A Resounding Yes!

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A Resounding Yes! is a podcast produced by Catholic creative agency Paloma & Fig centered around Mary's Fiat and how we can say YES to the Lord. Visit www.palomaandfig.com to learn more.

  1. 5d ago

    The God Who Cheers Us On: Astronaut Tom Jones on Wonder and Creation

    Christina Sabo and co-host Fr. John Johnson welcome veteran astronaut and planetary scientist Dr. Tom Jones, who flew four space shuttle missions and made three spacewalks helping build the International Space Station. Tom traces the yeses that carried a fourth grader's dream all the way to the launch pad, and tells the story of the Sunday in April 1994 when three Catholic astronauts received the Eucharist aboard Endeavour. He also describes the sunrise that broke into the cockpit moments after communion, and the five minutes on a spacewalk he calls the best he has spent in space. What We Talk About: Growing up during the space race, and the parents, teachers, and nuns who kept telling a fourth grader he could be part of it somedayA failed Air Force Academy medical exam, a bomber assignment instead of fighters, and the five years of graduate school that followedThree hours strapped in on the launch pad, the prayers said during the wait, and the eight and a half minutes to orbitThe Sunday aboard Endeavour when three Catholic astronauts shared the Eucharist, and the sunrise over the Pacific that followedWonder, beauty, and what Tom and Fr. John offer anyone who believes faith has no place in scienceResources Mentioned: Sky Walking: An Astronaut's Memoir by Tom Jones: Tom's Website | SmithsonianJesus in Space: A True Story That's Out Of This World Turn Left at Orion by Guy Consolmagno and Dan M. DavisWould You Baptize an Extraterrestrial? by Guy Consolmagno, SJ and Paul Mueller, SJVatican ObservatoryChapters: 00:00: Welcome and introducing Dr. Tom Jones02:31: Mary's fiat and the yeses that led to space05:33: Asthma, a bomber assignment, and the long road to the astronaut corps09:32: What a shuttle launch feels like from the inside16:51: Fear, prayer, and an engine shutdown on the pad20:03: Explorers or active participants in creation?24:04: How the Eucharist came aboard Endeavour27:07: Sunrise over the Pacific and the blue of the Virgin's veil30:14: Beauty as a language for God that science cannot give34:13: The view from orbit and the best five minutes of a spacewalk40:10: Faith and science: Georges Lemaître and Brother Guy Consolmagno47:29: What brings Tom the most joy nowProduced by Saint Kolbe Studios Send us Fan Mail Support the show Follow Paloma & Fig on Facebook, Instagram & LinkedIn.  Learn more at www.palomaandfig.com.  Join in the conversation by joining our  Facebook group, A Resounding Yes!

    The God Who Cheers Us On: Astronaut Tom Jones on Wonder and Creation

  2. Aug 21

    How to Find Relics Near You w/ Brian O'Neel

    Christina Sabo talks with writer, editor, and publicist Brian O'Neel about SaintsTombs.com, the twenty-three-year project that maps where servants of God, venerables, blesseds, and saints are buried across 133 countries. Brian traces it back to a 2003 trip to Rome, where he visited the tomb of Saint Monica without knowing that Venerable Giuseppe Minocchio lay beneath a small square of black marble in the same church. He and Christina talk about pilgrimage, relics, forgotten martyrs, and what happens when a person goes to pray where the saints are laid. What We Talk About: The 2003 Rome trip, a guidebook that raised more questions than it answered, and the venerable buried steps from Saint MonicaWhat a pilgrimage actually is, and why medieval penitents were sent to the Holy Land and Rome to make oneVenerable Patrick Peyton, the reopening of his center in Massachusetts, and what a visit to a tomb can stir up in an ordinary personThe 300-plus people who have died for the faith on US and Canadian soil—and the anti-Catholic history most Americans were never taughtTwenty-three years of daily research: Google alerts, tombs that get moved, cloistered nuns who ask for privacy, and the three question marks that mark an unknown graveResources Mentioned: SaintsTombs.com39 New Saints You Should KnowSaint Who?150 North American Martyrs You Should KnowHagiography CircleChapters: 00:00: Introduction02:01: Opening Prayer03:53: The Yes Behind SaintsTombs.com11:17: The Aha Moment in Rome13:20: Praying at the Tomb of a Saint15:45: What a Pilgrimage Is—and Why It Matters20:28: Writing About the Saints No One Remembers23:02: The North American Martyrs and Catholic America29:16: Twenty-Three Years of Research32:58: How the Site Is Organized38:34: The Camps and a Litany of the Unknown45:29: What's Next for SaintsTombs.comProduced by Saint Kolbe Studios Send us Fan Mail Support the show Follow Paloma & Fig on Facebook, Instagram & LinkedIn.  Learn more at www.palomaandfig.com.  Join in the conversation by joining our  Facebook group, A Resounding Yes!

    How to Find Relics Near You w/ Brian O'Neel

  3. Aug 14

    Not a Cry Room, but a Training Room: Author Steve Walton on Children at Mass

    Steve Walton is an author, former Army Ranger, father of four, and grandfather of five. Steve joins Belle Meade to talk about converting to Catholicism at fifteen, a career built on writing, and his new board book, Loving God: A Mass Book for Little Hands.  Steve describes finding illustrator Claudia Corrales in Savannah, why he set out to make the Mass book he never found as a young parent, and how the finished book is reaching parishes and Catholic bookstores. He also covers the free coloring sheets on his website, the Mass book for older children now in progress, and twenty years as a Scout leader. What We Talk About: The yes at fifteen: converting to Catholicism in southern Louisiana, meeting one-on-one with a priest before the RCIA program existedWhy Brother Lawrence's The Practice of the Presence of God is the book Steve keeps returning toFinding illustrator Claudia Corrales in Savannah, and what her artwork brought to the board bookWhat Steve says to the parent whose child is loud at Mass—and why his parish calls it a training room, not a cry roomWhere the book is available now, the free downloadable coloring sheets, and the Mass book for older children in progressResources Mentioned: Loving God: A Mass Book for Little HandsThe Practice of the Presence of God (TAN Books)Steve's SubstackPaloma&FigChapters: 00:00: Introduction00:30: Welcome and Opening Prayer02:28: The Yes at Fifteen04:33: Louisiana, Oscar Romero, and the Road to Writing10:10: The Practice of the Presence of God13:04: The Book and Its Illustrator, Claudia Corrales17:59: Bringing the Book to Mass20:36: Why Mass Came First22:56: The Parent Just Getting Through Sunday Morning30:41: Where to Buy the Book33:56: Coloring Sheets and a Book for Older Children38:59: Twenty Years as a Scout LeaderProduced by Saint Kolbe Studios Send us Fan Mail Support the show Follow Paloma & Fig on Facebook, Instagram & LinkedIn.  Learn more at www.palomaandfig.com.  Join in the conversation by joining our  Facebook group, A Resounding Yes!

    Not a Cry Room, but a Training Room: Author Steve Walton on Children at Mass

  4. Aug 7

    Signs of Hope in a Pornography-Filled Culture w/ Fr. Carter Griffin

    Belle Meade welcomes Fr. Carter Griffin for a conversation about chastity as the power to love well rather than a list of restrictions. Fr. Carter is a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington, a former Navy line officer, and the author of Reclaimed: Win the War of Freedom, Self-Mastery, and Holy Purity.  Fr. Carter recounts his conversion at Princeton, the four years at sea that shaped how he understands discipline and fatherhood, and the dissertation that grew into Why Celibacy? He then walks through the practical battle plan behind his new book: honest limits on screens, real boundaries, friendship, and a daily habit of prayer. What We Talk About: Why chastity is the virtue that enables us to love well as body and soul—and why angels have no need of itWhere to begin when someone feels stuck: screen usage, boundaries around the near occasions of sin, building real friendships, and three Hail Marys at nightWhy Fr. Griffin could not disagree more with the counsel that occasional falls will always be part of the pictureHow a doctoral dissertation on the theology of celibacy became Why Celibacy?, and the part the Amazon Synod played in bringing it to a popular audienceThe Gerasene demoniac as an image of what chastity restores: clothed, in his right mind, and no longer harming himselfResources Mentioned: Reclaimed: Win the War of Freedom, Self-Mastery, and Holy Purity by Fr. Carter GriffinWhy Celibacy?: Reclaiming the Fatherhood of the Priest by Fr. Carter GriffinForming Families, Forming Saints by Fr. Carter GriffinCovenant EyesPaloma&FigChapters: 00:00: Intro00:31: Meet Fr. Carter Griffin and Reclaimed04:38: Raised Presbyterian, Reading His Way into the Church08:29: The Navy, Discipline, and a First Taste of Fatherhood15:51: How Why Celibacy? Began as a Dissertation in Rome20:15: What Chastity Actually Means23:42: Freedom From and Freedom For26:51: Signs of Hope in a Pornography-Soaked Culture32:38: Where to Start: Screens, Boundaries, and Friendship39:26: Why a Field Manual for a Real Battle47:20: What It Means to Be a Herald of Freedom54:28: One Field Order: Never SurrenderProduced by Saint Kolbe Studios Send us Fan Mail Support the show Follow Paloma & Fig on Facebook, Instagram & LinkedIn.  Learn more at www.palomaandfig.com.  Join in the conversation by joining our  Facebook group, A Resounding Yes!

    Signs of Hope in a Pornography-Filled Culture w/ Fr. Carter Griffin

  5. Jul 31

    The Only Wrong Way to Pray: Tanner Kalina on Prayer, Heartbreak, and Wholeheartedness

    Christina Sabo is joined by co-hosts Fr. Kevin Braski and Belle Meade for a conversation with Catholic evangelist, author, and speaker Tanner Kalina about his new book, All Your Heart: How to Live for Christ Without Holding Back. Tanner traces the yes that took him from chasing acting and comedy in Los Angeles to campus ministry in Colorado, then opens the question at the center of his book: what the heart actually is, and why loving God with all of it depends on the intellect and the will as much as the affections. Fr. Kevin brings a priest's perspective on daily prayer, discipline, and the kind of witness that reaches people when arguments cannot. What We Talk About: Tanner's yes: the pull between the faith he professed and the life he was building while pursuing acting and comedy in Los AngelesWhy the word "heart" kept surfacing—in Scripture, in ordinary speech, and in a season of heartbreak—and what it led him to writeDietrich von Hildebrand's case for the heart as its own spiritual center: the intellect tells us what something is, the will what to do with it, the heart how deeply to value itFr. Kevin on putting a peg in the day: the holy hour, the link between disciple and discipline, and why starting small beats attempting everything at onceWhy witness reaches people where argument cannot, and why Tanner says the first step in prayer is admitting you don't know how to prayResources Mentioned: All Your Heart: How to Live for Christ Without Holding Back by Tanner Kalina (Ascension Press)Paloma&Fig review of All Your Heart by Teagan ByrneTanner Kalina's websiteTanner Kalina on InstagramChapters: 00:00: Welcome and Opening Prayer03:30: Summer Check-In and Time Outdoors11:04: Tanner's Yes: Los Angeles, Conversion, and Campus Ministry15:37: Putting a Peg in the Day19:11: Training to Become Like Christ25:50: What Inspired All Your Heart31:29: Common Misunderstandings of the Heart35:19: A Threefold Conversion of Intellect, Will, and Heart43:09: The Lukewarm Heart, Stars, and Black Holes51:36: Scripture, the Saints, and Protestant Voices59:51: The Only Wrong Way to Pray01:05:39: What Brings You JoyProduced by Saint Kolbe Studios Send us Fan Mail Support the show Follow Paloma & Fig on Facebook, Instagram & LinkedIn.  Learn more at www.palomaandfig.com.  Join in the conversation by joining our  Facebook group, A Resounding Yes!

    The Only Wrong Way to Pray: Tanner Kalina on Prayer, Heartbreak, and Wholeheartedness

  6. Jul 24

    Holiness in the Ordinary: Meg Hunter-Kilmer on The Everyday Yes

    Guest host Belle Meade welcomes Catholic author, speaker, and Notre Dame campus minister Meg Hunter-Kilmer to talk about her own everyday yes and her new twelve-week Bible study, Who Is Jesus? Discovering Christ in the Gospels, published by Ave Maria Press. Along the way she shares the moment a familiar parable broke her open in the middle of Mass and why she thinks fifteen minutes a day of silence — one percent of your life — is within reach of almost anyone. What We Talk About: The daily habit for growing closer to God that Meg hopes every reader walks away withThe two distortions of God people bring to Scripture: the disinterested God and the God of wrathHow the humanity of Christ consecrates our grief, our fear, and even our mistakesWhy the big yes is only ever built on a thousand ordinary onesWhat makes Who Is Jesus? different from most Catholic Bible studies — and who it's actually forChapters: 00:00: Introduction00:16: Welcome and Opening Prayer02:31: The Everyday Yes05:20: Why Meg Wrote Who Is Jesus?09:08: Meeting Jesus as Someone Alive Now12:12: The Gift of the Incarnation15:09: Two Misunderstandings About God18:11: When Scripture Feels Difficult25:33: The Prodigal Son and Her Father27:53: Scripture as a Love Letter31:31: A Daily Habit in the Word34:14: Holy Hour and the Source of JoyResources Mentioned: Who Is Jesus? Discovering Christ in the Gospels (Ave Maria Press)Eyes Fixed on Jesus, Vol. 1: A Journey into the GospelsHeld By His Pierced HandsThe ChosenMagnifica Humanitas (Pope Leo XIV)Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios Send us Fan Mail Support the show Follow Paloma & Fig on Facebook, Instagram & LinkedIn.  Learn more at www.palomaandfig.com.  Join in the conversation by joining our  Facebook group, A Resounding Yes!

    Holiness in the Ordinary: Meg Hunter-Kilmer on The Everyday Yes

  7. Jul 17

    The Only Approved Apparition in America: The Story of Our Lady of Champion

    Guest host Kaylee Stoll sits down with Father Tony Stephens, CPM, rector of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion, for a conversation about his own yes to God and the only Church-approved Marian apparition in the United States. From a farm in western Kansas to the Fathers of Mercy, Father Tony traces the series of yeses that shaped his vocation, then tells the story of Adele Brice, the 1859 apparitions, the Miracle of the Fire, and the annual Walk to Mary pilgrimage. What We Talk About: Father Tony's path from a Kansas farm to the Fathers of Mercy and the priesthoodThe 1859 apparitions of Our Lady of Champion to Adele Brice, now a Servant of GodThe four-part message of Our Lady and why it still speaks to Catholics todayThe "Miracle of the Fire" during the 1871 Peshtigo FireMaking a pilgrimage to the Shrine and the annual Walk to MaryChapters: 00:00: Welcome and Introduction01:32: Opening Prayer03:04: Father Tony's Journey to the Priesthood07:03: The History of Our Lady of Champion11:45: The Message and Its Relevance Today15:16: The Miracle of the Peshtigo Fire20:42: Opening Adele Brice's Cause for Canonization22:59: Stories of Healing and Answered Prayer26:17: Making a Pilgrimage to the Shrine29:07: The Walk to Mary35:38: Upcoming Events and the American Saints Project39:06: The Joy of the PriesthoodResources Mentioned: Servant of God Adele BriceNational Shrine of Our Lady of ChampionWalk to MaryProduced by Saint Kolbe Studios Send us Fan Mail Support the show Follow Paloma & Fig on Facebook, Instagram & LinkedIn.  Learn more at www.palomaandfig.com.  Join in the conversation by joining our  Facebook group, A Resounding Yes!

    The Only Approved Apparition in America: The Story of Our Lady of Champion

  8. Jul 10

    Jeff Cavins on Walking Through Every Door God Opens

    This episode is a re-air. Jeff Cavins never planned any of it. A confirmation Bible at thirteen, a stack of colored markers and a sheet of butcher paper at twenty-six, and a habit of walking through whatever door opened. That is how the Great Adventure Bible Timeline was born and how a former Protestant pastor became one of the most recognized voices in Catholic media. In this conversation, Jeff traces his yes across five decades, from Mother Angelica's studio to the Holy Land to the balcony of St. Peter's, and lands on the single priority that orders everything else. What We Talk About: How a Bible received at confirmation set the course of a life that had comedy and broadcasting in viewThe 48-hour stretch in which Jeff drafted the entire Bible Timeline chart—and the fifteen years it sat before taking offWhat Emily's archaeology and 69 Holy Land pilgrimages taught the Cavins family about walking where Jesus walkedThe morning The Bible in a Year hit number one, and why Jeff and Fr. Mike Schmitz say they would have ruined it had they aimed for thatWhy Jeff refuses to describe popes as liberal or conservative, and what he heard echoing when Pope Leo XIV stepped onto the loggiaResources Mentioned: When the White Smoke Clears: A Guide to Pope Leo XIV's Early DaysJeff CavinsThe Jeff Cavins ShowThe Bible Timeline: The Story of SalvationPaloma&FigChapters: 00:00: Welcome and opening prayer for Pope Leo XIV01:40: Comedy, radio, and a confirmation Bible at thirteen03:31: Walking through open doors—Steubenville, Mother Angelica, EWTN09:04: Emily, archaeology, and 69 pilgrimages to the Holy Land12:23: Butcher paper, markers, and 48 hours that made the Bible Timeline18:42: Coming home to the Catholic Church and filling in the silent years20:59: Scott Hahn, Matt Pinto, and the birth of Ascension's Great Adventure24:50: The phone call that said The Bible in a Year was number one28:19: Advice to young Catholics—incubation, passion, and a sixth-grade verdict35:28: Catholic media, ideological gladiators, and doing what Jesus said45:00: Pope Leo XIV in Rome and the echoes of John Paul II1:00:34: One priority, not twelve—and the story of Jeff's last rideProduced by Saint Kolbe Studios Send us Fan Mail Support the show Follow Paloma & Fig on Facebook, Instagram & LinkedIn.  Learn more at www.palomaandfig.com.  Join in the conversation by joining our  Facebook group, A Resounding Yes!

    Jeff Cavins on Walking Through Every Door God Opens
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A Resounding Yes! is a podcast produced by Catholic creative agency Paloma & Fig centered around Mary's Fiat and how we can say YES to the Lord. Visit www.palomaandfig.com to learn more.

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    Paloma & Fig
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    65
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