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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.
 
Show Notes
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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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?
 
Show Notes
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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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?
 
Show Notes
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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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.
 
Show Notes
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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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?
 
Show Notes
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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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.
Show Notes
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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