The Inner Life

Father John LoCoco joins Patrick to discuss Living Heroic Virtue: St Gianna Molla (2:28) who was Gianna Molla? (9:09) What is Virtue? How do you develop virtue? (17:28) Kathy - Living Heroic Virtue - My sister-in-law...she was married to my brother who was a cerebral palsy patient. Difficult to live with. Always gave everyone the benefit of the doubt. Also dear friend from Australia. She is a Bapt...

Father Tom Wilson joins Patrick to discuss Spiritual Reading (5:51) why is spiritual reading important? What is a good perspective to have while doing spiritual reading? (14:30) Joe – Ministers of Your Joy: Meditations on the Priesthood is a great book (19:11)Lorraine - Did you consider books for the blind? I'm blind and I have limited sources for them. (22:47) Break 1 Importance of reading...

Father John Eckert joins Patrick to discuss The Power of Scripture Where are Catholics at with the Bible? How the bible connects with itself. (18:35) Rudy - Book I read by Deacon Burke. went through the whole mass and wrote every part from scripture. (22:23) Break 1 (24:06) Living out Scripture. (31:50) Regina - Father touched on the old testament and continuity. Want to know more about how the ne...

Father Eric Nielsen joins Patrick to discuss Conscience and Catholic Guilt (2:47) What is the Conscience?  Comparison Game (14:32) Nick -In my own life before conversion, so many thing innate about me. Compared myself to others. Not seeing the plank in my eye and trying to remove the splinter in theirs. What got me away from the evil Father Talked about. Go before the tabernacle. Keeps me gro...

Father Dave Heney joins Patrick to discuss Anxiety and Stress (9:07) Spiritual need to not be stressed. (13:44) How to sleep better at night? (17:45) Jim - I was married at St. Bruno 30 years ago. I've just recently had a lot of stress in my life. Our marriage isn't 100percent as it used to be. AS far as married couples, you're both going to stress...how do we approach that subject together and he...

Father Peter Armenio joins Patrick to discuss Finding Joy in a Life with Christ (8:06) Joy the midst of suffering. (18:29) Break 1 Janet - Person who I find joy from...Right after Vatican 2, she helped prepare laity what sisters couldn't help with. Did it so peacefully. Loved to talk about the Lord and catechesis. (24:32) Angelo - Dealing with mother who has dementia. Trying to find joy in this. L...

Father John Paul Erickson joins Patrick for another installment of Ask Me Anything about the Catholic Faith. How is Faith a Journey? (5:59) how do you navigate change in your life? (13:43) Martin - Honoring your mother and the challenges of having to deal with her not being honest with respect to her care. (18:28) Amy - Planning my demise from this world. Devout Catholic and single. I do want to h...

Father Joseph Illo joins Patrick to lead a Sunday Bible Study on the Road to Emmaus (10:32) Gospel Luk 24: 13-35 How does this passage reflect the Mass? (26:03) Break 1 (28:04) Deacon Michael - My homily is very simple...point about not recognizing Christ is because we're all walking the road to Emmaus. Christ shows up and we have got to be attentive and see Christ. sometimes it's obvious. (30:25)...

Father Michael-Joseph Paris joins Patrick to discuss Silence (4:15) no time for silence and wide is it so important? (12:53) Why is silence difficult for us to enter into sometimes? (16:26) Agnes - What is a suggestion for a teacher or mother with a house full of kids? How does she find silence in the middle of all that noise? (19:26) Break 1 (21:13) Visual Noise (24:36) Sonya - Last week, that qu...

Father Ramil Fajardo joins Patrick to discuss Annulments What is marriage? (4:39) What are ways people misunderstand what annulments are? (11:59) What does free, full Faithful and Fruitful mean? (23:44) Adrianne - What happens when the person files for divorce and gets it and takes off and marries another. Or if the divorce was pending and the woman became pregnant? Does that make it easier for th...

Check out this great show from May 28, 2025 Fr. Rob Kroll  joins Patrick to discuss Mental and Spiritual Health (7:12) What is the correlation of mental and spiritual health? How does the prayer help with metal health? (19:12) Mary Ellen - I've struggled with mental health all my life. 60 years old. Suicidal, but I've always been faithful Catholic. I love God and have had a good relationship...

Check out this show from June 23, 2025 Fr. Eric Nielsen  joins Patrick to Discuss Eucharistic Adoration What is Eucharistic adoration? (4:11) Why is adoration different from just praying to God in the quiet? (11:23) Pat - I go to adoration every Friday and 3rd or 5th Thursday. Went last Friday and came to the conclusion that we see the creator of everything we have. I think that's an amazing...

Father Marc Lenneman joins Patrick for a Sunday bible study to discuss Doubting Thomas and Divine Mercy (4:39) what is the background of this passage? (10:37) Father Proclaims the Gospel for Sunday. (16:18) Regina - Father referenced 'by His wounds we are healed.' What does this mean? How does this work? (24:08) Break 1 Were the Apostles cowards? (34:51) why is he doubting Thomas? (43:00) Bre...

Father Bobby Blood joins Patrick to discuss the Eucharist in the Early Church What is the Eucharist? (4:46) How does the Eucharist set the Catholic Church apart? (10:54) What was meant by breaking of the bread? Rad to Emmaus explained. (17:21) Robert -Thing that brought me back with the Eucharist...Jesus himself with the teaching of 5000...unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood... you wil...

Check out this great show from June 5, 2025 IL –  Fr. John Paul Erickson joins Patrick to discuss Leisure and the Spiritual Life What makes it difficult to find leisure? (8:40) What are things that drive us to fill up our brokenness? (18:17) Break 1 (24:39) Leonard do retreats count for leisure? How does leisure help us identify where restlessness lies? How do we remember our dignity as...

Father Sam Martin joins Patrick to discuss Proof of the Resurrection (4:01) why is the resurrection important? (12:36) appearance Jesus as proof of the Resurrection. (19:33) Bob - If Atheists want to disprove, only thing they can go on is Pilate and the guards would have been paid off and put under the rug. Only way to dispute Jesus rose from the dead. (26:37) Break 1 (28:28) Timothy - I'm always...

Father Rob Kroll joins Patrick to discuss The Meaning of Easter (3:11) why is Easter such a big deal for the Catholic Church? (13:03) Death and Resurrection in our life. How does God work in our own lives? (16:31) Nick - Happy Easter and the origins. I don't mean to demean it, but I think it sometimes dummies it down. When we look at the English and Germanic origins of it. We take away from the be...

Join Patrick Conley this Good Friday on an epic journey of the 7 Last Words of Jesus with 7 of our top-notch spiritual directors! This show combines all seven episodes on this series of the 7 Last Words into one seamless show! Part 1 Fr. John Eckert joins Patrick for the start of a special Lenten Series on the 7 Last Words of Jesus – today’s topic, Forgiveness What was he scene of the...

Check out this great show from January 15, 2026 (11:03) Fr. Ryan Brady joins Patrick to talk about Reliance on God.   (11:08) God works at a completely different schedule than we do.   (12:08) Car shopping is a great example and also very biblical.   (15:40) Patty - I am waiting and discovering God's way to help me with weight loss.    (19:17) Email: Leanne - Relying on Go...

Check out this Show from March 27, 2025 Father Ramil Fajardo  joins Patrick to discuss Relationship with Jesus (3:20) What is a relationship in general? How do we presume on relationships with Jesus? (11:48) what is required for a relationship with Jesus? (19:26) Break 1 Nick - We experienced a miscarriage. Daughter experienced it. Don't presume. Do we get down on our knees and express it?&nb...

Check out this great show from April 2, 2025 Father Michael Hurley  joins Patrick to discuss Intellect and faith   When it comes to Jesus, we must care and we must mind (2:53)   What does the intellect teach us about the life of faith? The intellect is a human faculty that is a direct reflection of God. (4:04)   Faith should be accessible to us all (11:27)   Our capacity t...

Check out this Encore show from April 8, 2025 Father Bobby Blood  joins Patrick to discuss Charitable Chastisement How do you discern when to offer correction to someone? (14:14) Judy - I wish somebody had loved me enough to chastise me. I walked away from faith, husband, etc. Nobody said Judy...you can't do this. I think it's important that we love enough to do that. I've come back to God an...

IL – Fr. John Paul Erickson joins Patrick for the last chapter of our special Lenten Series on the 7 Last Words of Jesus – today’s topic: “Total Surrender to God” (6:17) What is the connection to the Psalms and this last word of Jesus? (15:29) what holds us back from surrendering entirely to the will of the Father? (19:50) Break 1 (20:57) How do you answer the questio...

Father Eric Nielsen joins Patrick to discuss the Stations of the Cross (3:29) what is the origin of the stations of the Cross? What is the order of the stations of the Cross? (17:50) Break 1 Email from Bob about the unique way he prays the stations of the Cross. (19:38) Marsha - I was able to go with my parish to the holy land and pray them in January. I think that is the change and memories and t...

Check out this awesome show from April 3, 2025  IL: Father Sam Martin joins Patrick to discuss Patience (2:58) Patience is a fruit of the Spirit and a key part of the spiritual life (6:37) Holiness is humility and accepting help. Sometimes it is more blessed to receive than to give  (13:10) Patience does coincide with slowing down, solitude and time in prayer  (13:38) Contemplative...