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Program #840 Mary, Monica, and My Mother

Description: Instruction on the Catechism of the Catholic Church and other topics critical to those seeking answers to life’s greatest questions

Discover simple things you can do to give your marriage a glow-up! Dr. Greg and Lisa will help you solve your problems with relevant, relatable and achievable tools and solutions straight from the genius of the Theology of the Body. It is the life you were meant to live! To make a telecounseling appoint with Dr. Greg or one of his associates, call 800-274-4658.

Guest: Elizabeth Busby

Elizabeth Busby is a passionate daughter of God the Father, wife to a handsome bearded engineer, and mom to six sweet children who are named for some of their favorite saints! She has an undergraduate degree in Psychology from Texas A&M University (whoop!), and she earned a master’s degree in Theological Studies from Ave Maria University, where she wrote her thesis on how St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body can aid in the discernment of a vocation to marriage.

Additionally, she holds a master’s degree in Counseling with a focus on marriage and family therapy from SMU, and she works as a Marriage and Family Therapist. She has a passion for helping people fall in love with Jesus and helping people discern and live God’s joyful plan for holy marriages and family life. Elizabeth is Content Specialist for the Theology of the Body Institute, which is truly a dream come true, and she hosts the Discerning Marriage podcast and runs the popular Discerning Marriage Instagram account. In July 2025, she was invited to and participated in the Vatican Jubilee of Digital Missionaries and Catholic Influencers.

Happy feast of Sts. Thomas More and John Fisher! On today’s show, Matt Swaim and Anna Mitchell welcome Stephen Smith from Hillsdale College to discuss lessons we can learn from how St. Thomas More endured his time in prison. Other guests include Teresa Tomeo from EWTN’s Catholic Connection, and Kevin Schmiesing with This Week in Catholic History. Plus all the latest news, weather, sports, and more…

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St. John Fisher’s prayer for bishops

Lord, according to Thy promise that the Gospel should be preached throughout the whole world, raise up men fit for such work. The Apostles were but soft and yielding clay till they were baked hard by the fire of the Holy Ghost. So, good Lord, do now in like manner with Thy Church militant, change and make the soft and slippery earth into hard stones. Set in Thy Church strong and mighty pillars that may suffer and endure great labors–watching, poverty, thirst, hunger, cold and heat–which also shall not fear the threatenings of princes, persecution, neither death, but always persuade and think with themselves to suffer with a good will, slanders, shame, and all kinds of torments, for the glory and laud of Thy Holy Name. By this manner, good Lord, the truth of Thy Gospel shall be preached throughout the world. Therefore, merciful Lord, exercise Thy mercy, show it indeed upon Thy Church. Amen.

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June 20th, 2026 - Debbie and Fr. Driscoll answer difficult listener questions about relationships with transgender children, irregular weddings, abusive friendships, and more.

In this third season of Kimberly Hahn's Women's Bible Study, we begin the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary. In this first episode, Kimberly Hahn will unpack the biblical background of the first Sorrowful Mystery: Our Lord's Agony in the Garden.

Dr. Matthew Petrusek

Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I’m Matthew Petrusek, senior director of the Word on Fire Institute and the host of the Word on Fire Show. Thank you for joining us. Bishop Robert Barron has long defended religious freedom as a universal human right. As part of his ongoing advocacy—which includes a new book on how to confront persecution against Christians—he has recently completed serving on a presidential religious liberty commission charged with ensuring that people of all faiths can participate fully in society without fear of violence or unjust discrimination. One of the few Catholic ecclesial voices on the commission, his work addressed multiple abiding and practical questions. For example, at the conceptual level, what is religious freedom, and what role should the government play in protecting it? How can we define religious freedom in a way that prevents one religion’s exercise of their freedom from infringing upon the freedom of other religions, or on those who claim no religion at all? And at the more concrete level, where, right now, are the greatest threats to religious freedom and what can we do both legislatively and individually to combat them? Here to address these and related questions, and to discuss his experience serving on the presidential commission, is Bishop Robert Barron.

00:00 | Introduction
01:16 | Bishop Barron visits diocesan schools
02:26 | How Bishop Barron came to join the Religious Liberty Commission
04:03 | The makeup of the Religious Liberty Commission
05:00 | Basic structure of the meetings
07:38 | Being a Catholic bishop on the commission
09:51 | The privatization of religion
10:36 | Where does religious liberty originate?
12:36 | The public nature of religious liberty
13:51 | Why religious liberty is the first freedom
15:11 | Is religious liberty just religious license?
16:36 | The role of government in religious liberty
18:00 | Separation of church and state?
22:33 | Principal threats to religious liberty
26:26 | Testimonies shared with the Commission
27:30 | How we move forward
28:18 | The question of

Fr. Mike talks about how we see both an abundance of faith, and a great lack of faith in our readings today. While the widow Elisha visits shows us a beautiful example of walking in faith, king Ahaz fails to repent as he falls deeper into sin. Today's readings are 2 Kings 4, 2 Chronicles 28, and Psalm 127.

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