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Highlights from this episode of American Catholic Radio include:

Throughout Lent, Producer Judy Zarick will have a special guest telling a personal story of conversion. Today, she visits with Donna Steichen, a longtime investigative journalist and author of  Chosen: How Christ Sent Twenty-three Surprised Converts to Replant His Vineyard. She tells their conversion stories and why they were drawn to the Catholic Church.

Father Greg Friedman answers questions: How can a priest be returned to the lay state?  May a laicized priest be married in the Church?  How are saints' feast days chosen?  Why do Catholics have objects like rosaries blessed?

This program’s Minute Meditation is from Be Holy: A Catholic's Guide to the Spiritual Life, by Father Thomas G. Morrow, a Servant Book, published by St. Anthony Messenger Press.

Counselor and life coach, Greg and Lisa Popcak, discuss: What steps are needed to improve how anger is expressed toward my spouse? Why is it important to communicate with one another how anger was handled in our own homes growing up?

Author, religious educator and retreat leader, Alice Camille has taught ministry formation, preaching and proclamation; worked in parishes and campus ministry; supervised a shelter program for homeless women, and been active in ecumenical settings. She is an award-winning  writer who contributes regularly to a number of Catholic magazines and homily services.  She wrote this year's Lenten Catholic Update, "Lessons of the Heart: Lent, Day by Day."  Alice  speaks with Producer John Feister in the first of a two-part interview about Lent.