A Crappy Catholic with Mark Kwasny
by Mark Kwasny
Latest episode
Why Do Catholics Get Mad When You TRY to Be Catholic?
Why Do Catholics Get Mad When You TRY to Be Catholic?
About this podcast
A Crappy Catholic with Mark Kwasny is a story-driven podcast about faith, failure, and the ongoing experiment of trying to be a decent human being… and regularly proving otherwise.
Mark doesn’t have it figured out. In fact, most episodes start with something that went wrong—an awkward moment, a bad reaction, a quiet realization that, once again, he is the problem—and spiral from there.
Sometimes it’s about church... sometimes it’s about work, family, or the general weirdness of being alive.
Most of the time, it’s about what happens when those things collide with a conscience that won’t leave you alone.
This isn’t a theology podcast... It’s a human one.
No advice. No pretending.
Just stories, mild irritation, and the occasional glimpse of grace showing up where it probably shouldn’t.
If you’ve ever tried to do the right thing and somehow made it worse, you’ll probably feel at home here.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 41 episodes
- Why Do Catholics Get Mad When You TRY to Be Catholic? · 21 minSend us Fan Mail Why do some Catholics get irritated when you actually try to practice your faith? Attend Mass every Sunday, pray regularly, believe what the Church teaches, and…
- Apparently, You Can't Buy Heaven on Amazon · 18 minSend us Fan Mail Why do I keep thinking that one more thing will finally make me happy? A better house. A nicer car. More money. The perfect relationship. Another book. Something…
- Are You Living for God or Pleasing Everyone Else? · 25 minSend us Fan Mail Are you a people pleaser? How much of your life have you spent saying yes when you wanted to say no, keeping quiet when you had something to say, going along…
- How to Love People Without Losing Yourself · 18 minSend us Fan Mail I've been meditating on charity in Divine Intimacy, and meditation #269, "Charity Adapts Itself to Everyone," stopped me in my tracks. We're supposed to adapt…
- You Don’t Have to Earn God’s Love (But Your Brain Won’t Believe It) · 24 minSend us Fan Mail Have you ever felt like you have spent your entire life trying to earn love? Many of us learn early that acceptance seems conditional. We become performers…
- Love Your Neighbor… Even When Your Neighbor Is You · 20 minSend us Fan Mail What if the neighbor Jesus told you to love is not just the person living next door? What if that neighbor is you? For years, I thought “love your neighbor as…
- The Brochure Lied About Life (And I Bought It) · 14 minSend us Fan Mail When we're kids, we're handed an invisible brochure about life. It promises the perfect family. The perfect marriage. The perfect career. The perfect church. The…
- How to Accomplish Nothing While Being Constantly Busy · 15 minSend us Fan Mail Some people wake up, focus for eight uninterrupted hours, crush their goals, optimize their workflow, and become millionaires by age 25. I hear footsteps…
- My Toaster Needs Instructions… and I’m Not Okay With That · 13 minSend us Fan Mail It started with a toaster. A simple, innocent appliance whose only job used to be: bread goes in, toast comes out. But not anymore. In this episode, I spiral…
- We Moved to the Country… It Tried to Kill Me (Multiple Times) · 12 minSend us Fan Mail We moved to the country chasing the dream: land, peace, maybe a few chickens… and possibly a holy, wholesome life. What we got instead? Heat exhaustion, ER…
- God Understands (And Other Lies Catholics Tell Themselves) · 16 minSend us Fan Mail In this episode, I unpack how we casually ghost God while insisting we love Him — and why we’d never tolerate that behavior from a spouse, friend, or child…
- Why NFL Fans Have More Zeal Than Catholics (And Yes… I’m Calling Us Out) · 24 minSend us Fan Mail Why is it that the guy at the football stadium will take his shirt off, paint his chest, scream like a lunatic for four hours… but we Catholics can barely stay…
- Trusting in God... Kinda · 25 minSend us Fan Mail "Jesus, I trust in You." Okay, you said the words... but do you trust in Him, really? Yeah, a lot of us are like that. We say we have confidence in God. We say…
- Let the Advent Wars Begin! · 11 minSend us Fan Mail 🎄🔥 LET THE ADVENT WARS BEGIN! 🔥🎄 Welcome to the ONLY Christmas-prep video brave enough to admit what the rest of the world won’t: Advent is basically a four-week…
- Why God Might Be Wondering Why You Never Call… · 29 minSend us Fan Mail Ever feel like prayer is this super serious, complicated thing where you have to say all the right words? Nope! Prayer is basically chatting with your BFF —…
- The Truth About Being a Decent Human · 17 minSend us Fan Mail Ever wonder what it really takes to be a decent human? Spoiler: it’s not about winning every argument, getting likes, or even being perfect. In this video, we…
- Is it Worth Being Catholic? · 17 minSend us Fan Mail Ever wonder if being Catholic is actually worth all the rules, guilt, and weird traditions? Yeah… me too. But here’s the thing—being Catholic literally saved my…
- Crappy Catholic Reboot · 9 minSend us Fan Mail Hey — welcome to Crappy Catholic Reboot! In this short talk I share how I grew up Catholic but didn’t really know much about it until I started reading and…
- How’s That Conforming to Stupidity Thing Going for Ya? · 25 minSend us Fan Mail Ever feel like you're surrounded by dumb ideas... and somehow following along? Yeah, me too. This video dives into 10 hilariously painful ways we all conform to…
- Speak Your Truth! (Just not THAT truth) · 19 minSend us Fan Mail Ever feel like you’re the only one who remembers what actually happened at Thanksgiving '98? You’re not crazy, you’re just surrounded by people who prefer their…
