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Media Coverage of the First Millennial Saint in Roman Catholicism – Terry Mattingly, 9/10/25 (2532)

Issues, Etc.

Lutheran Public Radio

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The answer is an ecclesiastical one.

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Good teaching, good liturgy, and kind hospitality.

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Dr. Carl Truman of Grove City College, speaking of the 2025 issues, etc., making the case conference.

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And incidentally, if you're looking for historical precedence, that is the way that the early church transformed

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the Roman Empire.

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They didn't do it by week on Wednesday.

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It took 300 years.

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But we're playing the long game.

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You can watch Dr. Carl Truman making the case against progressive individualism and all of the

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presentations from this

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year's making the case conference. For a contribution of $300 by Holy Cross Day, September 14th,

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Very interesting story. It is Carlo Acutis. Just 15 when he died of leukemia in 2006. He was a great advocate for spreading awareness of the Catholic faith using his computer skills, according to a story that appeared on CNN, the first

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millennial saint named in Roman Catholicism. What is this all about? And can the media even

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handle a story that is this steeped in religion? Welcome back to Issues, Etc. I'm Todd Wilkin,

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joining us to discuss media coverage of the first millennial Satan Roman Catholicism.

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Terry Mattingly, he's your fellow on Communications and Culture at St. Constantine College in Houston, Texas.

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He writes Rational Sheep, a substack newsletter on faith, family, and mass media.

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He's author of the National On Religion column for the Andrews-McMille Universal Syndicate, and for two decades,

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you led the getreligion.org website. Terry, welcome back. Glad to be here. Where is God in all of this

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saint talk in the media? That's such an awkward question, because you sometimes get the impression that reporters think they can

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