A sound-rich Catholic podcast with compelling stories, hosted by Tony Ganzer.
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The Saints of Compiègne and martyrs of Catholic France
The tomb of St. Kateri Tekakwitha and the faith of Mohawk Catholics
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The Faith Full Catholic Podcast tells true stories about the Catholic faith in today’s world through compelling, high-quality, narrative storytelling.
We won First Place for “Best Religion Podcast” from the Religion News Association in 2025, and have been featured in an Our Sunday Visitor article on quality Catholic podcasts. Plus, we’ve won four Gabriel Awards from the Catholic Media Association in 2020, 2021, and 2023. (For Episode 6, Episode 9, Episode 15 and as a runner-up for best podcast in 2023!)
The independent, listener-supported project is hosted and produced by Tony Ganzer. He spent nearly two decades as a public radio host in Europe and the US, and is a Catholic by choice and upbringing. His reporting took him from post-revolutionary Cairo, to Switzerland’s first stand-alone Hindu temple; from interviews with bank CEOs and Nobel laureates, to conversations with asylum seekers.
Religion and faith have always played an important role in his reporting, and the Faith Full project brings particular focus to stories connected to the Catholic faith.
A story from our first episode about a chance encounter in a Denny’s might help set the table for you, and you can get a more personal insight into the project in this episode. Finally, you might pray a virtual Rosary and hear about the podcast in this episode of Many Hail Marys at a Time.
‘The best antidotes to falsehoods are not strategies, but people: people who are not greedy but ready to listen, people who make the effort to engage in sincere dialogue so that the truth can emerge; people who are attracted by goodness and take responsibility for how they use language..’
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This cemetery in northern France tells us something about Catholicism in this country. I’ve been here many times over the last 15 years, a tiny slice of this village’s lifetime, stretching to the 12th century. In 2013, broken crucifixes and stones littered the grounds of St. Martin church. Flowers and vegetation reclaimed many plots, and …
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You may not realize it, but the Catholic faith was one of the great targets of the French Revolution, birthing martyrs and saints from persecution and bloodshed. Sixteen Carmelite nuns were beheaded in 1794 for remaining true to their vows, and nothing more. During the so-called Reign of Terror which saw revolutionaries sniffing out real …
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My house almost caught fire, and I had no idea of the danger until it was over, pieced together by burn marks on a wall and other clues around an old boiler system. I called a specialist to look at it. He said bluntly: he’s come to believe things happen for a reason, and our …
