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Wednesday, April 11, 2018

From The Crusades To The Holocaust: Why History and Love Stories Matter

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Religion, violence, anti-semitism, and the fate of the Catholic Church. All subject as contemporary as today’s headlines. To often we see ...

Saturday, December 26, 2015

A spotlight on child abuse at the Horace Mann School

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No matter how many times we hear the stories of pedophile priests in the Catholic Church, it’s hard to grasp that such things could go on, ...

Monday, March 16, 2015

Gary Wills on The Future of the Catholic Church

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If there is a single point of cognitive dissonance in our world today, it revolves around change. We love change. We think we like to embr...

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

The Vatican: One Year After Francis

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Winston Churchill one refereed to the former Soviet Union as an enigma, wrapped in "a riddle, surrounded by mystery." Much the sam...

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

A cancer on the Church..that didn't have to happen

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Just recently we heard about tens of millions of dollars in cash being laundered in the Vatican. Clearly the Vatican and the Catholic Church...

Friday, May 31, 2013

"Priest, Author, Scholar, Scold." RIP

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The New York Times in their obituary called him a "Priest, Author, Scholar, Scold." Andrew Greeley was all of these. “A Roman Cat...

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Jeff Schechtman: Napa, California, United States; I grew up during the Kennedy Presidency. It was a time when the best and the brightest sat center stage in the nation's psyche. I've always remembered the story, that at an arts gala at the White House, Kennedy looked around the room and proclaimed it "the greatest gathering of talent since Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Without the benefit of such trappings, I've had the opportunity, for the past nineteen years, to have a seat at an international banquet of ideas and history. My radio program provided me a unique opportunity to "travel" around the world and speak to thousands of the most imaginative thinkers and leaders in the arenas of politics, religion, journalism, business, popular culture, academics, science, economics, history, and medicine. During these years, I have taken many people with me on this journey. It has been a momentous time. The trauma of politics, the onslaught of technology, the insights of science, and the changes in the human condition make this a period almost unequaled in history. I'm excited that technology has now made it possible for me to take more of you along with me on this journey.

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