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The Catholic Current

Bringing Christ to the World and the World to Christ! Producer and Host Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. illuminates today’s issues with the love of Christ and the authority of His Church. Each show features expert guests that shed light on relevant and important topics.

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Here We Go Again... (Matt Archbold) 4/29/24 Apr 29, 2024

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We welcome back Matt Archbold of Creative Minority Report to once again discuss the madness in the world and the sanity of Christ. What happens when man attempts to create "Heaven on Earth"?

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Feds Mandate Time Off for Abortion

Joe Biden Makes the Sign of the Cross at an Abortion Rally

Pennsylvania Priest Arrested. But Don't Worry, It's Just a Candy Crush Addiction.

The Far Right's Campaign to Explode the Population | Politico

Biden administration redefines sex discrimination in Title IX to include 'gender identity' – Catholic World Report

Teen Girls Refuse to Throw Shotput Against Male after Court Tosses Law Banning Boys from Competing in Girl's Category

Don't Homeschool Your Kids, They'll be Weird. Meanwhile, Students at Public School Walkout After Being Attacked by Furries. Seriously.

Interview with NYU protester: "I really don't know... [turns to friend] Why are we protesting here?" | Not the Bee

Pittsburgh police will no longer respond to calls that are not 'in-progress' emergencies amid resource crunch | The Post Millennial

Criminal Attacks On American Churches Up 800 Percent In Last Six Years

Tracker: Over 400 Attacks on U.S. Catholic Churches Since May 2020 - CatholicVote org

The Screwtape Letters Narrated by John Cleese - Complete

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Confronting the Demon of Discouragement (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 4/26/24 Apr 26, 2024

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In Let's Talk About This, Fr. McTeigue discusses what to with discouragement and desolation. How do we fight back against our spiritual enemies? He finishes with Weekend Readiness to help you prepare for the upcoming Sunday Mass.

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St Ignatius of Loyola's Prayer Against Depression – EWTN Global Catholic Television Network

Depressed? Demoralized? What's the Difference? (Fr. Robert McTeigue S.J.) 6/10/22

Christian resilience is not what you think

What Should You Do When You Are Discouraged?

The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times

Doomscrolling Past Christ

When It's Time to Fast from the News

Doomscrolling Past Christ (Dr. Darrick Taylor) 8/15/22

"Devout Catholic" Joe Biden makes sign of the cross at pro-abortion rally to deride Florida's abortion ban | Not the Bee

Black athletic director of Baltimore high school arrested for creating AI deepfake of white principal to stage race hoax | The Post Millennial

Tennessee passes death penalty for child rapists. Here's some of the twisted reasoning why some Dems opposed it.

59-year-old Breaks Women's World Record for the Longest Time in an Abdominal Plank Position

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Half-hearted, Half-witted Revival (Leila Lawler) 4/25/24 Apr 25, 2024

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We welcome back Leila Lawler to discuss do-something-ism, McTeigue's Axiom, and unsatisfactory attempts at Eucharistic Revival. Can revival ever occur if those in charge refuse to address the problems that got us in our current position?

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Eucharistic revival is not something our bishops know about

Like Mother, Like Daughter

Eucharistic devotion cut off at knees: two little examples

The 8th National Eucharist Congress | October 17-20, 1938

The Catechesis of Tradition – Padre Peregrino

Catholic Art Institute

Catholic Art Institute - YouTube

Retrieving Sacred Art (Kathleen Carr) 4/9/24

Eucharistic Art & Culture (Kathleen Carr) 4/23/24

Contagious Faith: Why the Church Must Spread Hope, Not Fear in a Pandemic: Philip F. Lawler

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Motherhood and Human Dignity (Dr. Catherine Pakaluk) 4/24/24 Apr 24, 2024

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We welcome back Dr. Catherine Palaluk of The Catholic University of America to continue the discussion on her latest book through Regnery Publishing, Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth. What are the effects of many years of denigrating motherhood and family life?

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Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth

Women Defying the Birth Dearth (Dr. Catherine Pakaluk) 2/8/24

The Women Defying America's Birth Dearth: An Interview with Catherine Pakaluk ━ The European Conservative

Q&A with Catherine Pakaluk, Author of Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth

The State Can't Save the American Family

Seoul, South Korea Considers Paying Couples $72,500 Bonus per Baby

What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster

When Medicine Mandates Murder

The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God: George Weigel

Rerum Novarum: On Capital and Labor (Pope Leo XIII, 1891)

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Eucharistic Art & Culture (Kathleen Carr) 4/23/24 Apr 23, 2024

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We welcome back Kathleen Carr of the Sacred Art Institute to discuss beauty, liturgy, and the cultivation of good aesthetic taste. Why is sacred art so compelling, and why does it inspire so many conversions? Father Finishes with Timely Thoughts.

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Sacred Art & Adoration Presentation: The Eucharist as a Source of Beautiful Art & Culture | Catholic Art Institute

Vision of Paschal Bayolon by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Mediocrity Will Convert No One, but Beauty Will: The Purpose of Sacred Art in the Modern World| National Catholic Register

Catholic Art Institute

Catholic Art Institute - YouTube

Conference 2024 | Catholic Art Institute

Liturgical Arts Journal

The Difference of an Interior Restoration: St. Mary's in Menasha, WI ~ Liturgical Arts Journal

Before and After: Holy Innocents in Long Beach, California ~ Liturgical Arts Journal

Before and After: St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Janesville, Wisconsin ~ Liturgical Arts Journal

Looking for Jesus at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Letter to Artists, (April 4, 1999) | John Paul II

Good Music, Sacred Music, and Silence: Three Gifts of God for Liturgy and for Life

Does the Church Need Good Music? (Dr. Peter Kwasniewski) 7/13/23

Do Catholics Really Need Beauty? (Cornelius Sullivan) 8/28/18

Diocese of Brooklyn Eucharistic Revival Mass at Louis Armstrong Stadium (Queens, NY)

The 8th National Eucharist Congress | October 17-20, 1938

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Human Fertility and Current Controversies (Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk) 4/22/24 Apr 22, 2024

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On this special podcast-extended episode welcome back Fr. Tad of the National Catholic Bioethics Center to dive deep in discussion of controversial topics of human fertility, IVF, and the concept of embryo adoption. What are the moral issues involved in these beginning of life processes, and at this point what can be done for the children left in these cryogenic orphanages?

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Father Tad's Website

The National Catholic Bioethics Center

Making Sense of Bioethics

FatherTad.com | Lectures

Father Tad — The Struggle of Infertility

Father Tad — Why is IVF Wrong?

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column #217 : Poking the Hornet's Nest of IVF

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column #216 : Surrogacy and Child Trafficking

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 006: Babies in Test Tubes

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 013: Thawing the Frozen Embryo Myths

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 035: Fire in the Clinic!

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 048: What Should We Do with the Frozen Embryos?

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 066: Humans in "Frozen Orphanages"

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 137: Orphans in Liquid Nitrogen

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 165: It's Not Just About the Frozen Embryos

Instruction Dignitas Personae on Certain Bioethical Questions, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

The Frozen Embryo Problem

Instruction on Respect for Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation: Replies to Certain Questions of the Day

Adoption: Prayer and Educational Resources | USCCB

The Concentration Can: When Does Human Life Begin? an Eminent Geneticist Testifies: Lejeune, Jerome

Pope Paul VI Institute

The Gianna Center | Catholic Health

Want a Baby? Get the App! - Let's Talk About This (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 09/24/21

Selling Embryos & Making A Killing (Dr. Tara Sander Lee) 7/10/23

Women & Children For Sale (Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse) 1/24/24

An Honest Look at IVF (Leila Lawler) 3/4/24

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Untangling the New Document on Human Dignity (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 4/19/24 Apr 19, 2024

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In Let's Talk About This, Fr. McTeigue finishes his week long analysis of Dignitas Infinita. What is the most important duty of the Church, and what might the emphasis in recent Vatican documents lead one to believe the answer is? What context must we read this document in? He finishes with Weekend Readiness to help you prepare for the upcoming Sunday Mass.

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Declaration of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith "Dignitas Infinita" on Human Dignity

Tametsi Futura Prospicientibus (November 1, 1900) | LEO XIII

Dignitas Infinita and the Idolization of Man - Crisis Magazine

On the Question of Human Dignity - The Lepanto Institute

The Cult of the Imperial Self

A Brief Reader on the Virtues of the Human Heart - Josef Pieper

PE Coach Pairs Unmotivated Students to Run with Shelter Dogs–Adoptions Soar

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Undermining Human Dignity? (Dr. Michael Pakaluk) 4/18/24 Apr 18, 2024

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We welcome back Dr. Michael Pakaluk of the Catholic University of America to discuss Grace, sin, and the odd silences within Dignitas Infinita. Why is the Gospel urgency missing from a document on human dignity, and what has replaced it?

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Dr. Pakaluk Tweet: "I've so far only defended 'Infinity Dignity' in print. But there's plenty wrong with it..."

What's Right about 'Infinite Dignity' - The Catholic Thing

The Dangers of Half-Truths | Michael Pakaluk | First Things

The Other Footnote in Amoris Laetitia | Michael Pakaluk | First Things

By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment

Yes, Some Moral Acts Are Disordered—Here's Why – Catholic World Report

Can There Ever Be a Just War? (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 03/25/22

Anger: When is It Time to Pull the Pin?

SUMMA THEOLOGIAE: The vices opposed to perseverance (Secunda Secundae Partis, Q. 138)

The Catechism of The Council of Trent

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Human Dignity and the Gender Agenda (Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse) 4/17/24 Apr 17, 2024

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We welcome back Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse from The Ruth Institute to discuss the strong statements against gender ideology within Dignitas Infinita. How can this document be useful for Catholics working in the public square?

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Declaration of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith "Dignitas Infinita" on Human Dignity

Is the Pope Catholic After All? | Jennifer Roback Morse and The Ruth Institute Substack

Jennifer Roback Morse and The Ruth Institute Substack

Yes, Some Moral Acts Are Disordered—Here's Why – Catholic World Report

Gender Ideology's Verbal Engineering| National Catholic Register

Gender Ideology's Verbal Engineering, Part 2: An Irrational Agenda That Few Want| National Catholic Register

Believe data, not activists: Transgenderism among kids is mostly a fad

The Ruth Institute Allied Organizations | #ResistPride

The Ruth Institute | Top 5 Myths

Dr J Show Archives – Ruth Institute

The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies are Destroying Lives and Why the Church Was Right All Along

A Brief History of Our Annihilation - Crisis Magazine

The Ruth Institute's Transgender Resource Center

Courage International

Who Is Silencing Therapists? (Fr. Paul Sullins) 1/3/24

Why Transgenderism? Why Now? (Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse/Dr. Paul Hruz) 11/7/22

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What Really Is Human Dignity? (Fr. John Perricone) 4/16/24 Apr 16, 2024

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We welcome back Fr. John Perricone of Iona College to continue the discussion on Dignitas Infinita. What does Catholic tradition have to say about the true nature of human dignity? Fr. McTeigue finishes with Timely Thoughts.

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Declaration of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith "Dignitas Infinita" on Human Dignity

Sacrosanctum Concilium: A Lawyer Examines the Loopholes

On the Question of Human Dignity - The Lepanto Institute

Does Jesus Love You Just the Way You Are? - Crisis Magazine

Is Opposition to Illegal Immigration a Sin? - Crisis Magazine

By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment

Can There Ever Be a Just War? (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 03/25/22

The First (Bitter) Fruits of Synodality (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 11/17/23

The Screwtape Letters Narrated by John Cleese - Complete

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