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The Inner Life – September 10, 2024 – Breaking Free of Addiction

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley

Father Tom Wilson joins Patrick to discuss Breaking Free of Addiction.

  • (4:50) what is addiction?
  • Are there Benign Addictions?
  • (13:56) How addiction affects the culpability of sin.

(19:38) Break 1

  • What are the effects of addiction on family of an addict?
  • (23:55) Tom – Has a family member dealing with addition to marijuana.  What would Fr. suggest about empowering that person and accompanying them because that addiction affects everyone.
  • Email from a woman whose husband is addicted to Alcohol.
  • Kim – As a family member of many addicts, just wants to mention Ala-non groups.  Practicing Catholic and it really helps.

(40:35) Break 2

  • Nicole – Suffered with major addiction entire life.  Since I’ve become sober, I learned that I have so many other addictions that I need to rid myself from. The more I fell in love with the Eucharist and daily Mass, confession, and not receiving Him in mortal sin helped with overcoming those other addictions.
  • (45:45) Email from Brandon about pornography addiction.
  • Patty – Recovering alcoholic.  Just buried brother.  Wants to talk about how it affects the family.

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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.