Practicing Catholic Show

Do you struggle to stick to your Lenten commitments? You’re not alone! Lent is a challenging season. We’re giving up small pleasures or adding in virtuous habits, working toward becoming holier selves. Joining producer Kayla Mayer to offer encouragement and advice to persevere despite the challenges we may face this Lent is Fr. Joseph Johnson, pastor of Holy Family in St. Louis Park and a spiritual director on The Inner Life.

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As you know, here on Practicing Catholic, we focus on what the Lord is doing here—in our local Church, the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. But we can never forget that we are part of the Church Catholic—which is universal and global! Joining host Patrick Conley to share about a special relationship God is continuing to develop between our Archdiocese and Tanzania, Africa are Dr. Mark and Molly Druffner, founders of Partners 4 Hope Tanzania.

Learn more about Partners 4 Hope Tanzania.

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Pope Francis has asked that we be a “listening Church,” listening to the Holy Spirit and each other. As the delegates to the Synod on Synodality prepare to return to Rome in the fall for the second part of the Vatican Synod, there are two opportunities for us to get involved and do some listening right here in the Archdiocese.

Archbishop Hebda joins host Patrick Conley to discuss how YOU can let the Vatican know what feedback you have.

Learn more about the Synod on Synodality.

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Is there a young man in your life who you think, “He’d make a great priest”? If the answer is “yes,” you'll want to hear about the culture, fraternity, and whole-person formation at Saint John Vianney College Seminary. Host Patrick Conley chats with Saint John Vianney's rector, Father Jonathan Kelly, and one of the men discerning a call to the priesthood, Nick Deutsch.

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We’re blessed in this Archdiocese to be home to the Center for Social Thought. The group's 2024 spring speaker series, called "Rebuilding Catholic Community", is covering a variety of ways in which we as Catholics experience the call to community.

Find more of Leah Libresco's work.

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It was one of the most hopeful and real stories of the pandemic – the courageous priests who spent their time visiting the sick and dying in their homes and at hospitals. While for some of us it may feel like life is back to normal, the pandemic revealed the importance of access to spiritual care for the sick and dying.

Host Patrick Conley sits down with Father John Paul Erickson, pastor at the Church of the Transfiguration in Oakdale, and Sydney March, an ER nurse at Abbott Northwestern and prenatal nurse at Options for Women East, to talk about how the important work of the Anointing Corps continues.

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With the number of young people leaving the Church, there's no question that we need to rebuild the Catholic community. Bishop Williams sat down with producer Kayla Mayer to talk about how we find and create Catholic community and why it's important to do so.

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With Lent starting February 14, there’s no better time than now to explore “turning our hearts, minds and souls toward God.” What a great opportunity to, once again, lean-in on God and ask him to help us do just that!

Joining producer Kayla Mayer to talk about how we can grow in holiness this Lent is Dr. Kate Walsh-Soucheray, a Catholic licensed marriage and family therapist and regular columnist in The Catholic Spirit.

Learn more about Dr. Kate and her work.

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Have you ever read one of those signs like, “We serve only the finest wines in our home. What did you bring?” Well, did you know that you can answer that question by saying “An award-winning wine from a Catholic family in the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis”? It may not flow off the tongue like California or Spain, but it’s true. 

Isaac Savaryn, viticulturist for Sovereign Estate Winery in Waconia, joined host Patrick Conley to talk about how his family got into the winemaking business and how their Catholic identity plays a huge role in their award-winning wines.

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Lent is fast approaching, and for the Maronite Church, Lent starts a couple days sooner than the Roman Church. Here to share more about what Lent looks like in the Maronite Church is our good friend Chorbishop sharbel Maroun. He joins producer Kayla Mayer to talk about special traditions and why you should consider joining for a Divine Liturgy.

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