Kresta in the Afternoon

We are living at a time when we can barely agree what words like “race” and “justice mean,” much less deal with the issues surrounding these concepts. When you combine that with journalists, pundits, and diversity trainers all desperate to advance their own causes, it’s easy to see why we’ve become so polarized on this issue. How do we work, and talk, our way out of this mess? Ismael Hernandez weighs in.

As a veteran advisor and legal counsel to America’s most successful families, Richard Watts has seen the extremes of entitlement up close and wants to help you avoid creating it in your own children. Well-intentioned parents across the country are enabling a “me” generation of children who lack the wisdom and satisfaction of accomplishment that only struggle and adversity can bring. He joins us to discuss strategies for helping your kids avoid "entitlemania."

Tomorrow, we celebrate the Feast of St John Paul the Great. He was arguably the most influential man of the 20th century and he changed the world forever in many ways. Patrick Novecosky shares a few of them.

Poland faced many challenges during the 20thcentury. But from these challenges emerged some of the great Catholic heroes of our day. When John Paul II returned to Poland on a papal visit in 1979, he gave them for a vision of a new world free of Communist oppression. Al has more.

Catholics have heard the call to embrace the New Evangelization – but why is it necessary in the first place? Where did we go wrong, and why did we fail to properly preach the Gospel and make disciples? Brian Pedraza presents a Catechesis for the New Evangelization.

A few minutes after shaking the hand of the Pope, nine-year-old David DePerro heard firecrackers—an odd sound. But they weren’t firecrackers—they were gunshots, and the white open car carrying John Paul II rushed past the shocked and confused young boy. We hear his story today.

Abortion harms everyone. It hollows out marriage and the family. It undermines the rule of law and corrupts our political system. It turns healers into executioners and “women’s health” into a euphemism for extermination. Now that the issue is back in the hands of the states, how can we go about communicating these truths to others? Ryan Anderson joins us.

We all have areas in which we are ignorant. And ignorance can be overcome by learning. But is there a point when ignorance becomes arrogance? Al discusses.

As Vatican II began, Pope John XXIII had some words of advice for the journalists who would be covering the Council. Acknowledging the temptation to be “more concerned with speed than accuracy, more interested in the ‘sensational’ than in what is objectively true”, John XXIII urged journalists not to allow personal opinions or beliefs blur or obscure the truth. Teresa Tomeo joins us.

Former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst died by suicide earlier this year. In an essay last summer, she reflected on the pressure she felt from aging: "turning 30 feels like a cold reminder that I’m running out of time to matter in society’s eyes — and it’s infuriating." Al discusses.