This season of CIOT centers on musicians and their work. Guests from a range of musical paths share how they understand their craft, how they lead worship, and how their approaches differ. A season about sound, practice, and faith lived through music.

Season three of CIOT brought conversations shaped by real questions, real stories, and ordinary encounters with grace. In this final episode, Fr Jack reflects on the themes, voices, and moments that defined the season and what they revealed about faith lived in everyday life.

Valerie Stivers built her career in cultural journalism, beginning as an intern at a major fashion magazine and later working as a sex columnist for the Moscow based alternative paper The Exile, editing Time Out New York, and writing as a freelance journalist for numerous publications. Raised in an atheist family, she did not arrive at faith through argument or study. Instead, a personal experience led her directly and without hesitation into the Catholic Church. In this episode, Valerie reflects on that moment, her life as a writer, and what it meant to follow something she did not expect.

Troy never expected to become Catholic. A friendship opened the door. Hearing Bishop Barron teach on the Eucharist pushed it wide. That moment became a turning point in his discernment and led him into the Church. He and his husband later married outside the Church and continue living as Catholics. This episode looks at the steps that shaped his story.

Advent invites us into a kind of wilderness. Not dramatic, just honest. A place where waiting becomes its own teacher. In this bonus conversation, Fr Jack talks about how God meets us when the path feels quiet and unfinished.

Jesse Anderson joins Fr Jack to share his journey from being a lukewarm Lutheran to finding a deeper home in the Catholic Church. His story is honest and down-to-earth shaped by questions friendship and the slow awakening of a faith that finally felt alive.It’s a conversation about searching surrender and discovering a place where his heart could truly burn with conviction.I hope you like this conversation. I certainly did.

Dawn Eden Goldstein joins Fr Jack on Catholics in Ordinary Time to share her journey from the world of rock journalism to a deep and grounded Catholic faith. Her story moves through music, longing, and discovery as she finds her way home in the Church.

It’s a conversation about listening, transformation, and the surprising paths that lead us into the light.

I hope you like this conversation. I certainly did.

MacLean Andrews joins Fr Jack to share the unexpected path that led him into the Catholic Church. What started as “pretending” to be Catholic at a Catholic school slowly became an honest search for truth. Over time the questions deepened the desire grew and what once felt like a disguise turned into a real journey of faith.

From non denominational roots to discerning with the Jesuits MacLean’s story is full of surprises sincerity and the quiet ways grace works on a heart over time.

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Cameron Edman’s journey into the Catholic Church began with curiosity and conversation. What started through friendship grew into a search for truth that was met with patience, wisdom, and unexpected grace.

In this episode of Catholics in Ordinary Time, Cameron shares how questions became a bridge and how gentle guidance helped him find his way home.

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Deacon Mac Chester joins Fr Jack on Catholics in Ordinary Time to share his story of returning to the Catholic Church after time away. His journey isn’t about conversion from something else but about rediscovering what was there all along, faith, community, and the quiet pull of grace.It’s a story about coming back home, seeing the Church with new eyes, and realizing that sometimes the road away becomes the way back.I hope you like this conversation I certainly did

Sara Bryan joins Fr Jack to share how she was moved by the beauty and love she found in the Catholic Church. Raised Protestant, Sara began seeking the Church out of curiosity but what she discovered was a sense of home she didn’t expect.

This episode of Catholics in Ordinary Time is a story about grace, belonging, and the gentle pull of love that leads a heart toward faith.

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Fr Jack kicks off a new season of Catholics in Ordinary Time focused on converts, people who found their way into the Catholic Church from all kinds of places and stories.He shares what to expect this season and why these journeys matter for all of us.I hope you like this conversation I certainly did.

As Season 2 of Catholics in Ordinary Time comes to a close, Fr Jack looks back on the conversations that shaped this season; the courage, honesty, and hope shared by every guest who chose to stay in dialogue with the Church.

He reflects on what he’s learned, what’s still stirring in his heart, and what’s coming next for Catholics in Ordinary Time.

It’s not goodbye... it’s see you soon!

Lindsey Horvath is a public servant and advocate rooted in faith. In this episode of Catholics in Ordinary Time, Lindsey shares with Fr. Jack how her Catholic upbringing shaped her, how her beliefs inform her work, and how she interprets her calling in a world full of questions.This is a conversation about integrity, hope, and what it looks like to live faith in the public sphere.I hope you like this conversation. I certainly did.

Eve Tushnet is an author, speaker, and thinker whose life and witness explore what it means to live with both desire and fidelity. In this conversation with Fr Jack on Catholics in Ordinary Time, she shares how she navigates her attraction by embracing celibacy while also walking alongside a romantic partner. They talk about tension, identity, longing, and the grace of staying in relationship with God and others.

It’s a conversation about loving well, staying true, and letting faith guide where the heart leads.

I hope you like this conversation. I certainly did.

Kate Carter joins Fr Jack on Catholics in Ordinary Time to share her journey of faith and life in the Church. With honesty and warmth, she reflects on the experiences that have shaped her, the questions that continue to guide her, and the hope she holds for the future of the Church.

It is a conversation about resilience, belonging, and the courage to remain rooted in faith even when the path is complex.

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Ann Marie Pace is a writer and director based in Los Angeles—Mexican American and proud of it, shaped by a life spent exploring identity. From her thesis film shot in the Amazon to directing for Disney+, she tells stories that bridge worlds and make space for voices that don’t always see themselves reflected.

In this episode of Catholics in Ordinary Time, Ann Marie sits down with Fr Jack to talk about the art of belonging, resilience, and finding your truth when you don’t fit in just one box. It’s a conversation about the power of storytelling to heal, connect, and invite us home.

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Alyssa Duffner shares with Fr Jack her journey of holding faith and identity together and why she continues to find a home in the Catholic Church. It is a conversation about honesty, resilience, and the hope for a community where all know they belong.

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Yunuen Trujillo is a Catholic lay minister attorney and author of LGBT Catholics: A Guide to Inclusive Ministry She brings her faith into action through her work with immigrant rights LGBTQ ministry and community building in Los Angeles

In this episode of Catholics in Ordinary Time Yunuen sits down with Fr Jack to share her story of faith her life in the Church and the ways she works to create spaces of welcome and belonging

It’s a conversation about resilience advocacy and staying rooted in faith even when the path is complicated

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In the first episode of Season 2, Fr Jack opens the door to a new series of conversations. This season of Catholics in Ordinary Time is about queer women who have chosen to remain in the Catholic Church. Some have found ways to adjust their lives to Church teaching. Others stay while holding tension with it.

Through these voices, the season will explore what it means to belong, to question, and to hold faith in a community that doesn’t always feel simple or easy.

This is not about giving all the answers. It is about listening with honesty, humility, and hope.

I hope you like this conversation. I certainly did.