Beyond Rome
Beyond Rome is a podcast that seeks to reconnect Catholics with their Hebraic and Christian roots in the Near East. Hosted by Simone Rizkallah, joined by James O’Reilly and the Philos Catholic team at the Philos Project, they explore a variety of topics related to religion and culture in the West and why the Near East matters for a healthy Church and world. Beyond Rome looks beyond the West to understand what makes the Catholic Church truly universal.
Beyond Rome
8. From Canterbury to Constantinople
This week Simone Rizkallah and James O’Reilly are joined by Zac Crippen for episode 8 of our Beyond Rome journey. Zac leads international expansion for Hallow, the #1 prayer app in the world. A graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and the University of Oxford (where he was a Rhodes Scholar), Zac served as an active duty Air Force officer for seven years before embarking on a career in technology.
Zac lives with his wife, Sally, and their five children on the outskirts of South Bend, Indiana. He is a grateful convert to Catholicism and is a member of the Byzantine (Ruthenian) Church. He blogs and podcasts at creedal.substack.com.
Be sure to tune into this episode to learn from Zac about Byzantine Catholicism and how Catholics can tap into their Hebraic and Near Eastern Christian roots.
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2:00 – Zac Crippen’s Faith Journey | Church Unity
4:21 – Catholics and the Bible
6:05 – Byzantine Catholic: “Learning how to breathe with another lung”
8:07 – “Why not Orthodoxy? Why Catholicism?”
14:18 – Zac’s entry into the Byzantine Church
19:20 – Discovering Church unity: “One mark of the Church is that it will be united”
26:00 – “If Christianity is true, there would only be one Church”
27:05 – Byzantine at Hallow?
28:30 – The Creedal Podcast
34:38 – Recommendations from Zac
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Resources:
➡️ Creedal Catholic - Theology and Culture
➡️ On Ye, The Right, and Antisemitism: What a Week w/Andrew Petiprin - Episode of the Creedal Catholic podcast
➡️ Introduction to Liturgical Services and their Symbolism in the Eastern Churches - Patriarch Gregorios III
➡️ Deification of the Cross - by Father Khaled Anatolios
➡️ The 24 Catholic Churches - just how universal is the Church?