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Ave Maria in the Afternoon – October 23, 2024 – Hour 2

What happens when someone we love dies? We talk with Leonard DeLorenzo and Abigail Favale shares her surprising journey to the Church.

 

Our Faithful Departed: Where They Are and Why It Matters

When someone we love dies, it’s difficult to look beyond our grief to understand that they are still with us. And yet we hear in the funeral liturgy that “life is changed not ended.” Leonard DeLorenzo joins us.

Leonard J. DeLorenzo teaches theology at the University of Notre Dame, where he directs Undergraduate Studies for the McGrath Institute for Church Life. He's the author of "What Matters Most: Empowering Young Catholics for Life's Big Decisions," "Witness: Learning to Tell the Stories of Grace that Illumine Our Lives," and "Work of Love."

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An Unlikely Catholic Conversion

As a college student, Abigail Favale experienced a feminist awakening that reshaped her life and faith. A decade later, on the verge of atheism, she found herself entering the oldest male-helmed institution on the planet–the last place she expected to be. She shares her story.

Dr. Abigail Favale is a writer and professor at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. She's the author most recently of The Genesis of Gender and her writings can be found at First Things, the Public Discourse, the Atlantic and other publications. Don't miss her memoir Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion. Follow her on Twitter @favaleabs.

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