Episodes

  • EWTN News Real Clear Poll of Catholic Voters/ Fr. Roger Landry’s New Mission

    EWTN News Real Clear Poll of Catholic Voters/ Fr. Roger Landry’s New Mission
    Sep 7 2024
    EWTN News and Real Clear Opinion Research released a new poll on Catholic voters that shows Vice President Kamala Harris leading former President Donald Trump. With us to discuss the numbers are reporters Peter Pinedo for Catholic News Agency and Peter Laffin for the National Catholic Register. Then we turn to mission fields far and wide with Father Roger Landry who was just named the New National Director for the Pontifical Mission Societies.
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    30 mins
  • Pope Francis’ Trip/Abortion on State Ballots/Paralympics and Faith

    Pope Francis’ Trip/Abortion on State Ballots/Paralympics and Faith
    Aug 31 2024
    Pope Francis heads to Asia and Oceana, visiting 4 countries in 11 days. EWTN News Vatican analyst Frank Rocca gives his take on the significance of this trip. We learn about which states are facing abortion related ballot measures with Register staff writer Peter Laffin, and we get a preview of the Paralympic games in Paris, France with Register Europe correspondent Solène Tadié.
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    30 mins
  • Impressions from the DNC/ Back To School Without Cell Phones

    Impressions from the DNC/ Back To School Without Cell Phones
    Aug 24 2024
    The Democratic National Convention officially nominated Kamala Harris and Tim Walz for president and vice president. Protecting abortion access was the clearest policy on display at the DNC. The Register’s Staff Writer Peter Laffin gives analysis from Chicago. And, then as students head back to school around the nation, some states have kicked cell phones out of schools. We look into the growing trend with EWTN News reporter Roselle Reyes.
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    30 mins
  • Catholic Persecution in Nicaragua/ Jimmy Lai’s Catholic Witness

    Catholic Persecution in Nicaragua/ Jimmy Lai’s Catholic Witness
    Aug 18 2024
    The Catholic Church in Nicaragua has faced another uptick in persecution by the left-wing government of President Daniel Ortega. ACI Prena’s editor in chief Juan Andrés Muñoz about the Catholic witness against this dictatorship. Then we turn to another Catholic witness. This time against communist China. From CNA’s Daniel Payne, we hear the story of Jimmy Lai, an imprisoned media mogul who converted to Catholicism
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    30 mins
  • Remembering Iraqi Christians post-ISIS/ Examining Venezuela’s Election Crisis

    Remembering Iraqi Christians post-ISIS/ Examining Venezuela’s Election Crisis
    Aug 10 2024
    Iraqi journalist Rody Sher from EWTN News’ ACI Mena, joins us to remember the anniversary of the fall of Mosul and the driving of Christians from Iraq’s Ninevah Plains. Then, we turn to Venezuela, where tens of thousands of citizens have taken to the streets in protest after Nicolas Maduro claimed victory in the presidential elections late last month. Venezuelan journalist Andres Henriquez from EWTN News’ ACI Prensa gives us a report.
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    30 mins
  • Religious Vocations and Educational Debt / ACI Africa at 5 Years

    Religious Vocations and Educational Debt / ACI Africa at 5 Years
    Aug 3 2024
    A new CARA study exposes the challenges debt poses to those discerning religious vocations. Our guest Fr. Scott Bahrke explains how the Laboure Society helped him pay his loans and act on his priestly call. Then we look to Africa where vocations are booming as ACI Africa celebrates its fifth year. ACI Africa’s editor in chief Fr. Don Bosco Onyalla joins.
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    30 mins
  • Olympic Athlete Priest at Paris Games/Rupnik Art

    Olympic Athlete Priest at Paris Games/Rupnik Art
    Jul 27 2024
    We talk to the Register’s Solene Tadie and a 1996 Olympian-turned-priest, Father Joe Fitzgerald, about pastoral care to Olympic athletes. Then, we discuss why the Knights of Columbus covered artwork of disgraced priest and artist Fr. Marko Rupnik at the John Paul II Shrine in Washington with Register editor in chief Shannon Mullen.
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    30 mins
  • National Eucharistic Congress and Donald Trump’s Nomination

    National Eucharistic Congress and Donald Trump’s Nomination
    Jul 20 2024
    The National Eucharistic Congress has drawn more than 50,000 Catholics to celebrate belief in Jesus’ Real Presence in the Eucharist. Courtney Mares and Madeline Daley report from the event in Indianapolis. Then we turn to how the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump affected the Republican National Convention, Ken Oliver reports from Milwaukee.
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    30 mins