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Emmy award winning priest on the art of preaching Emmy Award winning producer and presenter Fr Mike Russo talks about his US online and cable TV series, from its beginnings to its runaway success. By Lydia O’Kane What does it take to be a good preacher? That’s what US online and cable TV programme, Sunday to Sunday aims to find out. The Emmy award winning series identifies gifted preachers who pass along their ideas about the preaching ministry. The programme was created and is hosted by Fr Mike Russo, retired professor of Communications Studies at Saint Mary's College of California. He spoke to Vatican Radio about how the series came about and his reaction to winning a coveted Emmy award last year. Listen to the interview with Fr Mike Russo From project to production Fr Russo began working on this TV project well over ten years ago, with the aim of finding “great preachers and how they affect the community.” He also drew inspiration from another television programme called “I...

Pushing the Elderly Out of Sight : Our default practice of tucking the elderly away in state or corporate group homes is a fundamentally bad system.

Proof of a Soul from the Transcendentals and Our Interior Sense of God by Magis Center | Feb 07, 2021 | Proof of a Soul from the Transcendentals and Our Interior Sense of God Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Gmail Around the world there is a consistent awareness of and belief in a deity which stands at the foundation of the world’s religions. Many people seek a connection with a higher or transcendent power that has made itself known to us through the internal spiritual or mystical awareness of and desire for God that each individual has. Throughout history, philosophers, theologians, and psychologists have written extensively on this internal awareness of a higher power which most religions call “God.” They identify eight major indications of this “interior sense of God”: The awareness of and desire for perfect truth The awareness of and desire for perfect love The awareness of and desire for perfect justice/goodness The awareness of and desire for perfect beauty The a...