Mercy Unbound

Episode 76 with Trish Short Trish Short shares with us her life story and conversion. Years ago she collaborated with the Marian Fathers and wrote a new melody of the Divine Mercy Chaplet titled, “The Chaplet of Divine Mercy in Song.” It immediately spread worldwide and became the favorite melody of many. What Led Her to Divine Mercy There was infidelity, divorce, and addictions in Trish’s family,...

Episode 86 with Barrie Schwortz Barrie Schwortz was raised as an Orthodox Jew. He was a member and imaging expert of the Shroud of Turin Research Project in the late 1970’s. In the 1970s, a team of scientists from many walks of life were invited to investigated the Shroud. They found that it was not a painting or a photograph. The calibre of the team included people like Don Linn, who was a NASA i...

Episode 85 with Fr. John Bartunek, LC Father John Bartunek, LC, was raised in an atheistic family and found his way to Christianity and then to become a Catholic priest in the Legionaries of Christ. He shares with us his journey and discusses his book, Spiritual but Not Religious: The Search for Meaning in a Material World . Anti-Religious Upbringing Father describes how his parents were divorced;...

Episode 84 with Dr. John Bruchalski, MD Dr. John Bruchalski is a former abortionist who had his own profound conversion and is now doing great work delivering OB-GYN medical care to the poor and indigent in Virginia. He shares with us the life of Dr. Jerome Lejeune, a French physician and geneticist, as their lives have intertwined. Venerable Dr. Lejeune, and Sts. Giuseppe Moscatti and Gianna...

Episode 83 with Fr. Greg Cormier Fr. Greg Cormier is a priest at St. Joseph’s in Cecelia, LA, in the Diocese of Lafayette. I spoke in his parish recently and he suggested I read, Abandonment to Divine Providence , by Fr. Jean-Pierre de Caussade, a French Jesuit priest born in 1675, ordained in 1704, died in 1751. His last five years were spent as director of the theological students in the Je...

Episode 82 with Paul and Beth Zucarelli In a previous episode, I interviewed Paul Zucarelli about his incredible near death experience. Paul went into cardiac arrest numerous times. You can listen to his story on Episode 16 , and also read his book, Faith Understood - An Ordinary Man’s Journey to the Presence of God , available at  www.faithunderstood.org . In today’s interview...

Episode 81 with Dan Lynch Dan Lynch is a retired judge who has been promoting the messages of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Lady of Fatima, and Jesus King of All Nations for over thirty years. In today's talk we review the message of Fatima and apparitions in Ukraine in 1987, and discuss how this is a major spiritual battle and evil can be defeated through the First Saturday devotion, praying th...

Episode 80 with Fr. Franco Pinto, SDB St. John Bosco, founder of the Salesians, was a man of many dreams. A well known dream was the boat of the Church in a rocky storm being steered by a Pope. There were two pillars ahead, and when the boat was anchored by each pillar, the waters calmed and the storm subsided. The pillars were the Eucharist and Our Lady! A Unique Model of Education The Crist...

Episode 79 with Dr. Stephen Mattingly Dr. Stephen Mattingly, Ph. D. is a microbiologist who has developed a hypothesis on how the image on the Shroud of Turin formed. He has been able to reproduce his work – something no one else has been able to do as far as we know. His explanation and work is detailed in the book, The Jesus Microbiome . A human microbiome is the aggregate of all bacteria that r...

Episode 78 with Fr. Kaz Chwalek, MIC Fr. Kaz Chwalek is Provincial Superior of the Congregation of Marians based in Stockbridge, MA. Fr. Kaz has a special devotion to Mary Magdalene, and years ago visited the Holy Land. He visited the places where Jesus walked, died, and rose from the dead. He also saw where Mary Magdalene first reached the empty tomb. Mary loved Jesus so...

Episode 77 with Dr. John Bruchalski Dr. John Bruchalski, MD, is a medical doctor specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. He was raised Catholic by his devout Catholic parents. Once in academia he lost his faith and describes himself as an atheist. He looks back and discusses the notion that in academia the belief is that all unanswered things attributed to faith will one day be explained, and t...

Episode 75 with Fr. Thomas Loya Father Thomas Loya is a Byzantine Catholic priest and pastor of Annunciation Byzantine Catholic Church in Homer Glen, IL, outside of Chicago. He has a program on EWTN Radio on Sunday evenings called, “Light of the East.” Today he will share with us his thoughts on the Eastern Catholic Churches and their relationship to the Roman Catholic Church, the importance of ic...

Episode 74 with Msgr. Stephen Rossetti Monsignor Stephen J. Rosetti is a Catholic priest and Associate professor at Catholic University of America; he heads the St. Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal and is involved in the ministry of exorcism. He has written a book, Diary of An American Exorcist: Demons, Possession, and the Modern Day Battle against Ancient Evil . The book is availabl...

Episode 73 with Dave and Joan Maroney Dave and Joan Maroney are dedicated lay evangelists that have traveled extensively for over twenty years giving presentations on Divine Mercy to parishes and Catholic schoolchildren. Their ministry, Mother of Mercy Messengers, is an apostolate of the Marian Fathers based in Stockbridge, MA. Divine Mercy for America For the last ten years Dave and Joan hav...

Episode 72 with Lloyd and Nancy Greenhaw Lloyd and Nancy Greenhaw are lay missionaries and have traveled the world speaking on the Lord, helping people get closer to God, and finding healing through the mercy of God. In their ministry, they follow the teachings of Neil Lozano as presented in his book, Unbound . The Five Keys to Freedom and Healing Key Number One The first key is “Repentance a...

Episode 71 with Lloyd and Nancy Greenhaw Lloyd and Nancy Greenhaw are Catholic lay evangelists from just outside San Antonio, Texas. They have traveled the world proclaiming the Good news that Jesus Christ is Lord. They read the writings of Pope St. John Paul II in Mission of the Redeemer , where he called for a “New Evangelization.” They took his words seriously and their lives were changed forev...

Episode 70 with Fr. Tim Byerley Father Tim Byerley is paor at St. Peter Catholic Church in southern New Jersey, and also serves as Vice-Postulator for the cause of beatification of Maria Esperanza. Father knew her since 1994. She died in 2004. Maria Esperanza as a mystic Maria’s mystical experiences began as a young child. As a young woman she wanted to become a nun but realized this was not God’s...

Episode 69 with Fr. Matthew Tomeny, MIC A Newly Ordained Priest The manutergium is used by the newly ordained priest to wipe his hands of the blessed chrism oil after he is ordained. He gives it to his mother, and custom has it that she will be buried with it. When she meets St. Peter at the heavenly gate, she will be able to say, “My son also participated in the priesthood and the sacrifice of th...

Karen Pascal is Executive Director of the Henri Nouwen Society . In today’s interview we will discuss the life of Henri Nouwen, a Catholic priest, psychologist, writer and theologian. Nouwen taught for over two decades at academic institutions such as Notre Dame, Yale, and Harvard. Later, he went on to work with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities at the L’Arche Daybr...

Episode 67 with Dr. Peter Howard In today’s show Dr. Peter Howard, STD, will share his insights into the life of Bishop Fulton Sheen, as well as his work as President of the Fulton Sheen Institute . Sheen's Early Priesthood Bishop Sheen was ordained a priest in the diocese of Peoria, IL, in 1919. He quickly became a renowned theologian, earning the prestigious Cardinal Mercier award in philos...

Episode 66 with Chris Sparks Chris Sparks is Senior Books Editor at the Marian Helpers Center. One of their roles is as printing and distributing arm for the Congregation of Marian Fathers. Chris has written a timely book, How Can You Still Be Catholic? - 50 Answers to a Good Question . Do We Condone These Sins? Christ is the head of the Church, but the Church is guided by man on earth. How can on...

Episode 65 with Fr. Don Calloway Father Don Calloway is a priest in the Congregation of Marians of the Immaculate Conception, and serves as Director of Vocations in the order. Why do we pray to Mary and the saints? People occasionally come up to me, more in this time of COVID, to pray for them or a loved one. All prayer ultimately goes to Jesus. Catholics believe in the communion of saints , that...

Episode 64 with Fr. David Gunter Today Fr. David Gunter discusses how we are living in difficult times and a spiritual battle. He explains the origin of the St. Michael prayer; in it we ask for protection from the wickedness and snares of the devil. How the Devil Works Two of the ways Satan works is through fear and the vice of impurity.  There is rampant fear these days with COVID, forced va...

Episode 63 with Fr. David Gunter In this interview Fr. David Gunter shares insights into first-century Judaism and the similarities to today. In 70 AD there was the destruction of the Temple. People had a lot of  money, the priesthood of Sadducees was corrupt, and Judaism was  fragmented. This division could be said of Christianity in some ways;  the Great Schism occurred in 1054, i...

Episode 62 with Roy Varghese Over the centuries, Our Blessed Mother has made  countless appearances to people all over the world in an attempt to  bring them closer to her Son, Jesus Christ. In Roy Varghese’s book, Contact: 50 verified Encounters with the Virgin Mary , he  evaluates these encounters from a scientific perspective, and  examines the theme and...