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Summary In this conversation, Tim Whitaker and Billie Hoard discuss recent cases of violence against trans people and the hostile environment they face. They highlight the controversial mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral and the case of Next Benedict, a non-binary teenager who died after being bullied. They also explore the role of Christian nationalism and the theology of disgust in perpetuating discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community. The conversation emphasizes the power of disgust in fueling fascism and the social spread of disgust. This conversation explores the concept of disgust and its impact on society, particularly in relation to the LGBTQ+ community. It highlights the contrast between Jesus' acceptance and the Christian disgust towards queer individuals. The conversation emphasizes the importance of the gospel as good news and the need to transform disgust into love and acceptance. It also discusses the power of love and intimacy in decreasing disgust reactions. The conversation delves into the dangers of accounts like Libs of TikTok and the real-world consequences they can have, as demonstrated by Billie's personal experience. Billie shares her personal experience of facing false accusations and a targeted campaign to remove her from her teaching position. The conversation also discusses the misrepresentation of video footage and the dangerous consequences of stigmatizing safe spaces for LGBTQ+ students. The role of Haya, the creator of Libs of TikTok, in shaping educational policies is examined, highlighting the lack of expertise and integrity in her involvement. The conversation emphasizes the importance of standing against Christian nationalism and advocating for comprehensive sex education and queer rights. Takeaways The intersection of Christian nationalism and the theology of disgust contributes to the marginalization of the LGBTQ+ community. Addressing the systemic issues that perpetuate violence and discrimination against trans people requires challenging and dismantling Christian nationalist ideologies. Disgust can be a harmful emotion when it is directed towards individuals or groups, particularly the LGBTQ+ community. The gospel should be driving Christians towards inclusion and acceptance, rather than disgust and rejection. Love and intimacy have the power to decrease disgust reactions and foster understanding and acceptance. The misrepresentation of video footage can be used to stigmatize and harm LGBTQ+ individuals and their safe spaces. It is crucial to stand against Christian nationalism and advocate for comprehensive sex education and the rights of queer individuals. Check out our website for merch, educational materials, and how to join our community! If you'd like to support our work, you can DONATE here! Follow Us On Instagram @thenewevangelicals  Subscribe On YouTube The New Evangelicals exists to support those who are tired of how evangelical church has been done before and want to see an authentic faith lived out with Jesus at the center. On this channel, you'll see videos from our founder Tim Whitaker and our incredible guests as they react and respond biblically to topics such as Christian Nationalism, church hurt, terrible Christian movies, bad conservative Christian takes, and MUCH more!  We are committed to building a caring community that emulates the ways of Jesus by reclaiming the evangelical tradition and embracing values that build a better way forward. If you've been marginalized by your faith, you are welcome here. We've built an empathetic and inclusive space that encourages authentic conversations, connections and faith. Whether you consider yourself a Christian, an exvangelical, someone who's questioning your faith, or someone who's left the faith entirely, you are welcome here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Lofton reviews Cardinal Dolan’s reaction to the recent scandal that took place with St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. He then reviews chapter 34 of the Book of Ezekiel.

John and Maria discuss the implications for IVF of an Alabama court ruling. And what a recent funeral at St. Patrick's Cathedral means for Western culture and the church.   Recommendations A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Mrs. Grossman's Stickers Southern Champion Tray The Refuge Segment 1: Alabama Judge Rules in Favor of Embryos  Frozen embryos are ‘children,' Alabama supreme court rules in couples' wrongful death suits  Three Alabama clinics pause IVF services after court rules that embryos are children  Segment 2: A Funeral “Desecrates" St. Patrick's Cathedral Desecration at St. Patrick's Cathedral  The Colson Fellows program __________ Get your copy of Case for Life with a gift of any amount to the Colson Center in the month of February at colsoncenter.org/february. 

This week on Jesuitical, Zac and Ashley welcome Meg Kissinger, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence. Meg's memoir employs her journalistic skills to tell a tale of a Catholic family navigating mental illness. It serves as a great foundation for a profound, personal conversation about faith, tragedy, and trusting in an institution even when people in it have failed you. They discuss: Meg's family's experience with mental illness and suicide The evolution of the church's pastoral care for those impacted by suicide How community life can help us to have better conversations about mental health In Signs of the Times, Zac and Ashley discuss the recent news that the prefect of the Vatican Apostolic Archives, Archbishop Sergio Pagano, is retiring—and dishing Vatican secrets on the way out. They then cover the recent controversy over the funeral of activist Cecilia Gentili, which was held at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York last week. If you are having thoughts of suicide, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline or visit SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for additional resources. What's on tap? Coffee—it's still Lent! Jesuitical is going on the road in 2024! We hope you'll join us. And if you'd like Zac and Ashley to come to your city, send us an email at jesuitical@americamedia.org Feb. 28: Crystal City Marriott Hotel in Arlington, VA Live interview with Cardinal Wilton Gregory on “A Listening Church in a Divided Nation” from 7-8 p.m. Reception to follow from 8-9 p.m. Please RSVP here. March 18: Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. Live interview with American TV Newscaster Carol Costello. Time and venue TBD. Links from the show: When my siblings died by suicide, the church failed us. Now, it's finally listening. The keeper of the Vatican's secrets is retiring. Here's what he wants you to know. Cardinal Dolan on St. Pat's funeral for transgender activist: ‘I think our cathedral acted extraordinarily well' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sean & Rachel examine a variety of topics, from a funeral held at the sacred St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City that left Catholics hurt and outraged to how "media literacy" programs funded by the Department of Homeland Security could be instructing teachers to teach your kids controversial values instead of common core. Plus, they discuss why the life of an influencer may not be all it's cracked up to be. Follow Sean & Rachel on Twitter: @SeanDuffyWI & @RCamposDuffy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In one of the most idiotic, yet telling, stories of just how far the tentacles of the Spirit of the Age have gone in to our society...there was a drag funeral performed at St. Patrick's Cathedral in NYC — and the priest sat there and did nothing. The Church since has performed a mass of reparations to God for offending him. In a totally unrelated story, a member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence was arrested on charges of child sexual exploitation and porn. Ewww. In France, they want the ability to jail you for speaking up against the COVID-19 vaccine "and other reasonable" medical things. Good times on a #WTFWednesday.50% OFF 1ST MONTH of Coffee Brand Coffee Club here: https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/products/roasters-choice?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&_kx=NC38DO-FnPMuYiTLXlElgqTGL4Cb3Ee1T91dJDXq08k.SQNKcT&selling_plan=1503527049 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Terry Mattingly of GetReligion Pop Goes Religion: Faith in Popular Culture GetReligion.org The post 0521. Media Coverage of A Funeral for a Transgendered Activist Held at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York – Terry Mattingly, 2/21/24 first appeared on Issues, Etc..

AP correspondent Julie Walker reports on the New York Archdiocese reaction after a transgender church funeral.

Joe Biden's not the only one whose competence is in question. Andrew Malcolm and I discuss the Dylan Byers report that the White House press corps has colluded to keep Biden's cognitive crisis a secret out of "indelicacy." We explore that issue at length, including a discussion of 2018's The Front Runner, an overlooked film about the Gary Hart scandal in the 1988 cycle. We also discuss the media's false narratives about the monkey business (heh) at St. Patrick's Cathedral last week.

San Francisco elects its first noncitizen to oversee - get this - ELECTIONS in the city, and she also does work with the group 'Chinese Affirmative Action,' so what could go wrong? Plus, trans activists use a funeral at St. Patrick's Cathedral to completely mock and desecrate the Catholic Church and faith. And finally, Harvard professor Roland Fryer enjoys some schadenfreude with the ouster of Claudine Gay last month, after she ruined his reputation for finding that cops don't actually shoot black people more.Guests:Auron MacIntyre | Blaze Media Columnist & Podcast Host, The Auron MacIntyre ShowShawn Carney | President & CEO, 40 Days for LifeMichael Letts | Founder & CEO, In-Vest USATrent Staggs | Mayor, Riverton, Utah & Candidate, U.S. Senate - Utah

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"Strike them down with lightning level blasphemy" were the words a friend used to describe the detestable display at St. Patrick's Cathedral in midtown Manhattan Friday. Judge Arthur Engoron issues a $355M penalty against Donald Trump. A group of truck drivers consider a boycott of America's largest city. ____________________________________________________ Today's podcast supported by https://CatholicVote.Org (Get in The LOOP) Use PROMO CODE "KYLE" at these sites: https://contingencymedical.com/ (Emergency Antibiotic Kit!) https://4Patriots.com/KYLE (Survival foods) http://The-Suspendables.com (Show Merch) http://PatriotCoolers.com/ (Tumblers & Coolers) http://MyPillow.com/Kyle (Pillows/Towels/Bedding)

February 19th, 2024 - We welcome back Michael Hichborn of the Lepanto Inst. to discuss the travesty at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Then we're joined by Michael Verlander to break down why tradition isn't just about the smells and bells. TheStationOfTheCross.com/ACT  

In the 8 AM Hour: Larry O'Connor and Julie Gunlock discussed: WMAL GUEST: 8:05 AM - INTERVIEW - ZACK SMITH - Legal Fellow and Manager, Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy Program, Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation - analyzed the Letitia James / NY judgment against Trump. St. Patrick's Cathedral says it was tricked into hosting ‘sacrilegious' transgender activist's wild funeral Rashida Tlaib urges Democrats to vote against Biden in Michigan primary over Gaza war support NYPD Dance Team Record 5,363 NYPD cops injured on job in 2023 — with over 1,200 hurt in struggles with suspects in last 3 months Where to find more about WMAL's morning show:  Follow the Show Podcasts on Apple podcasts, Audible and Spotify. Follow WMAL's "O'Connor and Company" on X: @WMALDC, @LarryOConnor,  @Jgunlock,  @patricepinkfile and @heatherhunterdc.  Facebook: WMALDC and Larry O'Connor Instagram: WMALDC Show Website: https://www.wmal.com/oconnor-company/ How to listen live weekdays from 5 to 9 AM: https://www.wmal.com/listenlive/ Episode: Monday, February 19, 2024 / 7 AM Hour See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Best Hill to Die - Defending Holy StandardsWebsite: http://www.battle4freedom.comNetwork: https://www.mojo50.comStreaming: https://www.rumble.com/Battle4FreedomSuper Bowl "He Gets Us" & Murder on the House Floorhttps://www.youtube.com/live/KcUpgWH0TBU?si=j6AxXWMrktDV5paXSuperbowl “He Gets Us” & Murderer on the House FloorJohn Barros Babies Are Still Murdered Here (FILM)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-vyYE6C8MUhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13098413/Biden-Trump-Cognitive-Decline-Worse.htmlTrump's 'slurred speech and gross, repeated errors' show his cognitive decline is 'MORE apparent' than Biden, UBC professor claims, in frightening assessment of presidential front runnersPolitics professor at the University of British Columbia, Paul Quirk, has assessed the cognitive functioning of both presidential front runnersHe warned Trump's decline is 'more apparent' but that Biden's 'cognitive failure' could be disastrous in a second termhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13083325/Six-cutting-edge-technologies-reverse-global-warming-dumping-WHALE-POOP-sea-engineering-CLOUDS-block-sun.htmlSix cutting-edge technologies that could reverse global warming: From dumping WHALE POOP in the sea to engineering CLOUDS to block out sunExperiments underway use rocks, fake whale excrement and clouds Experts warn that some of the technologies could backfire - or spark warhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13098111/China-hack-infrastructure-FBI-warning.htmlFBI director warns China's computer attacks are now at a 'scale greater than we'd seen before' as vulnerable critical infrastructure remains at high-risk to be targetedFBI director Christopher Wray gave the grave warning as intelligence chiefs and politicians met at the Munich annual security conference on SundayThe wars raging in Ukraine and the Middle East were the focus of the conference - but Wray urged leaders not to lose sight of a subtler menaceHe said Beijing's plan to secretly plant technology inside the US critical infrastructure has become a significant threat to national securityhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13097379/cecilia-gentili-death-funeral-cancer-st-patricks-cathedral-nyc-1-1.htmlFamed NYC St. Patrick's Cathedral says Catholic church was TRICKED into holding funeral for trans activist who was eulogized as 'mother of all whores'Cathedral authorities have issued a groveling apology to outraged parishioners after 'sacrilegious' service for 'great whore' Cecilia GentiliHundreds of mourners in fishnets and boas danced in the aisles during service for atheist trans activist at 'America's parish church'The 'degraded' Catholic cathedral has been ordered to hold a 'mass of reparation' after celebrating the former sex workerhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13087635/woman-torn-esophagus-ozempic-lawsuit-novo-nordisk.htmlIllinois woman who vomited so violently after using Ozempic that she tore her ESOPHAGUS joins huge legal fight against maker of blockbuster weight loss drug - as Novo Nordisk braces for up to 10,000 lawsuitsDina Fioretti, 60, from Illinois, claims in a lawsuit that Ozempic caused her to suffer a blocked bowel and vomit so much that her esophagus was tornHer case has been added to a nationwide litigation against Novo Nordisk, the maker of the blockbuster weight loss drug, that could include 10,000 patientsDailyMail.com previously revealed that another woman who is suing the company will suffer from diarrhea forever after using Ozempichttps://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+10%3A17&version=ESVRomans 10:[17] So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+1%3A8-10&version=ESVGalatians 1:[8] But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. [9] As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.[10] For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+17%3A2&version=ESVLuke 17:[2] It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+10%3A27&version=ESVJohn 10:[27] My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

On today's show, Mary and Lauretta discuss St. Patrick's Cathedral the “sacrilegious” funeral service for an atheist, transgender activist during the first week of Lent. Their conversation included the Archdiocese's response of holding a “Mass of Reparation” to atone, Catholic funerals and why our outrage is appropriate and it matters.   https://ststanschurch.org/ 

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In today's bonus episode, Martha heads to St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City in honor of Ash Wednesday. Joined by 'The Chosen' actor Jonathan Roumie, as they receive their ashes together and discuss the importance of prayer in light of the new Christian app, Hallow - which features Roumie and Mark Wahlberg leading prayer meditations - topping charts. You can listen to their entire conversation this Friday, here on The Untold Story.  Follow Martha on Twitter: @MarthaMacCallum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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20231222 - St. Patrick's Cathedral Iconic Christmas Mass by Kevin McCullough Radio

We spent the day taking in some Christmas here in nyc.  Checked out Times Square, gave the finger to the SiriusXM building, going in St. Patrick's Cathedral, pictures near the Rockefeller Christmas tree, our long painful lunch and I finish up talking about Mariah Carey who went to my high school and knew my brother.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jeffrey Bruno is an award winning photographer, writer and creative director who focuses on issues and stories related to the Catholic Church in the spirit of evangelization through imagery and digital communication. Website: www.jeffreybruno.com (instagram, substack, aleteia, mudrack, twitter, linked in - all linked here!)Fr. Mike Schmitz homily from St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York before Eucharistic Procession: youtube.com/watch?v=BbaZOch57_Y&t=1678s

“The Babe”, George Herman Ruth, was the first sports superstar. He had the potential to be baseball's greatest left-handed pitcher. Instead, he moved to the outfield and became its greatest hitter. Until Ruth arrived in New York in 1918, the Yankees had never won a pennant. Babe Ruth dies of throat cancer at age 53 in New York on August 16th 1948. He lied in state at Yankee Stadium and St. Patrick's Cathedral more than 100,000 mourners would show their respects.August 16th, 2010 New York Giant Great, Bobby Thompson passes away. On October 3rd 1951, dubbed the "Shot Heard 'Round the World," Thompson hit a game-deciding, three-run home run the final game of a three-game playoff between the Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers. It is considered by many to be one of the most memorable and dramatic homers in baseball history. August 16th 1940- Jimmie Foxx smashes two homers to help the Red Sox beat the Senators. The two round trippers move him ahead of Lou Gehrig on the all-time list with a total of 495. 2August 16th, 1966 - Willie Mays hits his 534th home run, matching Jimmie Foxx's record for right-handed batters, as Gaylord Perry beats the Cardinals, 3 - 1.August 16th 2002 The Twins down the Red Sox, 5 - 0, in the process ending Pedro Martinez's scoreless inning streak at 35. It is the longest such streak in the majors since 2000. Pedro's 2000 season is considered by many to be the best season ever pitched in the history of the game.

There's a movie called The Mission from 1986 with Robert De Niro, where two different approaches are taken to meet the natives and bring the message of Christ. In the first attempt, a priest played by De Niro tries the sales approach and in his heavy handed messaging, he irritates the people, gets tied to a cross, thrown into a river, and sent over a waterfall. Then the second man, Jeremy Irons, comes and plays his oboe. That's all he does. A beautiful song, simple in its melody, softly plays in the jungle - a song never heard by the people before. The music intrigues the people, and even though they smash his oboe, they don't smash his face. They take him into their village. The beauty of the song breaks down a wall. And suddenly there is an inroad to friendship, and more importantly, into the life of Christ, because it was beauty, not a sales pitch, that led to interest, and ultimately, a relationship. And beauty is how you bring the message of Jesus Christ to people. It is the beauty of the story, of the person and living God that he is, of who he is, what he is - that's what needs to be shared, and it can't be shared in a sales pitch. The feeling that a sales approach gives is this: “Oh, so I am just a project to you? A notch in your belt? A credit for your way to heaven?” It's the same feeling of the Verizon salesman pushing unwanted products when you just want your phone fixed. Evangelism that feels like a one-night stand only lasts as long as a one-nighter. There's no beauty, and there's no relationship. It's just a temporary feel-good, like eating pixie stix.This is what hurts more than saves: “Did you really just pretend to be friendly just to make me convert?” It feels dirty. It makes me want to run. Conversion can't be treated like the old Highlander TV show, where Duncan McLeod slays his enemy and then he takes on their power. There is no sales commission or power gained if you convert someone to understand that Jesus is God. We are to preach the Gospel and “heal the sick,” and much of healing comes from befriending people - as in real befriending. Becoming friends means having no ulterior motives, no commission, no bonus. Becoming friends does not mean hoping they will be baptized and then you move on. This has the relationship depth of a star football player at a college frat party ranging over the drunk and willing freshmen. Virtuous and real friendship requires the gift of self with no motives of a kickback. (Not coincidentally, this is exactly how we should approach God and the Mass.) An ulterior motive gets outed quickly if you are only becoming friends with the hopes of converting a person, and then it feels like one party got duped into that one-nighter. Flattery and a few free drinks might get someone laid, but it doesn't get them love. There's no substance to it. There's nothing underneath it. Conversion by trickery or strategy of any kind is not what God asks us to do. Did Jesus do any of that? I read the Gospel often and I don't see him tricking anyone. I see relationships forming and lasting, or if not lasting, an authentic experience happens where sin is outed and transformation begins. In fact, I always see that Jesus is non-competitive, non-gimmicky, but he challenges them at the same time - and that authentic challenge what attracts people to him. He's not acting like a salesman, asking about someone's mother just to establish rapport. Nor is he playing the game of the Romans, who go out and conquer people by the sword and then spin propaganda, crafting a message about how they brought “peace” to all that they threatened. Jesus doesn't play the stupid games that we do. He isn't a salesman. He's not a bully or a genie either. He's authentic. And that is what we are absolutely dying to find. Something real. Something beautiful that is just offered for his own sake. Something and someone who isn't selling is what we want. And we want more than just something free, like free beer, we want beauty that touches our soul. In America, our idols known of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” pretend to give us this, but in this pursuit, we turn everything being into a sale, from sports to healthcare to news. Even religion becomes a sale with the prosperity Gospel and therapeutic Deism. Loving Jesus doesn't need to be cool. It's not supposed to be, until you suddenly understand who he is. Then he's way cooler than anything you've ever known or seen. Which is why he is cool. He's cool because he's not trying to be cool, he just is a living witness of how beautiful life can be, even when sin makes it ugly. This is why the Woman at the Well story, and Peter's “drop the nets” moment, and saint stories like those of St. Augustine and St. Teresa of Avila (and all the rest) make us step back and look at our own lives. We wonder what happened when those people met Jesus as the living God. And until it happens to you, it will seem fishy, suspicious, and too good to be true, because we are accustomed to being sold and told lies. This is why attempts to make Christianity cool come off so badly to me. Most Christian music and evangelization feels forced. It's the Robert De Niro kind of forced-feeding versus Jeremy Irons playing the oboe. Recall that people didn't want to kill Jesus for being cool. No, he rejected all that the world considered cool. The world's fads of money and power bored Jesus. It was for this very fact that they hated him. He didn't want what everyone else thought gave their lives meaning. The real threat of Jesus to the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Romans was not that he was becoming popular. It's that he inverted their whole world and made a mockery of their earthly wants and desires. Power, money, pleasure - he needed none of it. While everyone is trying so hard to be cool, Jesus is just praying and being friends with people. No concert needed, no TED style talks, no cultural hooks like hot-monogamy, no parades, nothing but being himself. Being a follower of Jesus is not meant to be cool. It's meant to make you conform your life to Christ, know you are a sinner, take up your cross, and very likely be reviled by the culture, and after all that still be joyful enough to give away money to the church and the poor. See, it doesn't make sense, does it? But it does make sense. Once you turn into the light, you can see all of it. The world is suddenly illuminated. It's not supposed to be cool. It's supposed to be beautiful.You want to follow him, because Truth is beautiful, and then you don't really care about how it looks to the world. However, the wrong kind of friendship, the salesperson kind, is not going to bring the sheep back to the fold. It's the same result as chasing sheep with a fiery torch. Hellfire scare tactics don't work, and nor do sugary friendships, nor does flirty bait-dating. People are dying to find something authentic. And here's the kicker: once they find Jesus to be authentic and follow him, they can no longer die. A religion that enters into competition has to sell itself to win, and the moment that begins, it's a product and no longer a way of life. The moment that selling begins, it is no longer Christianity. Evangelization is not about selling. It's about complete transformation. If selling is required, then it needs a story, and how tempting it can be to craft a story around a product, just a wee bit here and there, and then pretend that the product matches a story instead of the product matching reality. The extreme push of corporations to sell mindfulness products today has the same rank odor on it that the door-to-door Jehovah's Witnesses and beach evangelizers at spring break always had. I have walked into many customer-facing situations where the story told by the salesperson did not match the reality of what the product could do. When reality can't live up to a sales and marketing story, the jig is up. These are what you call “difficult conversations” where you have to explain, as nicely as possible, that the salesperson was lying, or at least committing certain sins of omission by not volunteering accurate information. However, a sales story that matches reality can be seen in the proof of the product. It can be seen in the continued used of the product. It can be heard in testimonies of those using the product. It can be seen in things built using the product. Proof of use and effectiveness can be seen and heard across the world for something that really works. Like for example, the Old and New Cathedrals of Salamanca, Notre Dame, St. Patrick's Cathedral, St. Peter square, St. Paul's cathedral, and a million small churches. Like works of art and literature and songs and stories of saints. These are beautiful things, created in homage to a savior that heals. When I hear “Gentle Woman” and “Ave Maria” and “Immaculate Mary” every year in December on the holy day of Immaculate Conception, I have to sit in the back row because it brings tears to my eyes. It's just so beautiful. I can hardly take it. I recall this happening with other songs, where the beauty penetrates so deeply that I can hardly stand it, as if my heart could be broken and healed in three minutes. It has happened to me with “No Woman, No Cry” from Bob Marley and the Wailers. The same with Andrea Bocelli's “Con te Partiro.” Surely we all have songs that can cut us deeply and bring tears of sadness or joy. To hear the songs in Church, however, about Mary and Jesus, is still different because the Mother of God and God Incarnate are the ultimate healers. Every December, or whenever the Marian songs are sung, I can know the beauty and goodness of the Blessed Virgin Mary through song, through the glorious gift of music that God gave to some people. We all have gifts, but musicians have one of the most beautiful ones and they can share it with us to lift us up, just like the birds of the morning who call to one another from the trees, as if God is saying to the world through these amazing creatures, “Good morning.”Birds aren't selling their song. They are offering it up. They are giving their song to the world. They are using the gift that God gave them to reveal the beauty of all creation. In other words, Creation is a product I can believe in, because I can see it, and it's beautiful. An account manager with steady customers who believe in a product are a far more steady stream of income than customers that were tricked into purchase orders and contracts by a charismatic salesman. God isn't a salesman. The tricks we play on people aren't needed with real beauty. The cute smile, the witty rejoinder, the steak dinner, the sleek demo, the free stuff - shirts and pens and mouse pads and all the other crap salespeople unload on customers as if they were kids at parade - none of that sustains trust if the underlying product doesn't work or isn't authentic. A huge backlash is happening right now in the post-Vatican II liturgy that tried to “modernize” the Catholic Mass to keep up with the trendy ways of the world. This was a mistake that may slowly be corrected. It's become increasingly clear to all that the irreverent productions were attempts by Catholics to compete with Protestant services. But once your faith tries to be cool, it's dying. Who would want it, when it's entertainment, because like every show or product that needs a lot of marketing to keep it going, it's not really needed. Beauty doesn't need to compete. Faith cannot win in the space of entertainment, because it's more than entertainment. Because it is not made for that space. That space is the complete opposite of what faith and the Mass is about. We have football stadiums and rock shows and music festivals and strip joints and TED Talks and drive-in movie theaters. All of those are more “fun” than Catholic Mass, but they are all selling something completely different. And none of those things last, as sports leagues come and go, bands break up, music festivals peter out, strip joints get condemned, and TED Talks is on its last days. Drive in movie theaters are barely hanging on. There are a thousand and one options for entertainment which all come and go over the decades. Even Elvis, the King, and the Beatles, will be but a blip in a history book soon. They are completely in the rear-view mirror already. Given our short attention span that moves on from one form of entertainment to another, this makes the fact that a Church could be the dominant and lasting centerpiece of life for 2,000 years rather mind-blowing. True, there wasn't the option of NFL football games and music festivals and Burning Man. But those things that draw millions of worshippers today will be long gone before the Church is gone. Why? How did it hang on for so long? It's not like the Catholic Church was the only religion in existence. Why didn't one of the other “religions” of the ages before Christianity rise up to replace it? After all, if it was so obviously a bunch of false superstitions of fearful farmers, then why couldn't something other than Christianity have swept it away? This is a question that doesn't get asked out loud. The answer is they haven't replaced Christ because…they are not beautiful. Christ's music makes life sing. He is the way, the healer, the maker of all music, the one who makes the invisible be visible. The reason we love art and music and stories is the same reason we love Jesus, and the reason is because we see the beauty of all creation in him: Jesus said to Thomas, "I am the way and the truth and the life.No one comes to the Father except through me.If you know me, then you will also know my Father.From now on you do know him and have seen him." (Jn 14:6-14)Once you hear the music of the original reasons to believe, it begins to make sense. All of the clanging gongs and noise are trying to convert you by beating you over the head, and many Catholics have tried the approach of Robert De Niro in The Mission. For those approaches that used guilt and ugliness, the Church was thrown in the river and sent downstream. And now is the time where we can hear the oboe finally, now that we've heard enough of the noise, so that we can be curious enough to take a second look. This is a public episode. 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Holy Bank Holiday Weekend Batman!The sun has got it's hat on but bain maries all over the country are still fired up, ready to protect and serve roast pots and active joints to whoever needs them.This week we went to The Headline Bar on Clanbrassil Street and a fun time was had by all. Emer had just gotten her nails done, Esther was dressed for a heatwave and the bells of St. Patrick's Cathedral were bonging away in the background.As always, thanks so much for listening. If you enjoy the pod, why not pretend to be Bono and tip us a coffee/tiny gravy boat here. It all helps keep Emer's Nissan Juke on the road in search of the best in carvery and roasts on the island of Ireland.See you next Sunday!Emer and Esther.Follow Emer on Instagram, Esther here and the pod here.P.S As always, if you have any great roast/carvery lunch recommendations you'd like to share with us, email ⁠⁠helloroastpotatoes@gmail.com⁠⁠. We also have ⁠⁠a playlist ⁠⁠to get you in a carvery state of mind each week so if you have any great song recs, throw them our way too. We'd also love if you subscribed to the pod wherever you listen and if you liked this episode, give the podcast five stars on Apple Podcast or Spotify.Artwork created by the fragrant and lavly, Lavender The Queen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Full Text of ReadingsPentecost Sunday Lectionary: 62, 62S, 63The Saint of the day is Venerable Pierre ToussaintVenerable Pierre Toussaint's Story Born in modern-day Haiti and brought to New York City as a slave, Pierre died a free man, a renowned hairdresser, and one of New York City's most well-known Catholics. Plantation owner Pierre Bérard made Toussaint a house slave and allowed his grandmother to teach her grandson how to read and write. In his early 20s, Pierre, his younger sister, his aunt, and two other house slaves accompanied their master's son to New York City because of political unrest at home. Apprenticed to a local hairdresser, Pierre learned the trade quickly and eventually worked very successfully in the homes of rich women in New York City. When his master died, Pierre was determined to support himself, his master's widow, and the other house slaves. He was freed shortly before the widow's death in 1807. Four years later, he married Marie Rose Juliette, whose freedom he had purchased. They later adopted Euphémie, his orphaned niece. Both preceded Pierre in death. He attended daily Mass at St. Peter's Church on Barclay Street, the same parish that Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton had attended. Pierre donated to various charities, generously assisting blacks and whites in need. He and his wife opened their home to orphans and educated them. The couple also nursed abandoned people who were suffering from yellow fever. Urged to retire and enjoy the wealth he had accumulated, Pierre responded, “I have enough for myself, but if I stop working I have not enough for others.” Pierre originally was buried outside St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, where he was once refused entrance because of his race. His sanctity and the popular devotion to him caused his body to be moved to the present location of St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue. Pierre Toussaint was declared Venerable in 1996. Reflection Pierre was internally free long before he was legally free. Refusing to become bitter, he daily chose to cooperate with God's grace, eventually becoming a compelling sign of God's wildly generous love. Venerable Pierre Toussaint is the Patron Saint of: BarbersHair Stylists Saint of the Day, Copyright Franciscan Media

Something that gets buried today is how the pagan or secular world treated people, and it's buried for a reason. We like to pretend the “Dark Ages” were full of witch-burning psycho priests but that pre-Christian societies were joy-filled lands where all joined hands and sang songs like the Whos in Dr. Seuss's Whoville. But nothing could be further from the truth. A good read on how much people have forgotten our Christian roots is a book by Tom Holland, titled: Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind. We have forgotten how much Christianity has improved the lives of everyone in comparison to the “good old days” of paganism. We are so accustomed to hospitals, universities, libraries, and non-profit charities that we forgot where they all came from. They didn't come from Caesar or anyone in his time. People like to think there was some utopia before the “evils” of Christianity stamped out the fun. We will get to find this out soon, however, since we are lurching backward toward that “fun.” We forget things easily, not just over long expanses of time, but in single generations. The book of Judges illustrates this well, where each fall into sin has a savior, but within forty years, the people resume their errors and forget why they needed order. Our era is similar to that which preceded World War I when nations celebrated the beginning of the war, holding parades, cheering, wishing the boys well in their lovely uniforms and flags, only to find out a few years later that the war was a meat grinder of unprecedented levels, thanks to progress in technology and science. As we whisk God out of the public arena and out of our personal lives, we forget what the world was like before Jesus walked this earth, died on a cross, and rose from the dead to take away our sins, transform our suffering, and defeat the devil. One of the primary lies told today about the pre-Christian world is that women's lives were better without the Church imposing restrictions on them. But this is not true. It has never been true. It never will be true, no matter how many professors and bloggers keep writing about it. Disrespect of women was not a Christian doctrine or idea, but it was indeed a core doctrine of the secular powers of Rome, actually quite similar to the lyrics of Snoop Dogg. You could sum up the treatment of women by the wealthy of the ancient world in Snoop's hit song, “It ain't no fun, if the homies can't have none.” Women were objects, pure and simple. The interesting thing about reading the Old Testament treatment of women is that today we think it sounds barbaric, when in reality it was the most progressive treatment of women in the ancient world. We read with Western eyes, blinded by time, through which we are blocked from understanding, nuance, and history. With the Church, women achieved a radical leap forward, one that the pagan world mocked for centuries. Many of the women who fought against the old ways were martyred for it. Strange that they would be willing to die for such “oppression.” We are taught and bonked over the head repeatedly with this “Dark Age” myth in every university course. By design, we are not taught the reasons why Christian life appealed to so many women, because it undermines the sand foundation of modern life, which will ultimately undermine itself because it is spiritually dead.Here is a summary from Mike Aquilina of how women were treated before God revealed himself to us through Jesus. I should note that none of this was covered in my university history classes, nor was it ever mentioned in the Women's Studies class I had to take:Pagan and Christian sources agree that the Church grew at an astonishing rate in the first three centuries of its existence. The modern sociologist Rodney Stark estimates a steady growth rate of forty percent per decade during centuries of intermittently intense persecution when the practice of the Faith was a capital crime. Pagan and Christian sources agree that women made up the majority of converts.The most effective opponent of Christianity from this period, the Greek philosopher Celsus, mocked the Church for this. Around A.D. 178, he accused Christians of not daring to evangelize women when their sensible husbands and fathers were present but rather getting hold of them privately and filling their heads with “wonderful statements, telling them to pay no attention to their father and to their teachers.”What kind of statements were those? They no doubt involved the principle of equality of the sexes before God. “There is neither Jew nor Greek,” said St. Paul, “there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Gal. 3:28).The apostle wasn't denying sexual differences, nor was he claiming there should be no difference in the roles that men and women played. Rather, he was claiming for women—and slaves and foreigners—a dignity that no one in his world, not even a philosopher as brilliant as Celsus, could recognize.A woman in that world was seen as having little intrinsic value. She derived her identity from the males in her life—first her father, and then her husband, and then her sons. The law recognized little for her in the way of natural rights or protections. Women were not permitted to testify in a court of law because their testimony was considered unreliable. The law treated them like children.The value of their sex was nowhere more evident than on the day of their birth. Infanticide was common in the Greco-Roman world. It was practiced mostly for economic reasons, to limit family size and to maximize the future return on the father's investment in childrearing.Thus, children who were “defective” in any way—i.e., disabled—were usually drowned in a bucket of water at birth or left exposed at the town garbage dump. There they might be claimed as carrion by vultures and dogs or taken up by pimps to be raised as prostitutes. All the documentary and archaeological evidence indicates that the most common “defect” for which children were abandoned was femaleness.Nowhere is the matter expressed more shockingly than in a “love letter” found in the excavations at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. The husband, Hilarion, closes his missive to his wife, Alis, by saying: “If you happen to be pregnant again, if it is a boy, leave it; if it is a girl, throw it out.”In the economy of antiquity, a girl was an expense, an economic liability in ways that a boy was not. A boy would one day be an earner. A boy might provide for his parents in their old age. He might even improve their status by his accomplishments.A girl, on the other hand, would need to be fed and clothed for more than a decade before she was married off—and upon marriage her father would have to pay a sizable dowry. For these reasons the Roman playwrights referred to girls and young women as “odious daughters.” It's likely that the dialogue in their works is an accurate reflection of common turns of phrase.The ideal daughter, for pagan Romans, was physically beautiful, for the beautiful would be married off the soonest. The typical age for her arranged marriage was twelve, theoretically at puberty, but many girls were given in marriage at eleven to a man much older. And the marriage, it seems, was consummated whether the girl was physically ready or not.It appears there was little expectation of a loving relationship. Adultery was common, as was divorce. Abortion was common, as was infanticide. Marriage was a transaction established for the continuation of the customs of family and society for another generation.A woman's role was to produce a son to be heir. If she suffered the misfortune of widowhood before bearing a son, she might live the rest of her life in poverty.The laws and traditions of the Greco-Roman world had been refined over centuries to communicate the value that society placed on women. It was very low.If not held back by faith and morals set on the rock of objective truth, people will treat women like objects and objects like women. (This is sin in a nutshell, by the way: choosing the wrong goods.) And there is no one more in danger of being treated like an object than the crown of creation, who is called woman. If you were rich and powerful in pre-Christian times, you could have as many objects called women as you could afford or capture, including the wives of those less powerful than yourself (see: every King that ever had a harem. Also see: David and Bathsheba, as well as Solomon's sex life with hundreds of wives. These are two Biblical falls from grace for this behavior, where sin is being narrated and not praised…notice that wherever there is polygamy, you have a mess, and that includes Abraham and Jacob. At least Isaac kept it together with Rebecca, and they are the true model of marriage in the Old Testament). We are moving back to that era now, as calls for the bad idea of polygamy have resurfaced. Utah is no longer the only place we associate with this term. This is just one form of sin that is being presented as a good today, as slippery salespeople twist truth into the shape of bad ideas that women finally escaped through faith in Christ and living the Christian life with Christian men. The arguments today are no different from the Romans and Greeks. Is your baby possible defective or just bad timing? Kill it. Abort. Marriage has a minor difficulty? Divorce. Want immediate pleasure instead of commitment, responsibility, and love that requires work and action? Porn. Got a mother-in-law you don't want to deal with? Park her in a home. The reality is that the only reason we have nice things at all is because of Christianity. And that is the spiritual struggle that we are in, where advertisers and intellectuals preach from the screens, telling us that progress means going backward to pre-Christian insanity, which always ends in “might makes right.” If you are not pursuing objective truth as your ultimate goal, as the end of all things, then the desire for power is the substitute. I don't care how you try to sugar coat it; when God is no longer the foundation of truth, you end up with “my truth” and that devolves into groups dictating “truth” by coercion, eventually at gunpoint. Whenever the church has gone astray, they fall into this same trap, of power politics mixing with the faith. The eye can never stray from Christ, who is the truth and foundation of all things. Nor can his words be twisted, as he says of the Commandments they are not malleable to fit the decade we live in:Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. (Mt 5:17-20)To understand the difference between the pre-Christian era and the “Dark Ages” of Christianity, let's compare two buildings, arguably the two greatest buildings in the world, which happen to be in the same city, just a few miles apart.When people travel to Rome, they mainly visit two places. One is the Colosseum, where hordes of bloodthirsty fans got drunk, gambled, and watched men fight one another to the death. The other is St. Peter's Basilica, a Church, where a fisherman was crucified for telling people about a carpenter who was God incarnate. It's stunningly beautiful, but the real purpose is that St. Peter's is a place where the Sacraments take place: Baptism, Confession, Holy Matrimony, and the Eucharist. Holy Mass happens hourly, even while the tourists mill about. The purpose of St. Peter's, and any other church, is humility and surrender of your life to God. Do you see the difference? Both are architectural marvels, visually stunning, spectacles to the senses, but their purpose is in direct opposition to each other. Notice that America no longer builds beautiful churches. This should tell you something, as we build billion dollar stadiums for gladiator games. St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City was built in 1858 and dedicated in 1910. The rise of the modern stadium started in the early 1900s, and exploded after World War II. We are moving away from St. Peter's and back to the Colosseum, and so are our human relations. What I am getting at is: without humility before God, we see competition and strife as the great entertainment, the great game. Suffering is something to avoid and shun at all costs. Winning is all that matters, because winning removes suffering. We completely lose the point of redemptive suffering. This is because most of us don't really believe in the afterlife or eternal life any longer. We have no meaning in our lives, so we look for it in athletics, sex, money, and power. Our simple functions as fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters no longer excite us because we have traded eternal life for the plastic trophies of this world. One thing that always amazes me is that within three months after the Super Bowl or NCAA Tournament, I can't even remember who won, because it really doesn't matter. But I never forget Christmas or Easter or Pentecost or the Ascension days, because those matter immensely.Nothing angers unbelievers so much as the idea that you were made for a higher purpose, made by a living God who resides outside of time and space but speaks to us here. The purpose is to serve him and serve others, and the primary way we do that, if not married to Christ or his Church, is marriage between one man and one woman. Having a marriage and family is the great purpose of our earthly lives. Why is that message so bothersome? Because it doesn't allow us to follow our base instincts, which is to pleasure ourselves constantly. It requires abandonment to a higher power and a higher purpose, neither of which is the self. Sometimes we confuse this, thinking that our “sacrifice” for work or school is the offering we make to God. But those things are ultimately for the self, not God. Offerings to God expect nothing in return, because there is no transaction to be made when dealing with God, and if your offering is contingent on receiving something from God, you are actually talking to the devil. Yes, some people are not fertile, some will live a single life, some will adopt, some will never have children. Abandonment of the self means conforming your life to God's will, not despairing over what struggles he has given us, because we are all given struggles in order to draw us closer to him. Until you realize this, suffering will seem arbitrary and unfair. As for sex, the great call to chastity is pursuing a life of virtue whether you are married or single. They are both chastity, just different types. How can anyone understand the parable of the grain of wheat without looking at the formless void of creation and seeing that in order to fill it, it must be done in the right way, which is to fill this void in the form with families? God didn't say, “Subdue the earth and form a government, and have the government raise the children.” No, that's what Karl Marx said, and all of his flunkies that followed him, who now occupy your employer's human resources department and local school board. The form we are given by God is called marriage, between a man and a woman, and the void is filled with new life, called children. That sentence there is enough to get me fired, but the truth must be spoken and the truth will remain whether I say it or not. Because not only does marriage and family fulfill the physical form of this world, but it fulfills the heart. Dying to self means maturing into a greater purpose to serve God and others. Only then can we be spiritually reborn here. Then in physical death, if we choose God's will and not our own, we will we be brought back to union with God in eternal life. That's what we want, both here and hereafter. We don't want what HBO is telling us to want. We don't really want what Apple is selling. It's not just sex that we want. Not just career. Not a threesome. Not four wives. Not soullessness. We want God, as it is in heaven and on earth. Psalm 128 is the model for fulfillment. Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house;your children will be like olive shoots around your table.Thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord. FYI: “Fear” of the Lord means wonder and awe, a healthy fear, not the kind of fear where you simply pay your taxes to avoid jail. This is a kind of fear that grows out of love, wonder, awe, reverence, and it all starts with knowing that you are a sinner in need of forgiveness, in need of a savior. Recognizing your status as a sinner will free you, because it sheds all the fig leaves we wear. Then once we have bore our souls before God, and become honest, open, and willing, then we can return to the faith of a child and let the ego wither away as it must. Recall that Jesus died naked on the cross. All was stripped away, and his death showed us the result of our sins, for what we did to Jesus we do to one another every day. This doesn't mean it's easy, but if you fear the Lord and are grateful for your daily bread and want nothing beyond the grace of God, only then will the blessings of a wife and children satisfy you, because you will share all of it with the Creator. And if some tragedy occurs, like in the book of Job, and all is taken away, even then you will still have the grace of God, as that is the rock of your life that can be clung to when everything else fades away. When your life becomes an offering to God, and God's endless offering of creation is accepted by you, then what more could you possibly want? Conforming your will to God's is how you level-up in this world, and you do this by praying. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.whydidpetersink.com

In 1946, Babe Ruth, always a heavy smoker, began to experience severe pain over his left eye and difficulty swallowing. Tests were bleak. Ruth had an inoperable malignant tumor at the base of his skull. He was one of the first cancer patients to receive both drugs and radiation treatment simultaneously. He lost eighty pounds and was discharged from the hospital in February of 1947. Baseball commissioner Happy Chandler proclaimed April 27th, 1947 Babe Ruth Day around the major leagues. At Yankee Stadium a number of teammates and others spoke in honor of Ruth, who briefly addressed the crowd of almost sixty-thousand. By then, his voice was barely more than a soft whisper. Around this time, developments in chemotherapy offered some hope. Doctors treated Ruth with a folic acid derivative. He showed dramatic improvement. During the summer of 1947 he was able to travel around the country doing promotional work for the Ford Motor Company on American Legion Baseball. On August 12th he appeared on Red Barber's radio show. The improvement was temporary. By late 1947 he was unable to help write his autobiography. In and out of the hospital in Manhattan, Ruth traveled to and from Florida that winter. The next June 5th, 1948, a "gaunt and hollowed out" Babe visited Yale University to donate a manuscript of his autobiography to its library. There he met Yale's baseball captain, future president George H. W. Bush. Eight days later he visited Yankee Stadium for the final time. Ruth used a bat as a cane. Nat Fein's photo of Ruth taken from behind, standing near home plate won the Pulitzer Prize and is one of the most famous Baseball photos in history, Ruth made one final trip on behalf of American Legion Baseball, then entered Memorial Hospital. George Herman “Babe” Ruth died on August 16th, 1948, at 8:01 p.m. He was just fifty-three. His open casket was placed on display in the rotunda of Yankee Stadium. In two days more than seventy-seven thousand people paid tribute. His Requiem Mass was held at St. Patrick's Cathedral; a crowd estimated at seventy-five thousand waited outside. Babe Ruth is still widely considered the greatest baseball player of all-time.

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I've been staying at the Lotte Palace Hotel in New York City since it was solely “The Palace” and run by the legendary Leona Helmsley. It's ideally situated on Madison Avenue between 50th and 51st, right across from St. Patrick's Cathedral, and in easy walking distance to all Broadway plays and only about 300 good restaurants. Becky Hubbard has been the general manager for a dozen years amidst her 20 in the hospitality industry. We speak here about staffing and sustaining a highly supportive and polite work force; of the rebound since Covid; of international tourism rebounding; and of a day that had her walking home around eight at night, while her daughter tracks her location on her cell phone. She presides over a 900+ room, elite hotel which she calls her “inn” and has just overseen a $140 million renovation. We talk here about her preference for dealing directly with guests and the importance of the “first see, last see” front door staff. We discuss the dramatic rise in hotel charges to guests (in Florida right now they are up as much as 64%) and how to overcome rising costs to the hotel. And we talk about the continuing need for innovation and adaption of technological solutions. (Even low-end hotels are offering keyless entry using smart phones and check in remotely.)

We just reedited and reworked our 2017 show on Irish immigration in time for St. Patrick's Day and a celebration of all things Irish! So much has changed in our world since 2017 and this history feels more relevant and impactful than ever before. You don't have a New York City without the Irish. In fact, you don't have a United States of America as we know it today.This diverse and misunderstood immigrant group began coming over from Ireland in significant numbers starting in the Colonial era, mostly as indentured servants. In the early 19th century, these Irish arrivals, both Protestants and Catholics, were already consolidating — via organizations like the Ancient Order of the Hibernians and in places like St. Patrick's Cathedral.But starting in the 1830s, with a terrible blight wiping out Ireland's potato crops, a mass wave of Irish immigration would dwarf all that came before, hundreds of thousands of weary, sometimes desperate newcomers who entered New York to live in its most squalid neighborhoods.The Irish were among the laborers who built the Croton Aqueduct, the New York grid plan and Central Park. Irish women comprised most of the hired domestic help by the mid 19th century.The arrival of the Irish and their assimilation into American life is a story repeated in many cities. Here in New York City, it is essential in our understanding of the importance of modern immigrant communities to the life of the Big Apple.PLUS: The origins of New York's St. Patrick's Day Parade!Other shows you may enjoy:The Civil War Draft RiotsJacob Riis: 'The Other Half' of the Gilded AgeBattery Park and Castle ClintonThe Story of Five PointsBowery Boys Movie Club: Gangs of New York  

As we figure out how to navigate the various things that life puts in front of us, we may question whether we're always doing the right thing. When we don't know what to do, it's good to remember what Jesus says that can help put us on the right path: “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.” [John 13:34] “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends.” [John 15:13] Some people do literally lay down their lives on a daily basis for others. But the rest of us can choose to lay down our lives and love extravagantly in smaller, every-day living type ways. Those moments when we go out of our way to help someone in need are always something we can know is the right way to go.  James Patterson is considered the world's bestselling author, and he's the creator of beloved, enduring fictional characters like Alex Cross, Michael Bennett, and is also known for his critically-acclaimed narrative nonfiction, including works like Walk In My Combat Boots, and E.R. Nurses. When James started writing his new book, Walk the Blue Line, he was astounded, despite recent events that reflect poor choices by police officers, by the good so many other police officers are doing out there, and the challenges they face each time they put on their uniform. Luke Sherman, a former police officer, has experienced thirty years of some of the scariest situations imaginable. Now, he's taken a new role at the nonprofit organization Folds of Honor, founded by Dan Rooney, and has helped expand their scholarship program from military families to also include the families of America's first responders. Rachel Faulkner Brown is a gold star wife whose children were scholarship recipients from Folds of Honor, and now as one of the organization's speakers, Rachel shares how she is passionate to help the families of first responders move from tragedy to hope for the future.    Links, Products, and Resources Mentioned: Jesus Calling Podcast Jesus Calling Jesus Always Jesus Listens Past interview: Gary Sinise Upcoming interview: Nazareth John 13:34 NIV John 15:13 NIV   James Patterson  Walk In My Combat Boots E.R. Nurses Dolly Parton Along Came a Spider Kiss the Girls Vanderbilt in Nashville, TN Edgar® Award Matt Eversmann Black Hawk Down Walk the Blue Line St. Patrick's Cathedral www.jamespatterson.com   Luke Sherman Rachel Faulkner Brown Folds of Honor Dan Rooney Be Still Ministries Never Alone Widows World War II Naval Air Station New Orleans Genesis 50:20 NIV Revelation 12:11 NIV Tulsa Police Department www.foldsofhonor.org   Interview Quotes: “I don't expect things to come to me, and I'm grateful when they do.” - James Patterson “What can we do that's the most valuable to everybody else and to ourselves and to our own family?” - James Patterson “These policemen and women, they really need your prayers too. They need them every day.” - James Patterson “Now, more than ever in my lifetime, people just need to go somewhere where they can be at peace and believe that somehow it's all going to turn out in a good way, you know? And the crazy thing [is] the truth will set you free. I think it does.” - James Patterson “Education can never be taken away from us. There are very few things in this world that can't be taken away, and that is definitely one of them, which is why I'm so passionate about having a good education for my children and any other child, because I do think it is the gift that never stops giving.“ - Rachel Faulkner Brown “I look back and I'm like, Oh, my gosh, what You have done with something the enemy meant to take me out, honestly, to take out me and my children. Look what God has done and flipped it on its head and said, ‘Don't worry, Rachel, I've got people that are going to take care of you and your little children, just like Joseph told his own brothers.'” - Rachel Faulkner Brown “The work that you do sometimes you don't see the results of. But if it's done with good intentions and the foundation of our faith behind it, it'll change lives. It'll bring mountains down.” - Luke Sherman “Everybody has fear. But what are we going to do? Because there's something more important. And from every crisis and tragedy, I think there's an opportunity.” - Luke Sherman  ________________________ Enjoy watching these additional videos from Jesus Calling YouTube channel! Audio Episodes:     https://bit.ly/3zvjbK7  Bonus Podcasts:     https://bit.ly/3vfLlGw  Jesus Listens: Stories of Prayer:  https://bit.ly/3Sd0a6C  Peace for Everyday Life:     https://bit.ly/3zzwFoj  Peace in Uncertain Times:     https://bit.ly/3cHfB6u  What's Good?     https://bit.ly/3vc2cKj  Enneagram:     https://bit.ly/3hzRCCY  ________________________  Connect with Jesus Calling Instagram Facebook Twitter Pinterest YouTube Website

Live from New York, it's Living Real! John Angotti is in NYC's at St. Patrick's Cathedral preparing for “The Story of God: A Journey of Faith, Hope and Unity,” with ValLimar Jansen, a performance at Carnegie Hall with a choir of 250 singers from all over the US.

The Enormous Smallness of God In this weekly message, Fr John Pietropaoli compares and reflects on a scene in C.S. Lewis' Last Battle and the season of Christmas. 2:25 Sharing Love & Joy in NYC Missions St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City. What a night at the big cathedral! Every "highway and byway" within the city block's expansive holy space was filled with visitors, of every possible background, race, country, and religion, all mysteriously drawn to the beauty of the place. 9:43 Consecrated Women in North America Receive Praesidium Accreditation On November 16, 2022, after a lengthy and thorough process, the Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi in North America were one of the first women's institutions to receive Praesidium accreditation as a Society of Apostolic Life.

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Sebastian Martorana is an artist living and working in Baltimore, Maryland. For over fifteen years, Sebastian has focused on the art of carving. Much of the material used for his sculptures was salvaged from Baltimore's historic, though often discarded, architecture. He received his BFA in illustration from Syracuse University, after which he became a full-time apprentice in a stone shop outside Washington, DC. He earned his MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art's Rinehart School of Sculpture.Sebastian works on private commissions and commercial projects from his studio in the Hilgartner Natural Stone Company. His body work includes projects for the United States Senate, St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, the National Basilica in Baltimore, the Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, DC and the United States Federal Reserve. He is an adjunct faculty member at the Maryland Institute College of Art and a repeat presenter for the American Craft Council. Sebastian's work is included in the permanent collections of museums including the Smithsonian American Art museum's Renwick Gallery, which acquired his sculpture featured in their 40 under 40: Craft Futures exhibition.The Truth In This ArtThe Truth In This Art is a podcast interview series supporting vibrancy and development of Baltimore & beyond's arts and culture.Mentioned in this episode:Sebastian MartoranaTo find more amazing stories from the artist and entrepreneurial scenes in & around Baltimore, check out my episode directory.Stay in TouchNewsletter sign-upSupport my podcastShareable link to episode ★ Support this podcast ★

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - As pro-abortion measures won on state ballots and pro-life measures faced defeat, Catholic bishops responded to election results with profound disappointment. They professed resolve to continue to work to defend unborn human life and support pregnant women in need. Some called for prayer and fasting and emphasized that millions of lives are at stake. On Election Day about 56.7% of Michigan voters, more than 2.4 million, voted for Proposal 3 to add a broad right to abortion into the state constitution. It removes a longtime ban on abortion from state law that has not been enforced since 1973. In California, the strong pro-abortion-rights constitutional amendment Proposition 1 was projected to win. As of Thursday evening, it had 65% of the vote, with more than 3.5 million individual votes in favor. In Montana, voters rejected Legislative Referendum 131, which aimed to provide state protections and medical care for babies who are born alive after attempted abortions. As of Thursday, 77% of Vermont voters had backed a measure to create a constitutional right to reproductive autonomy. The Catholic bishops of Kentucky said they were “disappointed” by the rejection of Kentucky's Amendment 2, which would have declared that there is no right to abortion in the state constitution. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252790/catholic-bishops-reaction-to-abortion-state-ballot-defeats An arrest has been made after a two-day vandalism spree in October that included an attack on Cardinal Timothy Dolan's residence at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. Juan Velez was arrested by the New York Police Department's Warrant Squad, police said Wednesday. In that announcement, police said Velez is being charged with 15 incidents of criminal mischief that occurred in Manhattan. Three of those incidents were attacks on churches, one of which was on St. Patrick's Cathedral, police said. A video of the attack on St. Patrick's Cathedral that circulated in the media shows a man approach the historic church and throw an object at its glass doors. He then can be seen fleeing the scene. On Nov. 2, police said they identified the attacker as Velez. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252789/arrest-made-in-vandalism-of-cardinal-dolan-s-residence-at-st-patrick-s-cathedral-in-nyc Today, the Church celebrates Saint Martin of Tours, who left his post in the Roman army to become a “soldier of Christ” as a monk and later bishop. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-martin-of-tours-50

Host of 'Common Sense' Bill O'Reilly makes his weekly pitstop on Bernie and Sid in the Morning to talk about Bernie's memorial ceremony in St. Patrick's Cathedral, the gubernatorial race in New York, and the strange dynamic between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this Thursday edition of Bernie & Sid in the Morning, Sid comes to you live from the newly named Bernard McGuirk Studio, as he will every morning from now to the end of time. Following yesterday's beautiful ceremony for Bernard held at St. Patrick's Cathedral, 77 WABC's final sendoff for Bernard was a plaque placed in what used to be our Studio A, effectively changing the studio's title in honor of Bernard and the great man that he was. We love you, Bernie, and we always will. Regarding news of the day, the mainstream media reacts to the train wreck that was John Fetterman during Tuesday night's debate with his opponent Dr. Oz, another woman comes forward accusing Herschel Walker of funding her abortion, an accusation which Walker vehemently denies, President Biden invokes race when discussing airline charges for extra legroom on flights, the White House still has no answers as to when Americans might feel relief from inflation, Vice President Harris apparently LOVES yellow school buses, and Jon Stewart got off of his liberal soap box for a hot second while he called Hunter Biden's seat at Burisma "straight up corruption." Rob Astorino, Bill O'Reilly, Gordon Chang and Daniel Nigro join the program, and as always make sure you don't miss out on the Thursday installment of Lidia Reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino joins the show to talk about Bernard's service in St. Patrick's Cathedral, the Hochul/Zedlin debate, what local elections he's monitoring closest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Season 5 – Gap Year: UK Episode 9 Let's be honest. Not every vacation unfolds how we've imagined it. In this episode of Travel FOMO, Jamin and Hilarie admit that their trip to Dublin was not sunshine and roses. Luck of the Irish? Doesn't exist. But they powered through and still managed to enjoy a Jameson Distillery tour, lunch in Temple Bar, some hyper-local Guinness and an evening service in St. Patrick's Cathedral. This episode is available wherever you listen to podcasts. To see these Dublin adventures for yourself, watch their video from the trip: https://youtu.be/suU0Ueaw4wg Travel FOMO is hosted by a husband and wife duo, Jamin and Hilarie Houghton. Learn more about them at www.travelfomopodcast.com. You can subscribe to Travel FOMO in two different ways: (1) See their adventures on YouTube and (2) follow audibly from wherever you listen to podcasts. Why? Because they're traveling to 18 different countries in the coming year, and you won't want to miss it. Follow us on social media: Instagram: www.instagram.com/travelfomopodcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/travelfomopodcast TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@travelfomopodcast

We're glad you're back! In the first 3 episodes of this season of Holy Donors, Thaddeus, Andrew, Matt, and Rhen discuss the details of Pierre Toussaint's life. In this 4th episode, they focus on Pierre's philanthropy and his legacy. The episode ends with each of our hosts casting his vote for whether or not Pierre Toussaint deserves to be called a holy donor. In his lifetime, Pierre proved to be a holy, loving man. He served God, his family, and his community in so many ways, both big and small. Pierre helped beggars in the streets, he treated the poor during the cholera outbreak, he purchased freedom from slavery for his loved ones, and he and Juliette raised their niece Euphemia after Rosalie's death. On a grander scale, Pierre founded orphanages, funded construction of old St. Patrick's Cathedral, and offered financial support to an order of nuns in Baltimore. Pierre earned good money as a hairdresser, and he and Juliette prioritized sharing their wealth with people in need. Because of Pierre's faith and generosity, the Archdiocese of New York submitted Pierre's application for canonization to the Vatican in 1986.All that to say, you likely won't be surprised that our hosts declare, without hesitation, that Pierre Toussaint absolutely merits his place on our list of holy donors. ---Recommended reading: Pierre Toussaint: A Biography by Arthur Jones Ten Christians: By Their Deeds You Shall Know Them by Boniface Hanley---Holy Donors is brought to you by Petrus Development (petrusdevelopment.com) in cooperation with RED-C Catholic Radio (redcradio.org).For more about Holy Donors please visit our website at holydonors.com or find us @HolyDonors on Instagram and Facebook.

This is the afternoon All Local for August 29, 2022

The Renwick Ruin, resembling an ancient castle lost to time, appears along the East River as a crumbling, medieval-like apparition, something not quite believable. Sitting between two new additions on Roosevelt Island -- the campus of Cornell Tech and FDR Four Freedoms Park -- these captivating ruins, enrobed in beautiful ivy, tell the story of a dark period in New York City history.The island between Manhattan and Queens was once known as Blackwell's Island, a former pastoral escape that transformed into the ominous 'city of asylums', the destination for the poor, the elderly and the criminal during the 19th century.During this period, the island embodied every outdated idea about human physical and mental health, and vast political corruption ensured that the inmates and patients of the island would suffer.In 1856 the island added a Smallpox Hospital to its notorious roster, designed by acclaimed architect James Renwick Jr (of St. Patrick's Cathedral fame) in a Gothic Revival style that captivates visitors to this day -- even if the building is in an advanced state of dilapidation.What makes the Renwick Ruin so entrancing? How did this marvelous bit of architecture manage to survive in any form into present day?PLUS: The grand story of the island -- from a hideous execution in 1829 to the modern delights of one of New York City's most interesting neighborhoods.Visit the websiteAfter you've listened to this show, check out these Bowery Boys podcasts with similar themes:-- North Brother Island: New York's Forbidden Place-- Nellie Bly: Undercover in the Madhouse 

Questions Covered: 04:01 – What does it mean that Mary is the spouse of the Holy Spirit?  07:43 – Why would a Catholic use faith as a pathway to truth?  14:23 – Is it morally permissible for someone with anxiety to take prescribed Xanax?  18:32 – Are lay people worthy to handle and distribute communion? Are we worthy to receive communion on the hand and why did it historically change?  22:42 – I just saw a video of protesters at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. The men defending the Church said “your body is mine” to the protesters. Have you seen this? What are your thoughts?  28:35 – Do you have advice on how to handle a 12-year-old girl who has become antagonistic towards God?  30:54 – Why are some African saints portrayed as white in icons and other sacred art?  35:31 – Rising from the dead is a scientific impossibility. Are we really supposed to believe that Jesus physically rose from the dead?  41:53 – I used to be an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion in the 80's but I have not done it in years. What would I have to do to be certified again?  44:09 – Could you explain indulgences? How do they work?  49:23 – Who makes the call on excommunication? On what level does that responsibility lie on? Is it priests, bishops, the pope?  50:50 – How was time kept in Jesus' time?  …

From Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, and the 50 days that follow. Newt talks with Father Enrique Salvo, the Rector of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, about the spiritual meaning and traditions of Easter, from the time of the gospel to the modern day. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.