Benedict Groeschel and Tim Dolan: A comedy team in the making?
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Father Benedict Groeschel, the Franciscan friar who has been a popular writer and speaker for decades, has in recent years been doing a live TV show on EWTN on Sunday nights.
It’s called Sunday Night Live with Father Benedict Groeschel and is on most Sundays at 7 p.m.—live from St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers.
People call in with questions and comments from all over and Father Benedict has guests on to interview.
This Sunday, on Father’s Day, he’ll have Archbishop Tim Dolan. It promises to be an interesting, engaging and amusing show.
If you’ve seen Groeschel speak, you know that he is a quirky fellow with an unpredictable sense of humor. He speaks with the freedom of someone who has been writing and speaking on just about everything for a long, long time. He doesn’t hold back when offering his conservative takes on Catholic theology or the issues of the day.
And Dolan, we all know by now, is also a rather outspoken guy with a lot on his mind.
It should make for fun television, even if you would never otherwise watch EWTN, the very traditional and often stodgy Catholic TV network.
I understand that Groeschel, who was hit by a car a few years ago and suffered a stroke a couple of months ago, is winding down his long and active ministry.
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on Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 at 8:53 am by Gary Stern.
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