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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 Coming Demographic Disaster - Jonathan V Last Demographic Winter (2008) - IMDb Real Philosophy for Real People: Tools for Truthful Living - Audiobook Now Available! Like Mother, Like Daughter Dad, how do I? - YouTube 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 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 Tradition, Family and Property Return to Order The Book | Return to Order: From A Frenzied Economy to An Organic Christian Society – Where We've Been, How We Got Here, and Where We Need to Go Real Philosophy for Real People: Tools for Truthful Living - Audiobook Now Available! The Vatican's New Exhortation On "Climate Change" Has Many Errors – William M. Briggs New papal document puts climate change before faith [news analysis] | News Headlines | Catholic Culture Laudate Deum: Pope Francis' Mistaken Apocalypse - Crisis Magazine 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 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 Application Message for Free Session Redeemed Vision: Setting the Blind Free from the Pornified Culture How to unite mind, soul, and body against sin Why can't we reason with pain and sin? Can pain be a near occasion of sin? Why do we desire what's bad for us? Hooked: New Science on How Casual Sex is Affecting Our Children What the Internet Does to Our Brains 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 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: Meditations for a Post Post-Christian Era 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!  

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 Counteroffensive in a Post-Christian Nation | Andrew Isker Mere Christendom: The Case for Bringing Christianity Back into Modern Culture - Leading by Faith to Convert Secularism | Douglas Wilson Sunday Mass At St. Typical's (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 4/21/23 Leading Cause of Death by Age and State (2001-2002 vs 2020-2021) A Brief History of Our Annihilation - Crisis Magazine Christendom Lost and Found: Meditations for a Post Post-Christian Era The Kind of Election We Are Not Going to Have | Doug Wilson Live Not By Lies...At Least Not Lots of Them | Doug Wilson Isker, Dreher, and Me | Doug Wilson 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 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' and 'schism' - Catholic Herald 'The Synod Process Is a Pandora's Box': A Cry of Alarm That Raises Hopes Prominent CoE convert warns of synodal dangers - The Irish Catholic Courage International Resources - Courage International, Inc. 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'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 Prominent CoE convert warns of synodal dangers - The Irish Catholic INSTRUMENTUM LABORIS 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 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 Magazine Prominent CoE convert warns of synodal dangers - The Irish Catholic Real Philosophy for Real People: Tools for Truthful Living - Audiobook Now Available! Beware of "Hopium" and "Copium" The Overton Window 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. 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 - THE SYNOD OF BISHOPS Instrumentum Laboris | Synod.va Heads of Germany's synodal way seek papal talks on resolutions Prominent CoE convert warns of synodal dangers - The Irish Catholic True Obedience in the Church: A Guide to Discernment in Challenging Times Calming the Storm: Navigating the Crises Facing the Catholic Church and Society 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 Dawn Eden Goldstein to discuss the history of Alcoholics Anonymous. Who was Father Edward Dowling, and how did his Jesuit vocation help shape the development of AA? We're then given a message of hope from one who benefited from the work of AA. Show Notes Father Ed: The Story of Bill W's Spiritual Sponsor The Dawn Patrol: UPCOMING TALKS & MEDIA APPEARANCES Sacred Heart Church How to unite mind, soul, and body against sin Why can't we reason with pain and sin? Can pain be a near occasion of sin? Why do we desire what's bad for us? 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!