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Original Air Date: August 22, 2013 - Transcript Available (details below) On this episode of From the Pulpit, we continue our series focusing on the root of our problems in the Church today: The Second Vatican Council. His Excellency, Bishop Donald Sanborn, rector of Most Holy Trinity Seminary in Brooksville, Florida, is guiding us through a series of sermons on Vatican II with surgical accuracy o...

Original Air Date: August 15, 2013 - Transcript Available (details below) On this episode of From the Pulpit, we continue our series focusing on the root of our problems in the Church today: The Second Vatican Council. His Excellency, Bishop Donald Sanborn, rector of Most Holy Trinity Seminary in Brooksville, Florida, is guiding us through a series of sermons on Vatican II with surgical accuracy o...

Original Air Date: August 8, 2013 - Transcript Available (details below) From the Pulpit is a new show presented by Restoration Radio to allow our listeners to hear some of the finest sermons and conferences presented by Catholic clergy on matters of the faith and the crisis in the Catholic Church today brought on by the revolution of the modernist heresy in which we find ourselves. For our inaugu...

Original Air Date: July 27, 2013 There may be no more used sacramental then that of holy water. It's presence is as synonymous with Catholicism as candles and incense. It is usually the first sacramental used upon entering a Catholic Church and the last used before leaving. What exactly does holy water do and what are its spiritual effects? Is it just a pious superstition or does its use truly dri...

Original Air Date: July 23, 2013 On this episode of Clerical Conversations, His Lordshop Bishop Donald Sanborn, rector of Most Holy Trinity Seminary in Brooksville, Florida and Father Anthony Cekada of St. Gertrude the Great Catholic Church in West Chester, Ohio join host Nicholas Wansbutter to discuss the announced "canonization" of Karol Wojtyla, also known as John Paul II. In this episode they...

Original Air Date: June 25, 2013 On this episode of The Flagship Show, we will tackle the topic of Catholicism and the United States. In this final show before the July 4th Independence Day holiday here in the United States, H.E. Bishop Daniel Dolan joins Stephen Heiner to discuss the conflicts and harmonies that any American who loves his country must face in also being a faithful Catholic. We wi...

Original Air Date: June 11, 2013 On this episode of Devotions with Bishop Dolan, we will talk about the Stations of the Cross. Is this simply a Lenten devotion? What are the origins of it? Are there other ways of observing the devotion? Join us as His Excellency, Bishop Daniel Dolan, pastor of St. Gertrude the Great Catholic Church in West Chester, Ohio explains this wonderful devotion to our Lord...

Original Air Date: June 7, 2013 Catholic discourse on the philosophy and practice of art, music, and literature and their effects on society, historically and today. Join artist Daniel Mitsui and host Magdalene Zapp for a discussion on Medieval Illuminations in the third episode of The Beautiful Things. Up for discussion will be the idea of art as pictorial language, the clash between pagan civili...

Original Air Date: May 21, 2013 On this episode of the Flagship Show, we will be discussing St. Joseph the Worker. Pope Pius XII instituted the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker as a counteraction to Communism. What inspired this move and was it successful? Following the conversation on St. Joseph, we will then take a look at Rogation Days, Ember Days, and the upcoming feast of Corpus Christi. Join u...

Original Air Date: May 14, 2013 On this episode of Clerical Conversations, we are going to tackle the all-too-prevalent subject today of "marriage equality." You may have seen the ads on TV or on the internet for the new "marriage equality" movement. What does this movement stand for? Has marriage been "unequal" in our society up to this point? What about the language of rights? Is marriage a "civ...

Original Air Date: May 4, 2013 We are pleased to present this inaugural episode of an ongoing monthly show, Devotions with Bishop Dolan. His Excellency is pastor of St. Gertrude the Great Catholic Church in West Chester, Ohio. Each month, His Excellency will discuss a Catholic devotion to further enrich its practice amongst the faithful, but also to educate them on many devotions which may not be...

Original Air Date: May 3, 2013 On the second episode of The Beautiful Things, we will be joined by Peter Mongeau, owner and publisher of Tuscany Press, a company dedicated to the publication of Catholic fiction and poetry. The talk will address not only what place fiction has, if any, in the Catholic life and what role it can play as a means of reviving and re-establishing Catholic culture, but al...

Original Air Date: April 23, 2013 On this episode of Clerical Conversations, we will focus once again on the subject of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. However, this episode will be an insight into the man himself, from those who knew him best. March 25, 2013 will be the 22nd anniversary of Archbishop Lefebvre's death and on this occasion, with all that has been happening within the SSPX as of late, i...

Original Air Date: April 18, 2013 In this inaugural episode of The Beautiful Things we consider various perspectives on the arts. Topics of discussion range from Kant to Aquinas, and attempt to address the question of how Catholics should, or shouldn't, view art. Magdalene Zapp is a life-long writer, a retired painting student in the Dutch Masters tradition, and a former musician dedicated to the...

Original Air Date: March 13, 2013 This month, we introduce a new show to the Restoration Radio Network: Clerical Conversations on the Crisis. This show will be devoted to various topics that deal with not only the issues faced by both clergy and laity during this crisis of the modernist heresy, but also timely topics that need clerical clarity to inform and instruct Catholics. The inaugural broadc...

Original Air Date: March 2, 2013 On this episode of the Flagship Show, we will discuss St. Thomas Aquinas – scholar and saint. While St. Thomas Aquinas has remained a highly controversial figure in the Church's intellectual battles ever since he died, and is a shibboleth, almost, in terms of discovering neo-modermists before Vatican II, it is sometimes forgotten that as well as being the Universal...

Original Air Date: February 27, 2013 On this episode of the Flagship Show, we will conclude our discussion of Benedict XVI with the second part of this series on the legacy of Benedict XVI. Ratzinger as Benedict XVI from 2005-2013 Following his April 2005 election after the death of John Paul II, it was widely predicted that there would be stark differences between Benedict and John Paul II. Many...

Part 1 of 2 - Original Air Date: February 20, 2013 On this episode of the Flagship Show, we are pleased to begin a 2-part series on the legacy of Benedict XVI. This first of two shows will focus on the years 1960-2005. Ratzinger: Theologian and Cardinal (1950–2005) His theological training by professors who advocated the modernist "New Theology" condemned by Pius XII. Ratzinger's rejection of Thom...

Original Air Date: February 14, 2013 On this episode of the Flagship Show, we will discuss the Feast of St. Valentine, Priest and Martyr. The modern world tells us that all we need is "luv" and on this feast day, taints the honor of it with an endless barrage of encouragement towards impurity, promiscuity, and materialism. In the glow of the modern Hallmark holiday that is simply "Valentine's Day"...

Original Air Date: February 11, 2013 On this episode of the Flagship Show, we discuss the breaking news announced today that Father Joseph Ratzinger, also known as Benedict XVI, has made the decision to resign as claimant to the Papacy. An organization such as the Roman Catholic Church that has an over-2000 year existence has both history and precedent. Though it has been almost 1000 years since t...

This first episode of Season 2 released on January 3, 2013. On this month's episode of the Flagship Show, we will discuss the topic of the Chair of St. Peter. It's bad enough that Catholics already get accused of worshipping graven images, but on the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, we might even be accused of "worshipping" a chair. What is the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter? Why are there two fe...

Original Air Date: October 27, 2012 On this month's episode of The Flagship Show, we will discuss the Catholic social doctrine of Christ the King. Americans are taught from a very young age that the separation of Church and State is not only a truism, but that it is something that should be spread to all nations concomitant with the "blessings" of democracy. Thus, the notion of the Kingship of Chr...

This special three hour show on Vatican II originally aired on October 20, 2012. In this month's episode of the Flagship Show, we present a 3 hour in-depth forensic investigation into the Second Vatican Council, the heresies contained within it, and the Catholic reaction to it. This show was graciously sponsored and brought to our listeners free-of-charge by Novus Ordo Watch. Some Catholics believ...

Original Air Date: August 05, 2012 On this month's episode of the Flagship Show, we will discuss the broad subject of Catholic Economic and Political Thought. We will be delving into the social teaching of the Catholic Church, discussing the rights and duties of laymen in the temporal sphere, Catholic economic thought, and the politics of Christ the King. Catholics today are, far too often, imbued...

Original Air Date: July 31, 2012 On this month's episode of the Flagship Show, we discuss the Catholic perspective on the Olympic Games. It is true that even St. Paul referred to the Olympics, in a way, in 1 Corinthians 9, when he refers to the runners running a race in order to obtain a crown. What would St. Paul, and indeed, what should Catholics, think of the modern day Olympics? With the 2012...