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We welcome author and musician Julian Kwasniewski to discuss his latest article in Crisis Magazine. What happens when we become slaves to our tools of technology, and how ought we to live?   Show Notes Five Ways to Stop Modernity From Ravaging Your Mind - Crisis Magazine Resistance Writer by Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. | Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity The Cult of the Imperial Self The In...

This is the new Weekend Readiness segment for today's Let's Talk About This Encore. Be sure to listen to the full episode linked in the show notes.   Show Notes: Podcast Extended: Sunday Mass At St. Typical's (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 4/21/23

This is the new Timeless Thoughts segment for today's Timely Tuesday Encore. Be sure to listen to the full episode linked in the show notes.   Show Notes: Catechesis & Confession (Joe Heschmeyer) 4/18/23

This is the new Weekend Readiness segment for today's Let's Talk About This Encore. Be sure to listen to the full episode linked in the show notes.   Show Notes: Education: Perils and Promise (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 7/21/23

This is the new Timeless Thoughts segment for today's Encore Timely Tuesday. Be sure to listen to the full episode linked in the show notes.   Show Notes: What Happened to Higher Education? (Matt Lamb) 7/18/23

In Let's Talk About This, Father McTeigue walks through his latest article in New Oxford Review. What did some recent travel reveal to him about the state of the Church and the world? Father finishes with Weekend Readiness to help you prepare for the upcoming Sunday Mass, before outlining near future plans for the show. Show Notes: The Cult of the Imperial Self Who Needs Worship? (Fr. Robert McTei...

We welcome John Tierney of The Manhattan Institute to discuss his latest in City Journal about the myth of institutional misogyny and the irrationality of widespread cultural misandry. Who is really being mistreated? What happens when society is structured on valorized victimology? Show Notes: The Misogyny Myth by John Tierney The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the Unive...

We welcome Steven Malanga of The Manhattan Institute to discuss his latest in City Journal about the effects of retail theft. The claim is that stores are being looted by hungry people in order to feed their children. What does the data show, and how does widespread theft impact the local community?   Show Notes: Myth of the Starving Shoplifter by Steven Malanga The Return of Urban Retail Deserts...

We welcome Charles Fain Lehman of the Manhattan Institute to discuss his latest in City Journal about fentanyl abuse. Why is this no longer an issue simply for large cities, and why have attempts to solve the issue been ineffective? Father finishes with some Timeless Thoughts on pain management. Snow Notes: This Is Your City on Fentanyl by Charles Fain Lehman The fentanyl crisis is worsening under...

We welcome Dr. Joshua Katz of the American Enterprise Institute to discuss his latest in City Journal about higher education. Two organizations recently ranked universities, and the rankings differ dramatically. Why do many of the so-called elite universities rank so low in regard to free speech? Show Notes: Ranking Colleges by Free Speech Commitment | City Journal Do Humanists Care about Academic...

In Let's Talk About This, Father McTeigue discusses the latest dubia submitted by some of the Cardinals of the Church. How were the simple yes-or-no questions answered, and why ask in the first place? Father finishes with Weekend Readiness to help you prepare for the upcoming Sunday Mass. Please pray for Fr. McTeigue as he begins his annual retreat. Show Notes: Full Text of New Dubia Sent to Pope...

We welcome Anna Reynolds of Crisis Magazine to discuss the odd scenario of couples desiring to have more kids but choosing not to do so. What policies and worldviews have created such a family-unfriendly society?   Show Notes: Why Are Americans Having Fewer Children Than They Want? - Crisis Magazine A Catholic Take on the Declining Birth Rate What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Comin...

We welcome back John Horvat of Tradition, Family, and Property to discuss the latest Apostolic Exhortation on the environment. Why has a particular set of scientific conclusions been painted with a false sense of infallibility? What moral weight does the document itself hold?   Show Notes: "Laudate Deum": Apostolic Exhortation (4 October 2023) | Vatican The American Society for the Defense of Trad...

We welcome back Steve Pokorny of Freedom Coaching to discuss breaking up with pornography. What lies of the enemy are at the heart of those compulsions, and how can one find healing in Christ? Be sure to check the Show Notes, as Steve has a very generous offer for listeners of The Catholic Current. Show Notes: The Break Up Letter to Pornography Freedom Coaching | Mention The Catholic Current in Ap...

We welcome back Sarah Cain, known as The Crusader Gal to discuss the need to admit the spiritual war at hand. Can we be in any way rooted in the Gospel when living under the false notion that we have no enemies? Who benefits from our normalcy bias?   Show Notes We Must Acknowledge Our Enemies - by Sarah Cain They're Ranking Churches Now – PJ Media Isaiah's Job Christendom Lost and Found: Meditatio...

Did you miss the last day of Ask Father during the On-Air Appeal? Check out his answers to your questions sent in, and please consider donating to The Station of the Cross to help us continue the great work of The Catholic Current. The Station of the Cross 2023 Fall Appeal: Heaven Is Our Home Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

Did you miss day four of Ask Father during the On-Air Appeal? Check out his answers to your questions sent in, and please consider donating to The Station of the Cross to help us continue the great work of The Catholic Current. The Station of the Cross 2023 Fall Appeal: Heaven Is Our Home Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

Did you miss day three of Ask Father during the On-Air Appeal? Check out his answers to your questions sent in, and please consider donating to The Station of the Cross to help us continue the great work of The Catholic Current. The Station of the Cross 2023 Fall Appeal: Heaven Is Our Home Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

Did you miss day two of Ask Father during the On-Air Appeal? Check out his answers to your questions sent in, and please consider donating to The Station of the Cross to help us continue the great work of The Catholic Current. The Station of the Cross 2023 Fall Appeal: Heaven Is Our Home Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

Did you miss day one of Ask Father during the On-Air Appeal? Check out his answers to your questions sent in, and please consider donating to The Station of the Cross to help us continue the great work of The Catholic Current. The Station of the Cross 2023 Fall Appeal: Heaven Is Our Home Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

In Let's Talk About This, Father McTeigue discusses the new book by Andrew Isker, The Boniface Option. We're living in a sick system made sick by design. Why are so many hesitant and unable to admit this? More importantly, what do we do about it? Father finishes with Weekend Readiness to help you prepare for the upcoming Sunday Mass. Show Notes The Boniface Option: A Strategy For Christian Counter...

We welcome José Antonio Ureta and Julio Loredo de Izcue - the authors of a brand new book on the Synod available for free through Tradition, Family, and Property. Why write a book-length warning about the synod, and what has the response been since its publication? The Synodal Process Is a Pandora's Box: 100 Questions & Answers - eBook - TFP Cardinal Burke drops bombshell on Synod of 'ideology...

We're honored to welcome back Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Kazakhstan to continue our week-long critique of the upcoming Synod of Synodality. How is the current form of "synodality" undermining the nature and the purpose of the Church? Show Notes Credo - Sophia Institute Press A New "Synodal Church" Undermines the Catholic Church "Suffocated by Meetings" - Bishop Schneider on Synodality Prominen...

We welcome back Eric Sammons of Crisis Magazine to continue the conversation on the upcoming Synod of Synodality. With all the issues in the Church and the world, why focus on the things outlined the Instrumentum Laboris? Father finishes with Timely Thoughts.   Snow Notes Regimini Militantis Ecclesiae New dates for the Synod on Synodality The Lies of Synodality - Crisis Magazine Be Angry - Crisis...

We welcome back Fr. Gerald Murray of EWTN to begin our week of discussions on the upcoming Synod of Synodality. Can this even properly be called a Synod? How are faithful Catholics to keep their peace without running to various forms of Hopium and Copium? Show Notes Full text of "Critical Study Of New Mass Ottaviani Intervention" The World Over September 21, 2023 | Synod Central Code of Canon Law...