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Ave Maria in the Afternoon – August 27, 2024 – Hour 1

We discuss secularism and higher education with Rodney Howsare and Lindsay Schlegel asks if younger generations are capabale of imagining a happy death.

 

Marcus’ Monologue: Women in Prayer

St Monica, mother of Augustine, spent 30 years praying for her son’s conversion to Christianity. Marcus celebrates her feast day.

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Secularism and Catholic higher education in America

Some Catholic universities seem to have the attitude that secularism is benign and that, largely, secular ethics are humanistic and compatible with Catholic ethics. It is a serious and destructive error. Rodney Howsare joins us with more.

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Secularism and Catholic higher education in America

Rodney Howsare is Professor of Theology at DeSales University, where he has taught for 25 years. His books include Hans Urs von Balthasar and Protestantism and Balthasar: A Guide for the Perplexed. His articles have appeared in various journals including, Communio, Nova et Vetera, and Pro Ecclesia. He is currently working on an annotated version of G. K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy.

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Is My Generation Capable of a Happy Death?

In a culture that eschews suffering and looks away from anything but a sanitized experience of death, are our younger generations even capable of imagining a “Happy” death? Lindsay Schlegel joins us.

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Is My Generation Capable of a Happy Death?

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Lindsay Schlegel is a freelance writer and editor, author of Don’t Forget to Say Thank You: And Other Parenting Lessons That Brought Me Closer to God, co-author of The Road to Hope: Responding to the Crisis of Addiction, and a student at The University of St. Thomas, Houston, where she is pursuing a master of fine arts degree in creative writing. Lindsay lives in New Jersey with her family.

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