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Love for the Papacy – The Inner Life – May 22, 2025

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley

Bishop Michael Martin joins Patrick to Discuss Love for the Papacy

  • Bishop Michael Martin Gives his thoughts on the new Pope Leo
  • What is the papacy?
  • (12:54) What does it mean that the pope is the visible head of the Church?

(16:35) Break 1

  • Pamela – Experience with Pope John Paul II. Visited my country (Ecuador). I was a young child. The street was so crowded. I recall him going down the road looking at us with the sweetest look. Gave us his blessing. My dad cried with joy.
  • (29:28) Fr. Don – I’m a priest in the diocese of Phoenix. in 87, JPII came to the diocese. My sister gave him flowers. Beautiful experience and is part of why I became a priest.

(36:18) Break 2

  • Tim – One of my dear friends, a deacon, told me a story about not being into any faith. Saw JPII in Chicago and he looked him in the eye and he blessed him. Changed his life and he became a deacon.
  • (41:24) Margie – I’ve been praying for years for conversion of my mother. She’s 82. Pope Leo has touched her heart. She told me she’s considered about being more faithful to the Catholic faith. I gave her a crucifix and miraculous medal. This pope reminds me of my grandfather.
  • What happens when you say you don’t like this pope or that pope?

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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.