Talking about the "things that matter most" on Oct. 11
4:00 – Vatican II Convened – Oct. 11, 1962
Some in the Catholic Church love Vatican II because they think it finally brought the Catholic Church out of the dark ages. Some suspect the Second Vatican Council because they fear it sold out faithfulness to the truth in favor of current opinion. On this anniversary of the start of Vatican II, we look at the Council with Fr. Peter Stravinskas.
4:40 – A Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, Death, God, and Medicine
Dr. Jack Kevorkian has been out of prison for a few years now and has turned his attention from assisted suicide to prison reform. Also, assisted suicide is back in the news with it being a political issue in a few races around the country. We take the opportunity to talk to Dr. Ian Dowbiggin, author of A Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, Death, God, and Medicine.
5:00 – Dialogue of Love: Confessions of an Evangelical Catholic Ecumenist
The Dialogue of Love is written from the perspective of an evangelical Catholic Ecumenist. Raised Catholic, but having responded to the Gospel at L'Abri Fellowship in 1970, Eduardo J. Echeverria's journey took the paths of Reformed and then Anglo-Catholic Christianity on his way back to full communion with the Catholic Church in 1992. Engaging in ecumenical conversation as a committed Roman Catholic whose views have been shaped by, among others, Romano Guardini, John Paul II, and Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI), the author discusses in an articulate, bracing, and constructive manner, the positions of representative thinkers in the Dutch neo-Calvinist tradition of Reformed Christianity: Herman Bavinck, G. C. Berkouwer, and Herman Dooyeweerd. Fundamental issues of ecclesiology, meaning and truth, sacramental theology, the relation between the Church and the world, nature and grace, and issues on the relation of faith and reason are examined with the aim of achieving clarification and understanding. Readers will experience ecumenical "Dialogue . . . not simply [as] an exchange of ideas," but also as "an 'exchange of gifts'," indeed, "a dialogue of love" (John Paul II).
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One of the best comments from a Kresta guest ever was that for the younger generation Vatican is as distant as Nicea II. As someone from the younger generation I could not agree more with this. The JPII generation doesn't really understand where all the decent came from. Excellent guest.
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