Kresta in the Afternoon

Lisa Brenninkmeyer was raised in a devoutly Christian home and as an adult came into the Catholic Church. She quickly noticed a lack of fresh, relevant Catholic Bible studies that were designed for mothers. She joins us to share her story and her work – stay tuned for more on our video podcasts!

Born in 1906, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German theologian active in the “Confessing Church”, an ecumenical group of Christians united in resistance to the Nazis. While he never came into full Communion with the Church, he has profound insights which we can use in our Lenten journey. Ken Craycraft takes a look.

Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is more than just a geo-political conflict. The Russian leader believes in the spiritual destiny of a united 'Holy Rus' that goes back to the conversion of Vladimir the Great in 984. Al discusses.

When Sister Deirdre “Dede” Byrne picked up the phone in December 2021, a young man on the other end of the line told her something disturbing — and difficult to believe. “My mother is a doctor. You worked with her more than a decade ago in Afghanistan, at a U.S. camp near Pakistan. And now her life is in grave danger.” Al tells the story

Cardinal Clemens August von Galen was the Bishop of Munster, Germany from 1933 to 1946. Known as the "Lion of Munster," he once said that God had placed him in a position where he had a duty to call black, ‘black’ and white, ‘white’. His efforts lead a Gestapo leader to call for his public hanging. Fr. Daniel Utrecht joins us with a definitive look at the man who roared against the Nazis.

Over the course of a single decade, dozens of students and professors from Southern Evangelical Seminary in North Carolina converted to Catholicism. They came from varied backgrounds and motivations but all came to the same conclusion. What led them to walk away from their education, risking jobs, ministries, and even family and friends? We'll hear their stories from Douglas Beaumont.

From the Mayans to Martin Luther to doomsday preachers on cable TV, there's a long list of people who have predicated the end of the world - and gotten it wrong. But in the Gospel of Matthew Jesus seems to imply that the end of the world would come within a generation, and it obviously didn't. Was the early Church fooled into expecting the Second Coming in the first century? What did Jesus really say about the end of the world? David Currie joins us to unlock the most important messages behind Jesus' prophecies and warnings.

Al looks at some stories of Ukrainian Christians and what they can teach us in these turbulent times.

Thomas Aquinas died on this day in 1274, though we no longer celebrate his Feast Day today. We get a brief introduction to his life and thought with John O’Callaghan.

Poland has had a special place in the history of the last 100 years, from turning back Russian communists at the Miracle on the Vistula in 1920 onward through World War II and the Cold War. The time also gave us some incredible saints, including Faustina – who has a special warning that applies to us today. We’ll talk about it with Paul Kengor.