The Bellarmine Forum
Summary: Footnote is a weekly short (5-minute) series meant to highlight social reference and current events. The Bellarmine Forum presents Dr. Christopher Manion weekly as he discusses current topics of Catholic interest, current events, and topics of the day. Sometimes guests, sometimes discussion of his From Under the Rubble column appearing in the Wanderer and on Bellarmine Forum at bellarmineforum.org.
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Podcasts:
In Footnote 30, Chris Manion interviews Bill Williams, a Knight of Magistral Grace in the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta, and his wife Esther, a native of Malta, and they recount more highlights in the history of the Order on the Island of Malta.
In Footnote 29, Chris Manion interviews Bill Williams, a Knight of Magistral Grace in the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta, who recounts some highlights in the history of the Order on the Island of Malta.
In Footnote 28, Chris Manion interviews Greg August, a Knight of Magistral Grace in the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta, to discuss the Order’s outreach to college students, especially those in the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS).
In Footnote 27, Chris Manion interviews Steve Mosher, President of the Population Research Institution, discussing the issues that arise when Catholic nonprofits accept government funding or sign on as government contractors.
In Footnote 26, Chris Manion interviews Steve Mosher, President of the Population Research Institution, discussing the differences between Catholic Charity and government “charity” in Africa.
In Footnote 25, Chris Manion interviews Steve Mosher, President of the Population Institution, who reports on the sex-selection abortions that are catching on in the U.S.
Chris Manion interviews Chris Slattery, who brought crisis pregnancy care to New York City.
The Bellarmine Forum presents Howard Walsh, entrepreneur and publisher, who tells the story of Keep the Faith, which offers Catholic Internet programming to the Faithful worldwide.
The Bellarmine Forum brings you an interview with Howard Walsh, a model for Catholic laymen everywhere, explains how he put his years of business experience to work rescuing a wonderful magazine and bringing it to thousands of Catholics worldwide.
In Footnote 21, Chris Manion continues his interview with Father Kenneth Baker, S.J., discussing Fr. Baker's friend Father Raymond De Jaegher, S.J. who was a missionary to Viet Nam and China for thirty years. Listen to this breathtaking story of Fr. De Jaegher's imprisonment, first by the Japanese, and the Mao’s Chinese Communists.
In Footnote episode 20, Dr. Christopher Manion interviews Father Kenneth Baker, S.J., about his forty years as editor of the Homiletic and Pastoral Review, as well as his role as translator of the German works of Josef Cardinal Ratzinger.
In Footnote episode 18, Dr. Manion declares Obama to be The Great Divider. In Federalist Paper #1, Alexander Hamilton identified rationality as the critical ingredient of a constitutional republic. Yet, in the last election, voters were encouraged to vote on the basis of lust and envy, two of the strongest irrational passions.
In Footnote episode 18, Dr. Manion explains what it means when they say they are Dumbing Down The Core Curriculum. The federal government is at it again, pushing new “standards” for English that will require public school students to read government manuals instead of classical poetry and prose, all in the name of academic excellence.
The City of Detroit has been virtually destroyed by a series of incompetent and corrupt politicians. Yet those same politicians demand billions in federal taxpayer funds because they can deliver the votes. Should they get it?
Is Obama really like Stalin? Listen to the Bellarmine Forum Footnote episode 16 wherein Dr. Manion examines whether the kulaks are alive and well in America today.