{"id":435,"date":"2008-02-20T14:41:55","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T14:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/02\/deepak-chopra-on-the-catholic-channel.html"},"modified":"2008-02-20T14:41:55","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T14:41:55","slug":"deepak-chopra-on-the-catholic-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/02\/deepak-chopra-on-the-catholic-channel.html","title":{"rendered":"Deepak Chopra on the Catholic Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those of who who don’t know, the Catholic Channel is one of the many offerings of Sirius Satellite Ra<\/a>dio. The Archdiocese of New York is also involved.\u00a0 (Cardinal Egan has a program on Thursdays at 1). It’s been in operation for over a year, and bills itself as a “Catholic lifestyle channel.” It’s mostly talk shows (as opposed to educational offerings that, say EWTN is heavy with) with hosts and guests, etc.
\nI know some of the people involved and have done a few guest gigs myself. (I was a regular weekly guest on Lino’s<\/a> for a few months) The only place we have it is in Michael’s car, so I really don’t listen to it much.
\nBut this is pretty amazing.\u00a0 I didn’t hear it, but Michael told me that Deepak Chopra was a guest on one of the programs yesterday, on for a long time, promoting his new book The Third Jesus<\/em><\/a>, with his perspective being treated uncritically, at least in the chunk he heard.
\nAre you kidding me? <\/em>
\nLook. EWTN has its strengths, but it’s hard to deny, at least in my mind, that Catholic pop culture could use an alternative – heck, several <\/em>alternatives to the particular angle and style of EWTN.\u00a0 There’s a lot going on in the Catholic world that doesn’t get EWTN play – in a way, I think the Omaha Catholic station KVSS <\/a>provides a good hint of what I’m talking about. In fact,\u00a0 good local Catholic radio does indeed expand on that media apostolate in increasingly interesting ways.\u00a0
\nCatholic Radio International is also doing some interesting stuff. <\/a>
\nWe need more, more more. We need NPR\/BBC type shows with good reporting and discussions with a Catholic angle. Desperately. <\/em>We need explorations of how the faith is being lived out around the country, around the world. We need all of it – and more of it – literary discussions, chats about saints, indepth reviews and discussions of the arts that don’t come with the expectation of a “rating” attached, catechesis, catechesis, catechesis….music..the kinds of discussions that folks are having on blogs, bishops who are willing to come on and teach and <\/em>answer tough questions…we need it all.
\n(Which can’t happen without <\/em>money and can’t happen under <\/em>hierarchical control. It just can’t. So there’s the rub. The other rub being the ideological divisions within Catholicism in this country\u00a0in which\u00a0between\u00a0NCR(egister) and NCR(eporter), <\/em>never the twain shall meet.)
\nBut I’m thinking what we don’t<\/em> need on\u00a0Catholic channels\u00a0are New Age entrepeneurs flacking their wares in an uncritical environment.
\n\u00a0But, you know….Chopra also has a show on Sirius, of course.\u00a0<\/a>
\nAh, the tangled webs we\u00a0weave.\u00a0 If it’s not a bishop, it’s a suit telling you what to do.\u00a0\u00a0Whaddya gonna do? Seriously?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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