When you are in pain, whether physical, emotional, or spiritual, how do you deal with it? In this week's Let's Talk About This, Fr. McTeigue teaches us how we can avoid the temptations of sin when we are at our most vulnerable, and how it's not simply about "powering through" or "being reasonable." Father finishes with Weekend Readiness.

Show Notes

Advice from an aging, repentant sinner 

Can pain be a near occasion of sin? 

Why can’t we reason with pain and sin? 

How to unite mind, soul, and body against sin 

How to better our emotional response to pain

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We welcome back Fr. John Perricone to discuss how to truly grow in the cardinal virtues and live a better Catholic life. What does that look like in practical ways? 

Show Notes

The Four Cardinal Virtues

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

The Classical Moment: Selected Essays on Knowledge and Its Pleasures

After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Third Edition: MacIntyre, Alasdair

The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud

Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship: Vitz, Paul C

The Death of Christian Culture by John Senior

The Restoration of Christian Culture by John Senior

Another Sort of Learning

Theology and Sanity: Sheed, Frank

Captive Flames: On Selected Saints and Christian Heroes: Ronald Knox

A Retreat for Lay People by Ronald Knox

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In this finale of the three-part series, Father McTeigue takes a closer look at spiritual warfare, and shows how we win the war. This segment focuses on Priesthood.

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We welcome back Dr. Darrick Taylor to distinguish between patriotism, nationalism, and populism, and discuss whether the surge in nationalism is a positive step, or something to be feared. 

Show Notes

The Church and the Resurgence of Nationalism, Part I - Crisis Magazine 

The Church and the Resurgence of Nationalism, Part II - Crisis Magazine 

The Church and the Resurgence of Nationalism, Part III - Crisis Magazine 

The Church and the Resurgence of Nationalism, Part IV - Crisis Magazine

Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West

The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis

'Oikophobia': Our Western Self-Hatred 

The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism

The Internal Order Of States And People - Papal Encyclicals

Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church

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In this special three-part series, Father McTeigue takes a closer look at spiritual warfare, how to spot the temptations, to resist them, and to win the war. This is the second part, focusing on Kingship.

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In this week's Let's Talk About This, Father McTeigue raises the issue of the denial of truth, and the refusal to address it in favor of misguided notions, both within Catholic circles and the broader world. Father finishes with Weekend Readiness.

Show Notes

Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power: Pieper, Josef

What will make people more likely to accept the “truthiness” of truth? 

Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies by  Marilyn McEntyre

Why Johnny Can’t Preach: The Media Have Shaped the Messengers

Speak with Conviction in Typography Poem by Taylor Mali

Algocracy: Government for the New World Order

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We welcome back canon lawyer Fr. Gerald Murray to help explain the latest synodal document, and to talk more broadly on what synodality means for a hierarchical Church. 

Show Notes

Pathways for the Implementation Phase of the Synod 

Vatican offers new guidance for Synod’s implementation phase

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In this special three-part series, Father McTeigue takes a closer look at spiritual warfare, how to spot the temptations, to resist them, and to win the war. First up: Prophecy.

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We welcome back Sarah Cain, known as The Crusader Gal, to discuss the frenzy that occurred after a priest denied Holy Communion to a politician who voted in favor of euthanasia. Father finishes with Timely Thoughts.

Show Notes

The Mercy of Withholding the Eucharist - Crisis Magazine 

A Primer on Canon 915

How Easy Will It Be for You to Betray Our Lord? 

Respecting the Body and Blood of the Lord: When Holy Communion Should Be Denied: Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke

Deny Holy Communion?: Raymond Leo Burke

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Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J., confronts the disturbing trend of religious unseriousness in the face of staggering moral crises. While Catholic influencers gather in Rome and headlines celebrate "hot priests" on Instagram, half a million unaccompanied children are missing in the U.S.—and almost no one is asking where they went.

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