Trending with Timmerie - Catholic Principles applied to today's experiences.

Linda Carl is a former yoga instructor and Reiki master, Linda Carl, who spent nearly twenty years practicing and teaching yoga before leaving it behind, joins Trending with Timmerie
Episode Guide
Becoming a Reiki master and yoga instructor & its spiritual roots (0:43)
Coming out of the darkness of the New Age into Catholicism (18:04)
Can Catholics do Reiki and yoga? (26:35)
Pope Leo tells us “We are not all plugged into a cable” (36:51)
Resources mentioned:

Book: Yoga Unveiled: My Spiritual Journey from Darkness to Light
https://sophiainstitute.com/product/yoga-unveiled/

Christine Flynn – Not Just Spiritual
https://shop.catholic.com/not-just-spiritual/

SoulCore:
https://soulcore.com/

PietraFitness:
https://www.pietrafitness.com/

MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html

Pope: Technology should serve friendships, not replace them
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-06/pope-to-children-technology-should-serve-friendships.html

Father Nicanor Austriaco, a molecular biologist and Dominican Catholic priest, joins Trending with Timmerie:
Episode Guide
When should men be dating? (2:26)
Uterine transplant – womb transplants to fix infertility? (19:14)
Genetic engineering – "deextinction" of extinct species (39:45)
Resources mentioned:
Episode on the human experiment of surrogacy and IVF
https://relevantradio.com/2026/07/st-mary-magdalene/
Transplanting the Womb: A Catholic Bioethical Analysis https://www.ncbcenter.org/store/transplanting-the-womb-a-catholic-bioethical-analysis

Judson Carroll is a master herbalist and author specializing in traditional herbal medicine.
Episode Guide
What happened to the herbal tradition from our Catholic monks and nuns? (2:14)
The Home Apothecary: what should we know? (22:05)
Tomorrow on Trending (38:14)
Chinese buyers can easily find American wombs for rent – surrogacy (39:01)
Our Lady of Sorrows (49:26)
Resources mentioned:

Judson Carroll's Substack
https://judsonc.substack.com

Book: Herbs That Heal: (Catholic) Home Remedies to Forage and Grow
https://sophiainstitute.com/product/herbs-that-heal/

CBS News: "A surrogate, believing she was carrying a child for a single father, is actually having a baby for a Chinese billionaire
https://www.instagram.com/p/DdO95C7R6sK/?hl=en

Chinese buyers can easily find American wombs for rent—surrogacy
https://expecting.ai/

7 Sorrows of Mary
The prophecy of Simeon. (St. Luke 2:34-35)
The flight into Egypt. (St. Matthew 2:13-14)
The loss of the Child Jesus in the temple. (St. Luke 2: 43-45)
The meeting of Jesus and Mary on the Way of the Cross.
The Crucifixion.
The taking down of the Body of Jesus from the Cross.
The burial of Jesus.

On this episode of Trending with Timmerie

Episode Guide
Back to school? – new grading trends even at Ivy League schools in the face of AI (2:54)
Pope Leo’s birthday! (24:22)
People from within the AI companies are calling for a slowdown of development (25:38)
AI Intelligence? (39:19)
The Exultation of the Cross – suffering (46:10)
Tomorrow on Trending (50:55)
Resources mentioned:

Episode: The Trades & Catholic Trade Schools
https://relevantradio.com/2024/10/the-trades-catholic-trade-schools/

Who Trains AI?
https://relevantradio.com/2026/06/who-trains-ai/

MIT AI Report Calls for Alternative Grading, More Social Learning
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2026/08/28/mit-ai-report-calls-alternative-grading

Harvard Will Cap A Grades
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/learning-assessment/2026/05/20/harvard-will-cap-grades

Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/technology/anthropic-researchers-raise-alarm.html

Magnifica Humanitas
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html

Antique Et Nova
https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20250128_antiqua-et-nova_en.html?curius=1239&utm_

Salvifici Doloris
https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters/1984/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_11021984_salvifici-doloris.html

Dr. Ben Baran – organizational psychologist, award-winning management professor, and rear admiral in the U.S. Navy Reserve joins Trending with Timmerie

Episode Guide
What Heroism Looks like - Visiting 9/11 Flight 93 National Memorial as a naval officer (1:36)
The little-known story of 9/11: the waterborne evacuation of Manhattan – bigger than the evacuation of Dunkirk (18:19)
US Marshals find 79 missing children in Ohio during largest operation of its kind (32:43)
Sunday Mass prep (43:36)
Resources mentioned:

Dr. Ben Baran
https://www.benbaran.com/about

Book : Crucibles: How Faith and Science Help Us Navigate Suffering
https://www.benbaran.com/crucibles

Resilience & Fortitude
https://relevantradio.com/2026/05/resilience-fortitude/

APOSTOLIC LETTER - SALVIFICI DOLORIS
https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters/1984/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_11021984_salvifici-doloris.html

US Marshals find 79 missing children in Ohio during largest operation of its kind
https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/cleveland/us-marshals-ohio-recover-79-missing-children-cleveland-akron-toledo-columbus/95-1fe97892-c4aa-4263-8884-248dca036050?tbref=hp