This week, we discussed:
Top of the Show:
- Pope Benedict has announced the theme for World Communications Day 2013.
Tech/World News
- Windows 8 as a viable business platform for tablets?
- One Year Hence: The quotably posthumous Steve Jobs.
- The Associated Press reports a record number of gay and bisexual characters on primetime television. Coincidence?
Faith and Church News
- The butler…ahem, did do it. Rumored papal pardon still pending.
- Is there a Doctor in the Church? Add two more to the Big List!
- The hoax that was, “…and Jesus said to them ‘my wife’.”
- The Anglican Communion starts looking for somebody to place under The Sorting Mitre.
- Bishop Cordeleone establishes a new Carmel in San Francisco. Chewy nougat not included.
Picks of the Week
- Fr. Decker: Goodness Reigns Film School
- Joshua: Adobe Creative Cloud
- Kathleen: 40 Days for Life and 40 Days for Life Baton Rouge is underway!
The CU Later
- Leading Anglican historian to be received into the Catholic Church
- Fr. Dwight Longnecker and the novel idea to use the Corporal Works of Mercy to combat The Seven Deadly Sins.
Here is something for your blooper reel. You kept conflating St. John of the Cross with St. John of Avila. St. John of the Cross of course has long been a Doctor of the Church, though St. John of Avila was a spiritual director to the other St. John and Teresa of Avila along with other saints.
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I knew something was amiss! I’ll have to get on Fr. Ryan, the shownote-smith! But, totally mea culpa for not catching it! Glad we’ve got some fact-checkers (well, a listener…I’m happy to have a listener. You do know we just do this show for you, right Jeff?)
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Ah I see it was actually a test to see if I was still listening.
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Riiiiight, that’s it! Yeh, that’s it.
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