Today’s topics: Catholic Schools Week: Catholic Schools Foundation

Summary of today’s show: We begin Catholic Schools Week by highlighting the work of the Catholic Schools Foundation in eastern Massachusetts. Michael Reardon, Lynne Sullivan, and Megan Adzima join Scot Landry to discuss the foundations work making Catholic education available to families in the Archdiocese of Boston, including funding scholarships and other financial assistance to students and their families, especially those who are risk of not being able to attend a Catholic school, and strengthening the network of Catholic schools throughout the Archdiocese.

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Today’s guest(s): Michael Reardon, Lynne Sullivan, Megan Adzima of the Catholic Schools Foundation

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Today’s topics: Supreme Court Challenge to Abortion Clinic Buffer Zone

Summary of today’s show: Fr. Eric Cadin and Philip Moran are a plaintiff and lawyer, respectively, in a lawsuit filed against Massachusetts’ law and now before the US Supreme Court that sets up a “buffer zone” around abortion clinics that silences pro-life speech. They join Scot Landry and Fr. Chip Hines today to discuss their pro-life work and the lawsuit that they hope will protect the ability to counsel men and women who approach clinics on the dangers of abortion and the reality of the child being aborted.

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Today’s host(s): Scot Landry and Fr. Chip Hines

Today’s guest(s): Fr. Eric Cadin, parochial vicar at St. Michael Parish in North Andover, and Philip Moran, co-founder of the Pro-Life Legal Defense Fund

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Today’s topics: March for Life, New York’s Cuomo, Transitional Deacons, Bishop Hennessey

Summary of today’s show: Our usual Thursday panel of Scot Landry, Susan Abbott, Fr. Roger Landry, and Gregory Tracy consider the headlines of the week, including Wednesday’s March for Life; Cardinal Seán’s homily at the National Prayer Vigil for Life Mass; New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s remarks about pro-lifers and Bishop Richard Malone’s response; the Mass of ordination for transitional deacons; the move of Bishop Robert Hennessey to lead the Merrimack Region of the archdiocese; and Catholic Schools Week.

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Today’s host(s): Scot Landry and Susan Abbott

Today’s guest(s): Gregory Tracy, managing editor of the Pilot, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston, and Fr. Roger Landry, pastor of St. Bernadette Parish in Fall River

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Some of the stories discussed on this show will be available on The Pilot’s and The Anchor’s websites on Friday morning. Please check those sites for the latest links.

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Today’s topics: Tools for Rebuilding

Summary of today’s show: When they published their first book, “Rebuilt”, last year, Fr. Michael White and Tom Corcoran caught the attention of parishes and dioceses who were curious about the model of successful evangelization in their parish in Maryland. Now, Scot Landry, Michael Lavigne and Fr. Paul Soper discuss the follow-up book, “Tools for Rebuilding”, in which White and Corcoran provide 75 practical and concrete ways that parishes can implement themselves, some of them very straightforward and others sure to be controversial.

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Today’s host(s): Scot Landry and Michael Lavigne

Today’s guest(s): Fr. Paul Soper

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Today’s topics: Why Catholics Should Know Philosophy

Summary of today’s show: Philosophy is the handmaiden of theology and Bl. Pope John Paul II was adamant that faith has nothing to fear from reason and reason nothing to fear from faith, thus emphasizing the importance of knowing and studying philosophy in a Catholic context. Prof. Paul Metilly joins Scot Landry and Fr. Chris O’Connor on location at St. John Seminary to discuss what philosophy is, why Catholics study it, his favorite philosophers, and teaching philosophy to seminarians.

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Today’s host(s): Scot Landry and Fr. Chris O’Connor

Today’s guest(s): Prof. Paul Metilly

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Today’s topics: Ecumenical Prayer Service for all Christian Martyrs

Summary of today’s show: When a photo of Cardinal Seán being assisted in remembering his baptism by a female Methodist minister took the Internet by storm, it brought to the forefront that we are in the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which began with that 50-year commemorative event in Sudbury and will end with an Ecumenical Prayer Service for all Christian Martyrs. Vito Nicastro of the office of ecumenical and interreligious affairs and Tibrine da Fonseca of the Sant’egidio Community join Scot Landry and Fr. Chip Hines to discuss the Sudbury event and the upcoming event at Mission Church, which will recall Christian martyrs of all Christian churches and ecclesial communities. The prayer, which was initiated by Pope John Paul II in Rome during the 90s, is meant to pray for peace in the world to end the persecutions of Christians that occur in great numbers today.

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Today’s host(s): Scot Landry and Fr. Chip Hines

Today’s guest(s): Dr. Vito Nicastro of the Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs and Tibrine da Fonseca of the Sant’egidio Community

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For those who wish to RSVP to the event next week at the Mission Church, please send an email to . All are invited.

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Today’s topics: New Cardinals; Disciples in Mission, March for Life, Vocation Reflections, Choir School

Summary of today’s show: Our usual Thursday panel of Scot Landry, Susan Abbott, Gregory Tracy, and Fr. Roger Landry discussed the headlines of the week, including the appointment of 21 pastors for 44 new collaboratives under the Disciples in Mission pastoral plan; the naming of 19 new Cardinals; the March for Life coming up next week; a convocation for Diocese of Fall River priests; a special video about the Archdiocesan Boys’ Choir School;

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Today’s host(s): Scot Landry and Susan Abbott

Today’s guest(s): Gregory Tracy, managing editor of the Pilot, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston, and Fr. Roger Landry, pastor of St. Bernadette Parish in Fall River

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Some of the stories discussed on this show will be available on The Pilot’s and The Anchor’s websites on Friday morning. Please check those sites for the latest links.

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Today’s topics: Pastor Profile: Fr. John Currie

Summary of today’s show: Fr. John Currie is pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Holbrook in addition to being the pastor of our Wednesday co-host Fr. Matt Williams and our producer Domenico Bettinelli and he joins Scot Landry and Fr. Matt to talk about the parish, its school, his own vocational journey, and the upcoming March for Life in Washington, DC, next week.

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Today’s host(s): Scot Landry and Fr. Matt Williams

Today’s guest(s): Fr. John Currie, Pastor of St. Joseph Parish, Holbrook

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Today’s topics: Hospital Chaplaincy and the Sacrament of the Sick

Summary of today’s show: The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick is a gift from the Lord not just for the end of life, but for whenever we are seriously sick. Craig Gibson joins Scot Landry and Fr. Chris O’Connor on location at St. John’s Seminary to discuss the sacrament, the ministry of hospital chaplaincy, and many of the issues surrounding preparing for death and illness.

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Today’s guest(s): Craig Gibson

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Today’s topics: Catholic Bioethics on Brain Death, Transplantation, Nutrition & Hydration, ACLU Lawsuits

Summary of today’s show: Our regular guest M.C. Sullivan returns to talk to Scot Landry and Michael Lavigne about medical and health issues in the headlines, including the Catholic response to cases of brain death; artificial nutrition and hydration; and legal pressure against Catholic healthcare by the ACLU and allies.

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Today’s host(s): Scot Landry and Michael Lavigne

Today’s guest(s): M.C. Sullivan, Director of Ethics at Covenant Health Systems

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