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Why You Should Get Married in the Church

July 30, 2025February 10, 2026 Articles, Catechesis, Morning Air

So many couples today decide to get married outside of a church, while others decide not to get married at all and just live together. Catholic family speaker and evangelist Damon Owens joined John Morales on Morning Air to speak on the importance of the sanctity and longevity of marriage. Owens began by saying that […]

What is the difference between the Catholic Faith and the Lutheran Faith?

July 17, 2025February 10, 2026 Articles, Catechesis, Father Simon Says

A listener recently wrote in to share a surprising experience: she had given her Lutheran neighbor a ride to church and, since she had already been to Mass, decided to sit in on the Lutheran service. What surprised her was how familiar it felt. She noticed women veiling and others kneeling for Communion. When she […]

Proper Attire for Mass

July 15, 2025February 10, 2026 Articles, Family and Kids, Morning Air

As the culture changes and transforms, so too does the level of importance placed on certain mores and standards. Sometimes, cultural changes are improvements. But other times, customs are best left untouched. Father Scott Pogatchnik joined Glen Lewerenz on Morning Air to discuss the growing concern around the standards for proper attire at Mass and […]

Why do Catholics give so much attention to Mary?

March 3, 2025February 10, 2026 Articles, Faith and Spirituality

On a recent episode of The Patrick Madrid Show on Relevant Radio, Brandon from San Diego posed a thought-provoking question: Why do Catholics seem to focus so much on Mary? His concern wasn’t about praying with saints, but rather the sheer amount of time and prayer that Catholics dedicated to Marian devotion. He described it […]

The Lord Giveth and the Lord Taketh Away

February 15, 2025April 8, 2026 Articles, Faith and Spirituality

We often picture grace as warm rays of sunlight streaming down from the heavens, illuminating our lives with blessings. But that is not what grace is. Grace is not an external sign of God’s favor—it is His very life within us, given freely and undeservedly, so that we may be conformed to Christ. True grace […]

What is the Magisterium?

July 10, 2024February 11, 2026 Articles

On The Patrick Madrid Show, listener George called in to ask a basic but very important question that a lot of Catholics get tripped up on: What is the Magisterium? From the sound of it, it could be a book or a group of papal documents or a place, or even a specific clerical item. […]

How Do I Love the Sinner but Hate the Sin?

June 13, 2024February 11, 2026 Articles, Catechesis, The Patrick Madrid Show

Many people scorn Catholics because they believe the Church teaches us to hate people for their sins and cast judgment when it is not our place. But that could not be further from the truth. Rather, Church teaching tells us that we are to love the sinner and hate the sin. But how do we […]

Does God Condone Violence in the Old Testament?

June 11, 2024February 11, 2026 Articles, Catechesis, The Faith Explained

Is God a proponent of violence? Does He condone the rampant fighting and killing seen in the Old Testament? Does He encourage it? How come God seems so different in the Old Testament from the New Testament? These are just a few of the questions people have when they begin delving into the books of […]

The Trolley Car Dilemma

November 16, 2023June 29, 2026 Articles, Catechesis, The Patrick Madrid Show

Have you ever heard of the “Trolley Car” dilemma? On The Patrick Madrid Show, Patrick discussed this hypothetical quandary in the context of choosing who lives and who dies, and he tied it to the decision to drop the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The Trolley Dilemma is a 2014 moral problem […]

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