Forte Catholic - Episodes Tagged with “Catholic Marriage”

431: Catholic Speed Dating w/ Taylor O'Brien

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 01:00:00 -0500

Many Catholics are struggling to find a spouse in today's modern dating culture, but Candid is a new fun way to meet people that blends the old school conversation with the new school technology available to us.

This week you get not one but TWO Taylors and we are joined by the founder of Candid, an online dating site that plays matchmaker for Catholics through their online speed dating platform. I love this idea! It gets past the simple swipe left/swipe right monotony to having real conversations with other single Catholics to see if there's a spark. If you're single, I highly recommend Candid! If you're married like me, this is a great suggestion for the Catholics in your life looking for love!

Find out more at https://www.candiddating.net/

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418: Communion Services, Convalidations & Impatience w/ Fr. Anthony Sciarappa

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 09:00:00 -0500

This one is for the Catholic nerds, anyone who has ever gotten bored in Mass & the ones whose anger problems you thought you had under control but...recently realized you didn't.

The Prodigal Father returns to argue with Taylor about communion services, explain convalidations & laugh at Taylor's flaws. It's incredible!

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377: GOF Wedding, Internet Friends & Long Homilies w/ Allison Sullivan

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 01:00:00 -0600

Taylor shares about he and his wife's recent trip to North Carolina for the Game of Favorites wedding between our friends Peter and Yenza. They met dozens of internet friends in person for the first time, had a tremendous time celebrating the newlyweds & some fancy food(that made Taylor realize he's an idiot!) This leads to Allison sharing about her own wedding, some hilarious stories of her kids in Mass & Schitt's Creek(of course!).

Taylor also shares about one of the longest homilies he's ever heard and some of the strangest things he saw at a recent Mass. It's like they did EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to make the Mass a hostage situation.

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365: Working Together & Finding Love w/ Sarah Allen

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 01:00:00 -0600

Taylor is joined by his friend & co-worker Sarah Allen this week. She started working with Forte Catholic earlier this year helping edit podcasts. This is now their second time working together so Sarah shares what it's like to work with Taylor, how it's different than the first time & gives a glimpse into life behind the scenes here.

Sarah also got married earlier this year (yay!). She shares the cool story of how she met her husband, how the early months of marriage have gone & Taylor's role at her wedding. They also discuss people getting married later, the lack of young people going on dates & young Catholic ladies longing for marriage.

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Editing & Episode art by Sarah Allen
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341: Vacation, Graduation & Marriage Prep w/ Kathryn Whitaker

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 01:00:00 -0500

We're back! After taking the week off for family vacation, Taylor is back with Kathryn Whitaker. She just had multiple graduations in her family so she shares about the excitement and emotions of the past few weeks. Taylor relays how his family vacation went and how it reminded him of the importance of slowing down and reconnecting with what matters.

To close the show, Taylor & Kathryn both share about their experiences of being mentor couples for engaged couples. Taylor & his wife are currently working with their second couple while Kathryn & her husband have worked with TEN! They discuss what works in marriage prep, what annoys them and what is often lacking.

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Episode art by Sarah Allen
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340: Tragedy Strikes Again & Valuing Marriage w/ Allison Sullivan

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 24 May 2023 01:00:00 -0500

It's been a wild couple of months for the Forte Catholic podcast. The highest of highs and the lowest of lows. After some big wins, this was another tough week with Taylor's youngest breaking her arm at school and needing surgery at Texas Children's. He shares the story and Allison guides the conversation on how he is responding and how to navigate difficult times as a Catholic.

In the next segment, Taylor asks Allison some "gotcha" questions about marriage that stir the pot and they end up accidentally talking about privilege, life insurance & how to value our spouses more.

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297: Chaotic Energy, Marriage & Saint Miracles w/JMJ Missions & Allison Sullivan

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 01:00:00 -0500

Allison Sullivan cohosts with Taylor Schroll with the most chaotic episode they've ever done together! They were all over the place & got increasingly grumpy with each other...which they realized was due to them both being hangry. Along the way they tackle work/life balance, professional success, meeting your heroes, marriage and much more.

Our guests this week are the founders of JMJ Missions. They are content creators, speakers & share their favorite saint miracle stories. Check out their podcast wherever you enjoy podcasts.

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127: Memento Mori, Ministry Madness & Paul George

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:00:00 -0500

Jon Blevins co-hosts this week as we talk updates to the bracket, Memento Mori and are joined by Paul George to talk marriage.

The 3rd annual Ministry Madness Bracket is here! This is a voteable bracket on which Catholic ministry leaders would win in a legal boxing match all decided by you, the listener. Head to MinistryMadness.com for more info and to cast your votes now!

We loved our conversation with Paul! One of my biggest issues with how I have seen most marriage prep work is that a picture is cast that everything is going to be beautiful and rosy. Yes, marriage is a beautiful sacrament and gift, but its also hard. Paul hits this right on the head in a very open and honest conversation between the three of us. Find more from Paul at DiscoverTheArtOfLiving.com.

In the final segment, Jon and Taylor discuss what Memento Mori means, our previous misconceptions of it and how it is helpful in the spiritual life, especially during Lent.

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Special Guest: Paul George.

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Episode 84: Ascension Assumptions, Desire for Marriage & Biblical Kings Game

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 23 May 2018 11:00:00 -0500

This week's show kicks off with silly thoughts on the Ascension as Taylor's imagination runs wild.

In the second and third segment, we are joined by the one and only Josh Calhoun on his holy desire for marriage and what that looks like as a single man. We also play the “Stranger Kings” game (from DownloadYouthMinistry.com) where we have to identify which king played a role is some bizarre stories from the Old Testament.

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Episode 80: Marriage, Service & #FakeNews w/ Trent Horn

Taylor Schroll — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 07:00:00 -0500

This week, producer Sam picks from a plethora of topics! She chose marriage and service....so that is what we talked about!

We are also joined by regular guest Trent Horn as he sets the record straight on #FakeNews about the saints! We go through some common sayings attributed to saints or the Bible that aren't actually real. For more on the topic, check out his newest book "What the Saints Never Said: Pious Misquotes and the Subtle Heresies They Teach You."

Next week, YOU decide the topic! Leave a comment in an iTunes review of which of the following topics you would like to hear about next or let Taylor know on social media

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Episode 78: Doubt & Falling in Love w/ "That Catholic Couple" & Katie Hartfiel

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:00:00 -0500

We kicked off this week's show in interesting fashion(hint: Taylor lost his voice). So producer Sam helped him along in the first segment in a discussion of the story of doubting Thomas, the power of art and how Taylor is looking at the story completely differently now.

We also have two big time guests this week!

In the second segment, we are joined by Katie Hartfiel, a popular speaker and author and one of Taylor's newest friends. She shares the powerful story of how her and her husband met and fell in love. Everyone in the studio got goosebumps when we heard it because of how it exemplifies the power of prayer. If you like the story, you can hear more in her book "Woman in Love" or buy it for a friend. She also shares about another book she just released on the Marian consecration prayer called "Totus Tuus"

In the final segment, we are joined by Daniel Glaze from "That Catholic Couple," one of the leading Catholic YouTube channels. We talked about how they got started, the greatest moments in the show's history, donuts, him losing to his wife in #MinistryMadness and how they deal with haters.

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Special Guest: Katie Hartfiel.

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Ep 63 Part 1-Marriage & Parenting w/Chuck & Annie of the Salt & Light Podcast

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 11:00:00 -0600

We split this episode into two parts as the second contains full spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

But this first half is two segments with my new friends Chuck and Annie Fulkerson: hosts of the Salt and Light Podcast. We became fans of each others shows months ago and instant social media friends and have been planning being on each other's shows for quite some time and it finally happened!

In the first segment, we get to know them and their podcast and hear how they have grown in their faith through parenting and marriage.

In the second segment, I put their marriage to the test in "Sync'd Up: Christmas Edition" and then we turn them against each other in the newest version of "Star Wars or Scripture."

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Episode 25: Rose Sweet Co-Hosts to talk about Marriage, Divorce & Annulments

Taylor Schroll — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500

We did something special for the 25th episode of the show. Instead of having a guest for 18 minutes in the second segment like normal, I had Rose Sweet as my guest co-host for the entire hour!

The primary reason for having her on the show was to talk about the difficult subject of marriage, divorce and annulments. She has been a speaker and author on the topic for over 25 years and has great personal insight to go along with her deep knowledge of Catholic theology on the issue.

So whether you are a single person wanting to get married at some point, struggling in a current relationship or have felt the pain of divorce in family or friends, this podcast will help you focus on the truths and mercy of Catholic teaching as well as dispel common misconceptions about the church's view on divorce and annulment.

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