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Evan and Pat deliver an in-depth preview of the MIAA hockey season. They discuss key teams and players to watch on both the girls' and boys' sides. They analyze the chances of top teams like St. John's Prep, Pope Francis, Arlington, Hingham, Xaverian, and others. The hosts provide insights into the challenges these teams will face, including the impact of losing key players to prep schools and collegiate commitments. The episode offers a comprehensive overview of what to expect this hockey season, touching upon rankings, standout performers, and emerging young talents.   Topics   00:18 College Hockey Highlights 01:35 Prep Hockey Weekend 02:37 MIAA Girls Hockey Preview 03:54 Top Teams and Rankings 05:49 In-Depth Team Analysis 11:54 Emerging Teams and Players to Watch 19:06 Girls' Season Recap and Transition 19:23 Boys' Top 10 Teams Overview 19:43 St. John's Prep Analysis 22:30 Pope Francis: The Contender 24:30 Arlington, Hingham, and Xaverian Insights 28:00 Catholic Memorial, Reading, and Marshfield 31:16 Winchester and St. John's Shrewsbury 35:10 Players to Watch and Final Thoughts

In the opening act to our Friday coverage of the WIAA state championship games at Camp Randall, the Notre Dame Academy Tritons defeat the Catholic Memorial Crusaders 49-28 behind a record-shattering performance from running back Christian Collins. Riley Jauch and Dennis Semrau have the call with sideline reporter Pablo Iglesias.

The Catholic Memorial Crusaders visit the Sun Prairie West Wolves in a Week 2 crossover between Zimbrick Honda's PrepMania and Catholic Memorial football on ESPN Milwaukee! Jesse Nelson, Mike Podoll and "The Dean" Dennis Semrau are on the call for this one-sided non-conference matchup.

BadgerBlitz.com's Jon McNamara joins us as we finish up our daily spring episodes. We talk the Catholic Memorial situation, where Wisconsin sits with Nathan Roy, the next potential commit, how good is the 2025 in-state class and what needs the Badgers have in the transfer portal.  Thanks so much for listening this spring! While we will still be doing episodes throughout the next few months, our daily episodes will return in mid-July. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Boston College had a rather middle of the road recruiting class in 2023, but Catholic Memorial wide receiver Jaedn Skeete is starting to get a lot of attention. We look at the praise he got at the All American Bowl, and how he could be the next big wide receiver in Chestnut Hill. On Saturday, Boston College hosts Duke in men's basketball, can Earl Grant find more success now that Quinten Post has returned? Finally, the transfer portal is closing in just under two weeks, and the Eagles are looking fine. What's the deal? Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! LinkedIn LinkedIn jobs helps you find the candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at Linkedin.com/lockedoncollege Terms and conditions apply. Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline BetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Boston College had a rather middle of the road recruiting class in 2023, but Catholic Memorial wide receiver Jaedn Skeete is starting to get a lot of attention. We look at the praise he got at the All American Bowl, and how he could be the next big wide receiver in Chestnut Hill. On Saturday, Boston College hosts Duke in men's basketball, can Earl Grant find more success now that Quinten Post has returned? Finally, the transfer portal is closing in just under two weeks, and the Eagles are looking fine. What's the deal?Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!LinkedInLinkedIn jobs helps you find the candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at Linkedin.com/lockedoncollege Terms and conditions apply.Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order.BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Boston College basketball pulled themselves out of the gutter with a huge win over #21 Virginia Tech in overtime in Conte Forum. Big man Devin McGlockton was a force that was hard to stop scoring 21 points, while Makai Ashton Langford dropped 21 including some big shots in overtime. We will talk about it all on today's show. And it was National Signing Day, and the Eagles had a surprise from the night before as Catholic Memorial defensive back Max Tucker flipped from Akron. We look at Jeff Hafley's comments, the class, Christian Mahogany and Phil Jurkovec who all came up during the press conference. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! LinkedIn LinkedIn jobs helps you find the candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at Linkedin.com/lockedoncollege Terms and conditions apply. Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline BetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! NHTSA Drive high, get a DUI. Click HERE to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Boston College basketball pulled themselves out of the gutter with a huge win over #21 Virginia Tech in overtime in Conte Forum. Big man Devin McGlockton was a force that was hard to stop scoring 21 points, while Makai Ashton Langford dropped 21 including some big shots in overtime. We will talk about it all on today's show.And it was National Signing Day, and the Eagles had a surprise from the night before as Catholic Memorial defensive back Max Tucker flipped from Akron. We look at Jeff Hafley's comments, the class, Christian Mahogany and Phil Jurkovec who all came up during the press conference.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!LinkedInLinkedIn jobs helps you find the candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at Linkedin.com/lockedoncollege Terms and conditions apply.Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order.BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts!NHTSADrive high, get a DUI. Click HERE to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After last month's announcement that the Atlanta Braves will soon become their own publicly traded company, team officials were quick to say little will change, baseball-wise. “From our perspective, from a Braves' team perspective, it's business as usual,” President and CEO Derek Schiller told investors at a November 17 meeting. Braves Chairman Terry McGuirk echoed that sentiment in a letter to workers for the Braves and the Battery Atlanta. But business-wise, the Braves' financial separation from owner Liberty Media could have significant implications down the road. The Braves are currently traded as a “tracking stock” — a subset of Liberty Media that's still tied to the firm's overall performance, but represents one of its subsidiaries. Pending approval by shareholders and Major League Baseball, the Braves will become a fully separate entity within the next six to eight months, executives have said. Fans and financiers alike will then be able to purchase a stake in the team. Liberty CEO Greg Maffei has said repeatedly the impetus for the spinoff comes from a desire to showcase the Braves' value independent of Liberty as a whole. The stock will represent not only the team and its assets, but the Battery Atlanta and the Braves Development Company, the latter of which manages the team's real estate holdings. The announcement itself came two weeks after Breach Inlet Capital, a South Carolina-based investment firm that counts itself among the Braves' top 25 shareholders, called for a spinoff of the stock. In an open letter to Liberty's board, the firm argued the Braves' tracking stock was trading at about 60% less than its true value. The letter pointed to the Braves' continued success, and argued the team is relatively undervalued compared to other major sports franchises. Breach Inlet Capital founder Chris Colvin speculated the Braves' undervaluation was due to Liberty's “confusing and convoluted structure,” referring to Liberty's ownership of Formula 1 racing, Sirius XM, and other media empires. In other words, the Braves' true value isn't apparent because it's tied up in Liberty's many and varied financial holdings. Mount Paran Christian School announced that Peter Hill is the new Head of Middle School, beginning in the 2023-2024 academic year. Hill comes to MPCS from Catholic Memorial School in Boston, Massachusetts, where he is a member of the Academic Leadership Team, a history teacher and varsity head soccer coach. With vast independent school experience, he has taught a variety of history courses, including AP Comparative Politics, where his students over the years have earned an astounding 94% pass rate. He has served as the International Student Coordinator, developed and implemented the faculty peer mentoring program, and advised and mentored faculty to better enable bilingual students using translanguaging pedagogy. Prior to Hill's time at Catholic Memorial, he taught at Marianapolis Preparatory School in Connecticut and St. Paul's School in New Hampshire. He holds a bachelor's degree in history from Dartmouth College and a master's degree in curriculum and instruction from Boston College. For Kim McCoy, head of the Cobb District Attorney's victim and witness office, the long road toward the county getting its own family advocacy center began 25 years ago. Way back in 1997, she and Jason Saliba, now Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, toured San Diego's own center for victims and thought, “We've got to have this in Cobb County.” The center isn't quite open for business — District Attorney Flynn Broady said he expects it to open in March or April of 2023. But when it does, the location on Fairground Street will be a hub for victims and survivors of abuse to get help and resources under a single roof. The center was partially funded with a $400,000 grant from the state, and will be the first of its kind to open in Georgia. When family advocacy centers are implemented in communities, there's a corresponding reduction in domestic violence homicides, a reduction in childhood trauma, and with that, better outcomes for families. As part of that mission, the DA's office is partnering with several of Cobb's well-established nonprofits such as LiveSAFE Resources, the Center for Family Resources, and SafePath Children's Advocacy Center. Along with staff from the county and its public safety and prosecutorial partners, those nonprofits and community groups will have representatives on-site as well. Broady told the MDJ his office is working on setting up a 501(c)(3) nonprofit so that community members and businesses can support the center going forward.  Walton's Jeremy Hecklinski wasted little time turning a breakout junior season into finding a place to play his college football. The 6-foot-1, 175-pound quarterback committed to Wake Forest on Wednesday, making his announcement on social media. Hecklinski is coming off a season in which he threw 3,520 yards, 37 touchdowns and 12 interceptions, while also running for five scores. Hecklinski played his best in arguably the biggest game of the season, in which he led Walton to an upset of Buford in the second round of the Class AAAAAAA state playoffs. In that game, he threw for 315 yards and two touchdowns in beating the Wolves — a consensus top-10 team nationally — on their home field. Hecklinski chose Wake Forest over offers from Central Florida, Georgia Southern and Eastern Kentucky. His recruiting was just starting to heat up, as it had been reported that Georgia, Georgia Tech, Cincinnati, Duke and Florida State had become interested. Hecklinski was expected to announce his commitment next spring, but he told SI.com that everything just felt right this week.   The City Council Wednesday night unanimously approved allocating the the majority of the city's remaining federal COVID-19 relief funds for a pair of new parks. Marietta received roughly $11 million from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), and had already allocated portions of it for a new public safety training center, replacing a water tower, affordable housing, wellness initiatives for public safety employees, repairs to a fire station and the Cobb Veterans Memorial. The city has broad discretion over the use of the ARPA funds. Wednesday's vote puts $1 million of the remaining funds toward capping a 57-acre landfill on Merritt Road, behind Lockheed Elementary, to build a new city park. Another $2 million will be offered to Cobb County for 20 acres of park land at Anderson and Burnt Hickory roads, west of Kennesaw Mountain. In October, Marietta Mayor Steve “Thunder” Tumlin recommended the city consider purchasing the land off Burnt Hickory Road from the county, which includes Schmidt Pond, a catch-and-release fishing site. Marietta would then turn the land into a city park. At the council's committee meetings on November 29, Tumlin again brought up the prospect that a future attempt to incorporate a city of Lost Mountain in west Cobb could mean Cobb would be forced to sell the Anderson Road land at a far cheaper price. Under state law, county parkland can be purchased by new cities at $100 per acre. The proposal for a city of Lost Mountain was rejected by voters in May, along with proposals for cities of East Cobb and Vinings. Tumlin said in November the county could be motivated to sell the land to Marietta “because cityhood might raise its beautiful head again.” Should the county reject Marietta's offer, the $2 million would return to the city's COVID relief fund.   It may have been a cloudy day, but that didn't dampen the spirits at the 9th Annual Thanksgiving Classic hosted by the Marietta Country Club. After a Chick-fil-A breakfast, the golfers were cheered on with pompoms and great enthusiasm from the YELLS ( which stands for Youth Empowerment thru Learning, Leading and Serving) Inc. kids at the shotgun start. The day-long event saw a record number of 144 golfers participating. Each year the tournament committee selects a recipient from the Cobb County area. To be eligible, the non-profit must benefit and impact children's lives. This year the selected beneficiary was YELLS. Previous recipients include such worthy organizations as the Center for Children and Young Adults, Marietta Police Athletic League, KSU CARE, Marietta Student Life Center, Devereux Center, Wellstar Cancer Center and Hospice Angel Fund. Over the past, nine years the event raised over $850,000. The goal for next year is to surpass $1 million in donations. With the generosity of the players and sponsors, the Marietta Country Club was able to make a huge impact on YELLS Inc. with the presentation of a $150,000 check. YELLS empowers youth to rise as active, healthy and productive servant-leaders within their communities. 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Listen to highlights of WBEV's Mike Throndsen and Tim Haldiman broadcasting Columbus' 23-21 win over Catholic Memorial in the WIAA Division Four State Football Championship on November 17th, 2022 at Camp Randall Stadium.

Columbus defeats Catholic Memorial 23-21 in the WIAA Division Four State Football Championship on November 17th, 2022

Columbus football coach Andy Selgrad talks about the Cardinals 23-21 win over Catholic Memorial in the WIAA Division Four State Championship Game on Thursday, November 17th, 2022

Columbus High School Football Coach Andy Selgrad previews Thursday night's Division 4 State Championship Game against Catholic Memorial. You can hear the game on 95.3 WBEV.

Drew Skyberg is here to break down a wild week of sports on Drew's Sports Crew! To begin the episode, Drew recaps the Level 4 high school playoff football playoff matchup featuring Two Rivers and Catholic Memorial. Later in the episode, he recaps the Packers Week 10 Performance against the Dallas Cowboys and previews Week 5 of Milwaukee Bucks Basketball!  Make sure to follow @drewsportscrew on Instagram for schedule posts, rankings, news, and more!      Check out WSN for your EWC Football Scores: https://www.wissports.net/page/show/7030241-eastern-wisconsin    You can find all of the platforms Drew's Sports Crew is on here: https://linktr.ee/drew_sports_crew --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/drewsportscrew/support

Drew Skyberg is here to break down a wild week of sports on Drew's Sports Crew! To begin the episode, Drew recaps the Level 4 high school playoff football playoff matchup featuring Two Rivers and Catholic Memorial. Later in the episode, he recaps the Packers Week 10 Performance against the Dallas Cowboys and previews Week 5 of Milwaukee Bucks Basketball!  Make sure to follow @drewsportscrew on Instagram for schedule posts, rankings, news, and more!      Check out WSN for your EWC Football Scores: https://www.wissports.net/page/show/7030241-eastern-wisconsin    You can find all of the platforms Drew's Sports Crew is on here: https://linktr.ee/drew_sports_crew --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/drewsportscrew/support

Drew Skyberg is here to break down a wild week of sports on Drew's Sports Crew! To begin the episode, Drew recaps Level 3 of high school playoff football games in the Eastern Wisconsin Conference and previews the upcoming matchups for Two Rivers against Catholic Memorial. Later in the episode, he recaps the Packers Week 9 Performance against the Detroit Lions and previews Week 4 of Milwaukee Bucks Basketball!  Make sure to follow @drewsportscrew on Instagram for schedule posts, rankings, news, and more!      Check out WSN for your EWC Football Scores: https://www.wissports.net/page/show/7030241-eastern-wisconsin    You can find all of the platforms Drew's Sports Crew is on here: https://linktr.ee/drew_sports_crew --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/drewsportscrew/support

Drew Skyberg is here to break down a wild week of sports on Drew's Sports Crew! To begin the episode, Drew recaps Level 3 of high school playoff football games in the Eastern Wisconsin Conference and previews the upcoming matchups for Two Rivers against Catholic Memorial. Later in the episode, he recaps the Packers Week 9 Performance against the Detroit Lions and previews Week 4 of Milwaukee Bucks Basketball!  Make sure to follow @drewsportscrew on Instagram for schedule posts, rankings, news, and more!      Check out WSN for your EWC Football Scores: https://www.wissports.net/page/show/7030241-eastern-wisconsin    You can find all of the platforms Drew's Sports Crew is on here: https://linktr.ee/drew_sports_crew --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/drewsportscrew/support

Ted Donato joins Matt Keator and Kirk Luedeke to talk about growing up in Hyde Park, Mass. in a competitive family as a multi-sport athlete who eventually went to Catholic Memorial and realized he could play hockey at the highest levels, including with the Boston Bruins.

WSSP's high school insider, Mike McGivern, gets you caught up on all things high school basketball in the area, for the last time this season!  Guests this hour: Current Electric Super Hero of The Week: Tony Carrillo from Waukesha South Tony Mane - new head coach at St. Thomas More. Jeremy & Braden McGlothlin from Catholic Memorial  

Mike Church Show- This St. Patrick's Day It's Time To End The Outrageous Scandal Of Boston's Pro-Mortal Sin Boston “Catholics” with Joe Doyle SPECIAL GUEST JOE DOYLE  American Catholic Action League - http://www.catholicactionleague.org/ George Washington and British -  In Boston this is St Patrick's Day and the day of remembrance of the Boston evacuation. 1st year back to the St Patrick's day parade due to the COVID restrictions.  Missionary -  The Catholic faith wasn't brought in by a military conquest of Ireland. It was a simply missionary. Catholic Memorial School - elite Catholic secondary school, founded in 1957. Blessed Edmond Ignatius Rice - 1762 Edmund Ignatius Rice was born in Kilkenny on this day in 1762. He was the founder of the Christian Brothers, a religious organisation dedicated to helping and educating children. Rice turned his attention to helping others when he lost his wife early. She was involved in an accident, possibly falling from her horse but there is no record of the details. Rice was left a widow with a disabled daughter, who his wife had given birth to on her deathbed. Martin Joseph Walsh - Marty Walsh - they are going to honor him on April fools for saying he's helped Catholic Memorial but he is an abortion PROMOTER!  QUESTION: What are they teaching these young Catholic students? NO WONDER NO ONE TAKES CATHOLICS SERIOUSLY ON ABORTION! The Boston Strangler - The Society of Saint James the Apostle named Walsh the Chairman of the Year! AUDIO/VIDEO: Leaving of Boston by the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart in Still River NH LYRICS: Fare thee well, Saint Patrick's Day Parade, South Boston, fare thee well!  We are standing for our Catholic Faith, And the Saint that we love so well.  Chorus: So, fare thee well, the time has come, We will now defend one so great as he. It's not the leaving of Boston that grieves me, But Saint Patrick when I think of thee. We have marched there for over twenty years, “Keep the Faith” did we proudly display, And though the foes of God may try, They will never take this Faith away! - Chorus Remember, Holy Youth, how long ago, You brought the Faith to Erin's shore. Through the strength and the might of the Trinity, Bring the Irish back to Christ once more! - Chorus Michael Warren Davis - has endorsed this completely FAKE Catholic Gov Chris Sununu  This guy isn't pro-life at all! He clearly states he is pro-choice. He is even opposed to defunding Planned Parenthood. Our Readers And Listeners Keep Us In Print & On The Air! Click here to subscribe to The CRUSADE Channel's Founders Pass Member Service & Gain 24/7 Access to Our Premium, New Talk Radio Service. www.crusadechannel.com/go What Is The Crusade Channel? The CRUSADE Channel, The Last LIVE! Radio Station Standing begins our LIVE programming day with our all original CRUSADE Channel News hosted by award winning,  25 year news veteran Janet Huxley. Followed by LIVE! From London, “The Early Show with Fiorella Nash & Friends. With the morning drive time beginning we bring out the heavy artillery The Mike Church Show! The longest running, continual, long form radio talk show in the world at the tender age of 30 years young! Our broadcast day progresses into lunch, hang out with The Barrett Brief Show hosted by Rick Barrett “giving you the news of the day and the narrative that will follow”. Then Kennedy Hall and The Kennedy Profession drives your afternoon by “applying Natural Law to an unnatural world”!    The CRUSADE Channel also features Reconquest with Brother André Marie, The Fiorella Files Book Review Show, The Frontlines With Joe & Joe and your favorite radio classics like Suspense! and CBS Radio Mystery Theater. We've interviewed hundreds of guests, seen Brother Andre Marie notch his 200th broadcast of Reconquest; The Mike Church Show over 1500 episodes; launched an original LIVE!

WSSP's high school insider, Mike McGivern, gets you caught up on all things high school basketball in the area! This week, we're focusing on participants in this year's Popes Invitational at Pius XI  High School! Guests this hour: Rick Witte - head girls basketball coach at Arrowhead Dan Carey - head boys coach at Pius XI Scott Cook - head coach at New Berlin West Jeremy McGlothlin - head boys coach at Catholic Memorial

Justin Denson Jr Wide receiver for LaSalle High School football team joins the show. Justin talks about this season and what it has been like so far and their big against Catholic Memorial tonight. Justin talks about where his passion for the game began, last season and much more!

Mike McGivern talks all about the youth programs that are tied to the Catholic Memorial Program.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike McGivern takes you around the area's best high school basketball action! In this hour: Hear from our Current Electric SuperHero of The Week, Mia Levy from Thomas More High School Dan Beyer, former Catholic Memorial basketball standout. DSHA head basketball coach, Brian Hendriks

"Game 2: 5th Inning" highlights Kyle Trewyn, Associate Head Coach at Bradley University. He also serves and the hitting and catching coach as well as the recruiting coordinator. In this episode, KT unpacks his journey as a player and coach and his path to his current position. We dig into player development, recruiting, practice planning and so much more. KT and I have known each other for 15 years starting when we played together at Cardinal Stritch University and I was lucky enough to have him for one season as my JV coach at Catholic Memorial. He is a long-time friend and a fellow #girldad.  To learn more about his bio, visit here: https://bradleybraves.com/sports/baseball/roster/coaches/kyle-trewyn/3205 

The WisSports.net Podcast for January 27th, 2021. WSN General Manager Travis Wilson is joined by former Catholic Memorial boys basketball standout T.J. Bray, the 2010 Mr. Basketball, to talk about his journey in basketball, his time at CMH, his All-Conference career at Princeton, and his overseas hoops journey since then.

Mike McGivern takes you around the area's high school basketball action! Hear from our Current Electric SuperHeroes of The Week. Also, Catholic Memorial head coach Jeremy McGothlin joins in this hour, as well as Pick N Save Student Athlete of the Week, Anthony Graves of Catholic Memorial.

Two Catholic high school teachers, Darrell Burris from Bishop Lynch in Dallas, Texas and Vin Bradley from Catholic Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts, join the podcast to talk about the 2020 election, the run up to it, and how they have addressed the issues in their classrooms.

Bob Deraney is the former Providence College Women's Hockey Coach. He coached for almost 20 years there after starting his playing career at Catholic Memorial, Boston University, and the Johnstown Chiefs (yes from Slapshot). Currently he is coaching with the Worcester Railers of the ECHL. A native of West Roxbury, Boston, Mass., Bob grew up in an era when the immediate city neighborhoods were producing some of the best hockey talent in the country. Joe Bartell and I sat down with Bob to discuss his journey from player, to coach and all the lessons he learned along the way. Some highlights include: -his upbringing in West Roxbury -the lessons Jack Parker taught him -The Johnstown Chiefs?! -What makes a great coach? -Failure vs. learning -team culture and player relationships Great conversation and insights. We hope you enjoy.

A non-conference clash between perennial state powerhouse programs was on tap in Week 2 of the 2020 high school football season. A defensive battle tilted in favor of Catholic Memorial behind two touchdown passes from Rory Fox in a 17-10 win for the Crusaders over the Brookfield Central Lancers in the IRONJOC Game of the Week on 97.3 The Game.

TJ Bray played basketball at Princeton from 2010-2014 and currently plays professionally for Bayern Munich. TJ talks about growing up in New Berlin, Wisconsin, how he got into basketball, his great high school career at Catholic Memorial where he suffered an ACL tear as a Freshman, but came back strong to win Conference honors the next season, and then won a State Championship as a Senior and was named Wisconsin Player of the Year. He describes the recruiting process, his decision to attend a great academic school to honor his late mother, and why he chose Princeton. He details his great career there, winning the Ivy League as a Freshman, playing Kentucky in the NCAA Tournament, getting an upset triple overtime win at Florida State, scoring over 1000 points, and being in the record books for assists. TJ then talks about playing in the NBA Summer League after graduating college, going overseas to play professionally, and his experience playing in many different countries, and currently playing in the EuroLeague.

This podcast explores the life and work of John Carroll Collier, religious sculptor, fine artist, and illustrator. As the creator of the Catholic Memorial at Ground Zero in New York City and the artist behind so many acclaimed works--both religious and secular--I believe that John Collier is arguably one of the greatest living visual artists.

This podcast explores the life and work of John Carroll Collier, religious sculptor, fine artist, and illustrator. As the creator of the Catholic Memorial at Ground Zero in New York City and the artist behind so many acclaimed works--both religious and secular--I believe that John Collier is arguably one of the greatest living visual artists.

Listen to Appleton Xavier play Catholic Memorial.

Listen to Appleton Xavier play Catholic Memorial.

The WisSports.net Podcast for October 2nd, 2019. WSN General Manager Travis Wilson takes a look back at a big Week 6, including what losses could mean for Catholic Memorial and Homestead. Some teams are on the verge of ending lengthy playoff droughts, and we break down not only which ones that may be but what are their chances of getting it done. We also take a look at some of the more intriguing conference races heading down the stretch of the regular season.

The WisSports.net Podcast for August 7th, 2019. WSN General Manager Travis Wilson looks into the top storylines in high school football heading into the 2019 season. Can Kimberly start new streaks? Can Muskego be even better this year? Will it be Catholic Memorial and West De Pere in the D3 title game again? Is Division 1 better than it's been in the last decade? Can Spring make it three in a row? Can Tyler Tenner pass Bryce Huettner? What coaching changes will have the biggest impacts?

Tis the season for high school football championships (go Catholic Memorial!),  hiding booze in your pocketbook (“a neat trick”) and launching a new enterprise (“Caught in Dorchester”). Plus Maureen and Heather discuss the vagaries of being in gift mode for Christmas…while staying sane the whole time. And of course, no holiday season would be complete without a conversation on teenagers, sex education, and cadavers. And please don’t forget about “Caught Up’s” FREE live show at Laugh Boston on Thursday December 7th at 8pm!

JP and JR chat about the official start of the 2017 high-school football season and storylines to watch, from the individual star power of Franklin quarterback Max Alba and Catholic Memorial linebacker CJ Goetz to the dominance of Homestead, the fascinating race in the Woodland West, the impact of new Oconomowoc coach Greg Malling and the time being right for Brookfield Central. Then, the guys talk about the #Brewers trade deadline and disagree somewhat on the outlook for the remainder of 2017.

Jordan Niebrugge, formerly of Homestead High School, chats with JR in anticipation of his first U.S. Open, which will be his first and take place on his home-state soil in the Town of Erin (3:30). Niebrugge talks about his current tour in Canada, the ladder to get a PGA Tour card, his impressions of Erin Hills and more. JR also welcomes in Catholic Memorial athletics director Greg Gamalski (17:00), whose retirement takes effect July 1. Gamalski has built one of the biggest athletics empires in the state, including a girls soccer program looking for a sixth straight state title this weekend. Gamalski talks about the changing nature of the business, the WIAA-WISAA merger and the state of high-school athletics.

Steve Showalter coached both his sons when he won three state championships at Germantown High School, but he was a heavily invested fan living and dying with every moment like the rest of us when his son, Zak, made one of the biggest shots in #Badgers history in the Sweet 16. Steve talks about that moment, his son as a Badger, his coaching days at Germantown and also his new team, Menomonee Falls, and its thrilling close to the season. Plus, Steve talks about the circumstances that led him from Catholic Memorial -- where he first accepted a job for 2017-18 -- to Falls. And with Opening Day upon us, Andrew Gruman joins the podcast to talk #Brewers. Is there anything to look forward to in 2017, beyond the future wave of talent? Can this rotation possibly help the club succeed? Who does JR think is about to have an All-Star season? How will changes to Miller Park impact the fan-going experience?

JP and JR take a look at the big news that former Germantown empire-builder Steve Showalter is leaving Catholic Memorial after a month to take the boys basketball job at Menomonee Falls. They also discuss several Brewers topics, including the legacy of Khris Davis, the All-Star candidacy of Chris Carter, the success of Ryan Braun and the curiosity of recent no-hit bids. Plus: plenty of WIAA postseason impressions, including a colossal weekend for Brookfield East and the upcoming baseball tourney. Each week, Lake Country/Now sports director JR Radcliffe and Time Warner Cable Sports Channel's JP Cadorin chat about the Wisconsin sports scene, with an emphasis on Milwaukee-area preps. Find the podcast on Stitcher and iTunes.

JP begrudgingly talks about the decision facing Wisconsin forward Nigel Hayes with the May 25 deadline looming for his NBA Draft declaration, the guys talk about Cubs-hate in the Milwaukee market and look at a number of WIAA spring sports storylines. JP sits down with top girls soccer players Dani Rhodes of Waukesha West and Emily Cervantes of Catholic Memorial. Each week, Lake Country/Now sports director JR Radcliffe and Time Warner Cable Sports Channel's JP Cadorin chat about the Wisconsin sports scene, with an emphasis on Milwaukee-area preps. Find the podcast on Stitcher and iTunes.

Design historian Mary Ann Bolger shares the complex and fascinating story of how the Irish Catholic Memorial Card was invented and how it grew to occupy such an important part of Irish cultural life.

In Initial Reaction's fourth episode, hosts JR Radcliffe and JP Cadorin discuss the shift among area schools from summer to spring baseball programs. JP catches up with Arrowhead coach Vince Mancuso and Catholic Memorial coach Tim Gotzler to discuss their reasons for moving to spring baseball in 2015, which could have a domino effect among schools in the Classic 8 conference. JR chats with Stiks Sports Academy owner Sean Smith, who trains many area ball players and shares insight into the spring baseball shift.

Summary of today's show: The short, beautiful and inspirational life and priesthood of Fr. Dan Kennedy ended suddenly on January 28, 2008, just 247 days after he was ordained to the priesthood. As we approach the fifth anniversary of his death, Scot Landry and Fr. Chris O'Connor talk to Dan Kennedy, Sr., and Fr. Bill Lohan about Fr. Dan's journey to the priesthood and the legacy he leaves behind of working passionately to help others discern their own calls from God. Listen to the show: Watch the show via live video streaming or a recording later: Today's host(s): Scot Landry and Fr. Chris O'Connor Today's guest(s): Dan Kennedy, Sr. and Fr. Bill Lohan Links from today's show: Today's topics: Remembering Fr. Dan Kennedy 1st segment: Scot Landry said today is a significant anniversary in the life of our country, marking the 49th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that made abortion legal throughout the country. Later this week will be the 40th anniversary of the March for Life. But today we will be remembering a priest who served for 247 days in the Archdiocese of Boston, Fr. Dan Kennedy who died on January 27, 2008, less than a year after being ordained. Fr. Chris O'Connor said we will be reflecting on the gift of the priesthood, no matter how long they serve. Scot recalled Fr. Dan's funeral and Cardinal Seán's reflection at the end of the funeral Mass that his last words with Fr. Dan were Fr. Dan saying, “I love being a priest.” Fr. Chris said he helps out at Fr. Kennedy's parish in Winthrop and remembered Fr. Dan's last words to the parish, that priests come and go, but Christ remains constant. To this day, many young people still wear the black and white bracelets in remembrance of Fr. Dan. 2nd segment: Scot welcomed Dan Kennedy to the show. He said his son's main ambition in life was to promote vocations to the priesthood. He talked about his continues that mission as his son had told him that this is our job, to identify and encourage young men for the vocation of the priesthood. Scot said Cardinal Seán appreciates Dan Sr.'s help with vocations because Cardinal Seán says vocations are everyone's business. Scot welcomed Fr. Bill Lohan to the show and asked him how he met Fr. Dan. Fr. Bill said he was at a bar with some buddies in early 2002 while he was discerning the priesthood. At the other end of the bar was Dan Kennedy and they got together and talked about the discernment. They all ended up in St. John's Seminary together where he met many men of all kinds who were called. Scot said Fr. Dan was born in 1964 and grew up in Needham. He was ordained to the diaconate on January 27, 2007 and to the priesthood May 26, 2007. Dan said Fr. Dan was the first boy after three sisters. He also had a younger brother, who was close in age and they were very competitive and fought constantly. In high school at Catholic Memorial, Dan became the school mascot and then did the same when he attended Providence College. Dan said his son loved the limelight and was always a leader who wanted to get involved in all kinds of activities. Dan said his son became the Silver Knight mascot for Catholic Memorial even though he was an athlete playing hockey and soccer because he didn't play football. Dan told a story about Dan Jr.'s antics with their rivals the BC High Eagles. Scot said he'd heard many stories of Fr. Dan's pranks and storytelling. Fr. Bill said he had a gift of humor but also of intensity. He said in 2002-03, the seminarians were a little older, but were participating in intramural softball against Boston College students. He said Fr. Dan was intense about playing those games. He was also intense about celebrating the Liturgy. He was a natural leader and the men in the seminary responded to that. Dan said Dan Jr. from an early age had signs of being headed to the priesthood. At various points in his life, different people suggested he was headed to a vocation despite Dan Jr's best efforts to ignore them. So when he announced to his parents, they weren't surprised, but his mother wondered if he would survive the seminary with his hot temper. They worried he wouldn't make it through. But in his first three years at the seminary he was happy to be there. But in his fourth year he started to have misgivings about where God was calling him and stepped back for a leave of absence. Fr. Chris said it's not uncommon for men to take a step back. Sometimes you have to leave to return. It's a way to discover the beauty of what God is calling you to and to recognize that the priesthood is what God calling you to and you won't be satisfied with anything else. Fr. Bill said when Fr. Dan left, it was difficult for his friends to see him go. His friends related to him in a way that they couldn't relate to men outside the seminary, but they were open to God's willing. Fr. Dan came back after six months, but even then he stayed involved. Fr. Dan was often asked by parishes and pastors to come and speak to young people about the priesthood. Fr. Bill said Fr. Dan had a great zeal and that may have been why. He truly believed and that made him so passionate and intense. Scot noted that Fr. Dan was ordained to the priesthood and assigned to St. John Parish in Winthrop. He was then re-assigned to South Boston and preached his last Mass at St. John's on January 27 and went to Connecticut for a friend's child's baptism. On his way back on January 28, he died of a heart attack. Dan said in both Fr. Dan's first homily on Jan 27, 2007 and his last homily on Jan 27, 2008, he spoke about the relevance of Christ in their lives. Dan said on that day, he'd gone to visit his granddaughter on the Cape. As he was driving home, he got a call from his daughter that she got in an accident that totaled her car and she almost died. Then later that night at 10pm, they got the call about Fr. Dan having a heart attack. As they were driving down, they got another call from their other son who was with Fr. Dan to tell them that he passed away. Dan said he and his wife on their hearts considered the time of his son's death to be a blessing. They accepted that God had chosen him to be the first priest among all those ordained in 2008 to be with Him. Fr. Dan had just come back from two weeks as a US Navy chaplain on the USS Nimitz and had spoken of the amazing stars at sea. As Dan and his wife sat in a rest stop on the Mass. Pike, they looked up at the stars. He envisioned Fr. Dan walking across those stars to join the Father and the Son in heaven. He said no matter how much he misses Fr. Dan, he feels that his son is with the Lord and that brings them true happiness. Fr. Chris said it's clear Fr. Dan got his faith from his parents. Dan said his faith comes from Christ and he was blessed to be born into the Catholic faith. He said his speaking at his son's funeral was the work of the Holy Spirit. He would normally cry at the drop of the hat, but he was on a mission at his son's funeral to tell people how his son had fully lived and was fully in love of the world and thus didn't shed a tear during that Mass. In his eulogy, Dan asked people to pray every day for more vocations to the priesthood. Scot said he was present that day and was surprised how this man who had just lost his son and was focusing on the priesthood. Dan said that statement was directly from the Holy Spirit. Dan wanted people to know how important vocations were for his son. Dan shared a prayer composed by Cardinal Seán that was particularly apt. Holy Mother of the Good Shepherd, turn your motherly care to our Diocese. Intercede for us to the Lord of the Harvest to send more laborers to the harvest. Inspire vocations in our time. Let the word of your Son be made flesh anew in the lives of persons anxious to proclaim the Good News of everlasting life. Draw them near to the heart of your Son so that they can understand the beauty and the joy that awaits them to be His witnesses. Amen. Fr. Bill said for his class, which was the one just after Fr. Dan's, was ordained the day after Fr. Dan's funeral. He recalled that Bishop Arthur Kennedy, who was rector of the seminary, got all the men together to talk and pray. For them it was a reminder of the one priesthood of Christ, with no beginning and no end. They remember that their work is just part of God's Work. Fr. Bill has no doubt that some of the young men who worked with Fr. Dan in his parishes will one day knock on the door of the seminary. In our human accounting it doesn't make sense to take the finest among us away, but God's accounting is not ours. Fr. Chris said the funeral was extraordinary. Priests are so different and diverse, yet priests who knew Fr. Dan and those who didn't all felt the need to be there. It's like the death of a firefighter or police officer, and the whole presbyterate felt the need to be there together that day. Scot said a priest affects a parish like no one else and while Fr. Dan was only at St. John's in Winthrop for about six months, he had a strong impact. Fr. Chris said that impact is still felt. He said there's a memorial bench on the parish grounds near a statue of Our Lady, which is appropriate. Scot said he's heard several times that Fr. Dan would have made a great vocations director for the Archdiocese. Since his death, Dan Sr. has been going out and speaking for vocations all over, including for the Serra Club. Dan said at the end of the Mass each day, he thanks Christ for sending his son and calling home and to please send more vocations to the priesthood and religious life. He related a story of Fr. Dan visiting Paris one day before he entered seminary and during a Mass at Notre Dame where the cardinal-archbishop stopped during the recessional, leaned over to Dan, and told him when he got home to go see the rector of the seminary.

Today's host(s): Scot Landry Today's guest(s): Stephen Colella, Peter Williams, and Fr. Frank Silva Links from today's show: Today's topics: CYO Athletics Summary of today's show: Say the letters CYO to a Catholic from Boston, and they will inevitably recall the glory days of CYO athletics when hundreds of parish and parochial school sports teams competed in several sports across the Archdiocese. Peter Williams, Stephen Colella, and Fr. Frank Silva join Scot Landry to say that those glory days aren't just in the past. The annual CYO March Madness tournament is beginning and will bring 87 out of 368 teams in 11 different divisions together to be crowned the best in basketball in eastern Massachusetts. But it's not just another recreational league. Catholic athletics teaches virtues and Catholic values in an environment that helps young people to grow in faith and integrity. 1st segment: Scot said CYO Athletics is not just about the final score… It's about positive coaching, sportsmanship for children and their parents, learning to live together in a diverse community, maximizing talents, and fostering the physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual strength in each of us. The programs are representative of the Christian values of respect, love, compassion and support for each other. Through sports, competition and teamwork, CYO athletics provides healthy growth and development through games, practices and the life lessons that sports teach. Scot said the Archdiocese has a version of March Madness in the CYO basketball tournament. Pete Williams is the CYO athletics director and Fr. Frank is the chaplain for CYO athletics. Stephen Colella is the assistant director of Office for the New Evangelization of Youth and Young Adults, of which CYO is part. Peter said in 1963 he was appointed deanery athletic coordinator in Dorchester and since 1977 has been athletic director for CYO for the Archdiocese. Scot said CYO athletics was huge in Lowell in the early 80s when he was participating. Peter said in the 1950 and 1960s, every parish had a CYO program. Right now, there are still 350 teams in the Archdiocese. Peter said when he was a kid the parish was the hub of the community and most kids wanted to participate in the CYO. It was a time when young people were readily coming forth to be part of the Church. Fr. Frank said during his high school years CYO was known not just for athletics, but also social, spiritual and cultural programs. CYO was an opportunity for leadership development for young people. CYO councils were elected in parishes and on the deanery/vicariate level they had youth councils and then an Archdiocesan youth council. Fr. Frank served as an officer in his parish CYO and a deanery officer in the Lowell area and then served on the Archdiocesan council. He was an appointed member. Each council had committees for religious, social, athletic, and cultural activities. At the archdiocesan council level, he was appointed to the sports committee even though he'd never been involved in athletics. Peter said he was a classmate in the seminary with Fr. Frank along with Fr. Bill Schmidt, who was the chairman of the archdiocesan youth council that Fr. Frank served on. Fr. Frank said his decision to enter the seminary was affected by involvement in CYO. Those were the glory years of CYO, he said. National conventions for CYOs took place every other year and would draw five or six thousand young people from around the country. Stephen talked about growing up in Wayland and being involved in soccer and how that influenced his development as a person. He said CYO athletics ties together the natural virtues to the supernatural virtues. As you become a teammate you grow out of yourself. When you baptize sports, you realize what a powerful influence you can have on who young people can become. Scot said growing up CYO for him was just sports. Peter said the goal of CYO sports is to connect sports to the spiritual. Fr. Matt as director of Office for the New Evangelization of Youth and Young Adults has done more to connect those, by for example, having a Mass for the opening of the sports year at the cathedral. Fr. Silva said growing up in the 1960s, there were still many community connections in neighborhoods and during high school, having a youth organization that was parish based created multiple opportunities to draw young people in through a variety of activities. He recalled CYO sponsoring an oratorical contest where people were invited to give speeches that culminated an oratorical contest at Boston College for the whole archdiocese. He said the Archdiocese was one of the first in the country to accept Search retreat weekends for high schools, which had many great fruits. Teen Encounter Christ programs also had a link with Search and CYO. Whatever else parish CYO programs offered, they all seemed to have athletics: golf, swimming, tennis, basketball, baseball. As we entered the 1970s, it began to change because of the culture and as youth ministry became the new model. Scot asked Peter what changed. Peter said when Msgr. John Carroll wrote his memoirs, he wrote that over 1,300 young people entered religious life out of the Archdiocese of Boston CYO program. The CYO program evolved over time and the upheaval of the Sixties and Seventies led to much of the demise of youth programs. Fr. Frank pointed out it wasn't just youth programs and it wasn't just in the Church. Peter said the athletic program has remained fairly constant and in recent time has seen a rebirth and new growth in the Archdiocese. Scot asked if it's just sports-crazy Boston or is it nationally that CYO has become athletics focused. Peter said every diocese in New England has a very vibrant CYO athletic program. Scot asked Stephen what stands out for CYO in its effectiveness. Stephen said the Catechism speaks of the value of CYO and encourages us to be involved. The anchor for CYO has always been an outreach program to bring young people into orbit around their parish. Its in our nature to want to be in these socialized settings. Even though the culture has offered substitutes, these programs remain strong. Though there may have been a heyday and a lull, we're rediscovering the value of this socialization and how powerful it can be for a new evangelization. CYO has some Velcro hooks that other ministries are missing. 2nd segment: Scot asked Peter about the March Madness tournament and the different levels and brackets. Peter said there are 11 divisions: 5th and 6th grade boys and girls, school and parish divisions; 7th & 8th grade boys and girls; junior boys; senior boys; senior girls. The grammar school divisions are the largest and the South Shore Parochial School League is the biggest one of all. Of the parish leagues, the Norwood-Westwood area league is growing large as well. These are parishes that don't have Catholic grammar schools have parish league teams, although some parishes offer both. Peter said Gate of Heaven in South Boston has been a large force in CYO over the years, both boys and girls. Our Lady's in Lynnfield is another program, and St. Margaret Mary in Westwood. St. Mary's in Franklin field 14 teams. Fr. Frank said for this age level, while they are receiving proper religious education and growing in other ways, they are also seeing how being involved in a church activity can be fun. Peter said the priests are key and he sees the kids flock to their priests and pastors. Scot asked if the parishes travel well, sending more than just parents of the teams. Peter said it's mostly family related, grandparents, aunts and uncles. Scot asked how the Archdiocese celebrates the teams in the March Madness tournament. Stephen said they build on the socialization idea and avenues of growing virtue. It's powerful to give witness that is implicit and explicit. The priest coming by to see the teams. The credibility of a teacher or priest goes through the roof when you enter their world. That opens the door to their receptivity to the Church. Once that avenue is primed, then you add prayer before the game and all the other elements. The teams that take advantage of that really begin to grow a huge ministry apart from sports. Scot said he presumes that the trash talking you see on playgrounds doesn't take place on the CYO courts. Fr. Frank said it is different, but the kids are still kids. However, the adults take a stricter line on such activity with technical fouls and if it continues coaches and priests getting involved. Fr. Frank said there have been teams eliminated from tournaments because they didn't live up to the values being promoted. Peter said the Archdiocese has participated an online course for Catholic coaches that all coaches must take. He said we are blessed by the men and women passing on these values and virtues. Stephen said national statistics shows that young people who get involved in athletics tend to avoid trouble and get themselves on a different path. Peter said during the season, to qualify for post-season play, that a team be successful in at least 70 percent of their games and from that about 30 percent of the teams end up participating. This year 87 teams are taking part out of 368 teams total. Peter said the tournament is single elimination. It is highly competitive with large crowds coming to the games. Stephen said Milton High School is where they traditionally hold the tournament. They have a very large facility. They used to hold the tournament at Catholic Memorial for about 25 years. Fr. Silva said the younger the competitors, the more inspiring and entertaining it is to watch. Stephen said as the tournament goes on the level of play becomes incredible. He also offered thanks to the volunteers who get involved, including referees and coaches. 3rd segment: It's time to announce this week's winner of the WQOM Benefactor Raffle. Our prize this week is the book, by Curtis Martin. This week's benefactor card raffle winner is Fr. James DiPerri, from Waltham, MA. Congratulations, Fr. DiPerri! If you would like to be eligible to win in an upcoming week, please visit . For a one-time $30 donation, you'll receive the Station of the Cross benefactor card and key tag, making you eligible for WQOM's weekly raffle of books, DVDs, CDs and religious items. We'll be announcing the winner each Wednesday during “The Good Catholic Life” program. 4th segment: Scot asked Peter how the brackets are formed. Peter said the brackets are seeded to ensure that no one who has already faced an opponent during the season meets them again in the initial rounds. They do try to weight it to ensure balance in the brackets. Peter said his son Stephen is the tournament director this year and is responsible for creating all the brackets. Scot asked for where people can get more information. (The link to their web site is above.) Fr. Frank said what has competed with the development of CYO teams in many parishes is the development of city and town youth leagues. He said the CYO name does continue in many places with teams not affiliated with the Church continuing to use CYO. People have identified some teams as a CYO team for so long they continue to use the name. CYO has become ingrained within the psyche. Stephen said that will help CYO in the future. When you view it as ministry, you start to see what Pope John Paul said about the potential for the Church of the intersection with the culture. This is an important piece of who we are. The towns have copied a lot of what we did well. Now we need to find what new things we can do (for example, ultimate frisbee) and what things we can re-infuse with more catechesis for the future. Boston has had a rich history that will carry us forward in the new evangelization. There are so many CYO alumni who are very successful people in business and society and professional sports. Peter said we as a Church have a very difference product to offer. We're not just a recreational league. Otherwise the Church shouldn't be involved in athletics. We have a distinctive spiritual component to our athletics. Stephen said Catholic athletics is the Theology of the Body lived out in the bosy-soul union.

Today's host(s): Scot Landry and Fr. Mark O'Connell Today's guest(s): Fr. Michael Harrington, Director of the Office of Outreach and Cultural Diversity Today's topics: Celebration of the Priesthood dinner; Priest Profile: Fr. Michael Harrington Summary of today's show: Fr. Michael Harrington discusses with Scot and Fr. Mark the 2011 Celebration of the Priesthood dinner, a moving opportunity for the people of the Archdiocese to express their appreciation for all that their priests do and are for them; Also, Fr. Harrington's vocation story; how priestly vocations have grown rapidly in the years he's been working with the Vocation Office; and the readings for Mass this Sunday. 1st segment: Scot noted that at the Red Mass, Cardinal Sean gave a great homily on assisted suicide that got a lot of national press. Fr. Mark said Chief Justice Rapoza also gave a powerful talk on St. Thomas More to the Catholic Lawyers Guild. Both stories and talks are in the Pilot this week. Fr. Mark said Justice Rapoza quoted G.K. Chesterton as a great model for what was going on at the time (the 1920s) and will be an even greater model for 100 years from then. 2nd segment: Scot welcomed Fr. Harrington to the show. He said 1,110 people were at the Celebration of the Priesthood dinner at the World Trade Center in Boston last night. He said he was happy to see so many people turn out to support priests and encourage them in their ministry. Fr. Mike said it was good to see so much support for priests. Scot said it was announced that the dinner raised over $1 million plus another $150,000 over the next few years to benefit the Clergy Funds for priests' medical and retirement needs. Scot said the spirit of the night was wonderful. Fr. Mike said each presenter was so positive and highlighted how the priests of this archdiocese had done so much for them in their lives. Fr. Mike said one of the speakers, Chris Boyle, went through a list of the priests who have connected with him through his young life. He is a 7th and 8th grade theology teacher at Catholic Memorial. When Fr. Mike speaks about vocations in parishes, he encourages people to think about the many places and ways that priests have had a positive impact in their lives: marriages, baptisms, confessions, when people were sick, etc. It helps us to realize how much the priesthood means to us as Catholics. Scot said Cardinal Sean gave a very strong address. He related how a five-year-old boy once told him that he is the “communion guy” and said that it's true that all priests are the Communion guy. Fr. Bob Reed of CatholicTV was the host of the evening. Scot said Joe D'Arrigo, executive director of the Clergy Funds, Some stats, for every 1 active priest we have, there are 10 retired priests. They also shared some charts data on the last four years of work on the Clergy Funds. Four years ago, there was a prediction the funds would run out by the end of 2011, but now the expenses for the funds have been cut without cutting benefits and revenues have been raised. They went from a $10 million deficit to a break-even budget. Fr. Mark said he wasn't at the event because he was teaching, but he wanted to give kudos to Joe D'Arrigo. A few years ago, Fr. Mark was running the Clergy Funds, but confesses most of the priests who ran it didn't have the expertise to do so, so he's very grateful to Joe. Fr. Mike added that Joe is here for nothing but to serve the priests of the archdiocese. Scot said everyone who were involved did a very great job. The highlight of the night was an eight-minute video highlighting the work of some of our priests: The priests in the video were Fr. Mark Murphy, Fr. Richard Clancy, Fr. Jack Ahern, and Fr. Joseph Fagan. Scot said one of the moving parts was hearing Fr. Clancy choke up when he said it mattered in his life for people to take a few minutes and write the priest a note to thank him. the dinner started in the Year of the Priest as a way to thank priests not just for what they do, but for who they are in this special vocation in the Church. He encouraged listeners to think about saying thank you to their priest at church this Sunday. Scot emphasized that none of the priests go to the dinner to be celebrated personally, but it does make a difference to be thanked en masse. 3rd segment: Fr. Mike said he had great role models in the priesthood growing up. He had a well-known pastor, Msgr. John Carroll, who was a great witness to him. Then he had Fr. Bill Schmidt as a pastor at St. John's in Swampscott, who had a special way of ministering to young people. Fr. Mike said he didn't develop much of a sense of a personal vocation in his high school or college years. He said he didn't consider his vocation very much at all. But after college, he realized he was living his life for himself and so he started to see how he could live for others. He started to teach religious education in his parish and seek out other young adults active in their faith. In his early 20s, he started to ask for the first time what God wants him to do in his life. He started to walk more closely with the Lord and as he did so the idea of the priesthood started to come clearer. Little by little, God worked on him to understand his ways are greater than our ways. He entered seminary at age 27 in 1994. In his class, he was one of the younger guys, but today men are averaging younger when they enter. After ordination, his only parish assignment so far was St. Paul in Wellesley. He said he had great priest examples there and couldn't have asked for better pastors. The Cardinal called Fr. Mike into diocesan service in 2005 as assistant vocation director. He loved his work in the parish and he had a lot of great projects on the horizon. His term was coming to an end, but he had been told he would stay on a little longer. Then he had an unexpected call to come meet with the Cardinal. It was a surprise, but he wanted to do whatever God called him to do. It was tough to leave the parish, but he was committed to whatever the Cardinal thought best. Scot said Cardinal Sean had made a commitment to having two full-time priests in vocations office and that has born fruit with more than 70 young men in the seminary right now. It requires a lot of time and effort to create a culture of vocations. Fr. Mike said their work is only done in collaboration with all the priests of the archdiocese under the leadership of Cardinal Sean. The Cardinal sets the tone. Fr. Mike said recently there were only 27 men in residence at St. John Seminary. Today there are over 80 men in residence and more than 120 studying there total for several dioceses. Today 70 of them are studying for the archdiocese when just a few years ago there were only 45. Fr. Mike said they do many type of outreach to help men to consider what God is calling them to. They try to help them ask the question what God wants. We are so focused on what we want to be, but we need to help young people approach the much greater question. Scot said Cardinal Sean, Fr. Mike, and Fr. Dan Hennessey all rely heavily on prayer to grow vocations and are constantly asking everyone to pray for vocations. Fr. mike said Jesus gave the instruction: “Beg the Master of the harvest for more workers in the harvest.” Prayer is at the heart of vocations. They sometimes ask religious orders to pray for young men who are discerning; they have holy hours for vocations. Many parishes have prayers for vocations during Mass. Fr. Mark asked how vocations are growing in ethnic communities. Fr. Mike said they just ordained a young man from the Korean community and two more are in the seminary. They are not a huge community so having three men is an outsized contribution. They have had vocations from the Vietnamese community and other communities are beginning vocations programs. Scot asked for a profile of the types of men in the seminary and where they're coming from. Fr. Mike said most of the new men are in their 20s. They have three men who are 45. They have more men studying at Blessed John XXIII Seminary in the last few years. Most of the young men are just out of college. The work being done on college campuses are paying off in vocations. Several men come from Boston University. Three men were associated with the Life Teen ministry at St. Mary's in Dedham. Fr. Mark said there used to be a seminary college for men about 18 years old. Fr. Mark said they've accepted two men just out of high school this year. They go to a formation house in Providence and will either attend Providence College or another one in Rhode Island. They're also seeing more young men discerning a vocation in high school. Scot said on October 22, there is a big gathering put on by the Serra Club. They are having a Mass of Blessed John Paul II at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross at 10am in recognition of the Adopt-a-Priest apostolate. October 22 is the feast day of Bl. John Paul II. George Weigel will give a talk after the Mass. Scot said adopt-a-priest is a prayer apostolate. The Serra Club asks people to volunteer to pray for a particular priest every day for a year. Scot said two years ago his family was randomly assigned Msgr. Bob Deeley, our new vicar general. When he was assigned to be vicar general and Scot's new boss, his kids said they should pray for him even more now. Fr. Mike said the Serra Club does a lot of work helping with vocations. They are having an altar server appreciation Mass soon that the Serra Club will be assiting with. 4th segment: Now, as we do every week, we look forward to this coming Sunday's Mass readings to help us prepare to celebrate together. Thus says the LORD: You say, “The LORD's way is not fair!” Hear now, house of Israel: Is it my way that is unfair, or rather, are not your ways unfair? When someone virtuous turns away from virtue to commit iniquity, and dies, it is because of the iniquity he committed that he must die. But if he turns from the wickedness he has committed, he does what is right and just, he shall preserve his life; since he has turned away from all the sins that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. Jesus said to the chief priests and elders of the people: “What is your opinion? A man had two sons. He came to the first and said, ‘Son, go out and work in the vineyard today.' He said in reply, ‘I will not, ' but afterwards changed his mind and went. The man came to the other son and gave the same order. He said in reply, ‘Yes, sir, ‘but did not go. Which of the two did his father's will?” They answered, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Amen, I say to you, tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you. When John came to you in the way of righteousness, you did not believe him; but tax collectors and prostitutes did. Yet even when you saw that, you did not later change your minds and believe him.” Scot said imagine being on the receiving end of that admonition from Jesus. Fr. Mike said the Lord's way is not always easy, but it's a far cry from saying the Lord's way is not fair. Fr. Mark said Ezekiel is writing to a community who thinks that the bad things happening to them is because of their ancestors sins, but Ezekiel said it's their own sins that are the cause. In the Gospel, the better thing is to say yes and do it, but we give more credit to the guy who thinks about the consequences and changes his mind. We're given fair warning by God to make the right decision. Scot said the reading brings to mind the Sacrament of Reconciliation. He had a friend who described it as hitting the reset button. Scot said he's been both of these guys in the Gospel. in the spiritual life, it's the ongoing conversion to conform our hearts, minds, and will to God that leads to the right way. Fr. Mike said we can all relate to the claim the Lord's way isn't fair. Even the saints in Scripture have said that, but they recognized that it's not the Lord who abandoned us, but we who abandoned the Lord. Fr. Mark said he assumes Fr. Mike sees these two paths among the men who are discerning. Fr. Mike said God often calls us to expand our love, which can be hard at first. Scot wonders who is the analagous “tax collectors and prostitutes” of today that we might reject based on their past or surface appearances. It's easy to claim we won't be pharisaical, but we have to seriously examine whether we are being prideful or whether we really are that open to God's will. We have to constantly examine our hearts to ensure we are open to everyone who God might be calling to follow him.