The Sin No One Talks About: Avarice, Money, and Spiritual Blindness | The Catholic Man Show

The Sin No One Talks About: Avarice, Money, and Spiritual Blindness | The Catholic Man Show

Published: March 26, 2026

Duration: 1:00:06

In this episode of The Catholic Man Show, Adam and David crack open a rare Teeling whiskey from Ireland and dive into a topic most men never examine: avarice.

Often reduced to “greed,” avarice is far more subtle—and far more dangerous. Drawing from St. John Cassian, St. Thomas Aquinas, and the spiritual tradition of the Church, the guys explore how a disordered attachment to material things can quietly shape our lives, distort our priorities, and even blind us spiritually.

They discuss how modern “grind culture” can normalize avarice, why money itself is uniquely deceptive among the...