The Catholic Talk Show Ryan Scheel, Ryan DellaCrosse, and Fr. Richard Pagano

I really enjoy listening to you guys and thank you for putting the effort in to making a quality Catholic based podcast. As a convert from Protestantism, my only feedback on the most recent episode regarding difficult teachings of Catholicism is that I still believe there is clarification needed regarding Papal authority. Specifically, what are Catholics to do if hypothetically in the future, there was a heretical pope that pronounced a mandatory declaration that all Catholics are to accept abortion as morally acceptable, or that homosexual marriage is morally acceptable. Clearly, these teachings would be heretical, but if we embrace fully the concept of people infallibility, then it seems there would not be a good option for Catholics to follow. More so than the lineage of the pope, I feel that this is the bigger stumbling block that most protestants have regarding the papacy.

Any feedback on this question would be greatly appreciated!

I keep this podcast on the back burner for the occasional interesting topic.

But the episode on Joe Rogan (Bill Burr was in it also) started off on the wrong foot, they sounded very condescending, and pretending to have sympathy for his suffering from his childhood trauma but they went directly into Joe’s bad takes on religion. When I first saw the episode in my queue I thought, “really this is what you want to talk about?” But I gave it a try and y’all totally missed the mark (and I listened to the whole episode). So much so that it prompted me to write this review. Joe Rogan’s experience is the experience of many other people who have left the Church and if they are listening to this podcast I don’t think they were given anything other than, Well they are immature in faith because they were probably hurt by the Church. Ok so what. If you listen to Joe Rogan you probably already know that. If you don’t listen to him, your probably thinking, why should I care about Joe Rogan’s take. Anyways, I think this episode should have been shelved or approach differently. Should have been pastoral out the gate.

Pointless. Missed the mark.

After listening to an episode, I always wish I could be in the congregation of one of your parishes listening to a homily. I would imagine you connect so well with your church family. Many thanks for your episodes. ~Julie S.