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Kresta in the Afternoon – December 7, 2023 – Hour 1

Al shares an incredible story of how a Pearl Harbor pilot found faith and forgiveness. Also, Luella D’AMico looks at Huck Finn through Catholic eyes and Peggy Stanton previews this Sunday’s Gospel reading of John the Baptist. 

 

Kresta Comments: A Pearl Harbor pilot finds faith and forgiveness

The pilot who led the attack on Pearl Harbor converted to Christianity after the war, renounced his warrior past and traveled throughout the United States, Japan and Europe preaching the word of Christ, salvation and forgiveness. Al tells the story.

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Japanese pilot who led Pearl Harbor attack learned lessons of love, faith and forgiveness after the war

Remembering Father Aloysius Schmitt, the patriotic priest of Pearl Harbor

Reading Huck Finn through Catholic Eyes

It may surprise you to learn that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, one of the most iconic American novels, was actually published in England and Canada before it was available in the US. December 10, 1884 was the day – it wouldn’t hit American stores until February of 1885. Twain begins his novel with a warning: “Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be persecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.” Nevertheless, we try to do that today – looking at Huck Finn’s world with Catholic eyes. LuElla D’Amico joins us.

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Rereading the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn With Catholic Eyes

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Dr. LuElla D’Amico is Associate Professor of English and the Women’s and Gender Studies Coordinator at the University of the Incarnate Word. She is the editor of Girls’ Series Fiction and American Popular Culture and co-editor of Reading Transatlantic Girlhood in the Long Nineteenth Century.

“Prepare the Way of the Lord!”

This Sunday’s Gospel takes us to the beginning of the Gospel of Mark. John the Baptist appears in the desert, preparing the way of the Lord and calling on all to repent. Peggy Stanton joins us to discuss more.

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Peggy’s Notes 

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Peggy Stanton is the author of From the White House to the White Cross. She's a Dame of the Order of Malta. She was ABC News’ first female Washington correspondent. She has hosted many programs on Ave Maria Radio including the Malta Minute with the Catechism. Her first book was The Daniel Dilemma: The Moral Man in the Public Arena.
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