The Catholic Church betrayed its children. This episode doesn't look away from that.
But it asks the question most people skip: when we say what was done was truly, permanently wrong — wrong before the law caught up with it, wrong when powerful men said otherwise — what standard are we actually using? And what does it mean that it grew inside the tradition that failed to live by it?
Beginning with a cardinal who put the Church on trial in 1049 and ending with a survivor who resigned from the Vatican's own child protection commission in 2017 — this is an episode about the difference between the carriers and the thing being carried.
The carriers failed. The question is whether what they were carrying failed with them.
15 May 2026
Can Science Explain Why We Exist?
In this episode, we explore one of the oldest and most serious arguments for the existence of God — the argument that the universe exists, but didn't have to. That everything you have ever seen, touched, or encountered is borrowed. That borrowed things require something to borrow from. And that the chain of borrowing has to end somewhere.
What you're actually hearing in this episode is three distinct philosophical arguments running together: the Cosmological Argument from Contingency, associated with Gottfried Leibniz; Aquinas's Third Way, from possibility and necessity; and the Kalam Cosmological Argument, which adds the dimension of time and the universe's beginning. Each of them arrives at the same place by a different route. In this episode they run as one. In future episodes, each will be unpacked and examined on its own terms.
11 May 2026
Can You Actually Defend Your Atheism?
Most people walking around with confident opinions about God have never actually examined the question. This video is for them.Six arguments. No preaching. No easy answers. Just the case that the question deserves more than the dismissal it usually gets — and that some of the most rigorous non-religious minds of the last century quietly agreed.Watch it. Then disagree with me in the comments.
8 May 2026
The Extraordinary Trial of Jesus of Nazareth
In first-century Jerusalem, two legal systems operated side by side. One was built with more protections against wrongful execution than almost anywhere else in the ancient world. The other placed total authority in a single man with no obligation to justify his decisions to anyone.On a single night, both of those systems were used on the same man.One condemned him. One declared him innocent.He was executed anyway.Subscribe for videos on Catholic teaching, Christian history, saints, Scripture, apologetics, philosophy of religion, and the meaning of faith in the modern world.Visuals may include AI-generated artistic illustrations and symbolic reconstructions used for educational and storytelling purposes. They are not archival images or depictions of recorded events unless otherwise stated.
4 May 2026
Why Has Every Human Culture Believed In God?
Every human culture that has ever existed has done the same thing. Separated by oceans, by millennia, by thousands of miles of wilderness — they all reached for something beyond the visible world.Plenty of serious people have tried to dismiss it. But the more you push on it, the harder it becomes — and the more uncomfortable the alternative gets. Because if the reaching is universal, if nothing in human history has ever stopped it, if even the most powerful states ever built couldn't extinguish it — then at some point you have to ask yourself an honest question.What if we've been right all along?
30 Apr 2026
The Moral Cost of Staying Uncertain
Most people would say doubt is healthy. Intelligent, even. But what if that's too easy an answer?This episode takes one question seriously — not as a theological problem, but as a moral one. If you've spent years examining your doubts and never moved, is that still honesty? Or has it quietly become something else?Four people. Four different conclusions. No clean answers.
27 Apr 2026
What If Faith Was Never About Believing?
Most people think faith means believing something you can't prove. The atheist rejects it on those grounds. The believer defends it on those grounds. And neither of them has gone back to check whether those are the actual grounds.
They aren't.
The Greek word the New Testament uses for faith — pistis — didn't mean belief. It meant loyalty. Commitment. The word a Roman soldier used when he swore an oath before a battle he might not come back from. When the scholar Jerome translated the New Testament into Latin in the fourth century, he reached for the Roman equivalent — fides — for exactly the same reason. He recognised what the early Christians were doing. They weren't believing. They were committing.
This episode traces how we lost that meaning, why it matters, and what a different definition of faith opens up — for believers and non-believers alike.
17 Apr 2026
Jesus, a man of history?
One of the most widely recognised names in human history belongs to a man who ruled no kingdom, commanded no army, and ended his life on a Roman cross. By every measure Rome had developed for dealing with troublemakers, his story should have ended there. It didn't. In this episode, we put Jesus of Nazareth back into the world he actually lived in — a world of mass crucifixions, failed messiahs, and a population living under an occupation it believed God had not forgotten about. We look at what the hostile witnesses said, what the historians recorded, and why the question of what happened after the crucifixion is one that two thousand years of scholarship hasn't been able to close.
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8 Jan 2026
Slavery: Global Enforcement
This episode examines what happened after Britain abolished the slave trade — and why that decision was only the beginning. It follows Britain’s choice to enforce abolition in a world that largely rejected it, tracing the creation of naval patrols, international treaties, and legal mechanisms designed to suppress the trade at sea. The episode confronts the human and financial cost of that commitment, including the deaths of thousands of sailors and the absence of material gain or imperial rew...
7 Jan 2026
Slavery: Political Sacrifice
This episode explores what happened after Britain’s moral awakening about slavery, when Christian conviction collided with Parliament, profit, and imperial power. It follows the long, exhausting struggle to translate conscience into law, focusing on years of resistance, delay, and repeated failure led by figures like William Wilberforce. By examining the arguments against abolition — economic collapse, imperial rivalry, and fears of instability — the episode shows that Britain’s decision was ...
6 Jan 2026
Slavery: Moral Awakening
This episode traces how Britain came to see slavery not as an unfortunate fact of life, but as a moral wrong that demanded repentance. It explores a world in which slavery was normal, profitable, and largely unquestioned, and shows how a distinctly Christian moral claim — that every human being bears the image of God — began to reclassify slavery itself as sin. By examining Britain’s deep entanglement in the slave system, the role of Christian abolitionists, and the quiet but decisive shift i...
5 Jan 2026
#7 - Two Churches, Two Logics
This episode explores the often-assumed similarity between Catholicism and Anglicanism, and why that assumption breaks down under closer examination. By looking beyond aesthetics and culture, it examines how each tradition understands authority, Scripture, sacraments, moral teaching, unity, and continuity over time. The episode argues that these differences are not accidental, but flow from two distinct ways of holding truth across history. It closes with a personal reflection on why Catholic...
22 Dec 2025
#6 - Before the Rules
This episode explores why Catholicism is so often misunderstood as a system of rules, and why that starting point misses what the Church is actually claiming. Drawing on personal experience, it argues that Catholicism begins not with moral demands, but with deeper questions about reality, human nature, and meaning. Only once those foundations are in place do rules make sense. The episode invites listeners to slow down, rethink their assumptions, and approach Catholicism in the order it ...
19 Dec 2025
#5 - Responsibility Before Rights
This episode explores the growing gap between rights and responsibility in modern moral life, and asks why responsibility has become so difficult to articulate. It examines where moral authority comes from, why societies have historically trusted the Catholic Church to speak on moral questions, and how responsibility, rather than entitlement, has shaped a vision of the good life grounded in purpose, community, and human dignity. Send us a text
18 Dec 2025
#4 - What Is the Church, and Why Trust It?
This episode examines what the Church claims to be, and why it has historically asked for trust. Rather than approaching the Church as an idea or moral influence, it explores it as a living institution shaped by continuity, authority, and responsibility. By tracing how Christianity preserved truth through persecution, disagreement, and internal failure, the episode argues that the Church’s credibility does not rest on perfection, but on endurance — on its refusal to reinvent itself in respons...
17 Dec 2025
#3 - Fragmentation, Authority, and the Cost of Division
This episode explores how Christian fragmentation shaped my distance from faith — not through disbelief, but through confusion and paralysis. I examine the loss of shared authority, Britain’s Catholic past, the rupture of the English Reformation, and how the modern relocation of truth into the individual has weakened belief, community, and meaning. Against this backdrop, Catholicism emerges not as an easy answer, but as a demanding claim rooted in continuity, unity, and authority. ...
16 Dec 2025
#2 - Faith in a Modern World
What does faith really mean in the modern world? In this episode, I explore faith as belonging, practice, and trust — drawing on history, Catholic tradition, and my own ongoing journey. Send us a text
15 Dec 2025
#1 - Standing at the Door
In this opening episode of Catholic Waypoint, Liam shares the personal journey that led him from atheism and cultural Christianity to taking his first serious steps towards Catholicism. Reflecting on community, history, identity, and the experience of attending Mass for the first time, this episode sets the tone for an honest, unhurried exploration of faith — learning out loud rather than offering answers. Send us a text
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