5/5/25 - We are joined today by special guest Joe McClane, host of A Catholic take, as Father McTeigue answers YOUR questions live on the air!

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Can you distinguish between guilt and shame? Can you live a life of contrition without drowning beneath the crippling shame of your sins? Fr. McTeigue would like to explain how you are called to live, as a loved sinner. He finishes with Weekend Readiness to prepare you for Sunday Mass.

Show Notes

The Furious Longing of God

The Devil You Don't Know: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in Everyday Life: Cameli, Louis J.

Learning to love what God has made 

This might be the best trick the devil has up his sleeve 

Self-Hatred as a Barrier to One’s Calling - Crisis Magazine

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We welcome scholar Robert L. Kmita to the show to discuss why Tolkien is hated by some, and how Tolkien's work stands apart from some other famous Christian writers. 

Show Notes

Tolkien's True Love - by Robert Lazu Kmita 

Kmita’s Library 

Amazon.com: The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings

Tolkien's Faith: A Spiritual Biography

The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien

Tolkien On Fairy-Stories

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What’s the real state of the Church today—revival or collapse, hope or delusion? Fr. Robert McTeigue uses the red pill vs. blue pill metaphor to confront hard truths, false comforts, and the call to radical fidelity. If you’re tired of denial and despair, this is your wake-up call to live the truth.

Watch on YouTube: It's Time for the Truth

We welcome back Sarah Cain to ask if Catholic media is different to secular news sources and if it should it be. Father and Sarah share their stories about how they found themselves working in media. Father finishes with Timely Thoughts.

Show Notes

Homefront Crusade (Sarah Cain)

Failing Foundations: The Pillars of the West Are Nearing Collapse

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

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

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

Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power: Pieper, Josef

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

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What if the answer to the end of the Easter season wasn't a simple as Pentecost or Corpus Christi, but was somehow eternal? What if how we live ought to relate to a reality that is outside of and beyond time? And how would we live that way while acknowledging life's sufferings? Fr. McTeigue takes a closer look.

Watch on YouTube: When Does Easter End?

Planned Parenthood activists have begun proclaiming that saints performed abortions and that abortion was once not considered a sin by the Church. Fr. McTeigue takes apart these deceptions and sheds truth on the lies. Father finishes with Weekend Readiness to prepare you for the upcoming Sunday Mass.

Show Notes

The Didache | EWTN

Flash of Light When Human Egg is Fertilized (Video)

Epistle to Diognetus

What Did St. Thomas Aquinas Believe about "Ensoulment?" | Catholic Answers Q&A

Has the Church Really Changed Its Teaching on Abortion? | Catholic Answers Magazine

Cardinal Tagle Sings on Stage

Hong Kong gives cardinal his passport back for Pope Francis's funeral after 2022 arrest

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We welcome back Dr. Ray Guarendi to talk about how we can better get along with the people in our lives. What's an appropriate amount of compromise, and how do we know when to walk away?

Show Notes

How to Get Along with Almost Everybody

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What if you were there at the first Easter—would you have recognized the Risen Christ? In this episode, Fr. Robert McTeague, S.J., reflects on the call that comes with the Resurrection: to believe, to proclaim, to reconcile, and to live as saints. Because He is risen, we each have a mission. Let's take a closer look.

Watch on YouTube: Christ Is Risen, Now What?

We welcome back Matt Archbold to discuss what a difference Easter makes in the lives of Christians and the rest of the world. Are you changed?

Show Notes

Catholic Unscripted: Interfaith idols and Catholic conversion.

Catholic Unscripted: Perversion and Conversion

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