Kresta in the Afternoon

Research from the Guttmacher Institute shows that, after decades of decline, abortion rates are rising in the United States. As we await a Supreme Court ruling on the Dobbs case, Michael New gives us his impressions on the data.

In Ecclesia de Eucharistia calls the Eucharist the Summit of Christian Life. Al dives into what that means.

We’re celebrating the Feast of Corpus Christi. Peter Kreeft has imagined a dialogue between three great Christian minds of the last century – CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, and Billy Graham. What would a Southern Baptist evangelist and a devoutly Catholic philologist and author have to say about the Eucharist? Dr. Kreeft joins us.

When St. John Neumann was canonized on June 19, 1977, he became the first male saint from the United States.  Neumann was the first bishop in the country to organize a diocesan school system and worked closely with the immigrant communities in the city. He also stood up for Catholic immigrants in a time of strong anti-Catholic persecution in America. We'll look at his life and the history of American Catholics with Fr. Charles Connor.

In Colossians 1:10 St Paul tells us to walk worthy of the Lord and increase in the knowledge of God. What happens to our lives when we do this? Al discusses.

Throughout Scriptures, God asks us Questions. "Where are you?" "Do you want to be healed?" "Whom do you seek?" and of course the ever-important "Who do you say that I am?" Leonard DeLorenzo join us to examine the questions Jesus poses to us and how they reveal the hidden secrets of our hearts.

Devotion to the Sacred Heart is intimately linked to our response in love to the Eucharistic Christ. It lies at the core of Catholic spiritual life and is the key to effective renewal of individuals, the Church and the world. We talk with Tim O’Donnell about living this devotion more fully.

Halfway through the last baseball season, the Atlanta Braves were given a 0.3% chance of winning the World Series. But that’s what they did - defeating the powerful Houston Astros in six games. It’s popular to call stories like this a “Miracle.” Just think of the 1980 US Hockey Team’s Miracle on Ice or the Tennessee Titan’s Music City Miracle. But Catholics, of course, have a very different understanding of miracles. What makes a miracle, a miracle? Adam Blai joins us.

Christians, and religious people in general, are often accused of having “blind spots” that warp their view of reality. But secularists have this problem as well – we often see documentaries that completely overlook the religious aspects of a story or event. Al breaks it down.

Have you ever just wanted to just go back to a world without smartphones and social media? We can take breaks from mass media, but like it or not is here to stay. Paul Patton joins us to propose a process he calls mindful media attachment: promoting the holy habits of sacred intentionality, sacred interiority, and sacred identity.