Kresta in the Afternoon – August 3, 2023 – Hour 1

Author: Bryant Schoenle Published on: August 3, 2023 Published in: Al Kresta

Alexis Love shares what it’s been like to take her family of 10 to World Youth Day and Paul Shrimpton tells the story of the White Rose resistance against the Nazis.

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We took our Family of 10 to World Youth Day

Thousands of Catholics have flocked to Portugal for World Youth Day. Among them – the Love family: Al’s daughter Alexis, her husband John and their eight children. Alexis lets us know how it’s going.

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Off to WYD: Maryland family of 10 heads to Lisbon for special pilgrimage

Love Family — Alexis Love is Al’s eldest daughter. She and her husband John have eight children. John is an associate professor of systemic and moral theology at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmetsburg, Maryland. He wrote his doctoral thesis on the Eucharistic spirituality of St. John of the Cross.

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Conscience before Conformity: The White Rose Resistance to the Nazis

Much has been written and studied about the Holocaust. And, like other atrocities, we tend to focus on the crimes and the villains rather than the victims and heroes of the story. During the Nazi regime, citizens all over Europe worked to dismantle the party. Today, we look at the story of the German White Rose resistance and the life of Sophie Scholl. Paul Shrimpton joins us.