Raising Kids Who Love the Faith: Catechesis, Prayer, and Fatherhood
The Catholic Man Show
The Catholic Man Show
4.8 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Catholic Man Show, Adam and David discuss the essential role of fathers in catechizing their children... not just by teaching information, but by forming habits, traditions, and a lived love for the Catholic faith.
Adam shares a personal update about his family and the power of prayer and community during a time of serious medical uncertainty. From there, the conversation turns to what real catechesis looks like in the home: modeling prayer, creating a culture of beauty, building liturgical traditions, and making the Eucharist the center of family life.
The guys explore why passing on the faith is less about producing kids who can pass a religion test, and more about raising children who know God is real and worth ordering their entire life around.
Topics include:
- Why fathers are primarily responsible for catechesis
- The difference between knowing the faith and loving the faith
- Teaching children how to pray by example
- Using beauty, art, and the home to form souls
- Why habits and traditions matter more than programs
- Making the Eucharist the source and summit of family life
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| 0:00.0 | This is our third time time attempt to record this episode. |
| 0:19.7 | So I hope it's good. That is correct. I also hope you actually |
| 0:22.8 | get to hear it. We've had two full-blown failures to launch. We're like we showed up at each other's |
| 0:29.7 | house to do the thing. One time we actually did, we did do the thing and still, it was still a failure to launch. So I really hope |
| 0:41.4 | this is, this episode goes out. It's amazing how much in life depends on clicking the right |
| 0:48.9 | button these days. If you don't click the right button, |
| 0:56.1 | bad things happen. |
| 1:03.5 | Also interesting that sometimes it takes still 10 years before you learn to click the right button. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, I mean, it's not always about learning, |
| 1:08.4 | since I feel like now this is a reflection on myself. |
| 1:13.5 | Sometimes you just make mistakes, you know. |
| 1:17.7 | But we're here. |
| 1:18.3 | We're going to do this. |
| 1:20.1 | This is going to be our best one. |
| 1:20.8 | I know it. |
| 1:21.8 | Of the year. |
| 1:22.7 | If you look at the two. The best one of the year for sure. |
| 1:24.1 | I agree. |
| 1:24.6 | If you look at the two previous, we've been trending in a heavily strong progressive direction |
| 1:29.7 | because the first time, |
| 1:31.1 | nothing happened. |
| 1:32.8 | The second time we did something pretty good. |
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