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Highlights from this episode of American Catholic Radio include:

Cesar Chavez is another personality featured in the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults. He was a labor organizer whose Catholic faith inspired him to better the lives and livelihood of America’s farm workers.

Ana Ashby is doing a summer internship with Interfaith Worker Justice in Minnesota. The network of people of faith calls upon our religious values in order to educate, organize and mobilize the U.S. religious community on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits and conditions for workers, and, in particular, give voice to low-wage workers.

Father Greg Friedman responds to questions:
• How can I help my divorced-and-remarried sister return to the pracitce of our faith?
• Does attending a Sunday wedding fulfill the Sunday obligation?

This program’s Minute Meditation is “Your Spiritual Garden: Tending to the Presence of God,” by Pegge Bernecker.

In observance of the Year of St. Paul, Father Norman Langenbrunner turns to the Acts of the Apostles and St. Luke’s account of what this great saint was like before his conversion. Father Norm talks about Paul’s persecution of the Church, and how his encounter with Christ worked a dramatic change in him.

Dominican Sister Mary Priniski, executive director of the Labor Guild in the Archdiocese of Boston, is a long-time advocate for the rights of workers, and now helps both employees and employers come to the table to seek justice in the workplace.