The podcast formerly known as Catholic Bytes. A podcast for busy Catholics. A mix of short, informative episodes, long form interviews, and interesting historical episodes. Wherever you are in your faith, we have content for you!
Chastity is an essential virtue in the Christian life through which we see and treat other people as the children of God that they are. For one to commit sins against the virtue of chastity is to not respect the dignity they have. Fr. Thomas G. Morrow, author of...
Anger is an emotion, but without proper understanding and clarity it can become a sin. To have an emotion is alright, but to allow those emotions to take control of our decisions and actions, that is where we enter problematic territory. Join Abbot Austin Murphy, OSB,...
Sports and athletics mirror the Christian life closely. For someone to grow in a sport, they must acquire discipline, fortitude, courage, among other virtues. Similar traits characterize the Christian life to exhibit and become saints. Kevin Wells, award-winning...
Anxiety can be a way that the devil attacks our identity as beloved children of God. People experience anxiety in a variety of forms, but at its root, we begin to doubt that we are loved in and of ourselves: that we don't need to prove our worth through success or our...
To love is to evangelize and is the call of every baptized Christian. We are to go into our workplaces, our families, our communities with abundant love. Then the message of Christ will penetrate the relationships and draw everyone closer to himself. Chris Bartlett of...
Papal elections is the process where the cardinals of the Church gather to select the new pope. With the recent death of Pope Francis, the cardinals gather on May 7, 2025 to prayerfully discern the next pope. John and Ashley Noronha of the Truth and Beauty Project...
Conclaves are the process by which the Catholic cardinals prayerfully discern and elect the next Roman Pontiff, the Pope. Modern papal elections have standard practices and traditions. But that was not always the case in the Church's history. Fr. Conrad Murphy, author...
Virtuous fatherhood is the goal all fathers should strive for. It is a life of self sacrifice and devotion for one's family and larger community. Chris Vander Woude joins Fr. George to discuss his father's virtuous life. Chris' father, Thom Vander Woude, lived a...
Holy Week is the most sacred time in the Church's calendar. We commemorate the final days of Jesus' life leading up to his passion, death, and resurrection. During Holy Week, Jesus instituted the Eucharist and established the priesthood. Karen May, a Catholic speaker,...
Virtue is often defined as the median between two extremes. An overly academic definition, though, can make virtue feel remote and unachievable. Dave DiNuzzo, author of The Steep Upward Climb, joins Fr. George in this podcast to describe how virtue is both attainable...
Carlo Acutis, the Millennial Saint, lived an ordinary life and loved the people around him in an extraordinary way. He shows the modern world that holiness is for everyone, we are all called to be saints. An upcoming documentary, The Boy from Milan, shows the personal...
Fitness and Nutrition are the tools for the modern ascetic. As humans, made of body and soul, we must take care of our bodies and that can be a means of self discipline. The goal is to become a total self gift to others. Exercise and eating well are means to help us...
Jubilee is an ancient tradition with roots in the Old Testament beginning with Moses and the Exodus. Dr. John Bergsma and Fr. George Elliot compare the ancient themes and practices to how we can live the Jubilee year well in the Catholic Church today. Pilgrimage is a...
In this episode of the Catholic Link podcast, Fr. Brice Higginbotham of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux joins Fr. George to discuss the Liturgy of the Hours. Also known as the Divine Office, it is the official prayer of the Church outside of the Mass. Priests and...
In this episode of the Catholic Link podcast, Dr. Scott Hefelfinger, PhD of the Augustine Institute joins Fr. George. They discuss ways one should not observe Lent and ways one should observe Lent. Everyone experienced Lents with a lot of passion and other Lents with...
In this throwback episode of the Catholic Link podcast, Fr. Rob discusses our journey through a spiritual desert during Lent. Lent is about how to live in paradise...now. It's a great rescue story, the story of us being pulled out of slavery and into the Promised Land...
In this throwback episode of the Catholic Link podcast, Fr. Rob and Fr. George Elliot discussed a brief history of Lent. So, how we should not only think of Lent as a time for penance. But also think of Lent as a preparation in the Heavenly mysteries. Originally the...
In this episode of the Catholic Link podcast. Fr. Rob and Fr. George discuss how showing interest in conversations with other people is an act of charity. Charity is simply willing the good of the other for the other's sake. It is often synonymous with community...
In this episode of the Catholic Link podcast. Fr. Rob and Fr. George discuss how one properly responds to confessing the same sins in Confession. When we frequent the Sacrament of Confession / Reconciliation and we find we confess the same sins, we must not give into...
In this episode of the Catholic Link podcast. Fr. Rob discusses what lazy means and how it differs from despondency. Laziness is generally choosing pleasures or ease over a work or duty one knows they must do. For example, one may know that they need to take the trash...
In this episode of the Catholic Link podcast. Fr. Rob and Fr. George to discuss again the Mental Health of Priests with a focus on how their experience of Catholicism shifts after ordination. Men become priests for a variety of reasons. All their lives until...
In this episode of the Catholic Link podcast. Fr. Rob and Fr. George to discuss reflection and contemplation upon God's work throughout the past day. In the Nativity story, we hear that Mary pondered the first Christmas in her heart. Fr. Rob and Fr. George call us to...
In this episode of the Catholic Link podcast. Fr. Rob and Fr. George to discuss the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults (OCIA). They discuss why the name changed from RCIA, the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, to OCIA, the Order of Christian Initiation of...
In this episode of the Catholic Link podcast. Fr. Rob and Fr. George to discuss why they produce a Catholic podcast. There are so many Catholic podcasts to choose from. Fr. Rob and Fr. George take a unique perspective on their podcast to provide listeners a fresh...
In this episode of the Catholic Link podcast. Fr. Rob and Fr. George to discuss some of the mental health aspects of the priestly vocation as a means to help the laity better understand how to respect and care for their priests. There are many aspects of the...