Kresta in the Afternoon

As we enter more deeply into the Eucharistic Revival, it’s important to grow in our awareness of the connection between Eucharist and Reconciliation, and devotion to Jesus’ sacramental self-giving and sacramental mercy. We talk more with Tim Glemkowski.

What will the success of our Eucharistic revival look like? If Catholics are dismayed by the current crisis within the Church or in culture, then we need to look to models for how to live out our Eucharistic faith more robustly. Jared Staudt joins us with some examples of saints whose lives were shaped by the Eucharist.

Every one of us is going to die. In all likelihood, within a century of our death few people will know we existed. So if all he work for, learn, and experience simply comes to nothing, does life actually have any meaning? A Christian can answer Yes, citing the Hope of Heaven – but if Heaven is so wonderful, why waste our time on earth? As the Church has written for centuries, death is not a negation of life but a fulfillment of it. Randall Smith joins us.

The Rwandan Genocide began on April 7, 1994. During the next hundred or so days, more than 500,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered, many by their own friends and neighbors. Fr Ubald Rugirangoga lost more than eighty of his family members in the killings, but in the aftermath he experienced a renewed sense of purpose as a minister of reconciliation and a healing evangelist. Heidi Hess Saxton, coauthor of his autobiography, joins us.

As we study history, we find examples of man perpetrating acts of unspeakable evil against his fellow man. Can we believe in an all-powerful, all-loving God in the face of such horrors as the Holocaust or Rwandan Genocide? Al shares some thoughts.

This weekend we’ll celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday. The Divine Mercy has become an incredible part of the Church’s outreach to the world and was the focus of a Jubilee Year in 2016. Al shares some thoughts and we look back on a conversation with Dr. Robert Stackpole, who traces the history of Mercy from Genesis to Today.

As a young physician in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Dr. Bryan Thatcher worked day and night to improve the bodily health of his patients. He became very wealthy but was struggling interiorly. He went through the motions of church attendance, but the job stress took its toll on his marriage, and he became estranged from his wife, Susan. The two most important things in life — faith and family — were severely strained. Things began to change following a visit to Our Lady of Guadalupe and he now devotes his life to bringing the Divine Mercy to all. He shares his story.

This weekend we celebrated Divine Mercy Sunday. Al takes a look at this unique feast and its importance in such difficult times with a special focus on what John Paul II said about Divine Mercy.

Our chief political responsibility as Christians is to bear witness to the King – and not an earthly king. We have access to a different kind of power than regular

A recent Wall Street Journal poll found several trends in the American public that point to our lost sense of community. In Democracy in America, French political scholar Alexis de Tocqueville describes the tendency democracies have towards this sense of individualism. What else does he have to