Practicing Catholic Show

Wedding season is in full swing but the beautiful weddings we might be attending this year certainly take some prep work to get to the finished result! How are your organizational skills? For any married Practicing Catholic listeners, you might remember all the stress and planning that likely happened prior to your wedding day. The organizing and setup tend to be a huge point of stress for the eng...

An Activated Disciple Seminar May 20 was the latest step in a multi-year Archdiocesan Synod process. Archbishop Hebda is here to share more about this event and what's ahead for Synod implementation.

As Catholic Christians we know there’s so much more to marriage than a one-day event with a beautiful dress, a tux and “the Chicken Dance.”  As wedding season kicks into high-gear, we’re going to take a step back and talk about the vocation of marriage and why the engagement process is so important. Joining us for that, Father Michael Van Sloun – a retired priest and pastor of the Archdiocese and...

As Practicing Catholics, you may have heard the phrase, “the Eucharist is the source and summit of our faith.” And it’s true. The Eucharist is one of the most beautiful mysteries of Catholicism, and we have the honor of receiving Jesus in this way every time we attend Mass (if we’re in the right state to do so). But how do we share that mystery with others? Holy Cross Catholic Church in NE Minneap...

Joining us on Practicing Catholic's annual ordination show are Deacons Will Kratt and Kyle Etzel, to talk about their journey to priestly ordination and how we can specifically pray for them.

It's our ordination show on Practicing Catholic, where we’re meeting the men about to be ordained to the priesthood for our Archdiocese. Let’s spend some time with Deacons John Rumpza and Ryan Glaser.

It’s our annual ordination show on Practicing Catholic! We speak with Director of Vocations for our Archdiocese, Fr. David Blume, to reflect on how God has been and continues to be good to us by raising up men for the priesthood.

Many of our faithful Practicing Catholic listeners are also faithful to listening to the other great programming on Relevant Radio, whether that’s on 1330AM, on RelevantRadio.com, or on the versatile Relevant Radio app—whether that’s the Patrick Madrid Show, Father Simon Says, the Drew Mariani show, Daybreak with our own Paul Sadek, or even The Inner Life with yours truly. If that’s you, you’ll re...

You may be familiar with Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement. We’re exploring the Lake City Catholic Worker Farm with Sarah and Paul Freid and learning about what they produce and how it connects them with the land and our Lord.

As practicing Catholics, we see the fingerprints of God in our lives wherever we encounter the true, the good, and the beautiful. A local parish is giving you the opportunity to trip-the-light-transcendent, as well as give local artists a chance to showcase their talents and gifts! St. Clement's in NE Minneapolis is playing one of the hosts for this year's Art-a-Whirl. Joining us to tell u...

Founded in 2019, Unity High School is one of the first Catholic high schools in the south metro and began with a single class of freshman. 2023 is a special year for the school as this will be the year that those freshman graduate (as seniors, of course) in Unity’s first graduating class! You may know Matt Birk from his involvement within our local Church and state, as a father of 8 children, or p...

We’re gearing up for another transformational Synod event happening next weekend, May 20: the Activated Disciple Seminar! The seminar will leave our parish Synod Evangelization Team members, well, activated and set on fire for the mission of evangelizing. Joining us to explain more about the day and her role as keynote speaker is Dr. Mary Healy: a professor of Scripture at Sacred Heart Major Semin...

The Archdiocese is gifted with lots of beautiful land to explore this spring and summer, and Dave Hrbacek – photographer and reporter for The Catholic Spirit – and Fr. Jake Anderson of the University of Minnesota’s Newman Center are our guides.

The Tekakwitha Conference is getting closer and closer, with this national conference being held within our own Archdiocese this July. The theme of this year’s gathering is “Gathering for Healing through Living Waters” and the emphasis is on the boarding school era. Joining us this past weekend was Sharon Shuck, an Indigenous Catholic whose family has been impacted by these boarding schools. We ar...

We’re saying goodbye today to the heart and soul of Practicing Catholic – our producer and social media specialist, Cami Berthiaume. She’s headed to Ascension Press as their community engagement guru, and we thought it’d be a nice way to celebrate her time with us as producer to have one final little round table with the three of us!

Freedom to Love is a newly-formed ministry that focuses on the transformative impact of human and spiritual formation to free young men from the lure of pornography. Jeremy Rohr, founder of the program and parishioner at St. Michael in St. Michael is joining us today to share some insight into how the program was developed, why it’s been so impactful, and how you can get involved.  http://www.free...

Happy Easter! Archbishop Hebda joined us this past weekend to share about springtime renewal with the Synod and our parishes’ Synod Evangelization Teams. His Excellency also recalls the ordination of Bishop Izen and what he’s been up to in these couple weeks since his installation.  

With Synod implementation underway, you’ve likely hearing the buzz about small group formation within your parish and what exactly that might look like in the coming year. Recently, parish staff and clergy from across the Archdiocese met for a formation day where the focus was on a series of small group visioning days that will be going on within our parishes.   With us this weekend to share more...

May 1st is Religious Brothers Day, alongside the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker – both shine a light on the gift of masculinity within our Church and the unique spiritual traits that men bring to the Body of Christ. Joining us this past weekend was Br. Matt Wooters, SJ: a Jesuit Brother who’s served in our Archdiocese and all over the country as he fulfills his vocation to care for those who are i...

Leading off this week, our new Auxiliary Bishop Michael Izen is with us! We’ll hear his take on how the Ordination went and what’s filling up his plate in these first few weeks! Find Ordination coverage here.

This past Saturday was Earth Day, and we heard from Sr. Kathleen storms and Adam Fitzpatrick about the Laudato Si’ apostolate and stewardship of creation. 

Archdiocesan Outreach Coordinator for Restorative Justice and Abuse Prevention Paula Kaempffer joined us to introduce a new homebound ministry and a new support group for victim/survivors of clergy abuse. 

Up first this weekend on Practicing Catholic, Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Williams joined Tom Halden, Director of Communications, for his monthly chat. He’s talking Easter, his first year as a bishop and more.

Maybe you, a family member, or a close friend have been experiencing a lack of purpose or emptiness. At a time when the use of social media, many outlets of media consumption, and constant comparison nag at us, it’s more important than ever to cling to our Catholic identity as a daughter or son of Christ the King. Dr. Tod Worner, managing Editor of the Word on Fire Institute, and Fr. Spencer Howe...

Spring is in the air and soon enough schools will be out of session! But the learning doesn’t stop there, especially for our Synod Evangelization Teams and those who attended the School of Discipleship in February and March. Joining us this weekend was Deacon Joe Michalak, Director of Synod Evangelization for the Archdiocese , and key player for the Catechetical Institute’s School of Discipleship....