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How to Optimize Your Time and Calm Your Mind (Marriage Unhindered)

December 4, 2025 Articles, Best of the Week

On Marriage Unhindered, Doug Hinderer sits down with clinical psychologist Dr. Johann D’Souza to explore “optimal work,” a practical approach he learned from his mentor, Harvard psychiatrist Kevin Majors. Optimal Work, he explains, is about working at your best so you can live at your best – using modern neuroscience to bring your highest ideals […]

Pope Leo’s Wake-Up Call on AI and Holiness (Morning Air)

December 4, 2025December 4, 2025 Articles, Best of the Week

Inside an NFL stadium late last month, the Church marked a new kind of digital encounter. Pope Leo joined the National Catholic Youth Conference at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis by live video, speaking to young Americans in their own Midwestern accent. Filmmaker Rob Kaczmark of Spirit Juice Studios, whose team was on-site capturing the […]

Praying for Baby Zellie and a Needed Miracle (Family Rosary Across America)

December 4, 2025 Articles, Best of the Week

Zoe from Jacksonville, Florida, called to thank Fr. Rocky and Maggie for displaying a picture of Venerable Augustus Tolton during the Family Rosary Across America. Her father, who passed away earlier this year, began praying with his parish to Tolton last July for her husband to become Catholic; now, her husband is preparing to enter […]

From Embarrassed to Unburdened: Choosing Confession Over Fear (The Patrick Madrid Show)

December 4, 2025 Articles, Best of the Week

On The Patrick Madrid Show, a caller named Tom from San Diego phoned back with an update that had Patrick – and listeners – breathing a sigh of relief. Two weeks earlier, he had admitted on air that he was too ashamed to go to the priest with what he’d done. Lying awake one night, […]

Infant Baptism: God’s Choice Before Ours (Father Simon Says)

December 4, 2025 Articles, Best of the Week

On the show Father Simon Says, a listener named Jordan asked whether Galatians 4:7 supports infant Baptism: “You are no longer a slave but a child of God… and an heir.” Fr. Richard Simon unpacked the Greek word doulos, meaning “slave,” and St. Paul’s insistence that in Christ we are not just servants but heirs. […]

The Sweetest Call of the Week: Joey’s Birthday Blessing

November 19, 2025 Best of the Week

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Why Doesn’t the Catholic Church Have Female Priests? (Trending with Timmerie)

November 19, 2025 Articles, Best of the Week

Timmerie opened a recent segment of Trending with Timmerie by discussing the headline-making appointment in the Anglican Church: Archbishop Sarah Mulally, the first female head of the Church of England. The move wasn’t unanimous, and the backlash has been fierce. Many Anglicans call it a break from Scripture, especially since Mulally claims marriage is between […]

How to Be Perfect (Father Simon Says)

November 19, 2025November 19, 2025 Articles, Best of the Week

Real holiness rarely looks like the clenched jaw, tight-fisted perfectionism that haunts so many souls. On Father Simon Says, in a caller’s heart-aching question about her own long battle with scrupulosity—and now her daughter’s—Father Simon peeled back a layer of the Gospel we often skim past. And it all hinges on a single word: as. […]

The Sweetest Call of the Week: Joey’s Birthday Blessing (Family Rosary Across America)

November 19, 2025November 19, 2025 Articles, Best of the Week

On The Family Rosary Across America, an 8-year-old boy named Joey called into Relevant Radio from San Jose, California. Fr. Rocky warmly greeted him, and Joey shared that he wanted to pray for his sister Rose, his brother, and someone named Howe. He also wanted to sing “Happy Birthday” for Maggie and for his mom, […]

How Can I Stop Living in Fear of the Unknown? (The Inner Life)

November 19, 2025November 19, 2025 Articles, Best of the Week

Fear crawls in quietly. A sudden headache spirals into thoughts of a brain bleed. A chest flutter becomes a heart-attack alarm. A strange noise in traffic, and suddenly you imagine catastrophic endings. Lauren’s email to Patrick Conley and Fr. Matthew Spencer on The Inner Life captured what so many Catholics carry silently: How do I […]

Bishop Thomas Paprocki on the New Legislation Regarding Physician-Assisted Suicide (Morning Air)

November 19, 2025 Articles, Best of the Week

Some of the week’s brightest news for the Church came from Baltimore, the site of the USCCB’s Fall Assembly. Bishop Thomas Paprocki joined John Morales on Morning Air with a hopeful report from the Assembly: a new president and vice president elected, a revised set of ethical directives for Catholic healthcare, a national consecration of […]

Why Do We Pray the Centurion’s Prayer Before Communion? (The Patrick Madrid Show)

November 19, 2025 Articles, Best of the Week

During a recent episode of The Patrick Madrid Show, Patrick answered a simple but beautiful question from a listener named Bill: Where does the line we pray before Holy Communion actually come from? Does it trace back to the Roman centurion in the Gospels? “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my […]

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How to Optimize Your Time and Calm Your Mind (Marriage Unhindered)

Pope Leo’s Wake-Up Call on AI and Holiness (Morning Air)

Praying for Baby Zellie and a Needed Miracle (Family Rosary Across America)

From Embarrassed to Unburdened: Choosing Confession Over Fear (The Patrick Madrid Show)

Infant Baptism: God’s Choice Before Ours (Father Simon Says)

The Sweetest Call of the Week: Joey’s Birthday Blessing

Why Doesn’t the Catholic Church Have Female Priests? (Trending with Timmerie)

How to Be Perfect (Father Simon Says)

The Sweetest Call of the Week: Joey’s Birthday Blessing (Family Rosary Across America)

How Can I Stop Living in Fear of the Unknown? (The Inner Life)

Bishop Thomas Paprocki on the New Legislation Regarding Physician-Assisted Suicide (Morning Air)

Why Do We Pray the Centurion’s Prayer Before Communion? (The Patrick Madrid Show)