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Discerninghearts.com presents Inside the Pages, Insights from today's most compelling authors.

I'm your host, Chris McGregor, and I am delighted to be joined by Archbishop Emeritus Alfred Hughes,

who received a doctorate in spiritual theology at the Gregorian University

and served in parish seminary and administrative roles in Boston.

Pope St. John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Baton Rouge in 1993 and Archbishop of New Orleans in 2002.

As Archbishop Emeritus, he now serves at New Orleans Notre Dame Seminary.

He is the author of priests in love with God and eager to witness to the gospel.

With Archbishop Emeritus, Alfred Hughes, we go inside the pages of spiritual masters,

Living and Praying in the Catholic Tradition, published by Ignatius Press.

Your Excellency, thank you so much for joining me.

It's wonderful to be with you, Chris, and with your family that you consider an audience that you

reach.

I'm so glad you said it that way, Your Excellency. This is,

thank you for that appreciation. And the fact that you would publish such an incredible work,

I'm not sure if you realize how important this particular book is spiritual masters living and

praying in the Catholic tradition.

When I first opened it, I thought it would be more of an explanation of the different

wonderful saints and other spiritual writers and giving us a little bit of background on what

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