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A Catholic Take: What you need to know, right now. A bold synthesis of inspiration and information. Keeping you up to date on news & issues from a Courageous Catholic perspective with Joe McClane. Live, Monday-Friday across the Station of the Cross Catholic Media Network.
The Woman at the Well: Flirting or Fulfillment? (Audio)
October 8th, 2026 - A rabbi alone at a well with a woman who has had five husbands. Flirting? No. Isaac, Jacob and Moses all found their brides at a well, and in John 4 Jesus sits down at Jacob's well at high noon. Plus, Nicholas Cavazos on the Amoris Laetetia Summit.
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Ex-Pastor Keith Nester: God Wants Everyone to Be Catholic (Audio)
October 7th, 2026 - Keith Nester spent more than 20 years as a Protestant pastor. Today he explains why God has one plan of salvation for all mankind — and why that plan is the Catholic Church. Plus, on the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary: the Battle of Lepanto, October 7, 1571, and what happened when the sun came up.
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Fr. Gerald Murray: Amoris Laetitia, 10 Years of Confusion (Audio)
October 6th, 2026 - Ten years after Amoris laetitia, and on the eve of Rome's summit marking its anniversary, Fr. Gerald Murray makes his case: it brought confusion where there had been clarity, and no Pope has the power to change what Christ taught. A release-day interview on his new book, A Papacy of Confusion!
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2026 Fall On Air Appeal - Day Five (with Fr. Robert McTeigue)
October 2nd, 2026 - We welcome back Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. to cover the headlines from a Catholic perspective and raise funds to keep The Station of the Cross on the air. Because we are a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, all donations are tax-deductible! To make a donation, call 1-877-711-8500 or visit thestationofthecross.com
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2026 Fall On Air Appeal - Day Four (with Fr. Robert McTeigue)
October 1st, 2026 - We welcome back Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. to cover the headlines from a Catholic perspective and raise funds to keep The Station of the Cross on the air. Because we are a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, all donations are tax-deductible! To make a donation, call 1-877-711-8500 or visit thestationofthecross.com
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2026 Fall On Air Appeal - Day Three (with Fr. Robert McTeigue)
September 30th, 2026 - We welcome back Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. to cover the headlines from a Catholic perspective and raise funds to keep The Station of the Cross on the air. Because we are a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, all donations are tax-deductible! To make a donation, call 1-877-711-8500 or visit thestationofthecross.com
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2026 Fall On Air Appeal - Day Two (with Fr. Robert McTeigue)
September 29th, 2026 - We welcome back Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. to cover the headlines from a Catholic perspective and raise funds to keep The Station of the Cross on the air. Because we are a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, all donations are tax-deductible! To make a donation, call 1-877-711-8500 or visit thestationofthecross.com
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2026 Fall On Air Appeal - Day One (with Fr. Robert McTeigue)
September 28th, 2026 - We welcome back Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. to cover the headlines from a Catholic perspective and raise funds to keep The Station of the Cross on the air. Because we are a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, all donations are tax-deductible! To make a donation, call 1-877-711-8500 or visit thestationofthecross.com
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Padre Pio Warned Us: “Can’t You See? The World is on Fire.” (Audio)
September 25th, 2026 - As the story goes, Padre Pio said the inventor of refrigeration went to heaven, and when asked about the inventor of television, he pointed down. Fulton Sheen went on television and preached Christ to millions of Americans every week. The day after the Church beatified Sheen, author Mary O'Regan joins Joe to explain what Padre Pio saw coming in the media age, and who the men were that tried to shut him away. Plus: Dr. Anthony Stine on Blessed Fulton Sheen, Pope Leo XIV's first day in France, and the fight over the Seal of Confession...
Rome Silenced Padre Pio. A Con Man Fought Back. (Audio)
September 23rd, 2026 - In 1931, the Holy See stripped Padre Pio of everything but a private Mass. No confessions, no public Mass, no letters. The man who fought hardest to get him back was a con man from Turin who walked into the friar's confessional wearing white gloves and walked out a different man. On the feast of St. Pio of Pietrelcina, Joe tells the true story of Emanuele Brunatto, the man Padre Pio called "my policeman." Plus: Oscar-shortlisted director Tod Polson on The 21, his animated film about the 21 martyrs of Libya.
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Why Trad Catholics Turned on Fulton Sheen (Audio)
September 22nd, 2026 - In 1967, Fulton Sheen wrote that Teilhard de Chardin would one day stand beside St. John of the Cross as "the spiritual genius of the twentieth century." Rome had warned the faithful about Teilhard's writings five years earlier. Two days before Sheen's beatification, Mark Lambert joins Joe to look at why so many traditional Catholics have soured on the man who taught America the Faith. Plus: Ellen Holmes Steeves-LeBlanc of Destined4This on her scenic journey back to the Faith, and why she wants every bishop and priest praying the Rosary out loud with their people.
<...How Jesus Fulfills Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement (Audio)
September 21st, 2026 - Once a year the high priest carried blood behind the veil. Dr. Annie Tinnin shows how every detail of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, points to Jesus Christ and His Cross. Plus: Patrick Clancy says he has forgiven the wife who killed their three children. Mike Koeniger joins Joe on what Catholic forgiveness actually requires.
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Anthony Stine: Dialogue With Everyone — Except This Priest? (Audio)
September 18th, 2026 - Rome marks sixty years of Nostra Aetate by calling Catholics to dialogue with every religion. The same month, a priest who defends the social Kingship of Christ was pulled from his classroom. Dr. Anthony Stine joins Joe McClane. Plus: a parish priest found shot dead in Mexico on the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows - Edward Clancy of Aid to the Church in Need on what Mexico's bishops are demanding.
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Michael Matt: Rome Just Put the Vatican II Problem in Writing (Audio)
September 17th, 2026 - Michael Matt says Rome just put the Vatican II problem in writing — so Joe reads him the paragraph where Rome says Christ is the one and only Redeemer. "A Journey of Hope," Nostra Aetate at 60, and the question underneath all of it: if there is one Redeemer, what is dialogue for?
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Bishop Strickland: "I Have Not Moved" on Vatican II (Audio)
September 16th, 2026 - Bishop Joseph Strickland says "I have not moved" — and on the day that Rome published a note asking Catholics to "esteem" other religions, he joins us to do what his new letter proposes: examine Vatican II in the light of Tradition, document by document. Nostra Aetate at 60, Archbishop Lefebvre, and the question the Vatican's new text has to answer: if Christ is the only Redeemer, what is dialogue for?
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Flanders Recants: "I Can No Longer Recommend" an SSPX Chapel (Audio)
September 15th, 2026 - Timothy Flanders publicly defended the SSPX for years. Today he tells us why he has retracted and why, "in principle," he can no longer recommend anyone attend an SSPX chapel. Plus, the Battle of Vienna: September 12, 1683 — the victory that gave the Church the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary.
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Fr. Carlos Martins: The Door Ordinary Catholics Open Without Knowing (Audio)
September 14th, 2026 - On November 3, Virginians will vote on a Constitutional Amendment creating a "fundamental right to reproductive freedom," including abortion. Mike Koeniger walks us through what the amendment's strict-scrutiny standard does to Virginia's existing parental-consent and third-trimester laws, why the Virginia Catholic Conference calls it extreme, and what the bishops are asking of Catholics before the voting deadline. Then, Fr. Carlos Martins explains the ordinary, un-dramatic ways in which Catholics give the enemy a foothold — the curiosity, the media, the unconfessed habit, the thing done "just for fun" — and then the harder question: when someone says they hear a vo...
25 Years After 9/11: More FDNY Have Died From the Dust Than Died That Day (Audio)
September 11th, 2026 - The pontifical Mass for the Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage - Bishop Athanasius Schneider was to be the celebrant - was refused in a letter from the Secretariat of State. It moves to St. Mary Major, and Dr. Anthony Stine returns to offer his thoughts. Then, Joe is joined by a New York firefighter to remember the lives lost on 9/11, those still being buried, and every soul carried out of those towers.
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Gideon Lazar: Fatima Is Why I'm Catholic (Audio)
September 10th, 2026 - Gideon Lazar grew up in a Jewish family. Our Lady of Fatima is the reason he is Catholic today, and he joins us to share the story. Plus: one year after Charlie Kirk was killed, Nick Cavazos on what hardened in America — and where the hope actually is.
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Cardinal Burke Went on Shawn Ryan. Here's What He Actually Said. (Audio)
September 9th, 2026 - Cardinal Burke spent two hours teaching the Old Testament to Shawn Ryan's audience - former Navy SEAL, five million subscribers, mostly young men with no church at all. Nearly a million views on day one. The same week, the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life said Catholics could morally consent to an "imperfect" assisted suicide law. We welcome back Michael Haynes of The Catholic Herald and Mark Lambert of Catholic Unscripted to unpack it all.
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Where Mary's Birthday Actually Came From (Audio)
September 8th, 2026 - We walk through the origins of the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Then, we welcome Luis Roman and Luis Piccinali to preview Murder in the 33rd Degree, an upcoming documentary trilogy that covers Vatican corruption in 1977-78 and the Year of the Three Popes based on personal testimony from Fr. Charles Murr.
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Bishop Strickland: Are We the "Prophets of Doom?" (Audio)
September 4th, 2026 - Bishop Joseph Strickland takes the question head on: are traditional Catholics the "prophets of doom" that Pope Leo XIV invoked this week? Plus, Dr. Anthony Stine on the Vatican's new creation document, and where a warning ends and despair begins.
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Lindsay Clancy: The Three Victims Nobody Marched For (Audio)
September 3rd, 2026 - We share the story of the Albanian Braveheart, an escaped Christian slave who annihilated 80,000 Muslim invaders. Then, we welcome back Nicholas Cavazos to recap what we should know about the Lindsay Clancy trial as the jury continues to work towards a unanimous verdict.
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Wes Huff Skipped the Verse That Explains the Papacy (Audio)
September 2nd, 2026 - Joe goes in-depth to refute Protestant social media influencer Wes Huff's false claims about the validity of the papacy.
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What Still Holds the Antichrist Back? (Audio)
September 1st, 2026 - We welcome back Fr. Jason Charron to explain what holds the antichrist back. Plus, we'll delve into the unraveling of Europe and why Ukraine may be its last hope.
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FBI Listed "Conservative Family Values" as Extremism - and Found Nothing (Audio)
August 31st, 2026 - We welcome back Mike Koeniger to provide an update on the FBI's witch hunt against traditional Catholics. Then, we welcome back Jason Jones to discuss the troubles of the Vatican-China deal and what's happening with persecuted Christians in the Middle East.
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Lindsay Clancy: This Isn't Compassion. It's Contagion. (Audio)
August 28th, 2026 - We offer thoughts on the ongoing Lindsay Clancy trial. Then, we welcome back Dr. Anthony Stine to discuss the L'Osservatore Romano supplement that told Catholics there is no devil in Genesis, and to reiterate what the Church actually defined at the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215.
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St. Jerome: The Antichrist Is a Man, Not a Demon (Audio)
August 27th, 2026 - We welcome back Nicholas Cavazos to discuss Catholic conversions on college campuses and "religious switching." Then, we sift through what St. Jerome had to say about the antichrist.
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Pope Leo Defends the New Mass. Michael Matt Responds. (Audio)
August 26th, 2026 - We welcome back Michael Haynes to offer thoughts on Pope Leo's praise for Vatican II's liturgical reforms as "necessary in order to make the liturgy more accessible." Then, we welcome back Michael Matt to discuss Fr. Reese's new article titled "Why I Hate the Old Latin Mass: A Confession."
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Answering Wes Huff: The Catholic Canon Was Settled in 1442, Not 1545 (Audio)
August 25th, 2026 - We refute Protestant influencer Wes Huff's false claims regarding the Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testaments. Then, we welcome back Fr. Gerald Murray to discuss the selling of synodality as "social prophecy."
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"I Do Not Believe in Jesus as Lord" — The New Head of Catholic Bible Scholars (Audio)
August 24th, 2026 - We welcome back Mike Koeniger to offer thoughts on a sudden wave of Mormons converting to the Catholic faith. Then, we welcome back Mark Lambert to react to the Catholic Biblical Association's election of a Jewish scholar as its President.
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ACT Bible Study: Genesis Chapters 1 and 2 (Audio)
August 21st, 2026 - Joe introduces the ACT Bible Study with Genesis chapters one and two, walking you through Sacred Scripture and the deeper meaning behind the passages.
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The Book Fulton Sheen Never Wrote | Fr. Dave Tomaszycki on the Demonic (Audio)
August 20th, 2026 - Fulton Sheen announced in 1974 that he would write a book on the demonic — he never did. Fr. Dave Tomaszycki spent four years in Sheen's archives assembling the book Sheen intended: "On the Demonic." Plus: Nicholas Cavazos on Stephen Herreid's conversation with Tucker Carlson about CatholicVote and the Israeli settler attacks on Christians in the Holy Land.
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Bishop Schneider Explains Why the SSPX Isn't in Schism (Audio)
August 19th, 2026 - We discuss Bishop Athanasius Schneider's statement that the SSPX is not in formal schism. Then, we welcome back Dr. Anthony Stine to discuss a Vatican official offering coca leaves to Pachamama.
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Maura Healey Signed Abortion Up to Birth. Catholic Boston Took Her Money. (Audio)
August 18th, 2026 - We welcome back Jason Jones to discuss the Christian village of Taybeh and whether or not it is being protected. Then, we discuss Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey's support for abortion up to birth and the blood money that Catholic organizations have received from her over the years.
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Bishop Mutsaerts to Pope Leo: We Need Saints, Not Synods (Audio)
August 17th, 2026 - We welcome back Mike Koeniger to read through Bishop Rob Mutsaerts' letter to Pope Leo XIV that posed one major question: is the Synod on Synodality actually saving souls?
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The Assumption: Did Rome Invent This in 1950? (Audio)
August 14th, 2026 - We examine the earliest sources on the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Then, we welcome back Dr. Anthony Stine to discuss Pope Leo's letter to Cardinal Roche.
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Pope Leo Calls Religious to be Experts in Synodality? (Audio)
August 13th, 2026 - We welcome back Nicholas Cavazos to discuss the US bishops’ reliance on a migrant program for over 80% of revenue. Then, we welcome back Michael Hichborn to discuss selective enforcement and hierarchical scandal.
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They'd Never Do This to the Byzantines. So Why the Latin Mass? (Audio)
August 12th, 2026 - We discuss a German Bishop's declaration that he will not sanction lay preaching despite the Vatican ban. Then, we welcome back Fr. Jason Charron to examine the Eastern churches and whether or not they are feeling the pressure to modernize their liturgies.
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He Saw a “7” on the Moon — Then the Church Compromised Marriage (Audio)
August 11th, 2026 - We welcome back Michael Haynes to address a report claiming that the Vatican firmly voted against Medjugorge in 2016. Then, we welcome back Dr. Matthew Tsakanikas to discuss the possible significance of a mysterious “7” that appeared over the Moon in 2019, and what he believes it may reveal about the Church’s current spiritual crisis.
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