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Kresta in the Afternoon – May 22, 2024 – Hour 2

Marcus Peter and Terrence Sweeney look at true diversity in education and Robert Kloska shares why he thanks God for pain. 

 

Thank God for Pain

How much worse off we would all be without physical pain! As counterintuitive as it sounds, pain is your friend. Pain is a mechanism to warn you that something is wrong. Twenty years ago, it was pain that made Robert Kloska go see a doctor – who was able to catch his growing cancer before it was too late. Robert shares more on why he is grateful for pain.

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Thank God for Pain 

 

Robert Kloska is a husband and a father of five children. Armed with a rosary and degrees from the University of Notre Dame and Franciscan University of Steubenville, he once founded a Catholic radio station and has worked as a high school theology teacher, a college philosophy professor, a liturgist, an RCIA director, a speaker, an expedition leader to Africa, and is now a banker at Notre Dame Federal Credit Union, the largest Catholic-oriented credit union in America. Check out his private backyard pub, St. Peter’s Pub, on Facebook and Instagram.

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Institutional Diversity and Identity in Catholic Education

Bland sameness afflicts much of life today. Wherever one turns these days, it is hard to miss some institution proclaiming its commitment to diversity. Businesses, the military, churches, and, especially, universities all claim to be diverse places. But behind these identical claims to difference there is a rush towards sameness, a rush that is particularly acute at the university level. Terrence Sweeney joins us with more.

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Institutional Diversity and Identity in Catholic Education

 

 

Terence Sweeney is Assistant Teaching Professor in the Honors Program and Humanities Department at Villanova University. His work centers on Augustine but extends to medieval thought, philosophical theology, and political theory.

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