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Bishop Joseph Strickland serves as the fourth Bishop of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas. He was ordained to the episcopacy on November 28, 2012.     In Today's Show: Which encyclicals or other papal documents would be most helpful to the average person? Which English Bible translation would you recommend for serious study? What is the best thing that the laity can do for holy canceled or laicized prie...

Fr. William Rock, FSSP serves as Parochial Vicar at Regina Caeli Parish in Houston, Texas. He was ordained in October of 2019 and serves as a regular contributor to the FSSP North America Missive Blog and the TAN Direction Blog.     In Today's Show Is it permissible to believe that in heaven, we will still be able to do leisure activities like reading books, playing sports, etc. or will being in t...

Fr. Joseph Dalimata, FSSP serves as Parochial Vicar at Immaculate Conception Church in El Paso, Texas. He was ordained in May of 2021.     In Today's Show I don't want my daughter to join the choir at her Novus Ordo school because I feel it is not reverent enough. How can I break that news to her without making her resent tradition? Most of our parishioners, as they enter the church, walk right pa...

Fr. Elias Mary Mills, F.I. served as Rector of the Shrine Church at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Lacrosse, Wisconsin from 2016 to 2021. He was ordained in May of 2000.     In Today's Show What would be Father's top 3 to 5 recommendations on books about Our Blessed Mother? If we try to pray the Rosary every day but miss a day, should we pray two the next day to make up for it? I hear a lo...

Canon Luke Zignego, ICKSP serves as Chaplain of Saint Joseph Oratory in the Diocese of Gary, Indiana. He was ordained in 2018.     In Today's Show If the Catholic definition of love is to will the good of the other, how should we love God? How can we will His good if He is already perfect and all good? Do you have any good books that are little known that you think Catholics should read, especiall...

Canon Ross Bourgeois, ICKSP serves as Parochial Vicar at Most Precious Blood of Jesus Parish in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Canon Bourgeois was ordained in 2019.     In Today's Show: When a Protestant decides to embrace Catholicism, are they considered a revert or a convert? If a first class feast in the 1962 calendar falls on a Friday, but it is not a solemnity in the most recent calendar, are we b...

Fr. John Brancich, FSSP is the pastor of St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Nashua, New Hampshire. He was ordained into the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter in 2004.     In Today's Show: Is there 24 hour adoration in Manchester, New Hampshire at the Blessed Sacrament Parish there? Should Catholics see the "Nefarious" movie? What missal does your parish use? I'm trying to prepare to attend the Lat...

Canon Benjamin Norman, ICKSP currently serves as Representative of the Institute of Christ the King at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church in Oakland, California. He was ordained in 2018.     In Today's Show: How are priestly ordinations conducted in the extraordinary form? When and where should Extreme Unction be considered? Has modernism destroyed it? Why is Our Lord called the Sun of Justice? Whe...

Fr. Daniel Alloy, FSSP has served as Parochial Vicar at Regina Caeli Parish in Houston, Texas since July of 2022. He was ordained in June of 2020.     In Today's Show What's the best way to respond to someone who thinks that a person becomes an angel when they die? Why doesn't God simply "get rid" of Satan? When being confronted by protestant "street preachers" proclaiming that there is no salvati...

Fr. Anthony Amato is the Pastor of St. Peter's Parish in Clifton Springs, New York. He was ordained as a priest in June of 2017 by Bishop Salvatore Matano of the Diocese of Rochester, New York.     In Today's Show Reading material to get a feel for what life was like in Medieval times (see show resources) Can a Catholic be pro-life and pro-military at the same time without being hypocritical? When...

Canon Luke Zignego, ICKSP serves as Chaplain of Saint Joseph Oratory in the Diocese of Gary, Indiana. He was ordained in 2018.     In Today's Show Can you explain the tradition of calling an Institute priest "Canon" vs. "Father?" Is there a way the faithful can tell a Canon vs. Priest when in public? Do you gently correct the faithful who may call you Father instead of Canon? Does the Institute of...

Fr. Alan Maria Wharton, F.I. has assisted in Pastoral Ministry and Media Production for The Station of the Cross 88.5 FM in New Bedford, Massachusetts, formerly Radio Cor Mariae.     In Today's Show I often struggle in my faith with serious doubts about the basics of what I profess to believe. Can you help me? Missing Mass while on vacation - it it always sinful, or does it depend on the circumsta...

Canon Francis Altiere, ICKSP serves as Rector of Sts. Cyril and Methodius Oratory in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He was ordained in 2014.     In Today's Show An introduction to canons and the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest Does Ezekiel 47:1-12 describe the waters of Baptism? (See show notes for full passage) How do we know when God is speaking to us? Why are funeral masses so important...

Fr. Elias Mary Mills, F.I. served as Rector of the Shrine Church at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Lacrosse, Wisconsin from 2016 to 2021. He was ordained in May of 2000.     In Today's Show Getting to know the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate I'm left discerning if it's not better to simply become a hermit, because the integrity of Catholicism is so under attack from within the Church....

Fr. Anthony Amato is Pastor of St. Peter's Parish in Clifton Springs, New York. He was ordained a priest in June of 2017 by Bishop Salvatore Matano of the Diocese of Rochester, New York.     In Today's Show What are your thoughts on the Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter? Can the devil read our thoughts? How do I have masses said for non-Catholics? I would think that word about Jesus would have...

Fr. William Rock, FSSP serves as Parochial Vicar at Regina Caeli Parish in Houston, Texas (alongside Fr. Daniel Alloy, FSSP). He was ordained in October of 2019. In Today's Show I heard recently that the Church is known as "The Sacrament of Salvation" - would that be a contradiction to the teaching of there only being 7 sacraments? Why weren't the Apostles arrested in the Garden? Where did the wor...

Fr. Jonathan Romanoski, FSSP is Pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Providence, Rhode Island. He was ordained in 2008. In Today's Show Is the SSPX in union with the church? Are Catholics wrong to join them for masses? Are their sacraments valid? Can a deliberate venial sin become a mortal sin if ignored for too long? When did Mary really know that her Son was God? Should teenage children be fo...

Fr. Daniel Alloy, FSSP has served as Parochial Vicar at Regina Caeli Parish in Houston, Texas since July of 2022. He was ordained in June of 2020. In Today's Show In regards to fraternal correction, how are we to proceed with an individual if they will still not acknowledge fault even if being corrected by a priest? Why do we need the sacraments? Why wasn't Mary at the last supper? Are prayers wor...

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Starting August 28th, we'll bring you a different priest each weekday at 6PM Eastern time, where you'll be able to participate in a live Q&A on the topics that matter! We'll be joined by priests and canons from the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priests, the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter, the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, and even some Diocesan priests that you may know per...