Bishop John Elya continues his study of the rich traditions and history of the Melkite Catholic Church in America, with a look at the use of iconography in the Melkite Tradition.

(30 minutes)

From Midland, Ontario. The Solemn Mass marks the one hundred years since the opening of Martyrs’ Shrine in 1926. Archbishop Donald Bolen of Regina will be presiding at the Mass, celebrated on the Papal Altar on the Shrine grounds, where St. John Paul II visited in 1984 during his historic pilgrimage to Huronia.

(90 minutes)

Jan Bentz interviews Fr. Check on his a worldwide apostolate that helps individuals with same-sex attraction live chaste lives, “Courage International,” as they discuss the documentary, “Desire of the Everlasting Hills.”

(30 minutes)

In the early 19th century, a remnant of 200,000 English Catholics remained faithful despite persecution. Their lot began to change in 1829 with the passing of the Catholic Emancipation Act and the advent of the Oxford Movement. By mid-century the Pope restored the English episcopacy and by the end of the 19th century, pilgrimage to Walsingham revived. Calls to unity were made by Pope Paul VI in 1970 and Pope John Paul II, who visited England in 1982.

(60 minutes)

Bishop John Elya continues his study of the rich traditions and history of the Melkite Catholic Church in America, with a look at the spirituality of the Melkite tradition.

(30 minutes)

Examine how history gives a reasonable account of Mary Magdalene's exile in France, including a look at what is generally accepted as her hermit cave in the cliff of St. Baume and how it reveals the spirituality of a woman who truly loved Christ.

(60 minutes)