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 & Liv Harrison 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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Episode 91: Bad Homilies & Church Music & What To Do About It w/ Kevin Kapchinski
July 11th, 2018 | 54 mins 55 secs
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Ever felt crazy in Mass? Bad Music? Bad Homily? Bad lectors? We all have. We commiserate together and try to come up with a solution for how to fix it and the role we play in the whole deal.
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Episode 90: Rich Curran on making parishes come to life & Taylor's trip to Detroit
July 5th, 2018 | 54 mins 57 secs
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Taylor is back from Detroit and boy does he have some stories, including a very "interesting" Mass. Rich Curran shares the essentials for revitalizing your parish & Taylor continues his feud with Canada.
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Episode 89: Porky from the Little Rascals journey of faith & the GOAT Debate
June 27th, 2018 | 54 mins 54 secs
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Zac Mabry is here! The actor who starred as "Porky" in every millennials favorite children's movie "The Little Rascals" joins the show to talk about his journey of faith and becoming Catholic. Taylor and Zac also have a showdown in a game of debate about the "Greatest of All Time" in a variety of categories.
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Episode 88: Moral Licensing & Priest Firsts w/Fr. Anthony Sciarappa & Brian Baudoin
June 20th, 2018 | 55 mins 49 secs
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Taylor learned a new term called "moral licensing" and shares how it may define his spiritual life...and maybe yours. Fr. Anthony Sciarappa joins the show for the first time to talk about things that he has done as a priest that are probably the first time in history that a priest has done them. Brian Baudoin rejoins the show to talk about his favorite memories of the show and introduces a new segment.
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Episode 87: The Collision of the Holy Spirit & the Avengers w/ Matt Nelson
June 13th, 2018 | 54 mins 28 secs
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Taylor shares about the Holy Spirit as the "Forgotten God" and what we miss in our relationship with the third person of the Trinity. We also talk about the role indifference plays in our faith (or lack thereof) with Matt Nelson
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Episode 86: Pam Marvin on Root Sin, Google Feud game & the importance of relationships
June 6th, 2018 | 54 mins 55 secs
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Taylor recently added an ordination and spoke for a senior's retreat and shares stories from both! He is also joined by Pam Marvin to talk about root sin and how knowing the roots of our sin can help us heal and grow in the spiritual life.
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My Interview with an Atheist
June 6th, 2018 | 1 hr 21 mins
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Howdy! We did a little something new for this bonus content of the podcast. This is a long-form interview with a friend of mine named Dan about his faith journey from growing up in a nominal Catholic family, to priestly formation, to marriage and now an "almost complete de-conversion from Catholicism." He shares his story & the things that led to where he is now.
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Episode 85: How do Saints hear us, Overcoming Obstacles & Basketball w/Karlo Broussard
May 30th, 2018 | 55 mins 5 secs
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Karlo Broussard of Catholic Answers rejoins the show to talk about overcoming obstacles to sharing the faith. Taylor and Producer Sam ask how saints hear our prayers, countdown the top five takeaways from their recent retreat and discuss the spiritual breakthrough Taylor had while playing basketball.
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Episode 84: Ascension Assumptions, Desire for Marriage & Biblical Kings Game
May 23rd, 2018 | 53 mins 55 secs
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This week's show kicks off with silly thoughts on the Ascension as Taylor's imagination runs wild. Taylor is joined by Josh Calhoun to discuss the holy desire for marriage and they face off in the Stranger Kings biblical trivia game.
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Episode 83: Triumph from Tragedy, Traveling stories & a Twitter Mass debate w/ Joe Sikorra
May 16th, 2018 | 54 mins 32 secs
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Taylor shares the tale of his travels to Iowa, how some drawings either ruined or improved his talk & shares his thoughts on the Twitter Mass controversy. Joe Sikorra joins the show to share the story of how his family learned of the mercy & compassion of God after tragedy.
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Episode 82: Fr. Jared Cooke Co-hosts as we talk confession, priesthood, & ambition
May 8th, 2018 | 55 mins 9 secs
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WHAT!?!? It finally happened! After months of publicly calling out my favorite baby priest, Fr. Jared Cooke finally came on the show! He's the Matt Damon to my Jimmy Kimmel. We talked highlights from his first year as a priest, confession, who's holier, ambition, & went toe to toe in a trivia game.
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Episode 81: Finding Happiness, crazy Acts stories & Catholic guilt w/ Paul George
May 2nd, 2018 | 54 mins 36 secs
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Speaker, author, podcaster and man who changed Taylor's life, Paul George joins the show this week to talk about how we all want to be happy and how to find true happiness. We also discuss friendship in Acts of the Apostles & crushing Catholic guilt.
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Episode 80: Marriage, Service & #FakeNews w/ Trent Horn
April 26th, 2018 | 54 mins 33 secs
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Trent Horn returns to discuss #FakeNews about the Saints! Also, Taylor & producer Sam discuss marriage & service with the help of Mother Theresa.
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Episode 79: Spiderman, Purgatory & Discipleship w/Everett Fritz
April 18th, 2018 | 54 mins 30 secs
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Everett Fritz explains Catholic Discipleship, we have a Spiderman References & a Purgatory joke! What more could you ask for?!?!
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Episode 78: Doubt & Falling in Love w/ "That Catholic Couple" & Katie Hartfiel
April 11th, 2018 | 54 mins 39 secs
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Two big time guests this week as we discuss doubting Thomas, Catholic dating, Catholic marriage & more!
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Episode 77: Ministry Madness Results, Best of Easter online & the Catholic Coaster
April 3rd, 2018 | 55 mins
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This week Taylor shared his favorite Easter/Triduum social media posts, unveiled the results of the #MinistryMadness bracket and had a conversation about expectations and when they aren't met with our friends from the Catholic Coaster Podcast.