Feb 2024
The Catholic Church and Slavery
Dr. Paul Kengor
Franciscan University
For over three decades, Franciscan University Presents has aired monthly on EWTN for over three decades and discussed a range of topics with some of the world’s top Catholic scholars, thinkers, and leaders.
Guest: Dr. Katharina Westerhorstmann
What does it mean to be human? Can human vulnerability help us understand our own humanity more deeply? Can we learn to live through suffering? How can illness…...
Guest: Sister Faustina Maria Pia Bianchi, SV
What does it mean to trust in Jesus? And what do we stand to gain if we can overcome our fears? Sister Faustina Maria Pia Bianchi, SV, author…...
Guest: Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone
What does it really mean for us to receive Communion, and are any of us truly worthy? Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and…...
Guest: Dr. Regis Martin
Why did Jesus allow his friends Martha and Mary to experience the trauma of their brother’s death? What does it mean when God weeps? What does the Lord…...
Guest: Father Gerald Murray
Why is there so much confusion about what is true? How do we navigate the crises we face not just in the world but in the Church? How…...
Guest: Fr. Carter Griffin
Social norms change, but Church teaching doesn’t. How do Catholics prepare themselves to talk about difficult or unpopular Church teachings? Is there a way to do that effectively…...
Guest: Noelle Mering
Why does tolerance seem to go only in one direction these days? Why is dysfunction being normalized and even celebrated? How did violence and division come to be…...
Guest: Mike Aquilina
People today are hyper-connected—and profoundly lonely. Are we in a crisis of friendship? And do the ancient Church Fathers say anything remotely relevant to friendship in the 21st…...
Guest: Dr. Bob Schuchts
What happens when we receive the sacraments? How do they heal our deepest wounds? How do we access their full grace and power? Dr. Bob Schuchts, founder of…...
Guest: Emily Stimpson Chapman
As the world’s brokenness grows and the culture strays farther and farther from a Christian worldview, how are Christians called to navigate this brokenness and respond to it?…...
