Fr. Rob, Mike and Pete may have set a new record for most digressions in a podcast, however, if you can navigate all the twists and turns of this Mardi Grad-influenced conversation, your soul may reap the rewards.

On Fat Tuesday, Mike and Pete traveled down to Saint Padre Pio in Vineland and its Pastor, the venerable Talking Catholic chaplain, Father Robert Sinatra. Amid donuts and chocolate, the three discuss these next 40 Days of Lent and how prayer, fasting, and almsgiving can bring us into a deeper relationship with Jesus as we prepare for Easter. Other items of note: big Scrabble words are used, like “concupiscence,” or “ verisimilitude”; Father Rob educates Mike and Pete on the Liturgy of the Hours; and the trio talks Philly Baseball, and superheroes.