The Inner Life – September 23, 2024 – Friendship with Padre Pio

Sr. Faustina joins Patrick to discuss Friendship with Padre Pio 

  • (3:20) – Sr. Faustina shares how she wouldn’t be alive without Padre Pio.
  • Why do we call him “padre Pio”

(23:23) Break 1

  • Mary – He helped save my son several years ago.
  • (28:47) why should we cultivate a relationship with Padre Pio?
  • (32:54) Stella – Went to a Padre Pio pilgrimage in 2018.  Went to where he said Mass and confessional.  Wrote down things she would want to confess to Padre Pio.  Very special trip.

(37:11) Break 2

  • (40:41)  Sr. shares what was at the core of his life.
  • How can we understand what God is calling us to do?
  • (45:55) Maggie – My relationship with father was awful early on until he died.  I want to heal from that.  How do I begin a relationship with Padre Pio to get healing?
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.