Mary Eberstadt, Primal Screams: Increasing rise of depression, anxiety, loneliness, anger, violent behavior and self-harm especially among young people; identity groups tied to politics. Culture growing into increasingly potent forces; loss of family caused widespread scattering & unraveling; building family culture is antidote. Changing culture: bringing us back to family. With raw emotion at the […]

Fr. Robert Gahl: New Harvard course on Human Flourishing: Self-Mastery, Sexuality, and Neuroscience: The spread of “well being”; change comes with more catechesis; more reverence shown to the Blessed Sacrament. Pope Francis struggles to fix finances at Holy See; Pope’s remarks about Americans who oppose, criticize him (he welcomes it); thoughts on newly named Cardinal-elects […]

Fr. Robert Spitzer: ‘The Essence of Things’: California legislation aims to provide abortion pills for college students in public University systems. Caller, Joanne: Maine has done this and now the abortion pills are available via vending machines. Catholics are permitted to believe Evolutionary Theory; however, there is “the one thing we can’t believe as faithful […]

Msgr. Stuart Swetland: Labor Day week, focus on the dignity of work, right to work, Church teachings about labor; new academic year, school policy issues; merits of a Catholic education, school vouchers, school choice. Unions and just wage: Catholic social teaching takes the ancient truths of faith and moral law and applies them to what […]

Sally Read: A call to faith in a broken world; God is with us always, even in suffering, spiritual dryness, depression; a mother’s loving response to a doubting daughter speaks to any believer. Sally’s conversion from atheism to Catholicism was witnessed by her four-year old daughter Flo. Even as an atheist, Sally was always captivated […]

Today’s broadcast is an encore that originally aired 7/12/19 Dr. Tod Worner: ‘Evangelization & Culture’, Word on Fire Institute new journal to engage the secular culture in dialogue about permanent things; intentionally lead with beauty, engage an uncertain culture & offer witness to the intellectual & mystical richness of the Catholic faith John-Mark Miravalle: ‘Beauty: […]

Carrie Severino: ‘Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court’ on NYT bestseller list; definitive account of the Kavanaugh confirmation process; Americans want the truth of what’s happening to the judicial process as it gets worse, more politically partisan. Prof. Dwight Duncan: The state of the Supreme Court, how the […]

Chris Stefanick: CHOSEN Confirmation program successful in preparing kids for college & future challenges in life, keeping them engaged in the faith long after Confirmation; why it’s so effective in keeping kids Catholic, uniting people of all ages in the Church. Chosen doesn’t hold back with answers or the Catholic moral teaching; how can your […]

Terry Beatley: Former abortionist Bernard Nathanson’s legacy: mission to reveal lies NARAL and abortion movement were founded on, convert Americans; out of 8 point strategy, the “Catholic Strategy” was most important, but can now be used in reverse to overturn abortion laws, make it unacceptable.  American Catholics must show we want a pro life America. […]

Tony Sands, Right to Life League of Southern California: Legislation in California (SB24) seeking to make abortion pills available on campuses of California State Universities and Universities of California; initial and ongoing funding exclusively earmarked for abortion. Gov Jerry Brown vetoed original abortion pill legislation over concerns of long term liability; access to abortion already […]