Welcome to the Adventure!

You've Found a Very Different Kind of Catholic "Blog". Here is a Quick Welcome Note with a Few Things to Know if You're New Here.

Welcome my friends.

You may have found my Substack from a social network ad recently and I wanted to give you a rundown of what I do, and what you can expect from The Catholic Adventurer. At the end of this short post I’ll include links to 3 things that I think best represent the kind of content you’ll find here. I hope you check them out.

Making Saints

My podcasts, articles and essays have a purpose, because this site has a mission—to make saints. I share the knowledge and, experience I’ve built up over decades of my own “Catholic adventure” with others to help them along the journey of their own adventure of living as Catholics in the world. I want to help others to be better, and to be holy because the world needs saints. And saints don’t happen by accident, and knowledge and experience are two key ingredients to the “saints” formula. I can’ give you “experience,” you have to earn that yourself. But what I can give you is knowledge and I can share my experience with you.

Surprise Party

Everything I produce reflects Catholic orthodoxy, informed by tradition, theology, Church thought (philosophy), and the writings of the early Church Fathers. No heresy (I promise), no heterodoxy. But some things you learn here may surprise you. What you will find here is unique and it will sometimes surprise and challenge you. Sometimes (usually) those surprises are pleasant, and other times they may not be. Let yourself be challenged by things you may not have known about the Catholic faith before.

Subscribe…or Don’t (But I hope you Do)

You don’t have to be a subscriber to enjoy what you find here, but subscribing would provide a better experience. By subscribing you’ll get instantly notified of everything I produce and publish here. Social media is “fun” but more than 70% of my followers on social media don’t see my content updates because the algorithm doesn’t distribute every post to every person. Subscribers to my Substack get notifications and content sent to their inboxes. Also subscribers are able to participate in chat threads, leave comments, and be part of a community of other “Catholic adventurers.” I try to turn “fellowship” into fellowship. I don’t use your information for anything else. I don’t share, sell, or trade your information. The subscriber model is simply to take the social media middle-man out of the path between you and my content.

No Ads. No Circus. No Nonsense.

“Theology. Philosophy. Whimsy. No ads and no Nonsense. Just Truth.
Can you handle it? Get on board the Truth Train!”

This is a clean and pleasant reading/listening environment. That’s not by accident. Please enjoy your visits here without the madness of the social media environment. Don’t doom scroll. Read, listen, relax. Life’s too short.

Featured

Here are some things I think you’ll enjoy. They represent the character and nature of what you’ll get from me.

That’ll do it for now. I wanted to keep this short and sweet. Have a look around at the content offered here. You can find me on Twitter Facebook and Instagram, too

I hope you like what you find here. Thank you for checking out my Substack. God bless you, and may the Holy Spirit and the Blessed Mother make saints of you all, whether or not you come back here.

Ave Maria, Virgo Fidelis