Summary of today’s show: Massachusetts’ impending vote on physician-assisted suicide has national implications and that’s what has brought Ryan Verret from Louisiana Right to Life to the Commonwealth. Scot Landry and Fr. Matt Williams talk to Ryan about his background in healthcare and medical ethics; concerns about recent healthcare legislation; and the awful message that […]
October 9, 2012
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Program #0391 for Tuesday, October 9, 2012: Priest Profile: Fr. Mark Murphy
Summary of today’s show: Even 16 months after ordination, Fr. Mark Murphy remains the youngest priest of the Archdiocese of Boston and he’s now serving in one of the busiest and largest parishes, St. Agatha’s in Milton/Quincy. Fr. Mark shares with Scot Landry and Fr. Chris O’Connor how his first year as a priest has […]
October 8, 2012
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Program #0390 for Monday, October 8, 2012: Special Re-broadcast of Town Hall on Physician-Assisted Suicide
Summary of today’s show: On Wednesday, October 3, Cardinal Sean O’Malley hosted a virtual town hall meeting on physician-assisted suicide that was simulcast on CatholicTV and WQOM. As a Columbus Day special, we’re re-broadcasting the town hall for our listeners in our regular time slot. In addition to Cardinal Seán, the other panelists were M.C. […]
October 5, 2012
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Program #0389 for Friday, October 5, 2012: The Church’s essential mission: The Parable of the Life-saving Station
Summary of today’s show: Scot Landry and Fr. Mark O’Connell are joined by Domenico Bettinelli to discuss the Parable of the Life-saving Station and to consider whether our Church—our dioceses, our parishes, and our parishioners—have lost the sense of their true mission to evangelize the world and to render true worship to God as a […]
October 4, 2012
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Program #0388 for Thursday, October 4, 2012: Physician-assisted suicide; new Chancellor; Clergy Funds; Year of Faith
Summary of today’s show: Our usual Thursday panel of Scot Landry, Susan Abbott, Gregory Tracy, and Fr. Roger Landry look at the news headlines of the week, including last night’s town hall forum on physician-assisted suicide with Cardinal Seán; the remarks by Congressman Chris Smith at the recent Red Mass luncheon; Cardinal Seán’s column in […]
October 3, 2012
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Program #0387 for Wednesday, October 3, 2012: Cardinal Seán addresses physician-assisted suicide at the Red Mass
Summary of today’s show: In anticipation of Cardinal Seán O’Malley’s live town hall meeting on physician-assisted suicide later in the evening, Scot Landry and Fr. Matt Williams took a look back at this past weekend’s Red Mass with the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Boston and the homily from Cardinal Seán in which he addressed the […]
October 2, 2012
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Program #0386 for Tuesday, October 2, 2012: Priest Profile: Fr Raymond Van De Moortell
Summary of today’s show: When most men would have been looking at retirement after 30 years as a priest, Fr. Raymond Van De Moortell was transferring from the Jesuits to become a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston. Scot Landry and Fr. Chris O’Connor talk with Fr. Van De Moortell about growing up surrounded by […]
October 1, 2012
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Program #0385 for Monday, October 1, 2012: Parish Profile: St. Albert the Great Parish, Weymouth
Summary of today’s show: Kicking off a series of on-location profiles of parishes implementing the New Evangelization particularly well, Scot Landry and The Good Catholic Life travel to St. Albert the Great Parish in Weymouth to talk about the new vigor in the parish since it was almost closed in 2004 and how that led […]
September 28, 2012
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Program #0384 for Friday, September 28, 2012: 2012 Celebration of the Priesthood
Summary of today’s show: This past Wednesday, the 2012 Celebration of the Priesthood dinner gathered 1,300 people to pay tribute to our priests and raise money for their continuing care through the Clergy Funds. Scot Landry and Fr. Mark O’Connell are joined by Fr. Bryan Parrish to discuss the dinner and especially an inspirational video […]
September 28, 2012
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Now Watch The Good Catholic Life every day too
The Good Catholic Life is now available each weekday* in a live video stream at www.BostonCatholicLive.com. Now you can watch the show on your computer or through your smartphone or tablet device and, best of all, chat with the hosts and guests, ask questions, and get live links and updates to the topics as they […]
October 10, 2012
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