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Catholic answers for complicated faithful lives.
Ask Father Josh is a Catholic Q&A show built around listener questions that rarely have simple answers. Episodes mix pastoral counsel, prayer, Scripture, church teaching, and candid conversation with guests on spiritual growth, relationships, and the struggle against vice.
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Ask Father Josh is a Catholic question-and-answer show for people trying to live their faith inside complicated real-life situations. It is pastoral, direct, and emotionally present. The show works from listener questions about morality, spirituality, relationships, evangelization, discipleship, catechesis, prayer, and the slow work of growing in holiness. Recent episodes gather around the seven deadly sins, especially pride, sloth, lust, anger, comparison, and control. The conversations do not treat vice as a vague religious category. They name concrete patterns: self-exaltation, vanity, apathy, misplaced desire, resentment, the illusion of control, and doing many good things instead of the one good thing required. The show is also deeply sacramental in its imagination. Fasting, confession, Lent, Easter, Scripture, the Eucharist, and prayer all recur as practices that shape daily life rather than as background vocabulary. Its rhythm moves between teaching and companionship. One moment may define pride as disordered self-love; the next may turn to a story about disappointment, sanctification, or the humility of receiving what God allows. Guests give the series texture. Dr. Brian Pedraza brings theological language and careful distinctions in episodes on pride and sloth. Sister Josephine Garrett brings a reflective, grounded voice to control, anger, attraction, and the reality of human limits. Dr. Mario Sacasa appears in conversations about lust and comparison, where emotional and spiritual struggle meet Catholic moral formation. The show can be frank about difficult interior territory, but its aim is not shock or debate. It is conversion. Questions are prayed with, studied, and answered in a way that keeps returning to trust, mercy, community, and the demands of discipleship. Listeners looking for detached religious commentary may find it too devotional. Catholics who want practical spiritual direction, moral clarity, and a companionable path through conscience work will find a show shaped by warmth, urgency, and a steady pull toward virtue.
Made for: Catholics seeking pastoral guidance on conscience, relationships, prayer, virtue, vice, and daily discipleship. It especially suits listeners who want church teaching connected to ordinary emotional and moral struggles.
What sets it apart: The show pairs listener-led Catholic Q&A with prayerful reflection, guest conversations, and concrete ascetical practices. Its strength is translating moral theology into recognizable interior patterns without losing devotional warmth.
Ask Fr. Josh is the podcast where I hear you out and do my best to help you navigate the tricky times in life when our Catholic Faith doesn’t give you an easy “fill-in-the blank” answer. On this show, we’ll listen to one another, problem solve together, and ultimately entrust everything to our Lord. If this is your first time tuning in, here’s how the show goes: Each episode, I'll address three to four of your questions. I’ll cover everything from Catholic teaching to moral dilemmas to relationship advice. I'm not perfect, and I can’t guarantee that my advice is going to make things easy, but I'll do my best to share what I've learned during my time as a priest, pastor, and friend. Send me y…
Fr. Josh's missed chance at Padre Pio's altar hits differently when comparison has your number.
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A Catholic reflection on carrying fasting from Lent into Easter through Friday penance, prayer, and trust in grace.
Easter is framed as a shift in the way fasting is lived. The host moves from Lenten abstinence into the question of whether fasting still has a place once Easter begins, then settles the answer inside a Catholic rhythm: Fridays may still carry some form of penance through the…
A Catholic reflection on self-care, pride, vanity, humility, and trust in Jesus.
Self-care is framed here as a question of Christian moral language, with Fr. Josh and Dr. Brian Pedraza asking whether care for the body can honor the life God has given.
A Padre Pio pilgrimage becomes a grounded lesson in receiving only the gifts meant for one's path to holiness.
Father Josh's hope of celebrating Mass on Padre Pio's altar becomes a modest, effective study in comparison. When prayer reframes the desire as something he will receive only if it is good for his salvation, the later sight of another newly ordained priest getting that chance…
Sister Josephine Garrett's elevator story makes surrender tangible before the episode closes in prayer.
Control takes shape through a practical memory: when the question turns to free will and God's providence, Sister Josephine Garrett recalls therapy homework that left only her own behaviors on the list of what she could actually control.
Culture interviews with conscience and warmth.
Catholic books, prayer, and lived witness.
Catholic conversations with a generous heart.
Traditional Catholic commentary with doctrinal edge.
Catholic prayer with scriptural backbone.
Father Josh says Easter fasting is “yes and no,” because it depends on personal discernment, not obligation.
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Ask Father Josh's lust episode, part of a season on the seven deadly sins, pairs Father Josh Johnson with psychologist Dr.
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Father Josh answers listener questions about Catholic faith and morality, with a focus on the vice of lust.
Father Josh answers listener questions about Catholic faith, morality, and spiritual growth, with a focus on overcoming the seven deadly sins.
A Catholic priest answers listener questions about faith, morality, and spiritual life.
Father Josh and Deacon Michael Parker discuss making decisions in marriage from a Catholic perspective, starting with a prayer for wisdom.
Father Josh asks for support for Ascension's free Catholic content, then introduces the podcast and previews a discussion about Medjugorje.