Ave Maria In The Afternoon

We look at the future of media bias with Hunter Baker and Steve Ray explains why Purgatory is Heaven’s “front porch.”

Rob Corzine unpacks the Sunday readings and John Edwards, “just another guy in the pew,” shares how he met Jesus in a jail cell.

Matthew Bunson reports on the USCCB Fall Assembly and Ken Craycraft looks at two reasons why Kamala Harris lost the election.

Darren Geist discusses man’s search for marriage.

How do you have a civil family thanksgiving dinner after another uncivil election cycle? Marcus takes your calls.

Paul Kengor discusses John Paul II and the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Stacy Manning explains why we need a Global Children’s Rights Movement.

Rob Corzine unpacks this Sunday’s Gospel – the story of the Widow’s mite – and we discuss returning to Catholic sanity with Roger Nutt.

Matthew Bunson looks ahead to next week’s USCCB Assembly and how Donald Trump’s victory might affect its agenda, and we look at the Jewishness of Jesus with Andre Villeneuve.

Andrea Picciotti-Bayer discusses what the next administration’s policies could mean for religious liberty and Victoria Coates discusses foreign policy. Also, George Weigel discusses the issue at the root of our political divisions and Marcus shares what it meant to him to vote for the first time as a US Citizen.

Election Day special: Greg Popcak helps us deal with anxiety over the election and life, and we talk with John Pinheiro about the American experiment in ordered liberty. Finally, Marcus offers an election day Litany to Mary, the patroness of America.

Wes Smith honors the life of the late Rita Marker, a champion of the anti-euthanasia movement, and Sue Ellen Browder tells the story of the advertising campaign that sold abortion to the US.

Karlo Broussard explains why we pray to the saints and we unpack the Sunday Gospel with Rob Corzine.

Matthew Bunson updates us on the end of the Synod on Synodality and we take your calls on how you make the saints come alive in your lives.

Fr Wade Menezes has tips for daily devotionals for men.

Greg Popcak has tips for praying as a family and we take your calls on what young people need from the Church.