Most people look at a cross, but never see it. Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J., unpacks why the crucifixion should shock us, what it reveals about our wounds, and how it exposes both the horror of sin and the triumph of divine love. This isn't sentimentality. It's a wake-up call.

Watch on YouTube: Have You Seen the Crucified?

We welcome back Steve Pokorny to talk about the all-too-common struggles with porn addiction and how such media affects people's brains, especially those who are still developing. Father finishes with Timely Thoughts. 

Show Notes

Freedom Coaching 

Hooked: New Science on How Casual Sex is Affecting Our Children

A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue

The Christian Meaning of Human Sexuality: Expanded Edition

A Brief Reader on the Virtues of the Human Heart: Pieper, Josef

The Enemies Of Love: Watkin, Aelred

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Holy Week isn't just a liturgical shift—it's a call to examine our souls. Are we truly ready for Easter, or just eager for Lent to end? Fr. Robert McTeigue offers four unsettling signs we might not be ready, and what to do before it's too late.

Watch on YouTube: Ready for Easter? (Probably Not)

In today's episode of Let's Talk About This, Father looks at the world of reading, and the world that doesn't read. Do we lose more than we realize when we turn away from the written word and towards other mediums? Why has reading become a sign of status? Father finishes with Weekend Readiness to prepare you for the upcoming Sunday Mass.

Show Notes

Why everyone stopped reading (YouTube) 

Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, 2nd ed: McEntyre, Marilyn

Beauty in the Word: Rethinking the Foundations of Education

Another Sort of Learning: Schall S.J., Fr. James V.

The average college student today (Scriptorium Philosophia Substack)

Midnight Maxims: Dalrymple, Theodore

The Quotable Chesterton: The Wit and Wisdom of G.K. Chesterton: Belmonte, Kevin

The Power of the Word Project 

How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information: Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums

The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College 

My unread books remind me I’m running out of time (just in time for Lent)

The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance

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We welcome Jaspreet Singh Boparai to the show to discuss recent cultural and religious conferences in London, the decline of meaningful engagement in modern society, and the urgent need for cultivating truly transformative Catholic intellectual and artistic renewal. 

Show Notes

Prayer and Pikachu in London | Jaspreet Singh Boparai | The Critic Magazine

The Lamp Magazine | Cristina Campo

A Brief History of Our Annihilation - Crisis Magazine

The Unforgivable: And Other Writings by Cristina Campo 

Resistance Writer by Robert McTeigue | Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity

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Ever felt like philosophy is disconnected from the “real world”? Fr. Robert McTeigue challenges that assumption and reveals how the true, the good, and the beautiful are more real than the chaos we’re sold.

Watch on YouTube: Who Needs the Real World?

We welcome Gary Isbell to shed light on the supposed mass graves at Canadian Catholic schools, and how it has now been shown that they don't exist. Churches were burned and vandalized without cause, and no apology has been given. Father finishes with Timely Thoughts.

Show Notes

Four Years, $320 Million and Zero Bodies: The Mystery of the “Graves” at Canada’s Kamloops School - The American TFP

First indigenous nun at Canadian school contradicts anti-Catholic ‘mass grave’ narrative

Are you guilty of informational littering?

Do we need a review of Church teaching on reputation and slander?

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Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. challenges the common question 'How can I pray better?' and invites us to ask something deeper: 'How can I pray always?' Discover the heart of a true prayer life—and why it’s not just about set times but living in the presence of God.

Watch on YouTube: Pray More, Pray Better, Or...?

In today's episode of Let's Talk About This, Fr. McTeigue explores how our addiction to our phones is affecting our culture, our relationships, and our souls. Father finishes with Weekend Readiness to prepare you for the upcoming Sunday Mass.

Show Notes

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains: Carr, Nicholas

Redeemed Vision: Setting the Blind Free from the Pornified Culture

The Death Of Christian Culture - Angelus Press

Restoration Of Christian Culture - Angelus Press

The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future(Or, Don 't Trust Anyone Under 30)

The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults

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We welcome back Michael Hichborn of the Lepanto Institute to explain how so many of the hymnals at Catholic parishes are produced by companies that are not Catholic and are opposed to Church doctrine. Are the music choices at your parish undermining worship and funding the Church's enemies?

Show Notes

The Hymnal Industrial Complex - The Lepanto Institute

Sing Like a Catholic (Book)

Why Johnny Can’t Sing Hymns: How Pop Culture Rewrote the Hymnal (Book)

What Many Priests No Longer Believe - Homiletic & Pastoral Review

The Problem With “Mary Did You Know”

New Liturgical Movement: Fons et Culmen Sacred Liturgy Summit - July 1–4, Menlo Park, California 

Elevating Worship: Christendom College Unveils Liturgical Training Program - Adoremus 

Centenary of the Motu Proprio Tra Le Sollecitudini | EWTN

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