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Ave Maria in the Afternoon – August 21, 2024 – Hour 2

Kevin Schmiesing discusses the social injustice of social security, Andrea Picciotti-Bayer looks at how gender ideology is affecting Foster care, and Dan Meola discusses healing the wounds of adult children of divorce.

 

How Gender Ideology Is Forcing Christian Families Out of Foster Care

The “transing” of America’s foster care system is under way, and Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz are totally on board. It doesn’t bother them that injecting trans ideology into foster care means that some vulnerable children are banned from finding new homes with loving families. It’s already happening. Andrea Picciotti-Bayer explains.

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How Gender Ideology Is Forcing Christian Families Out of Foster Care

How Trans Ideology Is Infecting The Foster Care System

Andrea Picciotti-Bayer is a legal analyst for EWTN News. She also directs the Conscience Project. Follow her on Twitter @bayerpicciotti and visit conscience-project.org.

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The Social Injustice of Social Security

Social Security is a concern for millions of Americans. Some rely on it to make ends meet. Others wonder if they spent their careers paying into the program, only to retire just in time for it to run out. Unraveling a program that is deeply embedded in our politics and culture won’t be easy, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be attempted.  Kevin Schmiesing joins us with more.

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The Social Injustice of Social Security

Kevin Schmiesing is the author of A Catholic Pilgrimage through American History: People and Places that Shaped the Church in the United States. He lectures on Church history for Mount St. Mary’s Seminary and School of Theology in Cincinnati, Ohio, and serves as director of research at the Freedom and Virtue Institute. He served as a research fellow at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty from 1999 to 2020. He also cohosts the podcast Catholic History Trek on Spotify and YouTube and has contributed to Catholic World Report and Crisis magazine.

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Healing the Wounds of Adult Children of Divorce

Social Science data supports what the Church always said – divorce has a devastating impact on children. And there are now resources to help kids when their parents split up. But what about the adults whose parents divorced decades ago, and were never given the tools to heal? Dan Meola joins us with a path to recovery for adult children of divorce.

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Life-Giving Wounds website 

Dr. Daniel Meola earned his Ph.D. in Theology of Marriage and Family from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Washington, D.C. He and his wife Bethany founded Life-Giving Wounds ministry to give voice to the pain of young adults and adults whose parents have divorced or separated, and to bring Christ’s transformative healing to them. They are authors of the book Life-Giving Wounds: A Catholic Guide to Healing for Adult Children of Divorce or Separation (Ignatius Press, 2023). In their work, they have established Life-Giving Wounds chapters all across the United States and Canada, and have accompanied well over a thousand people with their relational wounds and know very intimately the challenges, success, and hope of healing.

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