Practicing Catholic Show

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 recognize the name and voice of this guest. Here with us again is the Chairman and CEO of Relevant Radio, a priest of Opus Dei, and co-host of the Family Rosary Across America, Father Francis Hoffman: Father Rocky!

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 us more are Christopher Santer, who is both an artist and an art teacher at Providence Academy; and Ann Marie Cosgrove, an artist-photographer and Art-a-Whirl contributor.

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 perhaps for his 14-year NFL career. Regardless of how you know him, he’s joining us to chat about what he’s learned since Unity’s founding and what he’s looking forward to in the years to come.

Unity Catholic High School: www.UnityCatholicMN.org

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 Seminary in Detroit, and a bestselling author and national speaker.

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 are grateful to Sharon for sharing a bit of her story with us. 

Sharon's book: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Sharon-Doolittle-Shuck/dp/0989047849

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.freedomtolove.org/

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.