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  • Please join us at The Open Door!

    We discuss solidarity, subsidiarity, economic democracy, and nonviolence in light of Catholic Social Teaching. We explore how to move from discussion to political change. Culture and politics, to be sure, are interwoven. So we care deeply about education and the arts. Our questions often lead us to report on the projects and promise of the American Solidarity Party.

    Dr. James Hanink, a philosophy professor who taught at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA, is the lead anchor for The Open Door.

    Dr. Mario Ramos-Reyes, Professor of Philosophy and Latin America History and Founder of the Institute for the Study of Personalist Republicanism, is a co-host of The Open Door.

    Valerie Niemeyer, a homeschooling mother of six interested in the application of Catholic Social Teaching to our citizenship and the realm of politics, is a co-host of The Open Door.
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  • Episode 287: Msgr. Patrick Gaalaas on the Ministry of the Spiritual Director (June 26, 2024)

    Episode 287: Msgr. Patrick Gaalaas on the Ministry of the Spiritual Director (June 26, 2024)
    Jun 26 2024
    In this episode of The Open Door (June 26), panelists Jim Hanink, Christopher Zehnder, and Valerie Niemeyer discuss the role of spiritual direction. Just what is it? What is the ministry of the spiritual director? Our special and welcome guest is Msgr. Patrick Gaalaas. He is a priest of the Diocese of Tulsa and Eastern Oklahoma. Msgr. Gaalaas retired from parish work in 2022 at the age of 75. But “retirement” has led to “redirection.” He has worked as a spiritual director at Conception Seminary College in Missouri for the past two years. (Full disclosure: Monsignor has known Jim Hanink from the time they were fellow college seminarians at Assumption Seminary in San Antonio, Texas.) Msgr. Gaalaas spent his final four years in the seminary at the American College at the University of Louvain in Belgium. There he earned a bachelor’s degree in Sacred Theology and a master’s degree in Moral and Religious Sciences. Among the questions we’ll be asking are the following.

    1. You moved from parish work to a Benedictine Abbey. Is there a distinctive Benedictine spirituality?
    2. Spiritual direction pairs a spiritual director with a person interested in direction. But how does the average Catholic, if there is such a creature, know whether to seek spiritual direction?
    3. What’s the difference between spiritual direction and psychological counselling?
    4. How does one go about finding a spiritual director? What might one expect if one Google searched “spiritual direction near me”?
    5. How does one become a spiritual director? Who can become a spiritual director?
    6. Is a personal calling from God requisite for being a spiritual director?
    7. Do spiritual directors ordinarily have diocesan recognition?
    8. What sort of direction do spiritual directors themselves have?
    9. Might we say that the Holy Spirit is at the center of spiritual direction?
    10. What are some signs that spiritual direction is going well? Or is not going well?
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  • Episode 286: Christopher Zehnder, the General Editor for the Catholic Textbook Project (June 12, 2024)

    Episode 286: Christopher Zehnder, the General Editor for the Catholic Textbook Project (June 12, 2024)
    Jun 12 2024
    This week on The Open Door (June 12) we complete our series on education. Our focus is developing Catholic textbooks that give history its deepest perspective. Our welcome guest is Christopher Zehnder, M.A. He is the General Editor for the Catholic Textbook Project. A graduate of Thomas Aquinas College, he has worked as a graphic artist, journalist, school headmaster, and teacher of history, literature, theology, and mathematics. Mr. Zehnder has been affiliated with the Catholic Textbook Project since its founding in 2000. He has authored several of its textbooks, edited and contributed chapters to others, and made art selections for many of them. He is a novelist as well! A member of the American Solidarity Party, Christopher is on the town council of Hartford, Ohio. With his wife Katherine and their family, he has made his residence there since escaping Southern California.

    The following are among the questions we asked him:
    1. How did you come to be an educator?
    2. Why does it matter how we define education?
    3. What led to your interest in history?
    4. You write historical fiction. Is there any way to get beyond writing stories about history?
    5. Can you sketch for us the history of education in the United States? What has led to the resurgence of interest in classical education?
    6. How did the Catholic Textbook Project come about? What does it bring to the table in today’s educational milieu?
    7. What do you make of “critical race theory”?
    8. How can Catholic educators teach the truth about the uglier dimensions of history?
    9. How can Catholic educators help form students into citizens who embody both charity and solidarity?
    10. Are you writing a new textbook? How about another novel?
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  • Episode 285: Tom Venzor on the work of the State Catholic Conference Directors (May 29, 2024)

    Episode 285: Tom Venzor on the work of the State Catholic Conference Directors (May 29, 2024)
    May 29 2024
    In this episode of The Open Door (May 29, 2024), panelists Jim Hanink, Mario Ramos-Reyes, and Valerie Niemeyer talk about the work of State Catholic Conference Directors. Our focus will be on the role that they can play in developing Catholic education. Our welcome guest is Tom Venzor. He has served as the Executive Director of the Nebraska Catholic Conference since 2016. Prior to this, he served as the Associate Director for Pro-Life & Family for the Nebraska Catholic Conference. Before joining the NCC, Tom worked as a legislative aide in the State Legislature, as well as in various capacities throughout several other legislative sessions. Tom earned his undergraduate degree in political science, philosophy, and religious studies from Doane College in Crete, his master’s degree in philosophy from Mount Saint Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland, and his law degree from the University of Nebraska College of Law in Lincoln. Tom and his wife, Makayla, have four children at home: Monica, Claire, Anthony, and Julia. And they have a little one in heaven: Thérèse.
    1. Let’s start with an encouraging breakthrough and then move to context. The Nebraska Legislature recently passed school choice legislation! Could you tell us some of the particulars of this legislation? What led to this victory?
    2. People of goodwill want public schools to be adequately funded in their service to students, especially the most vulnerable. Could you help us to understand how school choice does NOT undercut support for public school teachers and students?
    3. What’s involved in serving as the Director of the Nebraska Catholic Conference? And what are some of your current projects? Are any of them related to education?
    4. Catholicism has a rich tradition of promoting the liberal arts. Is there a way that the Nebraska Catholic Conference can contribute to that tradition?
    5. How does the Catholic Conference work in conjunction with the bishops of Nebraska?
    6. In what ways does the Conference seek the collaboration of the laity? Are they tuned in to your work?
    7. What sort of press has the Conference had in past years?
    8. How does the Conference forge bonds with particular legislators? And how does it engage with legislative opponents?
    9. What organizational or advocacy mistakes have you made, and what have you learned from them?
    10. True or false: Catholic Social Teaching can build bridges with “wokeism”?
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