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2024 Spring On-Air Appeal: "This is My Body... This is My Blood."

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Did you miss the live version of Ask Father during the On-Air Appeal? Check out his answers to your questions sent in, and please consider donating to The Station of the Cross to help us continue the great work of The Catholic Current.

2024 Spring On-Air Appeal: "This is My Body... This is My Blood."

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This is the new Weekend Readiness segment for today's Remastered Let's Talk About This episode. Be sure to listen to the full episode linked in the show notes.

Show Notes

Finding, Remembering, and Sharing Wisdom (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 2/16/24

Read Fr. McTeigue's Written Works!

Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify

Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel

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We welcome back Joseph Pearce for another episode from his series in Crisis Magazine on the Unsung Heroes of Christendom: this time highlighting Roy Campbell. What does a 20th century poet have to do with the preservation of the writings of St. John of the Cross, and why has he been all-but written out of history?

Show Notes

Joseph's Website

Unsung Heroes of Christendom - Crisis Magazine

A Convert Among Communists and Carmelites - Crisis Magazine

Unafraid of Virginia Woolf: The Friends and Enemies of Roy Campbell | Joseph Pearce

C.S. Lewis & Roy Campbell: The Best of Friends & Enemies - Crisis Magazine

Poems Every Catholic Should Know

The Man Who Saved the Papers of St. John of the Cross ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The Poems of St. John of the Cross - Translated by Roy Campbell

The flaming terrapin by Roy Campbell

The Georgiad : a satirical fantasy in verse by Roy Campbell

Read Fr. McTeigue's Written Works!

Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify

Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel

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We welcome back Joseph Pearce for another episode from his series in Crisis Magazine on the Unsung Heroes of Christendom, this time highlighting St. Nicholas Owen. What can this master craftsman teach us about bravery and self sacrifice, and how is it that his story is not better known?

Show Notes

Joseph's Website

Unsung Heroes of Christendom - Crisis Magazine

The Unsung St. Nicholas - Crisis Magazine

What Fr. John Gerard's escape teaches us now | Catholic Culture

Faith of Our Fathers

The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful

The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest: Fr. John Gerard, S.J.

Campion's 'Brag' | EWTN

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Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify

Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel

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This is the new Timeless Thoughts segment for today's Remastered Timely Tuesday episode. Be sure to listen to the full episode linked in the show notes.

Shote Notes

Catholicism Is About Swords (Fr. John Perricone) 3/12/24

The Great Shantytown Plausibility Structure | Doug Wilson

Interview with NYU protester: "I really don't know... [turns to friend] Why are we protesting here?" | Not the Bee

Reality Rejected: New NPR CEO Says 'There Are Many Truths' - Intellectual Takeout

Read Fr. McTeigue's Written Works!

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Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel

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We welcome back Matt Archbold of Creative Minority Report to once again discuss the madness in the world and the sanity of Christ. What happens when man attempts to create "Heaven on Earth"?

Show Notes

Feds Mandate Time Off for Abortion

Joe Biden Makes the Sign of the Cross at an Abortion Rally

Pennsylvania Priest Arrested. But Don't Worry, It's Just a Candy Crush Addiction.

The Far Right's Campaign to Explode the Population | Politico

Biden administration redefines sex discrimination in Title IX to include 'gender identity' – Catholic World Report

Teen Girls Refuse to Throw Shotput Against Male after Court Tosses Law Banning Boys from Competing in Girl's Category

Don't Homeschool Your Kids, They'll be Weird. Meanwhile, Students at Public School Walkout After Being Attacked by Furries. Seriously.

Interview with NYU protester: "I really don't know... [turns to friend] Why are we protesting here?" | Not the Bee

Pittsburgh police will no longer respond to calls that are not 'in-progress' emergencies amid resource crunch | The Post Millennial

Criminal Attacks On American Churches Up 800 Percent In Last Six Years

Tracker: Over 400 Attacks on U.S. Catholic Churches Since May 2020 - CatholicVote org

The Screwtape Letters Narrated by John Cleese - Complete

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In Let's Talk About This, Fr. McTeigue discusses what to with discouragement and desolation. How do we fight back against our spiritual enemies? He finishes with Weekend Readiness to help you prepare for the upcoming Sunday Mass.

Show Notes

St Ignatius of Loyola's Prayer Against Depression – EWTN Global Catholic Television Network

Depressed? Demoralized? What's the Difference? (Fr. Robert McTeigue S.J.) 6/10/22

Christian resilience is not what you think 

What Should You Do When You Are Discouraged? 

The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times

Doomscrolling Past Christ

When It's Time to Fast from the News 

Doomscrolling Past Christ (Dr. Darrick Taylor) 8/15/22

"Devout Catholic" Joe Biden makes sign of the cross at pro-abortion rally to deride Florida's abortion ban | Not the Bee

Black athletic director of Baltimore high school arrested for creating AI deepfake of white principal to stage race hoax | The Post Millennial 

Tennessee passes death penalty for child rapists. Here's some of the twisted reasoning why some Dems opposed it. 

59-year-old Breaks Women's World Record for the Longest Time in an Abdominal Plank Position

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Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel

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We welcome back Leila Lawler to discuss do-something-ism, McTeigue's Axiom, and unsatisfactory attempts at Eucharistic Revival. Can revival ever occur if those in charge refuse to address the problems that got us in our current position?

Show Notes

Eucharistic revival is not something our bishops know about

Like Mother, Like Daughter

Eucharistic devotion cut off at knees: two little examples 

The 8th National Eucharist Congress | October 17-20, 1938

The Catechesis of Tradition – Padre Peregrino

Catholic Art Institute

Catholic Art Institute - YouTube

Retrieving Sacred Art (Kathleen Carr) 4/9/24

Eucharistic Art & Culture (Kathleen Carr) 4/23/24

Contagious Faith: Why the Church Must Spread Hope, Not Fear in a Pandemic: Philip F. Lawler

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Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify

Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel

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We welcome back Dr. Catherine Palaluk of The Catholic University of America to continue the discussion on her latest book through Regnery Publishing, Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth. What are the effects of many years of denigrating motherhood and family life?

Show Notes

Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth

Women Defying the Birth Dearth (Dr. Catherine Pakaluk) 2/8/24

The Women Defying America's Birth Dearth: An Interview with Catherine Pakaluk ━ The European Conservative 

Q&A with Catherine Pakaluk, Author of Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth 

The State Can't Save the American Family 

Seoul, South Korea Considers Paying Couples $72,500 Bonus per Baby 

What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster 

When Medicine Mandates Murder

The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God: George Weigel

Rerum Novarum: On Capital and Labor (Pope Leo XIII, 1891)

Read Fr. McTeigue's Written Works!

Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify

Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel

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