Casting the Net: A NYPriest Podcast

About Casting the Net: A NYPriest Podcast

Welcome to Casting the Net: A NYPriest Podcast where New York’s “Fishers of Men,” your parish priests, will share the joy of the priesthood by telling our vocation stories! We hope you’ll be encouraged and inspired by hearing how Jesus has called each of us, like St. Peter, to cast aside the nets of our old lives, to follow Him, and cast a new net for a miraculous catch, drawing souls to the shores of salvation.

Publisher

Casting the Net: A NYPriest Podcast

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Feb 2022

Latest episode

24 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 31 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   24 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Thank God for the Fathers We Have, Pray for the Fathers We Need | Father’s Day 2026

   Father Connolly delivers a Father's Day homily, urging the Church community to pray for vocations amidst a priest shortage crisis.

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   20 Jul 2025

   On Becoming a Whole Person | Fr. Peter Heasley

   Father Heasley is currently pastor of the Parish of Corpus Christi and Notre Dame (https://ccnd-nyc.org/) in New York City and Chaplain to Columbia University. A native of Detroit, he has worked as an architect in New York and Peace Corps volunteer in Mali, West Africa, before seminary and has completed a doctorate in Biblical Theology in 2019, which has been published as Prophetic Polyphony (Mohr Siebeck, 2020). In addition to pastoral care in the parish and the university, he teaches Scripture at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, New York. On the side, he writes novels and short stories about hope within dystopian situations.

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   22 May 2025

   Teaching the Faith and Planting the Seeds of Priestly Vocations | Fr. Kareem Smith

   Fr. Kareem Smith, Pastor of the Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Co-Op City (and Fr. Connolly's classmate!), an incredibly joyful, prayerful, and selfless priest, shares how he heard God calling him to the priesthood, especially through the gift of Catholic education.

Inside a recent episode

Thank God for the Fathers We Have, Pray for the Fathers We Need | Father’s Day 2026

Published 24 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] It's easy for us, especially as men and dads, think, well, I work all day, and then that's all I've got, and I'm gonna go home and continue to take care of just those entrusted to me, my spouse, my children, the ones who need me, and then that's all I've got in the tank. But we need you too. We need you as well. And on this, I'm going to brag about my dad for a moment. And he's not here, so it's not like I'm getting any sort of brownie points for this or anything like that. But how grateful I am for the example that I had growing up as a boy. Yeah, he worked hard all day, every day, then came home and took care of us. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

24 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

25 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 37 / 100

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Quality

55

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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