{"podcast":{"title":"Ever Ancient, Ever New","slug":"ever-ancient-ever-new-6737169","podcast_index_feed_id":6737169,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/instituteonreligiouslife/feed.xml","website_url":"https://instituteonreligiouslife.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/17244723/Final_Podcast_Logo_10-11-23_yzq282.png","author":"Institute on Religious Life","episode_count":104,"summary":"The Institute on Religious Life’s Podcast, Ever Ancient, Ever New, marks our golden anniversary, 50 years of serving religious and consecrated life in the Catholic Church! This podcast features talks and interviews with consecrated religious men and women from many different religious communities throughout the United States and the world. Thus, giving people access to the rich and varied archives of IRL seminars, classes, talks, and interviews, while also giving those in religious life the opportunity to tell their vocation stories and share insights into their apostolates. Today, religious life is not only surviving, but thriving. It is ever ancient, ever new, ever beautiful, and ever necessary for our church today.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-07T14:19:35.780597+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ever-ancient-ever-new-6737169"},"episode":{"title":"99. Rev. John Hardon, SJ - The Way of the Cross","slug":"99-rev-john-hardon-sj-the-way-of-the-cross","published_at":"2026-05-12T02:58:37+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ever-ancient-ever-new-6737169/99-rev-john-hardon-sj-the-way-of-the-cross","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ever-ancient-ever-new-6737169","url":"https://instituteonreligiouslife.podbean.com/e/99-rev-john-hardon-sj-the-way-of-the-cross/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/hdtzfkda7cg48agi/Untitled_Session_2_mixdown70eze.mp3","summary":"o commemorate the 25th anniversary of Fr. John A. Hardon's death, December 30th, 2025, the Institute on Religious Life will be launching a series of Fr. Hardon talks from our own archives! Father Hardon entered the Society of Jesus in 1936. He authored over 200 books, including The Catholic Catechism (1975) and was a consultant for the drafting of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. He wrote countless articles, conducted numerous catechetical classes for religious and lay people, developed a series of full-semester courses and was a popular speaker and retreat master as well as a spiritual director and confessor to many. He also founded the Institute on Religious Life, Marian Catechists and Eternal Life. Father Hardon died on December 30, 2000. His cause for canonization has been opened. Today, we will be listening to his talk titled, \"The Way of the Cross\" Thank you and we hope you enjoy! May God bless you!","meta_description":"o commemorate the 25th anniversary of Fr. John A. Hardon's death, December 30th, 2025, the Institute on Religious Life will be launching a series of Fr. H…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2375,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ever-ancient-ever-new-6737169/episodes/99-rev-john-hardon-sj-the-way-of-the-cross/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ever-ancient-ever-new-6737169/99-rev-john-hardon-sj-the-way-of-the-cross.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}