Church Life Today

Especially with the Synod of Bishops focusing on young people, the faith, and vocational discernment, there is an increasing focus on what is going on in the lives of young people today, personally and culturally. If the church is asking about vocational discernment for our young people, we are really thinking about their freedom to hear and respond to God’s call to take on the responsibility and joy of discipleship. Our show today is dedicated to trying to get a better sense of what is actually marking the lives of young people, what is their situation? What are their burdens? What are their possibilities? To help us think more deeply, we are talking with someone who examined the millennial generation, from a very broad, cultural perspective. Malcolm Harris is a freelance writer and editor at The New Inquiry. His work has appeared in the New Republic, Book Forum, The Village Voice, and n+1 and the New York Times Magazine. He hails from Philadelphia. In his recently published book, ‘Kids These Days: Human capital and the making of millennials’, Harris examines a broad trend like runaway student debt, the rise of the intern, mass incarnations, social media, and more. He is here today to talk to us about his new book and what he is seeing in the millennial generation. ------Resources: The New Inquiry - https://thenewinquiry.com/author/malcolm-harris/‘Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials’ - https://www.amazon.com/Kids-These-Days-Capital-Millennials/dp/0316510866/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539096351&sr=8-1&keywords=kids+these+days+human+capital+and+the+making+of+millennialsThe New Republic - https://newrepublic.com/authors/malcolm-harrisN+1 - https://nplusonemag.com/authors/harris-malcolm/Malcolm Harris on Twitter - https://twitter.com/bigmeaninternet ------Live: www.redeemerradio.comFollow Redeemer Radio on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@RedeemerRadioFollow McGrath Institute for Church Life on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@McGrathNDSubscribe to the Podcast:iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloudChurch Life Today is a partnership between the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame and OSV Podcasts from Our Sunday Visitor. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

In his 2018 World Communications address, Pope Francis spoke to the importance and dignity of journalism, and the now widespread much talked about the problem of fake news. Against that backdrop, the Holy Father recalled the promise of Jesus that the truth will set us free. Wouldn’t we all like a little more truth in the world? Over our airwaves? And online? But, how do we find the truth that we seek? That search must begin with prayer. And so Pope Francis offered a new version of an old, beloved prayer, popularly attributed to his namesake- Saint Francis of Assisi. Pope Francis concluded his message by asking that the lord, make us instruments of His peace, and then when line by line, through the Saint’s prayer to mold it to the needs of our time. For good, reliable, personal and true communication. Our guest today was so taken by this message of Pope Francis, and his renewed Franciscan prayer, that he wrote a book about it. Bill Schmitt, is a long time journalist, and communications specialist. Who also happens to be a third order Franciscan. He is here with us to talk about journalism, noise and silence, information and formation, and his book: "When Headlines Hurt: Do We Have a Prayer?"------Resources:When Headlines Hurt: Do We Have a Prayer? - http://a.co/d/0fJh4zB------Live: www.redeemerradio.comFollow Redeemer Radio on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@RedeemerRadioFollow McGrath Institute for Church Life on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@McGrathNDSubscribe to the Podcast:iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloudChurch Life Today is a partnership between the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame and OSV Podcasts from Our Sunday Visitor. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

To write music about God, or to God, how much do you have to believe in God? Can you doubt? Can you struggle? And it is music that comes from that spiritual restlessness, perhaps the most authentic of all? These questions are questions that very much pertain to today’s guest. Both as a singer/songwriter and as a person of Faith.Audrey Assad, is an award-winning Catholic recording artist, whose albums consistently top the charts. Her popularity continues to grow, not just for those who generally like Christian music, but even, and sometimes especially for those who do not. And that is no accident. Hew newest album, Evergreen, emerges from a place of deep questioning, and spiritual wrestling in her life. Today she opens up with us about her new music, its inspiration, and her mission as a Catholic artist. ------ResourcesAudrey Assad - www.audreyassad.comEvergreen Album - https://rma.lnk.to/evergreen ------Live: www.redeemerradio.comFollow Redeemer Radio on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@RedeemerRadioFollow McGrath Institute for Church Life on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@McGrathNDSubscribe to the Podcast:iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloudChurch Life Today is a partnership between the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame and OSV Podcasts from Our Sunday Visitor. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

How important is beauty to Catholic life? What about the physical spaces where we worship? Engage in the liturgy and encounter the sacrificial love of God? On today’s show we talk with someone who has not only given a lot of thought, but also a lot of hands on work to answering these questions. Geoffrey Keating is the owner of Keating Woodworks, after a decade of producing handcrafted furnishings for people’s homes; he took on the project of renovating his home parish, Sacred Heart in Colorado Springs, CO. What he and his team of artists, and artisans have created is a place where the mysteries of faith, are celebrated upon the work of human hands, the work of the hands of those who worship, week in and week out, at Sacred Heart Parish. ------ResourcesKeating Woodworks – www.geoffreykeating.com/------Live: www.redeemerradio.comFollow Redeemer Radio on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@RedeemerRadioFollow McGrath Institute for Church Life on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@McGrathNDSubscribe to the Podcast:iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloudChurch Life Today is a partnership between the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame and OSV Podcasts from Our Sunday Visitor. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

Eric Buell, a Catholic educator from the Diocese of San Jose. Eric is a theology teacher at an all-girls Catholic High School, Where he recently completed a term as Department Chair of Theology and continues to serve as the Director of the school's liturgical choir. He was recently appointed to the newly created position of Director of Catholic Identity for his High School. Buell talks with show host, Leonard DeLorenzo, about Catholic Education, teaching theology, Catholic identity, and some of the cultural shifts he is seeing from the perspective of living in the Silicon Valley. ------Live: www.redeemerradio.comFollow Redeemer Radio on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@RedeemerRadioFollow McGrath Institute for Church Life on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@McGrathNDSubscribe to the Podcast:iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloudChurch Life Today is a partnership between the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame and OSV Podcasts from Our Sunday Visitor. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

Technology certainly never stands still, the moment we get comfortable with one thing it seems like the next thing is coming along. How do we prepare ourselves, especially as Catholics, to engage with technology as it develops? Today we will be talking to Dr. Luis Vera, of Mount Saint Mary's University, a Moral Theologian, who pays attention to media studies, and the development of technology. ------Resources - Luis Vera - http://msmary.edu/academics/Faculty-Directory/luis-vera------Live: www.redeemerradio.comFollow Redeemer Radio on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@RedeemerRadioFollow McGrath Institute for Church Life on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@McGrathNDSubscribe to the Podcast:iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloudChurch Life Today is a partnership between the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame and OSV Podcasts from Our Sunday Visitor. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

Dr. Susan Reynolds is an Assistant Professor of Catholic Studies at Emory University. An experienced teacher and parish minister, Dr. Reynolds is now closely following transformations in the US Catholic Church, in terms of ethnic makeup, geographic shifts, and migration. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, as well as Boston College, Dr. Reynolds makes space in the halls of higher education for pressing issues in the life of the church. ------Live: www.redeemerradio.comFollow Redeemer Radio on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@RedeemerRadioFollow McGrath Institute for Church Life on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@McGrathNDSubscribe to the Podcast:iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloudChurch Life Today is a partnership between the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame and OSV Podcasts from Our Sunday Visitor. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

We continue our conversation with Dr. Karin Öberg, professor of Astronomy at Harvard University, and head of the Oberg Astrochemistry group. A member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Catholic Scientists, Dr. Öberg has been a featured presenter at the McGrath Institute annual science and religion summer seminar. where we bring together teachers of science with teachers of theology from Catholic High Schools across the country. In the same spirit as that seminar, we are running a short series on Church Life Today to reexamine the perceived conflict between science and religion. In our last episode, Dr. Öberg shared with us some of the fruits of her research, especially in relationship to exoplanets and the chemical composition and physical requirements of what we would deem, habitable planets. She makes complex ideas accessible to non-experts. in this episode we focus a bit more on her journey as a person of faith, one who is a practicing Catholic, not in spite of, or removed from her work as one of the world’s leading scientist, but indeed as ultimately integrated with her professional life. ------Resources:Part 1 with Dr. Öberg - https://soundcloud.com/user-178289668/2018-august-4The Oberg Astronomy Group: www.cfa.harvard.edu/~koberg/Home.html------Live: www.redeemerradio.comFollow Redeemer Radio on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@RedeemerRadioFollow McGrath Institute for Church Life on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@McGrathNDSubscribe to the Podcast:iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloudChurch Life Today is a partnership between the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame and OSV Podcasts from Our Sunday Visitor. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

These days when most of us look at the night sky, we don't see very much. Sure, there may be a few hundred visible if we are outside the reach of the light pollution of cities, we see more. Even the faint white band of the Milky Ways billions of stars. We may pick out a constellation or two, while those who study a bit of astronomy see patterns all over the place. Now and again you may look up there and wonder if there is any life out there, in all that vast space. Around one of those faint white lights doting the sky. When Dr. Karin Öberg looks up at the sky, she sees more than just about anyone else on Earth. When she asks the question about the possibility of life somewhere out there, she knows what to look for and how to look for it. Dr. Öberg is a professor of Astronomy at Harvard University, where her research focuses on astrochemistry, and the processes of star and planet formation. Her expertise gives her a unique view of the composition of habitable planets. Ones in which it would be at least possible for life as we know it to exist. Of course, all her work, looking way out there, also bears tremendously on our understanding of what it means for us to have life here, on this planet. While Host Leonard DeLorenzo is sure it doesn't surprise anyone, that in Dr. Öberg, Harvard boasts of the leading scholars in her field, what may surprise you is that she is a practicing Catholic, who serves on the board of Directors of the Society of Catholic Scientists. Today's episode will be the first part of a two-part episode with Dr. Öberg, as part of the short series we are running on the relationship between science and religion, and our conversation will move between her work, some questions that many of us have of someone with her expertise, and the story of her own faith journey of coming into the Catholic Church during her formative young adult year, while already deeply engaged in serious scientific pursuits.------Resources:The Oberg Astronomy Group: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~koberg/Home.html------Live: www.redeemerradio.comFollow Redeemer Radio on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@RedeemerRadioFollow McGrath Institute for Church Life on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@McGrathNDSubscribe to the Podcast:iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloudChurch Life Today is a partnership between the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame and OSV Podcasts from Our Sunday Visitor. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.

There are some things that just don’t go together. And it is something like a generally accepted fact that science and religion belong on that list. They don’t mix. In a recent study of both practicing Catholic Young Adult between the ages of 20-30 and former Catholic Young Adults of the same age, one thing that they all had in common: is that they believe science and religion ultimately conflict with one another. They All think that. And that study represents the norm, rather than the exception. If there is a place for religion it is assumed that it is a place that steers clear of science. Or so it seems. We want to re-examine this apparent certainty. So we are launching a short series on Church Life Today, in which we will talk with Catholic Scientist about science and religion. About questions of faith and reason. And even about the vocation and witness of Catholics who are drawn to the scientific fields with the mission to engage in a serious inquiry alongside which the faith of the church requires no apology. Our First guest in this series is Dr. Stephen Barr, professor of physics at the University of Delaware. You might not have read some of his notable research publications like 'Minimality Conditions and Atmospheric neutrino Oscillations' or 'The Search for a Permanent Electric Dipole Moment', but you may have run across some of his VERY popular and important books like 'Modern Physics and Ancient Faith', 'Science and Religion: The Myth of Conflict' or 'The Believing Scientist: Essays on Science and Religion'. Dr. Barr obtained his Ph.D. at Princeton University and is a fellow of the American Physical Society. He is also a founding member, and the current president, of the rapidly growing Society of Catholic Scientist. Which brings together leading scientist from all over the globe, who seek to answer the call of St. John Paul II, to “Integrate the worlds of science and religion in their own intellectual and spiritual lives” ------Resources:Modern Physics and Ancient Faith - http://a.co/5HGRaTuScience and Religion: The Myth of Conflict - http://a.co/hAlVFB5The Believing Scientist: Essays on Science and Religion - http://a.co/4N9Pjw1------Live: www.redeemerradio.comFollow Redeemer Radio on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@RedeemerRadioFollow McGrath Institute for Church Life on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram:@McGrathNDSubscribe to the Podcast:iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloudChurch Life Today is a partnership between the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame and OSV Podcasts from Our Sunday Visitor. Discover more ways to live, learn, and love your Catholic faith at osvpodcasts.com. Sharing stories, starting conversations.