The Patrick Madrid Show: January 26, 2026 - Hour 2

The Patrick Madrid Show

Relevant Radio

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Patrick opens the hour with a candid examination of faith colliding with immigration debates, propelled by a caller unsettled by a partisan homily. Throughout the hour, Patrick voices critical questions about the Church’s policies, voices from listeners who share raw accounts of their own immigrant journeys, and sharp disagreements about media coverage and government accountability. Clips from past presidents spark reflection as Patrick lays bare the tension swirling in parish life and challenges all sides to reckon with justice, reform and unity.

Terry - I live in St. Paul diocese. I went to a mass where the priest talked about dictators and kings. I thought this disrupted the congregation. I almost didn’t go up for communion. Do you have any thoughts? (00:37)
Audio from Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden on the necessity of illegal immigration enforcement (11:39)
Michael - Is there a program at Church available to help women who have been divorced? (18:47)
Jose - Patrick I disagree. There were a lot of people protesting inhumane conditions. This is not true. (20:58)
Audio: Legal immigrant is enraged because people think she should have compassion on illegals who cheated the system - “you think that my taxpayer money that I work so hard for, my salary gets cut, you think that money should go to people who cheated the system and are here illegally being a criminal?! you think I should pay for their healthcare? are you out of your mind?!” - https://x.com/TONYxTWO/status/1973889822793069055 (26:03)
Erik - The people in Minnesota supporting violence are Marxists and same as those involved in Cristero War and they are trying to destroy the Catholic Church. (29:15)
Danny - I work in the Mexican Community who say that ICE doesn't detain them for that long and they are not as afraid as the news is making it out to be. News media is putting too much a magnifying glass on this. (35:31)
Griselda - Everybody wants legal immigration. People are being pulled off the streets, and this is why people are angry. (38:42)
Julia - I am a legal immigrant, and I have seen the struggle with the process. This is why I think we need reform. It is hard even for native English speakers. (46:45)

Transcript

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0:00.0	compelling insights unpredictable conversations
0:12.1	encouragement for your day
0:14.2	it's the Patrick Madrid show on relevant radio
0:17.6	just like that we are back let's get back to some phone calls the number is 888
0:23.1	914919 nice to have you aboard thank you for listening and if you want to email me send it to
0:29.7	patrick at relevant radio dot com let's go to terry in minneapolis good morning terry
0:36.5	hey good morning patrick thanks. Thanks for taking my call.
0:40.0	You're welcome. I was attending Mass this Sunday, and it's on the subject of what you just discussed.
0:47.8	The priest started the homily with kind of a prologue, and in that prologue was, I don't know if it was from the Bible, I would assume it was,
0:58.0	but maybe it sounded even like it could have been from a philosopher.
1:01.4	Anyway, it mentioned dictators and kings and kind of, oh, just the consequence of living under
1:09.8	dictators and kings.
1:11.6	And right away, you know, my spidey senses were up.
1:17.2	He did even warn the parish that, hey, this is going to be kind of a personal homily.
1:23.5	This is important to me.
1:26.0	And, you know, he said, I thought what I said two weeks ago would be kind of the last time I had to say anything on this subject.
1:35.5	So the priest started this homily knowing that this was going to raise some eyebrows or offend some people.
1:43.3	And, you know, it was a very one-sided view of the victims of,
1:51.5	you know, I think he used the phrase murders of Rain Good and, and this last gentleman,
1:58.0	Prattie, and the deportation of the five-year-old, deportation of a two-year-old.
2:03.7	And you could see people in the parish kind of looking at each other, like, well, what's, you know, what are we hearing?
2:11.8	And I just want to say that I feel, and given Archbishop Heb does a letter that you just read, you know, I wonder does Archbishop Hebda know what's going on in his parishes?
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