Morality – The Inner Life – January 13, 2025

Fr. Marcel Taillon joins Patrick to discuss Morality

  • (4:06) What is Morality?
  • (16:54) Joe – If one is a Christian and someone they are dating isn’t, how can we be a witness to someone who doesn’t believe the afterlife and Jesus? It’s a different morality structure.

(23:16) Break 1

  • Val – I think that sin contains us. When I have violated the 10 commandments, then I feel awful and have lingering pain that I could do that.
  • (31:20) Can you be morally good without faith? (surprising answer)
  • Lissa – I’m 54 and come back to the church. So thankful to be back. If I am doing something I know is wrong and going to keep doing it, will I have redemption? I’m a smoker and have reduced it from 30 to 7 cigarettes a day, but I haven’t stopped. How can I say I’m leading a moral life if I continue to do it?

(41:36) Break 2

  • (43:12) Bridget – Pascal’s wager and how that can help with the thought of morality and an experience I had with sexual immorality.
  • Lauren – Question about development of conscious for someone who has struggled with sin a lot as a child.
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.