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How This Church Father "Red Pilled" Me on the Catholic Church, Part 2 | Ep. 48 Nov 12, 2025

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CULTIVATING SAINTS, SAGES, AND STATESMEN THROUGH THE GREAT TRADITION OF CHRISTENDOM

In this episode, we complete our dive into the writings of the Church Father who "Red Pilled" me on the Catholic Church while I was still a protestant: St. Ignatius of Antioch. If you haven't seen it, start with Part 1 first, which is Episode 44: https://youtu.be/CK1_22AjdIQ

St. Ignatius of Antioch was ordained by the Apostles, and barely 70 years after Christ's Ascension wrote astoundingly Catholic things about: the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, apostolic succession, the authority of the priesthood, the Christian altar, the necessity of unity, the greater authority of the Roman Church, and even the very name of the one true Church: the "Catholic Church." Today we are publishing Part 2 of this two-part series in honor of my patron saint, who did so much to "Red Pill" me on the Catholic Church.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 - Introduction

03:37 - Help Us Build Eternal Christendom

04:24 - Letter to the Philadelphians

16:14 - Letter to the Romans

39:28 - Eternal Christendom Bookstore

39:55 - Letter to St. Polycarp

47:40 - Ancient Testimony About St. Ignatius of Antioch

01:02:35 - Conclusion: The Church Father Who "Red-Pilled" Me

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Why the Queen's Chaplain Left Anglicanism and Became Catholic (Dr. Gavin Ashenden) | Ep. 47 Nov 06, 2025

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CULTIVATING SAINTS, SAGES, AND STATESMEN THROUGH THE GREAT TRADITION OF CHRISTENDOM

In this episode, we interview Dr. Gavin Ashenden (former chaplain to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II) on his conversion from Anglicanism to the Catholic Faith. He describes in vivid detail his discovery of the reality of Christ in the Eucharist, spiritual warfare against the Catholic Church, and realizing that much of what he had been told throughout his life about both the Church and protestantism was propaganda.

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St. Augustine Identifies the Catholic Church as the One True Church (Of True Religion) | Ep. 46 Oct 29, 2025

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In this episode, we dive into one of the writings of the great Church Father St. Augustine (354-430) to see how he describes the one true Church. This time, we explore his treatise "Of True Religion," written between 389 and 391, which not only describes the one true Church, but the heresies and schisms that break away from it, as well as the process of doctrinal development. Once more, just as his descriptions of heretics and schismatics remains true to this day, so does St. Augustine's description of the one true Church continue to match only one church 1,600 years later: the Catholic Church.

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00:00 - Intro

01:13 - Help Us Build Eternal Christendom

02:00 - St. Augustine's "Of True Religion"

25:42 - Conclusion: The One True Church According to St. Augustine

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Christ's Church is Roman, Part 2 (Dr. Alan Fimister) | Ep. 45 Oct 22, 2025

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CULTIVATING SAINTS, SAGES, AND STATESMEN THROUGH THE GREAT TRADITION OF CHRISTENDOM

In this long anticipated Part 2 (see Ep. 19 for Part 1), Catholic theologian and historian Dr. Alan Fimister defends this provocative assertion: the Church founded by Jesus Christ is Roman, in some mysterious sense prophesied in the Old, and fulfilled in the New Testament. The implications are astounding, not only in terms of how we understand the past, but the present, as well as the future history of the world. Part 2 focuses more on the fulfillment of these prophecies in the New Testament. A forthcoming Part 3 will focus on the "Roman" aspects of the end times (particularly the "restrainer" that holds back the coming of Antichrist).

If you haven't yet seen Part 1, check out Ep. 19 here: https://youtu.be/_fR-Y8wd7O0

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How This Church Father "Red Pilled" Me on the Catholic Church, Part 1 | Ep. 44 Oct 15, 2025

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CULTIVATING SAINTS, SAGES, AND STATESMEN THROUGH THE GREAT TRADITION OF CHRISTENDOM

In this episode, we finally dive into the writings of the Church Father who "red pilled" me on the Catholic Church while I was still a protestant: St. Ignatius of Antioch. He was ordained by the Apostles, and barely 70 years after Christ's Ascension wrote astoundingly Catholic things about: the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, apostolic succession, the authority of the priesthood, the Christian altar, the necessity of unity, the greater authority of the Roman Church, and even the very name of the one true Church: the "Catholic Church." Today we are publishing Part 1 of this two-part series in honor of his feast day on October 17.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 - Introduction

03:24 - Help Us Build Eternal Christendom

04:11 - Discovering St. Ignatius of Antioch

11:04 - Letter to the Ephesians

27:28 - Letter to the Magnesians

39:10 - Eternal Christendom Bookstore

39:38 - Letter to the Trallians

48:40 - Letter to the Smyrnaeans

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In Our Modern Dystopia, Take Up the Apostolate of Study (Fr. Justin Gable, OP) | Ep. 43 Oct 08, 2025

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CULTIVATING SAINTS, SAGES, AND STATESMEN THROUGH THE GREAT TRADITION OF CHRISTENDOM

In this episode, we interview Fr. Justin Gable, OP, a Dominican priest and professor at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology (DSPT) in Berkeley, California. When he was interim President of DSPT, Fr. Gable delivered an address to the student body on the vital importance of the "Apostolate of Study" to our increasingly dystopian modern times. In this episode, he generously delivers this address again for us, and we discuss its contents in more detail.

You can read more about Fr. Justin Gable, OP here: https://dspt.edu/justin-gable

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00:00:00 - Doubt to Dominican: Fr. Gable's Spiritual Journey

00:11:02 - Historian Christopher Dawson's Influence on "the Apostolate of Study"

00:14:08 - Fr. Gable's Prophetic Address: Why We Need to Study

00:33:02 - Why Meaning Must be Transcendent: A Philosophical Inquiry

00:48:58 - God as Ground of Being: Beyond Pop Notions

01:06:34 - Unpacking Grace: God's Work in Our Soul

01:18:40 - How Grace Makes Us Like Christ

01:29:30 - Human Rights Rooted in Human Nature, Not Individualism

01:41:51 - Re-evaluating Rights: The Crisis of Modern Liberalism

01:58:31 - Embracing Study: A Path to Joyful Spiritual Transformation

02:13:02 - Deepening Your Faith: Essential Reading Recommendations

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St. Augustine on the Traits of the One True Church (Hint: It's the Catholic Church) | Ep. 42 Oct 01, 2025

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CULTIVATING SAINTS, SAGES, AND STATESMEN THROUGH THE GREAT TRADITION OF CHRISTENDOM

In this episode, we dive into one of the writings of the great Church Father St. Augustine (354-430) to see how he describes the one true Church. The work is "Against the Fundamental Letter of Manichaeus," which he wrote in AD 397. In short, St. Augustine describes the one true Church in a way that, 1,600 years later, continues to match only one church: the Catholic Church.

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00:00 - Introduction

02:47 - St. Augustine's "Against the Fundamental Letter of Manichaeus"

11:31 - Conclusion: St. Augustine on the One True Church

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From Baptist to Catholic, and Answering the Toughest Protestant Objections (Suan Sonna) | Ep. 41 Sep 24, 2025

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CULTIVATING SAINTS, SAGES, AND STATESMEN THROUGH THE GREAT TRADITION OF CHRISTENDOM

In this episode, we interview Baptist to Catholic convert Suan Sonna, of @intellectualcatholicism, about his conversion, and some of the lessons he learned about responding to some of the toughest protestant objections during the time he's been Catholic. Suan is one of the great young scholars in the Catholic world today, and is particularly well known for his work on the papacy, and icon veneration.

Suan Sonna is the director of apologetics for the diocese of Bridgeport, CT under Bishop Frank J. Caggiano. He earned his BA in philosophy from Kansas State University, and a Masters from Harvard Divinity School in New Testament Studies. He is currently pursuing another Masters at Yale University in Second Temple Judaism.

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The Catholic Mass and Eucharist: All There in the 2nd Century (St. Justin Martyr) | Ep. 40 Sep 17, 2025

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In this episode, we cover an astounding discovery we made in the writings of the Church Fathers, particularly St. Justin Martyr: his description of Christian worship and belief about the Eucharist continues to match Catholic practice and theology to this very day.

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