Program #0525 for Thursday, June 13, 2013: Priest convocation; Phase 1; Remembering four deceased priests; Fortnight for Freedom; Pope Francis’ daily homilies and impromptu Q&A with kids; Addressing diplomats and Latin American religious

Today’s topics: Headlines: Priest convocation; Phase 1; Remembering four deceased priests; Fortnight for Freedom; Pope Francis’ daily homilies and impromptu Q&A with kids; Addressing diplomats and Latin American religious

Summary of today’s show: Our usual Thursday panel of Scot Landry, Susan Abbott, Fr. Roger Landry, and Gregory Tracy considered the headlines of the week, including the annual priest convocation of the archdiocese at which Archbishop Rino Fisichella of the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization spoke on the New Evangelization; the first phase of the Disciples in Mission pastoral plan begins with new pastors taking charge of their collaboratives; Remembering four priests in the Archdiocese who have died since our most recent news show in May, including Fr. Brian Smith, Fr. William Dunn, and Msgr. Robert Fischner; the 2nd Fortnight for Freedom begins Friday, June 21; Pope Francis’ daily reform of the Church through his daily Mass homilies; the Pope’s decision not to summer at Castel Gandolfo and an impromptu Q&A with some schoolkids; an address to Vatican diplomats that warned about careerism and one to Latin American religious that spoke of a gay lobby in the Vatican.

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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.

• “Office goes on the road to support phase one of pastoral plan”, The Boston Pilot, 6/7/13

• “Meet our priests: Father Brian Smith”, The Boston Pilot, 11/28/08
• “West Roxbury parishioners remember Father Dunn”, Wicked Local Roslindale, 5/29/13
• Fortnight for Freedom 2013
• “US dioceses prepare for second Fortnight for Freedom”, CNA/EWTN News, 6/5/13
• Radio Vatican
• “Pope Francis decides not to spend summer at Castel Gandolfo”, Catholic News Service, 6/6/13
• “Pope nixes ‘boring’ practice of reading text to students, uses Q&A”, Catholic News Service, 6/7/13
• Address of Pope Francis to the Community of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, 6/6/13
• The Moynihan Letters