Kresta in the Afternoon

We want to bear faithful witness to Jesus in this culture and sometimes that is complicated because of the world we live in.  Tim Muelhoff is the co-author of Winsome Persuasion: Christian Influence in a Post-Christian World and he joins Al to talk about just that.

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We live in a culture where smart phones are all around us.  But do they make us smarter?  Elijah John joins Al to discuss this.

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Cathy Camino is a professor of Shakespeare at the University of South Carolina Upstate. She grew up knowing the rules of the Church but not the mercy of Jesus. She joins Al to talk about her reversion back to Catholicism.

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Fr. Joe Krupp was recently asked in the Diocese of Lansing’s Faith Magazine if the Mass can ever be irreverent. The person who asked the question said her friend had been going to websites and listening to podcasts that claim the Church was more reverent before the 1960s. Is this true? Fr. Joe Krupp and Al discuss this.

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Since the rise of the internet, it has become increasingly common to openly criticize, mock, and ridicule priests, bishops, and the pope. Some websites, calling themselves news outlets, have created whole businesses around this. Gregory Caridi, Chancellor of the Diocese of Dallas and a civil and canon lawyer, joins Al to talk about this phenomenon and how to fraternally correct those in authority.

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Cardinal Reinhard Marx offers his resignation to Pope Francis. He only offered his resignation, however, for his position as the archbishop of Munich and Freising, not as Cardinal or an advisor to the pope. In his letter, he cited his responsibility amid the sexual abuse crisis in Germany. Christoph Wimmer, editor of CNA Deutsch joins Al to discuss the Church in Germany.

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On Sunday, 6 June, we celebrated the Feast of Corpus Christi, the Body and Blood of Christ. Fr. Dwight Longenecker joins guest host Jerry Usher to discuss the Eucharist.

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This year is the 500th anniversary of the conversion of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus. In their multiple centuries of existence, they have provide the Church with a lot of good but also some bad. Jonathan Leidl, columnist for the National Catholic Register, joins guest host Jerry Usher to discuss the good and bad of the Society of Jesus.

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June is a month dedicated to the devotion of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Catholic Church. Kathleen Beckman is the co-founder and President of Foundation of Prayer for Priests (www.foundationforpriests.org), an international apostolate of prayer for the sanctity of priests. She joins guest host Jerry Usher to discuss this.

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Often times, people claim miraculous things happen to them. What does the Catholic Church teach about miracles? What does the Church about incorruptible bodies? Adam Blai is a certified consultant for exorcists and as spent decades studying and experiencing the supernatural. He talks to guest host Jerry Usher about his new book and more.

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