The Good Catholic Life

You can now subscribe to The Good Catholic Life in iTunes. With a subscription, your computer automatically will download each episode of the program after it’s available and then you can listen at your computer or on your iPod, iPhone or iPad on the go, wherever you are. Each episode will be available for downloading […]

On Thursday, March 10, 2011, Scot Landry and Susan Abbott welcome guests Greg Tracy, managing editor of The Boston Pilot newspaper; Fr. Roger Landry, pastor of St. Anthony of Padua parish in New Bedford, Mass., and editor of The Anchor, the newspaper of the Diocese of Fall River; and Maria Bain, station manager for WQOM […]

Listen to this program: Subscribe in iTunes. Today’s hosts: Scot Landry and Fr. Matt Williams Today’s topic(s): Catholics Come Home Boston, the debut of The Good Catholic Life, Ash Wednesday Today’s guest(s): Cardinal Seán O’Malley, Archbishop of Boston; Tom Peterson, founder and president of Catholics Come Home; Janet Benestad, Secretary of Faith Formation & Evangelization […]

For our special debut broadcast of The Good Catholic LIfe on Ash Wednesday, March 9, 2011, our co-host will be Fr. Matt Williams and our guests will be Cardinal Seán O’Malley, Archbishop of Boston; Janet Benestad, Secretary for Faith Formation and Evangelization in the Archdiocese of Boston; Tom Peterson, founder and president of Catholics Come […]

Stay tuned on Ash Wednesday after our debut show from 4-5pm for a special broadcast of Mass from the Pastoral Center in Braintree with Cardinal Seán O’Malley. The Mass will mark the kickoff of the Catholics Come Home initiative in Boston. This promises to be a special day for the Catholic Church in Boston and […]

Scot Landry is the Executive Director of Catholic Voices USA, a lay media effort dedicated to increasing the number of well-catechized, media-ready Catholic communicators.  Training offered by Catholic Voices seeks to form lay people to be media-friendly, studio-ready, ego-free, articulate speakers who explain Church teaching through letters to the editor, blog posts, op-eds, and radio […]

Very Rev. Mark O’Connell was ordained in 1990 as a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston. He is a graduate of Boston College, Saint John Seminary in Brighton, and of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. He holds a Doctoral Degree in Canon Law. He currently works in the Archdiocese as the […]

Susan Abbott is the Director of the Office of Religious Education of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. She has served in the office in several capacities for since 1999 and before that worked in parish-based religious education starting in 1981. She currently or previously has served on the boards of the National Conference of […]

Rev. Christopher O’Connor is a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston, President of the Theological Institute for the New Evangelization, and the Vice-Rector of St. John’s Seminary. He was ordained in 1998 after studying at St. John’s and at the Gregorian University in Rome. He received a Doctorate in Philosophy from Catholic University of America […]

Fr. Matt Williams is the Director of the Office for New Evangelization of Youth and Young Adults (ONE). He was ordained a priest of Jesus Christ for the Archdiocese of Boston in May of 2003. He served as Parochial Vicar at St. Mary’s Parish in Dedham, MA for four and half years. In 2006 he […]