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A ten-year-old from County Antrim asks Fr Darren Brennan how to pick a confirmation saint, and he suggests it might work the other way around, that the saints choose us first. He shares why St Jude, St Patrick and St Louis de Montfort have each stayed close to him since childhood, and what picking a saint's name is actually supposed to commit you to.

L'articolo Little Big Questions – Picking a Confirmation Saint – Carmela and Fr. Darren Brennan proviene da Radio Maria.

Fr Adrian Crowley reflects on the Holy Spirit as helper, counsellor, comforter and advocate, and tells the story of a young Karol Wojtyla spending six hours prostrate before the tabernacle in an unfamiliar convent chapel the night before he was made a bishop. He closes with love poured out for Mary in the words of Padre Pio and the Curé of Ars, and a meditation on the kind of faith Jesus called great enough to work miracles.

L'articolo Catechesis – Six Hours Before the Tabernacle – Fr Adrian Crowley proviene da Radio Maria.

Steve Barberieri talks to Fr Mark Wharton, an English convert whose path to the priesthood began by accident, sitting through two hours of Eucharistic Adoration because he didn't realise he was allowed to leave, ahead of the Abide women's conference in Bundoran this November. They trade stories of saints who spoke to God with startling familiarity, St Therese telling Jesus he owed her tenderness, Mother Elvira refusing to leave a chapel until she got her convent, and what it means to simply put people in front of the Blessed Sacrament and get out of the way.

L'articolo RM Breakfast Show – Boldness Before the Blessed Sacrament – Naoimh Barbieri and Fr Mark Wharton proviene da Radio Maria.

Fr Eamon McCarthy and Matthias Conneely continue their close reading of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, working through its warnings on AI: the environmental cost of data centres, algorithms that quietly decide who is worthy of a loan, a job, or mercy, and why the Church insists no such system can ever be morally neutral. They land on the question of who actually answers for an AI's mistakes, from a self-driving car's crash to a chatbot's bias, and why the Pope is calling for a deliberate slowdown rather than a ban.

L'articolo Who Answers for the Algorithm?– Magnifica Humanitas – Church Wisdom with Fr Eamonn McCarthy & Matthias Conroy proviene da Radio Maria.

Mary Houton and Fr Eamon McCarthy read the parable of the labourers in the vineyard, the workers hired at dawn who grumble when latecomers are paid the same, and ask which worker in the story we'd honestly admit to being. Fr Eamon brings in an open AA meeting he'd attended that same evening, and what it means to hear someone testify to a mercy they know they didn't earn.

L'articolo Gospel Tidings – The Eleventh Hour: Unearned Mercy – Mary Hooton and Fr Eamonn – 25th Sunday OT [Year A] proviene da Radio Maria.