A favorite or somewhat new EWTN program to recommend?

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I believe he is blind. I know he talked about the possibility of his sight being restored.
 
March 17, 2008

The Rev. Robert Spitzer, S.J., plans to step down from the presidency of Gonzaga University in Spokane, which has prospered from the classroom to the basketball court during his decade at the helm.

Spitzer, 55, will return to study, teaching and writing in the ethics field. He is a prominent scholar-critic of the movement to legalize assisted suicide, and a leading Catholic spokesman on the right to life.

Spitzer, who is legally blind, has overseen a turnaround on the Spokane campus since taking over Gonzaga’s presidency in 1998. Enrollments at the Jesuit university have risen from 4,500 to 6,900, and a higher volume of applications has allowed Gonzaga wider leeway in who it accepts.

Gonzaga has also enjoyed a run of top-25 basketball teams and NCAA tournament bids. The program’s success allowed for construction of a new basketball arena — aka. The Kennel — with wealthy patrons expected to make annual five-figure donations for “silver” and “gold” seats.

Spitzer has also presided over his share of campus controversies.

The priest-president refused to allow a Planned Parenthood representative to speak on campus, and vetoes hosting a performance of “The Vagina Monologues.” A conference of Catholic bishops was recently moved off the University of Notre Dame campus after the nation’s best-known Catholic university allowed “The Vagina Monologues” to be performed, albeit without official sponsorship.

Spitzer was recently embroiled in controversy with some faculty over his plans to expand enrollment by 800 students over the next four years. A series of meetings resulted in a revised plan that cut in half the planned expansion.

Nonetheless, Spitzer will go down with the Rev. William Sullivan, S.J., retired president of Seattle University, for having taken a troubled, declining university and restoring it to robust health.

Sullivan has stayed on as chancellor of Seattle U., and as a backstage wise man in city leadership.

The board of trustees at Gozaga reportedly wanted Spitzer to spend a few more years as president, but his Jesuit superiors favored a 10-year tenure. As it is, Spitzer will remain on the job another 16 months, hoping to have a new president in place by July of 2009.

Spitzer was asked whether he will stay in Spokane. He wasn’t sure, but the Spokesman-Review quoted Spitzer as saying: “I love it here in Spokane.”
 
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12/14/2017

Fr. Spitzer was evaluated on Monday for an experimental procedure that could help restore his eyesight. This procedure could potentially restore his vision to 20/500, which, according to Fr. Spitzer, “is hugely better than what I have now”.

The procedure requires the use of stem cells which have been taken from his arm and will be cultivated into retinal tissue. It is not yet approved by the FDA, so it may take up to 2 years to actually receive the transplant. However, Fr. Spitzer says, “This is not totally bad news because the procedure gets better every year and I get blinder every year — which moves me up on the waitlist.”
Fr. Spitzer remains in good spirits and states:

“Thank you all for your prayers and good wishes. I am sure the Lord will have some additional good graces for me during my years of additional near blindness — so I am not disappointed. As I always say, God does hugely good things through little sacrifices. God bless you all!”
Fr. Spitzer will return for a second evaluation next November.
 
Recently downloaded the app to our Apple TV, watched a kids show but nothing else yet, looking fro other recommendations. Will say if we find a good one.
 
I like Bookmark with Doug Keck, and I used to enjoy Fr. Benedict Groeschel’s show.

These days, I most appreciate EWTN’s live coverage of papal visits and other special events, like the recent Fatima anniversary.
 
I just watched the tail end of a beautiful and profound story of Faith in real life on a show called “Real Life Catholic”. It was on Thursday, at 9 PM mountain time. Highly recommend it and wish I would have seen the whole show.

It hit home with me on a rather personal level.
 
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I like The Journey Home, it has been a real encouragement to me. Catholics Come Home. I also listen to the Nightly News and The World Over. I like Threshold of Hope and sometimes will have EWTN Live on listening to it while on the computer. I do enjoy the Rosary sometimes also. I like Father Spitzer and Father Pacwa. Life On The Rock is good
Before I came back to the Church I remember trying to watch and it was impossible for me…perhaps Satan was really trying to distract and discourage me or perhaps I just wasn’t ready. Perhaps getting older I am more comfortable with the format.
Either way it has been a blessing, and again he Journey Home was on one time and I caught it and it was a contributing factor in my returning to the Faith.

But I do n ot watch it all the time…in fact I have really been watching less and less TV as I am deliberately becoming more critical about what I allow in my old noggin…

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We only recently switched pay TV providers. Our old cable company did not offer EWTN as part of basic service; you had to go a few tiers up. Our new subscriber service offers it as part of the service. I remember Mother Angelica’s program from long ago and not much else. Of the current shows I like Raymond Arroyo’s The World Over and Lauren Ashburn’s EWTN News Nightly. We just haven’t explored this channel much.

We actually listen to Relevant Radio. You can listen online if you have no local radio affiliate.They have a good mix of journalists with apologists discussing topical subjects. Sheila Liaugminas is the first Catholic journalist I ever heard with a radio program, and I credit her program with propelling me back to the Church. I listen to Drew Mariani’s current events and prayer program regularly. Fr. Richard Simon is my favorite of the teaching programs, with a gentle dry wit.
 
Yeah, there is a lot of good stuff out there. My mistake is not checking it out more often. Some of the new programming and special programming is excellent.

They have a great Catholic Move every saturday night, at least they used to. I highly recommend that.
 
Pay attention. He is not trying to be ‘cool.’ He is blind. He does very well with his lack of sight. Peace
 
There’s a good movie on now about Ignatius Loyola, I think it is.

Saturday nights are movie nights and they are usually very good movies.
 
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Daily Mass - so reverent, and sermons are great. The only news station I trust,geared for Catholics.
Reruns of Mother Angelica are still better than most TV shows.
 
I always like to hear homilies. But I prefer ones that are not too awfully long as I will get distracted otherwise. 10 minutes is a good amount of time for me with my short attention span.
 
The Journey Home. My favourite was a Muslim who told his oonverted and emigrated with his family to the U.S.
 
I love Mother Angelica’s no nonsense lines. The other day, she wagged her finger at the TV screen and said,
“if you think you’re holy, you’re not!”
 
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