Segment 1: Meet the man who could be Nigeria’s first saint (2 segments)
Nigeria is home to an estimated 35 million Catholics and has one of the highest rates of Mass attendance in the world. Yet despite Catholicism’s rapid growth, Africa’s most populous nation has never had a native canonized saint. That could change with Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi, a Nigerian priest known for his holiness, pastoral zeal and asceticism. We get to know him with Matthew Bunson.
Segment 2: Loyalty isn’t just a virtue (2 segments)
In The American Republic, the American writer Orestes Brownson reflected on the meaning of Loyalty. He declares that Loyalty is the “highest, noblest, and most generous of human virtues, and is the human element of that sublime love or charity which the inspired Apostle tells us is the fulfilment of the law.” Michael Pakaluk joins us.
