{"id":43075,"date":"2026-04-06T18:18:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=43075"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:18:44","slug":"former-snl-star-actress-siobhan-fallon-hogan-explains-catholic-explosion-recalls-going-to-mass-with-chris-farley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=43075","title":{"rendered":"Former &#8216;SNL&#8217; Star, Actress Siobhan Fallon Hogan Explains Catholic Explosion; Recalls Going to Mass with Chris Farley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Former <i>Saturday Night Live<\/i> cast member Siobhan Fallon Hogan, perhaps best known for her role as Beatrice in <em>Men in Black<\/em>,\u00a0explained why Catholicism is growing in the U.S. today and also recalled attending Mass with <i>SNL<\/i> legend Chris Farley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">On her <i>Catholics and Cappuccinos<\/i> podcast, Hogan hosted <i>King of Queens<\/i> star Kevin James and the topic turned to faith and religion. During the conversation, which went viral online on the eve of Easter Sunday, Hogan spoke about her experience with Farley and her religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n<p>She told James that Farley was a \u201cvery faithful\u201d Catholic and recalled that he often attended services in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Hogan noted that Farley spent years helping a shut-in and he never advertised his charity. \u201cHe was so humble,\u201d Hogan said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Kevin James w\/ Siobhan Fallon Hogan | Catholics and Cappuccinos Ep 2\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zwFFW3enz1k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The former comedienne <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/03\/opinion\/former-snl-star-reveals-why-catholicism-is-hot-this-easter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the <em>New York\u00a0<\/em><i>Post<\/i> that her religion may not be super popular among those in the entertainment industry, but it is a source of hope and stability for her.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<p>\u201cMy business is weird. Work isn\u2019t steady. In between jobs, you have to have faith that God has a plan and something else will come along. You can\u2019t fall apart,\u201d she told the paper.<\/p>\n<p>Hogan added that the Catholic faith is growing in America today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s insanely inspiring for me to see young people coming back because you think it\u2019s falling apart,\u201d Hogan said. \u201cIt\u2019s getting stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also said that the NAPA Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing Catholicism to all sectors of our society, needs to get credit for spreading the faith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">\u201cThe NAPA Institute is where all of these actors and writers and producers have found each other,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a9d adSo\"\/>\n<p>Still, even though she speaks to faith in her podcast, she also warned lay folks not to get too deep into theology when they are talking on podcasts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEasy, easy. Don\u2019t go around thinking you\u2019re some great theologian now. Stay in your lane,\u201d she told the paper.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a>, Truth Social <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@WarnerToddHuston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WarnerToddHuston<\/a>, or at X\/Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WTHuston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WTHuston<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2026\/04\/06\/former-snl-star-actress-siobhan-fallon-hogan-explains-catholic-explosion-recalls-going-to-mass-with-chris-farley\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Saturday Night Live cast member Siobhan Fallon Hogan, perhaps best known for her role as Beatrice in Men in Black,\u00a0explained why Catholicism is growing in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}