The Catholic Servant Podcast

In this inspiring episode, Dr. Paul Chaloux shares his personal testimony and his amazing book Why People Suffer: How a Loving God Uses Suffering to Perfect Us.

Paul earned a PhD in moral theology and currently teaches theology as an adjunct professor at the Catholic University of America and serves as a catechist at St. Agnes Parish in Arlington, Virginia. He has been married for over thirty years to his wife Sue and they have 4 adult children and 2 granddaughters.

In this episode, EWTN's Dr. Ray details the fundamentals of Christian psychology in his incomparable down-to-earth style, directing us first to the root of all healthy counseling: the words of the Redeemer.

Dr. Ray Guarendi is a Catholic father of ten adopted children, a clinical psychologist, author, professional speaker, and national radio and television host. His radio show, "The Dr. Is In" can be heard on over 440 stations and his TV show, "Living Right With Dr. Ray" can be seen on EWTN.

In this episode, Lynne Lang discusses the transformational nature of virtue in homes, Catholic schools, and parish life. You'll also learn about Lynne's journey founding her amazing organization, Restoration Matters.

Lynne Lang has her M.S. in both Health Management and in Restorative Practices and has worked in the field of health education, safety and violence prevention curriculum development since 1994. Her training in Intercultural Competence, Dispute Resolution and Mediation strengthen her skills as a certified trainer with International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP). She is an experienced facilitator in circle processes, and informal and formal restorative conferences. She developed Virtue-Based Restorative Discipline, an initiative that integrates restorative practices and time-honored habits for human excellence – the virtues.

In this episode, Dr. Martin and Theresa Owen share about Women's Health and Restorative, Integrative, and Functional approaches to Fertility, and their work developing Vitae CME.

Dr. Martin Owen is the founder of VitaeCME.com. He is a family physician, who is passionate about Restorative Reproductive Medicine. Along with his wife Theresa, they are forging ahead into the CME world to empower physicians with the tools they need to cure, treat and heal women.

In this episode, Dr. Dan Meola shares how spiritual healing of adult children of divorce or separation is possible and is closely tied to growth in virtue.

Dr. Dan is the co-founder (with his wife Bethany) of Life-Giving Wounds, a Catholic non-profit apostolate dedicated to the spiritual healing of adult children of divorce or separation. Dan received his PhD in theology from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Washington DC, where he met Bethany. He has worked at the Saint John Paul II National Shrine since 2016 and has run retreats and given presentations to a wide variety of groups.

His and Bethany's passion is raising awareness of the wounds caused by parental divorce and family brokenness, and helping all men and women with divorced or separated parents to receive God's abundant healing and move forward with greater faith, hope, and joy. Dan and Bethany are the proud parents of two little girls and make their family home in Bowie, Maryland, where they love exploring local parks and the Chesapeake Bay as a family.

In this episode, Noelle Mering brilliantly tackles the issues of the Catholic faithful in regards to the cult of progressive ideology.

Noelle Mering is a Fellow at the Washington D.C. based think tank, the Ethics and Public Policy Center. She is the author of the book, Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology (TAN Books). She is an editor for the website Theology of Home and a coauthor of the books Theology of Home and Theology of Home II. She writes on culture, politics, and religion and has published in National Review, The Federalist, The American Mind, Catholic World Report, and National Catholic Register. Her writing has been featured on Instapundit, EWTN, New Advent, Big Pulpit, Catholic Herald, Albert Mohler's The Briefing, Fox News Radio, and Relevant Radio. Noelle is a wife and mother of six children in Southern California.

In this episode, Dr. Kathleen Berchelmann discusses the importance of authentic Catholic healthcare and her journey to co-found MyCatholicDoctor.com.

Dr. Berchelmann is a pediatrician, wife, mother of seven, and co-founder of MyCatholicDoctor. She is commonly consulted by families desiring a faith-based approach to depression, anxiety, ADHD, ADD, and autistic spectrum disorder. She speaks nationally on vaccines derived from aborted fetal tissue, also known as human diploid cell line vaccines. In 2018 Kathleen and her husband Greg decided to make MyCatholicDoctor a reality, using telemedicine, a network of faithful physicians, and innovative healthcare reimbursement models to make Catholic healthcare available to all people. Her work has been featured in/on: Time Magazine, NPR, FoxNews, Parents Magazine, Good Housekeeping Magazine, KSDK News Channel 5 St. Louis, Fox2 St. Louis, KMOV News Channel 4 St. Louis, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, multiple radio shows, and hundreds of other print and online publications.

During her years in health-media, Dr. Berchelmann became increasingly involved in Catholic Media, including a regular weekly slot on the SonRise Morning Show with Sacred Heart Radio. Questions flooded in from families desperately seeking Catholic health care providers they could trust. Eventually, Greg and Kathleen started a website called CatholicPediatrics and hosted a nationwide list of pediatricians who incorporate their Catholic faith into their practice of medicine. But people wanted more– they wanted Catholic psychiatrists, women's health specialists, end-of-life care, and more. This led Kathleen and Greg to found MyCatholicDoctor.

In this episode, Molly Roman and I discuss her book "How to Be Good at Life: Creating a Brilliant Life through Faith, Hope, and Love" and how to help your fallen-away adult child come back to the Faith.

Molly Roman, hailing Fort Wayne, Indiana, is a Life Coach, Author and Mom of 3. After graduating college, she quickly experienced that life isn't as straight-forward as it appeared. After several conversations with God and a commitment to personal growth, Molly created joy, meaning, fulfillment and love in an otherwise vacant life (and discovered the tools necessary to do so!). Today, Molly enjoys helping others discover and live their true potential by teaching how Faith, Hope and Love works with us to create meaningful results in our own lives and the lives of those we touch.

Heidi Witte makes it easy to inspire your kids to learn about and love the Holy Mass with her kid's liturgy shows.

Heidi Witte is an alumnus of the University of Notre Dame and also holds an M.Ed. in Elementary Education from Notre Dame's Alliance for Catholic Education program. She is a former Catholic school teacher, cantor, and volunteer Children's Liturgy catechist. For the past 15 months, Heidi and her husband Mark have been producing free, 30 minute Children's Liturgy of the Word episodes, which air 4 times a week on The Catholic TV Network and on the free Kids' Liturgy YouTube Channel. Heidi, Mark, and their 2 young children live in South Bend, Indiana.

If you love listening to Christ-centered and inspiring music, then this episode is a real treat! Faithful and talented musician, Harley Packer, will sing "live" and share his conversion story. You don't want to miss this!

Harley is a Catholic speaker, singer, and songwriter who grew up in Estevan Saskatchewan Canada. Over the past twenty five years he has been involved in various volunteer and paid ministries and has spoken at many parishes and high schools in Canada and the USA. His goal as a Catholic speaker is to help people overcome fear, anxiety and hopelessness with FAITH, HOPE and LOVE.

Most importantly, Harley is a happy, healthy, grateful man who lives with his wife and enjoys spending time with family, especially his four grandchildren.