Forte Catholic

After taking a week off for vacation, Forte Catholic is back with a bang! This is one of the best shows we've had in quite some time. Liv Harrison cohosts as Taylor shares about his vacation and they share their love for Hamilton. Patrick Neve of the Crunch podcast joins the show to help Taylor mess with Liv and share about his new endeavor: Bonaventure's Book Club. He's making great literary clas...

An introduction into the greatest Catholic podcast known to man! Forte Catholic is all about Making Catholicism Fun Again by sharing the Joy of the Gospel each and every week with a tremendous team of co-hosts and the best guests the Catholic world has to offer. Subscribe today for your weekly dose of Catholicism and laughter! Subscribe/Rate Never miss out on the craziness of each episode by hitti...

Bearded Blevins cohosts and Taylor has a bone to pick with him ;) They debated about what quality time is, how love languages affect how we see things and what they both learned from their silly argument. Taylor is joined by Sam Rocha in the wake of his recent debate on socialism with Trent Horn to have a follow up conversation about not only the debate itself but also what the "Catholic Left" mea...

Fr. Anthony cohosts and gets complimented right off the bat so he knew he was in for a heck of a show lol. They respond to people saying dumb things about priests, Taylor's wins and losses as a person and father this week & much more. Our guest this week is Fr. Harrison Ayre so you could say this episode is Forte Speaking. Or Clerically Forte. Or Clerically Catholic. Or whichever you think is...

Liv shares some exciting news(well she tries too and Taylor has to end up doing it) about a new endeavor she's taken on and what the heck a "blue flame" is. She's very kind to herself which is new so maybe its working? Canadian pastor and digital evangelist extraordinaire Fr. Darryl Millette joins the show to chat about Canada, Star Trek and decide if Liv or Taylor is a better interviewer. To fini...

It's been a very difficult week for our country. This was a tough one to record but we wanted to share our hearts and thoughts with our community in response to the tragedy of George Floyd's death. Jon Blevins joins Taylor to discuss how we're feeling about the whole situation. Meg Hunter-Kilmer joins to share her radical calling from the Lord and about some of her favorite saints of color. Subscr...

After a hectic week, Taylor decides to go solo on an episode for the first time since 2017. He shares about why he didn't want to do an episode this week but ultimately decided to, how there are too many things(good and bad) happening at once & shares he interesting first trip back to Church in months. He's joined in the second segment by Fr. Cassidy Stinson for a conversation on crushing demo...

HUGE NEWS for Taylor and Forte Catholic in the first segment of today's show! Fr. Anthony cohosts to help reveal the news and also play the revived "Life Verse" game. This time we give life verses to listeners of the show who requested them :) Our guest this week is best-selling author Coach Anthony Simon. This young man has accomplished so much in so little time and shares about his tough journey...

Liv Harrison co-hosts and said the most absurd thing on social media that Taylor has to address by bringing back a long forgotten game, "Life Verse." Insanity ensued. Our guest this week is Fr. Agustino Torres. He's a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal and one of the best speakers this country has. He shares what's been on his heart and mind recently...and also dances to to the intro and outro music...

Beardless(yes it's gone) Blevins cohosts as Taylor shares about the two amazing holidays this week: May the 4th and Cinco de Mayo. He gets Jon's input on the Litany of Star Wars he shared and how some people just refuse to have any fun within Catholicism. They also discuss Our Lady of Guadalupe and a terrible prayer someone wrote in her honor. Our guest this week is Pete Burak, the founder of ID m...

Cohost Allison Sullivan is TikTok famous now! One of the most popular people in America is now following her and copying some of her videos lol! It makes Taylor quite angry but yet he still finds it in himself to apologize to his cohosts, and then instantly regrets it. Koji de Ramos is our guest today and we talk about how he too is a TikTok king, how he's using his creative gifts to build up the...

Fr. Anthony & Taylor have been playing many a video game during the quarantine and Taylor tries to justify it by making it sound spiritual and finding in the games positive and negative parallels to his spiritual life. He also weighs himself live on the show(unplanned) to see how he's doing physically during the lockdown.(It's wild!) Comedian Aaron Weber stops by the show again. The point of b...

Liv Harrison joins Taylor Schroll as cohost to chat about their respective Holy Week(Weak) celebrations. Pretty sad and difficult, but there's always a silver lining :) Comedian Jeremy McLellan returns to the show to fix our sadness with his comedy brilliance, and how he is learning and growing as a person during the quarantine. The final segment, Liv and Taylor continue the fun by forcing each ot...

Jon Blevins cohosts and we find ourselves in the middle of a cancelled Holy Week. We chat about a couple ways we're trying to enter in to the beauty of this week even though we're stuck at home. We also discuss all the online content, have VERY different takes on Tiger King, Taylor crying watching TV(again)and a discussion on w/Lauren Montgomery of the Catholic Commons podcast on this forced Monas...

A typical Catholic tradition during Lent is to pray through the stations of the cross at the parish on Friday afternoons. For those times we can't do that(looking at you Coronavirus), Taylor and Fr. Anthony wanted to pray with you digitally. Taylor and a friend wrote these reflections while in college for a young adult audience and they have been used for youth nights and young adult groups throug...

Allison Sullivan cohosts and tries to figure out how to record from home and shares how her and her husband are spending their time very differently during the quarantine. Allison is now a TikTok mom and its hilarious! Edmund Mitchell rejoins the show to discuss random things that don't matter at all but are quite entertaining. For example, the differences in people's internal monologues and what...

Welp. The world's falling apart, BUT WE'RE STILL HERE TO BRING YA SOME LAUGHTER AND NONSENSE BABBBBAYYYYY! Fr. Anthony cohosts and Taylor has to have words with him. They have a friend fight during the first segment which surprises both of them. Fun times lol. There are two Taylor's on this show! Catholic musician, Taylor Tripodi, joins the show. The trio decide who's high school prom was worse &a...

Are we all stuck because of the virus? Yes. Is Forte Catholic going to stop bringing joy to people by Making Catholicism Fun Again? HECK NOOOOO The goal of this episode is to be an escape from the stress of the pandemic. Liv Harrison cohosts, gives Taylor a massive headache and they argue about which one of them is a better bride. Our guest this week is Michael Foley, the author of "Drinking with...

The world is going crazy with the coronavirus and most of us have extra time on our hands. Fr. Brad Doyle(@fr_quizzical on Twitter) and Taylor wanted to give you the gift of extra content this week. One day we may all have to leave and go to space. Therefore, the guys discuss what Mass would be like in space. There was a ton of laughter that we hope will bring you joy in this strange time. Blessin...

Allison Sullivan co-hosts and joins Taylor in the stress. (Don't worry, he's in a better mood this week.) In the first segment, we talk about the Genius conference that Allison spoke at and Taylor's wife also attended. This was also Taylor's first weekend home alone with his kids so that was an adventure as well. Allison also thinks she can beat Taylor in boxing which is WILD! In the second segmen...

Taylor is still a bit overwhelmed this week, but never fear, Jon “Bearded” Blevins is here with a laundry list of random takes he wants to share and Taylor gets worked up about a few of them. With a wide range of topics, you’re bound to find something you like, including: -Wendy’s new breakfast menu -Going to the dentist -The XFL -The ups and downs of marriage -Lenten sacrifices -Shakespeare being...

Our third annual "Limping Into Lent" involves a beat-up version of Taylor and Fr. Anthony laughing through the pain. They've both had rough weeks, Taylor loses hope and Father attempts to help. Our guest this week is youth minister Logan Mayes. It's essentially a conversation of the classic priest, youth minister and podcaster walk into a bar and share their cringy-est stories from their time in t...

Liv Harrison cohosts and drives Taylor mental! Our first segment revolves around Liv's insanity, Taylor's meal preferences & neti pots. We have a VERY special guest this week making their debut as a Forte Catholic guest. This person has a meant a lot to Taylor throughout his life and the interview is one of our favorite's of all time. In the final segment, Taylor and Liv learn about the Desert...

Allison Sullivan cohosts as her and Taylor share about their respective week of events(Allison definitely rules the time of possession.) We talk converts, the Eucharist and ministry. Then Chika Anyanwu joins us for the second segment. She recently complimented Taylor and thus got an invite onto the show. She seemed to burst into the Catholic scene a year ago so we get to know her story and what dr...

Jon Blevins cohosts AND IS NOW A GIRL DAD! The guys discuss fatherhood: the joys, difficulties and expectations vs. reality. Then Taylor's best friend joins the fray. He's in town visiting so Taylor brought him on the show. Don't tell anyone, but he's Protestant. So we mostly ask him why he's not Catholic and he shares insight into Taylor's childhood. Really a grand ol time! In the final segment,...