The Catholic Insider

In this episode, I will take you to the foot of the hill on which pope Benedict XVI celebrates Mass together with 1,1 million young catholics gathered on the Marienfeld near Cologne. The post One Million Young...

The Catholic Insider is reporting live from Marienfeld, Germany, during the World Youth Day vigil with Pope Benedict XVI. Experience the atmosphere among the hundreds of thousands of young people during a night lit by...

In this episode, I will take you to Cologne for the third time. We will visit the cathedral and we will have an exciting encounter with pope Benedict XVI - we will get closer to him than ever before! The post Face to...

This episode has a French flavour to it. I start day two in Cologne with a trainride in a compartment full of young French pilgrims. But when I arrive in Cologne, I hear the shocking news that the founder of Taize,...

A jam-packed episode about my first day in Cologne, with a soundseeing tour of the huge World Youth Days-press center, great music and interviews with journalists and television producers. The post My first Day in...

What do the virgin Mary and a runway of an airport have to do with each other? Discover this and more during a soundseeingtour of the German place of pilgrimage Kevelaer. The post On the Road to Cologne; Life as a...

This episode starts outside in the middle of a thunderstorm, with heavy rain pouring down from the sky. We meet a Canadian Archbishop, we join a barbecue and we listen to a genuine traditional Dutch street organ! The...

More than one million young people from all over the world prepare to head over to Germany to meet with pope Benedict XVI during the World Youth Days. In my town Amersfoort, we welcome 32 guests from Canada; we'll...

Spiritual food, Italian food and musical food in this podcast from Rome! We will visit the ancient, venerable English College, the Italian restaurant of 'Big Mama' and a spectacular open air-concert under the starry...

In this show, I talk about the important role of the BBC worldservice during my youth and about video-podcasting and video iPods. Some new podsafe music in this show as well. I've almost no voice because of a severe...

In today's episode, you can listen to 'The Power of the Pod': An interview I did on Vatican Radio about podcasting and about all the new and exciting possibilities it offers to the Vatican and to the Catholic...

In this episode, we will discover the story behind the central fountain on the beautiful Piazza Navona in Rome, and we will walk up to the magnificent Colosseum where gladiators fought and christian martyrs died...