Episodes

05/29/2017
Episode 45 | May 29, 2015

Faith-based trends through CatholicTV's The Lens with Matt Weber. This episode's segments:

  1. Weber's Four Essential Joys of Summer
  2. Faith Buzz with Steph Scogna featuring tweets from Catholic News Service, Ines San Martin, Father Tom McCarthy, the Catholic Herald, and Esmerelda Kiczek
  3. Weber and Charles Green discuss Jim Ryan's book, 'Wait What?' and essential questions of life
05/15/2017
Episode 44 | May 15, 2017

Faith-based trends through CatholicTV's The Lens with Matt Weber. This episode's segments:

  1. Weber talks about the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola
  2. Faith Buzz with Steph Scogna takes a look at what prominent Catholic voices are saying on social media
  3. Fatherly Advice from Archbishop Allen Vigneron of Detroit
05/1/2017
Episode 43 | May 1, 2017

Faith-based trends through CatholicTV's The Lens with Matt Weber. This episode's segments:

  1. Weber discusses our common human experiences with Charles Green
  2. Faith Buzz with Steph Scogna takes a look at what prominent Catholic voices are saying on social media
  3. Interview with Dean Marion
04/17/2017
Episode 42 | April 17, 2017

Faith-based trends through CatholicTV's The Lens with Matt Weber. This episode's segments:

  • Weber talks about keeping the spirit of Easter and spring throughout the year
  • Faith Buzz with Steph Scogna takes a look at what prominent Catholic voices are saying on social media
  • Weber and Charles Green talk about how millennials can renew their spiritual lives
04/3/2017
Episode 41 | April 3, 2017

Faith-based trends through CatholicTV's The Lens with Matt Weber. This episode's segments:

  1. Matt talks about becoming a father
  2. Faith Buzz with Steph Scogna takes a look at what prominent Catholic voices are saying on Twitter
  3. Cardinal Donald Wuerl offers fatherly advice

 

03/6/2017
Episode 40 | March 6, 2017

Faith-based trends through CatholicTV's The Lens with Matt Weber. This episode's segments:

  1. Weber talks about learning to embrace waiting
  2. Faith Buzz with Steph Scogna takes a look at what prominent Catholic voices are saying about Lent
  3. Father Chip Hines offers fatherly advice
11/8/2016
Soft Focus | Religion and Politics

Matt Weber hosts The Lens, an original CatholicTV series.

In this "Soft Focus" segment, he ventures to Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA to ask people on the street about religion and politics.

09/13/2016
Best of The Lens | Season 1

Matt Weber hosts this highlights episode of The Lens. Relive some memorable moments with Weber, Helen Lee and Charles Green.

07/14/2015
Religiously Ticked Off

Matt Weber is ticked off. Christian persecution at home and abroad. Hatred rampant in the Christian community. Long marriages ended, diocesan conflicts galore. Is nothing sacred anymore?

05/7/2015
Pope for a Day

Make a Wish recently granted the wish of Brett Haubrich of the Archdiocese of Saint Louis: to be priest for a day.

Matt Weber was touched by this story and has a suggestion for Pope Francis in this segment of The Lens.

05/4/2015
Liturgical Lip Sync Battle

First-ever televised Liturgical Lip Sync, from episode 2 of The Lens. 

05/4/2015
Religious Rebranding | Confession

Does Confession need a new name for millennials? We try a couple on for size on The Lens.

 

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The Lens

In this interactive, social engaging series, Matt Weber looks at what's trending through a faith-based Lens. Join him and the CatholicTV crew for a fun, authentic conversation about the issues you care about through the Lens of faith. 

Watch:

September - June

Mondays 9pm, Tuesdays 11:30am, Wednesdays 3:30am, Thursdays 6:30am, Saturdays 7:30pm

all times Eastern | subject to change

Host bio

Matt Weber is the host of A Word With Weber, author of Fearing the Stigmata, and an accomplished digital strategiest in the employ of Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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