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The FBI promises that it won't confuse "radical traditional Catholics" with violent extremists again, but how sure can we really be? Father Robert McTeigue takes a closer look.

Watch on YouTube: Wishful Thinking Will Kill Us

Read the FBI report: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/weaponization-working-group-releases-report-2023-fbi-richmond-field-office-memo-targeted-non

We welcome Belgian scholar Drieu Godefridi to take a hard look at what lies ahead for Europe. As birth rates fall and migration increases, the continent is also facing economic troubles and a growing loss of cultural and religious identity. Is there reasonable hope for improvement? Father finishes with Timely Thoughts.

 

Show Notes

Do the Math: Why Europe May Not Pull Through

How the EU is Controlling the Ceuta Story

Asylum seekers told rape and harassment illegal in UK in new Home Office booklet

Why Comfortable People Don’t Revolt: Propaganda, Debt, and Control

EU President Ursula von der Leyen says that savings accounts are a problem

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

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Father Robert McTeigue reflects on living under pervasive falsehoods during the Soviet Union and connects that to modern diocesan communications. He asks listeners for help. 

Links that were referenced in the video:

https://catholicproject.catholic.edu/catholic-church-finances/diocesan-restructuring/

https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/live-not-by-lies 

Watch this episode on Youtube:  Culture of Lies—Catholic Edition?

Fr. Robert McTeigue continues his "Novel Prophecies" series with E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops. Written more than a century ago, the story imagines people living apart from one another and relying on technology for nearly everything. Does Forster's world still look quite so far-fetched today? Father finishes with Weekend Readiness to help prepare you for Sunday Mass.

 

Show Notes

The Machine Stops - E.M. Forster

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again

Moms Love This Initiation Ritual Freshmen Must Go Through at This Oklahoma High School

Christianity-hating activist moves to tear down historic Los Angeles cross — but proud LA group is having none of it

White liberal woman says she aborted her baby because of how much she loved him

Daily Readings - Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time

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We welcome back historian and friend of the show Dr. Darrick Taylor to examine how the Church's relationship with the modern world has changed since Vatican II. What have Catholics gained and lost in trying to keep pace with a culture that has changed so dramatically?

 

Show Notes

Kneeling Before the World, 60 Years On

A Catholic seminary in New Jersey that once trained boys for the priesthood is set to become the fourth campus of an expanding Islamic school network

My Appeal to Pope Leo XIV: The TLM Is Easier for Me to Actively Participate In

A Remaining Christmas (Hilaire Belloc)

In Tune With The World

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