Headlines: Catholic Voices USA; Lemonade stand for the missions; Pope’s supposed “mystical experience”: Program #0567 for Thursday, August 29, 2013

Headlines: Catholic Voices USA; Lemonade stand for the missions; Pope’s supposed “mystical experience”

Today’s topics: Headlines for the Week of 8/29/13

Summary of today’s show: Our usual Thursday panel of Scot Landry, Susan Abbott, Fr. Roger Landry, and Gregory Tracy consider the headlines of the week, including Scot’s departure from the Archdiocese as Secretary for Catholic Media to head up Catholic Voices USA; a Catholic woman from Taunton who didn’t let a leg amputation prevent her from accomplishing her goals, including pilgrimage; Plymouth teens raise money for the missions with a lemonade stand; retirement of Fr. Dan Hickey; an award for the Archdiocese’s bioethicist; temporary administrator for Catholic schools; the defacing of the Try God billboards; and refutation of reports of Pope Benedict’s “mystical experience”.

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Today’s host(s): Scot Landry and Susan Abbott

Today’s guest(s): Gregory Tracy, managing editor of the Pilot, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston, and Fr. Roger Landry, pastor of St. Bernadette Parish in Fall River

Links from today’s show:

• The Anchor
• The Pilot
• Some of the stories discussed on this show will be available on The Pilot’s and The Anchor’s websites on Friday morning. Please check those sites for the latest links.
• “Landry to lead Catholic Voices USA”, The Pilot
• “Landry reflects on new position, long-time work with archdiocese”, the Pilot
• Catholic Voices USA
• The Good Catholic Life shows that mentioned Catholic Voices USA
• The Way (film)
• Program #0430 for Friday, December 7, 2012: Father Stephen Linehan and the Camino de Santiago
• “Plymouth religious ed students use lemonade stand to spread the good news”, the Pilot
• Pontifical Mission Societies of Boston
• “Father Daniel Hickey retiring from Malden parish”, The Pilot
• “Cataldo receives Catholic health care ethics award “, The Pilot
• MC Sullivan discussing bioethics on The Good Catholic Life
• “Moran appointed temporary administrator for Catholic Schools “, The Pilot
• “WQOM Mass Pike billboard defaced”, The Pilot