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Carolina Catholic chats with the Founding Principal of the Father Thomas F. Price Catholic High School, Dennis Fleck
For our first show in May, I chat with Dennis Fleck who is the founding principal for Wilmington's first Catholic high school, the Father Thomas F. Price Catholic High School, which will open this fall semester 2026. Dennis was the assistant principal and dean of students at St. Mark's Catholic School retiring in 2022, and he has 45 years of experience in education. Father Thomas Price was a native of Wilmington, and he was the first Wilmington native to be ordained a Catholic priest, and he co-founded Maryknoll. In this show, we will discuss the plans for this high school and learn a bit more about its namesake, whose cause for canonization in now in Rome.
This show will air on Wilmington Catholic Radio's station, 93.1 FM, on Saturdays at 11 am and Sundays at 6 pm on the first two weekends of May. You can listen on-line live by clicking on the Listen Now tab. Or, listen 24/7 by going to the Carolina Catholic tab and clicking on the show page.
Carolina Catholic chats with Belmont Abbey's new college president, Dr. Jeffrey Talley, and with Catholic author, Kevin Wells, about his new weekly reflection, The Wellspring
For our second show in April, I first chat with Dr. Jeffrey Talley, the 21st president of Belmont Abbey College in its 150 year history. A retired lieutenant general in the U.S. Army since 2016, Dr. Talley is an engineer with long careers in both academia and business done while serving 34 years in both active and reserve duty including several deployments. I then speak with Catholic author, Kevin Wells, about his new Friday reflections sent via email called The Wellspring.
This show will air on Wilmington Catholic Radio's station, 93.1 FM, on Saturdays at 11 am and Sundays at 6 pm on the third and fourth weekends of April. You can listen on-line live by clicking on the Listen Now tab. Or, listen 24/7 by going to the Carolina Catholic tab and clicking on the show page.
April's Teaching Moment
Before the recent death of a family member, I asked that the Apostolic Pardon be prayed over him by the priest after the Anointing of the Sick. As Msgr. Pope writes, the Apostolic Pardon forgives temporal punishment due to sins (not the sins themselves). Presuming that we die in a state of grace, anything for which we have not done adequate penance in this life (called the “temporal punishment” due to those sins) can be forgiven us through the Apostolic Pardon. The Apostolic Pardon is often given when it is rather certain that the person is nearing death.
The current form of the blessing is: “Through the holy mysteries of our redemption, may almighty God release you from all punishments in this life and in the life to come. May He open to you the gates of paradise and welcome you to everlasting life.”
In the Handbook of Indulgences we read that “Priests who minister the sacraments to the Christian faithful who are in a life-and-death situation should not neglect to impart to them the apostolic blessing, with its attached indulgence.