The Good Catholic Life

Today’s topics: Vatican new media; Teaching on divorced and remarried Catholics; Bishop “bling”; East Boston casino; 40 Days for Life 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 the talk given by the Vatican’s Msgr. […]

Today’s topics: Catholic Social Media Summary of today’s show: The Vatican under Pope Francis is leading the way in the use of social media by Catholics. Msgr. Paul Tighe of the Vatican’s Council for Social Communications and Fr. Roderick Vonhögen of the Star Quest Production Network join Scot Landry and Fr. Chip Hines to talk […]

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 […]

Summary of today’s show: For his annual message on communications, Pope Benedict took up the topic of social networks as “spaces for evangelization.” Domenico Bettinelli joins Scot Landry and Fr. Mark O’Connell to discuss the Holy Father’s message as well as the potential pitfalls and promise of social media for Christians. Fr. Mark in particular […]

Summary of today’s show: Liturgical Publications has been serving Catholic parishes’ communications needs for 40 years and Scot Landry talks with Joe Luedtke and Tim Potrikus about how they are preparing parishes to communicate online through websites and social media and online stewardship while helping their bulletins evolve to continue its role as the most […]

Jeff Miller, known throughout the Catholic blogosphere as “The Curt Jester”, recently wrote of his appreciation for The Good Catholic Life as representative of the kind of new media content, specifically podcasts, that Catholic dioceses should be producing: The Archdiocese of Boston produces The Good Catholic Life, an hour long show scheduled Monday through Fridays. […]

Summary of today’s show: Scot, Susan, Fr. Roger, and Gregory catch up on this week’s headlines, including updates on the religious freedom fight with 7 lessons we’ve learned so far and a great ministry threatened by the new rules; pastor appointments and parish mergers; and how priests are using new media to enrich their faith […]

Listen to the show: Subscribe for free in iTunes Today’s host(s): Scot Landry and Fr. Matt Williams Today’s guest(s): Bonnie Rodgers, Director of Public Relations, Marketing and Programming, and Helen Lee, Manager of Social Media and VoD, of CatholicTV Links from today’s show: CatholicTV CatholicTV on Facebook CatholicTV on Twitter CatholicTV on YouTube The Gist […]

Listen to the show: Subscribe for free in iTunes WQOM has provided us with ten tickets to the WQOM Conference on Saturday, December 10th, 2011. Scot announced that all interested in winning a pair of tickets should send an email to LIVE@thegoodcatholiclife.com before midnight on November 14th. We will give away a pair of tickets […]

Listen to the show: Subscribe for free in iTunes Today’s host(s): Scot Landry and Fr. Matt Williams Today’s guest(s): Kyle Hamilton, Terry Poplava, Aaron Winn, and Eileen Herrington of Our Sunday Visitor Our Sunday Visitor Our Sunday Visitor Offertory Solutions Radius Webtools for Parishes Electronic Services for Catholics blog Pilot New Media Today’s topics: How […]