The Catholic Morning Show - 06/10/2026

On this episode of The Catholic Morning Show, Deacon Mark Campbell and Alexia Baker explore two compelling conversations at the heart of Catholic life today. John Gaffney from the Diocese of Des Moines joins to discuss a landmark shift in confirmation preparation, moving the sacrament from tenth grade to sixth grade through a new discipleship pathway model. Then, author and translator J. Stephen Russell introduces listeners to Marie Estelle Harpin, a nineteenth-century French seamstress and Eucharistic mystic whose writings have never before been available in English.