Catholic Conference Radio Hour on Chicagoland Catholic Radio
CCI Executive Director Robert Gilligan hosts the Catholic Conference Radio Hour on the third Monday of the month on WNDZ Chicago 750 AM. Gilligan discusses current public policy issues affecting the Church with experts and newsmakers.
CCI Radio Hour: May 18, 2015
May 18, 2015 show Bob speaks with William Godwin of One Chance Illinois, a coalition of organizations (Including the Catholic Conference of Illinois) advocating the Illinois Kids Campaign, an initiative seeking to improve education in the state. The initiative would...
CCI Radio Hour: March 16, 2015
March 16, 2015 show Bishop Edward Braxton of Belleville talks about the pastoral letter he issued in January, "The Racial Divide in the United States." Fr. William Grogan, the Archdiocese's vicar for health care, and Patrick Cacchione of the Illinois...
CCI Radio Hour: Feb. 23, 2015
Feb. 23, 2015 show Archbishop Blase Cupich joins Bob to talk about his general impressions of the political landscape of Illinois, three months after his installation Mass as the new archbishop of Chicago. Then, Fr. Dan Brandt, chaplain to the Chicago Police...
CCI Radio Hour: Jan. 26, 2015
Jan. 26, 2015 show The football season will cap off with this Sunday's Super Bowl, but you may not be aware that such high profile events can act like a magnet for human trafficking. Sr. Rose Mary Meyer of Project Irene joins Bob to discuss the state's...
CCI Radio Hour: Dec. 22, 2014
Dec. 22, 2014 show Claire Halbur, a parishioner at the Cathedral of St. Raymond in Joliet, joins Bob to talk about her experience on Lifetime channel's "The Sisterhood: Becoming Nuns." The reality show followed Claire and four other young women on their...
CCI Radio Hour: Nov. 24, 2014
Nov. 24, 2014 show Dr. Miguel Diaz of Loyola University joins Bob to talk about President Obama's executive action regarding immigration. Dr. Diaz is The John Courtney Murray University Chair in Public Service at Loyola and former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See,...
CCI Radio Hour: Oct. 20, 2014
Oct. 20, 2014 show CCI Executive Director and host Bob Gilligan welcomes Kim Daniels, former spokeswoman for the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and now a senior adviser at Catholic Voices USA. Daniels attended the just-completed Synod in Rome and...
CCI Radio Hour: Sept. 15, 2014
Sept. 15, 2014 show Bob talks with DePaul University political science professor Scott Hibbard about ISIS and religious persecution in Iraq and Syria. Then, Kellie Fiedorek, a lawyer for Alliance Defending Freedom, joins Bob to discuss the probability of the U.S....
CCI Radio Hour: Aug. 25, 2014
Aug. 25, 2014 show Host Bob Gilligan leads off the show by talking with Bill O'Keefe of Catholic Relief Services about the agency's efforts to help persecuted Christians in Iraq. University of Notre Dame professors Nicole Garnett and Margaret Brinig then...
CCI Radio Hour: July 21, 2014
July 21, 2014 show CCI Executive Director Bob Gilligan talks to Pastor Corey Brooks of New Beginnings Church in Chicago, who is seeking to end the gun violence in Chicago through his Project H.O.O.D. program (Helping Others Obtain Destiny) by calling for 5,000 men and...