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Legal analyst Andrea Picciotti-Bayer joins us with coverage of the Supreme Court case involving minors and sex-altering medical interventions. We’re in the Advent season and the Register has published content that can help us prepare. Alyssa Murphy joins us with some highlights. Matthew McDonald joins us to discuss reviving the tradition of not eating meat on Fridays.

We talk with Courtney Mares on St. Peter’s virtual reality and Jubilee experiences, and then Solene Tadie about the re-opening of Notre Dame Cathedral.

We look at the Register’s Advent and Christmas guides to prepare for the season. Then, we turn to the hopes of ceasefire in Lebanon. With EWTN News contributing editor Alberto Fernandez, we get a glimpse of the conflict’s effects on Christians. And finally, we celebrate the 60th anniversary of Second Vatican Council’s Lumen Gentium with Opus Dei priest Father Joseph Thomas.

The U.S. bishops have just concluded their annual fall assembly. The Register’s editor in chief Shannon Mullen and senior editor Jonathan Liedl bring us a recap of important takeaways. Then, we turn to again to teasing out the 2024 election results. This time we talk about how President-elect Trump is already laying the groundwork for his administration as the Democrats grabble with big losses.

We talk with Shannon Mullen and Peter Laffin to discuss the 2024 US Presidential Election results and then we talk with Frank Rocca to discuss the relationship between Pope Francis and President-Elect Donald Trump.

As U.S. Election Day nears, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are making their last pitches to voters. We examine their final messaging as well as their outreach to Catholics with a report from Register staff writer Peter Laffin. But first we get insights into the final report of the Synod on Synodality. Register senior editor Jonathan Liedl provides his analysis.

We take a look with Register writer Patti Armstrong at Harris-Walz election ad misinformation. Then we turn to Pope Francis’ new encyclical Dilexit Nos (He Loved Us) that calls for a renewal of our hearts through deeper devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Register staff writer Joseph Pronechen brings us insights into Sacred Heart devotion as well as some pastoral advice on election day anxieties.

Over 5,700 children from 2019 to 2023 had sex-change surgeries and more than twice that many were prescribed puberty blockers, according to a new report by a medical watchdog group Do No Harm. EWTN News identified 150 Catholic hospitals among those that provided these services. National Catholic Register staff writer Matthew McDonald has the story. Then we get another synod report from Register senior editor Jonathan Liedl as the Synod on Synodality enters the final week.

The Synod on Synodality completes week one and Pope Francis continues to transform the College of Cardinals. EWTN News Senior Vatican Analyst Frank Rocca provides analysis. Assisted suicide continues its grim progress in Western Europe as the so-called ‘Suicide Pod’ Claims Its First Victim, an American woman, who traveled to Switzerland to die. Register staff writer Peter Laffin has the story.

This week Pope Francis opened the final Vatican assembly of the Synod on Synodality and that comes upon the heels of two papal trips. Synodality and reaching out to the geographic and moral peripheries are touchstones of this papacy. EWTN News’ Courtney Mares and Frank Rocca discuss these key parts of Pope Francis’ legacy. Then we discuss the US election with a month to go before Nov. 5 and the vice-presidential debate with Peter Laffin.

The Register’s Jonathan Liedl gives a preview of what we can expect from the Synod discussions. Register columnist Andrea Picciotti Bayer brings us analysis of two cases worth watching as the Supreme Court term begins. Register staff writer Joseph Pronechen reviews a few films that can help us lift our minds to higher things.

For 20 years, the National Catholic Register has put a spotlight on the faithfulness of Catholic colleges and universities. This week on Register Radio we delve into Catholic identity on Campus. Then we turn to the 2024 Catholic Voters Guide. How do the two presidential nominees line up on issues of importance to the Catholic faithful? We explore the Candidates, the Issues and Church Teaching.

The Shroud of Turin got another significant nod from scientists. What do recent studies say about the shroud, believed by Christians to be the burial cloth of Jesus? Alyssa Murphy brings us a report. Then Peter Laffin provides analysis on the presidential debate. And finally, we turn to a growing problem in the US: a birth dearth. Why aren’t we having enough children to replace our population? Daniel Payne and Jonathan Liedl cover this story.

EWTN News and Real Clear Opinion Research released a new poll on Catholic voters that shows Vice President Kamala Harris leading former President Donald Trump. With us to discuss the numbers are reporters Peter Pinedo for Catholic News Agency and Peter Laffin for the National Catholic Register. Then we turn to mission fields far and wide with Father Roger Landry who was just named the New National Director for the Pontifical Mission Societies.

Pope Francis heads to Asia and Oceana, visiting 4 countries in 11 days. EWTN News Vatican analyst Frank Rocca gives his take on the significance of this trip. We learn about which states are facing abortion related ballot measures with Register staff writer Peter Laffin, and we get a preview of the Paralympic games in Paris, France with Register Europe correspondent Solène Tadié.

The Democratic National Convention officially nominated Kamala Harris and Tim Walz for president and vice president. Protecting abortion access was the clearest policy on display at the DNC. The Register’s Staff Writer Peter Laffin gives analysis from Chicago. And, then as students head back to school around the nation, some states have kicked cell phones out of schools. We look into the growing trend with EWTN News reporter Roselle Reyes.

The Catholic Church in Nicaragua has faced another uptick in persecution by the left-wing government of President Daniel Ortega. ACI Prena’s editor in chief Juan Andrés Muñoz about the Catholic witness against this dictatorship. Then we turn to another Catholic witness. This time against communist China. From CNA’s Daniel Payne, we hear the story of Jimmy Lai, an imprisoned media mogul who converted to Catholicism

Iraqi journalist Rody Sher from EWTN News’ ACI Mena, joins us to remember the anniversary of the fall of Mosul and the driving of Christians from Iraq’s Ninevah Plains. Then, we turn to Venezuela, where tens of thousands of citizens have taken to the streets in protest after Nicolas Maduro claimed victory in the presidential elections late last month. Venezuelan journalist Andres Henriquez from EWTN News’ ACI Prensa gives us a report.

A new CARA study exposes the challenges debt poses to those discerning religious vocations. Our guest Fr. Scott Bahrke explains how the Laboure Society helped him pay his loans and act on his priestly call. Then we look to Africa where vocations are booming as ACI Africa celebrates its fifth year. ACI Africa’s editor in chief Fr. Don Bosco Onyalla joins.

We talk to the Register’s Solene Tadie and a 1996 Olympian-turned-priest, Father Joe Fitzgerald, about pastoral care to Olympic athletes. Then, we discuss why the Knights of Columbus covered artwork of disgraced priest and artist Fr. Marko Rupnik at the John Paul II Shrine in Washington with Register editor in chief Shannon Mullen.