Kresta in the Afternoon

It’s been another busy year in Church news, with lengthy discussions on the USCCB, the reception of Eucharist by pro-choice politicians, restrictions on the Latin Mass, and more. We look back on the year with Matthew Bunson

It was another big year for superhero films; Marvel movies accounted for 5 of the top 6 films of 2021. Steven Greydanus reviews his favorite films of the year.

The biggest terrorism story of 2021 was probably the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, which came to a tipping point with the ISIS attack on a military hospital. Raymond Ibrahim joins us with a recap of this and other stories.

Sister Mary Antona Ebo was the only black Catholic nun who marched with civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. Al tells her story

Everyone know Martin Luther King for the work he did as an adult, perhaps most notably his August 28 “I Have a Dream” speech. But what about the young Martin Luther King who left his Atlanta home to attend divinity school in the North? And what would he have to say about today’s unrest? We’ll talk with Patrick Parr.

On this Martin Luther King, Jr Day, Al looks at King’s Christian influences.

We live in an age of crisis. Financial crisis, political crisis, environmental crisis―the list goes on. We're confronted with calamity every time we read the headlines. But behind each of these lurks another kind of crisis, one we find harder to define: a moral crisis―a crisis of goodness. Behind financial crisis is unrestrained greed; behind political crisis is the lust for power. To properly address the crises that plague our world, we must be formed as people of moral goodness. We must cultivate virtue – and it begins with the Beatitudes. Jonathan Dodson joins us.

We saw during the last election season how the Democratic Party has doubled down on its commitment to abortion, placing it under the banner of Women’s Rights. How did the two become so intertwined? Sue Ellen Browder was there at the beginning. She joins us looking at the history of feminism in America and the idea of Sex and the Catholic feminist.

The Incarnation is the epicenter of a transformative explosion that swept through the cold and barbaric ancient world, spawning new revolutions of thought and practice that lifted humanity to new heights. Just how dynamic was this change? We talk with Mike Aquilina.

Have you ever wanted to defend your faith, but were worried you would make mistakes that would work against you? What are the biggest mistakes we make when we try to share Jesus? Trent Horn joins us.