had been bedridden for ...
