To restore the broken relationship between God and humanity, God selected individuals from among the Chosen People to speak and act through his spirit. Dr. Schreck introduces these…...

Dr. Schreck discusses Genesis chapter 2 and the second creation account where God breathes life into the first human. The Old Testament reveals how God gives humanity both…...

Dr. Schreck starts a new season focused on the Holy Spirit. Although the reality of God as the Blessed Trinity is not yet fully revealed in the Old…...

Dr. Alan Schreck welcomes listeners to a new weekly podcast series on the Holy Spirit. Why learn about the Holy Spirit? Because he is God, the third person…...

Pope St. John Paul II called the Second Vatican Council "the great grace God bestowed on the Church in the twentieth century" and "a sure compass to guide…...

Dr. Schreck talks about one of the Second Vatican Council's landmark documents: Declaration on Religious Liberty, or Dignitatis Humanae. This document upholds the Gospel principle that faith in…...

Dr. Schreck talks about two brief documents from the Second Vatican Council. First, Orientalium Ecclesiarum explores the rites and churches that emerged in the East and how these liturgical and…...

Part of the Second Vatican Council's overarching concern in presenting the Catholic Church's nature and mission in our times was its teaching on religious and consecrated life. Dr.…...

Some have said the Second Vatican Council was the "Council of the Laity." Dr. Schreck talks about Apostolicam Actuositatem, the council's document that activated and broadened lay people's participation in…...

Dr. Schreck talks about the Second Vatican Council's decrees on Priestly Formation (Optatam Totius) and on the Ministry and Life of Priests (Presbyterorum Ordinis). The former emphasized the…...