Yes Catholic

Carolina's story began before she was born. Three months into her mother's pregnancy, doctors found a serious heart condition and warned that mother and baby might not both survive. Her family consecrated her life to Our Lady, and her grandmother quietly promised that if all went well, Carolina would be baptized at the Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida in Brazil. Carolina was born perfectly healthy. She grew up "really Catholic," but God felt more like a respected teacher than a friend she kn...

Audrey grew up Catholic in the Philippines. She went to Mass, served at multiple parishes, and prayed her rosaries, but she still felt disconnected from God. Years of bullying left her a perfectionist who wore a different mask for everyone, always trying to be liked and always afraid of falling short. In this episode of Yes Catholic, Audrey tells David how a simple prayer led to an unexpected encounter with Catholic Christian Outreach on her university campus just two days later. She describe...

What happens when the life you've built on lies falls apart on the holiest week of the year? John Edwards grew up a devoted Baptist kid in Memphis, then joined a fraternity in college, stopped going to church, and began a 17-year addiction to cocaine, alcohol and pornography. On the outside he was a top salesman at a Fortune 250 company. On the inside he was carrying father wounds, a deep sense of inadequacy, and a secret his wife didn't know. After his mother's death left him angry at God, J...

From a small-town Louisiana teen torn between band life and a real call to holiness, he shares how grief, prayer, and music collided and redirected his life toward Jesus. What starts as a teenage encounter at a prayer meeting quickly becomes a story of surrender, heartbreak, and vocation. Josh opens up about the accident that took his friends life, the funeral-home moment that forced him to answer the question of who he would follow, and the decision that changed his songs from writing about ...

Nico Zhomwa moved from Zimbabwe to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan for grad school. He shares how COVID pushed him to make his faith his own, a chance encounter that connected him to CCO, and how a "golden ticket" at Rise Up led him to discern a call to missionary work he never saw coming. From a chapel notebook full of fears to a hard conversation with his dad, it's a story about identity, discernment, and learning that God's plan is better than the one we write for ourselves. "You are a beloved son...