Episode Details

Donal O’Sullivan-Latchford and Fr. Eamonn McCarthy open this Easter week edition by completing unfinished business from the previous show — Colm Flynn’s gentle but devastating interview with the Belgian broadcasters who smashed religious statues, exposing their double standard with a simple question about Islam and the Star of David. Donal produces a 2012 Family and Media Association piece on the same “adolescent faith” phenomenon, showing how little has changed.

They then range across: the portrayal of Christ in film and art (BBC2’s screening of King of Kings and The Greatest Story Ever Told; Jim Caviezel’s physical suffering during The Passion of the Christ; It’s a Wonderful Life and its message to those tempted to despair); Pope Leo XIV’s Easter Sunday homily at St. Peter’s Square on hope that never fails; Bishop Niall Coll’s Easter articles; Sister Mary Scholastica of Sunderland’s Freedom of the City award for her work with sailors; U2’s surprise six-track spiritual EP Easter Lily; the AI deepfake problem and the World Communications Day message on fabricated voices and faces; a gossip columnist’s public account of meeting God during a bout of sepsis; the Catholic Church passing 1.4 billion members; prayers for the late Dr. Rory O’Hanlon and Fine Gael TD Seán Barrett; and a Pro-Life Campaign communications workshop with Wendy Grace.

Hear more current affairs shared and explored by Donal and Father Eamonn here.

L'articolo Hope in the Media – Christ in Film and Double Standards – Dónal O’Sullivan-Latchford & Father Eamonn McCarthy proviene da Radio Maria.