Fr. Anthony, Liv & Jon all join the show together for the first time to celebrate our 200th episode! We take some time to get to know each other and air greivances about working with Taylor. Then Taylor decides which cohost he likes the best by making them all play "Freestyle Preaching," & Fr. Anthony comes up with a segment of ranking things where we all argue best movies franchises, video games and BBQ.
The game created to break Fr. Anthony "Freestyle Preaching" is unleashed upon him for the first time. Taylor shares about his first experience back to Confession and Mass since the pandemic began. Episode also includes rants about dumb "small t" traditions, scolding people in Church, like meaning more than love and so much more!
Taylor and Liv share memories from specific years in their life and how these and other memories shaped who they are and how they can help us through tough times. Joe Melendrez joins the show to discuss baldness, moles, workaholism and more. We close the show by introducing a BRAND NEW SEGMENT called Freestyle Preaching.
Jon "Bearded" Blevins cohosts and Taylor shares some recent reviews of the show and how he gets in trouble on the internet. Professional counselor Kelsey Johnson joins the show in studio to chat about mental health, especially in this strange time. Jon gets his first crack at the new "Chicken Soup for the Schroll" segment and the guys share a few heartwarming stories.
Fr. Anthony cohosts and the show is hilarious from the start! Taylor throws him off within seconds and then they discuss the very important topics of being angry when God shows up and priests listening to love songs. Our guests this week are the wonderful founders of Catholic Christian Outreach, André & Angèle Regnier The show ends with the anticipated debut of the "Chicken Soup for the Schroll" segment.
After taking a week off for vacation, Forte Catholic is back with a bang! This is one of the best shows we've had in quite some time. Liv Harrison cohosts as Taylor shares about his vacation and they share their love for Hamilton. Patrick Neve of the Crunch podcast joins the show to help Taylor mess with Liv and share about his new endeavor: Bonaventure's Book Club.
Bearded Blevins and Taylor have a bone to pick with each other and end up discussing love languages and the over-emphasis of busyness. Sam Rocha joins the show for a follow-up conversation on his recent debate with Trent Horn about socialism.
Taylor compliments Fr. Anthony to start the show so he knew he was in for a wild show. They chat family, parenthood, & people saying dumb things so Fr. Harrison Ayre comes to save the day by sharing how we can all be smarter. Enjoy this episode of Clerically Forte!
Liv Harrison announces an exciting new venture and a beautiful story about her parents. Taylor shares his "accomplishments" & Fr. Darryl Millette joins the show to have some fun with us!
It's been a very difficult week for our country. This was a tough one to record but we wanted to share our hearts and thoughts with our community in response to the tragedy of George Floyd's death. Jon Blevins joins Taylor to discuss how we're feeling about the whole situation. Meg Hunter-Kilmer joins to share her radical calling from the Lord and about some of her favorite saints of color.
After a hectic week, Taylor decides to go solo on an episode for the first time since 2017. He's joined in the second segment by Fr. Cassidy Stinson for a conversation on crushing demons and the differences between how priests are trained now and back in the day.
HUGE NEWS for Taylor and Forte Catholic in the first segment of today's show! Fr. Anthony cohosts to help reveal the news, play the revived "Life Verse" game and speak with Coach Anthony Simon about Fortitude.
Liv Harrison cohosts and said the most ridiculous thing on the internet so it made Taylor bring back a classic game. They also discuss learning through failure with the help of some of our greatest stories and Fr. Agustino joins the show to share his corazon with us.
Taylor and Beardless Blevins discuss the two holidays of the week, why some people refuse to enjoy their Catholicism, how the road to Emmaus is a perfect story for us in quarantine and Pete Burak shares about success in young adult ministry.
Allison Sullivan is now TikTok famous. Meanwhile Taylor’s world is falling apart and everyone seems to be enjoying it lol. Koji de Ramos is our guest and shares how he’s using his awesome creative gifts to build the culture with The Culture Project. Allison and Taylor argue about how to pronounce words and then segue seamlessly into discussing one of the last chapters of John’s Gospel.
Fr. Anthony and Taylor talk video games and an update on Taylor’s spiritual and physical health(including an impromptu live weighing). Taylor kinda goes off the rails at some point and it’s fun to hear Fr. Anthony try to reign him in. Comedian Aaron Weber rejoins the show to bring us some deep, hearty laughter :)
Liv Harrison joins Taylor to share their strange experiences of Holy Week and play a new game. Comedian Jeremy McLellan rejoins the show to bring us joy. Happy Easter from all of us at Forte Catholic! :)
Jon Blevins cohosts and we find ourselves in the middle of a cancelled Holy Week. We chat about a couple ways we're trying to enter in to the beauty of this week even though we're stuck at home. We’re joined by Lauren Montgomery of the Catholic Commons podcast on this forced Monasticism we find ourselves in(well not Taylor...but whatevs lol).
Allison Sullivan has become a TikTok mom during the quarantine, Taylor is identifying with antagonists in Scripture way too much and Edmund Mitchell shares his internal monologue with us. We hope this brings you joy in the midst of the craziness :)
Taylor and Fr. Anthony have a friend fight. Father tries to explain two terrible sermons and Taylor Tripodi joins the show to discuss surrender…and they all argue about who’s senior prom was worse.
