The Patrick Madrid Show

• Is Judas in Hell? by Fr. Hugh Barbour
• Diane - How can I evangelize without being pushy to my friend?
• Karen - What happens if you die while having a brown scapular on?
• Kansas Governor Vetoes Bills Banning Biological Males From Women’s Sports, Protecting Parental Education Rights
• Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Claims He Witnessed Incident Where CNN Tried To Falsify News
• Suzy – Is Loyola University a good catholic college?
• Tracy - I was away from the faith because of my liberal college
• Matt - How could the good thief be in paradise when heaven hasn’t opened up yet?
• Carla - Can I have a gay person participate in my wedding?
• Sue – How do the Divine Mercy Sunday indulgences work?
• Gabriella - My priest doesn't let me really talk about my sin in confession. Is it valid if it’s too fast?

• Patrick starts off the show by wishing everyone a Happy Easter
• Russian warship sunken in Ukraine war may have been carrying a piece of the 'true cross,' a treasured Christian relic
• Patrick recommends the book by St. Francis DeSales “Sign of the Cross”
• Michael - Wasn't it necessary for Judas to betray Jesus?
• Patrick recommends “Predestination: The Meaning of Predestination in Scripture and the Church” by Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange
• Francis - A Catholic family's daughter has come out as lesbian. Mother is daily communicant, and dad isn't into the faith. What should I tell the dad when we go to dinner?
• Denny - When Christ rose from the dead, he had wounds. Did he have wounds from the scourging?
• Patrick responds to a twitter post claiming that Jesus is transgender
• Andrea - Did the Resurrected Jesus need to sleep?
• Emily - Are we to pray for Judas, or is he eternally damned?

• Patrick, continuing on from the end of the last hour, quotes from the Catechism of the Council of Trent in regards to Judas being in hell
• Melba - St. Gertrude: I want to know if the prayer was made for the saint or if it's for everybody? Can I set 1,000 souls free from purgatory if I say the prayers?
• Jane - Why did Jesus pick Judas if he knew that he would betray him? Why would he be so hard on him?
• Josh – Is your eternal destiny already fixed and non-removable?
• Karen - Did God create hell and put Satan in charge? Are there different levels of pain?
• Newscaster says, “(Elon) could actually control what people think… that is our job”
• UofNH professor says it’s ineffective to assume a sexual relationship between young people and adults is predatory and criminal
• No Conspiracy Theory: Parents are right to worry about sexual abuse of students by school officials.
• Steven - Jesus' wounds--why do we call the spear in his side a wound if he was already dead?
• Dave - I have three grandsons--what's a book for young men about how to find a good wife? Patrick recommends “The ABC’s of Finding a Good Wife” by Steve Wood

• Patrick responds to an email from Morning Air regular guest Jim Schroeder in regards to transgenderism  https://james-schroeder.com/transgender/
• Will – My Catholic Wife wants to be baptized again in Pentecostal church. What should I do?
• Clark - Went to confession but couldn't understand my penance. What do I do?
• Michelle - Why do Byzantine's make sign of cross from right to left?
• Paul - How do I expand a ministry from small time to bigger operation?
• Margaret – Why is God sometimes pluralized at Mass?
• Nora – My aunt cheated on my uncle and we are keeping this a secret. Is it my responsibility to share?
• Michael - What is the source of divine revelation? Is it scripture and the creed or more?
• Elaine - Going to a primitive Baptist funeral. Is it okay to wear my crucifix? I want to be sensitive to them.

Good Friday

• No Evidence for the ‘Pagan Easter’ Thesis - There’s a popular image that makes its rounds on social media every year about Easter and Ishtar. Let's put this bad argument to rest for good. – by Jon Sorensen
• Many Jews are fed up with Christians hosting Passover seders of their own
• Denise - How to talk with people who are Catholic but advocate pro-choice? (wants to revisit a response you gave to caller on March 10)
• Megan - Can you clarify what you meant about the angel of death passing over and the connection to our baptism.
• Michael - You got me started looking at the faith and tomorrow I will be confirmed!
• Andrea -  There are Messianic Jews who follow the old traditions and still believe in Jesus

Good Friday

• Fauci praises communist China lockdown and suggests we used the lockdowns to get people vaccinated
• David - How can anyone be sure they were validly baptized?
• Adon - What is a Sephardic Jew?
• Patrick offers a biblical overview of Moses as a type or pre-figurement of Christ and explains the profound parallels between Moses liberating the people from bondage in Egypt with that of Christ liberating us by his Passion and death from bondage to sin.
• Matthew - Suggestions for helping my mom get back into the faith?
• Antonio 6-years-old - Why did Jesus have to die?
• Tim - How does the crowd change so quickly from Palm Sunday to Good Friday?

Good Friday

• Maria – What is the difference between the Spanish and English naming of Good Friday? Why does it translate differently?
• Mike - How do we know that the Bible and holy sites in Jerusalem are genuine?
• Marcello - Why did Jesus have to fast in the desert for 40 days?
• Will - Are acts of penance or mortification okay?
• George - Is there a difference between blurting out the lords name and using it as a curse word in making it a mortal sin?
• Pablo - Why were we condemned with original sin in the first place?
• Greg – Do you know about the Holy Martyrs Catholic Church?
• James - The calendar says today is Passover. Why did we celebrate it yesterday on Holy Thursday?
• Victoria - Can I go to an Easter mass at Greek orthodox church?

• Cliff - In the St. Michael Prayer I see a lot of "safeguard" instead of "defense" and "cast" instead of "thrust." I find this disturbing. I'm supposed to blame Vatican II right? Is that how it works?
• The latest Quinnipiac poll finds Joe Biden with a 26% approval rating among Hispanics — lower than his rating among whites.
• Being bilingual slows down brain aging
• Bill - Is Purgatory mentioned in the bible?
• The Four Types of Pride and How to Root Them Out
• Joseph - My Baptist friend says that the Good Thief story proves that there is no purgatory. How would you respond to that?
• Tracy - How can I address the “once saved always saved” question from Protestants?

• Two women at all-female New Jersey prison are PREGNANT by trans inmates
• Elon Musk Offers To Buy Twitter In Deal Worth More Than $40B
• Wayne - Can non-Catholics take communion and confession for Divine Mercy Sunday?
• Bernice - My husband is not a practicing Catholic and he goes to a protestant church. Is it a sin for me to go to his church?
• Airline industry urges end to mask requirements as deadline approaches: "We need to remove these mandates"
• Patrick shares audio from Libs of TikTok
• 3 teenage Girls inured on Rugby team by a transgender

• Richard - I had a question from a Teen 'Is the only meaning for faith, hope?' What are your thoughts on this quote?
• Cami - There is a boy in my class who changed to a girl. How can I handle this?
• Steve - Has there been attempts to find the body of Joseph?
• Jim - Is Good Friday a day of obligation? What is the Octave of Easter?
• Lindsey - This is my first Holy Week where I making time for the whole Triduum. Do you have any reflections I can focus on? AND I went to confession for the first time in 3 years and it was everything you said it would be.
• Eric - If god made the Angels before humans, do the Angels feel that it is a demotion to bestow upon them the title of Saint?
• Josephine – What is the reasoning behind the law about a double murder if a woman is pregnant but if she has an abortion it is not considered murder?
• Cecilia - I have an aunt who is a 7 Day Adventist who says we are asleep when we die. How does that work with Purgatory and the resurrection?
• Steve - I am coming into the Church this Easter and You and RR helped me so much in becoming Catholic, thank you!
• Liam - I was wondering if the Holy spirit was in Jesus? How does that work and why would Jesus need the Holy Spirit?
• Charles - Does the church approve the book 'The City of God'?
• Lisa - My cousin is Catholic but getting married in the protestant church. Can I send her flowers or would that not be okay?
• Louise - I have become estranged from my Dad. How can I handle holidays and birthdays?