Podcast
When Todd Duncan, a 22 year-old cradle Catholic from Erie, PA, was growing
up everyone thought him to be the model young parishioner who had a
marked maturity in his faith. Todd thought so, too. Everything changed
when he entered his first year at the Rochester Institute of Technology
and realized that his Protestant friends had a much better grasp than he
did on matters of faith, the Bible and even theology. But God’s
grace led Todd to true fellowship, to the St. Irenaeus Center and to a
profound love of the Catholic Church.
Dick Graham, a cradle Catholic and president of the Rochester, NY
Hibernian Society for Irish Americans, speaks on a subject very dear to
his heart: Roman Catholic apologetics. Admittedly a former "BIC," or
"Bible Ignorant Catholic," it was not until he had to defend his
daughter’s faith that he began to study apologetics. He discusses the
history of Catholic apologetics and practical ways to study and also
reminds us of the charge of St. Peter, who wrote in his first Epistle,
"Always be prepared to make a defense to anyone who calls you to
account for the hope that is within you, yet do it with gentleness and
reverence."
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Joseph Pearce was born the son of a fierce anti-Catholic in the late
1960s. Hear the story of how God’s grace carried a young, uneducated
"agnostic Protestant bigot" who was "racist to the core" into the
Mystical Body of Jesus Christ, the Catholic Church.
Now a professor of English Literature at Ave Maria University
and the author of 147 books, including notable autobiographies of 20th
Century’s greatest Catholic writers, his conversion is a story of
providence triumphing over political anger, racial hatred and
violence. While serving his first prison sentence for "publishing
material likely to incite racial hatred" Pearce began to read GK
Chesterton. He felt the "rug being pulled out from underneath his
prejudices" because he could not defeat Chesterton’s arguments in
economics and theology. During a second prison sentence he began to
pray, and from that point it was only a matter of time before he was
brought into the Church.
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Dr. RJ Stansbury’s talk from the 2007 Chesterton Conference discusses the crucial role that monasticism played in the conversion of St. Augustine.
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On October 6th, 2007 the Rochester, NY Chesterton Society held their annual conference, entitled "Conversion of Heart". David Higbee opened the day with this talk on the conversion of St. Paul.
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The final prophetic words of the Old Testament.
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A Broader Condemnation
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Wherein God uses language you can’t discuss in mixed company.
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Malachi – The Refiner’s Fire
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Acquisition of the Holy Spirit.
This is the final session from the retreat.
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Living in the Spirit.
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