World Over

JIM WILSON, Covington Catholic High School parent and chaperone tells us what really happened at this year’s March for Life. MERCEDES SCHLAPP, White House Director of Strategic Communications and Special Assistant to the President shares her perspective on the government shutdown the President’s State of the Union Address and developments in US/Venezuelan relations. FR. GERALD MURRAY, canon lawyer and priest of the Archdiocese of New York gives us his perspective the anti-Catholic aspects of the Covington controversy, the Vatican continuing to deny it knew about sex abuse accusations against an Argentine bishop and World Youth Day 2019. KAYE BALLARD (1925-2019). Remembering the life and work of comedienne and actress Kaye Ballard.

GEORGE WEIGEL, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, columnist and theologian discusses the latest Catholic news and the expectations for the Vatican's summit on sex abuse in February. CHRIS LEWIS, son of Hollywood legend Jerry Lewis and President of the American Wheelchair Mission on his father's legacy being preserved at the Library of Congress and his own work bringing the gift of mobility to the disabled in need all over the world. ABBY JOHNSON, pro-life activist is joined by actress ASHLEY BRATCHER to talk about the new film UNPLANNED that tells the story of ABBY JOHNSON's time as director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas and how she left the abortion industry.

ROBERT ROYAL, editor in chief of The Catholic Thing and ED CONDON, DC bureau chief of The Catholic News Agency join us with analysis of the upcoming Vatican trial of Theodore McCarrick, the abuse crisis summit at the Vatican in February and the latest Catholic news. REP. SEAN DUFFY, US Congressman from Wisconsin on the US border crisis/controversy, the partial government shutdown and the latest Congressional news. GEORGE SCHWARTZ, CEO of Schwartz Investment Counsel and manager of Ave Maria Mutual Funds on the state of the financial markets, investing and his new book, In God We Trust: Morally Responsible Investing.

ROBERT ROYAL, editor-in-chief of TheCatholicThing.org and FR. GERALD MURRAY, canon lawyer and priest of the Archdiocese of New York join Raymond for a special World Over Year in Review...and Raymond reveals his picks for best and worst persons of 2018. PLUS, Christmas memories with some great moments with JOHNNY MATHIS & ANDY WILLIAMS from World Over Christmases past.

World Over Christmas Special for 2018! Featuring Christmas favorites by the Dominican Sisters of Mary, the NOLA Players, plus classics from the legendary Johnny Mathis, Keely Smith, Frank Sinatra, Andy Williams, Jose Feliciano, and Aaron Neville.

CARDINAL RAYMOND BURKE, former prefect of the Vatican’s Apostolic Signatura joins us to talk about the global clergy sex abuse crisis, the upcoming Vatican summit on abuse in February and much more. REP. CHRIS SMITH, US Congressman from New Jersey talks about the bill he authored (signed into law by the President this week) that gives aid and support to the persecuted Christians in Iraq and Syria. DAVID LIMBAUGH, attorney, syndicated columnist and author talks about his new book, Jesus is Risen: Paul and the Early Church.

How can we and our families nurture and sustain the true meaning of Christmas ? FR. WILLIAM SAUNDERS discusses his new book ‘Celebrating a Merry Catholic Christmas: A Guide to the Customs and Feast Days of Advent and Christmas.’ A parish in the Diocese of Buffalo, NY reported that a supernatural event involving a consecrated host might have occurred. Diocesan leadership declined to investigate. What happened? Bill Donohue on the media and the abuse crisis, the Pope’s thoughts on vocations. Advent has begun and a new version of Raymond Arroyo’s PBS documentary and the CD Christmastime in New Orleans is airing coast to coast this season. Co-producer Monica Fitzgibbons joins Raymond to discuss the new television special and CD.

PHILIP LAWLER, Editor of Catholic World News and author of the new book The Smoke of Satan, discusses the sex abuse crisis how can confidence in the Church be restored. We mourn the loss of BISHOP ROBERT MORLINO of Madison, Wisconsin. DR. ELIZABETH LEV, art historian and author of How Catholic Art Saved the Faith: The Triumph of Beauty and Truth in Counter-Reformation Art talks about the power of great art to inspire faith and devotion.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW - CARDINAL GERHARD MÜLLER, former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) at the Vatican, speaks at length about the cover up of sex abuse by clergy, the Youth Synod, and much more in a candid, exclusive in-studio interview. DR JENI STEPANEK, mother of poet and peace advocate Mattie Stepanek, talks about her son’s legacy as a peacemaker and his cause for sainthood. ENCORES

TUCKER CARLSON, Fox News Channel host of Tucker Carlson Tonight talks US politics, the increasingly toxic political environment and his new book, Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution. MOST REV. MARK RIVITUSO, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Louis joins us with an update on the discussion of the clergy sex abuse crisis at this week's fall meeting of the US Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. JARRETT KROSOCZKA, National Book Award nominee and author and illustrator of the new book Hey Kiddo, a very personal memoir of his unconventional childhood.