NATCHEZ &045; Radio Maria, a worldwide Catholic radio station, will be broadcasting live from Cathedral School Monday afternoon.

Kathie Duggan, the interviewer for the station based in Alexandria, La., does a twice-monthly student interview at various Catholic schools in the South. Duggan found Cathedral on a visit to Natchez and a Mass at St. Mary Basilica.

&uot;We really didn’t know anything about it,&uot; Cathedral Administrative Assistant Joan Hornstein said. &uot;She was in Natchez and heard about the history of the church and about Cathedral.

&uot;We are really privileged and honored for the kind of a fluke that she came to town.&uot;

Duggan will set up her broadcasting site in Cathedral Principal Pat Sanguinetti’s office around 11 a.m. Monday and begin broadcasting at 2 p.m. The broadcast will last an hour.

Several Cathedral students will be interviewed on the air about their faith, their prayer life, their favorite saint, hobbies, sports, their family’s prayer habits and their true feelings on mass.

The students are volunteers from a religion class at the school and are Catholic.

The school only has to provide the space for the broadcast, a phone line and the students, Hornstein said.

Betty Lou Hicks will also be interviewed about the history of the 158-year history of the school.

The broadcast can be heard on the Internet by going to

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Radio Maria has stations on five continents and more than 30 nations.