“We didn’t want ‘Outcast Catholic’ to sound like a sermon,” he said. “We wanted it to sound like something you could listen to in your car or at a health club.”
The Rev. Travis Crotty, left, and the Rev. Shane Deman talk to each other while preparing to record their “Outcast Catholic” podcast at the Diocese of Sioux City offices in Sioux City. The priests began distributing the podcasts, which are described as “a Midwest podcast for all who feel like an outcast in the Catholic Church and for those who think the church is an outcast,” in early July.
However, Deman, 39, said he needed a partner with a gift of gab as well as an interest in podcasts.
That’s when he turned to Crotty, a Varina, Iowa, native and recent graduate of Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in Shrewsbury, Missouri.
“I do enjoy listening to podcasts,” Crotty, 28, said while listing off personal favorites that range in subject matter from religion to sports to true crime. “I find them to be very engrossing.”
Which is why he was on board after learning about “Outcast Catholic” from Deman, a fan of religious and history-based podcasts.
“You can talk about faith without having it feel like you’re in church,” he said.
Since its premiere, “Outcast Catholic” — which can be heard at scdiocese.org and major podcast hubs like Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts and Amazon Alexa — has produced programs on subjects like “The Grass is Greener Elsewhere,” “Praying with the Church” and “Is Faith Reasonable?”
For the “Drawn by Beauty” edition, Crotty makes the distinction between the ephemeral attraction of social networking services of TikTok and Snapchat to things meant to withstand the test of time, like great architecture found in churches and courthouses or in fine art found in galleries.
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