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A note from Al: Christ's mercy meets us wherever we are to move is to where He is. Jessica's story was brought to my attention by Lynn Mills, legendary pro-life leader and long time friend. If you didn't hear it, here is a good summary. There is a link to the full interview at the bottom of the... Read more

May 6, 2015 Ave Maria Radio is excited to announce that Steve Ray's Defenders of the Catholic Faith Forums will now be hosted on the Ave Maria Radio website. The Forums, which are a Catholic Message Board originally started by popular film-maker and pilgrimage host, Steve Ray, have been quite... Read more

The Michigan Catholic May 1, 2015 Al Kresta Public relations guru Sam Singer is proud of his reputation as a cynical manipulator. In his world, power always trumps truth. Public opinion is always sweeter than authentic knowledge. Right now, Singer is pitting sacramentalized but... Read more

The Michigan Catholic April 17, 2015 Al Kresta Politics organizes our common civic life together. In contrast, the sciences figure out how the material universe works. Questions about evolution, global warming, the cause of dinosaur extinction (I’m told it wasn’t smoking or drinking but... Read more

The Michigan Catholic March 31, 2015 Al Kresta “Music comes where words fail” said St. John Paul II to American Jewish conductor Sir Gilbert Levine. I recently interviewed Levine and delighted in his story of their relationship and collaboration. It was wonderfully improbable and bore... Read more

The Michigan Catholic March 20, 2015 Al Kresta In the spring of 203, a new era in human happiness began. A young North African woman was taken into custody by Roman soldiers in Carthage, in modern Tunisia. Her name? Perpetua, 22 years old, from a good family, educated, married and nursing a... Read more

The Michigan Catholic March 6, 2015 Al Kresta A friend told me he had been to a blog which featured a section called, “How I Pray.” He added that another friend of mine, Steve Greydanus, a film critic whom I interview regularly, had challenged me to write a similar column. When I said... Read more

The Michigan Catholic February 20, 2015 Al Kresta From a cheesy bit of anonymous fan fiction with vapid characters, ludicrous plot and insipid writing, “Fifty Shades of Grey” morphed into a Harry Potter-size marketing phenomenon. When the dust settles, however, we’ll discover it was... Read more

The Michigan Catholic February 6, 2015 Al Kresta Two weeks ago, I asked a crowd of 650 educated Catholic CEOs and their spouses if they had ever seen Osama bin Laden’s 1998 Declaration of War, in which he quotes the Qur’an against U.S. actions in Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Not a single hand... Read more

The Michigan Catholic January 23, 2015 Al Kresta Martin Luther King Jr. is a hero to most Americans. Every child is taught to look up to, if not revere, him. Every rights movement polishes itself with some of King’s shine. But, given King’s almost universal stature as a modern saint... Read more