Please, please, please do not invite this FM Trump apologist on the podcast ever again, no matter the topic. He is as polarizing a figure as there is in the Church. He damages the name of your podcast. You and we deserve better.

Each segment was so contemporary. Life from a Catholic perspective.

I’ve been listening to this podcast since 2022. I’m an Episcopalian Christian, but very Catholic-at-heart. Listening to Heidi, Dan, and David’s take on politics and Catholicism from a progressive perspective is very refreshing. Too few faith-based podcasts do what the Francis Effect does. Peace and Good!

As a person of faith considering Catholicism, I resonate with this podcast as well as Jesuitical, Inside the Vatican, Third Space, Everything Belongs, and anything put out by Jordan Daniel Wood!

I enjoy the conversations, and am especially fond of the coverage of the hosts’ reading, viewing, and listening. I believe that catholic believers need to open their reflections to the arts and politics and pop culture. You three offer some engaging conversation. Thanks! Have a good summer.

While lamenting polarization in the church the hosts regularly use labels such as conservative, right wing, and traditional (= bad). As a post-Vatican 2, Pope Francis led, pro-life, centrist Catholic I am looking for a big tent where we can all repectfully communicate without labels and work toward an inclusive unified Church.

I would love to hear them spend an entire episode on why trans women are women and give the Catholic case for it. Then send the episode to the local bishop and see what he thinks about it.

I so appreciate you!

Well, it’s in the top two, along with Jesuitical. Fr. Dan, David, and Heidi provide a balanced and spirit-filled approach to our culture and our politics. I am so grateful for this ministry. What a blessing!

Love this podcast. As an educated Catholic woman, I really appreciate Heidi’s contributions. Other Catholic podcasts tend to include very few women or unfortunately include women who are not as knowledgeable or articulate as their male counterparts 🙁. Heidi knows her stuff and makes excellent contributions to the topics. Thank You Heidi! And the guys are great too. 👍🏻

I have really been appreciating this podcast over the past year. I have learned so much and feel like I have had a ring-side seat into the Catholic conversations going on in the USA. I wish they would broadcast more often! I am waiting impatiently for the next season to begin.

The hosts all bring interesting perspectives to questions of faith, spirituality, and the role of religion in our daily lives. I’ve learned a lot about Catholicism and Christianity generally. I think this show is a great resource for religious and non-religious people alike, to learn how to co-exist and support each other through the complicated journey of life.

This is better than a podcast, it’s guys living their lives and expressing theme selves through their vocation/personhoood using microphones to enable all of us to get better. Love it.

I appreciate the thoughtful insights and opinions of the hosts. They help me see things from a prospective that I wouldn’t have found on my own.

Many thanks to Fr. Horan and David Dault for a great podcast! I regularly recommend it to others, and it has been a great source of guidance and inspiration as a Secular Franciscan. Bless you both for your devotion, dedication and hard work. Pax et Bonum!

Sooooo....it’s a mortal sin for Trump to sign a bible, but it’s fine that Fake Frank in the Vatican validates McCarrick after Benedict demoted him. So let me get this straight: anal sex with seminarians is scriptural, but a politician’s signing of a person’s bible is heretical. Bye, bye Francis boys.

I’m Protestant, not Catholic, but I work for Catholic Sisters and I think this helps me understand their perspective. Love the hosts and the topics they cover!

I love this podcast. It challenges me to think about my faith and how I live it. It gives me a solid base in theology and I learn a lot about the why and how behind theology and church teachings. It helps me work through my own faith journey with insight and compassion.

I’m not Roman Catholic, but I have a deep respect for how the hosts’ deep faith traditions are just that - deep, with long histories of thinking about life and faith and how they connect and bring us to a place with more light. This podcast helped me become aware of an itch I had (to hear explanations of faithful concepts specifically brought to current events) and scratches it in each episode.

I have listened to the two available episodes and have truly enjoyed this podcast. Very enlightening and informative, it will get you thinking. Great job by the hosts as they tackle difficult topics with grace, knowledge, wit, and wisdom.