IRREVOCABLE - Reflections and Conversations with Father Andre

How do Catholics remain faithful to Jesus Christ and His Church while confronting scandal, confusion, and the misuse of sacred authority? Fr. André Y. Sebastian Mahanna welcomes canon lawyer Msgr. Ricardo Coronado-Arrascue and Prof. Julian Dunraven for a searching conversation about divine justice, faith and reason, conscience, obedience, and the responsibilities of Church leadership. Following th...

When God’s people give in faith, how should the Church honor that trust? Join Fr. André Mahanna, special guest Mary Flynn O’Neill, and Prof. Julian Dunraven for Part Two of a candid conversation about generosity, stewardship, and accountability in the life of the Church. Stewardship is more than money. It includes the time, talents, prayers, and sacrifices through which the faithful sustain their...

When God’s people give in faith, how should the Church honor that trust? Join Fr. André Mahanna, special guest Mary Flynn O’Neill, and Prof. Julian Dunraven for Part One of a candid conversation about generosity, stewardship, and accountability in the life of the Church. Stewardship is more than money. It includes the time, talents, prayers, and sacrifices through which the faithful sustain their...

The Stewardship of the Temporal Goods of the Church The Catholic Church & Christianity Case — Part IV What does the Catholic Church actually own? Where does its money come from? Who controls it—and what is it ultimately supposed to accomplish? In this new episode of Irrevocable with Fr. André, Fr. André is joined by Prof. Julian Dunraven for an introductory investigation into one of the most m...

In Episode 3 of The Exploitation of Faith — The Catholic Church Case, Fr. André is joined by Prof. Julian Dunraven and Romanian pastor Ioan Peia for a powerful discussion about Christianity, government, persecution, and the freedom of the human soul. After examining Constantine and the dangers of political power enforcing religious belief, Irrevocable now turns the question around: What happens wh...

On this special episode of IRREVOCABLE with Fr. André, recorded in the spirit of the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Fr. André welcomes Prof. Julian Dunraven and Dr. Regan M. Alpert, a former Episcopal priest, for the opening investigation in The Exploitation of Faith — The Catholic Church Case. Did Christianity lose its way when the persecutions ended and the Church entered into a rela...

On this special episode of IRREVOCABLE with Fr. André, recorded in the spirit of the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Fr. André welcomes Prof. Julian Dunraven and Dr. Regan M. Alpert, a former Episcopal priest, for the opening investigation in The Exploitation of Faith — The Catholic Church Case. Did Christianity lose its way when the persecutions ended and the Church entered into a rela...

Part One identified the warnings. Part Two asks what happened when the warning became institutions, money, coercive power and regional strategy after 1979. The Islamic Republic is the case study; the exploitation of religion and faith remains the governing theme. The IRGC is a state-security institution born from the 1979 Revolution. It is not synonymous with the Iranian people, Shi'a Muslims, or...

The Exploitation of Religion and Faith Faith • Fanaticism • Freedom Tonight on Irrevocable with Fr. André, we continue our investigative series on the Exploitation of Religion and Faith by turning to Iran as a historical case study. More than a century before the Islamic Revolution of 1979, writers and artists associated with the satirical journal Molla Nasreddin were already confronting questions...

Fr. André Mahanna is joined once again by constitutional lawyer Dr. Julian Dunraven for the continuation of this Irrevocable Investigation into one of the most consequential questions facing Europe and America. We move beyond demographics and ask what happens when religion, migration, foreign funding, political influence and competing concepts of law and government intersect. Who finances Islamic...

Since 9/11, Islam’s demographic and institutional presence in Europe and the United States has expanded while Europe has become markedly less Christian. At the same time, jihadist terrorism remains a documented security threat; European governments are investigating political-Islamist networks; Christian communities face severe persecution globally and anti-Christian hate in Europe; and migration...

Since 9/11, Islam’s demographic and institutional presence in Europe and the United States has expanded while Europe has become markedly less Christian. At the same time, jihadist terrorism remains a documented security threat; European governments are investigating political-Islamist networks; Christian communities face severe persecution globally and anti-Christian hate in Europe; and migration...

Is Ceuta facing a migration crisis—or a weaponized border assault against Spain and Christian Europe? In this special episode of IRREVOCABLE with Fr. Andre, attorney and professor Julian Dunraven, J.D., M.P.A., joins Fr. Andre to examine the mass crossing from Morocco into Ceuta and the urgent questions it raises about sovereignty, human trafficking, border security, religious freedom, Islamist id...

This special episode begins with a pastoral response to the desecration of a statue of Our Lady and fire damage to the outdoor altar at Medjugorje in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Fr. Andre calls the faithful to prayer, fasting, forgiveness, and spiritual vigilance. The complete program then presents the life of Blessed Elias Hoayek—the patriarch who knelt before the Eucharist, served the starving durin...

Professor David Clements with Fr. Andre on election integrity, conscience, immigration, Lebanon, Iran, public trust, St. Charbel Makhlouf, and the fight for peace without corruption or violence. Across the United States, Lebanon, Iran, Canada, and even within the Church, the same moral conflict appears: truth versus manipulation, justice versus corruption, peace versus violence, sovereignty versus...

Who controls the narrative—and what happens to the human soul when truth becomes subordinate to ideology, profit, fear, or political power? In this episode of Irrevocable with Fr. Andre, Fr. Andre welcomes Mark Messina, founder of Parallel 8 Media and host of The 40K View and Friday Night Huddle. Mark's work brings together faith, culture, politics, current events, media production, entrepreneursh...

In this special episode of Irrevocable, Fr. Andre offers a priestly reflection on the battle over the Holy Eucharist and the Holy Mass before and after Vatican II. This is not a battle of taste, tribe, or nostalgia, but a battle over whether the Eucharist is believed as sacrifice, adored as the Real Presence, received as communion, and guarded as the source and summit of the Church. The episode ex...

The world is shaken by earthquakes, floods, war, hidden violence, lawlessness, and confusion. Venezuela suffers. Kentucky mourns. Lebanon, the land of the Cedars of God, trembles under the hidden tunnels of war. And now the Church herself faces a visible ecclesial earthquake, as many Catholics are asking whether the Deposit of Faith has been obscured by corruption, abuse of office, doctrinal confu...

Fr. Andre turns from diagnosis to Christian action. After examining America’s crisis of man, public trust, dangerous science, civic fragmentation, and Europe’s warning, this broadcast asks: what must American Christians do now? The answer is the first Christian community: prayer, Mass, Eucharistic adoration, confession, apostolic teaching, the domestic church, Sacred Heart devotion, filial prayer...

In this follow-up to the two-part arc America, Peter, and the Hour of Witness, Fr. Andre turns from diagnosis to action. America at 250 is not only preparing for a civic celebration; it is facing a spiritual examination of conscience. The United States was born with an appeal to the Creator and divine Providence, survived wars, pandemics, slavery, Civil War, civil rights struggles, depressions, cu...

In the second half of the arc America, Peter, and the Hour of Witness: Can a Nation Have a Conscience?, Fr. Andre and Mission of Hope and Mercy ask the necessary sequel question: if America needs conscience, where is the Church? When Peter is chained by fear, politics, diplomacy, scandal, selective applause, cultural pressure, or silence, will the Church still speak with apostolic courage? Drawing...

In the second half of the arc America, Peter, and the Hour of Witness: Can a Nation Have a Conscience?, Fr. Andre and Mission of Hope and Mercy ask the necessary sequel question: if America needs conscience, where is the Church? When Peter is chained by fear, politics, diplomacy, scandal, selective applause, cultural pressure, or silence, will the Church still speak with apostolic courage? Drawing...

As America prepares to celebrate 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, Father Andre and Mission of Hope and Mercy ask a deeper question: can a nation have a conscience? This episode of Irrevocable is not partisan commentary. It is a Catholic examination of conscience for a nation blessed, wounded, and still called by God. America has received great gifts: freedom, religious liberty, sac...

Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical confronts the age of AI: human dignity, truth, work, property/data, children, war, slavery, surveillance, and the common good. In this episode, Fr. Andre asks whether Magnifica Humanitas is anchored in the full deposit of faith - Christ the Logos, Peter, salvation of souls, holiness, grace, and the Kingdom - or whether it takes a risk by addressing the world through...

Before Pentecost: Who Will Defend the Human Person? When Christians Are Hunted and the World Negotiates, who will stand in their defense? In the sacred days between the Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ and Pentecost, the Church waits in the Upper Room with the Virgin Mary and the Apostles. But this waiting is not fear. It is preparation for mission. In this episode of Irrevocable with Father And...