Podcast appearances and mentions of christopher gunty

Ann Augherton, managing editor of the Catholic Herald, and cohost Christopher Gunty, associate publisher of Catholic Review Media in Baltimore, chat with Sr. Rose Pacatte, a Daughter of St. Paul stationed in Rome, who is a media literacy education specialist, and John Mulderig, movie reviewer for OSV News.

Join us for the final “Catholic Baltimore” show on WCBM. Hosts George Matysek and Christopher Gunty of Catholic Review Media and the Archdiocese of Baltimore look back at some of their favorite interviews over the years for a “Greatest Hits of Catholic Baltimore.”

The Archdiocese of Baltimore has a new auxiliary bishop – Bishop-designate Bruce Lewandowski, a Redemptorist priest who is currently pastor of Sacred Heart of Jesus/Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Parish in Highlandtown. The Catholic Review’s Christopher Gunty talked with the new bishop-designate about his vocation, his ministry and how he learned of his new appointment for the “Catholic Baltimore” radio show.

Award-winning contemporary Catholic musician Matt Maher has gone from parish ministry to full-time performing and helping people worship. Christopher Gunty talks with Matt about his life, his music and coping with a global pandemic.

The Catholic Business Network of Baltimore was founded 10 years ago to help people grow in business and strengthen their faith at the same time. Christopher Gunty sits down with Meg Ducey, current CBNB president, and Jim Randisi, CBNB founder, to talk about how the group has evolved as they detail plans to celebrate the landmark 10th anniversary.

Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, Bishop Adam J. Parker, Bishop Denis Madden and other bishops from Region 4 in the United States made their ad limina apostolorum visits – a Latin phrase meaning to the threshold of the Apostles Peter and Paul – Dec. 2-6 and received support for their work and a better understanding of the church in the US and its relationship with key Vatican departments. Christopher Gunty of the Catholic Review sat down with the Baltimore bishops at the Pontifical North American College in Rome for a special report on the visit.

For more than 20 years, First Fruits Farm has been growing vegetables for distribution to the needy. The Archdiocese of Baltimore was one of its first distribution partners and also partners with the farm to provide a plot of land to grow crops. Numerous Catholic schools and other Catholic organizations provide volunteers to help with the harvest. Christopher Gunty visited the farm in Freeland, Md., in early August to talk with Rick Bernstein, co-founder of the farm, about the new 200-acre home for First Fruits Farm and how its mission and ministry improve the lives of so many people.

Holy Cross Father David Guffey sits down with Christopher Gunty to talk about an upcoming movie about Father Patrick Peyton, the “rosary priest” who coined the phrase “the family that prays together stays together.” They also talk about other new initiatives from the Family Rosary organization, including a new Museum of Family Prayer opening near Boston this fall.

Christopher Gunty, associate publisher and editor of the Catholic Review in Baltimore and CEO of its parent publishing company, The Cathedral Foundation/CR Media, joins the show to explain what is going at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting in Baltimore this week. Plus, managing editor Ann Augherton and staff writer Zoey Maraist share the latest Catholic headlines from around Northern Virginia. 

Bishop Robert Barron is one of the greatest thinkers in the church these days. He spends a lot of time talking with atheists and other non-believers about the existence of God and why belief in God is not only rational, but beautiful. Christopher Gunty talks with Bishop Barron about engaging atheists, and the impact of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries’ projects on “Catholicism” and “The Mass.”

I found myself seated at one of two long dining tables set with Limoges china, silver knife rests, crystal glassware and candlesticks that looked like something out of the Disney movie “Beauty and the Beast.” The setting was a dinner in the formal dining room of Chateau de Laprée, the home of Edouard-François and Sarah de Lencquesaing, that dates back several centuries, and has been inhabited by the same family all these years. The dinner was a celebration of a successful weekend for the nearby town of Saint-Omer in northern France. The town was marking the 275th anniversary of a young American boy’s arrival at the College of the English Jesuits in Saint-Omer. The boy was Daniel Carroll, one of the few Catholic Founding Fathers of the fledgling nation. A delegation of Catholics came from Baltimore to mark the occasion and foster ties between the Old and New Worlds. The group included Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, three priests from the Baltimore Archdiocese, descendants of the Carroll family, and two American journalists, myself and my husband, Christopher Gunty, editor and associate publisher of the Catholic Review in Baltimore. The town of Saint-Omer pulled out the stops for the delegation, from afternoon tea, to a black-tie gala celebrating the reopening of the Jesuit Chapel as an arts center, to a roundtable on religious liberty, an issue near and dear to Archbishop Lori. The weekend prompted a closer look at the history of the boarding school, and three students who went on to shape the United States. In 1742, because of the suppression of Catholic schools in the American Colonies and in England, 13-year-old Daniel Carroll was sent from his home in Upper Marlboro, Md., to the boarding school in Saint-Omer. A few years later, his brother, John, and his cousin, Charles, made the two-month journey across the Atlantic to join him. If the names sound familiar, they should. Daniel Carroll of Rock Creek was one of five people who signed both the Articles of Confederation and the U.S. Constitution. John, who became a Jesuit at age 18, was the first Catholic bishop in the United States as bishop of Baltimore, the Premier See that included all 13 colonies. He also founded Georgetown University. Charles Carroll of Carrollton was the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence and he was the first U.S. senator from Maryland. Chatting with descendants of both Daniel and Charles Carroll was inspirational. Not many families can trace a direct line back hundreds of years. Fewer still can claim their ancestors helped shape a new nation. Check out the story and test your American Catholic heritage history.

Christopher Gunty takes a close look at the recent pilgrimage to Rome made by several Interfaith leaders of Baltimore. The leaders briefly met with Pope Francis in search of blessings for Baltimore in the wake of the violence following the death of Freddie Gray in the Spring of 2015.