In Conversation With

Andrew Cusack speaks to Pierpaolo Finaldi, who leads the Catholic Truth Society, about what raising seven children in London has taught him about generosity and service, and why so many young people are putting off marriage and family life. The conversation moves from hearing the Dies Irae for the first time in its proper liturgical setting to Britain's flourishing choral tradition, and from Cardinal Vaughan's founding vision for the CTS to why YouTube has become "the new parish rack". Finaldi also suggests where a newcomer to the faith might begin and explains why the society's sales of RCIA books, with its Evangelium course doubling, persuade him that the revival is real.

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In Conversation With UK | Episode #2

In Conversation With UK is a Catholic Herald podcast hosted by Andrew Cusack, featuring candid discussions on politics, culture, faith and the Church.

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Host: Andrew Cusack
Guest: Jacob Phillips
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Andrew Cusack speaks to Professor Jacob Phillips, about the theological legacy of Benedict XVI, from his lifelong engagement with history and the Second Vatican Council to where a reader might begin with his work today. The conversation moves from Newman and the German Anglophile tradition to whether England remains a post-Christian country, and from the ethics of assisted dying to migration and the balance between love of neighbour and love of nation.

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In Conversation With UK | Episode #1

In Conversation With UK is a Catholic Herald podcast hosted by Andrew Cusack, featuring candid discussions on politics, culture, faith and the Church.

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Host: Andrew Cusack
Guest: Jacob Phillips
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Dr Jonathan J Sanford, president of the University of Dallas, joins Mary Margaret Olohan to discuss why he believes artificial intelligence can never replace a genuine liberal arts education, how the University of Dallas has produced 12 bishops and the US ambassador to the Holy See through its core curriculum and why he says the Catholic universities that broke from the Church in the 1960s Land O'Lakes movement traded away their excellence.

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In Conversation With | Episode #8

In Conversation With is a Catholic Herald podcast hosted by Mary Margaret Olohan, featuring candid discussions on politics, culture, faith and the Church.

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Host: Mary Margaret Olohan
Guest: Claire Lai
Film Crew: Cavern Collective
Production Team: Arcadia Digital

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Is one of the world's most prominent Catholic journalists being slowly broken in a Hong Kong prison cell? Claire Lai joins Mary Margaret Olsen to tell the story of her father Jimmy Lai — founder of Apple Daily, convicted under a law written to destroy him — and the remarkable faith that has held him through 1,927 days of solitary confinement. With Britain and the Trump administration now raising his case, she has one request: don't let him be forgotten.

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In Conversation With | Episode #7

In Conversation With is a Catholic Herald podcast hosted by Mary Margaret Olohan, featuring candid discussions on politics, culture, faith and the Church.

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Host: Mary Margaret Olohan
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What does it actually cost to spend nearly five decades defending life on Capitol Hill? Mary Margaret sits down with Congressman Chris Smith, co-chair of the House Pro-Life Caucus, to trace a career built on hate mail, death threats, and legislation most Americans have never heard of. Smith authored the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 — the law used to convict Ghislaine Maxwell and nearly 5,000 other exploiters — and its follow-up bill has already died twice in the Senate. On abortion, he cites a study finding nearly 1 in 10 women suffer serious complications from the abortion pill, and argues the silence around it isn't caution, it's a cover-up nobody in power wants to answer for. After watching colleague after colleague abandon the pro-life cause once they reached higher office, Smith's conclusion is blunt: conviction, not caution, is the only thing that's ever actually held the line.

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In Conversation With | Episode #8

In Conversation With is a Catholic Herald podcast hosted by Mary Margaret Olohan, featuring candid discussions on politics, culture, faith and the Church.

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Host: Mary Margaret Olohan
Guest: Chris Smith
Film Crew: Cavern Collective
Production Team: Arcadia Digital

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