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Kresta in the Afternoon – August 9, 2023 – Hour 1

Fr. Patrick Briscoe gives an insight into the life of St. Dominic and we discuss Fulton Sheen’s analysis of the atomic bombings with Dr. Chris Shannon. 

 

Lessons from St Dominic

August 8 is the Feast of St. Dominic. Unlike many of our great saints, Dominic did not leave a deposit of writings to be examined and built upon. Yet this medieval Spaniard still has much to teach us today, and we see this in the way of life he left to the Church. Fr. Patrick Briscoe joins us.

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800 Years After His Death, St. Dominic Remains a Bright Light in the Church

Fr. Patrick Mary Briscoe, OP, is the cohost of the lively Dominican friars’ podcast Godsplaining. Father Patrick is editor in chief of Aleteia.org and associate chaplain at Providence College. He is also a preacher of the USCCB’s Eucharistic Revival. He is the co-author of Saint Dominic’s Way of Life: A Path to Knowing and Loving God. Follow him on Twitter @patrickmaryop

Fulton Sheen – the Broken Boundaries of the Atomic Bomb

The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki on this day in 1945. In 1974 Archbishop Fulton Sheen reflected on the bombing of Hiroshima, observing that when the boundary between military and civilian targets was broken down, many other societal boundaries followed suit. Christopher Shannon joins us with more.

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Sheen and Hiroshima

Dr. Christopher Shannon is the author most recently of American Pilgrimage: A Historical Journey through Catholic Life in a New World. He's an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Christendom College and specializes in Irish American History, American Catholic History, and Historiography. His other books include "Bowery to Broadway: The American Irish in Classic Hollywood Cinema," "Conspicuous Criticism: Tradition, the Individual, and Culture In Modern American Social Thought," and "The Past as Pilgrimage: Narrative, Tradition and the Renewal of Catholic History."
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