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Books Are the New Luxury (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 4/11/25

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Release Date: 04/11/2025

2025 Spring Appeal Day Four - First Reactions to Pope Leo XIV (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 5/8/25 show art 2025 Spring Appeal Day Four - First Reactions to Pope Leo XIV (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 5/8/25

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5/8/25 - Change of plans... we have a new Holy Father! Joe McClane, host of A Catholic Take, joins Father McTeigue as we provide live commentary and first reactions to the introduction of Pope Leo XIV! If you enjoy The Catholic Current and the other great Catholic programs from The Station of the Cross, please consider making a donation of ay size to support our apostolate! As a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization, your donations are tax deductible and help us to continue spreading the Gospel to the airwaves for years to come! To make a donation, call 1-877-711-8500, visit...

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5/7/25 - We are joined all week by special guest Joe McClane, host of A Catholic take, as Father McTeigue answers YOUR questions live on the air! If you enjoy The Catholic Current and the other great Catholic programs from The Station of the Cross, please consider making a donation of ay size to support our apostolate! As a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization, your donations are tax deductible and help us to continue spreading the Gospel to the airwaves for years to come! To make a donation, call 1-877-711-8500, visit thestationofthecross.com, or use your iCatholicRadio mobile app! We also...

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2025 Spring Appeal Day Two - Ask Father! (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 5/6/25 show art 2025 Spring Appeal Day Two - Ask Father! (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 5/6/25

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5/6/25 - We are joined all week by special guest Joe McClane, host of A Catholic take, as Father McTeigue answers YOUR questions live on the air! If you enjoy The Catholic Current and the other great Catholic programs from The Station of the Cross, please consider making a donation of ay size to support our apostolate! As a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization, your donations are tax deductible and help us to continue spreading the Gospel to the airwaves for years to come! To make a donation, call 1-877-711-8500, visit thestationofthecross.com, or use your iCatholicRadio mobile app! We also...

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5/5/25 - We are joined today by special guest Joe McClane, host of A Catholic take, as Father McTeigue answers YOUR questions live on the air! If you enjoy The Catholic Current and the other great Catholic programs from The Station of the Cross, please consider making a donation of ay size to support our apostolate! As a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization, your donations are tax deductible and help us to continue spreading the Gospel to the airwaves for years to come! To make a donation, call 1-877-711-8500, visit thestationofthecross.com, or use your iCatholicRadio mobile app! We also...

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Learning to Live Forgiven (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 5/2/25 show art Learning to Live Forgiven (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 5/2/25

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Can you distinguish between guilt and shame? Can you live a life of contrition without drowning beneath the crippling shame of your sins? Fr. McTeigue would like to explain how you are called to live, as a loved sinner. He finishes with Weekend Readiness to prepare you for Sunday Mass. Show Notes    

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Who Hates Tolkien and Why? (Robert L. Kmita) 5/1/25 show art Who Hates Tolkien and Why? (Robert L. Kmita) 5/1/25

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We welcome scholar Robert L. Kmita to the show to discuss why Tolkien is hated by some, and how Tolkien's work stands apart from some other famous Christian writers.  Show Notes    

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What’s the real state of the Church today—revival or collapse, hope or delusion? Fr. Robert McTeigue uses the red pill vs. blue pill metaphor to confront hard truths, false comforts, and the call to radical fidelity. If you’re tired of denial and despair, this is your wake-up call to live the truth. Watch on YouTube:

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We welcome back Sarah Cain to ask if Catholic media is different to secular news sources and if it should it be. Father and Sarah share their stories about how they found themselves working in media. Father finishes with Timely Thoughts. Show Notes    

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What if the answer to the end of the Easter season wasn't a simple as Pentecost or Corpus Christi, but was somehow eternal? What if how we live ought to relate to a reality that is outside of and beyond time? And how would we live that way while acknowledging life's sufferings? Fr. McTeigue takes a closer look.   Watch on YouTube:

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Did Saints Perform Abortions? (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 4/25/25 show art Did Saints Perform Abortions? (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 4/25/25

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Planned Parenthood activists have begun proclaiming that saints performed abortions and that abortion was once not considered a sin by the Church. Fr. McTeigue takes apart these deceptions and sheds truth on the lies. Father finishes with Weekend Readiness to prepare you for the upcoming Sunday Mass. Show Notes

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More Episodes

In today's episode of Let's Talk About This, Father looks at the world of reading, and the world that doesn't read. Do we lose more than we realize when we turn away from the written word and towards other mediums? Why has reading become a sign of status? Father finishes with Weekend Readiness to prepare you for the upcoming Sunday Mass.

Show Notes

Why everyone stopped reading (YouTube) 

Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, 2nd ed: McEntyre, Marilyn

Beauty in the Word: Rethinking the Foundations of Education

Another Sort of Learning: Schall S.J., Fr. James V.

The average college student today (Scriptorium Philosophia Substack)

Midnight Maxims: Dalrymple, Theodore

The Quotable Chesterton: The Wit and Wisdom of G.K. Chesterton: Belmonte, Kevin

The Power of the Word Project 

How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information: Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums

The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College 

My unread books remind me I’m running out of time (just in time for Lent)

The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance

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