Results from Tag: 'aci africa'

The young clerics of the seminary during Mass

Religious Vocations and Educational Debt /ACI Africa at 5 Years

High rates of U.S. student loan debt is not without effect on the Catholic Church. A new CARA study exposes the challenges debt poses to those discerning religious vocations. Our guest Father Scott Bahrke explains how the Labouré Society helped him pay his loans and act on his priestly call. Then we look to Africa, where vocations are booming as ACI Africa celebrates its fifth year. ACI Africa’s editor-in-chief, Father Don Bosco Onyalla, joins us.

Fr. Don Bosco Onyalla, editor of ACI-Africa, stands with the image of Mother Mary Angelica, foundress of EWTN.

ACI-Africa Launch, Melinda Gates (Sept. 7)

Pope Francis arrives in Africa with a message of hope, peace and reconciliation. His trip comes just as ACI-Africa – EWTN’s latest news agency – begins its work of bringing the Catholic news of Africa to the world. This week on Register Radio we talk to Alejandro Bermudez, executive director of the ACI/CNA group of news agencies. Plus, what did Melinda Gates get wrong about contraception? We find out from Register contributor Mary FioRito.