The Good Catholic Life

Today’s topics: New Evangelization and Becoming a Disciple with a Testimony Summary of today’s show: A key aspect of the Disciples in Mission pastoral plan is training parish staff and parishioners in how to evangelize, especially in light of St. John Paul II’s call for a new evangelization, which is new in ardor, new in […]

Today’s topics: How to Share Your Faith with Anyone Summary of today’s show: Terry Barber is one of the founders of St. Joseph Communications and Lighthouse Catholic Media, which provides thousands of different recorded talks by the biggest Catholic voices for the work of evangelization. He has taken his decades of experience in proclaiming the […]

Today’s topics: Evangelii Gaudium on Parish-based Evangelization Summary of today’s show: Pope Francis has outlined a comprehensive vision for evangelization in his apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium. Scot Landry and Fr. Mark O’Connell are joined by Fr. Paul Soper and Dan Cellucci to discuss one portion of that vision that deals with evangelization within the context […]

Today’s topics: Person of the Year, Joy of evangelizing, Catholic health care, Trappistine solar power Summary of today’s show: Our usual Thursday panel of Scot Landry, Susan Abbott, Gregory Tracy, and Fr. Roger Landry look at the headlines of the week, including Pope Francis being named Time magazine’s Person of the Year; Pope Francis’ dream […]

Today’s topics: Parish Director of Evangelization Summary of today’s show: Patrick Krisak may be the only parish evangelization director in the Archdiocese of Boston and he joins Scot Landry and Fr. Chip Hines to discuss his ministry in the collaborative parishes in Beverly; his background growing up in New Jersey and previous ministry in parishes […]

Today’s topics: Parish-Based Evangelization Summary of today’s show: Parish-based evangelization works and we can train for it, but we need strong parishes in order to do so, says Fr. Paul Soper, director of Pastoral Planning for the Archdiocese of Boston. He sits down with Scot Landry and Fr. Chip Hines to discuss the latest news […]

Today’s topics: Evangelization Trainers Summary of today’s show: As part of the Archdiocese of Boston’s ambitious pastoral plan called “Disciples in Mission”, parishes will receive special training to become centers of the new evangelization. As our guests Michael Lavigne and the archdiocese’s new evangelization trainers, Donald Smith and Amber Loosbrock, explain, this is an unprecedented […]

Today’s topics: Day of Evangelization Summary of today’s show: When Catholics in Attleboro heard about the successful Days of Evangelization that several Rhode Island parishes conducted in their towns, going door-to-door to introduce people to the parish and invite them to come visit (or to come back again), they resolved to bring it to their […]

Today’s topics: News Headlines of the Week Ending July 19, 2013 Summary of today’s show: Our panel of Scot Landry, Susan Abbott, and Fr. Roger Landry — calling in from Rome — discussed the news headlines of the week, including Evangelization Day at St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Attleboro; the ecumenical meeting between Cardinal […]

Today’s topics: Tom Peterson of Catholics Come Home Summary of today’s show: God has a custom-made plan to fulfill the deepest longings of your heart and Tom Peterson wants you to discover it. The founder of Catholics Come Home has a new book of the same name that lays out God’s extraordinary plan for your […]