NOTE: This article features some sensitive topics that may not be suitable for younger readers. Please use discretion. Rosa called in to Patrick Conley and guest Father John Paul Erickson on The Inner Life with a fear no grandparent wants: she had discovered her granddaughter had been cutting herself. A nurse for 20 years, Rosa […]Read more

On Trending with Timmerie, Fr. Richard Hendrick, O.F.M. Cap., introduces the real St. Nicholas: a 4th‑century bishop of Myra in Turkey. As a young man he prayed with the Desert Fathers, and the Church honors him as a “thaumaturge,” a wonderworker whose life was, as Fr. Richard says, “suffused with miracles.” Nicholas was born into […]Read more

On Marriage Unhindered, Dr. Alexandra Marcotte joined Doug Hinderer to discuss why couples fight and what it takes to rebuild trust in a marriage. A listener named Julia called from Chicago with a marriage problem that’s been eating at her: her desire to help others keeps colliding with her husband’s trust. For example, she had […]Read more

On Father Simon Says, a listener named Neil writes in about the Trinity, sharing a preacher’s clever line: as water can be solid, liquid, or gas, so one God can be three Persons. Fr. Richard Simon isn’t convinced. He says that this water analogy sounds like Sabellianism, the old idea that God is one divine […]Read more

An anonymous listener, M.T., wrote in to The Inner Life to ask a profound question about their personal prayer life. In the early-morning quiet, M.T. slips into a guest room to pray before anyone else is awake. During these times of silent prayer and just before Holy Communion, this listener wrote that their sins suddenly […]Read more

On Family Rosary Across America, Kathy from Savage, Minnesota, called back with joy in her voice. “I woke up this morning and my left eye opened up wider than it has since surgery and my vision is so much better,” she told Fr. Rocky. “I’m sitting under my Relevant Radio blanket praying the rosary with […]Read more

When Pope Leo XIV left the Vatican for his first apostolic journey as pope, he didn’t head to a Catholic stronghold. As Drew Mariani told listeners, he went to Turkey to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, the gathering called by Emperor Constantine to settle the truth about Jesus’ nature. The Council […]Read more

Patrick Madrid has been receiving many emails about “Catholic AI” apps, but he starts with a surprising clarification: “There is no such thing, per se, as a Catholic AI.” Mass‑market engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok are off-the-rack tools. What makes some of them feel Catholic, Patrick explains, is the way people set the rules. […]Read more

Morning Air host John Morales has firsthand experience caring for aging parents when a sudden fall, a medical diagnosis, or “another unexpected event” throws a family into crisis. Overnight, he said, “families suddenly find themselves overwhelmed by confusing laws and tough decisions” they never thought they’d face, so he turned to elder-law attorney and author […]Read more

On Trending with Timmerie, host Timmerie looks at a surprising Gen Z shift: women saying no to casual sex and stepping away from hookup culture. A 2025 national study on modern love and dating, conducted with datingadvice.com and the Kinsey Institute, points to a quiet revolution: fewer one-night stands, fewer no-commitment relationships, and a growing […]Read more

On The Drew Mariani Show, Drew Mariani and Dr. Susan Hanssen step into a remarkable 50–year window of American history, from 1776 to 1826, when the men we call the Founding Fathers were also the nation’s presidents. George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe—and “honorary founder” John Quincy Adams—did not just shape […]Read more

On The Inner Life, Patrick Conley introduced a call from Mark, a catechist walking with a mother and her almost‑13‑year‑old son in OCIA. The boy has begun using explicit material online in a compulsive way and, with no real religious background, is asking a blunt question: “What’s wrong with it?” Mark wants to answer in […]Read more