Catholic Influencers Podcast With Fr. Rob Galea

In this final episode of season one of the Catholic Influencer's Podcast, Fr Rob and Danii discuss their favourite episodes from season one, the release date for season two, and give a glimpse into what goes on behind the scenes of making the podcast. Support the showAn OSV Podcasts partner. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

In this episode of the Catholic Influencers Podcast Fr. Rob Galea and Danii talk discuss what the vocation to religious life looks like, especially for women and Fr Rob shares a bit about his own vocation story into the diocesan priesthood. Danii interview Sr Mel Dwyer, a Canossian Daughter of Charity, about her vocation story and what her life as a religious sister looks like. Support the showAn OSV Podcasts partner. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

In this episode of the Catholic Influencers Podcast Fr. Rob Galea and Danii talk discuss the difference between gluttony and food addiction and have an interview with Fr Ryan Rooney. Fr Rooney shares his story of his struggle with food addiction and how he found healing and is now helping others do the same. Support the showAn OSV Podcasts partner. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

In this episode of the Catholic Influencers Podcast Fr. Rob Galea and Danii talk about what Evangelical poverty is and whether of not Jesus was poor. Danii interviews Fr. Ken Barker, MGL, on his own experience of evangelical poverty, the vow of poverty taken by religious orders and how lay people can try to lead a more simple life. Support the showAn OSV Podcasts partner. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

In this episode of the Catholic Influencers Podcast Fr. Rob Galea and Danii discuss conversion, to christianity, to Catholicism and ongoing conversion in our everyday lives. Danii interviews Alyssa Frizzell, a young woman with a beautiful story conversion to Catholicism with her husband. Support the showAn OSV Podcasts partner. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

In this episode of the Catholic Influencers Podcast Fr. Rob Galea and Danii discuss the sexual abuse crisis and the Catholic Church. They talk about some of the major sexual abuse cases from around the world and discuss the Meeting on the Protection of Minors in the Church Summit that was held at the Vatican in February, 2019. Danii interviews Archbishop Charles Scicluna of the Archdiocese of Malta and the Adjunct Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith- making him the Vaticans chief investigator into sexual abuse within the Church. Archbishop Scicluna shares how thoughts on the sexual abuse crisis and what the Church is doing to ensure this can never happen again. Support the showAn OSV Podcasts partner. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

In this episode of the Catholic Influencers Podcast Fr. Rob Galea and Danii discuss mental illness. They share tehir personal stories of struggling with mental illness intheir own lives and how they look after their health and the impact faith has in suffering and recovery. Danii Interviews Fr Dan Strickland, MGL, who has his masters in Counselling and sheds some light on his experience of mental illness, what he’s observed in his work and the strengths that can come out of battling mental illness. Support the showAn OSV Podcasts partner. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

In this episode of the Catholic Influencers Podcast Fr. Rob Galea and Danii discuss addiction, how to identify addiction in your life, and ways to overcome addiction. Danii interviews Richard Gibbs from Impact Recovery, a therapeutic community in Bendigo. Richard has years of experience in walking alongside people struggling with addiction and shares the joy of freedom he gets to witness in his work. Support the showAn OSV Podcasts partner. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

In this episode of the Catholic Influencers Podcast Fr. Rob Galea and Danii discuss what the Catholic Church teaches about Divorce and annulment and why the sacrament of marriage is so important.  Danii interviews Sam Clear about his experience of going through the process of divorce and annulment. Support the showAn OSV Podcasts partner. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

Fr. Rob Galea and Danii discuss the history of priests and the reason why the Catholic Church has ordained Priests.Danii interviews Fr Junray Rayna, the parish administrator from St Kilian’s Parish in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, on his vocation story and his daily life as a young priest. Support the showAn OSV Podcasts partner. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

In this week's episode of the Catholic Influencers Podcast, Danii and Fr Rob discuss the pros and cons of social media, what the church has said about it and 5 things Catholics should consider when they use social media. Danii interviews Richcy Orozco, founds of Catholic Connect about how @catholicconnect grew into a huge online community for Catholics and some of the things he's learnt on this journey. Support the showAn OSV Podcasts partner. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

In this episode of the Catholic Influencers Podcast Fr. Rob Galea and Danii discuss what the Catholic Church and the bible teach about getting tattoos and some things that should be considered when planning to get a tattoo. Fr. Rob interviews Pastor Phillip Webb, a protestant pastor from Sydney.  Ps. Phillip completed a doctorate on Christianity and tattoos and shares his findings on the scriptural foundations and insights from interviews for his study.Support the showAn OSV Podcasts partner. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

In this episode of the Catholic Influencers Podcast Fr. Rob Galea and Danii discuss the LGBTQI+ community in the Catholic Church. Fr. Rob interviews Fr. James Martin, SJ , a Jesuit priest, editor at large of America magazine, and bestselling author, about how the Catholic Church can dialogue with and make the LGBTQI+ community feel welcomed and know they belong in the Catholic Church. Support the showAn OSV Podcasts partner. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

In this episode Fr. Rob Galea and Danii Sullivan talk about the role of women in the church, from why women can’t be ordained Catholic priests to the role of women in the bible and the context in which scripture passages regarding women were written. Fr. Rob interviews Katie Prejean, international Catholic speaker, on the challenges of being a woman in the Catholic Church and the role women need to play within the church. The interview concludes with Katie giving practical advice on how women might be heard within the church. Support the showAn OSV Podcasts partner. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

In this episode Fr. Rob Galea and Danii Sullivan talk about sharing your Catholic faith in Highschool. Fr Rob and Danii both talk about their experience of sharing their faith at school and 4 ways to share your faith in Highschool. Danii  interviews Caroline, a secondary school Student from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Caroline shares the joy and struggles she finds being a young Catholic and how she shares her faith with her peers. Support the showAn OSV Podcasts partner. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

In this episode Fr. Rob Galea and Danii Sullivan talk about Catholic education. Fr Rob and Danii both attended catholic education for their schooling and currently work closely with Catholic education staff. They share their own personal experience as well as the benefits of a Catholic education and the impact it can have on students. Fr. Rob interviews Kylie Morrisey, a secondary school teacher in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. Kylie shares why she became a religious education teacher in a Catholic school, as well as what she finds is the most important things about teaching the Catholic faith to teenagers. Support the showAn OSV Podcasts partner. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

In this episode of the Catholic Influencers Podcast Fr. Rob Galea and Danii Sullivan talk about Suffering.Danii interviews Emily Crossland, a young woman from country Victoria who shares her own journey of illness and suffering and how she is able to keep her joy and hope through physical and mental illness. Support the showAn OSV Podcasts partner. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

Fr. Rob Galea and Danii Sullivan talk about the beauty and importance of Family. They share about their own experiences of family and the impact a loving, Christ-centred family can have on the world. Fr. Rob interviews Mark and Myrna, a young married couple with five beautiful children. Mark and Myrna share the joys and challenges of having five young children and how they hope to influence their children by serving Jesus joyfully and faithfully. Support the showAn OSV Podcasts partner. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

In this episode Fr. Rob Galea and Danii Sullivan talk about youth ministry. Fr Rob and Danii have both had a lot of experience in youth ministry and share a little bit about their own personal experience and also the role that youth ministry has in the future of the church and the different types of youth minister roles there are.Fr. Rob interviews James Camden, Director of Catholic Youth Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. James shares how he ‘fell’ into youth ministry and why he stayed involved. He also shares the personal boundaries he has created to create a balance between his role as a youth minister and his vocation as a husband and father. Support the showAn OSV Podcasts partner. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

Fr. Rob Galea and Danii Sullivan talk about the importance of authentic witness, and the role of the church to evangelise and spread the gospel message. Fr. Rob interviews Gary Pinto on how he lives out his life in a true and authentic way in his role as a well known musician in a secular industry.  Support the showAn OSV Podcasts partner. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.