Patrick helps callers who grapple with moral questions about employment in clinics offering transgender surgeries, confronts the worn edges of trust in church leadership, and fields thoughts on faith as listeners digest painful realities of abuse scandals and financial cover-ups. He answers practical curiosity about scripture and Catholic traditions, all while wrestling with tension and hope threaded through stories of doubt and perseverance. One conversation stirs into the next, from Middle East politics to relics beneath the altar, as Patrick refuses to shy away from hard truths or wavering voices.

 

• Peter - Is it a grave sin to work for a clinic that does transgender surgeries? 00:49)
• Kathy - It felt like the caller was blaming Israel for a lot of the things in the Middle East. I feel like this is unfair. (12:14)
• Brian (email) - What does it say in the Quran about killing infidels?  (20:08)
• Mary (email) - I work for the Post Office and it bothers me when I have to deliver donation requests from Planned Parenthood.
• Brooke - Where did the angel with the flaming sword come from in Genesis? (23:46)
• *Andre - How can I reconcile the bad things happening in the Catholic Church, such as bankruptcy and financial mismanagement of a diocese? Also, the Pope is losing his mind. I am ready to leave the Church. (33:06)
• Will - I always heard that John of the Cross was the Apostle John. (48:55)