The Patrick Madrid Show: May 28, 2026 - Hour 2
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Patrick opens the hour recounting the beginnings of Catholic Answers and a wild confrontation with anti-Catholic preachers that erupts mid-talk, transforming into a memorable debate before a stunned crowd. He fields calls ranging from a Baptist-turned-Catholic’s conversion story to a thoughtful challenge about the Church’s claims, weaving candid advice on faith, personal peace, and tuning out the noisy world. Patrick keeps the conversation honest, raw, and rooted in experience, cutting through confusion with practical wisdom and real stories.
- Patrick explains he originally got into apologetics (00:55)
- In the Beginning: The Catholic Answers I Knew - https://patrickmadrid.substack.com/p/in-the-beginning
- George - Are we human beings just surviving? (13:27)
- Sherry - I read your article about being challenged by your faith. I loved the story. It touched me. I think I would have been challenging you. (20:51)
- The First Time Someone Criticized Me for Being Catholic: A Fourth-Grade Memory I Never Forgot – by Patrick Madrid - https://patrickmadrid.substack.com/p/the-first-time-someone-criticized
- Saul – You said that at least one of the reasons for the Church being real is that Jesus started it. I don’t think he did. (27:29)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Time circuits on, flux capacitor, fluxing. |
| 0:08.8 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.7 | It's the Patrick Madrid Show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:19.1 | And we are back. This is hour two, and and as you will see the three hours we have together |
| 0:23.5 | go by very quickly so if you've been contemplating getting in touch by phone call me at 888 |
| 0:29.2 | 914 9149-9149 888 9149 I'd love to talk to you and before the break, I read an email from Marston who inquired |
| 0:41.4 | about how did I get involved in apologetic. So I gave a little bit of a background. But because |
| 0:46.0 | I had to take a break, I couldn't finish. And I wrote the story. I've written it a few |
| 0:52.7 | different times. And one iteration of that is in an article I wrote |
| 0:57.5 | called In the Beginning. And that is an article about how I began and what led up to my starting |
| 1:06.0 | to work at Catholic Answers. This is going back to, as I say, the process really got started in 1987. |
| 1:13.6 | And it culminated in early 1988. |
| 1:17.3 | I wound up starting to work at Catholic Answers. |
| 1:19.8 | But how that happened is a very interesting story. |
| 1:24.2 | And I tell it in that article. |
| 1:26.8 | So to access it, just go to the show page, go to |
| 1:30.3 | Relevantradio.com slash Patrick, click on links. You see a blue button that says links. Click on that. |
| 1:36.7 | And in the article section, you want to go all the way down to the bottom, click on archive. |
| 1:40.6 | You go all the way down to the bottom. And it's one of the very first articles in that section of articles is called in the beginning how i got my start working at catholic |
| 1:49.5 | answers or actually note the subtitle is the catholic answers i knew and that was a reminiscence of |
| 1:55.8 | basically catholic answers really wasn't much of anything at the time car Carl Keating, the founder, had been doing kind of part-time. |
| 2:04.5 | He was a lawyer, so that was his bread-and-butter job. |
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