The Patrick Madrid Show: April 08, 2026 - Hour 1

The Patrick Madrid Show

Relevant Radio

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 587 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Patrick opens the hour with commentary on Pope Leo’s recent call for peace, then fields a rapid stream of listener calls and emails about purgatory, spiritual warfare, exorcists, confession tips, tattoos, and reverent ways to dispose of sacramentals.

Audio: Pope Leo on Trump’s warning to Iran of “civilization” destruction — “This is truly not acceptable. Here there are certainly questions of international law, but even more than this a question of morality for the good of people.” (00:37)
Ralph - Have you heard about the book “Mary the Second Eve” by John Henry Newman? What do you think about the argument against Purgatory that there is a fork in the road that leads to heaven or hell? (04:22)
ME (email) - Here’s another helpful guide [a mnemonic will help the memory]. Picture yourself slapping an egg. SLAP EGG to recall the 7 Deadly Sins: Sloth, Lust, Anger, PRIDE, Envy, Greed, and Gluttony. The sillier the mnemonic, the better.
Sarah (email) - Could you please speak about celebrity exorcists? It greatly troubles me that many of my friends and family take their words very seriously. I think they give demons too much power and attention over their lives. I just want to focus on Jesus and the power of His saving work on the Cross. I know spiritual warfare is real, but Jesus is infinitely more powerful! (15:01)
Connie (email) - As a recent convert, a large part of my conversion process was due to public exorcists. (20:21)
Arthur (7-years-old) - Do you remember Earth when you are in heaven? (21:12)
Eugene - Can I burn religious items instead of throwing them away? (23:11)
Sandra (email) – Can we pray to the souls in purgatory for their intercession? Some of us were certain we could ask them for intercession, while others were extremely opposed to it, because they were not totally purified yet. What is the church's teaching on this? And where can we find it? (24:40)
Aimee (email) - I have a good number of tattoos, and there’s an adrenalin rush each time (27:23)
DJ (email) - My prompt to Grok: "Can you act as Patrick Madrid and answer this question as he would?” (31:16)
Laura (email) – My husband and I have wedding tattoos on our ring fingers (38:51)
How Cyrus lost his wedding ring (44:21)
Robert - My son and his wife have 6 children and have adopted embryos. Is this ok? My parish priest said no. (47:14)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations,
0:12.7	encouragement for your day.
0:14.8	It's the Patrick Madrid show on Relevant Radio.
0:19.8	All right, let's get this road show back on the road.
0:23.2	Good morning and welcome back to the Patrick Madrid show.
0:26.3	The number to call to be on the air is 888, 888, 888, that is.
0:31.4	914-9149-8-8-8-9149-9-149.
0:43.0	And Pope Leo gave some remarks, brief remarks, but important ones yesterday.
0:57.6	He was speaking about the rising rhetoric, not to mention the violence in Iran right now, with regard to the war and the violence of the Iranian government against their people. There's so many different angles on this story right now. And yesterday, Pope Leo spoke some
1:05.2	words of calm and an appeal for prayer and peace. So let's listen to Pope Leo's words, about a minute and
1:11.9	half long. I would simply say, once again, what I said in the Urbi message on Sunday,
1:20.1	asking all people of goodwill to search always for peace and not violence, to reject reject war especially a war which many people
1:31.3	have said is an unjust war which is continuing to escalate and which is not
1:39.3	resolving anything in fact we have a worldwide economic crisis, energy crisis, situation in the Middle
1:47.7	East of great instability, which is only provoking more hatred throughout the world. So come back to the
1:54.4	table. Let's talk. Let's look for solutions in a peaceful way. And let's remember, especially the
2:00.0	innocent, children, the elderly, sick,
2:04.7	so many people who have already become or will become victims of this continued warfare.
2:11.9	To remind all that attacks on civilian infrastructure is against international law, but that it is also a sign of the hatred, the division, the destruction that the human being is capable of.
2:27.3	And we all want to work for peace. People want peace. I would invite the citizens of all the countries involved to contact the authorities,
2:37.1	political leaders, congressmen, to ask them, tell them to work for peace and to reject war always.
2:45.3	Thank you very much. Viva el-papa, that's what they were saying there. Thank you, Holy Father, for that. And Cyrus, we'll get a link posted to that for you if you'd like to see it. The first part of it is in Italian, and then he says more or less the same as you just heard now in English. So important words, and let's hope that they are taken to heart by the right people on both sides
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