Kresta in the Afternoon – January 29, 2024 – Hour 2
Cynthia Scodova shares how the gift of motherhood led her to the Church.
Dachau's Priest Barracks: A Holocaust Story You Probably Haven’t Heard
The most famous priest to be killed by the Nazis is probably Saint Maximilian Kolbe, who died in Auschwitz in 1941. But he was far from the only priest to be murdered. Three of the thirty barracks at the Dachau concentration camp were occupied by clergy, and of the 2,720 men imprisoned there, 2,579 were Catholics. More than a third of the men in the “priest block” died there. Fr Joseph Fessio joins us with their stories.
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A Child Who Led Me — From Liberal Feminism to Life
Cynthia Scodova was raised in a Fundamentalist branch of Protestant Christianity during the 60s and 70s. As a teenager she was drawn toward nature mysticism and eastern philosophies, and a few years later she found herself fully embracing the “spirituality” of the liberal movements of the 70s and 80s. She did eventually marry, though she did not want kids – but it was her first child that began her journey to the Church. She joins us.
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