Catholic Connection – Nov 6, 2023 – Hr 1
Guest host Sherry Brownrigg promotes adoption and the St. Gianna and Pietro Molla Maternity Home with Mary Pat Jahner. The plight of the Christians in the Holy Land is discussed with Msgr. Eugene Morris and Elizabeth Westhoff.
Segment 1 – Intro and News
Segment 2 – St. Gianna and Pietro Molla Maternity Home
November is Adoption Month. We check in with Mary Pat Jahner of the St. Gianna and Pietro Molla Maternity Home in North Dakota. They’ve recently celebrated their 20th anniversary. Since opening its doors, Mary Pat’s home has welcomed expecting mothers and their children, offering them a supportive second family, along with every possible resource they might need to rebuild their lives. To date, they have welcomed over 300 women and children, and paved the way for over 20 adoptions. Mary Pat herself is the proud adoptive mother of a beautiful daughter from the home – read her story in this National Review op-ed.”
Mary Pat Jahner was a teacher with a vision who, with help from Catholic church officials, founded St. Gianna’s Maternity Home in Warsaw, N.D., to give women in crisis pregnancies a place to live and be cared for.
Segment 3 & 4 – The Plight of Christians in the Holy Land
Msgr. Eugene Morris is a powerful and inspiring speaker and teacher who is the Rector of the Oratory Ss Gregory and Augustine in St. Louis, MO. He’s periodically a spiritual director for Inner Life, a program on Relevant Radio and a commentator on the Son Rise Morning Show on Sacred Heart Catholic Radio in Cincinnati. Elizabeth Westhoff is Associate Dean of Communications and External Affairs at Ave Maria Law School. They are with the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, “the only lay institution of the Vatican State charged with the task of providing for the needs of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and of all the activities and initiatives to support the Christian presence in the Holy Land.”
