[Sakin]

@jim tobin: Simple Catch Free theme only have option to use Featured Post Slider, which is there to highlight your post and it takes the post title, excerpt content and featured image from the post IDs. So, it will link to post.

The featured that you are asking can be fulfilled by “Featured Image Slider” where you can upload independent image, title, content and links all optional. For this, you need to upgrade to Pro version. There are other nice additional features, find out at http://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/simple-catch-pro

Or you may use redirect plugin to redirect your post URL to homepage. So, it will not show that post.