Lauretta hosts the program today.  Lauretta shares detail of the Caritas in Veritate Papal Award Ceremony in DC this past weekend.  She then discusses the ongoing persecution of Christian Nigerians.  Lauretta reminds the prayer warriors to pray and fast for them.  During the second half of the show, Lauretta welcomes her guest, Bob Gilligan the Executive Director of the Catholic conference of Illinois. They discuss the organizations mission to uphold the Catholic Social Teaching by advocating for favorable state legislation and regulatory policies. Together they discuss the Assisted Physician Assisted Suicide Bill that passed in Illinois. To stay informed regarding issues affecting the Church and her mission at both the state and federal level. Go online to www.ilcatholic.org They encourage the listeners to call the Governor’s office at 312-814-2121 or go to that website and use their link to ask the Governor to veto the Illinois Physician Assisted Suicide Bill. St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish

TGIF! Father Anthony with Tony, and Cristina gather to discuss the goings on, and people in the Parish.  Father opens with prayer and then touches on a discussion with the students in regards to the saints. This leads to a discussion on the attitudinal changes in the church. After the break Father focuses on the Readings of the day. He addresses how they are foreboding stressing the need to stay centered in God as it was intended that we be.  St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish  

Father Anthony with Tony, and Cristina gather to discuss the goings on, and people in the Parish. Today they chat about the need for Catholics to recognize and accept their role in the church beyond attending mass as we are responsible for our church. While Father states that he does not like speaking of money, but we definitely need proper donations to maintain the church, stressing how thankful he is for the generous donors that contribute to the beauty of our church. After the first break Father prays for the deceased as we are in the month of November. Then the group contemplates the question: Can we pray for the Devil? Father ends the show with details and impact of the works of St Frances Xavier Cabrini as today is her feast day.   St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish  

Welcome to a Brain Wrinkling Wednesday with Fr. Tom Koys.  Today Father open with reflection on what has happened over the last week with so much going on in the world. He focuses on speaking about optimism and pessimism in Catholicism. He uses Narnia to help offer insight on how to be optimistic as a Christian in a world in a time when a lot of negative, pessimistic stuff is going on.  To be optimistic is not really the virtue of Christian Hope, because Christian Hope includes hope in a power above and beyond us.  That’s why we can never deny the cross, never make fun of it as many people are carrying the cross. The spirit of always being upbeat and happy at Catholic mass doesn’t seem to fit because part of the mass is to give us the supernatural hope of God’s ability to conquer the problem and walking with us in our sorrows. St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish

Lauretta hosts the program today with her cohost Joyce Duriga. Lauretta thanks all the Prayer Warriors and adds additional requests for prayer to their list, encouraging everyone to keep on praying! Lauretta and Joyce focus today on physician assisted suicide laws, what it is, how it impacts a state and the culture.  They touch on alternatives for caring for the sick. They recognize that life is precious and that the end of life is also an important stage of life stressing that we are not to interfere with God’s plan.  She encourages the listeners to call the Governor’s office at 312-814-2121 and tell him to veto the Illinois Physician Assisted Suicide Bill. They close the show talking about what’s reporting in the Chicago Catholic paper and what is going on around the Archdiocese and the Vatican. St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish

Lauretta hosts the program today with her cohost Joyce Duriga. Lauretta thanks all the Prayer Warriors and adds additional requests for prayer to their list, encouraging everyone to keep on praying! Lauretta and Joyce focus today on physician assisted suicide laws, what it is, how it impacts a state and the culture.  They touch on alternatives for caring for the sick. They recognize that life is precious and that the end of life is also an important stage of life stressing that we are not to interfere with God’s plan.  She encourages the listeners to call the Governor’s office at 312-814-2121 and tell him to veto the Illinois Physician Assisted Suicide Bill. They close the show talking about what’s reporting in the Chicago Catholic paper and what is going on around the Archdiocese and the Vatican. St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish

TGIF! Father Anthony with Tony, and Cristina gather to discuss the goings on, and people in the Parish.  Today Father opens the show with a brief intro on the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith to be discussed later as he is currently reviewing it.  Father leads us in prayer of the Litany then welcomes Alice Babij (pronounced Bobby) of the St Nicholas Ukrainian Cathedral.  She joins Father today to discuss the book “Live & Learn the Liturgical Year Planner 2026.   Alice introduces and shares the details of this wonderful resource to help you live the catholic life and maintain your domestic church. Domestic church is basically your home church; this concept, which dates back to the early Church, views the home as the primary place where faith is lived, learned, and passed on through prayer, love, and practice. The book is available at Priestly Press visit their website at https://www.priestlypress.com/  St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish

Father Anthony with Tony, and Cristina gather to discuss the goings on, and people in the Parish. Today they chat about the beauty of the season of Fall as they talk the impacts of the “fall back” time change.  Father Anthony mentions that he is reviewing the document, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith that addresses some Marian Titles and will be discussing it in future shows.  Today he focuses on Jesus’ statement “I am coming soon”.  He makes notes of the references in the bible and then unpacks it and chats regarding this with Cristina and Tony.  St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish  

Welcome to a Brain Wrinkling Wednesday with Fr. Tom Koys.  Today Father Koys continues his discussion from last week regarding the story of Pinocchio, the edition Pinocchio with reflections by Franco Nembrini.  Father discusses the story and shares clips from the movie Pinocchio as he refers to the story as a Christian parable. He continues to unpack it for his listeners with reference to history and religion and the moral story imbedded.  He encourages us to go back and read the original story of Pinocchio.  Father Koys also invites listeners to St. James Parish events on November 21 and 22nd where they will host Zachary King, a High Priest in the Church of Satan in California. Visit their website at https://historicstjames.org for more information. St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish

Father Anthony with Tony, and Cristina gather to discuss the goings on, and people in the Parish. Today they chat about events they’ve recently participated in then move on to prayer. After prayer Father discusses All Souls and All Saints Day. They reminisce on fond memories of family members’ passing and they comment on how God’s will, will always be done. St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish  

Lauretta hosts the program today and offers praises for the film Triumph over Evil and its' producer Oscar Delgado promising to look into “next steps” for the messaging of the film.  She calls on all prayer warriors to pray for our Nigerian Christian brothers and sisters that are being persecuted for their faith. She calls on all life supporters to reach out to the Governor to express disagreement over the assisted suicide bill that was passed this morning. After the first break, Lauretta is joined by Lindsay Koff of Sent Global Mission to discuss the devastation of the category 5 hurricane making landfall in Jamaica on October 29th and to share what is needed and how to help.  Please visit their website at www.sentglobalmission.org to donate. 100% of donations got to the people in Jamaica. St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish  

TGIF! Father Anthony with Tony, and Cristina gather to discuss the goings on, and people in the Parish.  Today Father asks Cristina to share her thoughts on the movie Triumph Over Evil.  The film was released yesterday October 30, 2025.  She shares details of the movie and it all rings true to what the film’s producer Oscar Delgado, described the film to be on WOC in episode #4732.  Father Anthony summarizes their discussion regarding the film and topics touched on by saying that we are NOT to toy with Evil.  St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish

Father Anthony with Tony, and Cristina gather to discuss the goings on, and people in the Parish. Today they chat about events they’ve recently participated in then move on to prayer. After prayer Father focuses on the readings from yesterday. He draws attention to the need to remain humble and seek God, recognizing that we cannot exhaust God, the more we know Him the more He becomes a mystery. St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish

Welcome to a Brain Wrinkling Wednesday with Fr. Tom Koys.  Today Father speaks regarding a recent event from the Vatican in which an ecumenical prayer service took place.  Father Koys discusses that event and some of the talking point as it relates to him as an American Catholic Priest.  He later discusses an edition of the story of Pinocchio, brought to you by the group Well Read Moms, with reflections by Franco Nembrini.  Father reads from the story and as he refers to the story as a Christian parable, he goes on to unpack it for his listeners.  St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish

Father Anthony with Tony, and Cristina gather to discuss the goings on, and people in the Parish. Today Father Anthony’s shares an article titled, “Death of Halloween” written by Justin Lee. The article discusses the origins of the holiday and how its transformed over the years. St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish

Lauretta hosts the program today and takes us on a walk with her over the last’s weeks activities: Baby Bottle Donations, Pentecost USA Conference, and Confirmation Class.  She recognizes that aside from Respect for Life Month, October is also Domestic Violence Awareness month as well as the month of the Holy Rosary.  Lauretta talks about Father Tolton, his life and legacy.  On the second half of the show Lauretta focuses on Halloween and All Hallows’ Eve drawing attention to remaining connected to our Catholic Faith and not the secular version of the events.  She strongly suggests we attend the screening of the film Triumph Over Evil on October 30th. Go to triumphoverevil.com to see the film trailers and to get your tickets. St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish

TGIF! Father Anthony with Tony, and Cristina gather to discuss the goings on, and people in the Parish.  Today Father opens the show with much needed prayer. After prayer Father reads from an article that he came across titled “Adopting a Medieval Pheasant Mindset” a view on how to disconnect and live in the presence.  As they discuss this, they agree that they are rambling, getting through life and they hope you are able to follow the message as you listen.  St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish  

Fr. Anthony, Tony, and Cristina talk about the goings on, and people in the Parish. After kicking off the show with prayer. Father Anthony focuses on individual responsibility.  He speaks about how St. Paul left us with fair warning that we would face issues within and as well as outside the church.  The church is a body made up of individuals and as individuals if we all did our part we would uphold the church as its meant to be and maintain order.  Father Anthony calls us to individual responsibility as a way to restore the order. St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish  

Welcome to a Brain Wrinkling Wednesday with Fr. Tom Koys.  Today Father speaks regarding the 1st reading from mass on Sunday and the correlation of the position of Moses arms and who was winning the battle between the Israelites and the Amalekites. He discovers that the Amalekites were descendants of Esau. Being a history buff, he talks about the fact that family feuds affect history.  During the second half of the show Father goes into thoughts of CSW Lewis and ideology to share a couple of Aha! moments. St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish

Father Anthony with Tony, and Cristina gather to discuss the goings on, and people in the Parish. Today Father and the group discuss the beauty of the Blue Mass that took place this past Sunday, shedding light on the humility that they witnessed in the first responders present.  There is the need to remember the work these people do and to recall that outside of their jobs they are you and me, just people with families and the challenges of life.  After prayer father shares the Liturgy of the word opening up with the battle waged against Israel, leading to a discussion on current day battles we face and the reminder for the need for fidelity to God.  St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish