Catholic Herald Podcasts: Recent Episodes
Catholic Herald Podcasts
Today, for our second Catholic Herald Podcast Debate, we discuss ŒIs the BBC a friend or foe of the Catholic Church? I am joined by Jack Valero, co founder of Catholic Voices and Ed West, deputy editor of the Catholic Herald and author of the Culture Forum paper, Groupthink: 'Can we trust the BBC on Immigration?' Why does the BBC appear anti-Catholic? Is it fundamentally hostile to Catholicism? Is it simply badly informed about Church teaching? Or is the relationship between the Church and the BBC a tale of two institutions, with radically different cultures, competing to set the moral agenda? While Jack Valero views the BBC as a friend of the Church helping Catholics to present the Church in the best possible light, Ed West is frustrated with the BBC's power and influence which he believes has contributed to widespread misunderstanding about the Church¹s impact on society and the wider world. Thank you for listening and we hope you enjoy the debate.
Today, to coincide with the release of On Heaven and Earth: Pope Francis on Faith, Family and the Church in the 21st Century, I discuss the new book with Fr Alexander-Lucie Smith and Rabbi Sybil Sheridan. The book is a dialogue between Pope Francis while he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires and Rabbi Skorka.
Click on the link below to listen to three short discussions between Rabbi Sheridan and Fr Lucie-Smith, beginning with a discussion of the problems this new book poses, the Devil and Pope Francis on feminism.
In the second part of our discussion we examine the Israeli-Palestinian Question and Pope Francis’s potential for diplomacy, the purpose of inter-religious dialogue, euthanasia, the abandonment of the elderly and the Liverpool Care Pathway.
Finally we consider the Pope’s views on charity, our attitudes to the poor, voting in political elections, Pope Pius XII, Catholic prayers for the conversion of Jews, marriage, Rabbi Skorka’s portrayal of Judaism and Pope Francis’s portrayal of Catholicism.
Thank you for listening and we hope you enjoy it.