Episode 002 — "Desire" (A Quiet Catechism | Human Foundations Series)
In Episode 002 of A Quiet Catechism, Doug Tooke reflects on desire as the deep current beneath every human life—our longing for love, meaning, beauty, peace, and home. Rather than treating desire as something to repress or indulge, the episode presents the Catholic view that desire is a signpost: a hopeful reminder that we are not self-contained, but made for more. Doug explores how modern culture manipulates desire into endless appetite, and why the Church insists desire must be educated and formed, not shamed or worshiped. Drawing on wisdom from Bonaventure, Josef Pieper, Gregory of Nyssa, and Romano Guardini (with Augustine lingering in the background), the episode invites listeners to see restlessness as a compass—an ache that can become a path toward God, maturity, virtue, and the true good that will not collapse under the weight of our wanting.
