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Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian: Paul Knitter

Jul. 07, 2010
By NCR Podcasts
Paul F. Knitter
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Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian (31 min.)
Paul F. Knitter, author of Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian, talks with NCR editor Tom Fox about "double belonging." Knitter explains the concept: "Double belonging is being talked about more and more now, both in the theological academy and in the area of Christian spirituality. I think it’s the term that is used when more and more people are finding that they can be genuinely nourished by more than one religious tradition, by more than their home tradition or their native tradition."

Highlights of this interview appeared in the June 25 issue of National Catholic Reporter. Read them here: Double belonging: Buddhism and Christian faith

The Catholic Worker: 'You go to where there is need' -- Part 1

Jun. 14, 2010
By NCR Podcasts
Brother Louis Rodemann
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Episode 1: Works of Mercy and Works of Justice (25 min.)
Rodemann tells Fox about the twin pillars of the Catholic Worker Movement: "The Works of Mercy are responses to the inhumanity dealt to our guests by different dimensions of poverty," he says. "The Works of Justice is a way of living, nonviolently in resistance to the infrastructures that allows, cause and even enhances the mechanisms of poverty."

Rodemann also talks about the Midwest Catholic Worker Faith and Resistance Retreat.

This is an encore presentation. The podcast first aired in May 2008.

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The Catholic Worker: 'You go to where there is need' -- 1 of 2

The Catholic Worker: 'You go to where there is need' -- Part 2

Jun. 14, 2010
By NCR Podcasts
Brother Louis Rodemann
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Episode 2: How to start a Catholic Worker House (26 min.)
"How does one start a Catholic Worker House," Tom Fox asks. "You go to where there is need," Rodemann says. He also talks about 50 years as a Christian Brother.

This is an encore presentation. The podcast first aired in May 2008.

All the episodes in this series

The Catholic Worker: 'You go to where there is need' -- 1 of 2
The Catholic Worker: 'You go to where there is need' -- 2 of 2

A profile of Rodemann from NCR June 11, 2010: Br. Louis has sought 'to live the message I was trying to teach'

Fr. George Coyne: Science, Faith and God -- 1 of 2

Jan. 05, 2010
By NCR Podcasts
Fr. George Coyne
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Episode 1: How did the Vatican Observatory come to be? (19 min.)
How did the Vatican Observatory come to be? "The reason is a very simple one," Fr. Coyne tells Tom Fox. In 1582, the calendar had to be reformed. Easter was slipping back -– it was becoming a winter festival. The Jesuit mathematicians and astronomers who Pope Gregory XIII appointed to solve the calendar problem, continued to build telescopes and study the stars. In 1891, Pope Leo XIII formally founded the Vatican Observatory to show that the church has a serious interest in all intellectual human pursuits. Coyne says, Leo appointed religious priests to dedicate their lives to trying to understand the universe through scientific means.

This is an encore presentation. The podcast first aired in May 2007.

Fr. George Coyne: Science, Faith and God -- 2 of 2

Jan. 05, 2010
By NCR Podcasts
Fr. George Coyne
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Episode 2: How do you reconcile faith and science? (26 min.)
"How do you reconcile faith and science? "I don't have to," Fr. Coyne answers Tom Fox’s question. The question always presupposes that they have to be reconciled. "Why do they have to be reconciled?" he asks. "In my own life, I’ve never felt the challenge. . . . They have just always peacefully gone along with one another."

This is an encore presentation. The podcast first aired in May 2007.

Ed Hays: Advent, Christmas and the Incarnation 1 of 2

Episode 1 is 'Incarnation: Turning the Sacred inside out'

Dec. 18, 2009
By Dennis Coday
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Episode 1: Incarnation: Turning the Sacred inside out (23 min.)
Fr. Ed Hays tells Tom Fox, "Incarnation means the 'Infleshing of God, The Divine Mystery.' We talk about spirituality. Well, I don't like that word; it implies duality. ... I prefer lifestyle. So the Incarnation is the Infleshing of the Divine Mystery within us and our whole life rotates around it."

Ed Hays: Advent, Christmas and the Incarnation 2 of 2

Dec. 18, 2009
By Dennis Coday
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Episode 2: Incarnation: Experiencing God all ways (21 min.)
"If we believe in Infleshment, then we see God not as other worldly, as separate, as different, but rather as of this world," Fr. Ed Hays tells Tom Fox. "The smell of burning leaves, an evergreen, a turkey in the oven ... Isn't that the smell of God? Doesn't God taste like pizza, a good steak, salmon?"

Fr. Richard Rohr: Seeing with God's eyes -- Part 1 of 3

Dec. 08, 2009
By NCR Podcasts
Fr. Richard Rohr
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Episode 1: A different consciousness (27 min.)
Rohr tells Tom Fox: "I am convinced that prayer is a descriptor word for a different consciousness. When Jesus goes out and prays for 40 days, he is not saying Hail Marys and Our Fathers. He is looking out at life with a different set of eyes."

This is an encore presentation. The podcast first aired in November 2007.

Fr. Richard Rohr: Seeing with God's eyes -- Part 2 of 3

Dec. 08, 2009
By NCR Podcasts
Fr. Richard Rohr
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Episode 2: 'We don't have time for opposition' (13 min.)
"The future of Christianity is ecumenical," Rohr tells Tom Fox. No single denomination is big enough to contain Jesus, he says and outlines three characteristics of "the emerging church": 1) A recognition of social justice, Christianity has to be concerned about this world and suffering, 2) Openness to contemplation, and 3) Honest scholarship about Jesus.

This is an encore presentation. The podcast first aired in November 2007.

Fr. Richard Rohr: Seeing with God's eyes -- Part 3 of 3

Dec. 08, 2009
By NCR Podcasts
Fr. Richard Rohr
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Episode 3: What do we mean by 'transformation'? (15 min.)
"A lot of people still think that transformation means becoming more pious or becoming more law abiding or becoming more polite," Rohr tells Tom Fox. "By transformation I mean a different consciousness." It’s not about moral mandates, he said. "It’s looking at reality in a different way, which will certainly lead you to operate in highly moral ways, but you don’t start with morality and think that will get you there.

This is an encore presentation. The podcast first aired in November 2007.

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