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Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)
Catholic conversation on the sacred, the profane, and everything in between, co-hosted by Emily and Chris Chapman and Kate and Casey Stapleton.
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Episodes
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Why Good Stories Matter with Haley Stewart
This week we talk to Catholic author and Word on Fire Votive editor, Haley Stewart, about what makes stories good (for children and adults), why good stories…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)The Dangers of Discernment: Overthinking, Over-Spiritualizing, & Other Perils
Kate, Casey, Chris, and Emily hash out out the difference between discerning the will of God and overthinking every life decision. Also, special thanks to the…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Schools Out ... Forever! On Education, AI, and Leaving Teaching Behind
Next week, after 29 years in Catholic education (17 in the classroom, 12 in diocesan administration), Chris is (mostly) leaving teaching behind to work with…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)American-Flavored Catholicism
Today, we’re talking to our good friends from the American Catholic History Podcast, Tom and Noelle Crowe, about the saints, sinners, and movements that have…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Pope Fever
Habemus Papem! All four of us (but especially the resident redhead) have caught Pope Fever, and our new Holy Father is all we can talk about. So, today, we…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)NFP: Who Calls the Shots?
Between Kate’s film festival showings and Emily’s speaking engagements (Buffalo last week, Ottawa this week), the past couple of weeks have been a little…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Conclaves Gone Wild
Today, we’re talking to our good friend Rob Corzine, vice president of Academic Programs at the St. Paul Center, about conclaves past and present, and how…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Doubting, Budgeting, Burnout, and Some NEWS
Before Easter, we recorded a podcast for this week. And then some things happened. We’re still sharing this episode, as recorded, but we’ll be back later in…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Facing Our Fears About Fasting
With Good Friday soon upon us, we’re talking through fasting and abstinence, the good of penance, and the penance of Palm Sunday with small children. Mentioned…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Motherhood, Influencers, and the Light in Our Eyes
If Chappell Roan is good at anything besides singing, it’s inspiring lively conversation. Buckle up for a free flowing and wide ranging conversation about…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Bonus: The Manosphere and The Marital Debt
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit visitationsessions.substack.com After we finished “Let’s Talk About Sex,” our most recent…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Let's Talk About Sex
How do you talk with your spouse about sex? How do you communicate your fears, struggles, needs, and love to them? Why are these conversations so very hard?…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Drinking, Drunkenness, and St. Paddy's Day
St. Patrick’s Day is almost upon us, so this week we’re talking about heavenly visions of lakes of beer, the goodness of alcohol, the badness of drunkenness…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Heroes, Anti-Heroes, and Mermen
Recently, in The Free Press, the writer Chris Arnade penned an essay asserting that “Every Man Wants to Be a Hero.” So, this week, we’re discussing if that’s…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)The Challenge of IVF
What is IVF? Why does the Church oppose it? Why do we hear so little about it in our parishes?How does the conversation need to change? What does the Catholic…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Bonus : Marriage and the Temperaments
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit visitationsessions.substack.com Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa for this delayed bonus…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)The Four Temperaments
Sorry for the repost! We had a little error that needed fixing! So many of you have asked us to do a more thorough discussion of the Four Temperaments and why…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)An Interview with Harrison Scott Key
What possesses a man to turn the hardest, saddest, most humiliating chapter of his life into a book? How do you write about your wife’s infidelity without…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)In Sickness and Health
It’s been the winter of non-stop sickness around here, so with germs on all our brains, we decided to unpack what the Church has to say about sickness and…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Bunkers or Catacombs?
The Russians are on the march in Ukraine. The Chinese are rattling sabers in the direction of Thailand. The Middle East is …the Middle East. California is in…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)God's Goals or Ours?
We’re kicking off the New Year by talking about the importance (and pitfalls) of making resolutions, setting goals, and crafting a vision for the year. How, as…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)The Heroes of Christmas, Part 2
Sorry friends, we have all had various versions of the plague these last few weeks, plus Chris and Casey had mountains of finals to grade, so getting this last…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)St. Nick, Santa Claus, and John McClane
Over the next two weeks, we’re talking about the heroes of the Christmas story, from the ancestors of Christ to Mary and Joseph, St. Nick, St. Lucy, St. Juan…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)On Advent (& Coffee, Astrology, & Carols)
Today, we’re discussing pressing questions like: should we play Christmas music during Advent? Listen and find out. “Astrology, Politics, and Parenting, Oh…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Feast
This week, as the world cooks and cleans and barrels along highways to grandmother’s house, we’re talking about feasting—what it is, what it’s not, what the…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Dating & The Single Life
Why does dating have to be so hard? What’s up with men in their forties dating women decades their junior? And is there any such thing as a single vocation?…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Listener Q&A: Marriage
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit visitationsessions.substack.com For the past few months we have been trying to think of a way to…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)The One Where Father Ted Dances Down the Aisle in Tights
This podcast is late, late, late, and we are sorry, sorry, sorry. The blame falls solely on my (Emily’s) shoulders. I have had the most insane conflagration of…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)How to Stay Married
Is “How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told,” by Harrison Scott Key, really the best book ever written about marriage? Maybe. Maybe not. But…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Voting in 2024
No folks, we’re not endorsing any candidates. We’re not even talking candidates. Instead, we try to thread the narrowest needle ever threaded by discussing why…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)The Truth About Exorcists and Demons
Today, we’re joined by a very special guest, our friend Dave VanVickle. Dave is a lay evangelist, spiritual warfare expert, and father of five, who has spent…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Chasing Childhood
Plenty of opinions, lots of questions, but very few answers is what we have for you this week as we talk about raising kids in the age of cell phones…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Bodies, Breast Implants, and the Duties of Marriage
Two weeks ago, Emily answered a question in her newsletter about whether or not a wife should honor her husband’s request that she get breast implants…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Pope Francis Gets LIT!
Today, the gang is breaking down Pope Francis’ new pastoral letter on literature “On the Role of Literature in Formation.” Why do priests need to read more…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)"How Do I Become More Myself?"
Chris and Casey are back in the classroom, and everyone’s summer vacation is coming to an end, so the Chapmans and Stapletons are officially kicking off the…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)"I Didn't Know Farms that Produced Ballerinas Existed"
We crowded into a hot childfree attic on a Sunday night to talk about what everyone else is talking about: Ballerina Farm … and farming … and trad wives … and…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)"Let the Catholic Circular Firing Squad Commence"
This week, your hosts Chris and Emily Chapman and Casey and KATE Stapleton (not Chris Stapleton 🤦🏼♀️) review some of the flash points in Butker’s Benedictine…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Building a Domestic Church (& More)
Today, we’re talking about homeschooling, the purpose of the domestic Church, why awkwardness matters, and a whole lot more of listener requested topics, in…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)All Are Welcome (Including Your Chickens)
This week, we dive deeper into the Christian obligation (yes, obligation) to practice hospitality and answer your questions about what that looks like when…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Real Learning In An Age of Curiositas
Two high schoolers, a homeschooling mom, and a sleep deprived writer sit down over drinks to talk about learning. It sounds like the beginning of a very boring…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Traveling Mercies
The Chapmans are counting down the days until they take two three-year-olds and a five-year-old to Italy. The Stapletons are counting down the days until they…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)In Search of the Masculine Genius
Today, we welcome our first guest ever to the show, Dr. Matt Breuninger—associate professor of Psychology at Franciscan University, author of Finding Freedom…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)"Shirts On, Everyone!"
After a two week Easter break, we’re back this week with a new conversation on modesty. Yes, modesty. But we promise, it’s not the conversation you had with…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)"They're Going to Implant Our Phones in Our Brains"
This week, we’re talking about using our phones, navigating social media, cultivating quiet, and how much Emily misses 2004. Links: Reclaiming Quiet…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Hard Workin' Women
Casey shares some terrifying family secrets. Emily reveals her deep dislike of Russian literature. And we chat about women’s work—in the home and in the world…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Men (and Women) at Work
What is work? Why is it so hard? What defines success? Can we serve both God and mammon? How do we rightly order our vocations so that first things come first?…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Creativity In Life and Marriage
Today Chris, Kate, Casey, and I are talking about creativity. What is creativity? What does it mean to be creative? How does pursuing creativity in work, life…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)All Things Lent
Today, Chris, Kate, Casey, and I are talking all things Lent: the meaning of the season, abstinence and fasting, Fish Fries, practical penances, prayer…
Visitation Sessions (A Podcast)Visitation Sessions
Introducing Visitation Sessions For over a year now, I’ve been toying with the idea of starting a podcast. This is partly because I love good conversations…