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Overcoming Attachment To Comfort – The Inner Life – July 28, 2026

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley

On today’s show, Fr. Chris Walsh j­oins to present overcoming attachment to comfort.

  • Can Convenience become something we are too attached too?
  • Greg – When would a person discern?
  • Break 1
  • Email – Robert – I think comfort is connected with safety.
  • Liz – I’ve experienced this with AC this summer. We don’t have it and have been able to deal with it.
  • Charles -Without a car it’s difficult, and I’ve been without a car for some time. I’m in the best physical shape of my life because I’m walking everywhere! But…I can’t help people as much.
  • Break 2
  • Email – Connie – I used to get hangry but since becoming Catholic God has helped me overcome this through prayer and fasting.
  • Tina – I lost my son. I got too attached to him. Now that he’s gone, people say, ‘Oh, God is with him.’ How do you overcome that? I feel like since I lost him, I can’t get attached to anything else. I loved him more than anything.
  • Email – Mary: It helps me to imagine Jesus on the Cross and my little inconveniences suddenly become bearable.

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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.