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Where Pints With Aquinas ranks today in each Apple Podcasts chart (US, Sep 3, 2026).
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Pints is constantly challenging me, and I feel that I have grown very much listening to this podcast. I love the long podcast length, and I am always sad when they end. I love whenever Friers are on the show. Bring back Father Gregory Pine!
Protestant listener here. The theological insights in the latest Christopher West episode are powerful, healing, and worth revisiting several times over. But more powerful still is two men having a truly open conversation about their pain and process. Thank you for this!!! I’ve shared it many times already.
“Where the thinking of the philosopher halts, there the heart of the believer presses on in love and adoration … in order to follow in [Christs’s] footsteps.” Pope Frances, Dilexit Nos. This quote gets to the heart of Matt’s ministry: pondering in the depths of the heart. Thank you for sharing your heart and spirituality with the church! Your vulnerability and spiritual intimacy are so life giving! Your most recent episode with Christopher West blessed me, my husband, and many of my family members.
This show has carried me through cancer. Then an infection due to cancer. Than to realizing I don’t trust God. Then to realizing just how much I need to grow but also the hope in how to do that. And after each and every single episode, I get the same feeling that I get after a down-to-the-wire football game in double overtime. I take out my AirPods. I wipe my tears. And I realize- dang. I love God so much.
This show has so much promise but Matt has a maddening habit of repeatedly, back to back interrupting guests when they are trying to answer his questions or talk about their expertise. It turns this into more of a one man monologue in the company of a guest than a long form podcast with interesting guest perspective. Some episodes he does better than others.
Updating my review to say that the YouTube response to pope Francis’s passing was just plain tacky. The man just died and all Matt wanted to do in a self-centered live stream was continue the same tired trad cath anti-Francis rhetoric whilst pretending not to want to do that. At least he admits that he (Matt) has contributed to sewing division. Sometimes Matt just projects as a middle-aged man who is insecure in his masculinity to the point where he must adopt shallow masculine tropes like smoking cigars, hunting big game, and cosplaying as his favorite daily wire host. Do whatever you want in your free time, but the need to be filmed doing or talking about it is desperately cringe. He even admits on his John Henry Spawn interview that he’s easily influenced and just does whatever the seemingly more masculine men he looks up to do. He has previously flirted with the line between the Catholics who are for the pope and the ultra trads who think he’s an anti pope, never outright saying pope Francis isn’t the real pope but certainly regurgitating some of the rhetoric of those who do. Then he has the gall to try and play peacemaker and urge people not to side with archbishop vigano. The politics are also getting to be super cringe. I don’t fault his conservatism, that’s a fine position to hold. Nor do I think anyone should stay silent about Joe Biden’s unfitness for office. But the short video Thursday (who is probably the root of the problem and influences our easily-influenced host) and he shot about Biden’s disastrous debate is down right uncharitable, as are some of his other takes on hot button political issues. If Biden truly is a man with dementia being propped up by power hungry, immoral people, then we should certainly have some basic sympathy for his and encourage prayer for him. The basic dignity of people cannot be ignored even if you don’t agree with them or like them. We are called to more as Catholics and this show could be a tremendous blessing but is getting in its own way. Being controversial gets you click, but what does it profit a man to gain the world but lose his soul?
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