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Ave Maria in the Afternoon – September 30, 2024 – Hour 2

Wes Smith looks at the link between Euthanasia and organ harvesting and we celebrate St Jerome’s role in translating the Scriptures with Daniel Lendman.

 

‘The Five Priests’ Tells Heroic True Story of the Shreveport Martyrs

The Five Priests, a full-length documentary film about five French-born priests known as the “Shreveport Martyrs” who gave their lives ministering to the sick during the devastating Yellow Fever epidemic of 1873 in Shreveport, Louisiana, will premiere Oct. 8 on EWTN. Doug Keck tells us more.

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To Watch on EWTN: ‘The Five Priests’ Tells Heroic True Story of the Shreveport Martyrs

Doug Keck is the President and COO of EWTN

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Medical Journal Pushes Conjoining Euthanasia and Organ Harvesting

Back in 1993, Wes Smith wrote an opinion piece warning that if we legalized assisted suicide, harvesting would inevitably be included as a “plum to society.” Readers accused him of being an alarmist. But today it has come to pass. Wes joins us.

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Medical Journal Pushes Conjoining Euthanasia and Organ Harvesting

The Whispers of Strangers

The ‘Suicide Capsule’ Claims Its First Victim

The ‘Suicide Pod’ Claims Its First Victim, Delighting Its Inventor

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Wesley J. Smith Smith is the Chair and Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. He’s the author of 13 books including “Culture of Death: The age of Do-Harm Medicine.” Follow him on Twitter @thewesleyjsmith and check out his articles at National Review, First Things and more.

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St Jerome and the Translation of the Scriptures

Today we celebrate the Feast of St Jerome, the early Christian theologian who translated the Bible into Latin. We discuss his role in bringing us the Scriptures with Daniel Lendman.

 

Dr. Daniel Lendman is associate professor of theology at Ave Maria University.

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