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Face Me with Larry Bisig

This month I sat down for a 40-minute interview with Larry Bisig for his WHAS TV show Face Me with Larry Bisig. Larry is the CEO of Bisig Impact Group and a parishioner of Saint Agnes Parish. He and I talked about a wide variety of topics including immigration, Catholic education, sexual abuse in the Church, the relationship of the Church to public officials, and why some Catholic are drifting away from the Church.

2018-11-27T16:46:28-05:00November 27th, 2018|Archbishop's Blog|

November 2018 Conversations, Segment 3

Conversations is a monthly, 30-minute television show in which I participate in an ongoing conversation about the Archdiocese of Louisville, my involvement with the larger Church (both nationally and globally), and issues of faith in general. In the third segment from our November 2018 episode, Chancellor Dr. Brian Reynolds and I talk to Judge John Laun, chair of the Archdiocese of Louisville Sexual Abuse Review Board.

2018-11-21T14:23:39-05:00November 21st, 2018|Archbishop's Blog|

November 2018 Conversations, Segment 2

Conversations is a monthly, 30-minute television show in which I participate in an ongoing conversation about the Archdiocese of Louisville, my involvement with the larger Church (both nationally and globally), and issues of faith in general. In the second segment from our November 2018 episode, I interview Martine Siegel, Victim Assistance Coordinator for the Archdiocese of Louisville, about her outreach to victims of sexual abuse and her work in fostering a safe environment in the Archdiocese of Louisville.

2018-11-20T09:59:19-05:00November 20th, 2018|Archbishop's Blog|

Letter to the Editor – Courier Journal

Here is the letter to the editor that I submitted to the Courier Journal in response to today’s story in the print edition about how the Archdiocese has responded to sexual abuse:

November 9, 2018

Letter to the Editor
The Courier Journal

I am deeply disappointed with the Courier Journal article criticizing the way in which the Archdiocese has responded to sexual abuse by priests over the past 15 years.

I must say that we cooperated fully with the newspaper, and both Dr. Reynolds and […]

2018-11-11T10:56:02-05:00November 11th, 2018|Archbishop's Blog|

Kentucky Science Conversations

ESA/Hubble & NASA

I am honored to accept an invitation to write the blog below for The Catholic Astronomer.  In September 2017, Professor Gerry Williger, an astronomer at the University of Louisville, contacted me about the talks that are part of the Public Astronomy Lecture Series hosted by Uof L’s L’s Department of Physics and Astronomy.  With this contact, I invited scientists who serve at […]

2018-11-05T11:27:57-05:00November 5th, 2018|Archbishop's Blog|

November 2018 Conversations, Segment 1

Conversations is a monthly, 30-minute television show in which I participate in an ongoing conversation about the Archdiocese of Louisville, my involvement with the larger Church (both nationally and globally), and issues of faith in general. In the first segment from our November 2018 episode, Chancellor Dr. Brian Reynolds and I discuss the issue of sexual abuse in the Archdiocese and in the broader Church.

2018-11-02T14:08:17-04:00November 2nd, 2018|Archbishop's Blog|