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The Spirit Of Conversion – Inner Life – October 15, 2026

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley

On today’s Inner Life, Fr. Allen Hoffa joins to encourage us to maintain a spirit of conversion.

  • (6:01) What Is Conversion?
    • People are looking for permanence
  • (15:31) Sarah – Back in 1990, I went through the Christ Renews His Parish program. Changed my life. It brought me closer to my faith. I wish the church would do it again.
  • Break 1
  • (23:15) The process of conversion is measured and paced overtime.
  • (28:29) Maria – As a lifelong Catholic and reaching old age and seeing special moments, how do you address being in tune with knowing this is the latter part of your life and dealing with that?
  • (34:10) Patrick – I read St. Athanasius recorded that St. Anthony said he had not yet begun to be converted at a very old age. I would like to be deeper in my faith but you cannot control the depth of your conversions; God has to be in control.

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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.