Listen to program #08-31 (July 28, 2008) (Help)

iTunes | Windows Media |  RSS

Listen to archived programs

Highlights from this episode of American Catholic Radio include:

St. Pedro de San José Betancur is known as the “St. Francis of the Americas.” This 17th-century saint came from poverty himself and was renowned for relating to both rich and poor.

Producer Judy Zarick talks with David Golemboski, recipient of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development’s Cardinal Bernardin New Leadership Award for demonstrating leadership in fighting poverty and injustice in the United States. He's in his first year at Harvard Divinity School.

Scripture scholar Franciscan Father Hilarion Kistner answers e-mail questions:
• Where in the Bible is the Trinity explained?
• What do we know about the Essene movement?
• Did the same person write the Gospel of John and the Letters of John?

This program’s Minute Meditation is “Unwrapped Peppermint,” written and read by Ursuline Sister Bridget Haase.

Father Norman Langenbrunner tells us about a whole group of New Testament letters attributed to Paul. But scripture scholars tell us not all of these were actually written by the saint.

Producer John Feister talks with Franciscan Father Joe Nangle about political- and social-responsibility issues. Father Nangle serves as co-director of the Franciscan Mission Service in Washington. Among his books are Birth of a Church, a Catholic Press Association award winner, and Engaged Spirituality: Faith Life in the Heart of the Empire, published by Orbis Books.