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In this episode of the Gotta Be Saints Podcast, I sit down with Steph Stampfer, a Catholic writer and podcaster living in Vienna, to share her powerful and honest journey to the Catholic faith. Steph’s story moves through spiritual searching, travel, Eastern spirituality, New Age practices, and deep interior brokenness—before ultimately leading her home to Christ and the Catholic Church.

This conversation is a testimony to the patience of God, the power of intercessory prayer, the role of Our Lady in conversion, and the beauty of simply sitting with Jesus and allowing Him to do the work.

In This Episode, We Discuss:

• Growing up in Germany and early questions about love, belonging, and meaning
• Searching for truth through travel, Buddhism, and meditation
• Life in Berlin and immersion in New Age and esoteric spirituality
• The danger of blending spiritualities and creating a “custom” faith
• Psychedelic experiences and the reality of the spiritual world
• Hitting rock bottom and feeling deeply lost
• A providential move into the home of a faithful Catholic woman
• The quiet power of the Rosary and intercessory prayer
• Marian consecration and the breaking of spiritual strongholds
• Encountering Jesus as a Person—not an idea
• Healing from loneliness, confusion, and interior unrest
• Falling in love with Scripture, the Eucharist, and adoration
• Embracing the Catholic Church as home
• Learning to let God work rather than striving on our own
• Why silence and time before the Lord changes everything

About the Guest

Steph Stampfer lives in Vienna, Austria, where she works as a Catholic writer and hosts a podcast focused on sharing the faith boldly and without apology. Her work centers on authentic conversion, prayer, and helping others encounter Jesus Christ in a real and personal way.

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In this episode of the Gotta Be Saints Podcast, I sit down with Dr. George Delgado, a family physician and one of the pioneers of abortion pill reversal (APR), to talk about the science, the stories, and the hope behind a medical protocol that gives women a second chance after beginning a chemical abortion.

Dr. Delgado is the founder of the Abortion Pill Reversal Network and the author of Abortion Pill Reversal: A Second Chance at Choice. As chemical abortions now account for the majority of abortions in the United States, APR has become an increasingly urgent and misunderstood topic. This conversation walks through what APR actually is, how it works medically, why it is opposed by powerful institutions, and what’s at stake for women and children.

Most importantly, this episode centers the human reality: women who regret their decision, reach out for help, and discover that it is not too late.

In This Episode, We Discuss

• What a chemical (medication) abortion is and how it works
• The role of progesterone in sustaining pregnancy
• How abortion pill reversal works medically and why it makes sense biologically
• Why regret often sets in immediately after taking the first abortion pill
• Common misconceptions about APR and what the peer-reviewed evidence actually shows
• Claims that APR is “unproven” or “dangerous” and how the data responds
• The growing risks of telehealth and mail-order abortions
• Why abortion pill reversal threatens the abortion industry’s narrative
• How APR can be a redemptive turning point in a woman’s life
• Why APR may be the “tip of the spear” in the pro-life movement today
• What needs to change in medicine, policy, and public awareness going forward

About the Guest

Dr. George Delgado is a family physician based in California and one of the earliest doctors to develop and study abortion pill reversal. He has published multiple peer-reviewed studies on APR and founded the Steno Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to education, awareness, and research around abortion pill reversal. The Institute is named after Blessed Nicholas Steno, a physician and Catholic convert.

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📘 Abortion Pill Reversal: A Second Chance at Choice
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• Ignatius Press
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• StenoInstitute.org

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In this episode of the Gotta Be Saints Podcast, I’m joined by Dr. Angela Costley, a Hebrew Catholic theologian and Scripture professor based in the UK, to talk about what it means to be both Jewish and Catholic—not as a contradiction, but as a fulfillment.

We discuss why the phrase “Jewish Catholic” can sound confusing at first, how the Church is grafted onto the “olive tree” of Israel (Romans 9–11), what Vatican II helped recover about the Church’s relationship to the Jewish people, and why Hebrew Catholics need space to live their Jewish identity faithfully within the Church.

This conversation draws from Dr. Costley’s work as co-editor of From Sinai to Rome: Jewish Identity in the Catholic Church—a book that doesn’t shy away from the painful history of Jewish-Catholic relations, while also offering real hope for the future.

About Dr. Angela Costley

• Hebrew Catholic theologian based in the UK
• Scripture professor at St Mary’s College (seminary)
• Studied at Durham, Oxford, and earned her PhD at the Pontifical University in Maynooth
• Board member of the Association of Hebrew Catholics

In this episode, we talk about:

• What a “Jewish Catholic” is (and why it isn’t a contradiction)
• Why Catholicism can be understood as the heir of “Temple Judaism” fulfilled in Christ
• The Mass and the fulfillment of temple worship and offerings
• “Salvation comes from the Jews” (John 4:22) and what Catholics should do with that
• Romans 9–11 and the image of the olive tree (Israel as root; Gentiles grafted in)
• Why the Church isn’t a “new Israel,” but Israel in fulfillment
• Jewish identity as personal and collective (and why assimilation can be spiritually damaging)
• The Association of Hebrew Catholics and the need for community and witness
• Facing hard history: antisemitism, misunderstandings, and doctrinal development
• Why friendship and dialogue matter for healing and authentic witness today
• Hope in Romans 11 (“all Israel will be saved”) and what that means going forward
• Dr. Costley’s “Mount Rushmore of saints,” her hoped-for patronage, and how to pray for her

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📘 From Sinai to Rome: Jewish Identity in the Catholic Church (Ignatius Press)
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