‘The Rosary in a Year’ with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames Topped the Apple #1 Podcast Charts

| 01/9/2025

By: Fernanda Pierorazio

Father Mark-Mary Ames, Director of Communications and Director of Priestly Studies of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal (CFR) is the host of the podcast The Rosary in a Year and author of the book The Rosary in a Year: Prayer Guide. In conversation with The Good Newsroom, he talks about the success of his podcast and what he hopes listeners will get out of it.

In this in-between stretch of Ordinary Time, between the high feast of Christmas and the solemn preparation of Lent, we find ourselves in a new place as we settle into the New Year.

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OSV News

| 01/17/2026

By all appearances, January's consistory was a first step to returning to a more collegial sense of governance that has largely marked the exercise of papal ministry since the Second Vatican Council.

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OSV News

| 01/17/2026

In today's Gospel, we learn a lot about what Jesus came to do. All of us need the healing mercy of our Lord. Father Salvo talks about those in greatest need of healing: the Pharisees.

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The Good Newsroom

| 01/17/2026