The Good Catholic Life

Summary of today’s show: After 520 shows, The Good Catholic Life’s producer Rick Heil is moving on to new opportunities in life. Scot Landry and Fr. Mark O’Connell are joined by Fr. Chip Hines and Rick’s mom, Maureen Heil, from the Pontifical Mission Societies, to talk about Rick’s work in helping create the show fresh […]

Summary of today’s show: Our usual Thursday panel of Scot Landry, Susan Abbott, Fr. Roger Landry, and Gregory Tracy considered the headlines of the week, including Pope-emeritus Benedict’s return to the Vatican; Pope Francis’ theology of work; the sudden death of Bishop Joseph McFadden of Harrisburg; awards to deserving catechetical leaders; Cardinal Justin Rigali’s talk […]

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 […]

Summary of today’s show: Continuing their conversation from a few weeks, Scot Landry and Fr. Chris O’Connor discuss the next Sacrament of Initiation: First Communion: What is the Eucharist? How is it the source and summit of the Christian life? Why do we have so many names for it? What is transubstantiation? Why does the […]

Summary of today’s show: Boston’s elite college, Harvard, for the first time this year had four college-age missionaries from the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) on campus, which was already on 74 other college campuses around the country. Scot Landry talked to the four member team and campus minister Fr. Matt Westcott about the […]

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 […]

Summary of today’s show: Scot Landry and Susan Abbott discussed the news headlines of the week, including the ordination of a former Anglican priest to the Catholic priesthood in Beverly; progress reported on the causes of canonization for Blessed John Paul II and Archbishop Oscar Romero; and the appointment of a new principal for Lawrence […]

Summary of today’s show: The Office for the New Evangelization of Youth and Young Adults is entering a busy time in the Archdiocese of Boston and Fr. Mat Williams and Scot Landry discuss their big initiatives, including this past weekend’s Eucharistic Congress that came at a particularly appropriate time after last week’s Marathon bombings; the […]

Summary of today’s show: Rebecca Hofmann made a decision to put her faith into action by becoming a missionary of chastity. As a member of Generation Life, Rebecca is one of a team of five that travels about the country talking to middle school and high school teens about the beauty of God’s plan for […]

Summary of today’s show: In his new book “Jacob’s Ladder: Ten Steps to Truth,” Dr. Peter Kreeft sets forth a narrative with which most Americans can relate, talking to a young skeptic about truth, absolute truth, the meaning of life and where that ultimately leads: a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Scot Landry talks with […]