Ever Ancient, Ever New

On today’s episode, we will be featuring a talk from our recent 2026 National Meeting by Fr. James Kubicki, SJ, who serves as a spiritual director at St. Francis de Sales Seminary in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. He is a popular conference and parish mission speaker, retreat director, and the author of A Heart on Fire and A Year of Daily Offerings. Fr. Kubicki previously served as the national dir...

On this week's episode, we're listening to a Facebook Live interview featuring Sister Maria Vianney Kysely, OP of the Dominican Sisters, Immaculate Conception Province. Sister Maria Vianney is the Assistant Nursing Home Administrator of the Dominican Sisters, Immaculate Conception Province. Founded in 1861, their mission is to spread God's Kingdom through education, evangelization, and aid to the...

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Fr. John A. Hardon's death, December 30th, 2025, the Institute on Religious Life will be launching a series of Fr. Hardon talks from our own archives! Father Hardon entered the Society of Jesus in 1936. He authored over 200 books, including The Catholic Catechism (1975) and was a consultant for the drafting of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. He wrote co...

On today’s episode, we will be featuring a talk from our recent 2026 National Meeting by Fr. John Burns. Fr. John Burns is a priest for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. He studied business marketing at the University of Notre Dame, but later realized a deeper call to preach the infinite love of God with his whole life. Ordained a priest in 2010, he has served in parish ministry and taught moral theol...

On this week's episode, we're listening to a Facebook Live interview featuring Priscilla McKinney.  Priscilla McKinney was born and raised in Southern California. She joined the Navy right after high school where she worked as a Nuclear Reactor Operator and experienced a life changing deployment that catapulted her faith life. In 2008, she was honorably discharged from the military and began pursu...

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Fr. John A. Hardon's death, December 30th, 2025, the Institute on Religious Life will be launching a series of Fr. Hardon talks from our own archives! Father Hardon entered the Society of Jesus in 1936. He authored over 200 books, including The Catholic Catechism (1975) and was a consultant for the drafting of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. He wrote co...

On today’s episode, we will be featuring a talk from our recent 2026 National Meeting by Sr. Miriam James Heidland, S.O.L.T. of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity. Sr. Miriam James Heidland is a former Division I athlete who had a radical conversion and joined the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT) in 1998. Her story has been featured on EWTN’s The Journey Home, SEEK...

On this week's episode, we're listening to a Facebook Live interview featuring Fr. James Kubicki, SJ. Fr Kubicki serves as a spiritual director at director at St. Francis de Sales Seminary in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. He is a popular conference and parish mission speaker, retreat director, and the author of A Heart on Fire and A Year of Daily Offerings. Fr. Kubicki previously served as the nat...

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Fr. John A. Hardon's death, December 30th, 2025, the Institute on Religious Life will be launching a series of Fr. Hardon talks from our own archives! Father Hardon entered the Society of Jesus in 1936. He authored over 200 books, including The Catholic Catechism (1975) and was a consultant for the drafting of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. He wrote co...

On today’s episode, we will be featuring a talk from our recent 2026 National Meeting by Bishop Joseph N. Perry. Bishop Perry served as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Chicago from 1998 to 2023. Bishop Perry is a past vice-president of the board of the National Black Catholic Congress, and chairman of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Subcommittee on African-American Affairs...

On this week's episode, we're listening to a Facebook Live interview featuring Sr. Teresa Maria Leis of the Sisters of the St. Francis of the Martyr St. George in Alton, IL. The Sisters of St. Francis of the Martyr St. George have been called by God to take an active part in rebuilding the Church, which was born from the heart of the crucified Christ. Flowing out of His open side, the charism entr...

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Fr. John A. Hardon's death, December 30th, 2025, the Institute on Religious Life will be launching a series of Fr. Hardon talks from our own archives! Father Hardon entered the Society of Jesus in 1936. He authored over 200 books, including The Catholic Catechism (1975) and was a consultant for the drafting of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. He wrote co...

On today’s episode, we will be featuring a talk from our recent 2026 National Meeting by Sr. Mary Eucharista Muse, who serves as the Vicar General of the Daughters of Mary Mother of Healing Love in Manchester, New Hampshire. The Daughters of Mary Mother of Healing love seek to do the Father’s Will by adoring and serving the Sacred Heart of Jesus in imitation of Mary. They embrace the evangelical c...

On this week's episode, we're listening to a Facebook Live interview featuring Antonella Di Piazza, FKMI. Antonella Di Piazza was born and raised in Bologna Italy, and is a perpetually professed member of Fr. Kolbe Missionaries of the lmmaculata. Antonella has been stationed in Italy, Poland, and the United States, carrying out various assignments and evangelization ministry, especially promoting...

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Fr. John A. Hardon's death, December 30th, 2025, the Institute on Religious Life will be launching a series of Fr. Hardon talks from our own archives! Father Hardon entered the Society of Jesus in 1936. He authored over 200 books, including The Catholic Catechism (1975) and was a consultant for the drafting of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. He wrote co...

On today’s episode, we will be featuring a talk from our 2013 National Meeting by Fr. Brian Mullady, O.P.   Fr. Mullady recently passed into eternal life on April 22, 2025. Please pray for the repose of his soul. You can read his obituary to learn more about his amazing life serving the church.  Fr. Mullady taught at the Vita Consecrata Institute for nearly 20 years and served as the Theological a...

On this week's episode, we're listening to a Facebook Live interview featuring Abbot Sharbel Ewen, OSB, of Prince of Peace Benedictine Monastery in Oceanside, California . Abbot Sharbel grew up surrounded by the values of hard work and simplicity, cultivated in a family of six children. His upbringing was deeply influenced by the rhythms of rural life, where faith and community were intertwined. I...

o commemorate the 25th anniversary of Fr. John A. Hardon's death, December 30th, 2025, the Institute on Religious Life will be launching a series of Fr. Hardon talks from our own archives! Father Hardon entered the Society of Jesus in 1936. He authored over 200 books, including The Catholic Catechism (1975) and was a consultant for the drafting of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. He wrote cou...

On today’s episode, we will be featuring a talk from our 2012 National Meeting by Fr. James Kubicki, SJ, serves as a spiritual director at St. Francis de Sales Seminary in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. He is a popular conference and parish mission speaker, retreat director, and the author of A Heart on Fire and A Year of Daily Offerings. Fr. Kubicki previously served as the national director of th...

On this week's episode, we're listening to a Facebook Live interview featuring Bishop Robert Vasa. Bishop Robert F. Vasa, a native of the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, serves as the sixth Bishop of the Diocese of Santa Rosa. After obtaining his B.A. from St. Thomas Seminary College in Denver, CO, Bishop Vasa obtained a Master of Divinity from the Holy Trinity Seminary of the University of Dallas....

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Fr. John A. Hardon's death, December 30th, 2025, the Institute on Religious Life will be launching a series of Fr. Hardon talks from our own archives! Father Hardon entered the Society of Jesus in 1936. He authored over 200 books, including The Catholic Catechism (1975) and was a consultant for the drafting of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. He wrote co...

On today’s episode, we will be featuring a talk from our 2012 National Meeting by by Dr. Scott Hahn.  Dr. Hahn received his Bachelor of Arts degree with a triple-major in Theology, Philosophy and Economics from Grove City College, PA,  his Masters of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and his Ph. D. in Biblical Theology from Marquette University. He was ordained in 1982 at Trinity...

On this week's episode, we're listening to a Facebook Live interview featuring Dr. John Olesnavage.  A lifelong devout Catholic, John Olesnavage spent twenty-five years as a case worker in the human service field, working with criminal offenders, addicts, and the mentally ill. At forty-seven, he returned to school to pursue his dream of becoming a psychologist. John is a clinical psychologist, tea...

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Fr. John A. Hardon's death, December 30th, 2025, the Institute on Religious Life will be launching a series of Fr. Hardon talks from our own archives! Father Hardon entered the Society of Jesus in 1936. He authored over 200 books, including The Catholic Catechism (1975) and was a consultant for the drafting of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. He wrote co...

On today’s episode, we will be featuring a talk from our 2007 National Meeting by Sr. M. Stephania Newell of the Sisters of the St. Francis of the Martyr St. George in Alton, IL. The Sisters of St. Francis of the Martyr St. George have been called by God to take an active part in rebuilding the Church, which was born from the heart of the crucified Christ. Flowing out of His open side, the charism...