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On this month's episode of the Liturgical Year we will dive into two very important days in the Church's calendar. First we will discuss Palm Sunday: its history, traditions, and the unfortunate changes which can be observed in the 1962 Rite and beyond. We will then move on to Maundy Thursday, also known as Holy Thursday, and we will examine the ceremony itself, the blessing of holy oils, and the...

On this episode of The Liturgical Year, we get ready for Lent next month, and Father will tackle two penitential feasts: the Ember Days and the start of Quadragesima itself: Ash Wednesday. Learn about this history of these feasts and what we should be meditating on in order to get the most out of these upcoming celebrations. We will also be discussing the vesting process of the priest - the prayer...

Yet another new show for Season 3 of Restoration Radio, we introduce The Liturgical Year. We think the Liturgy - the public prayer of the Church - is experienced best when we, as laypeople, bring more understanding and appreciation of specific feasts to each Mass. This month's episode will focus on two important February feasts: Candlemas and St. Blase. Join host Stephen Heiner and show guest Fr....

Clerical Conversations finishes Season 3 by discussing college and careers: what are young people to do in their high school years as they prepare for life on their own. Bishop Daniel Dolan and Father Anthony Cekada share their many decades of pastoral experience and discuss the importance (or non-importance) of college, the folly of making money your primary object in choosing a career, the impor...

This month on Clerical Conversations on the Crisis, we continue in a similar fashion with commentary which springboards off of last month's show to have a discussion about the military, what today's military culture is, and the Catholic response to it. How do our puppet masters use the military as the action arm to advance their agenda through endless war and why does it appeal to the young -- eve...

This month on Clerical Conversations on the Crisis, we return to the air after our summer break with a tour de force of solid Catholic commentary on many news stories which have arisen over the Summer of 2014 A.D. across the globe and also in the United States. We begin by dispelling the naturalist concept that has been force-fed down the throats of both Clergy and laity alike that the Clergy have...

This month on Clerical Conversations on the Crisis, taking as our starting point a recent article featured on the UK Telegraph, entitled "How a Protestant Spin Machine Hid the Truth about the English Reformation," we will discuss the Protestant Revolt in England and the parallels to be drawn with our own time.. From here we will move to discuss the effect of propaganda, and look at the propaganda...

On this month's episode of Clerical Conversations on the Crisis, we will tackle several topics of recurring interest to traditional Catholics. Following up on the January Flagships show, we will discuss the pros and cons of relocation for the sacraments from a clerical perspective. Is it a moral imperative to move to be closer to the sacraments? Can one settle for attendance at an S.S.P.X. Mass if...

On this month's episode of Clerical Conversations on the Crisis, we will tackle two topics that are both timely and topical. As time marches on and annulments have become almost as widespread as a pandemic, how are Catholics today to understand Novus Ordo annulments and deal with them in their daily lives amongst family & friends? What are the effects on children and how should that be dealt with?...

On this month's episode of Clerical Conversations on the Crisis, we will bring a second installment of last month's show theme Sports Build Character? Part 1. His Excellency and Father will respond to several question themes given to us by listeners, and then will continue to expound on their thoughts from last month's show. They will dig deeper into the modern understanding of sport and its place...

Restoration Radio presents its own version of a "Super Bowl Sunday" special: "Sports Build Character? Part 1." We have all heard this, but is it so, or is there more to it? In today's modern world, sports has been placed on a lofty pedestal of central importance in the lives of modern men. TV, radio, and internet provide 24/7 wall-to-wall coverage of everything imaginable related to sports and ath...

Kicking off Season 3 of Restoration Radio's Clerical Conversations on the Crisis, we are restructuring the show back to its original intent - to discuss modern issues facing Catholics across a broad spectrum of topics. On this episode, we will break the show into three parts: (A) Right vs. Left Politics: we will discuss the philosophy behind this, and why it simply is a distraction from real issue...

In this episode of Pastoralia, we take a few steps backward from our look at Catholic child rearing to discuss the Catholic ideal of courtship. Blind and infatuated worldlings date in order to date, with perhaps only the remotest thought to the permanence of marriage. Why, then, does a Catholic not merely date for the sake of dating? We begin our episode with a look at the purposes of courtship, w...

On this season's inaugural episode of "Pastoralia," we pick up where we left off last season, in the second of two episodes devoted to understanding Catholic parenting and child rearing. My, how these children have grown in just a few months! Diapers and strollers have given way to increasingly independent pre-teens and teenagers. It is on these older children that we focus in this episode, again...

On this month's episode of Pastoralia, we take on a perennial topic in part 1 of a 2 part discussion: the Catholic understanding of parenting and the raising of children. This is a topic which is obscured and largely influenced by a cacophony of noise from modern pop psychology and pseudo-intellectual modern parenting books. We begin the conversation with a discussion of the child-rearing theories...

On this month's episode of Pastoralia, we tackle a subject that is somewhat confusing to the laity and accompanies with it some degree of fear: Extreme Unction and Last Rites. We will begin by having a deep discussion of what exactly this Sacrament is, what it is not, and understanding the difference between Extreme Unction and the Last Rites. After we examine the nature of the Sacrament, then we...

On this month's episode of Pastoralia, we return to talk about the Sacrament of Confession. While we may consider this topic to be understood by most practicing Catholics, there is never enough discussion both on the fruits of the Sacrament, but also on the various orbital topics that go along with it. Before we begin the topic itself, we begin the program by first making a slight detour per liste...

On this month's episode of Pastoralia, we are going to tackle some topics in the practical order which have probably touched all of us at one time or another. We will be talking about the many things that relate to the body and its external appearances. We will discuss such things as tattoos, piercings, jewelry, plastic surgery, going to the gym, yoga, massages, and other such things. What is the...

On this episode of Pastoralia, we're going to take on the difficult subject of how to live, work, and get along with people who don't just differ in belief from us, but may be actively working against Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Church. We will cover: practicing homosexuals, people living in sin, people who are divorced or remarried, people with annulments from SSPX or the Novus Ordo, single mot...

On this month's episode of Pastoralia we will be discussing several topics that face Catholics at some point in time in their lives. We will be starting with Godparenting - how many "children" should I have, who's qualified, can I ask a priest, what are the qualifications, etc. We will move into the clerical dress topic of clericals vs. cassocks - is Father a modernist for wearing clericals? We wi...

Following last month's episode on proper etiquette towards clerics, this month's Pastoralia takes on etiquette and comportment at Mass. We will be discussing a wide variety of topics that at one time or another, we have all wondered to ourselves what we should be doing, such as: When should one arrive and leave for Holy Mass? What should I be wearing for Sunday Mass versus a weekday Mass? If the b...

Restoration Radio returns to the airwaves in 2014 with the launch of Pastoralia. This show will attempt to answer important questions that aren't always addressed in sermons or catechisms. Our first episode takes on an important topic: how should we behave towards priests in and out of church? How should we conduct ourselves in correspondence? What are general principles to help guide our behavior...

On this month's episode of Work of Human Hands, we will now transition from laying the groundwork of the New Mass by the revisers into looking forensically at the changes themselves. We begin with the Introductory Rites, and it does not take more than the sign of the cross to begin seeing the radical makeover, the prayers stripped, and the theology revolutionarily changed in the mass of Paul VI. W...

On this month's episode of Work of Human Hands, we will be discussing the results of the groundwork that was laid out in last episode, where we discussed the idea of theological makeover of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as an assembly. With all the groundwork in place to radically re-make the liturgy, now we focus on what those re-made aspects resulted in as it relates to the externals of both th...

On this month's episode of Work of Human Hands, we will be discussing in great detailThe Ottaviani Intervention, it's background, principal objections, effects, and key figures. Anyone familiar with the fight for Tradition will know well the name Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, but might not be quite familiar with his earth-shaking criticisms of the New Mass of Paul VI. When we study these writings, w...