Tag Archives: evangelization

Program #0533 for Tuesday, June 25, 2013: StrangeNotions.com and Dialogue with Atheists

June 25, 2013

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Today’s topics: StrangeNotions.com and Dialogue with Atheists Summary of today’s show: Taking up the work of the New Evangelization, the new website StrangeNotions.com aims to be a place where Catholics and atheists can come together in charity to have a rational discussion about the great questions of life. Scot Landry and Fr. Chip Hines welcome […]

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Program #0526 for Friday, June 14, 2013: Milestones for Disciples in Mission

June 14, 2013

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Today’s topics: Milestones for Disciples in Mission Summary of today’s show: Phase one of the Disciples in Mission pastoral plan for the Archdiocese of Boston launched on June 4 with the official appointment of the new pastors of the new parish collaboratives. Fr. Paul Soper sat down with Scot Landry and Fr. Mark O’Connell to […]

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Program #0519 for Wednesday, May 1, 2013: Sherry Weddell and Forming Intentional Disciples

May 1, 2013

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Sherry Weddell and Forming Intentional Disciples

Summary of today’s show: Four times as many people are leaving the Church as are entering and most of them are gone by the time they’re 23. Why are they leaving? Where are they going? How can we help them stay? Sherry Weddell joins Scot Landry and Fr. Matt Williams to talk about her new […]

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Program #0516 for Friday, April 26, 2013: Benedict moves back to Rome; Can’t miss sights in the Holy Land; Pope Francis’ first encyclical coming

April 26, 2013

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Summary of today’s show: Scot Landry and Fr. Mark O’Connell discussed some of the top news of the day, including reports that Pope-emeritus Benedict soon will be moving back to Rome from Castelgandolfo, taking up residence in a renovated monastery at the Vatican as planned and that Pope Francis is preparing his first encyclical which […]

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Program #0472 for Wednesday, February 20, 2013: “Rebuilt”: A new book about transforming a parish

February 20, 2013

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Summary of today’s show: When Fr. Michael White was assigned to Church of the Nativity parish in Maryland, he nearly burned out trying to serve all the demands on him, until he realized that they were doing it all wrong. Scot Landry, Fr. Matt Williams, and Dom Bettinelli discuss the new book “Rebuilt” written by […]

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Program #0418 for Friday, November 16, 2012: Disciples in Mission, A Pastoral Plan for the Archdiocese of Boston

November 16, 2012

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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 […]

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Program #0389 for Friday, October 5, 2012: The Church’s essential mission: The Parable of the Life-saving Station

October 5, 2012

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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 […]

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Program #0385 for Monday, October 1, 2012: Parish Profile: St. Albert the Great Parish, Weymouth

October 1, 2012

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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 […]

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Program #0305 for Wednesday, May 23, 2012: Ralph Martin on The New Evangelization

May 23, 2012

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Summary of today’s show: One of Bl. Pope John Paul II’s major emphases in his pontificate was the New Evangelization and Pope Benedict XVI has continued that work with the establishment of the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization. Scot Landry and Fr. Matt Williams talk with Ralph Martin, a lay member of the council […]

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Program #0266 for Tuesday, March 27, 2012: Why Catholic

March 27, 2012

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Summary of today’s show: A new spirit of evangelization is moving across the Archdiocese of Boston and one reason for it is the Why Catholic program offered by the Office of Worship and Spiritual Life. In a series of six-week sessions spanning four years, small parish-based groups explore the Church’s teachings through prayer and Scripture […]

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