Father Spitzer’s Universe
Father Spitzer’s Universe
EWTN · EWTN Global Catholic Television Network
Show overview
Father Spitzer’s Universe has been publishing since 2024, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 105 episodes. That works out to roughly 100 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 57 min and 57 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Religion & Spirituality show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 6 days ago, with 18 episodes already out so far this year. Published by EWTN Global Catholic Television Network.
From the publisher
Fr. Spitzer answers viewer questions on a wide range of subjects, including: Reason, Faith, Suffering, Virtue, and the Existence of God.
Latest Episodes
View all 105 episodesAnswering Viewer Questions
Why Do We Need a Church Pt. 2
Why Do We Need a Church Pt. 1
Old Testament Prophecies, Pt. 4
Answering Viewers’ Questions
Old Testament Prophecies, Pt. 3
Father Spitzer and Doug Keck discuss the different prophecies within the book of Isaiah and how they were written by 3 different prophets.
Old Testament Prophecies, Pt. 2
Father Spitzer and Doug Keck discuss all the good things that early Christianity brought to the culture.
Old Testament Prophecies, Pt. 1
Fr. Spitzer and Doug discuss why the Israelite prophets of the Old Testament were not primarily diviners or seers of the future but rather interpreters of the moral will of Yahweh.
Old Testament Miracles, Pt. 3
Fr. Spitzer and Doug explain the difference between Elijah raising the dead, Jesus raising the dead by His own power, and Paul doing so through the Holy Spirit in Jesus’ name.
Old Testament Miracles, Pt. 2
Fr. Spitzer and Doug explain the haggadic stories in the Old Testament and how, while they are not historical accounts, they instead illustrate moral teachings.
Old Testament Miracles
Fr. Spitzer and Doug discuss the criteria needed to judge whether phenomena in the Bible were true miracles or could be scenarios explained by other means outside the miraculous.
Answering Viewers’ Questions
Fr. Spitzer and Doug answer questions sent in by viewers, including whether a family healed by a single parent is as good as a traditional family with a mother and father.
Moral Teaching of the Old Testament, Pt. 5
Fr. Spitzer and Doug discuss how the core message of the Old Testament is inerrant and how the outward form of the message, that is subject to undeveloped thought, is not inerrant.
Moral Teaching of the Old Testament, Pt. 4
Fr. Spitzer and Doug discuss the threefold development of Israel’s relationship with neighbors examining the “patriarchal period,” the “Mosaic period” and the time period of Jesus.
Moral Teaching of the Old Testament, Pt. 3
Fr. Spitzer and Doug discuss the morals of matrimony and how the strength and stability of society is directly correlated to the strength of marriages and families.
Moral Teaching of the Old Testament, Pt. 2
Fr. Spitzer and Doug discuss how the moral development in the Old Testament evolves from vengeance to forgiveness without limit when Jesus calls us to avoid revenge.
Moral Teaching of the Old Testament, Pt. 1
Fr. Spitzer and Doug discuss confession, guilt over past sins, and why certain teachings formed during the Patriarchal period to Jesus’ command to forgive your neighbor 77 times.
Historicity of the Old Testament, Pt. 8
Fr. Spitzer and Doug discuss Yahwism and how the God of Moses differed from the gods worshiped by other cultures of the time, such as Baal, Asherah, and Molech.
Answering Viewers' Questions
Answering Viewer Questions
Fr. Spitzer and Doug Keck answer questions from viewers, such as the power of binding and loosening, and whether or not it is permissible to enjoy the luxuries of life.