If you are looking for a change of pace, I will be guest hosting this evening on Relevant Radio for my friend Sheila Liaugminas’ “A Closer Look” from 6-7 ET (Facebook page here). Relevant Radio and ACL focuses on current events from a Catholic perspective. My guests tonight will be:

• John Thavis, author of The Vatican Diaries and a reporter at the Vatican for 30 years
• John Allen, associate editor of the Boston Globe and author of The Global War on Christians.

We’ll be discussing Pope Francis’ statements on the mafia, drug legalization, Francis’ status as the “indispensable man” of the Church, as well as the release of Meriam Yehia Ibrahim and the flight of Christians from Mosul.

I’ll also be guest hosting for Sheila on Thursday and Friday. Be sure to tune in!