Tom Carroll joins Gus on today's program. He is the president and founder of the Catholic Talent Project whose mission is to develop a national talent pool of faithful young men and women to be living witnesses of the Catholic faith in thousands of classrooms. It’s no secret that over the last 50 years there’s been a dumbing down of the faith as the Church seeks to compete with the temptations of the world. It’s resulted in a lack of catechesis and the Catholic Talent Project seeks to correct it. Tom gets into the details about this undertaking, who’s already involved and whose involvement they’re seeking. Much of Tom’s conversation with Gus was an indictment on the state of Catholic education, as a whole, in the United States and, afterwards, Gus gives his take on that.
Also, today is the Feast of St. Hippolytus of Rome. For a good length of his ministry, he was an antipope. Gus explains that an antipope is a person who claims to be the Bishop of Rome in opposition to a duly elected pope by the College of Cardinals. His writings were profound and on par with Church teaching and, before he was martyred, St. Hippolytus renounced his anti-papacy. Back in the early days of Gus’ Friday w/the Fathers segment, he read the writings of St. Hippolytus and, in honor of his feast day today, Gus reads his “Apostolic Tradition.”
And Gus gives away copies of A Minute in the Church: The Mass to listeners who call in and get on the air with him.
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