The Patrick Madrid Show: April 20, 2026 - Hour 1
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Patrick opens with a heartfelt email questioning the current state of the Society of St. Pius X, offering resources and context for listeners struggling with similar concerns. Throughout the hour, he fields lively calls on topics from anti-Catholicism’s evolution in America and the morality of acupuncture to the spike in tattoo removal, stem cell therapy ethics, and the layered meaning behind the woman in Revelation 12. Questions come fast and topics twist, but Catholic teaching and candid stories shape every response.
- Bill (email) - What resources can you recommend in dialoguing with friends involved in SSPX? (00:45)
- Alex - I am disturbed by the rise of “No Nothingism” in the US. This seems to be coming from Catholics. (05:45)
- Corey - Are acupressure and cupping okay for Catholics to do? (14:10)
- Pete Davidson shows off nearly bare arms in Las Vegas after dropping $200K to remove his tattoos - https://x.com/PMadridShow/status/2046219147684585723 (20:01)
- 56% of adult Gen Z women have at least one tattoo - https://x.com/PMadridShow
- Andy - In regard to the Woman in Revelation 12, how do we see the woman? Is she the Church, Israel and Mary? (26:57)
- Dan - When did indulgences drop the 'number of days' from the reward? Now it is only partial and plenary. (33:04)
- Karen (email) - I am SO ready for the 'face piercing' phase to be over as well (38:01)
- Check out Cyrus’ tattoo of Patrick Madrid - https://x.com/PMadridShow/status/2046222340216758363
- Cheryl - All of my friends are at the age where we are getting knee replacements. Is it ok to get stem cell injections? Are these fetal stem cells? (40:25)
- Elizabeth - Was Thomas the Apostle a twin? (45:16)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, |
| 0:12.0 | encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.7 | It's the Patrick Madrid Show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:18.7 | Good morning and welcome to the Patrick Madrid Show. Good to have you here. I'd love to hear from you. If you want to call to be on the air, the number is 888-914-9149. And that's the number even if you don't want to be on the air. Call that number and you will get on the air. 8-88-9-14-9-149-49. And I look forward to getting your emails as well. |
| 0:38.8 | My address is Patrick at Relevantradio.com. |
| 0:42.5 | First up is a note that came in from Will. |
| 0:45.3 | He says, I love your show and your book Pope Fiction. |
| 0:48.8 | Help me with the papacy. |
| 0:49.9 | Thank you for that. |
| 0:50.6 | I'm glad to hear it helped you. |
| 0:52.0 | I have some friends in the SSPX. |
| 0:54.1 | That's an acronym stands for the Society of St glad to hear it helped you. I have some friends in the SSPX. That's an acronym |
| 0:55.1 | stands for the Society of St. Pius I, the 10th. It's a breakaway movement that is in a kind of |
| 1:01.8 | limbo state, hard to really tell exactly what their actual situation in the church is. In any case, |
| 1:09.4 | that's what he's referring to. He says, I have some friends in the |
| 1:12.8 | SSPX who are very dear to me, and the fact that they are now in schism, now it breaks my heart. |
| 1:19.1 | I read your book, more Catholic than the Pope, but I understand there have been many developments |
| 1:23.3 | since then. What resources can you recommend in dialoguing with them? Well, it's hard to know exactly |
| 1:31.0 | what specific part of the dialogue you want to zero in on. There are several facets involved, |
| 1:37.0 | and just a brief history in the 1960s when the Second Vatican Council took place, Archbishop Marcel Lefev did not want to go along |
| 1:49.9 | with the modernizing tendencies in the modern, the new right of the mass, the changes to the |
| 1:56.2 | liturgy, etc. And I could understand why it was very jarring for many people and so he became a kind of |
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