What were the top ten news stories in the church and the world in 2014? Kevin Clarke joins Father Matt Malone and Tim Reidy for a discussion of the busy year in Catholic news.
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Christmas on Film
Father Matt Malone and Kerry Weber talk about some of their favorite (and not so favorite) Christmas films with film critic John Anderson.
Encounters with the Homeless
Jason Storbakken, along with his wife Vonetta, is co-founder of Radical Living, a Christian community located in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. He is a minister in the Mennonite Church USA and chapel director at the Bowery Mission in New York City. He’s also the author of a new book called Radical […]
The Spiritual Genius of Saint Francis
Jon M. Sweeney talks about a new exhibit of artifacts from the life of Saint Francis on display in Brooklyn. He also discusses his new book When Saint Francis Saved the Church and the spiritual genius of Saint Francis.
One Sister’s Response to Visitation Report
Sister Mary Ann Zollmann, former president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, awoke at four this morning to watch on cable the announcement of the Vatican's long-awaited report stemming from the six-year apostolic visitation.
‘Power of Sisterhood’: Women Religious Discuss the Apostolic Visitation
Before the Dec. 16 release of the Vatican's final report on the “apostolic visitation,” an inquiry into the lives and ministries of American nuns, Judith Valente, America's Chicago correspondent, spoke with Sister Mary Ann Zollmann and Sister Jean Wincek, co-authors of Power of Sisterhood, a collection of essays that record the experience of women religious during the visitation, […]
A Tale of Two Dynasties
Thomas Maier talks about his new book When Lions Roar: The Churchills and the Kennedys.
‘Command and Control’ Author Eric Schlosser Discusses a new Effort to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
In Vienna, 'Command and Control' Author Eric Schlosser Discusses a revived civil society movement to ban the bomb.
