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Today’s topics: New Evangelization and Becoming a Disciple with a Testimony Summary of today’s show: A key aspect of the Disciples in Mission pastoral plan is training parish staff and parishioners in how to evangelize, especially in light of St. John Paul II’s call for a new evangelization, which is new in ardor, new in […]

Today’s topics: Catholic Faith Essentials and the New Evangelization Summary of today’s show: What is the New Evangelization and how is it being carried out in the Church, the Archdiocese of Boston, our parishes and our homes? Bishop Arthur Kennedy and Michael Lavigne join Scot Landry and Fr. Chris O’Connor to discuss the New Evangelization, […]

Today’s topics: Evangelization Trainers Summary of today’s show: As part of the Archdiocese of Boston’s ambitious pastoral plan called “Disciples in Mission”, parishes will receive special training to become centers of the new evangelization. As our guests Michael Lavigne and the archdiocese’s new evangelization trainers, Donald Smith and Amber Loosbrock, explain, this is an unprecedented […]

Today’s topics: The New Evangelization and You Summary of today’s show: The New Evangelization is the hot new term in Catholic circles lately and Greg Willits’ new book, “The New Evangelization and You”, aims to simplify the theological and spiritual implications of the New Evangelization so the average Catholic can know the faith, live the […]

Today’s topics: Milestones for Disciples in Mission Summary of today’s show: Phase one of the Disciples in Mission pastoral plan for the Archdiocese of Boston launched on June 4 with the official appointment of the new pastors of the new parish collaboratives. Fr. Paul Soper sat down with Scot Landry and Fr. Mark O’Connell to […]

Summary of today’s show: Cardinal Timothy Dolan set the tone for the semi-annual US Bishops Conference meeting in Baltimore this week in his president’s address when he exhorted his brother bishops to greater personal conversion and reconciliation and maintained that the New Evangelization is dead in the water without personal conversion and a striving for […]

Summary of today’s show: Our Thursday panel of Scot Landry, Susan Abbot, Fr. Roger Landry, and Domenico Bettinelli considered the news headlines of the week, including Cardinal Seán’s four steps to stop assisted suicide in the final four days before the election; making your vote count and Catholic citizenship; Synod recommendations for the new evangelization; […]

Summary of today’s show: The Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization that coincided with the launch of the Year of Faith wrapped up its work last week and sent a summary of their deliberations to Pope Benedict XVI for him to use as he writes his Apostolic Exhortation over the next 18 months. Scot […]

Summary of today’s show: Scot Landry and Fr. Matt Williams discuss two of the speeches by bishops at the ongoing Synod for the New Evangelization in Rome, the first by Cardinal Timothy Dolan on the Sacrament of Reconciliation as the engine of the New Evangelization and the second by Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli on the […]

Summary of today’s show: The Archdiocese of Boston is looking to the future and planning for the work of the New Evangelization. The Archdiocesan Pastoral Planning Commission has forwarded its final proposal of a pastoral plan, entitled “Disciples in Mission”, to Cardinal Seán. Scot Landry talks with Fr. Paul Soper, interim director of pastoral planning, […]