Today on Kresta - Sept. 11, 2009

Talking about the "things that matter most" on Sept. 11

3:00 – Kresta Comments – What the 9/11 Terrorists Accomplished

3:20 – Secular Sabotage: How Liberals Are Destroying Religion and Culture in America
Secularism. This assault is not happening from accident or whim. It is happening because disaffected liberals have deliberately set out to upend our Judeo-Christian traditions. Indeed, they are determined to tear down the traditional norms, values, and institutions that have been part of American society from its founding. The cultural debris that these saboteurs have created will take decades to clean up. In feisty prose Bill Donohue explores our nation where a college student is threatened with expulsion because she prayed on campus, a civil rights organization protests a statue of Jesus found on the ocean floor and a housewife sues a school district to stop the singing of Rudolph The Red-nosed Reindeer at a school choral production. These are just a few examples cited that demonstrate a culture descending into madness. He joins us.

3:40 – Interrogation of Morals
With the anniversary of the most horrific terrorist attack on American soil upon us today, a decision has yet to be made on whether the ten cases against the detainees at Guantanamo Bay will move forward. The Administration must decide by September 17th if they are going to ask for a third extension of the cases already under review by the military commissions, including the one involving Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-professed architect of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The indecision by the Administration has one former Army Intelligence Officer, who was tasked with gaining intelligence on the detainees, questioning the resolve of the White House in the War on Terror. Army Captain Jason Meszaros (ret.) reveals his firsthand experiences of the interrogations and the detainees at Guantánamo Bay in the first book to tell the true story of military intelligence in Afghanistan.

4:00 – Kresta Comments

4:20 – Crisis Pregnancy Centers: The Birth Of A Grassroots Movement
What if you were a sixteen year old who discovered she was pregnant and feared to tell her parents about her pregnancy? What if you were a woman, mother of two young children, caught in a custody battle with her ex-spouse when she discovers she has definite symptoms of pregnancy? What would you do if you knew there was a confidential place where you can get some free information from people who would listen and not tell you what to do? For over forty years, women in just these circumstances have come into crisis pregnancy centers all over America. This is the story of how these centers have blossomed and flourished because distressed pregnant woman have wanted them and because ordinary people have desire to help these women. Terry Ianora, is our guest.

4:40 – The God Who is Love: Explaining Christianity From Its Center
“Narrative catechesis” Sounds intimidating? It shouldn't. All it means is that it teaches the Christian Faith in the phases that many came to hold it as a teenager and young adult. For whatever reason - maybe you're the reason - God gave Shane Kapler an incredible hunger to know Him while he was still quite young. Not only did He give the desire, but He sent the people, materials, and experiences to satisfy it. His hope is to explain, in detail, the Truth that moved him from a crisis of belief, through a series of intermediate steps, to full-fledge participation in the Catholic Church. He is here.

5:00 – Kresta Comments: What Catholics Should Learn From 9/11

5:20 – Secular Sabotage: How Liberals Are Destroying Religion and Culture in America
Secularism. This assault is not happening from accident or whim. It is happening because disaffected liberals have deliberately set out to upend our Judeo-Christian traditions. Indeed, they are determined to tear down the traditional norms, values, and institutions that have been part of American society from its founding. The cultural debris that these saboteurs have created will take decades to clean up. In feisty prose Bill Donohue explores our nation where a college student is threatened with expulsion because she prayed on campus, a civil rights organization protests a statue of Jesus found on the ocean floor and a housewife sues a school district to stop the singing of Rudolph The Red-nosed Reindeer at a school choral production. These are just a few examples cited that demonstrate a culture descending into madness. He joins us.

5:40 – The Cross at Ground Zero
Millions of Americans gazed in disbelief as the magnificent World Trade Center buildings collapsed into piles of rubble on September 11, 2001. After the shock and horror wore off, the questions began. Father Benedict J. Groeschel, C.F.R., addresses many questions in his book, The Cross at Ground Zero. He reassures us that the iron cross, found at the world trade center, leads to the cross of Jesus which stands at the center of all pain, all suffering, indeed all history. He explains that Jesus did not come to take away suffering. He came to sanctify suffering by His presence.