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JD Flynn is joined by Bishop William Wack, CSC, of Pensacola–Tallahassee to talk about his experience serving in prison ministry and common catalysts for conversion for the incarcerated. Then, Bishop Wack weighs JD and Ed’s idea for a personal ordinariate for prison ministry.
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JD and Ed are St. Louis this week for the beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.
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JD and Ed speculate what could be on the horizon for the Diocese of Steubenville.
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Ed is joined by Aaron Dominguez, Ph.D., a particle physicist and former provost at The Catholic University of America.
Aaron talks about his time at the CERN laboratory and fields Ed’s questions about the relationship between faith and science, dark matter, and extraterrestrial life.
This conversation was recorded before Dominguez left his role as provost in August 2026.
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