Thursday, March 17, 2022
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Fr. Donald Haggery, a priest-in-residence at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, calls in to talk about his new book, "St. John of the Cross: Master of Contemplation." Afterwards,...
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
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Yesterday, Pope Francis announced that he will be consecrating Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on Friday, March 25th. Gus talks about the announcement and the history of the...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
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Gus talks about how at mass this past weekend, he and Michelle ran into some old friends who belong to a different parish. After mass, Gus asked him what brought...
Monday, March 14, 2022
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Gus talks about the crisis in Ukraine and how whenever something terrible like this happens, people's generosity increases. Unfortunately, a byproduct of that is how some people will use a...
Friday, March 11, 2022
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Gus talks about carbonated soft drinks and the generic names to which people in certain regions refer to them. There's "Pop," "Coke" and "Soda." There's a big debate about what...
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
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Today is International Women's Day and Gus is joined by Catholic author Lisa Cotter who talks about her new book "Reveal the Gift: Living the Feminine Genius." She talks about...
Monday, March 7, 2022
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Gus is joined by Mary Bajda, creator and author of the comic book series called God's Superheroes. Mary is a director of religious education and says one of the reasons...
Friday, March 4, 2022
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Today is the first Friday in Lent, which means that Catholics are required to abstain from meat as a form of penance. Gus invites listeners to call in and share...
Thursday, March 3, 2022
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Edward Clancy, director of outreach for Aid to the Church in Need, calls in to talk about what they're doing to assist the people of Ukraine and lets listeners know...
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
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Archbishop Borys Gudziak, the Archeparc of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philiadelphia calls in to talk about Russia's assault on Ukraine. He talks about the reasons why Vladimir Putin wants...
Friday, February 25, 2022
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Catholic author Melissa Overmyer calls in to talk about her new book, "From Worry to Wonder: A Catholic Guide to Finding Peace Through Scripture." Melissa grew up Baptist and said...
Thursday, February 24, 2022
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Gus plays a clip that went viral from the final blessing at mass Holy Family Catholic Church in Inverness, Illinois where a priest gave the final blessing with a guitar...
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
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Gus talks about St. Polycarp, the saint whose feast we celebrate today in the liturgical calendar. He is one of the early Church fathers and was baptized by St. John...
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
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Gus does a little teaching on today's feast day, which celebrates the Chair of St. Peter, otherwise known as the office of the papacy. He reads and reflects from the Catechism of...
Monday, February 21, 2022
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A recent Catholic news story has crossed over into the mainstream news where a priest in Arizona admitted to performing the Sacrament of Baptism incorrectly for the last 20 years...
Friday, February 18, 2022
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Catholic author Mike Aquilina calls in to talk about with Gus about his new book, "How the Fathers Read the Bible: Scripture, Liturgy and the Early Church." Afterwards, Gus continues...
Thursday, February 17, 2022
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Gus talks about his encounter with a homeless man yesterday. While parked at a stoplight in Tampa, a man came to his window to panhandle. Gus pulled out a $5...
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
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Gus plays an interview clip from the Super Bowl postgame with MVP Cooper Kupp. He tells the interviewer about how, after losing the Super Bowl in 2019, God gave him...
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
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Gus reads an email he got recently from a listener who tells him that he's going back to mass for the first time in about 30 years. He says he...
Monday, February 14, 2022
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Later this month, Gus will be speaking at the E6 Catholic Men's Conference in St. Leon, Indiana. Another featured speaker is Fr. Jonathan Meyer and, today, Gus welcomes him to...
Friday, February 11, 2022
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It's the final day of the observance of National Marriage Week on Seize the Day. Gus continues reading and reflecting on the Catholic Church teaching on the Sacrament of Marriage...
Thursday, February 10, 2022
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Dr. Steve Christie calls in to talk about his new book "Speaking for the Unborn: 30 Second Pro-Life Rebuttals to Pro-Choice Arguments" and to share his conversion story with Gus....
Wednesday, Feburary 9, 2022
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One of the tenets of most Christian marriage is to love each other in sickness and in health. Gus invites listeners who've experienced a sickness, an illness or a disability...
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
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Gus is joined in the Conversion Corner with Dr. Margaret Chisholm, author of the book "From Survive to Thrive: Living Your Best Life with Mental Illness." Dr. Chisholm is a...
Monday, February 7, 2022
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In honor of National Marriage Week, Gus pulls out his Catechism of the Catholic Church and reads and reflects on the teaching on marriage and how much of it is...
Friday, February 4, 2022
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Archbishop Emeritus Alfred Hughes of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, Louisiana, calls in to talk about his new book, "Priests in Love with God and Eager to Witness to the...
Thursday, February 3, 2022
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Award-winning author of historical fantasy and fiction Walt Mussell calls in to talk about Blessed Takayam Ukon, a Japanese martyr and samurai, who lived during the anti-Catholic Sengoku period and...
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
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Gus is joined by Lincoln Snyder, president and CEO of the National Catholic Education Association, to talk about Catholic Schools Week, which is this week. He also talks about the...
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
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Gus talks about the state of COVID in our world. We are more than two years into the pandemic and it seems that, with the omicron variant, everybody has gotten...
Monday, January 31, 2022
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Today is the Feast of St. John Bosco founder of the Salesians of Don Bosco who ministers to boys. One of the most interesting aspects of his life was the...
Friday, January 28, 2022
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Christine Mooney-Flynn sits down with Gus in the Conversion Corner. She shares her journey that goes from spiritual-but-not-religious to atheist to Catholic. Gus also prays an Intentional Rosary with listeners...
Thursday, January 27, 2022
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Gus talks about how one of the main duties of married Christians is to help get our spouse to heaven. Gus invites listeners to call in and share how has...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
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Gus talks about today's feast day, which honors both St. Timothy and St. Titus. Both traveled with St. Paul on his journeys and both were parish priests and bishops and, throughout...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
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Today is the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul and Gus invites listeners who've experienced a powerful conversion to call in and share their stories. Later, he's joined by...
Monday, January 24, 2022
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Today is the feast day of one of Gus' favorite saints, St. Francis de Sales. He wrote the spiritual masterpiece "Introduction to the Devout Life." Gus tells the saint's biography...
Friday, January 21, 2022
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Today is the 49th annual March for Life in Washington D.C. and, although Gus wasn't able to be at the event this year, he dedicates most of the program to...
Thursday, January 20, 2022
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Kathryn Jean Lopez of National Review calls in to talk about her recent article entitled "Will This Week Be the Last March for Life?" She also talks about her experiences...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
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Based off today's First Reading from Samuel, where the inexperienced, teenage David defeats the battle-hardened Goliath strictly because of his faith in God, Gus invites listeners to call in and...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
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Gus talks about how no prayer is too big or too small for God and he does believe that God takes a personal interest in all aspects of our lives....
Monday, January 17, 2021
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In honor of today's Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Gus plays an excerpt from Chapter 8 of his audio book version of his book Magnetic Christianity, which focuses on compassion...
Friday, January 14, 2022
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Gus talks about his neighbor Bob who's been diagnosed with cancer and has been such an inspiration and hasn't let his diagnosis affect him negatively. Gus invites listeners who've had,...
Thursday, January 13, 2022
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Gus reads a story from Aleteia, which talks about a recent study conducted by the New York Times, which reveals that some prenatal testing for Downs Syndrome and other rare...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
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Gus talks about Pope Francis' recent remarks at his Wednesday audience regarding people who choose to not have children and instead have pets. He said society loses when dogs and...
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
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San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone calls in to talk about the Mass of the Americas, which he'll be celebrating this Saturday, January 15th at Old St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York...
Monday, January 10, 2022
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Gus reads an email he received from a longtime listener. He talks about Gus' conversion story, which starts when he fished his young daughter off the bottom of a swimming...
Friday, January 7, 2022
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Catholic Answers author Joe Heschmeyer calls in to talk about his newest book "The Early Church Was the Catholic Church," which focuses on the writings of the early Church fathers,...
Thursday, January 6, 2022
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Gus talks about an interview with former U.S. House of Representatives chaplain Fr. Pat Conroy, S.J. recently published in the Washington Post. In it, Fr. Conroy justifies being Catholic and...
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
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Based off today's mass readings, Gus talks about the Catholic Church and fear. There are a lot of people out there who have a perception that the Catholic faith is...
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
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Gus talks about dogs and cats and asks listeners which one they prefer. He and Michelle are both. They started out as dog people, raising and adopting greyhounds, but, over...
Monday, January 3, 2022
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Gus kicks off 2022 on a random note. Former Catholic Channel host Jennifer Fulwiler has issued a Saint and Inspirational Word Generator, respectively. Both will issue a random saint who...