714: What's Driving the Surge of Catholic Converts? plus Gabriel Salguero
The Holy Post
Phil Vischer
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Catholic bishops around the U.S. are reporting a dramatic increase in applications for church membership and a surge of new converts as Easter approaches. What's driving this new interest in the Catholic Church, and why aren't evangelical churches seeing a similar boom? Mike Erre joins Phil and Kaitlyn to discuss the trend. Gabriel Salguero is back to update Skye on the impact of immigration enforcement on Hispanic churches and communities. He shares about two evangelical pastors detained in ICE facilities, and why Latino voters are abandoning Donald Trump after giving him record support in 2024. Also this week, is sycophantic AI causing us to lose our ability to tolerate real people?
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26:20 - Catholic Revival?
46:20 - Interview
48:50 - Pastors Detained in Alligator Alcatraz
59:28 - Trump Support from Hispanic Communities
1:05:01 - Responsibility of the Media
1:18:47 - Willing to Lay Down Access
1:24:42 - End Credits
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https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/study-sycophantic-ai-can-undermine-human-judgment/
Surge in Catholic Converts
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/us/catholics-converts.html
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Holy Post. Catholic bishops around the U.S. are reporting a dramatic surge of new |
| 0:05.4 | converts as Easter approaches. What's driving this new interest in the Catholic Church, and why aren't |
| 0:10.6 | evangelical churches seeing a similar boom? Mike Erie joins Phil and Caitlin this week to discuss the |
| 0:16.2 | trend. Then Gabriel Selgero is back to update me on the impact of immigration enforcement on Hispanic |
| 0:22.0 | churches and communities. |
| 0:23.8 | He shares about two evangelical pastors detained in ICE facilities and why Latino voters are abandoning |
| 0:29.4 | Donald Trump after giving him record support in 2024. |
| 0:33.3 | Also this week, is sycophantic AI causing us to lose our ability to tolerate real people? |
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