{"id":3870,"date":"2010-01-05T06:50:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T06:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/01\/a-mighty-wind-listeckis-radio-days.html"},"modified":"2010-01-05T06:50:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T06:50:26","slug":"a-mighty-wind-listeckis-radio-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/01\/a-mighty-wind-listeckis-radio-days.html","title":{"rendered":"A mighty WIND: Listecki’s radio days"},"content":{"rendered":"

In all the excitement about Milwaukee’s new archbishop — installed yesterday<\/a> — a little known detail of his early life has gone largely overlooked.<\/p>\n

He’s an old radio guy.<\/p>\n

Read on: <\/a><\/p>\n

Chicago radio airwaves have carried great voices such as Harry Carray, Wally Phillips, Paul Harvey and Bob Collins. But there’s a duo that deserves some recognition for being among the pioneers in Chicago talk radio: “the great team of Furlan and Listecki,” described Fr. Mike Furlan headlining “Catholic Conversations,” Sunday evenings on WIND in the late 1970s.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/span>Classmates at Niles College of Loyola University, seminarians Furlan and Listecki were in the same dorm sophomore year and shared similar interests in music and priesthood.<\/p>\n

“It was really hard not to be friends with him,” said now-Fr. Furlan, pastor of St. Germaine Parish, Oak Lawn, in the Chicago Archdiocese, of the classmate he remembers as being “outgoing, sociable, and easy-to-get along with.”<\/p>\n

It’s no surprise, when a couple years after ordination in 1975, Fr. Furlan was offered a chance to host a radio show, that he had one priest in mind as a potential co-host: Fr. Listecki.<\/p>\n

Looking back at the early days of Archbishop Listecki’s radio career, Fr. Furlan, in a telephone interview with your Catholic Herald, tongue-in-cheek explained, “The radio show – he gets a lot of credit for something he fell into.”<\/p>\n

While in college, seminarian Furlan studied ways to use the media to spread the church’s message. About two and a half years after he was ordained, he was contacted by the Chicago archdiocesan director of communications who offered him an hour segment on local radio.<\/p>\n

While Fr. Furlan said he thought it strange that a local radio station would give away an hour of time, he agreed to host the program, provided he could have a co-host.<\/p>\n

Fr. Furlan was told to find a co-host himself, and he immediately sought out his classmate, Fr. Listecki.<\/p>\n

“WIND wants to give the archdiocese an hour of time on the radio,” explained Fr. Furlan to Fr. Listecki.<\/p>\n

“Oh, wow, that’s great,” replied his friend.<\/p>\n

“And the archdiocese wants me to do it,” Fr. Furlan told him.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, you’d be great,” he replied.<\/p>\n

Fr. Furlan asked Fr. Listecki to join him behind the microphone.<\/p>\n

“He paused for a moment, and then said, ‘Yeah, OK,’ … and the great team of Furlan and Listecki was born,” recalled Fr. Furlan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check out the rest at the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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