Witness
Witness presents men and women who are making a difference in both big and small ways. Father Thomas Rosica hosts a series of in-depth interviews with distinguished, high-level religious and civic leaders - people who are contributing significantly to the vibrancy of their Catholic communities. Witness provides viewers with theological reflection, as well as personal insight into those who shape society. Witness airs every Sunday at 7:00pm & midnight with repeats on Monday at 12:30 pm, Thursday at 8:00pm & midnight and Friday at 12:30pm (All times Eastern).
Recent Episodes:
Martha Hennessy
Martha Hennessy is an American social activist, and the seventh grandchild of Servant of God Dorothy Day...watch now
Fr. Matthew Gworek
Fr. Matthew Gworek is a priest of the Archdiocese of Hartford, Connecticut. Raised in Southington, Connecticut, he graduated from the University of Connecticut with a Bachelor’s Degree in Music and Education in 2010 having played the euphonium an...watch now
Sister Margaret Zdunich, NDS
Sister Margaret Zdunich is a member of the Congregation of Notre Dame de Sion (Our Lady of Sion). She was born and raised in Saskatchewan and entered the novitiate in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. After profession, she attended University and taught ...watch now
Kerry Alys Robinson
Kerry Alys Robinson is the founding executive director and global ambassador of the Leadership Roundtable, dedicated to promoting excellence and best practices in the management, finances and human resource development of the Catholic Church. The ...watch now
Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak
Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak was elected as the successor to Patriarch Antonios Naguib on January 16, 2013, during a Synod in Cairo. Even though the Coptic Catholic Church is relatively small in population, it is the See of St. Mark the Evangeli...watch now
Galit Baram, Consul General of Israel in Toronto and Western Canada
Galit Baram was born in Jerusalem, Israel. Her academic background includes a Bachelor’s Degree in Archeology and English from Tel Aviv University and a Master’s Degree in American Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2003-2006). ...watch now
Cardinal John Onaiyekan
To understand the need for interfaith dialogue, look no further than Nigeria, where Christian churches have been attacked by violent extremists from Boko Harem. The violence threatens to unsettle coexistence in the country, which is evenly divided...watch now
Sr. Gill Goulding, CJ (2019)In this special WITNESS episode, Sr. Gill Goulding reflects on attending the "Child Dignity in the Digital World" Congress at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and how that event inspired Regis College's upcoming symposium on the same subj...watch now
Charles J. Scicluna, Archbishop of Malta and Vatican Official Exclusive interview with Charles J. Scicluna, Archbishop of Malta and one of the Vatican’s most respected investigators of clerical abuse allegations....watch now
Scarboro Missioners: Frs. David Warren, Jack Lynch, and Mike TraherJoin Fr. Thomas Rosica, CSB, as he interviews three priests of the Scarboro Foreign Mission Society for the Society's 100th anniversary....watch now
Dr. Katharine Lochnan & Fr. Scott Lewis, SJ With this WITNESS interview with Fr. Scott Lewis and Katharine Lochnan, we begin a series of conversations with professors and graduate theological students from Regis College, the Jesuit Faculty of Theology in the Toronto School of Theology at the U...watch now
Mark D. SmithMark D. Smith is Professor of History at The College of Idaho and has long served on the Board of Directors for the Bethsaida Excavations Project in Israel. ...watch now
Brother Peter Bray, FSCBrother Peter Bray, FSC, EdD is the 8th Vice Chancellor of Bethlehem University, the first university established in Palestine and the only Catholic university in the Holy Land....watch now
Fr. Rob GaleaFr. Rob Galea is an ordained Catholic Priest and is currently serving in Sandhurst Diocese, Victoria (Australia) after moving to Australia from Malta, his home country. He is a singer and songwriter with an international fan base. Apart from a series...watch now
Marie-Anne Séguin and Angela D'Amore, Basilian Lay AssociatesMarie-Anne Séguin, a French-Canadian mother, grand-mother and great-grandmother is a retired elementary school teacher and administrator from Amherstburg, Ontario. With her late husband Ed, they were very active as lay leaders, catechists, youth lead...watch now
Brother Robert Schieler, FSC"A Brother for 50 years, Brother Robert Schieler took the habit of the De La Salle Christian Brothers (Brothers of the Christian Schools) on September 1, 1968, in Ammendale, Maryland. He was first introduced to the Brothers as a student at West Catho...watch now
Cardinal Patrick D'Rozario, CSCCardinal Patrick D’Rozario, C.S.C., Metropolitan Archbishop of Dhaka, Bangladesh, was born on October 1, 1943 in Padrishibpur, in the diocese of Chittagong. He is a member of the Congregation of Holy Cross and was ordained a priest on October 8, 1972...watch now
Fr. Teshome Fikre WoldetensaeFr. Teshome Fikre Woldetensae was born in the Southern Region of Ethiopia on June 10, 1972. After his elementary education, he entered the minor seminary in the Archdiocese of Addis Ababa in 1987. He pursued advanced studies in Philosophy and Theolog...watch now
Hana GartnerBorn in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Hana Gartner is a well-known, award winning journalist and television personality in Canada. She is best known as the host/interviewer of several programs for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Hana g...watch now
Fr. Daniel P. HoranFr. Daniel P. Horan, OFM, is a Franciscan friar of Holy Name Province (NY), assistant professor of systematic theology and spirituality at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, and the author of several books including the award-winning The ...watch now
Sr. Nathalie Becquart, xavSr. Nathalie Becquart, xav is a member of the Xavière Missionaries of Christ Jesus, an apostolic religious institute rooted in the spiritual tradition of St. Ignatius of Loyola (founder of the Jesuits). Born in France in 1921, the Xa...watch now
Jim ForestJim Forest is a writer, Orthodox Christian lay theologian, activist, and educator.
As a young man, after leaving naval service due to conscientious objector status, Jim joined the staff of the Catholic Worker, working cl...watch now
Bishop Jon Hansen, CSsR, Diocese of Mackenzie-Fort Smith, Northwest Territories
Bishop Jon Hansen , CSsR, was born in 1967 in Edmonton and raised in Grande Prairie, Alberta. After high school he attended the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology and completed a diploma in building construction engineering. Returning for f...watch now
Jacqueline Beauchere, Elizabeth J. Letourneau, and Cornelius Williams
Jacqueline Beauchere is the Chief Online Safety Officer at Microsoft Corporation. Ms. Beauchere is responsible for all aspects of Microsoft’s online safety strategy. She currently serves as an advisory board member to the U.K. go...watch now
Prevain Devendran
Prevain Devendran was born in Guelph,Ontario and spent the majority of his childhood years in Toronto. He attended high school at St. Michael’s College School, run by the Basilian Fathers. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of...watch now
Antigone Davis, Dr. Mary Anne Layden, and Jutta Kroll
Antigone Davis is Head of Global Safety Policy at Facebook, working with internal teams and external safety organizations and government bodies to ensure that Facebook remains a leader in online safety. Prior to this, she spent 10...watch now
Sr. Mary Louise Mitchell, SSJ, Ph.D., RNDirector of Pastoral Care at St. Ann’s Community, Rochester
Sr. Mary Louise Mitchell, SSJ, Ph.D., RN is Director of Pastoral Care at St. Ann’s Community, Rochester’s leading senior housing and health services provider. Sr. Mary Lou served as President of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Roc...watch now
Sr. Dorothy Heiderscheit
Sr. Dorothy Heiderscheit, OSF, MSW, ACSW, RSW, has been a member of the Franciscan Sisters of Dubuque, Iowa for 54 years and is currently Chief Executive Officer of The Southdown Institute in Holland Landing, Ontario.
Sr. Dorothy h...watch now
Sr. Marie Zarowny, SSA
Marie is a Sister of Saint Ann currently serving as Province Co-Leader for the Congregation’s Western Canada region (St. Joseph’s Province) and living in Victoria, BC. In this role she is over-seeing the process of bringing her province “to compl...watch now
Fr. Arturo Sosa, SJ Superior General of the Society of Jesus
Father Arturo Sosa Ascobal, SJ, is the thirty-first Superior General of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), and its first non-European leader. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Fr. Sosa entered the Society of Jesus in 1966 and was ordained to the priesthoo...watch now
Ernesto Caffo and Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma
Ernesto Caffo is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Modena and Founder and President of 'Telefono Azzurro' in Italy.
He is currently a board member of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited...watch now
Fr. Michael PrieurFr. Michael Prieur, priest of the Diocese of London, is professor emeritus of Moral Theology at St. Peter’s Seminary in London. He holds a Doctorate in Theology from Rome and taught Moral and Sacramental Theology at St. Peter’s Seminary in London si...watch now
Maud de Boer-Buquicchio and Tim Morris
Ms. Maud de Boer-Buquicchio is currently UN Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children as well as President of the European Federation for Missing and Exploited Children (MCE). From 2002-2012 she served as Deputy Secretary ...watch now
Jack Noseworthy
Jack is thrilled to be making his Canadian stage debut in Come From Away. With both sets of grandparents having been born & raised in Newfoundland, Jack is honoured to be telling the stories of these hardworking and proud people. Jack has shot man...watch now
Fr. Federico Lombardi, SJ & Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle
Fr. Federico Lombardi SJ. - Born in 1942, Jesuit priest, he was Director of the Holy See Press Room (2006-2016). He was also Director of Programs (1991-2005) and then Director of Vatican Radio (2005-2016) and Director of the Vatican Television Cen...watch now
T.J. Berden and Eric Groth
Eric Groth is President/CEO of ODB Films. Founded in 2005, ODB Films is an award-winning not-for-profit Catholic video production ministry that helps people encounter Christ through artfully made, spiritually rich films. Over the ...watch now
David Hein & Irene Sankoff
David Hein and Irene Sankoff are a Canadian married writing team best known for co-writing the Broadway musical Come From Away. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, David was educated at York University in Toronto, Ontario. After graduating, he and his f...watch now
Sebastian Gomes
Sebastian grew up in Perth, Ontario and moved to Collegeville, Minnesota after high school where he earned a BA and MA in Theology and History from Saint John’s University and School of Theology. He taught at the university and prep school for one...watch now
Baroness Joanna Shields
Rt. Hon. Baroness Joanna Shields OBE, a technology industry veteran and parliamentarian, served as the United Kingdom's Minister for Internet Safety and Security and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State from 2015 to 2017.
She is ...watch now
Archbishop Christian Lépine
Christian Lépine has had many years of experience as a pastor and teacher. Born on September 18, 1951 and ordained a priest in 1983, at Saint-André-Apôtre Parish, he began his priestly ministry at Saint-Joseph-de-Mont-Royal before departing for Ro...watch now
Fr. Allan MacDonald
Fr. Allan MacDonald was born in Montreal on December 11, 1966 and raised in St. Raphael’s, Ontario. After attending local schools he studied at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, NS, graduating in 1989 with an honours degree in Canadian...watch now
Dr. Ernie Allen
Ernie Allen is a global expert on the digital economy; the dark side of the internet; public-private partnerships and child protection including the issues of child abduction, sexual exploitation, sexual violence and human traffic...watch now
Father Hans Zollner, SJ
Academic Vice-Rector, Dean of the Institute of Psychology and President of the Centre for Child Protection of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome
Father Zollner is Academic Vice-Rector, Dean of the Institute of Psychology and P...watch now
Cardinal Kevin Farrell
Kevin Joseph Farrell, born in Dublin, Ireland, was a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington, DC, when he appointed by Pope John Paul II as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Washington in 2001. In March 2007, Bishop Farrell w...watch now
Ted Penton SJ
Born and raised in Ottawa, Ted first came to know the Society of Jesus through the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. As his JVC placement, he worked with the Farmworker Unit of Legal Aid of North Carolina, leading outreach to migrant workers across the stat...watch now
Kevin Tuerff and Maureen Basnicki
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Kevin Tuerff was returning from a Paris vacation with his partner, to their home in Austin, Texas. Their Air France flight was two hours from landing when a plane crashed into the first World Trade Center buil...watch now
Dan Heffernan and Alain Cayer
Alain Cayer was born on February 10th, 1970, in Winchester, Ontario and raised on the family dairy farm. In 1992, he married Sheryl and together they have four beautiful daughters; Marie-France, Gabrielle, Natassja and Karine. They now own a gar...watch now
Fr. Richard Leonard, SJ
Fr. Richard Leonard, SJ, is a writer and film critic who has written and spoken about cinema, culture, and faith on four continents. Born at Warwick, Queensland, and growing up in Toowoomba, Fr. Leonard directs the Australian Catholic Office...watch now
Fr. Peteris Skudra
Pēteris Skudra, Diocese of Riga, Latvia, was born in 1990 in Riga, Latvia. The oldest of four children, he was educated in Riga and began studies for the seminary in Riga in 2008. Ordained a priest in 2014, he served as vica...watch now
Fr. Michel Côté
Michel Côté was born on August 8, 1941 at Brive-la-Gaillarde, in France, of Canadian (Albertan) parents. He grew up in the bilingual area of downtown Montréal (Notre-Dame de Grâce) from 1942-1961. Upon completion of high school and two years...watch now
Fr. Gonzalo Bernabe Ituarte Verduzco, OP
Fr. Gonzalo is a Dominican friar and priest, a former Provincial of his order who led the Dominican Mission to Ocosingo (Chiapas, Mexico). He served for many years as Vicar for Peace and Justice of the Diocese of San Cristobal de las Casas in Ch...watch now
Fr. Paul Shelton, S.J & Fr. Ryan Duns, SJ
Paul J. Shelton, SJ, is a native of Columbus, Ohio, where he attended St. Mary German Village Catholic grammar school and St. Charles Preparatory High School. The Shelton family, headed by a single mother, went through periods of financial hards...watch now