Illuminating Catholics

Illuminating Catholics – shedding light to understand the modern church

Welcome to the Illuminating Catholics - podcast of the Diocese of Sioux City. Your hosts are Dawn Prosser, director of Communications for the diocese and Karmen Bower of the Faith Formation Office. We will shed light upon topics of faith in the modern church. Our guests include Catholic clergy, religious sisters and other experts in their fields to help us understand what’s happening in the church today. We will explore issues (even tough ones) and find answers to common questions about Catholicism. Thank you for joining us for today’s Illuminating Catholics – shedding light to understand the modern church. Be sure to subscribe!

We are funded in part by the generous donations to Together as One - Our Diocesan Annual Appeal.

Podcasting since 2024 • 97 episodes

Illuminating Catholics

Latest Episodes

Co-founders invitation to the 2026 Christ Our Life Conference

Co-founders of the wildly successful Christ Our Life Conference Ellen Miller and Marilyn Lane share their inspiration for the every other year conference and all the hands that make it possible. They share how they are able to attract world-cla...

September 08, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 10 • 29:25

Parish-based FOCUS missionary Gregory Kinser

Most are familiar with the FOCUS missionaries on college campuses, evangelizing college students during a critical time in their lives. St. John Paul II Parish in Carroll has hired the diocese's first parish-based FOCUS missionary - Gregory Kin...

September 01, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 9 • 25:04

Father Rosenmeyer on St. Francis and the Year of St. Francis

Father Jake Rosenmeyer, parochial vicar of Holy Trinity Parish of Webster County and St. Mary Parish in Humboldt, talks about the life of St. Francis, his devotion to this popular saint and his connection to St. Clare. Father also talks about B...

August 25, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 8 • 26:06

Agape Community Services with Rachelle Rawson

Rachelle Rawson, executive director and co-founder of the faith-based Agape Community Services based in Sioux City. She shares the mission of the organization to serve area men post-incarceration, recovering from addictions or mental illness. T...

August 18, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 7 • 29:55

Bl. Stanley Rother film with Maria Scaperlanda

María Ruiz Scaperlanda of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City - promoter of the canonization cause for Blessed Stanley Rother, martyred in mission territory of Guatemala where he was ministering in the midst of a civil war. Scaperlanda wrote...

August 11, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 6 • 33:20