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Nuns on NPR

 
NPR did an extensive article about the Nashville Dominicans - take a look here. You can also listen to an audio version of the story on the site. Lets keep praying for more young, fervent religious sisters.

Dating and Discerning?

 

If your discerning a call to religious life what should you do about dating? Life Teen put out a good podcast about this question with some practical insights. Really good content if you're in high school and discerning a religious vocation! It comes down to what stage your at in the discernment process - listen here.

Priests in Movies

 
Life Teen did a great podcast recently on the way priests are portrayed in movies, both more recent and older movies. They spend some time talking about great Catholic movies like The Mission and also some other movies that have both good and bad elements for the Catholic priesthood like Keeping the Faith. Listen here.

Priesthood and Women, again

 

LifeTeen recently did an interview with Father Matt Lowry from the Diocese of Phoenix and Katie Heller about women and the priesthood. They talk about how a priest is the one who stands in the person of Christ. They explain how this teaching can't change in the Church because Our Lord Himself established this principle that the priesthood is reserved to men. They also talk about how this does not take away from the dignity of women and the equality between men and women. Take a listen here!

Also take a look at how CNN recently covered women and the priesthood in Catholic Church - read here. They did the story in light of Pope Benedict's upcoming trip to London and a group that will be plastering signs on buses saying how this teaching of reserving the priesthood to men only should change in the Church. Of coarse we know that this teaching can't change. The article was pretty fair in representing and expaing Church's teaching - does not happen to often! 

New Podcast

Our newest podcast is here! Listen as Fr. Bill Lago, chaplain at The College of New Jersey, shares his reflections about the daily life of a priest. Fr. Bill shares how there is never a dull day in the priesthood and how prayer remains the one constant in a life that seems to change so much. Great insight about the excitement of following a call where everyday is so different then the one that came before. Listen here.

Celibacy Podcast

Life Teen, a youth ministry organization located in Arizona, has an extensive website with all kids of stuff about the Catholic faith for teenagers. One feature of their site is an extensive podcast library. They have a podcast series called THE171 - THE171 takes questions that many of us have about the Catholic faith and in a few minutes attempts to give some Catholic answers and perspectives to our questions. One particular episode of THE171 was about celibacy and all that goes along with that - listen here - to get the celibacy podcast scroll down the list to the last podcast. Great insights about this challenging, and often misunderstood, issue.

New Podcast

Our third podcast has just been posted. Listen to Fernando Lopez as he shares about leaving the country he was raised in, Columbia, to prepare for the priesthood in the United States. Great insights from someone who traveled so far to say yes to the call of God.

New Podcast

 

A new podcast has been recorded. We recently asked Deacon Joel Wilson, who will be ordained to the priesthood this May, to share his thoughts as ordination gets closer. To listen to Deacon Joel, download the file below or click on the word podcast on the right side of this page. Listen and enjoy!

Download Rev. Mr. Joel Wilson

Vocation Story on the Radio!

One of the newly ordained in the Trenton Diocese, Fr. Jim O'Neill, recently did a program for a Catholic radio station in our area about vocations. You can listen to his whole talk here . When on the site look for Fr. Jim O'Neill's name, click on the word Monday above his name and you should be able to listen. Great insights by Fr. Jim about the priesthood!