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We talk today about the family, especially the expansive notion of the extended family and what this means for who we are as individuals, who we are responsible for, and what this means for our parishes.We are joined by Dr. Nichole Flores is an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia. She speaks, writes and teaches about the significance of Catholic and Latinx theology and ethics in plural social, political, and ecclesial contexts. She has published academic articles broadly and also popularly on such publications as America: The Jesuit Review of Faith & Culture. She is currently at work on her first book, To Lift Up the Lowly: The Aesthetics of Solidarity. In 2015, Dr. Flores was honored with the Catherine Mowry LaCugna Award for the best academic essay in Catholic theology from the Catholic Theological Society of America. Recently she joined us as a keynote speaker for the Liturgy and Domestic Church conference at Notre Dame.------ Live: www.redeemerradio.com Follow Redeem

What is the state of the family in the United States? What is the good news? What’s the bad news? And what does the Church need to pay attention to? W. Bradford Wilcox is Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies. Professor Wilcox’s research has focused on marriage, fatherhood, and cohabitation, especially on the ways that family structure, civil society, and culture influence the quality and stability of family life in the United States and around the globe.Live: www.redeemerradio.com Follow Redeemer Radio on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram: @RedeemerRadio Follow McGrath Institute for Church Life on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram: @McGrathND Subscribe to the Podcast: iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloudChurch Life Today is a partnership between the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame and OSV Podcas

Today we want to talk about the whole Gospel, and by that I mean contemplation and action, the Lord’s love and our response, life in the parish and life with the poor. Our guest is Aimee Shelide Mayer. Aimee is a graduate of Notre Dame’s Echo program, where she served in catechetical ministry in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee for two years. Afterwards she lived in a Catholic Worker community in South Bend, IN, before moving to Nashville to serve as the Coordinator of Advocacy and Social Concerns for Catholic Charities. On the basis of all she’s done and learned, she is going to talk with us today about the whole Gospel.Live: www.redeemerradio.com Follow Redeemer Radio on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram: @RedeemerRadio Follow McGrath Institute for Church Life on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram: @McGrathND Subscribe to the Podcast: iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloudChurch Life Today is a partnership between the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame and OSV Podcasts from Our Sunday Visitor. Discov

The Reverend Dr. Daniel McClain is a theologian and priest in the Episcopal Church and serves as the Episcopoal Chaplain at the College of Wiliam and Mary. He earned his PhD in Historical and Systematic Theology from the Catholic University of America, then taught at Loyola University Maryland from 2012 to 2017, where he launched and administered Loyola’s Master of Theological Studies program. Dr. McClain specializes in theology and literature and is co-author of Reading Scripture as a Political Act. He is currently at work on a book entitled Theology and Children’s Literature: An Introduction, forthcoming from Cascade Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock. In 2019 he taught a weeklong track at our Institute’s Liturgy & the Domestic Church gathering, where he focused on Forming the Sacramental Imagination of the Child through Literature------Live: www.redeemerradio.comFollow Redeemer Radio on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@RedeemerRadioFollow McGrath Institute for Church Life on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@McG

Today we talk with a Catholic philosopher whose work brings her in contact with evolution, the image of God, and extraterrestrials. Marie George is Professor of Philosophy at St. John's University. In addition to holding a Ph.D. in Philosophy, she also holds Master's degrees in Biology and in Pastoral Theology. Her interests lie primarily in the areas of natural philosophy and philosophy of science. She has received several awards from the John Templeton Foundation for her work in Science and Religion, and she was co-recipient of a grant from the Center for Theology and Natural Sciences for an interdisciplinary project entitled "The evolution of sympathy and morality." Professor George has authored over 70 peer-reviewed articles and two books Christianity and Extra Terrestrials: A Catholic Perspective and Stewardship of Creation. As well as editing The Essential Guide to Catholic Spiritual Classics.------Live: www.redeemerradio.comFollow Redeemer Radio on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@Redeem

On today's show, we're going to talk about genetic engineering, pursuing truth in a post-Christian culture and the search for Adam. Our guest is Father Nicanor Austriaco, O.P., is Professor in the Department of Biology of Providence College. He received his Ph.D. in biology from MIT and does research in experimental molecular biology. He is a Dominican priest and holds a doctorate in theology from the Univ. of Fribourg in Switzerland. Among other distinctions he is an investigator in the NIH-Rhode Island Idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence Program. He is the author of Biomedicine and Beatitude: An Introduction to Catholic Bioethics (CUA Press, 2011) and co-author of Thomistic Evolution: a Catholic approach to understanding evolution in the light of faith (Cluny Media, 2016). Fr. Nicanor is on the Board of the Society of Catholic Scientists.------Live: www.redeemerradio.comFollow Redeemer Radio on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@RedeemerRadioFollow McGrath Institute for Church Life on Facebook

Leonard DeLorenzo asks three questions in this episode:1.Did Darwin God?2.Is the soul real?3.Is there life before death?If you're listening, just buckle up and wait for the answers because today's guest is Conor Cunningham is Associate Professor in Theology and Philosophy, and Director of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. Prof. Cunningham has degrees in Law, Philosophy, and Theology. He is the author of Genealogy of Nihilism: Philosophies of Nothing and the Difference of Theology (2002) and of the book Darwin's Pious Idea: Why the Ultra Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong (2010). He is at work on a third book that follows these previous two, with the title The Soul and the Marriage of Discourse: The Return of Scientia. Additionally, Prof. Cunningham was the writer and presenter of the multi-award winning BBC documentary "Did Darwin Kill God?"------Live: www.redeemerradio.comFollow Redeemer Radio on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@RedeemerRadi

Welcome to Church Life Today, a production of the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. I'm your host, Leonard DeLorenzo.Do you want to know when human life begins? And how to explain that to other people? That's what I'm going to ask our guest today, Dr. Maureen Condic, Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Utah Medical School. In 2015, Dr. Condic was appointed to the Pontifical Academy for Life, a distinguished group of physicians, scientists, and theologians from the international community whose mission it is to study questions and issues regarding the promotion and defense of human life from an interdisciplinary perspective.Three years later, in 2018, Dr. Condic received a Presidential appointment to the National Board of Science, the oversight body for the National Science Foundation. Her research focuses on the development and regeneration of the nervous system, spinal cord repair and regeneration, and embryonic development, whi

Roy Petifils is a licensed counselor at Pax Renewal Center in Lafayette Louisiana. Roy studied ministry and spirituality at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas and holds a masters in mental health counseling from the University of Louisiana. Roy has worked with youth and young adults for more than 20 years as minster, as teacher, school administrator, school counselor, and now as a counselor in private practice. Roy speaks all over the country and he hosts a popular podcast called Today's Teenager. His most recent book "Helping Teens with Stress, Anxiety, and Depression" is available from Ave Maria Press and today he joins us on Church Life Today.Helping Teens With Stress, Anxiety, and Depression - https://www.avemariapress.com/search/?q=roy+petitfils------Live: www.redeemerradio.comFollow Redeemer Radio on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@RedeemerRadioFollow McGrath Institute for Church Life on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@McGrathNDSubscribe to the Podcast:iTunes | Google Play | SoundClo

In 1912, a priest named Fr. John Francis Noll worked up a plan to evangelize on a broad scale and respond to some of the pressing issues of his day facing the Church. His plan came into print as the Our Sunday Visitor Newsweekly, which has been in print ever since. In 1915, as circulation and revenue grew from this and soon-to-be other publications, Fr. Noll innovated again, this time founding the Our Sunday Visitor Institute, the sole mission of which was to distribute the profits from Our Sunday Visitor’s publications to religious, educational, and charitable projects of the growing Church in the United States.More than 100 years later, this legacy of the man who would later become Archbishop Noll has funded more than $75 million through grants to support and enrich the life of the church in the United States. Today, the current President of the Our Sunday Visitor Institute, Jason Shanks, joins me to talk about the new strategic vision for the institute a century after its founding.------Live: www.redeemerr

Do you know how to talk about “gender” today? Does the Church? We might find ourselves caught up in language because we don’t know what to think about this stuff or how to think about it. What about feminism, women’s empowerment, or the question of identity? Pastoral responses, education, formation all seem to be hindered by our lack of competency and confidence. That’s why the work and witness of Abigail Favale is so important, so liberating in its own right. She’s written about her conversion to Catholicism in a new book, Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion. Her articles have been going viral online lately because she talks in substantive, clear, and compelling ways about sex, gender, contraception, feminism, abortion, and the importance of the body. She’s a scholar who communicates clearly and accessible, and what she’s communicating about is precisely what many of us feel incompetent or unconfident to talk about ourselves. She’s helping us, immensely. Dr. Favale is the director of the William P

As Leonard DeLorenzo has mentioned before on this show, the McGrath Institute for Church Life is hosting its annual Lent-to-Easter lecture series this year on C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia. We’ve welcomed two of this year’s lecturers to our show in previous weeks, and now we host a third.Dr. Rebekah Lamb is a lecturer in theology and the arts at the School of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland. She is one of the four principal faculty members in the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts. Her lecture in the Chronicles of Narnia series was on the book, “The Silver Chair.” ------RESOURCESMcGrath Narnia Resources - mcgrath.nd.edu/narniaDavid Fagerberg Interview - https://soundcloud.com/user-178289668/2019-february-16Michael Ward Interview - https://soundcloud.com/user-178289668/2019-april-6------Live: www.redeemerradio.comFollow Redeemer Radio on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@RedeemerRadioFollow McGrath Institute for Church Life on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@McGrathNDSubscribe t

Leonard DeLorenzo is joined today by Dr. John Cavadini, Director of the McGrath Institute for Church Life and professor of theology at Notre Dame. He's here to talk with us about the tradition of Marian Processions and May Crownings, because he and the McGrath Institute are hosting one that you're invited to next Saturday, May 4th at 10:30 a.m. beginning at Notre Dame's Grotto. ------RESOURCESNotre Dame’s May Crowning information – www.mcgrath.nd.edu/maycrowning. ------Live: www.redeemerradio.comFollow Redeemer Radio on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@RedeemerRadioFollow McGrath Institute for Church Life on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@McGrathNDSubscribe to the Podcast:iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloudChurch Life Today is a partnership between the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame and OSV Podcasts from Our Sunday Visitor. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

Our guest today is Obianuju Ekeocha: founder and president of Culture of Life Africa, an initiative dedicated to the promotion and defense of the African values of the sanctity of life, beauty of marriage, blessings of motherhood and the dignity of family life. Ekeocha is the author of “Target Africa: Ideological Neo-colonialism of the Twenty-first Century.” She has spoken before the United Nations & the Canadian Parliament. She’s also appeared on the BBC’s “Focus on Africa.” A practicing biomedical scientist, Ekeocha holds a Masters degree in biomedical science from the University of East London and a Bachelors degree in microbiology from the University of Nigeria. In March 2019 she delivered the annual human dignity lecture for the Office of Life and Human Dignity in our own McGrath Institute for Church Life. The title “The Primacy of Reproductive Health and Rights and the Rise of Ideological Neo-colonialism.” You can find the video of that lecture at mcgrath.nd.edu/life.------RESOURCES2019 Human Dignit

As I mentioned several weeks ago on this show, each year, the McGrath Institute for Church Life hosts a lecture series that runs through Lent and Easter, which invites people everywhere to join in a communal reading of a spiritual work for the liturgical seasons. For this year’s series, we are focusing on C. S. Lewis’s beloved children’s stories, The Chronicles of Narnia. I’m so pleased to welcome today one of our lecturers to this series, Rev. Dr. Michael Ward, who is as of last year a Catholic priest and who comes to us from the University of Oxford, where he is senior research fellow in Blackfriars Hall and Associate Member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion. Fr. Ward is the author or editor of several books, including “Heresies and How to Avoid Them”, “The Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis”, and “The Narnia Code: C.S. Lewis and the Secret of the Seven Heavens”, which was made into a one-hour documentary by the BBC. But it was of another of his books that Walter Hooper, the esteemed literary adviser t

In late February, Pope Francis called the heads of the national conference of bishops from around the world to the Vatican to address the sexual abuse and leadership crisis wracking the church and the faithful. From this side of news reports, it is something hard to know what really happened and what comes next. So we invited someone who was there to join us today to help us learn more. Kim Daniels is the associate director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, at Georgetown University. She is also a Member of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication, to which she was appointed in 2016 by Pope Francis. She joins us today to talk about the meeting in February, about reform in the church and what we can look for in terms of next steps.------Live: www.redeemerradio.comFollow Redeemer Radio on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@RedeemerRadioFollow McGrath Institute for Church Life on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@McGrathNDSubscribe to the Podcast:iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloudChurch Life Today is

We welcome Sarah Shutrop, Director of Campus Ministry at Immaculate Heart Academy in Bergen County, New Jersey. Sarah is a graduate of Rutgers University, where she studies English and Political Science, and she holds a masters degree in Theology from The University of Notre Dame. While there she focused on moral and systematic theology, she is here with us today to talk about what she is seeing in the young people she works within the High School setting, and to reflect on her mission as a Catholic campus minister at a rather prestigious Catholic High School.------Live: www.redeemerradio.comFollow Redeemer Radio on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@RedeemerRadioFollow McGrath Institute for Church Life on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@McGrathNDSubscribe to the Podcast:iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloudChurch Life Today is a partnership between the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame and OSV Podcasts from Our Sunday Visitor. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith a

Can a time of crisis become a time of hope? Can we cultivate joy, not just after, but even in the midst of scandal? Can friendship teach us how to be authentically Christian, authentically human? Beginning from a place that we may not expect - a seminary. Joining us today to talk about a vision of education and formation of seminary that led to a new collaborative conference, is Dr. Eric Mabry. Maybry is an Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology, and department chair of Christ the King Seminary, in the Diocese of Buffalo. ------RESOURCESChrist the King Seminary - https://www.cks.edu/faculty-mabry------Live: www.redeemerradio.comFollow Redeemer Radio on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@RedeemerRadioFollow McGrath Institute for Church Life on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@McGrathNDSubscribe to the Podcast:iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloudChurch Life Today is a partnership between the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame and OSV Podcasts from Our Sunday Visitor. Discover more ways to li

Each year the McGrath Institute for Church Life hosts a lecture series that runs through Lent and Easter. Which invites people from everywhere to join in a communal reading of a spiritual work for the liturgical season. Two years ago, we focused on Donte’s Divine comedy, last year it was the book of Exodus, and this year it will be C.S. Lewis’ beloved children’s stories the Chronicles of Narnia.As with Dante and the book of Exodus, the Chronicles of Narnia can become an occasion for making a spiritual journey through these seasons. Allowing your imagination, and really your kids’ imaginations, to move in a land where renunciation and trust, belief and bravery, hope and longing, are all prime themes surrounding characters that we come to know and love.Practically speaking these books work well because if you begin reading the first book of the series in the week of Ash Wednesday, and read one book every two weeks, you’re going to finish the last book by Pentecost. So, it is really from Lent through Easter. Thi

We welcome John Carr, Director of the initiative on Catholic Social thought and public life at Georgetown University. He also serves as the Washington correspondent for America Magazine, and as an adjunct professor in Georgetown's Theology Department. For 20 years Mr. Carr was the Director of the Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Late last year Mr. Carr wrote an article in America names "Eight lessons to help us move forward from the sex abuse crisis". As the heads of all the Bishops' conferences from around the world meet at the Vatican soon to confront this crisis, we invited Mr. Carr to join us and offer us his insights, both about this crisis and in relation to its broader work in his initiative at Georgetown.------RESOURCESJohn Carr - Georgetown University - https://catholicsocialthought.georgetown.edu/people/john-carrJohn Carr - America Magazine - https://www.americamagazine.org/voices/john-carrEight lessons to hel