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Fortitude – The Inner Life – July 1, 2025 [ENCORE]

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley

Check out this great encore show originally aired on June 25, 2025

Fr. Marcel Taillonjoins Patrick to Discuss Fortitude

  • What is fortitude?
  • (7:12) what is the difference between bravery and being foolhardy?
  • How can we practice fortitude in the small things in life?

(19:41) Break 1

  • (21:28) Tara – When I was baptized and confirmed two major life events happened where I needed fortitude.
  • (28:47) How can others help us grow in fortitude?

(36:50) Break 2

  • What is the interplay between temperance and fortitude?
  • (41:01) What is fortitude role in discerning the will of God?
  • (46:02) Alex – I did not have fortitude and i went down a drug cycle – i started reading the bible and things changed

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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.