For Catholics trying to understand and live their faith, the death penalty can be a stumbling block. If Catholics are pro-life why did the Church accept the death penalty as permissible for so many centuries? Is capital punishment considered to be on the same level as abortion? Has the Church changed its teaching on the […]Read more

The death penalty has been in the news more and more recently. At the end of last year, there were 13 federal executions in the span of six months. Earlier this month it was reported that DNA evidence could have exonerated an Arkansas man who was executed in 2017. And just this week, a Texas […]Read more

God is capable of healing us. But sometimes the healing we receive isn’t the one we expected. Patrick Madrid, host of The Patrick Madrid Show, illustrated this by sharing a story of his miraculous healing from Lourdes. “I have not been to Lourdes myself,” Patrick said. “I’d like to go, I just haven’t had the […]Read more

God is omniscient. He knows everything—past, present, and future. He knows what will happen to you from the moment of your conception to your death. His knowledge and understanding are all encompassing and limitless. But what does that mean for our prayer? “If He already knows what is going to happen to this person that’s […]Read more

Scripture tells us that some of the first priests, the apostles, were married. But for centuries it has been a Church discipline that priests in the West take a vow of celibacy. This can be a source of confusion for many. Marriage is good – a sign of Christ and the Church and the life […]Read more

The first sacrament is Baptism, and no other can be received without having first been baptized. Clearly it’s important, so why is there disagreement about when this sacrament should be received? Chris called from Arizona to ask Patrick Madrid about the importance of infant baptism. He explained that he has a couple of friends with […]Read more

Many Catholic parishes around the country minister to those who are incarcerated and to their families, but the Covid pandemic has caused prisons to lock down, not allowing visitors and allowing little to no interaction between inmates. Visiting the imprisoned is one of the corporal works of mercy, but how can we do that when […]Read more

Have you ever had one of those moments when everything changed? When something you heard, saw, or experienced shifted how you see the world, and changed the trajectory of your life? Well, a listener named Ally called-in to The Patrick Madrid Show to share how she had one of those moments while listening to Relevant […]Read more

Do you tend to push the limits when you’re driving? Maybe you rush wherever you’re going, speeding past the cars around you. Perhaps you roll through a stop sign without coming to a full stop or press the accelerator to get through a yellow light. Are these bad habits—which many people have—sinful? That was on […]Read more

The Christian life is full of conversion. Whether it’s turning to God for the first time, or whether it’s the daily conversions we need to draw closer to the Lord, each of us needs to turn away from our sins and return to the Lord. But sometimes conversion is complicated. Maybe you are divorced and […]Read more

Part of preparing for the sacrament of Confirmation is to choose a Confirmation sponsor. But even though it is an important aspect of Confirmation, many Catholics don’t really know what a sponsor does. What is their role in the life of the confirmandi, and what responsibilities does a sponsor have? A listener named Ben recently […]Read more

The Catholic Church’s position on contraception is clear—an emphatic ‘no way, never okay’. Instead, many Catholic married couples have learned to use natural family planning (NFP) as a way to work with a woman’s natural cycle of fertile and infertile days to achieve or avoid pregnancy at different stages of their marriage. But is it […]Read more