Kresta in the Afternoon

In this Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus tells his disciples that “If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love.” Peggy Stanton helps us unpack the reading.

Fr. Michael Nixon was a pastor in Panama Beach, Florida when the community was devastated by Hurricane in 2018. While we won’t all face a literal hurricane in our lives, we do live in the eye of a storm and face incredible headwinds. God is calling men to lead at a time like this. Fr, Mike will be hosting a conference this Saturday in Flat Rock, MI and he joins us with the details.

Two Men and a Truck is one of the largest moving companies in the country, with francizes in 46 states. Co-founder Brig Sorber once believed that wealth was the true key to happiness, and he powered his way to financial success only to find it an empty and shapeless place. After a heavy bout of despair, Brig turned to his faith which had been shelved like a dusty old book. He joins us with his story.

A recent article in Journal of the American Pharmacists Association addresses a need for pharmacists to have “LGBTQ+ Cultural Competency Training” to help them “promote inclusion, embrace diversity, and advocate for justice to advance health equity.” Brendan Purdy joins us.

It’s the feast of St Joseph the Worker, and we’re talking about work – specifically, the work of the Guadalupe Workers in Detroit. Alicia Wong and Edmund Miller join us.

During the Reformation, Pope St. Pius V faced great challenges and opportunities during his six-year reign. He took on the reform programs of the Council of Trent, used diplomatic and other strategies to halt the spread of Protestantism, and worked to unite Christian Europe against attacks by the Ottoman Turks. His feast day was yesterday and we look at his life with Stephanie Mann.

Another Tax Day has come and gone, but a big taxation question in Wisconsin remains unresolved, in the wake of a recent ruling that Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Superior isn’t religious enough in the eyes of the state’s Supreme Court to qualify for a religious tax exemption. Andrea Picciotti-Bayer joins us with more.

In many ways the world of St Catherine of Siena mirrors our own. The Church was shaken by scandals of clerical abuse and division and the world had been changed forever by the bubonic plague. But out of this chaos arose a newly inspired and empowered laity. Yesterday was her feast day; we’ll celebrate her life with Fr. Thomas McDermott

What does Plato have to do with the Christian faith? Quite a bit, it turns out. In ways that might surprise us, Christians throughout the history of the church and even today have inherited aspects of the ancient Greek philosophy of the man who learned from Socrates and taught Aristotle. Louis Markos helps us understand.

A key element dividing Catholics and Protestants is the claim of “Sola Scriptura” – the idea that the Scriptures are the sole infallible source of authority for the Christian faith. What’s the problem with this argument? Al offers his thoughts.