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Did you miss the live version 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. 2024 Spring On-Air Appeal: "This is My Body... This is My Blood." Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

Did you miss the live version 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. 2024 Spring On-Air Appeal: "This is My Body... This is My Blood." Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

Did you miss the live version 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. 2024 Spring On-Air Appeal: "This is My Body... This is My Blood." Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

Did you miss the live version 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. 2024 Spring On-Air Appeal: "This is My Body... This is My Blood." Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

This is the new Weekend Readiness segment for today's Remastered Let's Talk About This episode. Be sure to listen to the full episode linked in the show notes. Show Notes Finding, Remembering, and Sharing Wisdom (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 2/16/24 Read Fr. McTeigue’s Written Works! Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

We welcome back Joseph Pearce for another episode from his series in Crisis Magazine on the Unsung Heroes of Christendom: this time highlighting Roy Campbell. What does a 20th century poet have to do with the preservation of the writings of St. John of the Cross, and why has he been all-but written out of history? Show Notes Joseph's Website Unsung Heroes of Christendom - Crisis Magazine A Convert Among Communists and Carmelites - Crisis Magazine Unafraid of Virginia Woolf: The Friends and Enemies of Roy Campbell | Joseph Pearce C.S. Lewis & Roy Campbell: The Best of Friends & Enemies - Crisis Magazine Poems Every Catholic Should Know The Man Who Saved the Papers of St. John of the Cross ~ The Imaginative Conservative The Poems of St. John of the Cross - Translated by Roy Campbell The flaming terrapin by Roy Campbell The Georgiad : a satirical fantasy in verse by Roy Campbell Read Fr. McTeigue’s Written Works! Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

We welcome back Joseph Pearce for another episode from his series in Crisis Magazine on the Unsung Heroes of Christendom, this time highlighting St. Nicholas Owen. What can this master craftsman teach us about bravery and self sacrifice, and how is it that his story is not better known? Show Notes Joseph's Website Unsung Heroes of Christendom - Crisis Magazine The Unsung St. Nicholas - Crisis Magazine What Fr. John Gerard’s escape teaches us now | Catholic Culture Faith of Our Fathers The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest: Fr. John Gerard, S.J. Campion's 'Brag' | EWTN Read Fr. McTeigue’s Written Works! Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

This is the new Timeless Thoughts segment for today's Remastered Timely Tuesday episode. Be sure to listen to the full episode linked in the show notes. Shote Notes Catholicism Is About Swords (Fr. John Perricone) 3/12/24 The Great Shantytown Plausibility Structure | Doug Wilson Interview with NYU protester: "I really don't know... [turns to friend] Why are we protesting here?" | Not the Bee Reality Rejected: New NPR CEO Says 'There Are Many Truths' - Intellectual Takeout Read Fr. McTeigue’s Written Works! Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

We welcome back Matt Archbold of Creative Minority Report to once again discuss the madness in the world and the sanity of Christ. What happens when man attempts to create "Heaven on Earth"? Show Notes Feds Mandate Time Off for Abortion Joe Biden Makes the Sign of the Cross at an Abortion Rally Pennsylvania Priest Arrested. But Don’t Worry, It’s Just a Candy Crush Addiction. The Far Right’s Campaign to Explode the Population | Politico Biden administration redefines sex discrimination in Title IX to include ‘gender identity’ – Catholic World Report Teen Girls Refuse to Throw Shotput Against Male after Court Tosses Law Banning Boys from Competing in Girl’s Category Don’t Homeschool Your Kids, They’ll be Weird. Meanwhile, Students at Public School Walkout After Being Attacked by Furries. Seriously. Interview with NYU protester: "I really don't know... [turns to friend] Why are we protesting here?" | Not the Bee Pittsburgh police will no longer respond to calls that are not ‘in-progress’ emergencies amid resource crunch | The Post Millennial Criminal Attacks On American Churches Up 800 Percent In Last Six Years Tracker: Over 400 Attacks on U.S. Catholic Churches Since May 2020 - CatholicVote org The Screwtape Letters Narrated by John Cleese - Complete Read Fr. McTeigue’s Written Works! Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

In Let's Talk About This, Fr. McTeigue discusses what to with discouragement and desolation. How do we fight back against our spiritual enemies? He finishes with Weekend Readiness to help you prepare for the upcoming Sunday Mass. Show Notes St Ignatius of Loyola’s Prayer Against Depression – EWTN Global Catholic Television Network Depressed? Demoralized? What’s the Difference? (Fr. Robert McTeigue S.J.) 6/10/22 Christian resilience is not what you think What Should You Do When You Are Discouraged? The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times Doomscrolling Past Christ When It’s Time to Fast from the News Doomscrolling Past Christ (Dr. Darrick Taylor) 8/15/22 "Devout Catholic" Joe Biden makes sign of the cross at pro-abortion rally to deride Florida's abortion ban | Not the Bee Black athletic director of Baltimore high school arrested for creating AI deepfake of white principal to stage race hoax | The Post Millennial Tennessee passes death penalty for child rapists. Here's some of the twisted reasoning why some Dems opposed it. 59-year-old Breaks Women’s World Record for the Longest Time in an Abdominal Plank Position Read Fr. McTeigue’s Written Works! Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

We welcome back Leila Lawler to discuss do-something-ism, McTeigue's Axiom, and unsatisfactory attempts at Eucharistic Revival. Can revival ever occur if those in charge refuse to address the problems that got us in our current position? Show Notes Eucharistic revival is not something our bishops know about Like Mother, Like Daughter Eucharistic devotion cut off at knees: two little examples The 8th National Eucharist Congress | October 17-20, 1938 The Catechesis of Tradition – Padre Peregrino Catholic Art Institute Catholic Art Institute - YouTube Retrieving Sacred Art (Kathleen Carr) 4/9/24 Eucharistic Art & Culture (Kathleen Carr) 4/23/24 Contagious Faith: Why the Church Must Spread Hope, Not Fear in a Pandemic: Philip F. Lawler Read Fr. McTeigue’s Written Works! Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

We welcome back Dr. Catherine Palaluk of The Catholic University of America to continue the discussion on her latest book through Regnery Publishing, Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth. What are the effects of many years of denigrating motherhood and family life? Show Notes Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth Women Defying the Birth Dearth (Dr. Catherine Pakaluk) 2/8/24 The Women Defying America’s Birth Dearth: An Interview with Catherine Pakaluk ━ The European Conservative Q&A with Catherine Pakaluk, Author of Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth The State Can't Save the American Family Seoul, South Korea Considers Paying Couples $72,500 Bonus per Baby What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster When Medicine Mandates Murder The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God: George Weigel Rerum Novarum: On Capital and Labor (Pope Leo XIII, 1891) Read Fr. McTeigue’s Written Works! Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

We welcome back Kathleen Carr of the Sacred Art Institute to discuss beauty, liturgy, and the cultivation of good aesthetic taste. Why is sacred art so compelling, and why does it inspire so many conversions? Father Finishes with Timely Thoughts. Show Notes Sacred Art & Adoration Presentation: The Eucharist as a Source of Beautiful Art & Culture | Catholic Art Institute Vision of Paschal Bayolon by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Mediocrity Will Convert No One, but Beauty Will: The Purpose of Sacred Art in the Modern World| National Catholic Register Catholic Art Institute Catholic Art Institute - YouTube Conference 2024 | Catholic Art Institute Liturgical Arts Journal The Difference of an Interior Restoration: St. Mary's in Menasha, WI ~ Liturgical Arts Journal Before and After: Holy Innocents in Long Beach, California ~ Liturgical Arts Journal Before and After: St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Janesville, Wisconsin ~ Liturgical Arts Journal Looking for Jesus at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Letter to Artists, (April 4, 1999) | John Paul II Good Music, Sacred Music, and Silence: Three Gifts of God for Liturgy and for Life Does the Church Need Good Music? (Dr. Peter Kwasniewski) 7/13/23 Do Catholics Really Need Beauty? (Cornelius Sullivan) 8/28/18 Diocese of Brooklyn Eucharistic Revival Mass at Louis Armstrong Stadium (Queens, NY) The 8th National Eucharist Congress | October 17-20, 1938 Read Fr. McTeigue’s Written Works! Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

On this special podcast-extended episode welcome back Fr. Tad of the National Catholic Bioethics Center to dive deep in discussion of controversial topics of human fertility, IVF, and the concept of embryo adoption. What are the moral issues involved in these beginning of life processes, and at this point what can be done for the children left in these cryogenic orphanages? Show Notes Father Tad’s Website The National Catholic Bioethics Center Making Sense of Bioethics FatherTad.com | Lectures Father Tad — The Struggle of Infertility Father Tad — Why is IVF Wrong? Making Sense of Bioethics: Column #217 : Poking the Hornet’s Nest of IVF Making Sense of Bioethics: Column #216 : Surrogacy and Child Trafficking Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 006: Babies in Test Tubes Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 013: Thawing the Frozen Embryo Myths Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 035: Fire in the Clinic! Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 048: What Should We Do with the Frozen Embryos? Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 066: Humans in "Frozen Orphanages" Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 137: Orphans in Liquid Nitrogen Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 165: It’s Not Just About the Frozen Embryos Instruction Dignitas Personae on Certain Bioethical Questions, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith The Frozen Embryo Problem Instruction on Respect for Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation: Replies to Certain Questions of the Day Adoption: Prayer and Educational Resources | USCCB The Concentration Can: When Does Human Life Begin? an Eminent Geneticist Testifies: Lejeune, Jerome Pope Paul VI Institute The Gianna Center | Catholic Health Want a Baby? Get the App! - Let’s Talk About This (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 09/24/21 Selling Embryos & Making A Killing (Dr. Tara Sander Lee) 7/10/23 Women & Children For Sale (Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse) 1/24/24 An Honest Look at IVF (Leila Lawler) 3/4/24 Read Fr. McTeigue’s Written Works! Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

In Let's Talk About This, Fr. McTeigue finishes his week long analysis of Dignitas Infinita. What is the most important duty of the Church, and what might the emphasis in recent Vatican documents lead one to believe the answer is? What context must we read this document in? He finishes with Weekend Readiness to help you prepare for the upcoming Sunday Mass. Show Notes Declaration of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith “Dignitas Infinita” on Human Dignity Tametsi Futura Prospicientibus (November 1, 1900) | LEO XIII Dignitas Infinita and the Idolization of Man - Crisis Magazine On the Question of Human Dignity - The Lepanto Institute The Cult of the Imperial Self A Brief Reader on the Virtues of the Human Heart - Josef Pieper PE Coach Pairs Unmotivated Students to Run with Shelter Dogs–Adoptions Soar Read Fr. McTeigue’s Written Works! Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

We welcome back Dr. Michael Pakaluk of the Catholic University of America to discuss Grace, sin, and the odd silences within Dignitas Infinita. Why is the Gospel urgency missing from a document on human dignity, and what has replaced it? Show Notes Dr. Pakaluk Tweet: "I’ve so far only defended 'Infinity Dignity' in print. But there’s plenty wrong with it..." What’s Right about ‘Infinite Dignity’ - The Catholic Thing The Dangers of Half-Truths | Michael Pakaluk | First Things The Other Footnote in Amoris Laetitia | Michael Pakaluk | First Things By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment Yes, Some Moral Acts Are Disordered—Here’s Why – Catholic World Report Can There Ever Be a Just War? (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 03/25/22 Anger: When is It Time to Pull the Pin? SUMMA THEOLOGIAE: The vices opposed to perseverance (Secunda Secundae Partis, Q. 138) The Catechism of The Council of Trent Read Fr. McTeigue’s Written Works! Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

We welcome back Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse from The Ruth Institute to discuss the strong statements against gender ideology within Dignitas Infinita. How can this document be useful for Catholics working in the public square? Show Notes Declaration of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith “Dignitas Infinita” on Human Dignity Is the Pope Catholic After All? | Jennifer Roback Morse and The Ruth Institute Substack Jennifer Roback Morse and The Ruth Institute Substack Yes, Some Moral Acts Are Disordered—Here’s Why – Catholic World Report Gender Ideology’s Verbal Engineering| National Catholic Register Gender Ideology’s Verbal Engineering, Part 2: An Irrational Agenda That Few Want| National Catholic Register Believe data, not activists: Transgenderism among kids is mostly a fad The Ruth Institute Allied Organizations | #ResistPride The Ruth Institute | Top 5 Myths Dr J Show Archives – Ruth Institute The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies are Destroying Lives and Why the Church Was Right All Along A Brief History of Our Annihilation - Crisis Magazine The Ruth Institute's Transgender Resource Center Courage International Who Is Silencing Therapists? (Fr. Paul Sullins) 1/3/24 Why Transgenderism? Why Now? (Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse/Dr. Paul Hruz) 11/7/22 Read Fr. McTeigue’s Written Works! Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

We welcome back Fr. John Perricone of Iona College to continue the discussion on Dignitas Infinita. What does Catholic tradition have to say about the true nature of human dignity? Fr. McTeigue finishes with Timely Thoughts. Show Notes Declaration of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith “Dignitas Infinita” on Human Dignity Sacrosanctum Concilium: A Lawyer Examines the Loopholes On the Question of Human Dignity - The Lepanto Institute Does Jesus Love You Just the Way You Are? - Crisis Magazine Is Opposition to Illegal Immigration a Sin? - Crisis Magazine By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment Can There Ever Be a Just War? (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 03/25/22 The First (Bitter) Fruits of Synodality (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 11/17/23 The Screwtape Letters Narrated by John Cleese - Complete Read Fr. McTeigue’s Written Works! Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

We welcome back Dr. Anne Hendershott of Franciscan University of Steubenville to begin our week-long discussion on Dignitas Infinita. What is moral mumbling, and what ought to have been highlighted in the document? Is this all the Church can say about human dignity? Show Notes Declaration of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith “Dignitas Infinita” on Human Dignity Hiring for Mission at Catholic Colleges and Universities - Crisis Magazine Yes, Some Moral Acts Are Disordered—Here’s Why – Catholic World Report The Politics of Envy - Dr. Anne Hendershott Status Envy: The Politics of Catholic Higher Education The Politics of Deviance: Dr. Anne Hendershott Real Philosophy for Real People: Tools for Truthful Living - Audiobook Now Available! What’s Catholic about Catholic Higher Education? (Dr. Anne Hendershott) 3/6/24 Read Fr. McTeigue’s Written Works! Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!