About the show
The goal of Forte Catholic is to share the Joy of the Gospel! The team of Taylor Schroll, Fr. Anthony Sciarappa, Allison Sullivan, & Kathryn Whitaker bring the laughs, insights and encouragement you need to get through your week and grow in your life of faith. There are weekly theme discussions, guest interviews from Catholic leaders from across the world and fun segments like Freestyle Preaching, Forte/Mezzo/Piano, Life Verse and much more. No matter where you are on your journey with God we want to help you take the next step by inspiring, uplifting, and sharing the Good News...all while laughing along the way.
The show appears weekly on YouTube & all podcasting platforms. It was a nominee for the Fisher’s Net Podcast of the Year Award in 2018 and has been mentioned in the Wall Street Journal.
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Episodes
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145: Yelling Bible Verses & Catholicism in the NFL w/ Dave Neeson
July 24th, 2019 | 53 mins 41 secs
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Taylor and Allison Sullivan discuss & share their top five Bible verses to yell in public. They're also joined by Dave Neeson to share about his work with Catholics in the NFL.
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144: Fr Anthony & Tea with Tolkien Break the Catholic Internet
July 16th, 2019 | 56 mins 3 secs
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Fr. Anthony co-hosts as he and Taylor start the show looking back at crappy situations and realizing how they actually helped us. Tea with Tolkien rejoins the show in an attempt to break the Catholic internet.
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143: Saints Game & the Return of Bearded Blevins w/ Leo Gallegos
July 10th, 2019 | 54 mins 16 secs
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The Return of the King! Co-host Jonathan "Bearded" Blevins is back after a two month hiatus(cuz he's too cool traveling the world sharing the Gospel smh). We're joined by Leo Gallegos to hear his story about how improving his physical wellness did wonders for his personal life, faith and family. Jon and Taylor play a "guess that saint" game with the help of new saint cards from Andy "Shaggy" Korty.
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142: Do You Trust Me? w/ Dude Catholic
July 2nd, 2019 | 49 mins 56 secs
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“Let's talk about Jesus and by that I mean the movie Aladdin” -Taylor. Shaun McAfee cohosts to talk about the theme of trust with Taylor and this week's guest, Adrian from the Dude Catholic podcast.
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141: Best Friends, leadership & trivia w/DJ Bernal
June 25th, 2019 | 54 mins 50 secs
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Allison Sullivan cohosts and talks with Taylor about the recent Harry Potter game that was released this weekend, what that has to do with friendship and ultimately our relationship with God. Our guest this week is DJ Bernal. He works full-time as a leadership consultant at a hospital. He also travels to share the Gospel and biblical principles of leadership.
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140: Reverence vs. Familiarity & Sam Guzman of the Catholic Gentleman
June 19th, 2019 | 54 mins 35 secs
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Taylor talks with Fr. Anthony about reverence vs. familiarity with God, imaginative prayer & are joined by Sam Guzman of the Catholic Gentleman.
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139: Cemetery stories, haters and the One Hope Movement w/Chris Field
June 12th, 2019 | 54 mins 44 secs
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Taylor & Allison kick off the show by making fun of each other for quite some time and then Allison reacts to a ridiculous and funny cemetery story(weird right?) & finish the show by discussing how to deal with haters. Chris Field joins to share about the One Hope Movement.
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138: Community, Friendship & Trust w/Liv Harrison
June 5th, 2019 | 55 mins 22 secs
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Liv Harrison is back as guest co-host! Her and Taylor start the show by sharing their odd confession/adoration experience minutes before the show started. The rest of the show, we talk about community & friendship.
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137: Taylor was quiet!?!? & Shaun McAfee Returns at Long Last
May 29th, 2019 | 54 mins 25 secs
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At long last, our Italian cohost Shaun McAfee returns! He and Taylor catch up on everything that's happened since they last spoke, including Taylor's recent retreat WHERE HE WAS SILENT! WHAT!?!?!
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136: God Made, Self Driven w/Dustin Bertrand & When Your Best Isn't Good Enough
May 22nd, 2019 | 56 mins 1 sec
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Allison Sullivan cohosts for conversations on when we do our best but it wasn't good enough and how to deal with that. Dustin Bertrand joins the show to discuss how "God made, self driven" has motivated his life.
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135: Good Shepherds & Barking Dogs w/Fr. Anthony & Ali Hoffman
May 15th, 2019 | 53 mins 20 secs
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Fr. Anthony co-hosts as he and Taylor dive deep into Jesus as the Good Shepherd and its implications on us today. Taylor shares a cartoon that wrecked him(weird right?), the importance of scary sheep dogs and Jesus breaking your legs(what!?!?!) Ali Hoffman rejoins the show to talk Oodles of Doodles, Taylor's terrible handwriting and life skills, praying and much more.
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134: Avengers, Revelation & Tornado Warning w/ Liv Harrison
May 8th, 2019 | 55 mins 55 secs
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Liv Harrison is welcomed back into the studio to guest co-host. We catch up on life, spoiler free Avengers thoughts & finish last week's discussion on the book of Revelation(the thunder, lightning and tornado were a perfect background.)
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133: The biggest pop culture weekend ever, Ennie Hickman & more
May 1st, 2019 | 51 mins 18 secs
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Fr. Anthony co-hosts as we discuss the ridiculously insane weekend with the Avengers endgame premiere, largest battle in television/movie history on GOT & more! We’re joined by one of the coolest dudes in the ministry world, Ennie Hickman. We talk about preaching, actually loving your neighbors and all his work at Del Rey Collective.
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132: Easter Celebrations w/Fr Joseph-Anthony Kress & Allison Sullivan
April 24th, 2019 | 54 mins 36 secs
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Happy Easters!!!! We hope you enjoyed your Easter day and are continuing to enjoy the celebration of this great season! Allison Sullivan cohosts as we discuss how our Lent's went, Easter joy and Taylor being the balance in the Force. Our guest this week is Fr. Joseph-Anthony Kress, a Dominican priest who is the chaplain at the University of Virginia.
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131: Sports, Faith & Holy Week w/former pro soccer player Luke Vercollone
April 17th, 2019 | 55 mins
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Bearded Blevins co-hosts this week as we discuss Tiger Woods return to Master’s victory and what it has to do with Taylor’s working out and spiritual life. They also talk about the super long Palm Sunday and Good Friday Gospel readings and how to have a good experience with them instead of focusing on your knees buckling for standing up so long. We connect with some of the characters in the Passion narrative that we’ve never really connected with before.
Our guest this week is Luke Vercollone, a recently retired professional soccer player who is using his platform to share the Gospel message. His ministry, Beast4Christ, calls everyone to be a saint…and has some amazing apparel! Tune is as we talk about his soccer career, how to strive for sainthood and be a Beast for Christ.
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130: Ministry Madness Bracket Results & Stacey Sumereau
April 10th, 2019 | 53 mins 39 secs
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The Ministry Madness Bracket results are in! We go through some of the best first round matchups and eventually countdown the Top 10 finishers, all the way down to our winner! Our guest this week is former Broadway/reality TV star and current Catholic mom, speaker and podcaster, Stacey Sumereau.