Author: paul

  • SaintCast 101, Mortification and Why Saints Do it

    http://traffic.libsyn.com/saintcast/SaintCast_Episode_101_Mortification_in_Lives_of_Saints.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadFr. Jim Martin answers a listener’s question on suffering and mortification in the lives of the saints. What is it, and why do they do it? Plus news on an Australian saint-in-the-making. Pope Benedict says that Blessed Mary MacKillop will be the first Australian saint. Hear about her life, […]

  • SC 100, Surprise! and more soundseeing from Rome

    http://traffic.libsyn.com/saintcast/SaintCast_Episode_100_Surprise.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadIn honor of the 100th SaintCast, a special song about . . . what else, The Saints, written and performed by Dr. Paul. Plus more SoundSeeing from the Eternal City. Paul and daughter Laura are fortunate to be in Rome for the moving Eucharistic procession through the streets in […]

  • SaintCast 99, Gemma Galgani and Lucca

    http://traffic.libsyn.com/saintcast/SaintCast_Episode_99_St._Gemma_Galgani.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadDid you ever read about saints who spoke with Jesus, their guardian angels? Here’s the story of a young Italian woman, the first saint of the 20th century, and how and where she lived in the beautiful walled city of Lucca. Paul and daughter Laura explore the ancient city […]

  • SC 98, Marathons, Mortification and Much Feedback

    http://traffic.libsyn.com/saintcast/SaintCast_Episode_98_Feedback_Boston_Marathon_and_Mortification.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadFeedback direct from the Boston Marathon, Catholic New Media conference wrap, and what’s with the Saints and mortification? Feedback from Paul’s time abroad, and we play a small sample of a coming podcast live from the Corpus Christi procession in Rome. A listener asks about corporal mortification and it’s […]

  • SaintCast 97, Soundseeing at Papal Audience

    http://traffic.libsyn.com/saintcast/SaintCast_Episode_97_Papal_Audience_in_Rome.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadEnjoy the singing, cheering, jostling, and electric atmosphere of a papal audience in the Paul VIth hall, Vatican City. Paul’s wife can’t believe he let his youngest daughter wander through the papal audience hall alone in search of a bathroom. Follow Paul and daughter Laura to more ‘saintly sights’ […]

  • SaintCast 96, SaintCast in Rome!

    http://traffic.libsyn.com/saintcast/SaintCast_96_St._Peters_Basilica.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadPaul and his daughter Laura go to Rome and take you inside on a soundseeing tour of Piazza San Pietro and St. Peter’s basilica. They meet up with Monsignor Charles Mangan of the Congregation for Religious, and discover a ‘hidden’ marble slab in the piazza marking an historic event. […]

  • SaintCast 95, Must We Believe in Miracles

    http://traffic.libsyn.com/saintcast/SaintCast_Episode_95_Believing_in_Miracles.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadPaul once again welcomes Fr. Jim Martin to the SaintCast to answer a listener’s question, “Must we believe in Miracles?” Saint News – Padre Pio exhumed, a book recommendation from a listener on St. Francis, answer to last St. Jeopardy question and a new quiz, on this week’s SaintCast.

  • SaintCast 94, More from Saintly New Orleans

    http://traffic.libsyn.com/saintcast/SaintCast_Episode_94_More_from_New_Orleans.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadToday Paul visits the New Orleans studios of Rob Clemenz of SaintsforSinners.com who spreads the stories of the Saints with beautiful hand-painted medals. We learn about St. Fink, why St. Gabriel plays the trumpet, and pay a visit to a particular grave in a storied New Orleans cemetery. * […]

  • SaintCast 93, Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos

    http://traffic.libsyn.com/saintcast/SaintCast_Episode_93_Blessed_Francis_Xavier_Seelos.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadPaul travels to New Orleans, Louisiana, to talk with the Vice-postulator of the cause for sainthood of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos. Tune in to learn about ‘The Smiling Ascetic.’ More… Another T-shirt out to the St. Jeopardy winner, and a new quiz this week. Pier Giorgio Frassati’s relics to […]

  • SaintCast Extra, 92 – Saints.SQPN.com

    http://traffic.libsyn.com/saintcast/SaintCast_Episode_92_SaintCast_Extra_Announcing_Saints.SQPN.com.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadWe at SQPN are incredibly proud to announce the association with SQPN of Terry Jones and the Patron Saints website at Saints.SQPN.com. This is believed to be the most comprehensive website devoted to saints on the web. * Saints.SQPN.com My facebook page Join the SaintCast Souls facebook group Follow […]

  • SaintCast 91, Soundseeing at Mission San Diego

    http://traffic.libsyn.com/saintcast/SaintCast_Episode_91_Soundseeing_at_Mission_San_Diego.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadToday we bring you to the sunny, southern California town of San Diego to visit the first of the California missions founded by Blessed Junipero Serra. A look at some special episodes to come . . later this week.More… * Mission San Diego * Catholic Rockers and CatholicJukebox.com with […]

  • SaintCast 90, Orthodox Saints

    http://traffic.libsyn.com/saintcast/SaintCast_Episode_90_Orthodox_Saints.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadToday we discuss Orthodox Saints with an Orthodox priest, Fr. Peter Preble of the Shepherd of Souls and Facing East podcasts, a SaintCast man-on-the-street interview in New Orleans, Bl. John XXIII and Saint Jokes of the Week, and the Saint who invented “Atonement” with a new St. Jeopardy on […]

  • SaintCast 89, 150 Years of Lourdes

    http://traffic.libsyn.com/saintcast/SaintCast_Episode_89_150_Years_of_Lourdes.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadFinally, a new SaintCast to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the appearance of the Blessed Virgin at Lourdes, France. We discuss a number of new Saints-in-the-News stories, including a new document about how the Church proceeds in Causes of Saints. Why St. Patrick’s Day and St. Joseph’s Day celebrations […]

  • SaintCast 88 Soundseeing in Pisa, Italy

    http://traffic.libsyn.com/saintcast/SaintCast_Episode_88_Soundseeing_in_Pisa.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadToday we discuss the plenary indulgence announced by Pope Benedict on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the appearance of Our Lady to Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France. Join Paul and son Chris in a tour around the Campo dei Miracoli, the Field of Miracles that contains the […]

  • SC 87, Fr. James Martin-Jesuit Off Broadway

    http://traffic.libsyn.com/saintcast/SaintCast_Episode_87_Fr._James_Martin__A_Jesuit_Off_Broadway_.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadToday on the SaintCast, we interview Fr. Jim Martin, author of “My Life with the Saints,” and his new book “A Jesuit Off Broadway.” Fr. Jim talks about his work in an Off Broadway Production about the last days of Judas Iscariot, a work directed by Oscar winning actor […]

  • SaintCast 86, St. Anthony of the Desert

    http://traffic.libsyn.com/saintcast/SaintCast_Episode_86_St._Anthony_of_the_Desert.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadToday we learn about the Saint who has been called the founder of Christian monasticism, Anthony of the Desert. What prompted him to live a solitary life of virtue, as a hermit in the harsh Egyptian desert? Paul and Chris post an iPhone commercial parody that you can see […]