Kresta in the Afternoon

Andres “June” Ybarra serves two roles in Uvalde: He’s a Grand Knight of the local Knights of Columbus Council, and he works as a mortician in the local funeral home, which has helped prepare the bodies and organize funerals for 16 of the 21 people killed in last month’s massacre. How does he do it? He joins us.

On June 19, dioceses across the US will kick off a three-year Eucharistic Revival. Its goal is to help Catholics be formed and healed to bring the power of the Eucharistic to a wounded world. Tim Glemkowski gives us a preview.

Violence against Christians continues in Nigeria. Gunmen stormed St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church during Pentecost Mass on Sunday, killing dozens. More than 50 are feared dead, including many women and children. Raymond Ibrahim tells us more.

It’s becoming harder and harder for Catholics to find common ground with other Christians, much less people who do not accept Jesus or any organized religion. Much of what we experience every day forces us to consider how we are different from the culture. But, beyond these divisions, we share a common humanity. Al discusses.

June 6 is the anniversary of the Normandy Invasions, one of the most important battles of the century. The invasion was led by Supreme Allied Commander Eisenhower, who would later go on to the White House. While there have been many biographies of Eisenhower's military and political career, none have looked deeply at the role his faith played in both his personal and public life - despite the fact that he was the only US president to be baptized while in office. We take a look with Alan Sears.

When Joelle Maryn was 6 years old, her family experienced an unimaginable tragedy: an unattended Advent candle set their Christmas tree on fire and her sister died in the ensuing blaze. She tried praying to God to bring her sister back, and when nothing happened she gradually began losing her faith and slipping into a life of worldly pleasures. Years later, a radical awakening set her on the path back to Christ. She shares her story.

Christology is the study of who Christ is, but often times modern ‘Christologies’ are composed without a deeper attention to traditional metaphysics: the classical philosophical understanding of reality that comes to us from Aristotle and Aquinas. We talk with Fr Thomas Joseph White about the mystery of the Incarnation and God becoming Man.

On this day in 1944, thousands of allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy. More than 4,000 did not survive the day. That evening, President Roosevelt addressed the American public and updated them on what had happened. And then he led the nation in his D-Day Prayer. We’ll listen to his prayer and Al has further thoughts.

This weekend we celebrate Pentecost – the Birth of the Church. We get a virtual tour of the scene with Steve Ray.

A recent editorial at MSNBC claims that the popularity in homeschooling is driven by the “insidious racism of America’s religious right.” In other words, parents want to homeschool their children to indoctrinate them with racist viewpoints. Kerry McDonald joins us with her response.