Today on "Kresta in the Afternoon" - May 21, 2012

Talking about the "things that matter most" on May 21

4:00 – MASSIVE MANDATE LAWSUITS FILED – 43 Plaintiffs including Dioceses, Schools, Universities, Organizations
This morning 43 separate plaintiffs filed a total of 12 lawsuits today in U.S. District courts around the country. Those plaintiffs are all Catholic organizations and include Catholic dioceses, schools, universities, and charitable organizations. Numbered among the plaintiffs are Our Sunday Visitor, Catholic University of America, the University of Notre Dame, Franciscan University, the Archdioceses of New York, Washington, D.C., and St. Louis, as well as the Dioceses of Dallas, Ft. Worth, Rockville Centre, Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne-South Bend, the Michigan Catholic Conference, which represents all seven dioceses in the state, and many many others. We talk with Archbishop Allen Vigneron of Detroit

4:20 – Kresta Comments
In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do not break along lines of race or ethnicity. Drawing on five decades of statistics and research, Coming Apart demonstrates that a new upper class and a new lower class have diverged so far in core behaviors and values that they barely recognize their underlying American kinship—divergence that has nothing to do with income inequality and that has grown during good economic times and bad. Al comments on the thesis.

4:40 – Escaped Chinese Dissident / Family Arrives in U.S.
Chen Guangcheng, the blind legal advocate who recently sought refuge in the American Embassy in Beijing, arrived in the US Saturday, holding the kind of open-air news conference that he could have never imagined while under virtual house arrest in China. It was not clear weeks ago that China would permit Mr. Chen to leave, and the United States’ role in his evading the authorities threatened to cause a diplomatic breach just as American officials were seeking China’s cooperation on a range of economic and security issues it considers crucial. Chen’s cause which precipitated the long-term house arrest is ending China’s One Child Policy and forced abortion. China expert Steve Mosher joins us.

5:00 – MASSIVE MANDATE LAWSUITS FILED – 43 Plaintiffs including Dioceses, Schools, Universities, Organizations
This morning 43 separate plaintiffs filed a total of 12 lawsuits today in U.S. District courts around the country. Those plaintiffs are all Catholic organizations and include Catholic dioceses, schools, universities, and charitable organizations. Numbered among the plaintiffs are the Archdioceses of New York, Washington, D.C., and St. Louis, as well as the Dioceses of Dallas, Ft. Worth, Rockville Centre, Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne-South Bend, the Michigan Catholic Conference, which represents all seven dioceses in the state, Our Sunday Visitor, Catholic University of America, the University of Notre Dame, Franciscan University and many many others. We talk with Fr. Terrence Henry of Franciscan University.

5:40 – “For Greater Glory”
What would you pay for the price of freedom? In the exhilarating action epic “For Greater Glory,” an impassioned group of men and women each make the decision to risk it all for family, faith and the very future of their country, as the film’s adventure unfolds against the long-hidden, true story of the 1920s Cristero War,¬ the daring people’s revolt that rocked 20th Century North America. Today we celebrate feast of St. Cristóbal Magallanes and Companions, martyrs of the Cristero war and discuss the film with Kathy Schiffer, who represented Ave Maria Radio at the film junket.