Communications is a moral
act. The mass media have the power
to form opinions and consciences, but they have become a global,
immediate and
crowded arena with competing voices and ideologies. What is the common
good?
Where’s the moral dimension of the news? What’s the
story behind the story? How do we
get people’s attention to listen to the
most important message in life – who we are and where we are
headed? We clear a
path through the clutter of words by reclaiming the purity of language,
and
engage it with the clarity of truth. Because that’s the heart
of all that
matters.
Welcome to The New Heart Of The
Matter!
Beginning Friday, Feb. 1st we are pleased to
bring you the new and expanded Heart of the Matter cohosted with Sheila
Liaugminas. Tune in every week for this engaging and
informative news magazine show - and tell a friend - The New Heart of
the Matter is heard right here on Catholic Radio International.
From all quarters we now hear the cry that our
poor planet is out of room, out of resources and nearly out of time.
But is that so? This week on The Heart of the Matter we sit
down with population expert Steve Mosher to talk about his new book Population Control: Real Costs, Illusionary Benefits and get the straight story on why the world is not only not overpopulated but dangerously underpopulated.
The US Supreme Court ruled this week (D.C v.
Heller) that a DC law banning handguns is unconstitutional.
Now
what?
This week we sit down with Dr. Stephen Halbrook, scholar and
legal writer to discuss his new book The Founders' Second Amendment
and ask what does this ruling by the high court mean for the rest of
the nation.
Say it ain't so.., but it is. On
January 18,
2008, Catholic Charities of Richmond, Virgina took a 16 year old girl
to have an abortion. This week we sit down with Julia Duin,
religion writer for the Washington
Times
to get the full story. Also Judi Brown of the American Life
League will join us to help answer the question of "is there
any Catholic
left in the Richmond Catholic Charities?"
This week we sit down with David Horowitz,
noted
conservative writer and thinker and ask why he believes that the
Democrats are not only undercutting the war in Iraq but the very
security of our country.
This week we sit down with David Brog,
Executive
Director of Christians United for Israel, to find out what Israel is
fighting for and why we should care - a lot.
We Ask Judie Brown of the American Life
League: What's Bothering Bill Maher?
April 29, 2008
Now playing on The Heart Of The
Matter:
Bill Maher - The "politically correct"
commentator
is at it again, and this time he may have (we can only hope) gone too
far. We sit down with Judie Brown of the American Life League to talk about
her new initiative Fire
Bill Maher and get to the Heart of the Matter concerning
perhaps the most hate filled anti-Catholic you are ever likely to hear.
Expelled - No Intelligence Allowed.
On this
week's Heart of the Matter we talk with Mark Mathis associate producer
of the film Expelled, starring Ben Stein, about why this film was made
and why it is stirring up so much controversy. Also we will
speak
with Sheila
Liaugminas about what she saw during the Holy Father's visit to the
United States.
Sheila is out (but not gone) and Jeff
Gardner is
in and this week we look at politics both religious and secular - it's
a strange world out there and we'll get to the bottom of it!
What's at the heart of a vocation to the
priesthood? We so often hear that there is a "vocational
crisis,"
but the shortfall may not be found in the numbers.
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