Summary of today’s show: Each year, Cardinal Seán O’Malley recognizes the contributions of dozens of laypeople, religious, and deacons in the Archdiocese of Boston with the awarding of the Cheverus medals. These individuals and couples are recommended by their pastors (or in the case of religious and deacons, their regional bishop) for their decades of […]
November 20, 2012
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Program #0420 for Tuesday, November 20, 2012: Our Favorite Church Hymns
Summary of today’s show: Everyone has favorite church hymns and a reason why they moves us, whether from a cherished childhood memory or how they move the spirit to contemplate God, and so on today’s show Scot Landry, Fr. Chris O’Connor, and Rick Heil share with listeners their lists of their top three favorite hymns […]
November 19, 2012
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A note on our Monday, November 19, 2012 program
From our producer, Rick Heil: I am sorry to report that technical glitches kept us from airing our planned show today – a profile of Mary Immaculate of Lourdes parish in Newton. I know our entire team, as well as Fr Charles Higgins and his parishioners in Newton, were excited to hear our show today. […]
November 16, 2012
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Program #0418 for Friday, November 16, 2012: Disciples in Mission, A Pastoral Plan for the Archdiocese of Boston
Summary of today’s show: The new pastoral plan for the Archdiocese of Boston, Disciples in Mission, is one of the biggest commitments in this or any American diocese to a New Evangelization, and Scot Landry and Fr. Mark O’Connell talk with the man whose job will be its implementation, Fr. Paul Soper. The ambitious plan […]
November 15, 2012
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Program #0417 for Thursday, November 15, 2012: Disciples in Mission; New bishop; US Bishops’ meeting; Pontifical Latin Academy
Summary of today’s show: Our usual Thursday panel of Scot Landry, Susan Abbott, Gregory Tracy, and Fr. Roger Landry, consider the news headlines of the week, including today’s press conference announcing the new pastoral plan for the Archdiocese of Boston called Disciples in Mission; the various decisions of the US bishops’ meeting this week on […]
November 14, 2012
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Program #0416 for Wednesday, November 14, 2012: Religious Education Month
Summary of today’s show: November is Religious Education Month in the Catholic Church in the US and Scot Landry invites Susan Abbott, Susan Kay, and Pilar Latorre from the Archdiocese of Boston’s religious education office to reflect on their own years of service to the Church and how adults and children can really become engaged […]
November 13, 2012
Program #0415 for Tuesday, November 13, 2012: Cardinal Dolan calls his brother bishops to repentance for the New Evangelization
Summary of today’s show: Cardinal Timothy Dolan set the tone for the semi-annual US Bishops Conference meeting in Baltimore this week in his president’s address when he exhorted his brother bishops to greater personal conversion and reconciliation and maintained that the New Evangelization is dead in the water without personal conversion and a striving for […]
November 12, 2012
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Program #0414A Best of TGCL for Monday, November 12, 2012: Fr. Darin Colarusso
Listen to the show: Subscribe for free in iTunes As The Good Catholic Life observes Veteran’s Day today, we bring you this encore presentation of the interview conducted by Scot Landry and Fr. Chip Hines with Fr. Darin Colarusso. Fr. Colarusso was an Air Force aviator serving in Korea when he heard God unexpectedly calling […]
November 9, 2012
Program #0414 for Friday, November 9, 2012: Appointment of Bishop-elect Robert Deeley and how bishops are appointed
Summary of today’s show: A big day in the Archdiocese of Boston began with the appointment by Pope Benedict XVI of Msgr. Robert Deeley, vicar general and moderator of the curia, as an auxiliary bishop. Scot Landry and Fr. Mark O’Connell discuss this morning’s press conference and the remarks from Cardinal Seán and Bishop-elect Deeley […]
November 8, 2012
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Program #0413 for Thursday, November 8, 2012: Question 2; Dolan on Election; Cheverus awards; Serra Boston
Summary of today’s show: On our usual Thursday news show, Scot Landry, Susan Abbott, and Greg Tracy reviewed the headlines of the week, including Tuesday’s election, discussing their personal recollections of the day and results; Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s gracious letter to President Obama congratulating him and praying he will work for the common good; the […]
November 21, 2012
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