EPISODE · Oct 31, 2020 · 56 MIN
Rethinking The Catholic Tradition Parts 1 & 2
from Common Threads: An Interfaith Dialogue · host Fr. Joachim Lally
One of the great things about hosting CT is that I get to invite some of my more enlightened friends into the studio to have conversations like we would anyway. But I love sharing their wisdom. Well, here is a perfect example. A good way to describe Fr. Joachim Lally would be to mention that when my father-in-law died, my wife & her 3 siblings (all ex-Catholics) looked to me to find a priest to say the funeral Mass for this very devout Catholic parent of theirs. But they didn't want what they experienced when they buried their equally devout mother with a rather traditional priest presiding. Fr. Lally immediately agreed, and I was king for a day when it was all over. We aired these episodes in 2016, shortly before he was scheduled to lead a meditation course at a Hindu ashram in the Bahamas. At the time Fr. Lally knew next to nothing about Hinduism or what to expect. He didn't seek this job out. I should have had him back to describe his experience afterward. Oh well. Enjoy. Theme music "Nigal."
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One of the great things about hosting CT is that I get to invite some of my more enlightened friends into the studio to have conversations like we would anyway. But I love sharing their wisdom. Well, here is a perfect example. A good way to describe Fr. Joachim Lally would be to mention that when my father-in-law died, my wife & her 3 siblings (all ex-Catholics) looked to me to find a priest to say the funeral Mass for this very devout Catholic parent of theirs. But they didn't want what they experienced when they buried their equally devout mother with a rather traditional priest presiding. Fr. Lally immediately agreed, and I was king for a day when it was all over. We aired these episodes in 2016, shortly before he was scheduled to lead a meditation course at a Hindu ashram in the Bahamas. At the time Fr. Lally knew next to nothing about Hinduism or what to expect. He didn't seek this job out. I should have had him back to describe his experience afterward. Oh well. Enjoy.
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