The Catholic Current

By The Station of the Cross

Bringing Christ to the World and the World to Christ! Producer and Host Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. illuminates today’s issues with the love of Christ and the authority of His Church. Each show features... more

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May 02, 2025 Learning to Live Forgiven (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 5/2/25
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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May 01, 2025 Who Hates Tolkien and Why? (Robert L. Kmita) 5/1/25
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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April 30, 2025 Let's Take a Closer Look: It's Time for the Truth
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.

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April 29, 2025 What’s Up With Catholic Media? (Sarah Cain) 4/29/25
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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April 28, 2025 Let's Take a Closer Look: When Does Easter End? (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.)
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.

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April 25, 2025 Did Saints Perform Abortions? (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 4/25/25
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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April 24, 2025 How to Get Along with (Almost) Everyone (Dr. Ray Guarendi) 4/24/25
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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April 23, 2025 Let's Take a Closer Look: Christ Is Risen, Now What?
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.

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April 22, 2025 After Easter–What’s Different? (Matt Archbold) 4/22/25
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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April 21, 2025 A First Response to the Death of Pope Francis (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 4/21/25
In the wake of the death of Pope Francis, Fr. McTeigue seeks three different perspectives: a Jesuit, Fr. Fessio; a pastor, Fr. Casey Jones; and a shepherd, Bishop Olson. He closes with his own thoughts about how we should focus and pray in the coming days and weeks.

Show Notes

Universi Dominici Gregis (February 22, 1996) | John Paul II

Matthew 16:18-20 - Bible Gateway

St. Catherine of Siena Novena

Bishop Olson Interviewed

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