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Father Joseph Townsend, a parochial vicar, offers a reflection on the Third Sorrowful Mystery of the Rosary, the Crowning with Thorns, for our May 4, 2024, Communal First Saturday. As part of our Communal First Saturdays, one of our priests reflects on a Mystery of the Rosary on the first Saturday of every month. 

Father Irenaeus Dunlevy, a visiting Dominican priest, shares a homily during the Sixth Sunday of Easter. It was given in the Basilica on May 5, 2024. 

In this episode, the monthly series called “What Are the Sisters Reading?" continues. For the month of May, Sister Emily Beata Marsh, FSP, shares about Pope Francis' 2018 apostolic exhortation on the call to holiness called "Rejoice and Be Glad." 
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Father Edward Hathaway, the Rector at the Basilica, shares a homily during the Fifth Sunday of Easter. It was given in the Basilica on April 28, 2024. 

Father Edward Hathaway, the Rector at the Basilica, shares a homily during the Fourth Sunday of Easter. It was given in the Basilica on April 21, 2024. 

Dr. Chad Pecknold, a Professor of Historical & Systematic Theology in the School of Theology at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and the Resident Theologian of the Basilica's Institute for Faith and Public Culture, shares part two of his two-part series on "Whither the Catholic Mission to America?"  It was recorded on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in our Lyceum Auditorium, 313 Duke Street. 
In His Great Commission, Our Lord called His apostles “to make disciples of all nations.” The history of the Faith can be told as just that — the conversion of whole nations and cultures. So how should we understand the Catholic mission to America? What has been the dominant missiological strategy? Has it succeeded? Dr. Pecknold examines some historical problems with the Catholic mission to America and asks how our strategy might change to be more faithful to the Great Commission today.