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Kresta in the Afternoon – May 15, 2024 – Hour 2

Francis Maier has spoken with dozens of American Catholics about their view on the state of the American Church. He joins guest host Marcus Peter.

 

A Child’s Chance to Escape Poverty and Danger

Once a year in Tanzania, on its world-forgotten islands, unvisited mountainsides, and in jungles and brush with man-eating animals, the Sisters of Mary enter some of the most dangerous villages in Africa to recruit their incoming class. Kevin Wells joins us with the story.

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Tanzania Testing Day: A Child’s Chance to Escape Poverty and Danger

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Kevin Wells is a former Major League Baseball writer, award-winning journalist, and Catholic speaker. He is the author of Priest and Beggar: The Heroic Life of Venerable Aloysius Schwartz (Ignatius Press) and the bestselling The Priests We Need to Save the Church and Burst. Kevin is an active evangelist, writer, and podcaster (One 2 One Podcast) who has presented at conferences and seminaries nationally and internationally. He lives in Maryland with his wife and children.

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Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church

Over the past decade Rome has been marked with sharp, and often unwarranted, criticism of the Church in the United States and American Catholic life.  But very few of the critics have taken the time to talk, systematically, with a wide range of U.S. Catholics to understand their concerns. Francis Maier has had those conversations. He joins us.

Francis X. Maier is a senior fellow in Catholic Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C. He served for 23 years as senior aide and special assistant to Archbishop Charles Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., in Denver and Philadelphia. He previously served for 15 years as editor-in-chief of the National Catholic Register newsweekly, and earlier still as a screenwriter and story analyst based in Los Angeles.

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