Respect Life Radio

Mark Sanders: Faith and the treatment of addictions

Enabling behaviors and boundary issues are a big challenge for families when a member is struggling with addiction, according to Mark Sanders of St. Raphael Counseling, speaking on Respect Life Radio, hosted by Deacon Geoff Bennett. "I love the fact that I can utilize faith in the practice that I do at St. Raphael's," said Sanders. "I have always had the sense that addictions really talk about the sense of a God-shaped hole in us."

Jenny Kraska: Advocacy requires strength in numbers

Jenny Kraska, executive director of the Colorado Catholic Conference, discusses ways to be effective in advocating for Catholic public policy positions at the Colorado state legislature. Go to http://http://cocatholicconference.org for more. Kraska was interviewed by Deacon Geoff Bennett of Catholic Charities.

Deacon Alan Rastrelli, M.D.: Sacred space at the end of life

Deacon Alan Rastrelli, M.D., discusses end-of-life care and related issues in this episode of Respect Life Radio, hosted by Deacon Geoff Bennett of Catholic Charities. 

Dede Chism: Bella's life-affirming health care for women

"A desire to be cared for, a desire to be heard," is how Bella Natural Women's Care and Family Wellness attracted 5,000 patients in less than four years, according to Dede Chism, co-founder and executive director, interviewed by Deacon Geoff Bennett in this episode of Respect Life Radio.

 

Bella follows the "Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services," yet half of its patients are not Catholic, according to Chism, who explains the life-affirming mission of Bella, reproductive health care for women, as well as the abortion-pill reversal procedure.

 

Bishop Jorge Rodríguez: The message of life, of Jesus

Bishop Jorge Rodríguez, Ph.D., describes his life growing up in Mexico, his calling to the priesthood, and his surprise at being named the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Denver in 2016. "The most important thing we have in the Church — besides Jesus, the blessed Eucharist — is the people we serve," he said in this Respect Life Radio interview.

Sister Maris Stella of the Sisters of Life: serving women in dignity

“...A lot of our work is serving women who are pregnant, and women who have suffered after the sorrow of abortion," said Sister Maris Stella of the Sisters of Life in Denver. "And we've always wanted to serve college women better — knowing that women at that age, so many of them, are faced with choices — and so much of what is presented to them by the culture is so beneath their dignity. And so we wanted to stand there and be there with them.”

Respect Life Radio: Coming Soon!

Sister Maris Stella describes the life-changing work of the Sisters of Life in this clip from Respect Life Radio. The show, hosted by Deacon Geoff Bennett of Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Denver, is coming soon to Catholic Radio 1060 AM — KRCN. Go to RespectLifeRadio.com for more.