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Wake Up! 6/5/2025: Catholics and Loneliness | Youth and Young Adults | Catholic Burials

We're live with Terry Poplava, General Manager of ACST Catholic, talks about loneliness and how parishes can help, Kathleen Higgins, Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministry in the Diocese of Baton Rouge provides summer update and Jeanne Keene, Community Outreach Director at Dignity Memorial, talks about Catholic burial traditions and arrangements.

Wake Up! 6/4/2025: The Recovery Rosary | Sacred Heart of Jesus | Pentecost

We're live with Scott Weeman, founder of Catholic in Recovery and editor of the book "The Recovery Rosary: Meditations for Those Impacted by Addiction, Compulsions, and Unhealthy Attachments", Dina Dow, Director of Evangelization and Catechesis in the Diocese of Baton Rouge talks about Pope Leo XIV and June being the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Dr. Luke Arredondo, Executive Director of the St. Brendan Center for Evangelization and Spirituality in the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee with Catholic 101 segment talks about Pentecost.

Wake Up! 6/3/2025: Jubilee Year | St. Vincent de Paul Society | Turning Points

We're live with Steve Ray, Catholic convert and pilgrimage leader talks about his experiences in Italy for the 2025 Jubilee year, especially his general audience with new Pope Leo the XIV and Tony Ryan, Marketing Director of Ignatius Press, talks about the book Turning Points: How Thirteen Remarkable Men and Women Heard God’s Call and Responded to It.

Wake Up! 6/2/2025: Diocesan Updates | Teen Summer Jobs | Catholic Psych

We're live with Bevi Fontenot, Communications Director in the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux, we talk about teens and summer jobs and Dr. Greg Bottaro is the Director and Founder of CatholicPsych Institute, talks about Catholic approach to mental health.

Wake Up! 5/30/2025: Our Lady Oaks Retreat House | Face of Jesus | Chesterton Conference

We're live with Fr. Patrick Hough, Retreat Director, Jesuit Spirituality Center at Our Lady Oaks Retreat House, Grand Coteau, LA talks about upcoming retreats, Jarosław Rędziak, Polish filmmaker, director and producer of the documentary Face of Jesus and Dale Ahlquist, President of the Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton, creator and host of the EWTN series “G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense,” and Publisher of Gilbert Magazine, talks about upcoming Chesterton Conference.

Wake Up! 5/29/2025: Through the Living Waters | Pro-Life | Family Life

We're live with Ben Clapper, Executive Director of Louisiana Right to Life, David Dawson Jr., Catholic husband and father and Claudia McAdam, multi-award-winning author of 30 books for kids and teens, talks about her new book Through Living Waters: An Origin Story About Baptism.

Wake Up! 5/28/2025: Clarion Herald | Seminary Formation | Mass on Vacation

We're live with Peter Finney, General Manager and Editor of the Clarion Herald, the official Catholic newspaper of the Archdiocese of New Orleans with update, Dr. David Whidden, Fran U Theology Professor in Baton Rouge talks about FranU and Diocese of Baton Rouge announce new seminary formation partnership and Dr. Tom Neal, Chief of Evangelization and Mission Engagement of the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee with Catholic 101 segment talks about mass and vacation- do we have to make time for mass while we’re on vacation?

Wake Up! 5/27/2025: Pope Leo XIV Marian Devotion | Holy Spirit Novena | Eucharistic Visions

We're live with Fr. Edward Looney, Priest of the Diocese of Green Bay and host of “Hey Everybody! It's Fr. Edward” podcast talks about the Marian devotion of Pope Leo XIV and ties to Marian devotion of Pope Francis. Deacon Ricky Suprean, Deacon of St. John of the Cross in Lacomb, LA talks about Holy Spirit Novena and Fr. Robert Nixon, O.S.B., a monk of the Abbey of the Most Holy Trinity in New Norcia, Western Australia, and author of the book The Eucharistic Visions of St. Frances of Rome.

Wake Up! 5/22/2025: I Killed Maria Goretti | Diocese of Biloxi | Family Life

We're live at 7 am CT with Michael Lichens, Catholic author, editor and researcher, talks about the book by Pietro Di Donato called "I Killed Maria Goretti: The Life and Repentance of Alessandro Serenelli", David Dawson Jr., discusses the reality of miscarriages and Terry Dickson, Director of Communication of the Diocese of Biloxi and Editor of the Gulf Pine Catholic newspaper with update.

Wake Up! 5/21//2025: Pope Leo XIV | Consecrated Virginity | Pope's First Days

We're live with Monsignor Christopher Nalty, Pastor of Good Shepherd Parish in New Orleans, talks about Pope Leo XIV. Erin Kinsella, a consecrated virgin of the Archdiocese of Ottawa and a co-host of “In the Thicket,” a podcast on suffering and hope and Catholic author, talks about her book "Espoused to Christ: A Theology of Consecrated Virginity" and Dr. Luke Arredondo, Executive Director of the St. Brendan Center for Evangelization and Spirituality in the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee with Catholic 101 segment answers the question- What does the Pope do in his first days as pope?