Patrick explores faith in action as listeners confront confession, remarriage, and spiritual honesty, challenging them to face hard truths about missing Mass and healing relationships. He contrasts Catholic perspectives on yoga and Tai Chi, raising warnings rooted in Church teaching while callers recount personal encounters with spiritual danger and deliverance. Personal stories of anxiety, forgiveness, and grappling with pride ripple throughout, sometimes shifting from the personal to the global, as Middle East tensions and struggles for peace frame the conversation.

 

• Audio: the west doesn’t understand who the real occupiers are - every ancient civilization occupied, silenced, and enslaved for 1,400 years by the same Arab Islamist forces. (00:20)
• Patrick continues his conversation with Vince from the end of the last hour about whether he is still married to his first wife after his second wife passed away. (01:30)
• Dwayne – What’s a good way to not be negative? (08:52)
• Sandy - If yoga doesn't pull us closer to God, then wouldn't football also be bad because it pulls us further from God? (12:44)
• Audio: Walmart is closing in Portland (18:01)
• Richard (email) - As always, Patrick dodges the elephant in the room (19:23)
• Paul (email) - Don’t we need to have a contrite heart in confession instead of simply going through the motions? (22:01)
• Gwen (email) - Can you give any reason why we don't hear (anymore) that missing Mass on Sunday for sports, shopping, or any reason other than being ill or caring for someone who is ill, is a mortal sin? (23:16)
• Jodi - How do our will and emotions relate to one another? (25:06)
• Linda - Yoga is not against our faith. How dare you say it bad. (33:53)
• Joan - Yoga opened me to demonic power and I needed an exorcism (40:32)
• Carol – There are great risks to doing yoga (49:11)