Ask Catholics

About Ask Catholics

Ask Catholics is a podcast run by a catechist and RCIA director to help people understand and better be able to explain the Catholic faith and to clear up a lot of misconceptions many people have when looking at Catholicism from the outside.

Publisher

Let's Talk

Category

education · religion & spirituality · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Mar 2018

Latest episode

10 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

313 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Aug 2026

   🌙👑✨ "NO TOMB FOR THE ARK (That's Quite The Assumption)"

   🌙👑✨ "NO TOMB FOR THE ARK (That's Quite The Assumption)" — If God Could Take Enoch, Elijah, and Raise the Saints, Why Is Mary's Assumption So Hard to Believe? Enoch "walked with God" and then he was gone. Elijah was carried away by fire. Moses dies, and somehow shows up talking with Jesus at the Transfiguration. When Christ rose, tombs were opened and saints once dead walked through Jerusalem. Scripture is filled with moments where God demonstrates His power over death, the grave, and the limitations of this world. Yet somehow, many people are told that the Assumption of Mary is too much to believe. Really? The same God who parted seas, raised the dead, took Enoch, carried Elijah, and conquered death itself couldn't bring His Mother home? The Bible never records relics of Mary. No universally-venerated tomb. No bones. No competing tradition claiming possession of her remains. Instead, we find the Ark revealed in heaven. We find the Woman clothed with the sun. We find a Church that consistently remembered Mary's earthly life ending not in corruption, but in glory. The Assumption isn't about making Mary equal to Christ. It's about what Christ does. The Son who conquered death would not let His Mother be swallowed by it. 🎶 "NO TOMB FOR THE ARK (That's Quite The Assumption)" — a track for converts, cradle Catholics, Scripture nerds, Marian devotees, Church history lovers, and anyone who's ever wondered why the Church believes Mary was assumed body and soul into heaven. Peter's Barque is a catechetical musical project by Justin West. He's a catechist, not a musician. The music is created principally through digital means, and the art is AI (but the words, heart, and soul are still him). Ut In Omnibus Glorificetur Deus. #Catholic #CatholicFaith #PetersBarque #CatholicMusic #Assumption #Mary #MotherOfGod #BibleStudy #ChurchHistory #Theology #CatholicTruth #ApostolicChurch 🔗 FOLLOW PETER'S BARQUE Website: https://petersbarquemusic.com X: https://x.com/petersbarque Instagram: https://instagram.com/petersbarque TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@petersbarque Facebook: https://facebook.com/petersbarque 🎧 LISTEN TO THE MUSIC Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/peters-barque/1857703433 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/07uvm7SPGUVwYdxELtbXv8 ☕ SUPPORT THE PROJECT Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/petersbarque Subscribe to Ask Catholics (https://mysoundwise.com/soundcasts/1586371584417s) on Soundwise (https://mysoundwise.com/soundcasts/1586371584417s)

2. 

   3 Aug 2026

   ⚔️📜🏰 **"THE CRUSADES: TELL THE WHOLE TALE"** — History Didn't Begin in 1095 🏰📜⚔️

   ⚔️📜🏰 **"THE CRUSADES: TELL THE WHOLE TALE"** — History Didn't Begin in 1095 🏰📜⚔️ The Crusades may be one of the most misunderstood events in history. For many people, the story begins in 1095 with European knights marching east. But history didn't start there. Long before the First Crusade, Christianity had flourished throughout North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia Minor. Ancient Christian centers like Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, and Carthage were among the most important cities in the Christian world. By the time Pope Urban II called for the First Crusade, centuries of conquest, warfare, raids, slavery, and territorial losses had already transformed the map. The Byzantine Empire appealed to the West for assistance. Pilgrims faced increasing dangers. Christian lands that had once been thriving centers of the faith had been lost. Does that mean every Crusade was justified? No. Does it excuse every action taken by crusaders? Absolutely not. Some Crusades went badly off mission. The Fourth Crusade's sack of Constantinople remains a tragedy and a scandal. Christians committed sins, and history should be honest about them. But honesty cuts both ways. Acknowledging Christian failures does not require ignoring the centuries of conflict that preceded the Crusades. Context matters. History deserves better than memes, slogans, and caricatures. That's what this song is about. Not whitewashing. Not propaganda. Not pretending Christians never did wrong. Just telling the whole tale. 🎶 **"THE CRUSADES: TELL THE WHOLE TALE"** — a song for history lovers, Catholics, converts, skeptics, students, and anyone willing to look beyond the headlines and ask what really happened. #Catholic #CatholicHistory #ChurchHistory #Crusades #History #ChristianHistory #MiddleAges #Jerusalem #ByzantineEmpire #CatholicMusic #PetersBarque #Apologetics #HistoryMatters ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚓ Disclosure Peter's Barque is a catechetical music project by Justin West. He's a catechist, not a musician. The music is created principally through digital means, and the artwork is AI-assisted, but the research, writing, theology, apologetics, and heart behind every song are his own. ⚓ Ut In Omnibus Glorificetur Deus ⚓ That in all things God may be glorified. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 FOLLOW PETER'S BARQUE 🌐 Website: https://petersbarquemusic.com 𝕏 X: https://x.com/petersbarque 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/petersbarque 🎵 TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@petersbarque 📘 Facebook: https://facebook.com/petersbarque ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 LISTEN TO THE MUSIC 🍎 Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/peters-barque/1857703433 🟢 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/07uvm7SPGUVwYdxELtbXv8 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ☕ SUPPORT THE PROJECT If you'd like to help support future songs, videos, and catechetical content: https://ko-fi.com/petersbarque Subscribe to Ask Catholics (https://mysoundwise.com/soundcasts/1586371584417s) on Soundwise (https://mysoundwise.com/soundcasts/1586371584417s)

3. 

   27 Jul 2026

   📱🙏 “There’s A Saint For That” - Patron Saints

   📱🙏 “There’s A Saint For That” — Before Silicon Valley, We Already Had The App Need directions? There’s an app for that. Need groceries? There’s an app for that. Need prayers for: lost objects, roof leaks, hopeless situations, storms at sea, burnout, snake bites, final exams, or internet arguments that should’ve ended six comments ago? Yeah. There’s a saint for that. One of the strangest accusations against Catholics is: “Why would you ask saints to pray for you?” Which is odd… because Christians ask people to pray for them literally all the time. If asking others to pray for you is wrong, then your small group text thread is a theological disaster. And if it’s GOOD for Christians on earth to pray for each other… why would it suddenly stop mattering when they’re alive with Christ in Heaven? Hebrews calls them: ☁️ “a great cloud of witnesses.” Revelation shows: 🕯️ the saints presenting prayers before God. The martyrs in Heaven cry out: “How long, O Lord?” Which means: they’re alive, aware, and participating. So this song takes that theology… and turns it into a fast, chaotic, folk-punk roll call of patron saints. 🔥 Firefighters? Florian. 🎶 Musicians? Cecilia. 📚 Teachers? La Salle. 🚛 Travelers? Christopher. 🧠 Anxiety? Dymphna. 🛠️ Workers? Joseph. 🌐 Internet users? Isidore. (…different guy from farming, dude.) And somewhere in Heaven there is almost certainly a patron saint watching your comment section and whispering: “Brother… please log off.” 🎶 “There’s A Saint For That” — a song for converts, cradle Catholics, theology nerds, exhausted parents, blue-collar workers, overworked students, and anybody who has ever asked another Christian to pray for them. #Catholic #Catholicism #PetersBarque #Saints #CommunionOfSaints #ChristianMusic #CatholicMusic #Theology #BibleStudy #Hebrews12 #Revelation5 #CatholicFaith #ChristianTok #FolkPunk #CatholicTikTok Peter’s Barque is a catechetical music project by Justin West. He’s a catechist, not a musician. The music is created principally through digital means, and the art is AI — but the words, heart, and theology are still him. ⚓ Follow Peter’s Barque: 🎵 https://www.youtube.com/@peters-barque ⚓ https://x.com/petersbarque 🌊 https://petersbarquemusic.com ☕ Support future songs: https://ko-fi.com/petersbarque Subscribe to Ask Catholics (https://mysoundwise.com/soundcasts/1586371584417s) on Soundwise (https://mysoundwise.com/soundcasts/1586371584417s)

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