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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.
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- Stop Raising Hands at the Our Father, Archdiocese Tells Laity (Audio) · 1 h 39 minNovember 12th, 2026 - The Archdiocese of Portland has asked the laity to stop raising their hands, and to stop holding hands, during the Our Father at Mass. Its Office of Divine…
- Can a Cardinal Cancel What a Pope Granted? SSPX Confessions (Audio) · 1 h 30 minNovember 11th, 2026 -Did a Vatican cardinal just try to cancel what a pope personally granted? In July, a note from Cardinal Fernández's doctrine office said confessions heard…
- Detroit Archbishop Tells Layman: Stop Advising Parishes (Audio) · 1 h 27 minNovember 10th, 2026 - The Archdiocese of Detroit is restructuring every one of its parishes, and draft plans could end weekend Mass at as many as 90 of them. When more than 600…
- Cardinal Zen to Pope Leo: "Put a Stop to This" (Audio) · 1 h 36 minNovember 9th, 2026 - Cardinal Joseph Zen, 94, wrote to the Church on the feast of St. Charles Borromeo and asked Pope Leo XIV to put a stop to the Synod on Synodality. Then…
- Pope Leo's Appointments Don't Add Up... (Audio) · 1 h 21 minNovember 6th, 2026 - Pope Leo XIV just made a theologian who criticized the Vatican's 2021 "no" to blessing same-sex unions an under-secretary in the Roman Curia, 17 days after…
- “Progressing Us Off a Cliff” — Fr. McTeigue, S.J. on Cardinal Fernández (Audio) · 1 h 32 minNovember 5th, 2026 - Father Robert McTeigue, S.J. says some of the Church's leading men are "progressing us right off a cliff" - and he names Cardinal Fernández. Plus, Jesse…
- Catholics Swung Left. Abortion Won 3 of 4. Now What? (Audio) · 1 h 52 minNovember 4th, 2026 - Democrats took the House and the Senate. Abortion won in three of the four states where it was on the ballot. And the Catholic vote, which Trump carried in…
- Exorcist Reacts to Netflix’s Satanic-Ritual “Catholic Schoolgirl” Series (Audio) · 1 h 22 minNovember 3rd, 2026 - We welcome exorcist Fr. Carlos Martins to discuss Netflix’s new Catholic horror series, which follows "a group of Catholic schoolgirls involved in a…
- The Learjet Fell at 400 MPH. Someone Was Praying the Our Father. (Audio) · 1 h 23 minNovember 2nd, 2026 - A Learjet 60 fell from 35,000 feet to a Palm Beach County road in about a minute on Sunday. Nine people died. In the final seconds of the air-traffic audio…
- "Better Things to Do Than Convert": Cardinal Vesco Doubles Down on Barron (Audio) · 1 h 23 minOctober 30th, 2026 - Dr. Anthony Stine (Return to Tradition) joins Joe to take the whole week apart: the cardinal who won't convert, the Vatican worship office that calls…
- "No Holy War"? Fr. Murray on Pope Leo, a Cardinal Who Won't Convert & a Prefect Nobody Read (Audio) · 1 h 23 minOctober 29th, 2026 - A cardinal says the Church is "not there to convert." The Prefect of the Doctrine of the Faith admits nobody read his document. And Pope Leo XIV tells an…
- Constantine Ended Christian Persecution 1,714 Years Ago Today. It’s Back. (Audio) · 1 h 33 minOctober 28th, 2026 - Edward Clancy, Director of Outreach for Aid to the Church in Need USA, walks through “Persecuted and Forgotten? 2024–2026” — the Yelewata massacre in Nigeria…
- Moscow Rejects Ukrainian Baptisms — Fr. Jason Charron Responds (Audio) · 1 h 36 minOctober 27th, 2026 - The Russian Orthodox Church says a Ukrainian Orthodox baptism is not a baptism. Fr. Jason Charron, a Ukrainian Catholic priest, joins Joe on what Moscow just…
- Rome's "Inclusion" Doesn't Include You: Latin Mass Pilgrims Locked Out (Audio) · 1 h 21 minOctober 23rd, 2026 - The DDF's new document is titled Come to Me. One day after it dropped, the Vatican told the Latin Mass pilgrimage: not you. Dr. Anthony Stine of Return to…
- Venite ad Me: 7 Red Flags in the Vatican's New Document - Answered by Today's Gospel (Audio) · 1 h 44 minOctober 22nd, 2026 - Rome's new document says "God does not bless division." Today's Gospel has Our Lord saying He came to bring it. Which is it? Joe reads "Venite ad Me…
- Bishop Strickland Reacts: Fr. Ripperger, the St. Michael Ban, Women Deacons (Audio) · 1 h 21 minOctober 21st, 2026 - Three stories, one bishop. Joe poses the week's hardest Catholic headlines to Bishop Joseph Strickland and asks what he sees: Fr. Chad Ripperger's one-year…
- Fr. Ripperger Told to Go Quiet for a Year. Why? (Audio) · 1 h 28 minOctober 20th, 2026 - The best-known exorcist in the English-speaking world has been asked to go quiet for a year, and his archbishop won't say why. Steve Cunningham of Sensus…
- Bishop Stops the St. Michael Prayer After Mass (Audio) · 1 h 20 minOctober 19th, 2026 - A Tennessee bishop has told his parishes to stop praying the St. Michael Prayer together at Mass. The prayer was written by Pope Leo XIII, and it's being set…
- Vatican Officials Tried LEAKING The Third Secret Of Fatima. No One Listened. (Audio) · 49 minOctober 16th, 2026 - Did the Vatican reveal the entire Third Secret of Fatima in 2000, or was an important warning about apostasy within the Church left unexplained? Guest host…
- NYC Eucharistic Procession: Young Catholics Return to Tradition? (Audio) · 50 minOctober 15th, 2026 - Thousands of Catholics filled the streets of New York City for a public procession with the Blessed Sacrament. But could this remarkable display of faith…
- Fr. Gerald Murray: Can Catholics Still Support the Death Penalty? (Audio) · 1 h 25 minOctober 14th, 2026 - The Pentagon plans to execute Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan by firing squad on December 3 and livestream it. Days later, Pope Leo XIV called the death…
- Sister Lucia's Last Free Interview: Fatima's 1957 Warning (Audio) · 1 h 22 minOctober 13th, 2026 - 109 years after the Miracle of the Sun, Sister Lucia's last free interview still stands as Fatima's sharpest warning: the gravest danger isn't war, it's…
- Columbus Wanted the Gold — to Free Jerusalem (Audio) · 1 h 22 minOctober 12th, 2026 - Christopher Columbus wrote that he hoped the gold of the Indies would let Ferdinand and Isabella "undertake the conquest of the Holy Sepulcher." Pope Leo…
- Cardinal Burke Out, Cardinal Cupich In: Rome's Amoris Laetitia Meeting (Audio) · 1 h 22 minOctober 9th, 2026 - Cardinals Cupich, McElroy, Tobin and Fernández are on Pope Leo's personal guest list for Rome's Amoris Laetitia meeting. Cardinal Burke is not — and neither…
- The Woman at the Well: Flirting or Fulfillment? (Audio) · 1 h 27 minOctober 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…
- Ex-Pastor Keith Nester: God Wants Everyone to Be Catholic (Audio) · 1 h 29 minOctober 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…
- Fr. Gerald Murray: Amoris Laetitia, 10 Years of Confusion (Audio) · 1 h 22 minOctober 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…
- 2026 Fall On Air Appeal - Day Five (with Fr. Robert McTeigue) · 49 minOctober 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…
- 2026 Fall On Air Appeal - Day Four (with Fr. Robert McTeigue) · 51 minOctober 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…
- 2026 Fall On Air Appeal - Day Three (with Fr. Robert McTeigue) · 50 minSeptember 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…
- 2026 Fall On Air Appeal - Day Two (with Fr. Robert McTeigue) · 51 minSeptember 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…
- 2026 Fall On Air Appeal - Day One (with Fr. Robert McTeigue) · 50 minSeptember 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…
- Padre Pio Warned Us: “Can’t You See? The World is on Fire.” (Audio) · 1 h 25 minSeptember 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…
- Rome Silenced Padre Pio. A Con Man Fought Back. (Audio) · 1 h 21 minSeptember 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…
- Why Trad Catholics Turned on Fulton Sheen (Audio) · 1 h 39 minSeptember 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."…
- How Jesus Fulfills Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement (Audio) · 1 h 22 minSeptember 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…
- Anthony Stine: Dialogue With Everyone — Except This Priest? (Audio) · 1 h 52 minSeptember 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…
- Michael Matt: Rome Just Put the Vatican II Problem in Writing (Audio) · 1 h 53 minSeptember 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…
- Bishop Strickland: "I Have Not Moved" on Vatican II (Audio) · 1 h 38 minSeptember 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…
- Flanders Recants: "I Can No Longer Recommend" an SSPX Chapel (Audio) · 1 h 21 minSeptember 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…
- Fr. Carlos Martins: The Door Ordinary Catholics Open Without Knowing (Audio) · 1 h 22 minSeptember 14th, 2026 - On November 3, Virginians will vote on a Constitutional Amendment creating a "fundamental right to reproductive freedom," including abortion. Mike Koeniger…
- 25 Years After 9/11: More FDNY Have Died From the Dust Than Died That Day (Audio) · 1 h 36 minSeptember 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…
- Gideon Lazar: Fatima Is Why I'm Catholic (Audio) · 1 h 21 minSeptember 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…
- Cardinal Burke Went on Shawn Ryan. Here's What He Actually Said. (Audio) · 1 h 21 minSeptember 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…
- Where Mary's Birthday Actually Came From (Audio) · 1 h 22 minSeptember 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…
- Bishop Strickland: Are We the "Prophets of Doom?" (Audio) · 1 h 53 minSeptember 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…
- Lindsay Clancy: The Three Victims Nobody Marched For (Audio) · 1 h 21 minSeptember 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…
- Wes Huff Skipped the Verse That Explains the Papacy (Audio) · 1 h 23 minSeptember 2nd, 2026 - Joe goes in-depth to refute Protestant social media influencer Wes Huff's false claims about the validity of the papacy. Links, Show Notes & More…
- What Still Holds the Antichrist Back? (Audio) · 1 h 21 minSeptember 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…
- FBI Listed "Conservative Family Values" as Extremism - and Found Nothing (Audio) · 1 h 22 minAugust 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…
