Become Who You Are

Updated: 08 May 2025 • 620 episodes
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What’s the meaning and purpose of my life? What is my true identity? Why were we created male and female? How do I find happiness, joy and peace? How do I find love that lasts, forever? These are the timeless questions of the human heart. Join Jack Rigert and his guests for lively insights, reading the signs of our times through the lens of Catholic Teaching and the insights of Saint John Paul ll to guide us. Saint Catherine of Siena said "Become who you are and you would set the world on fire". 

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Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Dr. Stacey Trasancos never planned to write a book about IVF, but with President Trump promising to expand access to IVF, she felt compelled to explain why artificial reproduction conflicts with Christian teaching on human dignity and procreation.  The heart of the issue

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Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The human heart has an extraordinary capacity for resilience. Even in our current era—where young men grow up bombarded by toxic influences that rob their innocence and shatter their moral imagination—something remarkable is happening. They"re awakening to the sacred. Mik

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Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The battle for religious freedom has reached new heights in Australia as New South Wales enacts legislation making it illegal to pray with someone about their sexuality—even if they explicitly request such prayer. Kurt Mahlburg, Australian writer and senior editor at The

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Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Author Jim Valois takes us on a journey through the dangerous waters of modernism – not the technological or cultural kind, but the theological heresy that threatens to undermine Catholic teaching at its core. For young people seeking solid ground in a world of shifting v

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Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Marriage as a divine sacrament is radically misunderstood in our secular age. While many see it merely as a social contract or romantic bond, its true nature runs infinitely deeper – it"s a visible sign that reveals God"s invisible mystery of Trinitarian love. Young peopl

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Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” "Who"s going to save the Church? Not the bishops, not the priests, not the religious. It"s up to you, the lay people." These prophetic words from Bishop Fulton Sheen echo throughout my conversation with Professor Janet Smith, whose retirement plans gave way to a renewed m

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