Ave Maria in the Afternoon – January 29, 2025 – Hour 1
Did Joe Biden join the Freemasons? Tom Nash joins us and Marcus looks at how the 1960s sent the US “Stumbling toward Utopia.”
Did Joe Biden join the Freemasons? Tom Nash joins us and Marcus looks at how the 1960s sent the US “Stumbling toward Utopia.”
Andrea Picciotti-Bayer has details on President Trump’s Executive Order restricting transgender treatment for minors and Travis Curtright discusses Thomas More’s example of holiness. We also talk AI and Deepfakes with Mike Dougherty.
Is accepting a presidential pardon an admission of guilt? It’s a tricky answer, and Ave Maria School of Law’s John Czarnetzky helps us break it down. We also look at more atrocities by the Ortega regime in Nicaragua and Frank Beckwith shares why he “never doubts” Thomas Aquinas.
Are your toddler’s tantrums getting the best of you? Dr Greg Popcak has some tips. Then we open the phone lines to hear your stories on how you have educated your kids – what has worked? What hasn’t worked? Marcus takes your calls.
Marcus has a reflection for Holocaust Remembrance Day and we discuss Fr. Walter Ciszek and faith vs fear in the gulag with John Dejak. Also, Olivia Spears looks at how parables are used to share the faith.
Why is the Traditional Latin Mass so popular among youth? Phil Campbell joins us. We also discuss Catholic education beyond the classroom with Doug Keck and man’s quest for immortality with Matthew Becklo.
Denyse Shannon shares why she traded news work for pro-life work and we get a report on the pardoned pro-lifers with Michael New. We also talk with Pat-Oedy Murray about building a culture of virtue, and Marcus reflects on how pornography inhibits building a Culture of Life.
Steve Ray takes us down the Road to Damascus to celebrate the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul and we unpack the Sunday readings with Rob Corzine and discuss why it was so scandalous when Jesus declared the Scriptures had been fulfilled.
We talk with Wes Smith about President Trump’s decision to pull the US out of the World Health Organization, and Mary-Rose Verret gives us a look at the “Sneauxmageddon” striking Louisiana.
A new CARA study shows a sharp decline in credible allegations against priests. Matthew Bunson has more and we talk with Shawn McGhee about how the revolution transformed the American identity.