May 14, 2016 Notre Dame and Joe Biden/ Marian Devotions

This week on Register Radio, Jeanette De Melo and columnist Father Raymond de Souza discuss at what cost the University of Notre Dame honors Vice President Joe Biden and former Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner with the Laetare Medal. Also, Jeanette and writer Marge Fenelon show how Marian devotion ties in with Catholic family life.

Maya Hawke as American writer Flannery O'Connor in the 2024 film "Wildcat."

Jessica Hooten Wilson on 'Wildcats' /Father Dave Pivonka on Title IX (May 4)

Flannery O’Connor shares the big screen with some of her most memorable short story characters in the new indy film ‘Wildcat’. O’Connor scholar Jessica Hooten Wilson gives her take on the film and what animates the Catholic 20th century writer’s prophetic imagination.Then FUS University President Father David Pivonka explains why Franciscan University of Steubenville has pushed back against the Biden administrations’ new interpretation of Title IX, which redefines sex discrimination to include a student’s self- asserted ‘gender identity’.