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Confirmation – The Inner Life – May 19, 2026

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley

Father Sam Martin joins Patrick to discuss Confirmation

  • (3:42) What is a sacrament?
  • what is the matter form and minister of Confirmation?

(18:54) Break 1

  • (20:09) What does it mean to be rightly disposed to Confirmation?
  • Tim – Our protestant brothers and sisters…I’ve seen the holy spirit work through them. Wondering how the confirmation would seal and does it cover them?

(38:48) Break 2

  • Angie – When choosing a sponsor, what’s the criteria families are supposed to use?
  • (43:05) Raphael – My son was confirmed a few years ago. Sponsor was not confirmed. Checked with pastor and he said it was ok. Later found that the guy is a 32nd degree mason.
  • How does Confirmation help us to evangelize the world?

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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.