During the Holy Week and Easter Season readings, we see many references to “the Jews.” If misunderstood, these readings can lead to harmful misconceptions about the Jewish people. This moment in the Church’s life offers us an important opportunity to reaffirm what our faith truly teaches about Jews and Judaism. Msgr. John Kasza joins us.

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Faithful reading of Holy Week Scripture leaves no room for antisemitism

Guest Info

Msgr. John Kasza is the Ecumenical and Interfaith Officer for the Archdiocese of Detroit and serves at St. Therese of Lisieux Parish in Shelby Township.

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Holocaust arose from more than a brief lapse in administrative decency – it arose because the people of Europe were slowly taught to see their Jewish neighbors as corrosive, parasitic, alien, and disposable. Once that moral infection had ripened, hatred was allowed to masquerade as civic virtue. Marcus has more.

When he was a Baptist, Steve Ray thought the Catholic view of the Eucharist was unbiblical and idolatrous. Now, it’s the center of his faith. Steve unpacks the deep Biblical meaning of the Eucharist.

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The Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network is a global community of prayer that is guided by the intentions of the Holy Father to pray for the Church. Fr. Phil Hurley joins us to talk about their work, including a personal encounter with Pope Leo and baseball, and also invites you to join him at the Catholics at the Shore conference in May.

Further Reading

Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network

Catholics at the Shore

Guest Info

Fr. Phil Hurley, S.J. is the National Director of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network-USA office. His work is wide-ranging – visioning and strategic planning, development, leading retreats around the USA, assisting with our Hearts on Fire retreats for young adults, and more. He also serves as the PWPN North American region Continental Coordinator, which includes members in the U.S., Canada, and several Caribbean countries, and is a member of the PWPN International Council.

Previously, Fr. Phil served as university chaplain at Loyola University Maryland and was pastor at St. Raphael the Archangel Catholic Church in Raleigh, NC. From 2009-2013, he served as youth and young adult director for the U.S. office of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network (Apostleship of Prayer), and helped found the Hearts on Fire retreat program based on the Spiritual Exercises.

The Book of Acts is widely recognized as a sequel to Luke’s Gospel. It picks up where the Gospel left off and is addressed to Theophilus. And as it chronicles the days of the early Church, it reminds us that the first Christians were – of course – Jews. Angela Coustley joins us to offer a Hebrew Catholic’s perspective on the Book of Acts.

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Dr. Angela Costley is a Hebrew Catholic theologian. She earned her PhD from St Patrick’s Pontifical University and is a board member of the Association of Hebrew Catholics. She is co-editor and contributor to From Sinai to Rome: Jewish Identity in the Catholic Church.

Fr. Mark Thelen has spent more than 25 years preaching the Gospel across Europe. He joins us from Austria to share his stories.

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Fr Mark Thelen is a priest of the Legion of Christ. He grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan

On the night of April the 14th, 1912, the grandest ship on Earth struck an iceberg. Within a few hours, the “unsinkable” ship lay at the bottom of the Atlantic. There’s something symbolic about the Titanic disaster that keeps it so ingrained in our collective memory. Marcus has more.

This weekend is Divine Mercy Sunday. We believe in a God who is all-Merciful, but is also perfectly Just. Do these qualities contradict each other? Michael Dauphinais is our guest.

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Dr. Michael Dauphinais serves as the Fr. Matthew Lamb Professor of Catholic Theology and the co-director of the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal at Ave Maria University. He also hosts The Catholic Theology Show podcast and enjoys teaching C.S. Lewis, the Bible, and anything on Aquinas. A grateful revert to the Catholic Church, he has been married to his beloved wife Nancy for almost thirty years. His newly co-authored book Wisdom from the Word: Biblical Answers to Ten Questions about Catholicism was published by Word on Fire Press. He has authored, co-authored, and co-edited numerous scholarly articles and books in the areas of Thomas Aquinas, the Bible, and the renewal of Catholic theology.

This Sunday’s Gospel presents us with the story of “Doubting” Thomas. We unpack the readings with Rob Corzine.

Guest Info

Rob Corzine is the Vice President of Programs for the St Paul Center for Biblical Theology

If you attended the Easter Vigil last weekend, you may have noticed the line in the Exsultet that celebrates the “necessary sin of Adam.” We typically think of Jesus’ sacrifice as the necessary response to Adam’s sin, so what about the sin itself was so necessary?