Today’s topics: NewAdvent.org, one of the oldest Catholic websites

Summary of today’s show: There are many great Catholic apostolates coming out of the Denver as a fruit of World Youth Day in 1993, and one of the oldest is the website NewAdvent.org. The site’s founder, Kevin Knight, joins Scot Landry and Fr. Chris O’Connor to talk about launching the website in 1995 as one of the first Catholic sites, first offering the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, then the Catholic Encyclopedia, and now links to the best Catholic writing online each day.

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

Today’s guest(s): Kevin Knight

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Today’s topics: Fr. John Wykes, the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, and St. Francis Chapel

Summary of today’s show: Nestled within one of Boston’s office and retail meccas downtown, visitors can find St. Francis Chapel, which is currently served by the Oblates of the Virgin Mary. The Chapel, which has been in place since the late 60s, recently celebrated 30 years under the stewardship of the Oblates with a special Mass celebrated by Cardinal Seán. The order also operates St. Clement Eucharistic Shrine in the Fenway, Our Lady of Grace Seminary for the order, and St. Joseph Retreat House in Milton.

Fr. John Wykes, OMV, joins Scot Landry to discuss the Chapel and the work of the Order in Boston as well as his own background, how he discovered his vocation, and the ministry he’s done over the years, including his work in Catholic media.

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Today’s host(s): Scot Landry

Today’s guest(s): Fr. John Wykes, OMV

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Today’s topics: Collection for Retired Religious Sister and Advent Fasting Retreat

Summary of today’s show: In the first part of our show, Scot Landry and Fr. Mark O’Connell welcome Sr. Marian Batho and Sr. Pat Boyle to discuss this weekend’s second collection for retired religious sisters. They point out that in the past religious sisters did not have sufficient retirement funds and didn’t pay into Social Security until 1972. Even today, each active religious sister works to provide for the needs of four or more retired sisters, including housing and medical needs. More than 2,900 sisters who have provided a combined 54,000 years of service receive funds from the collection in the Archdiocese of Boston.

In our second segment, Andy Lavallee from Live the Fast joins us to discuss his ministry and their upcoming Advent Fasting Retreat on November 30.

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Today’s host(s): Scot Landry and Fr. Mark O’Connell

Today’s guest(s): Sr. Marian Batho, Sr. Pat Boyle, Andy Lavallee

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Today’s topics: Headlines for the Week ending 11/21/13

Summary of today’s show: Our Thursday panel of Scot Landry, Susan Abbott, Gregory Tracy, and Domenico Bettinelli looked at the headlines of the week, including three interviews of Cardinal Seán on challenges facing the Church; Pope Francis’ upcoming first apostolic exhortation; and the end of the Year of Faith and year of two popes.

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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 Domenico Bettinelli, producer for The Good Catholic Life

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Today’s topics: St. Kateri Tekakwitha

Summary of today’s show: St. Kateri is one of the newest saints in the Church, canonized in 2012, and she was the first native North American saint. Scot Landry and Fr. Matt Williams welcome Maureen Heil of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Boston and a parishioner of St. Kateri Parish in Plymouth and Emily Cavins, author of the new book “Lily of the Mohawks” to discuss the story of the saint, her great devotion, and the sufferings she endured for Christ. They also discuss the example that she provides as a role model for young people.

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

Today’s guest(s): Emily Cavins, author of “Lily of the Mohawks: The Story of St. Kateri”, and Maureen Heil of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Boston

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Today’s topics: Bl. John Henry Newman on Modernism

Summary of today’s show: In 2000, Deacon Jack Sullivan of Marshfield received a miraculous healing through the intercession of Bl. John Henry Cardinal Newman, a miracle that would lead to the beatification of Newman by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010. Deacon Jack joins Scot Landry to share the story of his healing and to discuss Bl. Newman’s writings, especially as they apply to modernism and secularism today and the four pillars of secularism embraced by many in our culture.

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Today’s guest(s): Deacon Jack Sullivan

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Today’s topics: Healthcare Proxies, Advance Care Directives, and End-of-Life Care

Summary of today’s show: Healthcare and bioethics remains at the top of the news so M.C. Sullivan joins Scot Landry again to discuss the application Catholic moral teaching to health and medical issues, including the latest news on the Affordable Care Act; healthcare proxies and advance directives; the valid Catholic morality behind decisions on appropriate end-of-life care; and what is a MOLST and how does it relate to proxies and advance directives?

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Today’s host(s): Scot Landry

Today’s guest(s): M.C. Sullivan, director of ethics at Covenant Healthcare Systems

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Today’s topics: The 20th annual Bishop James Augustine Healy

Summary of today’s show: Each year, the Bishop Healy Dinner honors those who have served the Black Catholic community in the Archdiocese of Boston and celebrates the community. Scot Landry and guest co-host Fr. Michael Harrington welcome Lorna DesRoses of the Office for Black Catholics and this year’s honorees, Myrtle Cruz who will receive the Bishop Healy Award, and Fr. William Joy, who will receive the Robert Ruffin Award.

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Today’s host(s): Scot Landry and Fr. Michael Harrington

Today’s guest(s): Lorna DesRoses, Myrtle Cruz, and Fr. William Joy

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Today’s topics: Cheverus Awards; US bishops meeting; American cardinals; HHS mandate; Philippines typhoon

Summary of today’s show: Our Thursday panel of Scot Landry, Susan Abbott, and Gregory Tracy look at the headlines of the week, including the announcement of awardees of the 2013 Cheverus Awards in the Archdiocese of Boston—among whom is our own Susan Abbott; the election of a new leader of the US bishops conference and decisions on a statement on pornography and on the HHS mandate; and the local Catholic response to the typhoon in the Philippines.

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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

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2013 Cheverus Award winners

Susan Abbott, St. Theresa of Avila Parish, West Roxbury Laura Albaladejo, St. Patick Parish, Brockton Josephine and Charles Anastasia, St. John Chrysostom Parish, West Roxbury Ruth Andrews, St. Katherine Drexel Parish, Boston Mother Teresa Benedicta, OCD, North Region William Bibeau, St. John the Baptist Parish, Haverhill Madelyn Brown, The Catholic TV Network, Watertown (2012) Judy Burton, St. Mary/St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Charlestown Jacquelyn Butterfield, St. Anne Parish, Littleton James Buxton, Holy Trinity Parish, Lowell John Carter, Sacred Heart Parish, Waltham Everett Casey, Sacred Heart Parish, Middleborough John Cheboryot and Mercy Anampiu, St. Michael Parish, Lowell, Kenyan Apostolate Antonio Jr. and Gracita Chiefe, St. Mary Parish, Randolph, Filipino Apostolate Deacon Charles Clough, West Region William Corrigan, St. Anthony Parish, Allston Marileia Costa, St. Anthony Parish, Everett, Brazilian Apostolate Paul Daly, Sacred Heart Parish, Quincy Joan DeGuglielmo, St. Francis Parish, Cambridge Sister Thomasita Delaney, RMS, Merrimack Region Samuel E. DeMerit, St. Paul Parish, Cambridge Jose DePina, St. Peter Parish, Dorchester Barbara Devita, St. Thomas of Villanova Parish, Wilmington Linda Devoll, St. John the Evangelist Parish, Canton Rose DiMare, Immaculate Conception Parish, Revere Anne Doherty, St. Camillus Parish, Arlington M.J. Doherty, Archdiocese of Boston Kevin Dolan, Sts. Martha and Mary Parish, Lakeville Thomas Dwyer, Esq., Archdiocese of Boston Joanne Eagan, Sacred Heart Parish, Lynn Stephen Fair, St. Mary of the Assumption Parish, Brookline Walter Faria, St. Mary of the Nativity Parish, Scituate George and Linda Furtado, Immaculate Conception Parish, Everett Rosa Garcia, St. James Parish, Haverhill Deacon Alfred Geneus, St. John the Evangelist Parish, Cambridge, Haitian Apostolate Deacon Thomas Hanlon, South Region Anne Hanning, St. Charles Borromeo Parish, Waltham John Hennigan, St. Dennis Parish, Westwood Sister Magdalene Ikeda, PDDM, Regina Cleri, Boston, Japanese Apostolate George Jackson, St. Francis of Assisi Parish, Braintree Marie Jutkiewicz, St. Tarcisius Parish, Framingham Sonete Kammer, St. Tarcisus Parish, Framingham, Brazilian Apostolate Anne B. Kelly, St. Francis de Sales Parish, Charlestown Mary Kiesinger, St. Dorothy Parish, Wilmington Richard Kimball, St. Cecilia Parish, Boston J. Timothy Looney, St. Joseph Parish, Wakefield Dr. Aloysius Lugira, St. Mary Parish, Waltham, Ugandan Community (2012) Eleanor Mackin, St. Mary Parish, Lynn Judie Mahan, St. Gerard Majella Parish, Canton Constance Malloy, Our Lady of Sorrows Parish, Sharon Deacon Leo Martin, St. John the Baptist Parish, Peabody Jeanne Masterman, St. Catherine of Alexandria Parish, Westford Janice Mathias, St. Mary Parish, Billerica Robert Matson, St. Joseph Parish, Holbrook Elinor McFarland, St. Ann by the Sea Parish, Marshfield Darice McIntire, Sacred Heart Parish, Manchester Altagracia Mena, St. Patrick Parish, Lowell Helen Monteiro, St. Patrick Parish, Roxbury Deacon Pablo Morel, North Region Kevin Muldoon, Immaculate Conception Parish, Weymouth Sheila Murphy, St. Andrew Parish, North Billerica Sylvia Murphy, St. Helen Parish, Norwell Joseph R. Nolan, St. Francis Chapel, Boston (Prudential Center) Roberta Oles, St. Mary Parish, Wrentham John Olquist, Holy Family Parish, Dorchester Lawrence and Sally O’Maley, St. John the Baptist Parish, Essex Sister Mary O’Rourke, CSJ, West Region Eduardo Pascua, Holy Trinity Parish, Quincy Mary Peck, St. Margaret Parish, Burlington Michael Pietkiewicz, St. Stanislaus Parish, Chelsea Rita Pizzi, St. Blaise Parish, Bellingham Nancy Pouliot, Holy Family Parish, Amesbury Brother Thomas Puccio, C.F.X., North Region Lucille Ratte, Star of the Sea Parish, Salisbury Pat Riley, St. Michael Parish, North Andover Martha Roberts, St. Malchy Parish, Burlington Sister Florita Rodman, CDP, South Region Ellen Greene Romikitis, Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta Parish, Dorchester John Scanlon, Sacred Heart Parish Margaret Scollins, Our Lady of the Assumption Parish, Green Harbor Patricia Shafto, St. Christine Parish, Marshfield Deacon Richard Siebert, Merrimack Region Joan Silta, St. Pius X Parish, Milton Stella Simione, St. John the Evangelist Parish, Winthrop Celia Sirois, Archdiocese of Boston Marguerite Small, St. Mary of the Annunciation Parish, Melrose Jean Soucy, St. Magdalen Parish, Tyngsborough Antonio and Delminda Sousa, Our Lady of Fatima Parish, Peabody Claudia Suarez, Madonna Queen Shrine, East Boston M. Doris Thompson, St. John the Evangelist Parish, East Bridgewater Joseph Tuan Thong, St. Bernadette Parish, Randolph, Vietnamese Apostolate Paule Verdet, Sacred Heart Parish, Newton Judy Vivien, St. Mary of the Assumption/St. Ann Parish, Hull Ann C. White, St. Ann Parish, Quincy Magda E. Zabala, Holy Family Parish, Dorchester

Today’s topics: Ear of the Heart: From Hollywood Actress to Holy Vows

Summary of today’s show: Mother Dolores Hart was a Hollywood actress whose career was on the rise 50 years ago, including starring opposite Elvis Presley. But she gave it all up to answer the Lord’s call to enter a Benedictine cloister. Now she has emerged from that cloister to tell her story, joining Scot Landry, Fr. Chip Hines, and Fr. Matt Williams to tell us how she got discovered, what it was like to be a movie star, and how God prompted her to her true vocation.

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

Today’s guest(s): Mother Dolores Hart

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