Matt Regner is the Director of Liturgy and Evangelization at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Madison, Wisconsin. He recently wrote a thoughtful essay Parishioners Don't Belong at the Parish published in the Church Life Journal. We talked over several points from the article about the end goals of evangelization. 

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Casey Phillips is the director of Evangelization at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Lexington, KY, and the co-host of the podcast The BaptiCatholic Show. He joins us to talk about Evangelization in a Catholic context.

What picture pops into your head when you envision "the Church?" Whose faces are situated next to yours in the family portrait above God's mantle? The answer to this question has implications on how we live out our faith, practice evangelization, and make disciples. It's the fundamental question of "Who Belongs?"

Fr. Josh Johnson joins us to discuss his new book, On Earth as It Is in Heaven: Restoring God’s Vision for Race and Discipleship.

This book follows Fr. Josh’s journey of serving as the only Black priest in the diocese of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Fr. Josh draws from the riches of Scripture, personal experience as a Catholic of color, his priestly ministry, and the wisdom of the Church to encourage Catholics to understand more deeply the call of Christ to make disciples of “all peoples and nations (Matt. 28:19).”

Michael Grasinski, President of Ruah Woods Institute, and Rob Stamper, Curriculum and Education Specialist, join us to talk about the Institute and their TOB Curriculum for Catholic Schools. We also discuss the nature of the TOB as a Christian Anthropology and key element of a Worldview that emphasizes the dignity of the human person.

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Deacon Charles Beard joins us to talk about the Sacred Heart of Jesus, how we experience his love, and how that love urges us to live compassionately.

Pentecost is the antidote to Babel. Through Pentecost, God breaks down division and creates the opportunity for reconciliation.  We, as ministers of reconciliation, are called to live our lives attentive to the voice of the Holy Spirit who was given to the Church at Pentecost, and given to us at baptism and confirmation.

Fr. Casey Cole, OFM and Fr. Tito Serrano, OFM are off on a pilgrimage like no other. In just 11 weeks, they plan to visit all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums, meeting people where they are, to invite them to return home. Home to Jesus and his Church.

They join us to talk about the tour, and about Fr. Casey's new book The Way of Beatitude: Living Radical Hope in a World of Division and Despair. 

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Dr. Charlie Camosy is a Professor in the Medical Humanities Department at Creighton University Health Sciences in Phoenix AZ and a Fellow in Moral Theology at St. Joseph Seminary in New York. He has a focus on bioethics and has written numerous books on our response and responsibility to the dignity of the human person.

• Beyond the Abortion Wars (Eerdmans) 

Losing our Dignity: How Secularized medicine is Undermining Fundamental Human Equality (New City Press)

He is also the Series Editor of the Magenta Project at New City Press. 

He joins me on-air to talk about a healthy response to the news of the SCOTUS leak.

We revisit a conversation we had with Joe Heschmeyer back in June of 2019. For the next few weeks, we're going to be talking about approaching difficult topics and conversations with an eye toward evangelization.

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In his new book published by Ave Maria Press, A Catholic Pilgrimage through American History, Dr. Kevin Schmiesing takes you to more than two-dozen sites and events that symbolize and embody America’s rich and sometimes tumultuous Catholic past, including the Santa Fe Trail, Gettysburg, and the Bourbon Trail.

We talk about the Catholic thread running through the tapestry of American History and talk about some of his favorite stories.