Practicing Catholic

Practicing Catholic

Hosted by Taylor Kemp and Scott Hefelfinger and Scott and Taylor and Emily and Jordan · Augustine Institute

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58
Episodes
33
Transcribed
64
Ratings
Weekly
Cadence
2025
First episode

About Practicing Catholic

A weekly podcast for everyday holiness featuring real conversations and practical wisdom to arm you in the ordinary pursuit of sanctification. Join the Augustine Institute’s Taylor Kemp and Dr. Scott Hefelfinger as they explore topics such as work, family life, prayer, and Catholic culture. Each episode encourages and equips you with timeless wisdom drawn from Scripture, the lives of the Saints, and the Tradition of the Church, offering practical ways to grow in holiness in the midst of daily life. Have a question or an idea for a future episode? We’d love to hear it! Click here: http://bit.ly/3IHWk5q

Publisher
Augustine Institute
Category
education · religion & spirituality
Language
en
Explicit
No
First episode
2 Sept 2025
Latest episode
19 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

33 of 58 episodes have a transcript.

  1. 19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Fulton Sheen: Lessons from the Beatification on Being a Missionary Evangelizer

  2. 12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    How to Fight Discouragement (With God's Help)

  3. 5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Breaking Open the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius

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Fulton Sheen: Lessons from the Beatification on Being a Missionary Evangelizer

Published 19 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Yeah. Yeah. There are a couple of lines related to that from Cardinal Taglay, but then also Fulton Sheen himself. One of them was to preach the gospel from a posture of self-righteousness that prevents you from empathizing with other people's brokenness is not mission. It's not blessedness. And And then I think it was actually Sheen who called out, said there are priests today who, you know, sort of seem to want to do this in the abstract. There it is. And to use preaching as an excuse to avoid concrete persons, you know, is not mission, is not blessedness. So, I mean, some of the alternative path there was called out also. […]

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  • Madison Frank
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  • Elizabeth Klein
  • The Wolavers
  • Joe Scherrer

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47 ratings
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Taylor Kemp and Scott Hefelfinger and Scott and Taylor and Emily and Jordan host the show. Published by Augustine Institute.

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