Father James Martin (Extended)
The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert
CBS
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Writer, podcaster and the official chaplain of Colbert Nation, Father James Martin, tells Stephen in this podcast-exclusive EXTENDED interview about the life lessons he learned at jobs as varied as dishwasher and corporate executive, and how each functioned as a step on his path towards the priesthood. His book, "Work in Progress," is out now.
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| 0:04.6 | which means if you were to buy a four cheese pizza, |
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| 0:16.6 | New customers only, maximum saving 20 pounds terms at Accardo.com. |
| 0:21.0 | It's the late show, pot show with Stephen Colbert. |
| 0:29.2 | Folks, my next guest is a best-selling author, podcaster, an editor-large for America's magazine, as well as a dear friend. |
| 0:39.9 | He's also the official chaplain of the Colbert Nation. |
| 0:42.8 | Please welcome back to the late show, Father James Martin. |
| 0:50.5 | Father, it's good to see you. Always good to see you. I always have fun when I'm on your podcast. |
| 0:55.1 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:55.7 | My pleasure. A little turnabout is fair play. |
| 0:57.5 | I don't think I'm breaking any news when I say. |
| 0:59.9 | Our country is going through some very chaotic, confusing, and often heartbreaking time. |
| 1:05.6 | And as a man of faith, one imagines with a collar and everything, that are there passages from the scripture that you go to at moments like this that you find most comforting? |
| 1:20.7 | Yeah, I mean, as a Christian, I always go to the resurrection. |
| 1:23.9 | And if you think, as you know, the disciples on Good Friday and Holy Saturday after Jesus's |
| 1:28.8 | crucifixion thought that everything was over and were despairing. And the resurrection shows us that, |
| 1:33.8 | you know, hope is never dead and nothing is impossible with God. So I go back to the resurrection all the time. |
| 1:39.9 | I'm just curious. When you think back to that period of time, he'd been one of the apostles, |
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