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Highlights from this episode of American Catholic Radio include:

Bishop John Francis Noll is highlighted in the pages of the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults. Readers of the national Catholic newspaper, Our Sunday Visitor, benefit from the legacy of this prominent figure in 20th-century American Catholicism. He was the bishop who founded that newspaper and did much more to teach and defend our faith.

This week we celebrate Pentecost. Cross International President and co-founder Jim Cavnar began his journey in the Catholic Church in a charismatic renewal group. He continues his ministry with Cross International, the 82nd largest charity in the United States.

ACR host Father Greg Friedman answers e-mailed questions: What are the vows taken by a bishop? Why isn’t Moses considered a saint? Are the sins that I accidentally forgot to mention in confession forgiven?

This program’s Minute Meditation is from Clare of Assisi: A Heart Full of Love by Illia Delio, O.S.F.

For many Catholics, the biblical phenomenon known as “praying in tongues” remains a mystery. On today’s “Bible Break,” Father Ronald Witherup, S.S., explains what the New Testament says—St. Paul in particular—about this spiritual gift.

Franciscan theologian Father Kenan Osborne joins John Feister to help fit the feast of Pentecost into its history as part of the Church’s liturgy, as well as understand its meaning for our faith. Father Osborne is professor emeritus of systematic theology at the Franciscan School of Theology, part of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, and the author of 13 books.