Anxiety & the Spiritual Life – July 24, 2023

Fr. Rob Kroll, SJ joined Brooke Taylor for a conversation about anxiety, depression, scrupulosity, and our faith. Topics included: what are anxiety & depression (2:54), scrupulosity (13:53), the be at peace prayer (21:8). caller: the rosary helped me! (28:26), perseverance in struggle (32:15), uniting our suffering with Christ (35:39), caller: I love the flying novena! (42:32), and the hope of peace (45:50). 

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.