On 26 September 1997, two severe earthquakes struck Assisi killing ten people, including two Franciscan friars. The quakes severely damaged the Basilica of St. Francis, the mother church of the Franciscan community. The first first quake struck in the early morning and measured 5.5 on the Richter Scale. It caused major cracks in the ceiling [...]
On 27 August 410, Alaric and the Visigoths completed their three-day sack of the city of Rome which began on 24 August. The Visigoths did relatively little damage to the city and the churches, however they did take much of the movable wealth. The Visigoths were Arians and treated the Romans as fellow Christians. Still, [...]
On 30 May 1963, more than 500 Buddhist monks protested in front of the National Assembly in Saigon against the policy of the South Vietnamese government which promoted Catholicism but restricted Buddhism. While there had been a ban on public assembly, the monks evaded this ban by arriving at the National Assembly in buses with [...]
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In this episode, I try to tackle the sticky problem of predestination – if God knows all we do, how can we be free? I also talk about some movie news. Links: The Nativity Story Catholic Praise Cast Catholic Rockers Going Fourth “Find A Way” by Road Trip from Podsafe Music Send e-mail question and [...]
My computer has gone temporarily kaput which means that I will be unable to record any new podcasts until it gets repaired. Sorry, I’ll be posting new podcasts as soon as possible.
I did an interview with Fr. Michael Scanlon, TOR about the Cursillo movement which you can hear over at the Going Fourth podcast along with a piece from Dr. Scott Hahn. Check it out!
I had some problem getting the last episode up. First Blogger saved it several times without me realizing it. Then it collapsed before I could delete the extras. My apologies to anyone who was inconvenienced. I knew that the date 06/07/06 was going to be unlucky!
I noticed after the first couple of downloads of episode #43 went out that I had the wrong tags for the file – the size of the file is also too short, the file should be almost one hour long. The corrected version is okay, but those who downloaded it before 11PM on Sunday night [...]
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