Amid a rise in state-assisted suicide laws, Roselle Reyes speaks with people with disabilities who are mounting legal challenges, arguing the laws discriminate against them and sharing the message that their lives remain valuable despite physical suffering. Jamie Towey, president of Aging with Dignity, breaks down troubling assisted suicide trends and explains why medically vulnerable patients are increasingly at risk—and how families can better protect them. Colm Flynn sits down with Fr. Mike Schmitz amid his Parables Tour in Ireland to hear about his personal faith journey - and how he came to embrace his calling as a priest. Sister Leticia Ugboaja, a Nigerian Catholic nun in Texas who was briefly detained by I.C.E. while traveling to Sunday Mass, now faces possible deportation to a third country. Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, accompanied Sister Leticia to her recent I.C.E. check-in and shares the latest on her case and what it reveals about the challenges facing Catholic immigrants in South Texas. Pope Leo XIV's childhood parish in Chicago was deconsecrated years ago, but a renewed effort is underway to preserve the church that shaped the future pope's early faith. Mark Irons visits the parish and hears from local Catholics working to save an important piece of Prevost family history.

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01:33 Welcome & Assisted Suicide Laws Expanding
03:08 Denise McMullen-Powell: A Life Worth Living
05:57 Catholic Sisters Sue to Block NY's Assisted Suicide Law
08:44 A Message to the Vulnerable & Breaking Court Update
11:03 The Data: 14,000+ Deaths & Vanishing Safeguards
13:35 Is New York's Law the Most Dangerous Yet?
14:24 What's Fueling the Assisted Suicide Boom
15:13 True Compassion & Mother Teresa's Legacy
17:21 The Five Wishes Advance Care Planning Program
18:24 Coming Up: Father Mike Schmitz & Sister Letty
19:58 Father Mike Schmitz Heads to Ireland
21:08 On the Record: Conversion & Crisis of Faith
26:02 Discernment, Sacrifice & Life as a Public Priest
30:30 Colleen Flynn Recaps Ireland's Sold-Out Tour
33:04 Week in Review: Iran War & the Fauci Hearing
37:08 Immigration Crackdown & Sister Letty's ICE Arrest
40:04 Sister Norma Pimentel on Faith & the Border
47:55 Marian Shrine Desecration in Bosnia
48:39 Pope Leo's Chicago Church & Closing Thoughts

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