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We welcome back historian and friend of the show Dr. Darrick Taylor to examine how the Church's relationship with the modern world has changed since Vatican II. What have Catholics gained and lost in trying to keep pace with a culture that has changed so dramatically?
 
Show Notes
Kneeling Before the World, 60 Years On
A Catholic seminary in New Jersey that once trained boys for the priesthood is set to become the fourth campus of an expanding Islamic school network
My Appeal to Pope Leo XIV: The TLM Is Easier for Me to Actively Participate In
A Remaining Christmas (Hilaire Belloc)
In Tune With The World
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We welcome licensed moral theologian Eamonn Clarke to discuss the legacy of Amoris Laetitia ten years after its publication. Has the push for a more flexible pastoral response created greater confusion about marriage, annulments, and cohabitation? Father finishes with Timely Thoughts.
 
Show Notes
The Revenge of Amoris Laetitia
Ten years after Amoris laetitia: proclaiming the Gospel with families today
Amoris Laetitia - Thematic Framework
Precepts of the Church: Basic Norms for Active Catholics
The Number One Reason for Divorce… and How to Avoid It
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Why does evil smile? Father McTeigue takes a closer look at the recent abortion legislation in Massachusetts and New Jersey. He is perplexed at why Governor Mikie Sherrill and Governor Maura Healey would sign this harmful legislation with glee despite both being Catholic. Using context from history, Father McTeigue examines why evil operates without remorse and with a smile.
Watch on YouTube: Why Does Evil Smile?

Fr. Robert McTeigue continues his "Novel Prophecies" series with Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World Revisited. Huxley warned that propaganda and technology could make people easier to control. Are we seeing some of that today, and if so, what can we do about it? Father finishes with Weekend Readiness to help prepare you for Sunday Mass.
 
Show Notes
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
The Inner Ring
76 Fallacies
Propaganda Watch | The Corbett Report
Daily Readings - Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
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We welcome back Karl Denninger from Market Ticker to evaluate the economic issues facing America, from runaway debt and rising healthcare costs to job losses and the AI boom. How serious are these problems, and what can ordinary Americans do now to prepare?
 
Show Notes
So Perhaps My Podcast Was A Bit Of A Downer...
You Have Died Of Mathematics
The Market Ticker
Leverage: How Cheap Money Will Destroy the World
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Father McTeigue examines the current conflict between Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua, and the Catholic Church. Although history may not repeat itself, similar patterns from the Cristero War are arising in this conflict. Is this a sign of a new bloodbath to come? Father takes a closer look.
Watch on YouTube: Cristero War 2.0?

We welcome back friend of the show Matt Archbold to examine the growing rejection of truth in our culture. What happens when truth is replaced by ideology, and how can Catholics remain faithful to Christ in a culture that increasingly rejects the good, the true, and the beautiful? Father finishes with Timeless Thoughts.
 
Show Notes
Whom Do You Serve?
Catholic Governor Approves Abortion Up Until Birth
The Massachusetts bishops' polite collapse
Cambridge academics reject university’s attempt to end row over Jason Arday
Who Hired the Ridiculous Jason Arday at Cambridge? I Have the Names.
Catholic priest gets tens of thousands of baseball fans to exchange the Sign of Peace during game between Chicago White Sox and Cincinnati Reds
University of Michigan Will Hide Letter Grades for Freshman Students’ Mental Health
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Which saint do we most need to hear from today? Father McTeigue has in mind a martyr whose heroic death has overshadowed his great words of wisdom—words that can help us make our way through the current crisis. 
Watch on YouTube: The Saint We Need Right Now

Fr. Robert McTeigue continues his "Novel Prophecies" series with Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, a novel about a society in which suffering has been largely eliminated at the cost of freedom, family, and individuality. What does Huxley’s imagined world tell us about the things that people are willing to give up for an easier life? Father finishes with Weekend Readiness to help prepare you for Sunday Mass.
 
Show Notes
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
The Far Side - Sheep Cartoon
How To Be a Nonconformist: 22 Irreverent Illustrated Steps to Counterculture Cred from 1968
Cheese Lovers Unite: The Benefits of Full-Fat Dairy Documented in Study Without Cholesterol Rise or Weight Gain
Chesterton on Cheese
Daily Readings - Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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We welcome back William M. Briggs, known as Statistician to the Stars, to take up the question of whether there are things we can know for certain about right and wrong. How do faith, reason, and logic help us to spot the difference between a sound moral argument and a persuasive one that is simply incorrect?
 
Show Notes
Hume’s Guillotine, Euclid’s Catapult: Induction, Axioms, and Objective Ethics
Right And Reason: Ethics in Theory and Practice
Can Bayesianism Quantify True Belief?
Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air
Thomas Aquinas: The Division and Methods of the Sciences
Real Philosophy for Real People
W.M. Briggs: Statistician to the Stars!
Science Is Not The Answer
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Father Robert McTeigue, S.J. examines pride as the worst of the seven deadly sins and shows how pride both inverts reality and separates us from God.
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We welcome back child advocate attorney Liz Yore to discuss Europe's growing migration crisis, including the mass crossings at Ceuta and Lampedusa and questions surrounding unaccompanied minors. How should Catholics respond to the Church's response to the crisis, and what will continued mass migration mean for European society and its Christian communities? Father finishes with Timely Thoughts.
 
Show Notes
Lampedusa Migrant Production: The Gospel According to PR Stunts
ceuta 2.0: armies march on their stomachs
The Foreigner as Curse: A Holistic Reading of the Old Testament on Migration
Ceuto: the failure of liberal immigration rhetoric
White Slavery in the Barbary States
Ignorant or Wicked? Does God "loathe" the Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury?
The Spiritual Crisis Destroying Europe
The Impossibility of Proposition Nations
The Rape Gang Inquiry Report
Yore Children
Ban Sharia
Ceuta: The Time-Lapse Photo Of Western Collapse
The $1.2B Refugee Services Program that Funds Pro-Asylum Religious Groups
Catholic bishops of Massachusetts statement opposing late-term abortion bill
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Father Robert McTeigue continues his series on the seven deadly sins. In so doing, he takes a closer look at the dangerous desire for temporal things that can never truly satisfy.
Watch on YouTube: The Most Promising Sin?

Fr. Robert McTeigue continues his "Novel Prophecies" series with Robert Hugh Benson's The Dawn of All, imagining a society where the Catholic faith shapes education, politics, and everyday life. Is Benson describing an impossible ideal, or reminding us of something we've forgotten? Father concludes with Weekend Readiness to help prepare you for Sunday Mass.
 
Show Notes
The Dawn of All
After Stranger Gives Boy a Piano, a ‘Mozart Level’ Is Revealed in Spite of Autism
Daily Readings - Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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We welcome back political commentator and friend of the show Bill Whittle to discuss the rise of autonomous weapons and the growing role of artificial intelligence in war. As the human role in combat continues to shrink, what becomes of accountability, restraint, and mercy?
 
Show Notes
LIFE and DEATH on the Modern Battlefield
The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
The Night They Burned Shanghai
The Bedford Incident
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Colossus
Fail Safe
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