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Fr. Robert McTeigue continues his "Novel Prophecies" series with Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World Revisited. Huxley warned that propaganda and technology could make people easier to control. Are we seeing some of that today, and if so, what can we do about it? Father finishes with Weekend Readiness to help prepare you for Sunday Mass.

Show Notes

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

The Inner Ring

76 Fallacies

Propaganda Watch | The Corbett Report

Daily Readings - Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time

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We welcome back Karl Denninger from Market Ticker to evaluate the economic issues facing America, from runaway debt and rising healthcare costs to job losses and the AI boom. How serious are these problems, and what can ordinary Americans do now to prepare?

Show Notes

So Perhaps My Podcast Was A Bit Of A Downer...

You Have Died Of Mathematics

The Market Ticker

Leverage: How Cheap Money Will Destroy the World

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Father McTeigue examines the current conflict between Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua, and the Catholic Church. Although history may not repeat itself, similar patterns from the Cristero War are arising in this conflict. Is this a sign of a new bloodbath to come? Father takes a closer look.

Watch on YouTube: Cristero War 2.0?

We welcome back friend of the show Matt Archbold to examine the growing rejection of truth in our culture. What happens when truth is replaced by ideology, and how can Catholics remain faithful to Christ in a culture that increasingly rejects the good, the true, and the beautiful? Father finishes with Timeless Thoughts.

Show Notes

Whom Do You Serve?

Catholic Governor Approves Abortion Up Until Birth

The Massachusetts bishops' polite collapse

Cambridge academics reject university’s attempt to end row over Jason Arday

Who Hired the Ridiculous Jason Arday at Cambridge? I Have the Names.

Catholic priest gets tens of thousands of baseball fans to exchange the Sign of Peace during game between Chicago White Sox and Cincinnati Reds

University of Michigan Will Hide Letter Grades for Freshman Students’ Mental Health

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Which saint do we most need to hear from today? Father McTeigue has in mind a martyr whose heroic death has overshadowed his great words of wisdom—words that can help us make our way through the current crisis. 

Watch on YouTube: The Saint We Need Right Now

Fr. Robert McTeigue continues his "Novel Prophecies" series with Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, a novel about a society in which suffering has been largely eliminated at the cost of freedom, family, and individuality. What does Huxley’s imagined world tell us about the things that people are willing to give up for an easier life? Father finishes with Weekend Readiness to help prepare you for Sunday Mass.

Show Notes

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

The Far Side - Sheep Cartoon

How To Be a Nonconformist: 22 Irreverent Illustrated Steps to Counterculture Cred from 1968

Cheese Lovers Unite: The Benefits of Full-Fat Dairy Documented in Study Without Cholesterol Rise or Weight Gain

Chesterton on Cheese

Daily Readings - Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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We welcome back William M. Briggs, known as Statistician to the Stars, to take up the question of whether there are things we can know for certain about right and wrong. How do faith, reason, and logic help us to spot the difference between a sound moral argument and a persuasive one that is simply incorrect?

Show Notes

Hume’s Guillotine, Euclid’s Catapult: Induction, Axioms, and Objective Ethics

Right And Reason: Ethics in Theory and Practice

Can Bayesianism Quantify True Belief?

Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air

Thomas Aquinas: The Division and Methods of the Sciences

Real Philosophy for Real People

W.M. Briggs: Statistician to the Stars!

Science Is Not The Answer

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Father Robert McTeigue, S.J. examines pride as the worst of the seven deadly sins and shows how pride both inverts reality and separates us from God.

Watch on YouTube: Is Pride Still a Sin? 

We welcome back child advocate attorney Liz Yore to discuss Europe's growing migration crisis, including the mass crossings at Ceuta and Lampedusa and questions surrounding unaccompanied minors. How should Catholics respond to the Church's response to the crisis, and what will continued mass migration mean for European society and its Christian communities? Father finishes with Timely Thoughts.

Show Notes

Lampedusa Migrant Production: The Gospel According to PR Stunts

ceuta 2.0: armies march on their stomachs

The Foreigner as Curse: A Holistic Reading of the Old Testament on Migration

Ceuto: the failure of liberal immigration rhetoric

White Slavery in the Barbary States

Ignorant or Wicked? Does God "loathe" the Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury?

The Spiritual Crisis Destroying Europe

The Impossibility of Proposition Nations

The Rape Gang Inquiry Report

Yore Children

Ban Sharia

Ceuta: The Time-Lapse Photo Of Western Collapse

The $1.2B Refugee Services Program that Funds Pro-Asylum Religious Groups

Catholic bishops of Massachusetts statement opposing late-term abortion bill

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Father Robert McTeigue continues his series on the seven deadly sins. In so doing, he takes a closer look at the dangerous desire for temporal things that can never truly satisfy.

Watch on YouTube: The Most Promising Sin?