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RADIO INTERVIEW: Black Catholic Nuns


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Catholic Review Filed Under: Books, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Radio Interview

In “Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle,” Dr. Shannen Dee Williams provides the first full history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States. We speak with Dr. Williams about what inspired her to write this history and what she learned in her extensive research, which included a look at the Baltimore-based Oblate Sisters of Providence.

RADIO INTERVIEW: The state of the nation


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Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview

Is the United States of America in a healthy place politically and socially as we approach Independence Day 2022? Political scientist Michael Towle, a professor at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg doesn’t think so. Catholic Review editor Christopher Gunty talks with Dr. Towle about where we went wrong and whether we can heal as a nation.

New leader for Office of Black Catholic Ministries brings background in social justice


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Catholic Review Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Radio Interview, Social Justice

As Adrienne Curry prepares to take on a new role as director of the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Office of Black Catholic Ministries, she hopes to apply her extensive background in the social justice movement and her pastoral experience to support the Black Catholic community in Maryland.

RADIO INTERVIEW: A mom’s perspective on a son’s journey to the priesthood


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Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Vocations

Mary Ellen Bilenki is a parishioner of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez in Woodstock and the mother of Deacon John Bilenki, a recently ordained transitional deacon for the Archdiocese of Baltimore who is expected to be ordained a priest for the archdiocese next year. She shares a parent’s perspective of watching a son journey toward the priesthood.

RADIO INTERVIEW: Witnesses for Life: A conversation with Monsignor James Farmer


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Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Respect Life

With the Supreme Court considering overturning Roe v. Wade, Monsignor James Farmer speaks about the dignity of all human life and the call to be witnesses for life. Monsignor Farmer is the pastor of St. Thomas More in Baltimore and a longtime spiritual director to Respect Life in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

RADIO INTERVIEW: Saintly Moms: 25 Stories of Holiness


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Catholic Review Filed Under: Books, Feature, Local News, News, Parenting, Radio Interview, Saints

In honor of Mother’s Day, Kelly Ann Guest shares some insights about Catholic saints who were also moms. Kelly is a former Dominican Sister of St. Cecilia in Nashville who is now the mother of nine children. She is the youth minister at St. Bartholomew in Manchester and the author of a new book, “Saintly Moms: 25 Stories of Holiness.”

RADIO INTERVIEW: The life and spirituality of St. Charles de Foucauld


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Sister Cathy Wright, a Little Sister of Jesus and author of “St. Charles de Foucauld: His Life and Spirituality,” joins us to talk about the amazing life of a man who was a cavalry officer in the French Army, an explorer, a reformed sinner, a hermit and a priest who showed the importance of what Pope Francis has called a “culture of encounter.”

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