Your Suffering Has Meaning (Special Podcast Highlight)

– When suffering happens, it can often feel overwhelming, and you may not know how to handle it. Bad things happen to everyone, so how can you prepare yourself to face it when it comes? Learn how you can unite your sufferings with Christ and embrace the closeness He wants to give you through it. Fr. Marcel Taillon joins for discussion. 

Patrick Conley was born, raised, and baptized in Wisconsin in a Protestant tradition. After meeting his wife, Kendra, through an Evangelical ministry at the University of Minnesota, they entered the Catholic Church in 2010. They listened to Relevant Radio, specifically The Inner Life, while preparing to enter the Church. Conley now holds a degree in theology from Oxford University and has served the Church in both academic theology and grassroots pastoral ministry. Conley teaches religion classes in a Catholic elementary school, serves as his parish Director of Religious Education, and is in formation for the permanent diaconate. He also hosts Practicing Catholic on Relevant Radio, exclusive to the Minneapolis area’s airwaves, and is a traveling presenter for the Catherine of Siena Institute apostolate. He lives in rural Wisconsin with his wife and their bulldogs, Georgie and Bingley.