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This week we learn how Hozana and Rosario plan to have 1 million decades of the Rosary prayed for Mary during the month of May. Jermaine has two new book suggestions, Gillian learns a lesson from her children and we reconnect with singer/songwriter Rebecca Roubion.

How do we teach young people to have prolife discussions? This week, Camille Pauley of Healing the Culture tells us about their new series, “Forbidden Discussions”. Marie Claude Lalonde of Aid to the Church in Need brings us an update from Sudan; Mark Matthews has just returned from Europe , and we reconnect with Canadian, husband-and-wife duo, Jesse and Kathleen Leblanc aka, Found Together.

This week on a special edition of the SLHour we focus on questions on Artificial Intelligence with our Hollywood Undercover Missionary, Mark Matthews who has been reporting on all the conversations about artificial intelligence taking place in the world of engineering, technology and also in Hollywood. Join us for conversations on fear of technology, how the algorithm works, synthetic AI, chatbots, how AI will take all our jobs and finally, an unexpected benefit of AI.

We know that Faith calls us to justice but the Rev. Dr. Karen  A. Hamilton argues that faith also calls us to protest. This week she tells us about her book that compiles stories of all faiths as protest. Damien O’Connor of the Knights of Columbus, has an update about a program that helps men pray and learn about the faith; Sr. Marie Paul Curley, fsp has a window to the soul of an Academy Award-winning Anime film; and singer/songwriter, Chris Bray has a new book.

This year, on our Special Easter edition, Deacon Pedro is joined by Catholic singer/songwriter/author and Christian music legend, John Michael Talbot, who tells us about his more-than-40 year career, shares his latest album with us and gives us inspiring words to reflect on  for the Easter season.

This week,  author Carissa Douglas tells us about the new installment in the Little Douglings young adult book series. Jermaine has a book suggestion, Gillian learns a practical lesson for Lent and we meet singer/songwriter Michael Zabrocki.