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Catholics in Ordinary Time

Catholics in Ordinary Time

By: Fr. Jack Bentz S.J.
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 Hello everyone, and welcome to Catholics in Ordinary Time, a podcast where we listen to Catholics. Pretty simple really. I'm a Jesuit Catholic priest with questions about how Catholics practice their faith or why they quit. Everyone has a story and I want to hear more.Fr. Jack Bentz S.J. Christianity Spirituality
Episodes
  • SEASON 3: The Recap

    SEASON 3: The Recap
    Dec 24 2025

    Season three of CIOT brought conversations shaped by real questions, real stories, and ordinary encounters with grace. In this final episode, Fr Jack reflects on the themes, voices, and moments that defined the season and what they revealed about faith lived in everyday life.
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    3 mins
  • Valerie Stivers: A Conversion She Did Not Plan

    Valerie Stivers: A Conversion She Did Not Plan
    Dec 17 2025

    Valerie Stivers built her career in cultural journalism, beginning as an intern at a major fashion magazine and later working as a sex columnist for the Moscow based alternative paper The Exile, editing Time Out New York, and writing as a freelance journalist for numerous publications. Raised in an atheist family, she did not arrive at faith through argument or study. Instead, a personal experience led her directly and without hesitation into the Catholic Church. In this episode, Valerie reflects on that moment, her life as a writer, and what it meant to follow something she did not expect.
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    51 mins
  • Troy Loftinburke: When Everything Shifted

    Troy Loftinburke: When Everything Shifted
    Dec 10 2025

    Troy never expected to become Catholic. A friendship opened the door. Hearing Bishop Barron teach on the Eucharist pushed it wide. That moment became a turning point in his discernment and led him into the Church. He and his husband later married outside the Church and continue living as Catholics. This episode looks at the steps that shaped his story.
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    42 mins
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