Devotion to St. Joseph – March 18, 2024

Father Eric Nielsen joined Patrick for a conversation about devotion to St. Joseph. Topics included: the importance of St. Joseph (2:54), caller: St. Joseph helps us be pro-life (19:56), St. Joseph the worker (22:27), Purity (26:29), Silence (30:54), funny story about St. Joseph (36:22), caller: St. Joseph, Terror of Demons (37:37), caller: my Father stuck out a difficult marriage (39:23), and caller: novena to the Holy Cloak of St. Joseph (44:39). 

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.