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The Inner Life – September 04, 2024 – Ask Me Anything

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley

Father Dave Heney joins Patrick for an Ask Me Anything session.

  • Why is knowledge important to our faith life?
  • (8:46) Kyle – I teach confirmation and one of the students is a High functioning artist atheist. How can I best help him without pushing him away from the faith.
  • (12:44) Aida – When children die at a young age, why are they not required to have confession before they get their last rites?
  • Email about how suggestions for a trip to Rome
  • Wendy – I was never given the option to take a Saints name when I converted. Why not?

(24:44) Break 1

  • How can you debate bible alone?
  • (28:59) Gil – Are we really forgiven and we start fresh, or are we judged for everything even the things we were forgiven earlier?
  • Val – Communion: What are the best practices? Should I kneel? Receive in the hand?

(37:02) Break 2

  • Ray – Confession: 3 times the Father was busy and couldn’t stay to finish the confessions. Can I still take the Eucharist if I didn’t get to confess?
  • (40:38) Teresa – I know very little about our religion. I don’t understand the body and blood of Christ. Isn’t it symbolic?
  • Lisa – Is it sinful not to wear a cross to work if you’re in an environment that is anti-Catholic
  • (49:05) How can someone’s sins be forgiven after they are dead?

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Patrick Conley

Patrick Conley

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.