Patrick opens the hour with a flood of listener questions—everything from whether to receive Communion after a priest appears to skip essential parts of the Mass, to a thoughtful teenager negotiating smartphone use for school and internships, to a spouse worried about confession and the spiritual health of his marriage. One caller struggles with a loved one obsessing over doomsday prophecies and preparation, while another seeks clear scriptural proof for Christ’s divinity when challenged by skeptics. Patrick untangles a controversy at a Catholic wedding where a priest claims the bride’s father can’t walk her down the aisle, tracing the real liturgical guidelines and unpacking why these customs matter. Through it all, he blends laughter, empathy, scripture, and solid Catholic teaching—sometimes practical, sometimes deeply personal, always direct.

 

• Ryan (email) – The priest skipped over the Epiclesis (03:15)
• G (16-years-old) - My mom says I can't have a phone. She got that from you. Why can’t teenagers have phones? (08:24)
• Kevin - How do I know if I have an addiction to end times prophecies? (14:45)
• Email - We recently tried to purchase a flip phone without internet; however, each flip phone we found was either rather expensive or had the capacity to connect to the internet. Do you have an any phone recommendations? (21:29)
• John – My wife stopped going to confession. She doesn’t believe in it anymore. (24:36)
• Vincent (Email) – When I took world religious in college, I had a professor who claimed Jesus never claimed to be God. I know this definitely to not be true. So recently I have a new coworker who was a former protestant, and now an atheist who repeated this same claim. All I could tell him in the moment was about Jesus and woman at the well. What are some other good bible verses or books I could point to for him? (34:39)
• Greg – At a wedding mass, the priest talked about the new order of new nuptial masses. The priest saying that fathers can no longer walk brides down the aisle because that’s rooted in archaic chauvinistic practices. (41:36)

This is a Previously Aired episode from 06/02/2025