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Fr Peter George Flynn presents on St Teresa of Avila's devotion to St Joseph — and her understanding of why he alone among the saints has no particular patronage, because he can be called on in every kind of need. The episode closes with the story of a destitute Carmelite convent in Gallipoli, Italy, where […] L'articolo Catechesis – Calling on St Joseph in Every Need – Fr Peter George Flynn OFMConv proviene da Radio Maria.

Deacon Thady presents from Kilcommon and is joined by Fr Afonso, a Galician priest who lives in Finisterre — the end of the earth — and watches hundreds of Camino pilgrims arrive at the cliff's edge daily, unable to go any further, and turn back. The episode includes the testimony Fr Afonso shared publicly for […] L'articolo RM Breakfast Show – A Testimony Never Shared Before – Deacon Thady O'Connor and Fr Afonso proviene da Radio Maria.

Mary Stenson records from the Legion house at 28 Mountjoy Square with Anna Bonner, a member for 55 years whose presidium is the same one Edel Quinn belonged to. The episode covers Anna's Peregrinatio pro Christo work in Finland, Germany and England — including the moment a visiting group of German legionaries arrived in Dublin […] L'articolo All Things Legion – The Legion Around the World – Mary Stenson and Anna Bonner proviene da Radio Maria.

If families are weakening, communities are fragmenting, and government seems to be taking on more responsibility every year, who is actually meant to build a healthy society? This episode explores the Catholic principle of subsidiarity—the wisdom that responsibility should remain as close as possible to the people affected. Discover why parents are the first educators, families […] L'articolo Science, Religion, and the Modern World – Who Should Really Raise Society? – Michael Flanagan and Gerard McReavy proviene da Radio Maria.

Donal O'Sullivan Latchford and Fr Eamonn McCarthy devote much of the episode to the death of Anne Widdecombe — the politician and Catholic convert who was defined, those who knew her say, by her faith, and who was, in the words of a gay colleague who disagreed with her on almost everything, “there for me […] L'articolo Hope in the Media – The Legacy of Anne Widdecombe – Fr. Eamonn McCarthy & Dónal O'Sullivan-Latchford proviene da Radio Maria.

Fr Peter George Flynn examines Matthew 23:9 — “Call no one your father on earth” — and why Catholics call priests Father despite it. The episode traces the scriptural basis for spiritual fatherhood, works through the three titles Jesus actually names in the passage (Rabbi, Father, Master), and includes the story of a Catholic priest […] L'articolo Catechesis – Call No Man Father? What About Priests? – Fr Peter George Flynn OFMConv proviene da Radio Maria.

Fr Billy Swan presents from Rome on the feast of St Bonaventure, opening with the Parable of the Sower and a question he heard Pope Benedict ask at the 2009 Chrism Mass, from twenty yards away: “Are we truly pervaded by the word of God… even more than bread and the things of this world?” […] L'articolo RM Breakfast Show – Prophet of God's Beauty: St Bonaventure – Fr. Billy Swan proviene da Radio Maria.

Nick Koeppel presents a solo teaching episode on John Paul II's Love and Responsibility, working through the three forms of love Wojtyła distinguished — attraction, desire, and goodwill — before arriving at the four marks of Christ's love on the cross: free, total, faithful, and fruitful. The episode also addresses the Catechism's direct statement that […] L'articolo Body Talk – Seeking Pleasure in Conjugal Love – Nick Koeppel proviene da Radio Maria.

Mary teaches how to bake a delicious, three-tier pineapple based sponge cake perfect for a surprise party. If you would like to follow along with the recipe, please click here. We would love to see how this recipe turns out for you! Please WhatsApp your home baking images to 089-4672000 or info@radiomaria.ie. L'articolo E38 | Let's Bake – Surprise Party Cake proviene da Radio Maria.

Caroline Busher is joined by Anna Healy and Monica Riley to review Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, a story following Charles Ryder's decades-long entanglement with an aristocratic Catholic family and the faith he cannot quite leave behind. The episode turns on a Chesterton image Waugh borrowed — the sinner on a thread who goes further […] L'articolo E11 | The Radio Maria Book Club – “Brideshead Revisited” by Evelyn Waugh proviene da Radio Maria.

Margaret presents from Cork on the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, using the occasion to discuss the wildflowers of the mountain — anemones, wild tulips, cyclamens and irises flooding the plains in spring, the Judas tree, and the Arbutus that is native to Kerry growing there too. She returns to the summer garden: […] L'articolo Sow and Grow – Mountain Wildflowers – Margaret Griffin proviene da Radio Maria.

Brendan Walsh presents the second of four episodes on the Holy Spirit, drawing a distinction he says he has observed across decades of ministry: healing is not the same as curing, and very often when the soul is healed, the body follows. The episode turns on what Brendan calls the most commonly misunderstood fact about […] L'articolo God's Healing Power Hour – Does Jesus Still Heal Today – Brendan Walsh proviene da Radio Maria.

Fr Peter George Flynn presents on the Carthusians — the only religious order in the Catholic Church that has never needed to be reformed, whose motto stat crux dum volvitur orbis (the cross is steady while the world turns) is reflected in a daily life built around solitude, silence, and vigils at midnight. The episode […] L'articolo Catechesis – The Carthusians: An Order Never Reformed – Fr Peter George Flynn OFMConv proviene da Radio Maria.

Join us for the fourth installment of our six-part special series exploring personal stories of devotion to St Thérèse of Lisieux. Each week, Noel Shannon is joined by Fr Michael McGoldrick OCD, Marcie Sweeney Duggan and Elaine Jackson. In this episode, Fr Michael continues his account of St Thérèse's final eighteen months: the Holy Thursday […] L'articolo E4 | The Little Flower Hour – St Thérèse's Final Sufferings proviene da Radio Maria.

Brendan Walsh opens the first episode of a four-week series on the Holy Spirit, drawing on 46 years of healing and evangelization ministry. His opening observation sets the frame: in the Old Testament, the Spirit came on only one person at a time — a prophet — and what Christ's death and resurrection made possible […] L'articolo God's Healing Power Hour – The Holy Spirit: Before and After Jesus' Resurrection – Brendan Walsh proviene da Radio Maria.

Eoin and Fr Chris Garrett — back from his annual retreat at a Benedictine abbey near Warrenpoint — work through the YouCat on the third and fourth commandments: why Christians worship on Sunday rather than Saturday, and what the obligation to honour your parents actually requires, and why it's the most common sin confessed by […] L'articolo YouChat – Honouring Your Abusive Parent? – Fr Chris Garrett and Eoin Brennan proviene da Radio Maria.

Fr. Peter George Flynn and Sean Pilcher of Sacra Relics of the Saints tell the three-century detective story of the relics of St John Southworth — the last priest tried and hanged by Oliver Cromwell, whose body was buried in secret in France with a hand-drawn map noting the coffin was exactly six feet deep. […] L'articolo E4 | The Relic Hunter – The Hunt For Cromwell's Last Martyr – Sean Pilcher & Fr. Peter George Flynn proviene da Radio Maria.

John and Eoin return from Lourdes with a topic that begins in the Book of James (“the tongue is a deadly fire”) and ranges through sports psychology, the self-fulfilling prophecy, and the 1986 US Masters. Through of the lens of Jack Nicklaus's positive response to a journalist who wrote that he was “finished” is instructive; […] L'articolo Peace of Mind – Writing People Off – John Farren and Eoin Brennan proviene da Radio Maria.

Fr Peter George Flynn is joined by Amin Royatvand Ghiasvand, a scholar of Armenian theology and language, currently studying for a Masters in Oxford University, to introduce one of the Catholic Church's newest saints — St Narcisse Snorhali, a 12th-century Armenian Catholicos whose canonisation the Church has only now completed, nearly nine centuries after his […] L'articolo Catechesis – A Saint Almost 1,000 Years in the Making: Narcisse Snorhali – Fr Peter George Flynn and Amin Royatvand Ghiasvand proviene da Radio Maria.

Eileen takes the story of Jesus walking on water from Matthew's Gospel — read twice, with a moment to sit with what strikes you — and asks what it means that Peter begins to sink the moment he takes his eyes off Jesus. The prayer this week is the closing verses of St Patrick's Breastplate, […] L'articolo E102 | Children's Show – Walking on Water proviene da Radio Maria.

Fr Darren Brennan answers a question from Maria, aged 10, County Donegal: why is there a Pope? The answer starts with a fire, a group of apostles, and an Aramaic word — kefa — that Jesus used to rename a fisherman from Galilee. Listen to more answers from questions of other children here! L'articolo Little Big Questions – Why is There a Pope? – Carmela and Fr. Darren Brennan proviene da Radio Maria.

Fr Adrian presents from Liberia, interviewing Fr Gary Jenkins, an SMA missionary who arrived in 1973 and has been there ever since — through school-building, civil war, and nine separate occasions of kneeling under gunpoint, always giving his captors the same answer. The episode covers his 45 minutes before the Blessed Sacrament at 3:30 each […] L'articolo Catechesis – 50 Years in War-torn Liberia – Frs Adrian Crowley and Gary Jenkins, SMA proviene da Radio Maria.

Naoimh Barbieri is joined by Fr John Pallot, five years into formation as a hagiotherapist, to discuss this little-known discipline developed by Fr Tomislav Ivančić of Zagreb — which diagnoses spiritual wounds beneath psychological symptoms, and is not yet available in English. According to this model, 70% of all sickness is spiritually based. Naoimh and […] L'articolo RM Breakfast Show – Exploring Hagiotherapy – Naoimh Barbieri and Fr John Pallot proviene da Radio Maria.

Mary and Fr Eamonn take the Parable of the Sower for the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time, dwelling on the verse that sits uneasily alongside a gospel of mercy: “to anyone who has not, even what he has will be taken away.” Mary reflects on how the parable has played out in her own life […] L'articolo Gospel Tidings – “To anyone who has not, even what he has will be taken away” – Mary Hooton and Fr Eamonn – 15th Sunday OT [Year A] proviene da Radio Maria.

Fr Peter George Flynn concludes the series on Blessed Pope Innocent XI with the Battle of Vienna in 1683, the largest cavalry charge in history, and Sobieski's dispatch to Rome when it was over: “Venimus, vidimus, Deus vincit.” The episode also accounts for two things the retreating Turks left behind — and why, Fr Peter […] L'articolo Catechesis – Blessed Innocent XI: A Pope Worth Getting to Know – Fr Peter George Flynn OFMConv proviene da Radio Maria.

Fr Peter George Flynn is joined by Fr Rory Doyle, vocations director for the Conventual Franciscans in Ireland and Great Britain, who gave up a civil engineering career in Galway to join an order that hadn't had a new vocation in twenty years. The episode covers how he knew the Dominicans weren't right for him […] L'articolo The Franciscan Hour – Advice for a Possible Religious Vocation – Frs Peter George Flynn and Rory Doyle OFMConv proviene da Radio Maria.

Aidan Byrne opens with a listener question — will we see our relations in purgatory? — and working through what the tradition and the catechism actually say about where our attention will be focused during purification. The episode also carries the advice of Fr Leo McAuliffe: “Don't aim for purgatory — you could fall short. […] L'articolo The Healing Power of the Sacraments – Will We See Our Relations in Purgatory? – Aidan Byrne proviene da Radio Maria.

Fr Peter George Flynn returns to the painting of King William III unveiled at Stormont in 1933 with the Pope of Rome in the top corner, and to what happened when an Ulster unionist MP later led a tour group past it. The episode then turns to the heresy of Quietism and its architect Miguel […] L'articolo Catechesis – The Heresy of ‘Quietism' – Fr Peter George Flynn OFMConv proviene da Radio Maria.

Mary Stenson profiles Friar Alessandro, a Franciscan friar from near Perugia who recorded at Abbey Road and recently became a priest, tracing his vocation to a single moment alone in a wood at sixteen. The episode also covers the hierarchy of vocations he arrived at after years in the friary — and where he places […] L'articolo All Things Legion – A Franciscan in Abbey Road: Friar Alessandro – Mary Stenson proviene da Radio Maria.

Healthcare, housing, education, loneliness, youth mental health, declining community life—many problems seem to demand government action. But are some problems beyond the reach of politics? Discover why the Church teaches that love, family, responsibility, and local community are indispensable to building a healthy nation.   – Michael For more episodes on the Intersection of Science, Religion […] L'articolo Science, Religion, and the Modern World – Why Can't Government Fix Everything? – Michael Flanagan and Gerard McReavy proviene da Radio Maria.

Donal Latchford and Fr Eamonn mark the feast of St Kilian and St Maria Goretti before turning to two media proposals of the week: emergency contraception in high-street shops and paid leave after abortions. The episode closes on AI with an observation borrowed from music production — that a recording needs slight imperfections to sound […] L'articolo Hope in the Media – Normalising Abortion and Perfect Imperfection – Fr. Eamonn McCarthy & Dónal O'Sullivan-Latchford proviene da Radio Maria.

Eileen is joined by Patricia Friel of Mary's Meals Ireland, who reports that the organisation is now feeding more than three million children. The episode centres on Patricia's most recent Lough Derg pilgrimage, which she calls the hardest she has done, and what she found when she was too exhausted to pray. To listen to […] L'articolo 250 | Life to the Full – From Mary's Meals to Lough Derg – Eileen O'Driscoll and Patricia Friel proviene da Radio Maria.

Fr Peter George Flynn opens at Stormont in March 1933, where Ulster Unionist dignitaries gathered to unveil a painting they had purchased for £209 — The Entry of King William III into Ireland, by King William's own court painter — only to find, in the top left-hand corner, the Pope of Rome, bathed in rays […] L'articolo Catechesis – The Pope and William of Orange: A Peculiar Alliance – Fr Peter George Flynn OFMConv proviene da Radio Maria.

Fr Billy Swan presents from Rome on the feast of St Maria Goretti and opens with three invitations in last Sunday's Gospel from Matthew — closing the first half with a plain-language meditation on what “Come to me” actually sounds like: “Come, sit down. Take the load off your feet. Sit here in the shade […] L'articolo RM Breakfast Show – Alessandro Serenelli: St Maria Goretti's Killer – Fr. Billy Swan proviene da Radio Maria.

Nick Koeppel is joined by Michael Villanueva, Executive Director of the John Paul II Center for Theology of the Body in Phoenix, Arizona, who traces his encounter with the theology of the body to a semester studying abroad in Austria — and, more precisely, to being invited into his professor's home, where the theology was […] L'articolo Body Talk – Theology of the Body in Practice – Nick Koeppel and Katrina Zeno proviene da Radio Maria.

Join us for the third installment of our six-part special series exploring personal stories of devotion to St. Thérèse of Lisieux.Each week, Noel Shannon, Knight of St. Thérèse, is joined by Fr. Michael McGoldrick OCD, Prior of Avila Carmelite Centre, Elaine Jackson, Knight of St. Thérèse, and Marcie Sweeney Duggan, Relics Manager of the Sweeney […] L'articolo E3 | The Little Flower Hour – The Sweeney Family & Sr. Patricia Jordan proviene da Radio Maria.

Caroline Busher is joined by Emma Andrews and Bréada Broderick to review East of Eden by John Steinbeck, a novel built on a single Hebrew word — timshel, translated not as “thou shalt” but “thou mayest” — asking whether we are bound by the traits of our ancestors or free to choose otherwise. The conversation […] L'articolo E10 | The Radio Maria Book Club – “East of Eden” by John Steinbeck proviene da Radio Maria.

Margaret covers mulching in summer heat — mini-chip, grass clippings, leaf mold, and why each behaves differently in the soil — alongside temporary shade cloth structures for protecting plants during a prolonged run of sunshine. The episode takes an unexpected turn with a Twitter post by the man claimed to have the world's highest IQ, […] L'articolo Sow and Grow – Protecting Plants and Mulching in Summer – Margaret Griffin proviene da Radio Maria.

Mary teaches how to bake a Summer rhubarb & brown butter tart. This scrumptious tart features roasted glazed rhubarb, a brown butter filling and delicious syrup. If you would like to follow along with the recipe, please click here. We would love to see how this recipe turns out for you! Please WhatsApp your home […] L'articolo E37 | Let's Bake – Summer Rhubarb & Brown Butter Tart proviene da Radio Maria.

Paul McAree takes up loneliness — “the leprosy of the West,” in Mother Teresa's phrase — opening with a friend who called it the hardest thing she bore as a single mother, and his own memory of two Belfast neighbourhoods on a Saturday afternoon without a single child on the street. The episode also carries […] L'articolo Eucharistic Divine Mercy – Loneliness: The Leprosy of the West – Paul McAree proviene da Radio Maria.

Eoin and Fr Paul Glennon continue through the YouCat on the Ten Commandments, tackling why the Old Testament forbids images of God and why Christians no longer keep that prohibition — the short answer being that the Incarnation changed everything, confirmed by the Second Council of Nicaea in 787. The conversation takes a sharp turn […] L'articolo YouChat – Can Veneration of Statues Go Too Far? – Fr Paul Glennon and Eoin Brennan proviene da Radio Maria.

Fr. Peter George Flynn and Sean Pilcher of Sacra Relics of the Saints turn to the altar stone: the flat marble tile with a sealed relic at its centre, tracing the practice back to early Christians celebrating the Eucharist over the tombs of martyrs in the catacombs. The episode covers the consecration rite for an […] L'articolo E3 | The Relic Hunter – Why We Put Relics in Altars – Sean Pilcher & Fr. Peter George Flynn proviene da Radio Maria.

Fr Peter George Flynn opens with a piece of Vatican trivia — the first recorded rules of football, from 1363, were issued by the Apostolic Penitentiary — before explaining what this obscure but powerful office actually does, including its role in managing the Church's gravest automatic excommunications. The episode turns to the case of the […] L'articolo Catechesis – Punishments Only the Apostolic Penitentiary Can Lift – Fr Peter George Flynn OFMConv proviene da Radio Maria.

Solicitor Cora Sherlock examines the government's proposed flat-fee restructuring of criminal legal aid, which would replace the current day-rate model with a single €520 fee per client regardless of how many court dates a case runs to — and why solicitors are leaving the scheme rather than accept it. The episode also covers compulsory purchase […] L'articolo A Question of Law – Legal Aid Fees and Compulsory Purchase Orders – Cora Sherlock, Solicitor proviene da Radio Maria.

Sinead Strong is joined by Fr Owen Gorman of the Companions of the Gospel, who walks through the four stages of Lectio Divina and makes the case that Catholics urgently need two things — to believe, and to belong — and that walking in and out of Mass without speaking to anyone is not enough […] L'articolo Catholic Mothers: Family Matters – What Catholics Urgently Need – Sinéad Strong with Fr Owen Gorman & Iva Beranek proviene da Radio Maria.

In this episode, we do a fun quiz comprised of ten questions and the opportunity to learn something new! We also learn a new prayer, hear an inspiring quote and get a to-do activity, and much more! Click here to listen to more episodes of the Children's Show! L'articolo E101 | Children's Show – Quiz Time proviene da Radio Maria.

Naoimh Barbieri is joined by Anthony, a sixteen-year-old who spent six weeks at the Cenacolo community in Medjugorje — no phone, no social media, washing clothes by hand outside, up at half five for the rosary — and who turned sixteen while he was there. Among the graces he lists is being called out in […] L'articolo RM Breakfast Show – Six Weeks in Cenacolo – Naoimh Barbieri and Sixteen-Year-Old Anthony proviene da Radio Maria.

Father Darren Brennan answers children's questions about faith. In the first segment, Father Darren addressed Cormac's question about how the Bible is true and not made up like Spider-Man, explaining that the Bible contains historical accounts verified by multiple witnesses and that people have died for their faith in Jesus, unlike fictional characters. Secondly, Father […] L'articolo Little Big Questions – Spider-Man, the Pope and Fasting – Carmela and Fr. Darren Brennan proviene da Radio Maria.

Fr Robert explores the saints of July and invites listeners to join all Pioneers in Knock on Sunday 19 July 2026. Click here to listen back to previous Pioneer Hours. L'articolo Pioneer Hour – The Month of the Sacred Heart – Fr Robert McCabe proviene da Radio Maria.

Mary and Fr Eamonn reflect on the Gospel of the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time — “no one knows the Son except the Father, no one knows the Father except the Son” — and sit with the word “know,” tracing how Peter moved from “Leave me Lord, I am a sinful man” to asking to […] L'articolo Gospel Tidings – What It Means to Know the Father – Mary Hooton and Fr Eamonn – 14th Sunday OT [Year A] proviene da Radio Maria.

Matthias and Fr Eamonn continue through Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, completing the introduction with the document's central binary: the choice before humanity is not yes or no to technology, but whether to build a new Tower of Babel or rebuild Jerusalem. The episode works through the section on the common good — including […] L'articolo The ‘Permanent Underclass' and the City of God – Magnifica Humanitas – Church Wisdom with Fr Eamonn McCarthy & Matthias Conroy proviene da Radio Maria.