HOLY (CATHOLIC) PODCAST PANDEMONIUM!
An abridged, CLICKABLE version of this blog post is available at Our Sunday Visitor! https://www.osvnews.com/2020/09/18/your-guide-to-catholic-podcasts/ (This blog post was originally an article for OSV.) A much longer list of Catholic podcasts is at the bottom of this blog post, AFTER my diatribe. The bizarre year that is 2020 has drastically altered almost every aspect of our lives, including our media habits. Whether or not we are major users of digital media or not, we are all swimming more and more in media-saturated environments, and most likely the people we interact with on a regular basis have their minds and hearts filled with the latest movies, audio books, YouTubes, GIFs, songs, TikTok vids, tweets, memes, sports scores, breaking news alerts, texts, Instagram posts, videogames, Facebook rants or viral sensations they just partook of. (In my media workshops to priests and seminarians we discuss that to “smell like the sheep” today means “smelling” like the mediated pa...