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Ave Maria in the Afternoon – December 16, 2024 – Hour 2

We discuss the atheism of Stephen Hawking with Pat Flynn and prepare to step into the Jubliee Year with Fr. Wayne Sattler.

 

Nancy Pelosi Is Half Right: Her Soul Is Her Bishop’s ‘Problem’

The days are drawing nigh on the end of the political careers of Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi, once the two most powerful Catholic politicians in the world. The latest contribution to the duo’s “greatest misses” album came courtesy of Pelosi, who in a recent interview spoke about her strained relationship with her bishop, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone. We discuss it with Doug Keck.

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Nancy Pelosi Is Half Right: Her Soul Is Her Bishop’s ‘Problem’

Doug Keck is the President and COO of EWTN

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Stepping from the Year of Prayer into the Jubilee Year

As we’ve discussed with John Bergsma, the great Jubilee Year is about to begin. To help prepare us to enter the open Holy Doors of this coming Jubilee Year, Our Holy Father Pope Francis has beautifully dedicated this year, 2024, as the Year of Prayer, a time “to rediscovering the great value and absolute need for prayer, prayer in personal life, in the life of the Church, prayer in the world.” We discuss it with Fr. Wayne Sattler.

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The Door is Open! Stepping from the Year of Prayer into the Jubilee Year

Fr. Wayne Sattler has been a priest of the Diocese of Bismarck since 1997. He served as an instructor in two of their diocesan high schools for three years, a pastor for sixteen years, and lived a life of prayerful solitude as a diocesan hermit for six years. He is the author of the book And You Will Find Rest: What God Does in Prayer, which is presently used as a text for a class he teaches annually at the University of Mary as well as in their diocesan Permanent Diaconate Formation Program.

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Stephen Hawkings’ Atheism

Like many prominent modern thinkers, Stephen Hawking espoused the claim that that science and religion are incompatible. We respond to this claim with Pat Flynn.

 

Pat Flynn is the author of How to Be Better at (Almost) Everything and The Best Argument for God. He is a re-converted Catholic, philosopher, writer, musician, fitness and martial arts enthusiast, and husband and father of five living in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He blogs at Chroniclesofstrength.substack.com and hosts the Philosophy for the People podcast with Dr. Jim Madden

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