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

  • Episode 49: Anger & the Death Penalty w/Edward Feser

    September 20th, 2017  |  50 mins 37 secs
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    In this episode, I talk about my recent trip to Oklahoma City and the memorial of the OKC bombing & dealing with anger in my own life. I'm also joined by the lead Catholic scholar on the death penalty, Professor Edward Feser.

  • Episode 48: Fear, Finding Balance, Where to Pray w/ Gina Bauer & Tom Craughwell

    September 13th, 2017  |  52 mins 57 secs
    9/11, balanced life, catholic, catholic church, catholic ministry, catholic podcast, catholic prayer, catholic speaker, catholic speakers, catholicism, fear, finding balance, gina bauer, overcoming fear, prayer, taylor schroll, tom craughwell

    In this week's episode, we remember the events of 9/11 and talk about how to respond to fear. I also interview two wonderful people, Gina Bauer and Tom Craughwell! I speak to Gina about ministry, finding balance between work and home life and more. Tom and I talk about his new book "101 places to pray before you die" and share quite a few laughs!

  • BONUS Taylor's 2nd appearance on the Jennifer Fulwiler Show on Sirius XM!

    September 5th, 2017  |  23 mins 56 secs

    Such a pleasure to be invited back on to the Jenn…

  • Episode 47: First World Probs, Bad Church Music & Fishers of Men

    September 5th, 2017  |  54 mins 1 sec
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    First world problems as suffering, terrible music in Church & talking about modern dating with two lovely ladies.

  • Episode 46: Hurricane Harvey & the power of stories w/guest Eric Sammons

    August 29th, 2017  |  52 mins 34 secs
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    We discuss the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, the power of stories to lift us up & Eric Sammons discusses his new book "The Profession."

  • Episode 45: Eclipse & Men of God w/ Fr. Terry Ehrman from Notre Dame

    August 22nd, 2017  |  53 mins 40 secs
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    We talk about the once in a lifetime eclipse, producer Jake moving on & Fr. Terry Ehrman from Notre Dame discusses his new book for young men on how to live life well, make friends & live our vocations.

  • Episode 44: Scripture, RCIA and Young Adult Ministry

    August 15th, 2017  |  51 mins 4 secs
    bible app, catholic, catholic podcast, catholic scripture, catholicism, chris dowling, rcia, taylor schroll, toni hendricks, top catholic podcast, youversion

    We talk about the YouVersion Bible App and how it's helping our spiritual life. We talk to Toni Hendricks about the RCIA process & Chris Dowling about Young Adult ministry.

  • Episode 43: Gangsta to Catholic Artist, Passion & Answered Prayers w/ C2six

    August 9th, 2017  |  53 mins 31 secs
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    What an episode! Taylor shares about some answered prayer after a spiritual dry spell and interviews Catholic rapper C2Six about his conversion. This may be one of the coolest conversion stories you ever hear!

  • Episode 42: Parish Ministry, Change & Coffee w/ Joe Mastrangelo

    August 1st, 2017  |  53 mins 29 secs
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    My good ol' pal and youth ministry buddy Joe Mastrangelo drove up from Houston to join me for this whole episode. We chatted about his ministry, how his parish is doing something very different in order to evangelize their young people and what we can learn from thinking outside the box in the Church.

  • Episode 41: Summer Camp, Taylor Swift & A Packed Studio

    July 26th, 2017  |  52 mins 54 secs
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    We had a Forte Catholic record 9 people in studio! We talked about our recent Summer Camp with some of the kids who attended & their parents. We also play the game Taylor Swift or Lamentations

  • Episode 40: Youth Ministry, Evangelization & Why We're Catholic w/ Trent Horn

    July 19th, 2017  |  53 mins 59 secs
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    We answer listener questions about leading teens to Christ, Catholic parenting, evangelization & more. Trent Horn joins the show to discuss his book "Why We're Catholic."

  • BONUS Taylor's 1st Appearance on The Jennifer Fulwiler Show on The Catholic Channel

    July 12th, 2017  |  29 mins 14 secs

    What an unbelievable opportunity I had to be a gu…

  • Episode 39: Church Politics, the Mass & the Priesthood w/Brother Sean Stilson

    July 12th, 2017  |  53 mins 16 secs
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    Brother Sean Stilson on the Priesthood & Answering Listener Questions

  • Episode 38: Freedom & Thirsting for Truth w/ Marcus Guevara

    July 5th, 2017  |  53 mins 35 secs
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    Happy 4th of July! This episode aired live on Independence Day so we HAD to talk about freedom! We talk about how so many of us live in guilt and shame instead of walking in the power of the resurrected Christ when He came to set us free!

  • Episode 37: Drugs, Kings & the Sabbath w/ Taylor's Mom

    June 27th, 2017  |  54 mins 8 secs
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    My mom came to the studio! We played an impossible Bible Trivia game, talked about prayer and the difficult task of taking a Sabbath.

  • Episode 36: Pre-evangelization, Prayer & Church Camp w/ Vern Laborde

    June 20th, 2017  |  53 mins 52 secs
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    Taylor shares about the importance of pre-evangelization in bringing people to Christ & finds guidance in the Scriptures about what to do when struggling in prayer. He also is joined by Vern Laborde from Deer Creek Camp to discuss how Church Camp can change the lives of young people.