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We welcome back seasoned journalist Erika Ahern to examine why many modern churches became plain or ugly, tracing causes from the Reformation and Enlightenment to 20th-century trauma and post‑conciliar changes. Has a loss of reverence and faith in the Eucharist shaped our worship spaces? Father finishes with Timely Thoughts.
Show Notes
The Real Reason Modern Catholic Churches Are Ugly | The Deep
Ugly As Sin: Why They Changed Our Churches from Sacred Places to Meeting Spaces-And How We Can Change Them Back Again
Duncan G. Stroik
Catholic Art Institute
Cornelius Edmund Sullivan
New portal of Angers Cathedral: “But how can you ask a renowned architect to efface himself before the monument?”
Duncan Stroik | Adoremus
Dover Beach | The Poetry Foundation
Why Catholics Can't Sing: The Culture of Catholicism and the Triumph of Bad Taste
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Why would a cleric visit a shrine outside of his own religion? Is he searching for what his own faith can’t offer? Is he going there to meet equals? Is he merely curious? And how does he want others to view his visit? Can there be scandal? Father McTeigue considers the possibilities.
Watch on YouTube: Pilgrim, Tourist, or Customer?

In the latest installment of the tyranny series, Father McTeigue describes how people are manipulated by the deceptive words of tyrants, and how we might resist. Father finishes with Weekend Readiness to prepare you for Sunday Mass.
Show Notes
How to Slay a Wizard: Benjamin, Owen 
Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power
Propaganda Watch | The Corbett Report 
Thank You for Arguing, Fourth Edition (Revised and Updated): What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion
Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents
The Origins of Totalitarianism: With a New Introduction by Anne Applebaum 
April's Lyrid Meteor Shower to Streak Across Moonless Sky for a Perfect Stargazing Show 
This Is Why Eating Healthy Is Hard (Time Travel Dietitian) 
Lost on the Road to Emmaus | Fr. McTeigue’s Sermon

We welcome Fr. Paul Sullins of the Ruth Institute to talk about what conversion therapy is, and what the recent victory at the supreme court means. It's not what you've probably been told. 
Show Notes
Ruth Institute Applauds Supreme Court Counseling Freedom Case 
New Evidence: Sexual Orientation Can Change. Therapy Can Help. – Ruth Institute 
Amicus Brief 
Yes, Some Moral Acts Are Disordered—Here’s Why – Catholic World Report 
Resource Centers – Ruth Institute 
Courage International

Powerful people, in politics and within the Church, can use emotionally charged buzzwords and slogans like magic spells to manipulate people into obedience, fear, or unthinking agreement. Father McTeigue takes a closer look.
Watch on YouTube: Tyrants Are Wizards

We welcome back Fr. Michael Rennier to discuss whether knowledge of older rites enriches contemporary worship, fosters humility and obedience, and helps safeguard the Church’s sacramental life and spiritual heritage. Father McTeigue finishes with Timely Thoughts.
Show Notes
Should a Novus Ordo Catholic be familiar with older liturgies? | Fr. Michael Rennier's Substack 
Watch the Mass of the Ages Trilogy 
How Not to Say Mass, Third Edition: A Guidebook on Liturgical Principles and the Roman Missal 
A Beginner's Guide to the Traditional Latin Mass 
Know Your Mass: Fr. Demetrius Manousos, O.F.M., Cap., Addison Burbank
The False Hope of a “More Apostolic Church” | New Oxford Review 
Holy Week was a different religion
What Many Priests No Longer Believe - Homiletic & Pastoral Review

It seems that everyone has an opinion about the pope; and it seems that the pope has (or is expected to have) an opinion about everything. How does a faithful Catholic navigate the confusion? Father McTeigue offers some guidance.
Watch on YouTube: Opinions About the Pope?

Father Robert McTeigue examines how tyrants erase history not by burning books, but by pretending that the library itself never existed, citing examples of lost Holy Week traditions like Tenebrae. He urges a renewed reading of the Church’s heritage as an antidote to cultural amnesia and spiritual drift. Father finishes with Weekend Readiness to help prepare you for Sunday Mass.
Show Notes
Holy Week was a different religion
Tyrants Burn Libraries, Right? | Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.
The Liturgical Year: Passiontide and Holy Week
‘Easter Worshippers’
More Conversions (and Departures.)
https://x.com/cathconclave/status/2042201862212825504
Visitors Can Now Watch the Restoring of a Masterpiece Bellini in Venice
Daily Readings - Second Sunday of Easter (or Sunday of Divine Mercy)
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Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify
Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel
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We welcome back Jeffrey Tucker, Founder and President of Brownstone Institute, to reflect upon the pandemic’s impact on religious freedom, media censorship, and public trust. May we find hope in a proposed COVID justice resolution that seeks clear repudiation of closures and censorship, defends civil and religious liberties, and calls for safeguards to prevent future abuses of unaccountable power?
Show Notes
Why the Resolution?
COVID Justice Resolution
Great Barrington Declaration
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Fr. Robert McTeigue reflects on the deliberate destruction of the University of Leuven's historic library in World War I as an example of how tyrants attack beauty, truth, memory and identity — and warns that a subtler modern tyranny simply acts as if the past never existed.
Watch on YouTube: Tyrant's Burn Libraries, Right?

We welcome author Michael O’Shea to discuss whether Pope Leo understands the deep cultural and spiritual crisis facing Europe: mass migration, demographic decline, and the secular liberalism reshaping nations previously formed by Christian principles. Father finishes with Timely Thoughts.
Show Notes
Pope Leo, Lampedusa, and The Camp of the Saints
Vandalising Ireland: How the Government, NGOs, Academia and the Media Are Engineering a New Globalist Ireland
The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism
25-year-old Noelia Castillo dies by legal euthanasia in case that drew national spotlight in Spain
New Record: 14,000 Registered for Chartres Pilgrimage on First Day
Spain: Christian procession in Oviedo disrupted by Muslims – “I’m not going to keep quiet just because of a bloody procession!”, “I’m a Muslim!”
Nigeria's army rescues 31 hostages after church attack
How Catholic Underground’s Eucharistic Adoration Draws Hundreds to Manhattan Church
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Fr. Robert McTeigue dives into the deeper truth of the Resurrection: Christ has conquered sin and death, and that changes everything. Don't just "move on" from Easter. Live like it really happened.
Watch on YouTube: I Am Not the Easter Bunny

We welcome Professor Bert Olivier of the University of the Free State in South Africa to examine the evolution of the term “liberal.” Are those who bear the label today truly aligned with its classical meaning, or has the concept undergone a fundamental transformation? What do these shifts reveal about contemporary understandings of freedom, authority, and the common good? Father finishes with Timely Thoughts.
Show Notes
Are the ‘Liberals’ of Today Really Liberals?
The 2 reasons totalitarian states detest the Church
A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny
A List of NO KINGS Financiers
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Rumors are that the Vatican is broke. Father McTeigue has a plan: Stop spending money that doesn’t need to be spent; get more work done than ever for next to nothing. Father zeroes in on the budget for Synodality. His alternative may surprise you.
Watch on YouTube: I Can Fix Vatican Finances

In part three of this special series on tyranny, Fr. McTeigue contends that neither virtue signaling nor continued synodal dialogue can adequately address the roots of modern oppression. As contemporary society remains entangled in networks of political, corporate, and ideological power, genuine freedom can only be found in the kingship of Christ.
 
Show Notes
The Kingship of Christ According to the Principles of Saint Thomas Aquinas
The Kingship of Christ and Organized Naturalism: A Study of the Social Reign of Christ in the Modern World
The Church Speaks to the Modern World: The Social Teachings of Leo XIII
QUAS PRIMAS - ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XI
UBI ARCANO DEI CONSILIO - ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XI
LONGINQUA - ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII
Citizens of The Heavenly City
Vatican Announces Date of Archbishop Fulton Sheen's Beatification
Daily Readings - Palm Sunday
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Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify
Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel
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