The Patrick Madrid Show: April 14, 2026 - Hour 1
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Patrick plunges into complex questions on faith, authority, and the Church’s handling of Scripture canon, correcting misconceptions about hidden biblical texts. He fields callers fired up over papal political comments and the friction between personal conviction and Catholic teaching, weaving listener stories of confusion and frustration about practices like Friday abstinence, lay blessings, and trust in leadership. Throughout the stream of discussion, Patrick keeps unwavering focus on charity, unity, and the core essentials of faith while urging prayer, not polemics.
- Mary (email) - My nephew is in prison and is struggling with his faith (00:56)
- Dan - Good job with all the calls you took about Pope Leo and Trump. I support what you said. (09:22)
- Chinto - I dropped my son off at school and I blessed him, but then the teacher asked if she could get a blessing from me. Can I give her a blessing? (11:39)
- Jamie - I don't understand the issue with Pope Leo's words. As the Vicar of Christ, he has to have the stance against war. Where does the desire for the pope to advocate war come from? (15:39)
- Chad - Pope and Trump: If you look at this through a biblical lens, it is what Jesus went through with the government in His time. (24:27)
- John - What do the US Bishops say about what to do on Fridays when we’re not in Lent? (26:32)
- Jim – The three previous Popes before Leo said that the United Nations was the only hope for peace. That shows the church as having a tendency to look to government to help bring peace. (28:45)
- Steven - When God Himself was getting Moses out of Egypt, He destroyed the Pharoh’s army. So how can the Pope say that War is bad? (41:12)
Transcript
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| 0:52.0 | I have an email here from Mary, and she's down Tucson way. |
| 0:57.6 | She says, my nephew is in prison and is struggling with his faith. |
| 1:01.1 | He has many questions, but there is one big one looming in his mind. |
| 1:04.8 | He reads quite a bit, and he stumbled upon a particular book by a, what's the word I want here, an Indian yogi. |
| 1:16.4 | And it's about mysticism. |
| 1:19.7 | And she says, I understand that the author's name is a pseudonym. |
| 1:22.5 | Anyway, my nephew states that the author says that the original Bible had many more books than any current edition, Protestant or Catholic, and he feels like somehow he has been lied to. |
| 1:32.6 | His reaction is that this original Bible must be the source of all real truth, and why in his years of catechism did he never learn about this? |
| 1:41.0 | I will share your response with him, thanks in advance for your time. |
| 1:43.8 | Happy to |
| 1:44.2 | respond. Well, there's, I mean, it's a big nothing burger. So there are additions of the Bible |
| 1:52.1 | that include more books than are canonically accepted by the Catholic Church. That's no secret. |
| 2:00.0 | I mean, the Coptic Bible has more, the Ethiopian Bible has more, |
| 2:04.9 | various homebrew Bible versions have more, and that's nothing new. But the thing, really, I think |
| 2:13.9 | I would draw his attention to, would be that the church that was given the |
| 2:18.7 | authority by Jesus that he promised would the Holy Spirit would guide this church into |
| 2:25.3 | all truth, aka the Catholic Church, went through a. |
| 2:30.5 | Multicentury process of determining which books are inspired by God. |
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