Episode #18 – Year for Priests

In this episode we have a special guest, Bill Scholl, from the Office of Social Justice for the Archdiocese of Kansas City, KS. He joined us to experience a podcast and to talk with us about the Year for Priests. To begin the show, we start off with our 3 Js and two new “What’s My Line?” calls.

In “Help, I’m Fallen,” we talk about the year for priests, the theme for this liturgical year that was announced by Pope Benedict XVI on June 24, 2009. We talk about St. John Vianney, who is now the patron of all priests and Bill lets us know that he is the only diocesan priest to have been declared a saint.

We round out the show with a new Catholic Challenge for this week and some news, including our new t-shirt design contest. Want to know more about our contest? Click here. (more…)

Book Reviews

On show 17, we mentioned that we were looking for reviews of great religious books to play on our show. We are looking to our listeners to help tell us about some great spiritual books to read. If you would like to call us about this particular topic, call 206-337-7945 and let us know the name of the book, the author and give us a one to two minute synopsis on why you like the book and let us know about anything new spiritually that you found. We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Episode #17 – Pick God

In this episode, Pat and Nick talk about their 3 Js for the week, which includes Nick’s finding that a particular prayer can be twittered.

In the “What’s My Line” segment, we have a new call in from Stephanie. She suggests two lines for us to use during the show. Listen in to see if we can work both phrases on the show.

In our news segment, we wonder about a new tax being proposed to help people lose weight by making it more expensive to drink sodas. We cover a new video film contest for this year’s NCYC and our own film contest throwdown with Catholic in a Small Town.

This week, we feature a local program called Pick God, run by Mike Needleman. This is a program that he has started to help the youth of his parish learn how to play guitar by teaching them music for mass. (more…)

Episode #16 – Looking at Reconciliation, Part 2

Pat and Nick are back this week with part two of their interview with Fr. Tom Tank about the sacrament of reconciliation.

Do you know where the pretzel comes from? We start off the episode with a quick history lesson about how pretzels and prayer are related. Additionally, we cover some news about the Pope’s travels and a new monopoly game that is being played online.

We have a new what’s my line suggestion and we work in the suggestion from Jeff Young that we missed on last week’s show.

The big feature of this show is the second part of our interview with Fr. Tom. In this interview, he talks about the healing power of reconciliation and how making use of the sacrament helps us maintain our mental health. Additionally he talks about how important it is that we forgive ourselves and how reconciliation should give us hope to live better lives. (more…)

Episode #15 – Looking at Reconciliation, Part 1

Pat and Nick are back for another great episode, this time focusing on Confession. The episode starts with the 3 J’s. Pat shares a story about a new Catholic he met in town, while getting his car serviced.

We have two new calls for “Whats my Line”, one is from Jeff Young from The Catholic Foodie, the other is from our friend Dan. Additionally, we have some new listeners who have sent us feedback for the podcast.

In the news Pat tells us of his friend Maria studying in China. She’s our first listener from China! We encourage all our listeners, including International to let us know their out there. Nick tells us about a new vocations video with Archbishop Dolan in it. Check it out at nypriest.com. Lastly, check out Sonic’s new promotion to help support public school teachers across America called Limeades for Learning.

We sit down with our parish priest, Fr. Tom, who talks to us about confession. This is a two-part interview, with the second part coming next week. In this episode, Fr. Tom talks about the history of the sacrament, whether priests and bishops go to confession and why he thinks the sacrament should be referred to as reconciliation rather than confession. (more…)