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Kresta in the Afternoon – November 29, 2023 – Hour 2

St. Mary’s College will admit “anyone who consistently lives as a woman.” Mary Rice Hasson joins guest host Pete Burak. Also, Jay Copp tells the unknown Catholic backstory of Chicago’s O’Hare Airport.

 

The Catholic Story behind O’Hare Airport

You’ve probably heard of Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, one of the busiest airports in the world. But did you know it’s named after a Catholic WWII pilot? We get the story from Jay Copp, who has other examples of things you never knew were Catholic.

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80 Years Ago Today, Catholic WWII Hero Edward O’Hare Flew His Final Mission

Jay Copp is the author of 150 People, Places and Things you Never Knew were Catholic

Indiana Catholic women’s college now accepting men who identify as women

St. Mary’s College in Indiana has announced that it now “considers admission for undergraduate applicants whose sex is female or who consistently live and identify as women.” Mary Rice Hasson joins us with more.

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Person and Identity Project 

Indiana Catholic women’s college now accepting men who identify as women

Rhoades urges St. Mary’s College to ‘correct’ transgender policy

Mary Rice Hasson is the Kate O’Beirne Fellow in Catholic Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Ceetner, where she also directs the Catholic Women’s Forum. She’s the co-author of Get Out Now: Why You Should Pull Your Child from Public School before it’s Too Late and the editor of Promise and Challenge: Catholic Women Reflect on Feminism, Complementarity and the Church. Visit eppc.org and follow her on Twitter @maryricehasson

Word of God, Words of Men

St. Paul gave thanks for the Christians in Thessalonica, that “in receiving the word of God from hearing us, you received not a human word but, as it truly is, the word of God, which is now at work in you who believe.”

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Word of God, Words of Men

Fr. Timothy V. Vaverek, STD has been a priest of the Diocese of Austin since 1985 and is currently pastor of Assumption parish in the city of West. His studies were in Dogmatics with a focus on Ecclesiology, Apostolic Ministry, Newman, and Ecumenism. His new book is As I Have Loved You: Rediscovering Our Salvation in Christ
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