LOUIE TODAY: Vindy editor; Rabbi Kula and the Pope

Vindicator Editor Todd Franko will join Louie, Vindy.com's news radio partner, for their usual free-wheeling discussion on today's Brainfood From the Heartland.

Also, Rabbi Irwin Kula will offer his perspective on the Pope's upcoming visit to the U.S and the Jews.

Named by both Fast Company magazine and Religion and Ethics Newsweekly (PBS-TV), as one of the new leaders shaping the American spiritual landscape, Kula provides a broad vision of religious pluralism, honoring tradition through such contemporary channels as work, volunteerism, and philanthropy as forms of spiritual practice.

“Today, religion is presented as either fundamentalist — closing boundaries and shutting down, or as New Age — self-concerned and ‘me’ focused. But there is a third possibility,” says Kula. “We can use our wisdom traditions more expansively for the greater good.”