Our Lady of Good Help: The Story Behind America’s Only Approved Marian Apparition
By Debbie Cowden
Catholics worldwide are familiar with Marian apparitions at Fatima, Lourdes, and Guadalupe, but fewer are aware of Mary’s visit to Champion, Wisconsin, a small town in the Green Bay metro area. In 1859, Our Lady appeared to a Belgian woman, Adele Brise, sending her on a mission...
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Walk To Mary 10/18 5:30 PM ET; 10/19 2:30 AM ET Bob Dolan joins hundreds of pilgrims for the annual 21 mile Walk to Mary, beginning at St. Norbert Abbey's National Shrine of St. Joseph and ending at the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help in the Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin.
EWTN Theology Roundtable 10/20 10 PM ET; 10/24 5 AM ET; 10/25 2 PM ET Colin Donovan, David Gregson and Cindy Cuellar discuss the place of Scripture in the Church, in view of the Pope’s motu proprio establishing the Sunday of the Word of God.
Christian Social Order 10/21 through 10/25 5:30 PM ET Fr. Brian Mullady teaches on society’s order and nature, the common good, and authority.
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Edward Pentin, Rome correspondent for The National Catholic Register, on controversial financial investigations at the Vatican; Robert Royal, editor-in-chief of TheCatholicThing, with analysis of the Amazon Synod; Walid Phares, national security and foreign policy expert, on the turmoil in Syria after the U.S. announced a troop withdrawal; and Law Professor Luke Goodrich, senior counsel at The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, on the proposal by some Democrats to strip churches of tax-exempt status for failing to support same-sex marriage & the threat to religious liberty such proposals present.
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MONDAY - OCTOBER 21, 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT THE JOURNEY HOME: HOST MARCUS GRODI - Former Lutheran minister Toby Cook tells how his career with the Kansas City Royals helped lead him to the Catholic Faith.
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TUESDAY - OCTOBER 22, 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT MOTHER ANGELICA LIVE CLASSICS - Mother shares with us how to stay focused on God in spite of distractions.
WEDNESDAY- OCTOBER 23, 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT AT HOME WITH JIM AND JOY - John & Claire Grabowski assist parents in helping their children live their Catholic faith, and discover what God is calling them to do with their lives.
WEDNESDAY- OCTOBER 23, 2 PM ET / 11 AM PT FR. SPITZER'S UNIVERSE - Fr. Robert Spitzer and Doug Keck continue their discussion of the local Church and the structure of dioceses and parishes.
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An American Apparition: Our Lady Of Good Help DVD
A remote, rural setting in the wilds of 19th Century Northeast Wisconsin has become the only Marian apparition site in the U.S. to be approved by the Catholic Church. From the much-visited Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help in the Diocese of Green Bay, Bob Dolan hosts an EWTN-exclusive documentary on the Blessed Mother's appearance in 1859 to the young Belgian immigrant, Adele Brise. This program unwraps the history of how the apparition came about, and details the Shrine's enormous impact on the thousands of pilgrims who visit each year.
