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A Daily Review Of Conscience – August 25, 2026

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley

On today’s show, Fr. Rob Kroll, S.J. joins to show us how to make a daily review of conscience.

Healthy guilt vs shame

Break 1

Fr. Kroll explains how conscience could be like playing piano.

Jeff – The USCCB has multiple lists on their website. Good resource.

Break 2

What is a daily Examen?

Joseph – If I belong to a church that believes if I am going to hell with sin on my soul. Is that what the church teaches? That Catholics with unconfessed sin are going to hell?

Notes:

Scrupulous Anonymous – A Ministry of the Redemptorists Since 1964

Examinations of Conscience | USCCB

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.