Kresta in the Afternoon – October 9, 2019 – Hour 2
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+ Synod Bishop: Indigenous People Do Not Understand Celibacy (2 segments)
- Description: Some representatives of the Synod continue to make their case for priestly ordination of married men in the Amazon region. Bishop Erwin Krautler, an Austrian who has served in the region since the 1960s, said today that the indigenous people in the region "do not understand celibacy...they cannot understand that a man is not married, that he does not have a woman taking care of the home." We look at this and the latest from the Synod with Matthew Bunson.
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Dr. Matthew Bunson
Matthew Bunson is Executive Editor of EWTN News and a Senior Fellow at St Paul Center for Biblical Theology. He’s the author or co-author of more than 50 books including the first English-language biography of Pope Francis and The Encyclopedia of Catholic History. Follow him on twitter at MattBunson. Register Radio airs Saturdays at 7 pm and Sundays at 11 am.
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+ The Amazing Life of Rita Rizzo
- Description: In 1981, Mother Angelica, a cloistered Franciscan nun, launched what became the largest religious media network in the world. The story begin in 1923 in a small home in the southeast end of Canton, Ohio. Born Rita A. Rizzo, the future Mother Angelica, grew up in a working class neighborhood during the Roaring Twenties a block away from her parish church. She had a difficult childhood that included her father abandoning the family when she was very young. How did she end up where she did? We talk with Barbara Gaskell.
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Barbara Gaskell
Barbara Gaskell is the author of The Amazing Life of Rita Rizzo and the Director of the Mother Angelica Tour.
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The Amazing Life of Rita Rizzo: The Early Years of Mother Mary Angelica
In 1981, Mother Angelica, a cloistered Franciscan nun, launched what became the largest religious media network in the world; Eternal Word Television Network. She began the network with $200 in a monastery garage in Birmingham, Alabama. EWTN now reaches 264 million homes in 145 countries and over 700 million homes with AM, FM, shortwave radio and internet. It all began in 1923 in a small home in the southeast end of Canton, Ohio. Born Rita A. Rizzo, the future Mother Angelica, grew up in a working class neighborhood during the Roaring Twenties a block away from her parish church. Young Rita had a difficult childhood. Her father, John abandoned the family before Rita was five years old. Divorce soon followed. Life was a struggle for Rita and her mother. Rita's years of trial were compounded by a debilitating stomach ailment until she was healed by Jesus through a woman named Rhoda Wise. That healing set her life on a course that would ultimately change the world........ Here is her story. (learn more)
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A Place Of Peace – November 14, 2020